businessfish

businessfish , 1 day ago

thank you mr jackpots

businessfish , 21 days ago

stuff them into a sack maybe

businessfish , 2 months ago

i say something like this often in real life, but despite it being plainly observable in daily life other people still don't agree.

it's on all scales too, or at least it feels like it. moving everything to streaming, always online, etc. want to play a competitive video game with your friends? give a corporation root-level access to your home computer. ads everywhere some greedy ass in a suit can think to stick them whether you pay or not, yet everyone complies like this is normal and i get singled out for caring about our rights as consumers.

i love capitalism i love money

businessfish , 2 months ago

and thats the power of linux baby hell yeah

businessfish , 2 months ago

how could what they wrote mean genocide?

businessfish , 3 months ago

can i just say that i love seeing the ubuntu font in memes and gifs and shit all over the place now

businessfish , 3 months ago

they really love doing that. around when i went vegan someone i know was asking me about it and then stopped talking to me entirely because i "bring up veganism too much" after like 2 conversations that i did not initiate.

meanwhile you literally cannot escape meat eaters either talking about how much they love meat or condemning imaginary people who are trying to make them eat bugs or something and conflating that with veganism, yet vegans are annoying.

businessfish , 3 months ago

i don't think many people would consider posts that are literally paid advertisements part of "our space"

businessfish , 4 months ago

i bet you aren't even certified to run that nuclear reactor in your base, probably isn't even up to code

businessfish , 4 months ago

its more about treating dead (and living) animals as a commodity for me personally. you probably wouldn't want someone to turn your corpse into a fucked up teddy bear for a laugh.

businessfish , 4 months ago

and most are pathetic for it

businessfish , 5 months ago

remember: never share anything and never engage with others. keep all of your thoughts and emotions and ideas to yourself at all times. especially on the internet, a platform designed to enhance global communication!

businessfish , 5 months ago

i'm glad you posted about it - it's something i, and i'm sure many other people who are struggling, tend to think about.

i think it's generally a good thing to talk about these sorts of topics, especially ones like depression where it's easy to get lost in your own thoughts and it can feel like you're the only one suffering like this. i know for a fact that it helped me realize that i'm not alone and that there are ways out of the pit i found myself in, despite feeling like it would never get better and my suffering was so unique that there was no cure.

granted, commiserating alone won't get you back to a happy baseline, but it does broadcast this to others who might not realize it: you are not alone, there are people who care, and it is not impossible to be happy again. i wish you the best.

businessfish , 5 months ago

yeah it's hard to meme about my nether chest full of rats when reddit still has all the polytetrafluoroethylene smh

businessfish , 5 months ago

you can't honestly be saying that there are no issues with hosting documentation/support for a project exclusively on discord as opposed to a classic forum or wiki.

even ignoring the issues that you are dismissing (and would not exist on a better suited platform), the people using the discord server do not own it. discord servers have no backup functionality. what happens when an admin goes rogue or gets hacked etc? what happens when people get tired of discord for the next chat app?

you shouldn't have to use a burner email to download a videogame mod or view documentation for an open source project.

businessfish , 5 months ago

i can understand your point of technical support, but what the op is calling out is when the only source of docs/support are discord.

i've had multiple experiences firsthand where I needed basic information about a piece of software that really should have just been on a readme or a wiki or something. instead my only option was to repeatedly ask a discord tech support channel and wait for someone who cares/knows about my question to actually answer me.

unless the options are limited, i'd rather simply pick a different solution than be forced to ask a busy discord channel for tech support.

businessfish , 5 months ago

that's a good point - i might be letting my dislike for discord-as-a-wiki color my argument. i will say that i've had mixed results using the search - sometimes there are no results and sometimes there are plenty of irrelevant results. that's just what you get when basically hitting ctrl+f on who-knows-how-long worth of conversations instead of a purpose-made knowledge base.

i still think that a dedicated wiki/forum/repo available on the web for anyone with the url is far better suited to this purpose than discord is. discord is (arguably) good at being a chat app and its features aren't well tailored to being an easily navigable knowledge base. it feels like jumping through unnecessary hoops to have to join a server on the app i use to share memes with my college roommates to get help troubleshooting some software, or worse, to get access to the only official release of the software.

businessfish , 5 months ago

thank you for posting that here! love your stuff and wouldn't have found it otherwise.

businessfish , 6 months ago

i wouldn't count it as impossible for really cool and well-meaning businesses like the amazon fun factory to somehow detect and ban/restrict use on VMs