SpaceCadet

joined 2 years ago
[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Barracudas are SMR garbage nowadays, they're coasting on their reputation of many years ago when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 5 points 3 weeks ago

Those look like real life windows media player skins from the early 2000s.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you have one for being terminally lazy and the world's wost procrastinator?

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago (14 children)

This is why I boycott Logitech

You should boycott Microsoft instead. As you say, they're the ones permitting it.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago

I have to upgrade my Mint install every two years

I know you're joking around here, but you don't have to upgrade every two years. You can use an LTS release instead, or, on the opposite of the spectrum, a rolling release.

Release schedule and duration of support should always be factored into the decision of choosing a distro.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 11 points 3 months ago

Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml

I approve this comment.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago

Millenials - Load"$“,8 LIST LOAD"LEISURESUIT*”,8,1 (wait 10 min.) RUN

Even the oldest millennials were just toddlers when the C64 was relevant, so this is not a typical millennial experience at all. It's really a GenX thing... so once again we are forgotten.

I would say millennials' computer experience starts in the late DOS/Win3.11 era at the very earliest, but more typically in the Windows 9x and early XP era. So even IRQ/DMA/config.sys/autoexec.bat fuckery is not that typical.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess it’s why some Jellyfin streams started transcoding for me.

You're better off using the Jellyfin Media Player standalone application anyway.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 23 points 5 months ago

Or ctrl+w to close the fucking site and never come back.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl -1 points 5 months ago

It’s apparently a hobby and to be competitive, you need to be able to spew bullshit at amazing rates. Personally I’ve maxed out at 140 wpm

I'm limited by the rate at which I can think of bullshit.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by SpaceCadet@feddit.nl to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as tankies. This wouldn't be much of an issue if they didn't regularly abuse their admin/mod status to censor and silence people who dissent with their political beliefs and for example, post things critical of China, Russia, the USSR, socialism, ...

As an example, there was a thread today about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. When I was reading it, there were mostly posts critical of China in the thread and some whataboutist/denialist replies critical of the USA and the west. In terms of votes, the posts critical of China were definitely getting the most support.

I posted a comment in this thread linking to "https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs" (WARNING: graphical content), which describes aspects of the atrocities that aren't widely known even in the West, and supporting evidence. My comment was promptly removed for violating the "Be nice and civil" rule. When I looked back at the thread, I noticed that all posts critical of China had been removed while the whataboutist and denialist comments were left in place.

This is what the modlog of the instance looks like:

Definitely a trend there wouldn't you say?

When I called them out on their one sided censorship, with a screenshot of the modlog above, I promptly received a community ban on all communities on lemmy.ml that I had ever participated in.

Proof:

So many of you will now probably think something like: "So what, it's the fediverse, you can use another instance."

The problem with this reasoning is that many of the popular communities are actually on lemmy.ml, and they're not so easy to replace. I mean, in terms of content and engagement lemmy is already a pretty small place as it is. So it's rather pointless sitting for example in /c/linux@some.random.other.instance.world where there's nobody to discuss anything with.

I'm not sure if there's a solution here, but I'd like to urge people to avoid lemmy.ml hosted communities in favor of communities on more reasonable instances.

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