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SkippingRelax , (edited )

It's more sustainable to eat the animals you make clothes from.

SkippingRelax ,

And we are back at the maybe if you just did this one thing you'd agree with my weird ideas that I think everyone should embrace.

If not visiting a slaughterhouse, it is about watching cowspiracy or some weird youtube videos. Come on

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In fairness the suggested premise of you wearing human skin, not an animal skin, was funny but pretty stupid to start with.
And not what they had suggested has been done for the while history of humanity.

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And that's why it has had no use throughout human history whatsoever. /s

Do you also have an opinion on timber smelling bad and be completely useless with no upsides?

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Let me guess [...] I suppose [...] if not you must be

Do you really think that is how logic is supposed to work?

SkippingRelax ,

Hi again :)

No bad takes here, I already mentioned before that I have three beautiful chickens that are well loved, fed and protected and give me eggs on a daily basis. We work pretty well together

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Actually you were, and everyone replied accordingly.

You seem confused

SkippingRelax ,

Except that you are the one with biases here, you are the one who replied to someone who was clearly talking/asking about grammar rules and you did it with a weird twist around (your?) belief structures .

It's an interesting take but one that maybe you need to explain and not give for granted that everyone knows what is going on in your head.
Also you just did then same yourself with non human animals, same as illegal aliens mate.

SkippingRelax ,

So every time you have a couple new pics that you would upload to an online, album and share with your family/friends, you instead put them on a bunch of hard drives that cost 40 bucks each and post one to every contact?

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Make it an abortion kit

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Shave

SkippingRelax , (edited )

As a rule of thumb people stop to mass murder other people, without guns. With extremely rare exceptions, we don't have that shit outside of the US and our schools are not shooting ranges.

The other two things you wrote are not reasons, they are a) a slogan that you could put on a 12 years old t shirt and b) something someone who is having a heart attack might say

SkippingRelax ,

Outside the US sure, that was my point.

In the States there's a mass shooting every Tuesday.

SkippingRelax ,

Look I don't care for lemmy trends and I use Apple laptops as I get them from work.

That said it's hardly a superior ecosystem, and particularly for this specific use. As a million people have said already, kodi on Linux is a pretty good start. Look at libreelec that is an os wrapped around kodi.

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I'll build a Faraday cage

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I have a Linux pc hooked to the TV and it's very convenient to use while lying in the sofa. In fact that's all I use the TV for. And the reason I am interested in this post, as my 12 years old dumb TV will kick the bucket on day it the other.

The pc is my server/nas and runs kodi in a container that outputs to the TV. It has no keyboard nor mouse, but I do have a remote controller that I had lying around from an old android TV box. Basically you turn the TV on and kodi is there waiting with all my movies, series, and iptv to choose from. With a great remote controller that works beautifully with kodi.

The remote is a minix neo a2 I have had for years. Highly recommend it. If it dies I'll do a quick research to see if there is something better this days, but I'd be keen to buy another one straight away.

SkippingRelax ,

Some of the eu regulations, you can't just waive them by accepting an unreasonable EULA.

SkippingRelax ,

I have a 12 years old TV if not older. Turns on instant.

How have consumers got to accept something like this as normal?

ajsadauskas , to Fuck Cars
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Sydney has opened up consultation on a strategy to reduce car traffic and make the city more walkable

"Driving in central Sydney will become harder under a plan to make the city more comfortable for pedestrians.

"The City of Sydney wants to narrow roads for wider footpaths and push for lower speed limits to discourage drivers from the CBD and transform Sydney into a walkable city.

"The council will also install more pedestrian crossings and prioritise people over cars... five times more pedestrians than motorists on the average street, yet just 40 per cent of road space is allocated to footpaths."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/greener-safer-calmer-the-plan-to-discourage-drivers-from-central-sydney-20240312-p5fbr7.html

Some key points of the strategy are:

We will ensure that there is sufficient space for people to walk.

We will improve connectivity for people walking by ensuring there are frequent street crossings that give people priority and that align with people’s walking routes.

