I bailed on Netflix when I realized that damn, I’m going like a month with this on my phone and haven’t really watched much, maybe one anime? Can I get something other than shitty anime, Netflix? Fun action flick from the last 5 years maybe? No? Never the good one, always the knockoff, the shitty sequel, nothing at all? Canceled Mindhunter? Because of course. Okay, no more pay money, and then I didn’t miss it. That decision took a shameful amount of time to make.

This was way before the password share thing. I don’t know what the rest of you are even doing. Stuff for the kids I guess.

I guess I do this bullshit, now, for entertainment, but this Suuuuuucks with a capital S, so the next step is to find the government chip that makes me scroll and metaphorically remove it. Fuck socials, too. Fuck all this shit anymore.

Sir. SIR. If you are shitposting, the posts should be shit. They should be bad. Most of them should not even make sense.

I understand that there is a miserable hipster art to the thing but that must be the hipster’s problem, this is very much a case of 90% sewage, 9% silver, 1% gold, and if you aren’t ready for the sewage, then out of the business you go.

This is the problem. Somebody managed that dril thing where it appears that they defecated on themselves in the night and yet it was big funny, and now you expect too much, everything cannot be dada, not even dada.

If you are lucky, somebody comes in here on meth, and posts a picture of an elephant dick which is labeled “margaret thatcher” and it makes no fucking sense but yet it is funnier than all. This is what shitposting is about.

But in order to get there you must allow atrocity, probably a bunch of 9gag trash if we’re honest, but the rules gotta be a big no, on rules. You need a tall slushpile if you ever expect good shitposts. The id must leak. Some kid from rural India has to have room to cook, posting shit memes about something none of us even understand. You delete things if they break laws, or worship actual Nazis, otherwise you leave them to stink. Quality control is NO. They are shitposts, not impeccableposts. Quality control is allowing the crap to slide under the waves as we all ignore it.

Hold the fuckin line, sir, the lemmyworld meme channel is obscenity, it’s down to you and 196.

let him post feet

We have to be a lot more vigilant about bots now, don’t we? Not just on Lemmy, but everywhere.

It’s going to be bots talking to bots pretty soon, once everyone figures out that yeah, everyone but me is probably ChatGPT. People are already moving toward closed group chats. Open social media is just too damn toxic for too many reasons.

I’ve become more and more convinced that considerations like yours, which I do not understand since I don’t rely on GPUs professionally, have been the main driver of Nvidia’s market share. It makes sense.

The online gamer talk is that people just buy Nvidia for no good reason, it’s just internet guys refusing to do any real research because they only want a reason to stroke their own egos. This gamer-based GPU market is a loud minority whose video games don’t seem to rely too heavily on any card features for decent performance, or especially compatibility, with what they’re doing. Thus, the constant idea that people “buy Nvidia for no good reason except marketing”.

But if AMD cards can’t really handle things like machine learning, then obviously that is a HUGE deficiency. The public probably isn’t certain of its needs when it spends $400 on a graphics card, it just notices that serious users choose Nvidia for some reason. The public buys Nvidia, just in case. Maybe they want to do something they haven’t thought of yet. I guess they’re right. The card also plays games pretty well, if that’s all they ever do.

If you KNOW for certain that you just want to play games, then yeah, the AMD card offers a lot of bang for your buck. People aren’t that certain when they assemble a system, though, or when they buy a pre-built. I would venture that the average shopper at least entertains the idea that they might do some light video editing, the use case feels inevitable for the modern PC owner. So already they’re worrying about maybe some sort of compatibility issue with software they haven’t bought, yet. I’ve heard a lot of stories like yours, and so have they. I’ve never heard the reverse. I’ve never heard somebody say they’d like to try Nvidia but they need AMD. Never. So everyone tends to buy Nvidia.

The people dropping the ball are the reviewers, who should be putting a LOT more emphasis on use cases like yours. People are putting a lot of money into labs for exhaustive testing of cooling fans for fuck’s sake, but just running the same old gaming benchmarks like that’s the only thing anyone will ever do with the most expensive component in the modern PC.

I’ve also heard of some software that just does not work without CUDA. Those differences between cards should be tested and the results made public. The hardware journalism scene needs to stop focusing so hard on damned video games and start focusing on all the software where Nvidia vs AMD really does make a difference, maybe it would force AMD to step up its game. At the very least, the gamebros would stop acting like people buy Nvidia cards for no reason except some sort of weird flex.

No, dummy, AMD can’t run a lot of important shit that you don’t care about. There’s more to this than the FPS count on Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Reddit tended to be best where it had stolen better communities from the old web.

For example, r/Excel was always a stunningly chill place to get help with MS Excel. But notice that the community was/is tightly focused on a subject, that subject would have objectively correct answers to any questions about it, and the mods could politely but firmly discourage any spicier conversations as off-topic. You can keep that sort of place decent almost indefinitely.

Such communities would have been their own little message board before Reddit came along and hoovered them all up.

Likewise with all the other subreddits that were famously full of answers, ones you never had heard of. Just the other day I googled a question about some random piece of cable I had in my hand and guess who had answered it 4 years ago? Yeah. Those little communities tend to be really solid. They never get that big, either. You can’t just fuck around in them, you have to stay on topic and the average user hates that.

