brucethemoose

I guess I’m just not wired that way. An influencer live-streaming or a stripper who’ll talk sweet to me for a few bucks doesn’t feel like a connection, at all, but for billions it apparently does…

And yeah, on gaming the system, the complicity of the system is also interesting.

Like… OnlyFans ostensibly isn’t a porn platform. But they know what they’re doing. The credit card companies know what they’re doing yet turn a blind eye? How does that work?

Same with Reddit. Karma farming is horrible for the site's long term health, yet they seem to structure things to encourage it as much as they can.

play movie.mkv isn’t rocket science.

The odds of most of my family ever touching CLI is literally zero.

And all the prerequisite concepts below that. You’re assuming everyone knows, say, the concept of a filesystem or URL.

Not that MPV isn’t awesome though; it’s super awesome. For me, you’re mostly preaching to the choir.

They are keyed in enough to realize that sites like reddit are full of people who post porn to get their accounts enough karma to get past most filters without realizing that the goal of that is to then nuke the past messages and sell it to a marketing firm.

This is weird enough to be plausible. The world be like that.

Sometimes it is a hardcore simp who has keyed in on the complete lack of discoverability in the OF space.

Ahh, that makes sense. I hadn’t thought of that.

OF simps being aware of the Fediverse is interesting, though.

I kinda have a distant fascination with this whole ecosystem. Like, what drives all this money and attention to change hands? I don’t really see the appeal of idolization, myself, which is why I find it interesting I suppose.

Then what’s the angle, especially if it’s an NSFW alt? Is the reposter dropping affiliate links or something?

You are likely right about that. Even in 2010 it was not a destination for happy relationships.

And it does make me ponder relationship culture shifts over the last 15 years.

Driving through Texas years ago, I saw enormous fields of wind turbunes, across the horizon, with oil derecks and cows sharing the space under them, smack the middle of nowhere.

That may be the most 'West Texas' thing I've ever seen.

This has the same energy. Goats under solar panels? Hell yes. You'll see shade crops and oil derecks and who knows what else sharing the space before long. These folks do not care about Republican virtue signaling, they want to work their land.

There's... seeds of truth in the sentiment?

But you are phrasing it very abrasively and overgeneralizing:

"soy"

a weak collection of men in society who don’t grow some balls andnd act like the leaders they should be

Why would the bias change over time, though? That would exist in 2010 and 2025.

Behold, an outcast so slimey he got thrown out of office and shunned.

...And he's trending on Twitter. He's getting clicks and into people's feeds.

This is why whe don't use Twitter. Don't feed the trolls.

Yes. 74% is the “average” point of diminishing returns to preserve the battery, according to Accubattery's data. It tracks charging cycles and battery wear across many thousands of smartphones.

In fact, the reason many phones/gadgets don’t offer this feature (and that Apple sometimes charges to 100% in spite of the toggle) is likely planned obsolescence.

…To add to this, the actual charging threshold of the battery is a bit arbitrary and set by the manufacturer, as a tradeoff of capacity vs life. Fast charging is the same; charging quickly is hard on the battery, and the limits at different charge levels are configured as a “balance” between convenience and life.

…And sometimes they get those thresholds wrong.

Like Samsung rather infamously did for the exploding Galaxy Notes. Google did for the Nexus 6P. They pushed the batteries too hard and borked the phones.

The visuals look very good.

At risk of sounding old, this seems past the “fidelity threshold” where it’s hard to tell old games from brand new releases.

If you're worried about cross-site tracking, specifically, take a look at Cromite, the browser.

Going beyond Adblock, it's stuffed with “anti fingerprinting” measures like randomizing your resolution and time, your hardware and drivers, JS execution speed, anything that could be used to try and uniquely identify your PC. It’s SOTA at that as far as I know.

Sounds like exactly what you need as a “backup browser”, as its designed to anti-fingerprint with JS enabled, neutering certain JS feature's by default.

…But that’s just one form of privacy. If you are worried about any entity logging your visited IPs, you use a Tor browser or something like Mullad.