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@praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works

“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.” - Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

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praise_idleness ,

Acupuncture is amazing. I live in South Korea where acupuncture is a very common practice and it downright works. I don't know well enough to say this but I seriously doubt that while there's no doubt it plays a big role in its effectiveness but it's definitely more than just placebo effect. It definitely does something.

praise_idleness , (edited )

There's a very famous case of frostbite so bad that the doctors insisted that the patient needed amputation(severance? Not sure how you say cutting off toes) but a traditional Korean doctor cured it only with acupuncture and some herbal medicine. The patient recently made an interview about it as well. I was able to find this related paper as well.

Still not sure if this can be achieved only with some form of placebo. Guess I am too familiar with the idea of acupuncture being real?

edit: was just curious. Thanks for the input!

praise_idleness ,

People still use magnetic tapes to store stuff. New standards are being made. Just because something is clearly better in a way doesn't mean that it will make everything well he obsolete, especially when we're talking about soldered RAM...

praise_idleness ,

Pleasing tech illiterate sharholders

praise_idleness ,

I'd rather work than to be forced to post something on vacation.

praise_idleness ,

Well that's just not true..

praise_idleness ,

Healthiest american meal

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

praise_idleness ,

That's disgusting.

praise_idleness ,

I think it's safe to say that over 99% of custom built pc doesn't run on proper windows license

praise_idleness ,

I came up with that figure knowing that there are much more 3rd world country people who can't afford proper PC let alone windows license.

Honestly, considering China/India, I think my figure has to go higher than not.

praise_idleness ,

Which is why I specifically mentioned custom built pc

praise_idleness ,

37% is very hard to believe with custom built PC. I don't think more than 90% of all PCs are pirated windows machine. That can't be. Plently of OEMs and laptops alone will break that number.

praise_idleness ,

I meant in a way that most of the people who would actually care to know what an operating system is will be against paying for it.

praise_idleness ,

Show that kind of hostility while you can puny human.

praise_idleness ,

I wish I had the same brainless high hope for something.

praise_idleness ,

Not a video gamer myself and can't love linux enough. No more searching for installers. yay all the way.

Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads and Signal from app store in China (www.washingtonpost.com)

Apple has complied with the Chinese government's request to remove several popular communication apps from its app store, including WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram, due to national security concerns. This action was taken following a directive from the Cyberspace Administration of China. These apps have been crucial for...

praise_idleness ,

How is it that you don't know that open source projects exist and yet on Lemmy?

Lemmy is literally free, as in beer and as in freedom, latter which I don't think you'll ever appreciate.

praise_idleness ,

I'm not talking about free services. I'm talking about open services that people can (almost) ultimately trust. We know that Signal can't do anything about private messages because we know for sure they are encrypted. There are opensource clients too. Aside from having to give them your phone number, the fact that they can't read any of the strings/media you send through it, is not going to change whether if the server is selfhosted or ran by Meta or Google.

Are you also concerned about MS stealing your data even if a computer has never been connected to the Internet and never will?

praise_idleness ,

Yes.

praise_idleness ,

Anti muskers... you mean normal people?

praise_idleness ,

This is exactly why I hate this stupid excusr so freaking much.

praise_idleness ,

I am just surprised how this is legal from the start.

that's how it works, right? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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praise_idleness ,

I think this a lot too but at the end of the day, it won't be much fun of a hobby when you don't even need any practices. Part of having a nice hobby for me is having that moment when all the gradual works pay off.

praise_idleness OP ,

What are you saying? My gitea is my backup!

praise_idleness OP ,

I was aware of forgejo back when I first started hosting Gitea. Didn't see much of a diff back then so I just went with arguably more popular option at that time.

About few months after it's mostly just because I'm too lazy of a person.

praise_idleness OP ,

Thank you for letting me know. As you might guess English is not my first language. Always appreciate these inputs.

praise_idleness OP ,

I hate English

praise_idleness ,

yeah. just because they say so doesn't mean that it's actually illegal. they all always like to throw those legal threats anywhere they see fit.

praise_idleness ,

makes their product easier to use and to be used however we see fit

Haier: You can't do that!

praise_idleness ,

Fdroid FTW

praise_idleness ,

allows a space instead of a T

That's a bug not a feature

praise_idleness ,

A communist nation that can really provide all that is as realistic as capitalistic utopia.

praise_idleness ,

Communism and your concept of utopia are synonymous. Communism and utopia are not synonymous.

praise_idleness ,

No one is going to deny that making perpetual motion device is good. How are you going to do that?

Do you have source and receipts for real life communism solving housing problem? Not being better than capitalism. Solving. Being better than capitalism is kinda low bar you know. There are plenty of other things that real life capitalism does better than real life communism, hence communism failure. No one is going to show up with receipts and sources because obvious.

You show us tents as a capitalist solution. That's not a capitalist solution. That's the problem itself. You're misleading.

because his logic is irrefutable if you address it with a modicum of intellectual honesty...

Can you at least try to sound less douche about things?

praise_idleness ,

I don't think punishing bad guys makes you a good guy.

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