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Yep. That’s why I stopped distro hopping years ago.

Once set-up it just works™.

No die, is funni

Wait until you hear of a little state called Arkansas.

Whoosh?

The “this would never happen to me” mindset really is cancer to logical thought and reasoning.

I somewhere read (maybe it was thinking fast and slow by Kahneman?) that even psychology students learning about certain behaviors would later anonymously claim they would never fall into these patterns. But plot twist: they are also only human, so of course they also could fall into these patterns.

Another example: People that think they would never fall for a scam. If it is the right scam they will fall even more easily for it than people that know that it could happen.

“Of course it can’t be a scam. Scams are obvious and only idiots fall for them.”

I needed to scroll way too much to see people mention marketing and advertising. It’s a huge deal.

The power of good advertising is not to be underestimated. There is a good statistically proven reason why so much money flows into it. And it’s not only traditional advertising but viral and “astroturfed” advertising.

What I find really sad is how fast people call others transphobic. Numerous times I’ve even seen trans people being called transphobic.

Sometimes it’s also just people making honest mistakes and sometimes people double down on shitty positions if cornered by an insult like being called a transphob. Is that ok? No but it’s also human nature unfortunately.

But I get it there is a lot of hate especially in recent times where it is a constant topic in the US culture war. And it must be exhausting to see hate in so many places. A lot of actual transphobic people are akso not acting in good faith of course. This just makes me more sad :(

Don’t change that! I need that feature for my workflow

Black electrical tape works really well to temporarily cover LEDs.

Edit: I feel unoriginal… The very next comment I read also suggested black electrical tape. That’s why I should just lurk like always :/

Edit2: it feels like every other comment suggests electrical tape. At least I am not the only unoriginal lemming.

Yup it is contrary to normal economic principles, read up on luxury goods and in particular veblen goods and how price finding works there.

In the end humans are not at all times rational. There is no homo economicus. Economics is as much math as it is a social study.

I once moved ~5TB of research data over the internet. It took days and unfortunately it also turned out that the data was junk :/

Of topic: At least in Germany the work title “engineer” is protected. You need to have studied a technical degree in at least a 3 year program at a recognized university. Just a fun fact.

Hmmm but what about all the image memes?

This reminds of the song Amerika from Rammstein.

Being able to host the same community over multiple servers would be great. Or having the same account on multiple servers. And I’m not talking about subscriptions but upvotes, posts, comments. That stuff is afaik not transferrable at the moment.

Right now I lost all my posts and comments when feddit.de went kaputt.

Do I dare ask? Beans?

I am definitely on the hope side of things. Lemmy has extreme potential for growth. Just not explosive fast growth. I believe the strength of Lemmy could be “natural” growth as the threat of the platform going downhill is smaller.

On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog bot.

Yea that can’t hurt. It’s just hard to do IMHO a lot of muscle memory.