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Space Exploration has ruined me. (Discussion)
  • Not gonna lie, I didn't notice what sub this was in when I clicked the link.

    As I read the subject, I found myself also feeling dismayed that we hadn't discovered any signs of intelligent life, and then I got to the bit about the jetpack.

  • The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless, new report shows
  • Well no, in my example the shirt is the image and the signature on it is the NFT bit. Physically, it's just a bit of ink, but the shirt itself is no different than one you can go pickup at the store.

  • The vast majority of NFTs are now worthless, new report shows
  • Try telling that to sports memorabilia collectors though.

    "Look at my hockey jersey!" "Yeah, so? I have the same one." "Yeah but you're wasn't signed by Wayne Gretsky."

    Or even trading cards, or comics. Or hell, even plain w-shirts with a brand logo on it for $250. People assign arbitrary values to stuff all the time. I don't understand it at all, but there's a whole ton of people that just eat that shit up like it's candy.

  • Texas teacher fired for showing Anne Frank graphic novel to eighth-graders
  • The graphic novel, written by Ari Folman and illustrated by David Polonsky, adapts the diary of 13-year-old Anne Frank, who wrote while hiding in an annexe in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Eighth-grade students were reportedly shown a section of the graphic novel where Frank reflected on her own genitals and wanted to see a female friend’s breasts, according to KFDM.

    So basically exactly like all of the 13 yr olds in the class, who are probably taught at home how their body parts are shameful.

  • ‘Mastermind’ Taylor Swift drives hoards of fans to voter registration site
  • There was a video I saw a while back of a look-alike getting swarmed by fans, fans who were bawling about meeting her, it's just fucking nuts. I saw Harrison Ford once from a distance, and I was like "hey cool, I saw Harrison Ford", but some people just go apeshit.

  • World's First Fully Modular Gaming Handheld!
  • So I don't game a lot and I'm not sure what that car driving game is, but I noticed at ~1:30 his left thumb is moving all over the place and the car keeps driving in a straight line? It doesn't seem like any of his hand/finger movements match what's on the screen, am I crazy?

  • KVM: what is your favorite?
  • A dedicated KVM would be a better option but I’m not willing to spend that much money.

    Honestly the worst part about a dedicated KVM, at least for a home setup, is the 30lbs of thick bulky cables.

  • Atheists, is there anything religious that sticks with you to this day?
  • How a being of inordinate power and knowledge even exists would 'feel' or 'think' is indeed incomprehensible to us. It's hubris to believe an entity with the power to create a universe could look down, at a single point in time, at a single place in the universe, and think "I'm really angry that creature masturbated" or "That woman showed her face in public, well she's dead to me now".

    And that's exactly what religion wants us to believe. That we're somehow special in the universe, and there's some grand entity that watches over every single little thing we do throughout the blip of our lives in the eternity of the cosmos. It's honestly fucking bonkers.

  • Atheists, is there anything religious that sticks with you to this day?
  • I refuse to believe that a being incalculable in power and knowledge, omnipotent, able to see both the past and the future, is somehow, according to what religious people want you to believe, burdened by what we humans experience as emotions or morality.

  • Change my Mind! - I like the linux,but some things keeps me staying on Windows.
  • I completely agree, though in that case I can't see what the advantage would be if you already have Windows, to switch to Linux. It's a challenge, you're going to be constantly looking for alternatives to software you've used for years. Let's face it, the software world is still primarily focused on Windows, and while there are a lot of developer and server packages that Just Work Better(tm) on Linux, but if you're an end user who's only interested in gaming, why bother?

  • Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?
  • This, the difficulty of simply paying for the things you want. I used to pirate music back in the IRC/pre-Napster days, and then iTunes came out. "I can just click a button and the song is on my computer, high quality, no fuss?" That was the end of music pirating for me.

    I have Amazon Prime and I've tried Netflix in the past. The amount of time I spent sorting through their shit movies to find something worth watching was abysmal, not to mention no way to filter out the huge influx of low-budget non-English content.

  • Change my Mind! - I like the linux,but some things keeps me staying on Windows.
  • You never really said what you like about linux or why you even want to use it. You want an 'easy-to-use' distro, but I've never really run into a 'difficult-to-use' distro, and that's going back to the Slackware/RedHat 4.2 days. PopOS!, Ubuntu, EndeavourOS, Slack, Debian, they're all 'easy-to-use' when you don't specify a use case.

    Personally I love the challenge, and that nothing is forced on me. It took me a good 30 minutes yesterday researching and trying to figure out how to get spell checking working in qutebrowser, and I got a little dopamine hit when I was finished.

    Windows doesn't make me excited to use a computer. Linux does, because it's challenging.

  • Just installed EndeavourOS last night! BSPWM, Alacritty, MOC and BTop

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2072990

    > I haven't used Linux as a desktop since back in the 2.0/2.1 kernel days, when you were praying the next kernel release would add support for the bits and pieces that made up your kit. > > After 2 months of Ubuntu, I decided to dive into Arch and Endeavour has made it made it easy so far!

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