GOG has their Black Friday sale going on currently.

“What does ‘tamanduá’ mean in Venezuelan?”

“Catcher of ants.”

Beyond the rules/guidelines of the site and the community, someone commenting on a Reddit-like has no responsibility to filter what they write through the lens of what the author would want.

It’s the poster’s job to find a community that they find suitable for both what they’re writing and what they want the comments to look like. That’s how it works because Reddit-likes aren’t blogs; they’re shared spaces where everybody – within aforementioned rules/guidelines – is free to express exactly how they feel about anything.

You unduly shift responsibility onto the commenters for not acting the way the OP wants their vent sesh to go when it’s the poster’s responsibility to 1) know the comments exist and 2) understand that they’re putting this work out into a shared space.

People don’t seem to understand or care when a post is just to vent and the individual isn’t looking for feedback. Some people have a really hard time not chiming in with their take.

Reddit, Lemmy, and other Reddit-likes aren’t unidirectional blogging platforms. Primarily they’re link/image aggregators, but ever since the early introduction of comments, they’re also places for people to share their thoughts on the things people link to and write. If you want a place to vent with no expectation of honest feedback, you should be using either 1) a community (shoehorned) within the Reddit-like which is expressly moderated that way or 2) a blog or microblog.

Ironically echoing the OP: you are the problem if you make a text post on one of these platforms just to vent at people and get offended that people give feedback.

It’s also a common egg substitute used in vegan cooking or for people with allergies. Wild, isn’t it?

• Computer scientists explaining they’re not necessarily good with IT
• Electrical engineers explaining they can’t necessarily do electrical work

Any others?

So vindicated.

Stop spamming LLM slop, OP.

Stop spamming LLM slop, OP.

Stop spamming LLM slop, OP.

For a solid 10 seconds, I was transported to a reality where Mozilla shunted development of Rust off to some random studio who were removing Linux support because it wasn’t in the budget.

Wow, this is so true. I’m going to stop maintaining my relationships because anyone I know could get hit by a bus tomorrow. I’m also done with that stupid coursework, because what if I suffer a catastrophic brain injury that makes me forget everything I learned? I’m going to go rob a bank because the police could come and frame me for murder any day now. And I think I’m going to go jump off a cliff because death comes for us all anyway.

Sage advice, raoul.

See the Wiktionary entry.

A big part of that attitude is simply that you’re more likely to take care of those big tasks you’ve been putting off when you’re on the upswing away from depression. So it feels good unto itself, but you’re probably also in a mood that’s more conducive to feeling rewarded than a deep depression.

TL;DR: Cause and effect feeding off of each other.

Get that first week of Macroecon 101 shit out of here before I go into outrage withdrawal.

No average user would be able to look up what commands to run? Because newsflash: unlike Windows, searching for a common problem on Linux normally turns up a solution written by a human who knows what they’re talking about.

“Windows doesn’t even have basic package management like every Unix-like OS does so you don’t have to individually update applications and go find them on the Internet, but this one edge case on Linux requires like two terminal commands (the sudo -i is totally superfluous if you just put sudo in front of commands) instead of installing an entire separate tool you’ll ever use one time like on Windows and which an average user wouldn’t even know exists. Therefore Linux is more complicated.”

Incidentally, here’s what Microsoft officially recommends for the “average user” regarding PowerToys:

It’s insane how nose-blind Windows users are to how user-unfriendly their OS is.

resist corporate bullshit by spitting in their face.

“Resist corporate bullshit by eschewing the free, non-corporate option – which, because it’s open, gets better the more people use it – in favor of continuing to use the exact same corporate product but with an abstruse, hacky workaround that 0.001% of the userbase will use and will probably be plugged by this time next week. That’ll show those corpo fucks who’s boss. ✊Ⓐ”

Original article.

There’s only so much incessant bitching I can hear about dark patterns, intrusive automatic updates, shoehorned-in and useless AI, zero user choice, planned obsolesence, and being blindsided by enshittification before I say “just try using the free thing that doesn’t have those problems”.

“I’ve tried nothing, and I’m all out of ideas.” If you have to for work or something, though, I totally get it and encourage the bitching.