We will ensure that footpaths and crossings are accessible so that everyone can use them.

We will plan our city based on 10-minute neighbourhoods so that people are able to meet their daily needs easily by walking.

We will make it safer for people to walk by reducing vehicle speeds.

We will reduce traffic volumes on surface streets and manage through-traffic in residential neighbourhood streets to improve both safety and experience for people walking.

We will work to make all people feel safer while walking around our city.

We will work to improve compliance with road rules, especially the lesser-known rules that benefit people walking.

We will make our streets and public spaces comfortable and inviting by ensuring that they
are green and cool.

We will make sure that there are frequent opportunities for people to stop and rest, use the toilet or have a drink of water.

We will make our city more pleasant to walk in by reducing noise and air pollution from
traffic.

We will make all streets interesting to walk along by ensuring that built form has active, permeable frontages that invite engagement and curiosity.

We will use design, activations and installations to create neighbourhood-based community and encourage people to interact with their streets.

Full details here: https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/policy-planning-changes/your-feedback-walking-strategy-action-plan#strategy

Unfortunately, the car-brained leader of the local business lobby isn't on board:

"Business Sydney executive director Paul Nicolaou welcomed efforts to make the city pedestrian-friendly... But Nicolaou said it was difficult to see how making Sydney a predominantly walking city would benefit businesses such as retailers."

(Worth repeating that 80% of people on an average city street are pedestrians, so it already is a predominantly walking city.)

Anyway, if you think the plan's a good idea, make sure you let the Sydney City Council know by emailing sydneyyoursay@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

@fuck_cars

SkippingRelax ,

Ah yes city of Sydney now wants wider footpaths accessible to everyone

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/the-new-sydney-billboards-that-have-left-pedestrians-walking-like-a-duck-in-single-file-20221003-p5bmpk.html

Besides that I hope the plan goes through. Coming from Europe I was shocked at how car centric sydney was 10 years ago. Got a smidge better after making George St trams and pedestrians only but still a long way to go

SkippingRelax ,

It is botulism. https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/botulism

SkippingRelax ,

Disagree, there were, possibly still are, good ones. A handful around mushrooms cultivation, food preserving, food fermentation and personal finance specific to my country come to mind, lots of high quality content.

But I know what you mean. I think it mainly happens once specific subreddits started going mainstream, often with an influxnl from facebook people. Out of all the fermented stuff, the kombucha one made my eyes bleed due to its popularity. Half the posts where new people asking if they had a mold problem, the other half was existing members posting "read this before posting, this is what mold looks like", but they were obviously ignored lol

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Because on lemmy you can't have a reasonable discussion about meat eating without being brigaded by vegans that add little to the conversation besides meat cruel and meat pollution.

Mate here brought up a good example. I myself raise chickens for egg production (i also engage in less sustainable/ humane meat eating to be frank). Would be happy to have an intelligent conversation with someone besides the usual 3-4 arguments like 'battery chickens' which don't apply to my chooks are happy, have plenty of space, toys, food and protection.

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Point in case. Downvoted without saying a word.

SkippingRelax ,

Not really involved with Linux for the past 15 years so don't know the ins and outs of the systemd saga butyour debunking is not as convincing as you make it sound.
I do run a system at home that when all goes well I don't need to login to or do troubleshootingfor months. (Ie. Movies and shows download fine, homeassistant works). I stumbled upon systemd a while ago when I had to google how to fucking find and look at some logs on my Ubuntu system. Wtf have been a sysadmin professionally for years until a decade ago. Never seen something changing like that, but I digress as for your points.

Being able to query logs like a database sounds appealing dont take me wrong. But If I am interested I will install splunk, graylog or whatever kids use these days, I don't need a core component to make a major structural change (logging on Unix is expected to be in plain text, most tools on a Unix systems do some sort of manipulation of log files, and i expect to use cat, grep and tail to work on my logs). The fact that I can opt out is a minor consolation. Also if I want my logs not to be tampered with, I'll look into how to do that with dedicated tools and technology. On most systems that's not a concern, why would you even consider that something appealing?

