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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I don't just mean that person, I mean anybody who would believe that "I'm a God fearing person" is actually the right thing to say.

I mean, if one thinks about it, it's curious that anybody would openly states that their relation to one's God is "Fear" rather than, say "Love", even if they are being entirely truthful in that.

"God loving" sounds a lot more respectful of a Deity, IMHO.

Further, even for that specific person my point still fits in a twisted way: that person chose that specific expression because deep down they believe people only restrain their bad actions because of fearing retribution.

It's a variant of Psychological Projection and thus still betrays that person's moral makeup: even as non-believers they use the "Fear of God" mantra because they themselves think that claiming that one has one's behavior under constant oversight from a deity which will punish bad behavior is the best way to convince others that one behaves in a good way, and they think so because they themselves restrict their negative behavior towards others through fear of external reprisal rather than through internal mechanisms such as guilt or a personal moral.

Even when people lie, you can still tell a lot about somebody by which lies they think will work best at convincing others.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

A Mini PC with an N100 (exact same performance as the microprocessor in the Pi5 according to this) and 8GB RAM will cost you around $140, which per what a previous poster dug out is exactly the same price as a Pi4 with only 4GB if we're talking about something with the equivalent kit (i.e. with box, dissipators, power supply and HDMI cable)

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Funny enough I recently bought an N100 Mini-PC with 8GB (as a Christmas present to replace somebody's aged Windows 8 PC) for just a bit over $140 (more precisely €123, so $143 at today's exchange rate).

According to this the performance of the microprocessor on the Pi5 is at the same level as that of the N100.

So basically if you buy a Mini PC with an N100 and 8GB memory you can roughly get the performance of the Pi5 at the price of a Pi4 with only 4GB.

I think the point of the previous poster that "this is wild" is exactly right.

Unless you actually need the actual pins with I/O ports, I2C, SPI or such for controlling some electronics, you're better of with the Mini PC and even if you do, you're probably better of with a Banana Pi or an Orange Pi.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

You almost certainly could do it with an ESP32 (a microcontroller with Arduino support and which supports WiFi and bluetooth).

An ESP32 Super Mini board costs about $5.

Of course, forget about an UI other than web-based for the ESP32 or proper OS (like Linux) support, as that stuff is on the embedded systems side of things (though kinda powerful for one) rather than the Single Board Computer side.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

That's their entire propaganda technique.

Notice how in the BBC "reporting" the Israelis always "say" or "state" things, whilst the Palestinians only ever "claim" and Israelis "are killed" whilst Palestinians only ever "die".

This kind of shit, selective reporting and selective agrandizing is pretty much the entire "Opinion Forming" methodology of the BBC.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

"I have no Ethics or Morals, so I only ever do the right thing because I fear the wrath of an All Knowing and All Powerful entity if I don't"

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 23 hours ago

Exactly.

It's a coping mechanism for having a purely emotional relationship (i.e. pure tribalism) with a political "side" that has now been going on for so long and so intensely that it has become part of their personal identity, and then being negativelly impacted by the choices of the leaders of "their" side.

By this point such people would have to accept that what is now a huge part of their personal identity is bullshit, and people with the psychological and intelectual maturity required to be able to accept something like that and move on wouldn't have become tribalist muppets in the first place.

They will never, ever do that, rather what they do is invent excuses and deflections of blame.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

"Home delivered freshly made"

"Directly from the producer"

The jokes on that one just write themselves.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I did not know that.

Took them two decades but better late than never!

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Lets put things this way: nations which hold Universal Humanist Principles will always treat their citizens well (or at least as well as they can), but nations which treat their citizens well don't necessarily hold Universal Humanist Principles.

As for the rest, it's just circling back to my original point that few or no nations are civilized, but the citizens in some nations are civilized whilst the elites holding power are not.

Good to know Denmark has changed its position in the Genocide. When are the sanctions on Israel starting?!

I also noticed you didn't address my point on Denmark's government push for broad civil society surveillance for all of the EU with Chat Control, something which in my view is the very opposite of "civilized" in the modern era.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think we differ mainly in that I think that in this era Civilization must be broader than just "Doing what's better for us".

So in that sense the Scandinavian model of governance by itself (absent all else), whilst more civilized than most others, isn't enough for Civilization - there needs to be some kind of broad holding of Universal Humanist Principles rather than merelly just the nation treating its own citizens well.

By that metric and looking at the awful position of Denmark in regards to the Israeli Genocide and even in things like pushing for broad civil society surveillance at the EU level in the form of Chat Control, Denmark is NOT a civilized country, even if it's better for its own citizens than the vast majority of countries are for theirs.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I totally agreed with that: their Server OS is superior to their Desktop OS.

I just think it's mainly because their Desktop OS has fast enshittified after Windows 7 rather than because Windows server is actually all that great as a server OS.

In fact, thinking about it, one might even say that Windows Server is better than the Desktop version because it's to a very great extent a Desktop OS (in terms of having things like having an a complex UI layer and set of support applications integrated) the very thing which is actually a large part of the reason why its an inferior server OS for typical server-side scenarios because there what you most value is maximum computing resources made available to the server applications (which tend to be heavy users of computing, memory, networking or a combination of those) and an integrated UI layer actually uses more of those just for the OS (both directly for its own work and indirectly from the added complexity of a bulkier OS resulting in less streamlined execution paths) making fewer resources available for the same hardware.

If you look at the Linux distros and distro variants for server deployment they are actually vastly inferior to the Windows OS Desktop - for starters because they're command-line only, though nowadays there's often web-based management interfaces which are still a much lighter option than a directly integrated UI layer - exactly because absent an intergrated UI layer, not adding the UI support on top via something like XWindows or Wyland on a server Linux distro actually makes them better for server tasks.

 

So apparently for lemmy.world mods pointing out that the word "anti-semite" is far more used than "antigypsyism, anti-Romanyism, antiziganism, ziganophobia, or Romaphobia” even though the Nazis targetted both Jews and Roma in the Holocaust, is, somehow, "Criticizing Jewish people as a whole".

Or maybe it's the whole "I don't care about any one specific race, I care about people and think it's always unjusct when people are treated differently based on things they were born with, such as race" that was deemed "Criticizing Jewish people as a whole".

Good old lemmy.world: they were called on it repeatedly so eventually walked back on the whole "criticizing Israel is anti-semitic" but apparently if you don't go along with the view that racism against a very specific group is much worse than racism against people from other groups, then you must be against that specific ethnic group.

My comment in text for reference:

All clearly as frequently used as "anti-semitism" /s

And yeah, I don't care about race, any race, I care about people, which includes that they're not unjustly treated for things that were not their choice, such as the race they were born into.

It's Racists who feel the need to care about a race or races, defending things for some races which they do noit defend for others, doing little performances about how others must care about those races too and that those who don't "are against those races" - for them race comes first, defining a person and dictating how they should be treated.

For Humanists race is something that should be of as little importance to how somebody is treated as the color of their eyes or how tall they are, and yet they see again and again race weponized by Racists to treat people differently even though those people haven't actually earned such treatment through their actions: in other words race fro Humanists is something that should be irrelevant yet has been turned by others into a pivot for injustice.

It's pretty obvious from your little performance which one you are

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