But Reddit turns into a wretched, life-draining parasitic monster in any form where the public feels like they have the right to run their mouths and chatter. So, most of Reddit, really. Anywhere that gives the average schmuck a place to vent will degenerate, rapidly, usually toward an abusive groupthink. It’s just populism, then, and a textbook answer to why that’s bad.

It’s the bane of all social media. I don’t think people are generally that shitty. I’ve decided that social media, including Reddit, just empowers small, loud minorities of miserable, exhausting people who have nigh-fascist opinions on every single thing, and as soon as the normal-ass people see that they’ve joined the chat, the normal-ass people all vanish, overnight, leaving behind only shitbags who love attention, or believe they have a right to it, at everyone else’s expense. There’s no getting rid of them when they show up, you can only get rid of you. I hope you weren’t having a nice time, because it’s over now, time to move on.

Reddit always had its great little subreddits full of truly precious answers as a counterweight to all that. It would appear that they were the only thing of value that Reddit ever had, too.

Lemmy doesn’t really have that. It looks like the most obnoxious parts of Reddit came here, so, you know, every computer problem is solved by installing Linux, and other mouthfuls of that flavor. Then somebody opened the floodgates and now you’re arguing with Commies about every political thing. Meanwhile, no great little subLemmies full of answers for your obscure questions exist to make up for it.

Like you said, it was super chill for a month, but then, yeah. It’s kinda same shit different day. It’s reminding me that I’ve decided to view social media as a vice, almost exactly like smoking, and changing cigarette brands does not solve the problem.

In the spirit of Tupac I call for unity in the hood on this one.

GuNindos it is

I will never forget when my tourist ass was bumbling through O’Hare on my way to my gate and this dark haired woman who I have dubbed the Executive Raven went blasting past me in a pencil skirt and 3-inch heels with her little rolly suitcase clacking behind her and I thought, “damn.”

Then I got to my gate and she was already there waiting for her own flight, she’d whipped out a laptop and an earpiece and appeared to be running the entire world so that it wouldn’t collapse in the three hours that she would be on the plane.

You meet a lot of these people in airports. I think me and the OOP don’t meet a lot of them, otherwise.

I’ve got a couple of Youtube channels I follow, ChristopherOdd and Splattercatgaming, who seem to mostly charge through a lot of indy content, giving it a whirl so you can check it out. So that helps to surface anything interesting happening outside AAA studios.

That and just waiting for recs to come from word of mouth.

I’ve been calling it Xitter, sounds like zitter. Gotta call it something, not the dumb thing he made up.

Ooh, yeah, good call, I always forget them when things get dweeby.

I swear, nothing is commie enough for Lemmy. “Linux? Pshhhsshs! Cuck!” Mentions no alternative

Idunno, I feel like they certainly fathom it to some degree. They have an awful lot of funky little predator evasion techniques for an animal with no fathom.

That whole schooling thing is a bunch of fish going, I know they like eating us, but I’d rather they eat YOU.

I do agree that they have no conception of humanity, just that sometimes their friends get raptured away by something that makes a boat noise.

That’s beyond “wow he’s tall” and well into “somebody fucked with this in Photoshop” tall.

If they didn’t then he’s well into uh oh, something is wrong with this kid and his life expectancy might not be the greatest, tall.

I managed to be on TikTok for one (1) calendar year and then bailed. For now, I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, but soon, something like this is just going to be a weird picture that means nothing. That’s a strange thing.

Oh, yeah, that’s the new normal, I’m a bit surprised they gave you a whole 100MB to call your own.

The modern Dad pro-move for giving the kids a game console for Christmas is to sneak the box open, set it up, do all the ridiculous downloads and patches then sneak it all back into the box nice and tidy so that the kids can just open it and go on Christmas morning.

Bond fund here we come, that’s as ensured as you get now, moneybags.

Weird thumbnail vs headline. She looks like I just asked her if she wants to hit this joint and she does, which doesn’t go at the top of a story about atrocity.

This guy looks like he got in a terrible fistfight where he completely lost and ended up in the hospital with a face like a lumpy purple balloon, but that was a year ago, and he’s mostly healed, now. Mostly.

I got that Dramm Heavy-Duty Brass Adjustable Nozzle, so I get that full-analog control and I feel like a fireman.

Also, this thing survives the winter, and the next five of them. That’s why I bought it. Everything else would be cool until the next spring when it was a leaky failure. I had to replace llke 4 of the ones in the OP, fricken Walmart specials, shitty plastic, garbage seals. Not the Dramm. This thing’s fit for Canada. It doesn’t care if it froze all winter, it’s ready for spring, leak free.

I get all these settings, and every gradient in-between, unlike the peasantry. Can you imagine? How droll. Merely 7 choices. Genteel shudder

Only $17 on Amazon, so load that one up for a Father’s Day gift. Mother’s Day gift, too, you know she loves that garden. Did your friend just transition? Dramm garden hose nozzle, welcome to the elite, I put a little bow on it. Hell, I think I’d give it for Christmas to the right person. Dramm 12380, investment grade equipment, real Buy It For Life shit.

We don’t care about indickted, only convicted, give us a holler when the real thing happens. Orange jumpsuit to match his face, cuffs, perp walk, call me when I can see it or don’t call me.

Some folk have not watched this worm slither off the hook again and again, and it really shows.