As for sysvinit scripts pain, I hear you buy a) I am pretty sure most script I have written/modified were tens of lines of code, not hundreds, hardly an impossible task to deal with. And b) that's not something your average user needs to do every day (or decade). Most likely a sysvinit script would be implemented once in the lifetime of a particular project by the developer themselves, or by a package maintainer.
If the solution to such a big problem is to have millions of lines of compiled code (that's news to me, I'll trust you on that number) it makes me wonder even more.

Are you sure all the counterarguments are really just bizarre nostalgia and easily debunked? I haven't even read much about it and even when people like you try to sell how good systemd is, it looks to me like the solution we didn't ask for a problem we didn't have.

SkippingRelax ,

In fairness reading this thread all I see is systemd good

Why: i find sysvinit start up scripts too complicated to read/modify so let's drop this gigantic mammoth that does a million other things on my lunux system so I don't gave to learn how to write a shell script.

I don't have much skin in the game and have been out of the loop for many years but don't find many of the arguments in favour of systemd very convincing

SkippingRelax ,

Is that really a valid counter argument though? We could say most computer users use windows, doesn't necessarily make it a better os choice.

Yes the community has decided, fair enough, op has already said let's move on.
People that have been around for a bit longer than most here and have seen and used Linux from the very beginning are still entitled to an opinion.

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying (www.wired.com)

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

SkippingRelax ,

We are letting you in to take a slice if this juicy juicy pie only because you are special. Seems sometging out of a dodgy salesman or a conmans playnook to me

SkippingRelax ,

And more in general, humans. Imagine if Clarence Thomas had taken medicine instead of law when he was young

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock. (www.theverge.com)

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.::Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

SkippingRelax ,

Is it though? Everyone I know aged 20 to 85 i on Facebook, some more active than others.
I think I know 3 people irl that use reddit. Mind you I'm not in the US, where is more prevalent but most people I know have barely heard of reddit.

Sure, it has near monopoly on forum communities but that's a tiny niche on the internet

SkippingRelax ,

They are saying it's like Facebook in its dominance, I'm saying it's not like Facebook, clearer now or you want me to come over with a whiteboard?

SkippingRelax ,

Fair enough, still feels like we are comparing nestle with your city's local chain of 7 minimarkets, sure I might have a few more acquaintances that use reddit but that is not 100% of them.
I did a quick search from my phone, hope the sites is reliable and that I didn't fuck up anything

According to this reddit had just under 75 million daily active users in q3 2023
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1453149/reddit-quarterly-dau-by-region/

In the same q, Facebook had
https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-dau/ 2110

So reddit need to grow another order of magnitude for op statement that it is comparable to fb in its dominance to become remotely true. Ideally two orders of magnitude.

I get it, we have all spent too much time on reddit for years and feel like that's basically the whole of the internet but we are biased, there is a whole majority of people out there that don't even know that exists

SkippingRelax ,

And they were giving you something like 1gb of space for free. At the time unwashed working for a big international company and employees quota for emails was something like 50mb!

I wish there were still players like Google was 20 years ago instead these days all we get ate short videos and same day delivery (oh and llms that create funny images with weird fingers)

SkippingRelax ,

I couldn't stand pop3 25 years ago, I can't believe it's still around

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LOL they truly suck

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But they never do that. Musk could have been supping margaritas on a man made island with oompa loompas in a private ocean a long time ago

SkippingRelax ,

From memory all those were performing well, getting load of attention and be used by "everyone" at the time of their ipo. Particularly google was THE search engine and Facebook was THE social media site.

Reddit has been around forever, most of us left, what does it really have to offer?
Keeping in mind that llms have had access to all that data for s long time, I can't imagine the last 8 months or so of reddit data to be that significant.

Usually companies go public because they have an aggressive plan that requires growth and a massive cash injection. What is spez's plan if he gets that? I'll admit I haven't really followed much, but I doubt reddit had this huge potential. And that's even if they didn't alienate their users and nods.

Reminds me those pet food companies going public in the late 90s during the internet bubble.

ajsadauskas , to Fuck Cars
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

@fuck_cars

SkippingRelax ,

I scrolled down for a while looking if someone had mentioned the bank as that one baffles me. It's been a few years since I walked into one, and it has probably happened 5 times in the past few decades. That one I can definitely live without it being walking distance.

That said I think the US is still heavy on cheques and people might need to actually visit a bank more often than the rest of the West

SkippingRelax ,

100% agree. Mate, there's an another ongoing post on lemmy about autosaving documents, and how everyone seems to think that saving files with their fingers pressing keys on a keyboard is the best approach possible in 2024 because software just can't do this reliably.

Of course everyone also knows better than their charger, battery and device.

SkippingRelax ,

Furthermore, if the laptop randomly reboots for no reason, autosave won't save you. You just need a tiny bit of bad luck for the computer to crash while saving, corrupting the perfectly-good file saved to disk.

Hardly how file saving works. Else you could say the same about a bit of bad luck for the computer to crash while pressing ctrl-s, corrupting the perfectly-good file saved on disk.

Too many people on this thread seem to see autosave and ctrl-s as two different things, governed by magic and mystery, one of them indispensable to conside nyourself an experienced computer user. It's the same fucking piece of code, in one case invoked by a timer, in the other one by the end user pressing a key combo.

Op's issue was that automated was disabled by default. Obviously autosave doesn't work it it's disabled.

SkippingRelax ,

What is wrong whit your computer and why do you say that others should press ctrl-s five times like we were practising magic? Report a bug with the software that you use if it doesnt work, or replace your keyboard

SkippingRelax ,

What does MS say when you report these to them? Is it always the same bug still unfixed or separate issues? Nothing is infallible with software, but note that in ops case autosave was disabled so no mystery "autosave lost my document", it was just disabled.

And ffs autosave is just a timer that saves the document every x minutes the same way a user would do if they pressed save. I do believe you get many issues reported to you, but I doubt Microsoft autosave is so buggy to cause an unbelievable amount of data loss in a single institution (and I love to shit on MS).

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I bought a rooster because I don't trust my phones alarm to go off in the morning

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Or not trusting autosave because they lost a document once in the 80s when autosave didn't exist, and now they tell everyone to compulsively press ctrl-s because software can be trusted enough to drive a car, but not save a file every minute or so.
Bonus point when they introduce themselves as I'm a software developer..

SkippingRelax ,

Fair enough, can agree with that, replace every x minuted with at every keystroke in my precious comment

Edit: previous, but I'm leaving it like that

SkippingRelax ,

Fair enough obviously a real issue considering that it is not just you but many other in this thread, that are posting the same or upvoting I do wonder what software, or and electricity grid you are all on and if you are typing from a war zone though.
It has happened to me too, mind you. Once. It was some sort of word processor, in the 1990s before autosave. Been spending my days on a computer since then for work and hobbies, can't say I remember a single other occurrence after that.

SkippingRelax ,

If current_time > x invoke deper,older code that you somehow trust

Alternatively, more modern implementation suggested by someone else in this thread

At every keystroke, invoke deeper older code that you somehow trust

While not impossible, pretty hard to slip a bug into something like that and if it happens it gets identified,reported and fixed like all bugs. Users tend to be quite vocal about data loss.

Also some software developers tend to overcomplicate things, this is not rocket science

SkippingRelax ,

I already covered your first point, you don't need to.

As for your second point, autosave still does its job. The fact that you haven't chosen a name and a folder for your document doesn't mean that the software hasn't created one on disk that keeps getting autosaved. When you decide to finally save the document, that file gets renamed and placed where you want it.

I mean this is trivial stuff that got solved a long time ago, I don't see people on this thread saying I don't trust electronic payments, I only write checks but somehow everyone think a basic feature is broken everywhere

SkippingRelax ,

Gotcha, sorry misunderstood

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