This goes in the “shit UM would say” bucket.

Yeah, it’s a common pattern with the “victim” crap. Same stuff I was just testing, actually. (Check my comment history with UM over the last day or so; re: define propaganda)

Very nonsensical responses, no discussion and just absolute crap posts. If it is LLM assisted, it’s tuned to respond to people like they are hating on the acual article and UM. It’s an easy formula: post a shit article and just argue with everyone about anything while assuming they are commenting against the post.

But I have met people just like that IRL and it usually comes with some serious mental disorders or poorly prescribed medications. (I am being extremely serious with that comment and no joke is intended, at all.) It’s probably for that person’s benefit to get kick-banned at all turns. Assuming it’s actually one real person, social media is not where they need to be spending their time.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that. What I believe happens is that so much fake stuff is mixed with fact, the line between the two become blurred.

In most processed food, there is an acceptable amount of insect bits that we almost always consume. So, when I am eating a sandwich, maybe 0.05% of it is insect. To me though, I don’t think of it as my daily dose of extra protein: it’s just my sandwich.

The point of that colorful example was to explain how much worse the fake bits of Reddit actually are: Many people don’t usually know or even think about how much of it they actually consume. Lemmy has the same issues in some corners, but it’s much easier to identify.

It’s showing up on Lemmy fine. However, I think I need to create a post filter for hashtags or cross-site posts somehow.

#If #I #wanted #to #see #shortform #socialmedia #posts #i #would #use #the #proper #site #for #it … #testicles #wwjd #nascar

Its probably more accurate for me to say that I think there is a gradient of people between instances. Using politics as an example, and without details, people seem to gravitate to instances where they are with like-minded folk. Combine that with local or global filter preferences, and echo chambers start to form on a per-instance basis. Communities of higher interest will likely be on the users home instance, after all.

But yeah, I am fairly sure most of us browse /all and see content from all over Lemmy. We still mix and mingle, but are still lightly bound by our own filter preferences. See above paragraph.)

(I am not trying to dictate hard rules of behavior, btw. Lemmy is too diverse for anything definitive.)

Personally, I try to only block specific communities and not entire instances. That has seemed to keep my personal feeds fairly open.

Lemmy is a perfect replacement for Reddit because it’s not Reddit. The feed was curated and not as organic as the voting system made it seem. As time passed, it became more of an algorithmic engine for dopamine extraction. Sure, I had some great times there, but times change.

Lemmy is not a perfect copy, but it is a healthier replacement in some ways. Separate instances do amplify echo chambers, but, they mildly serve to keep different groups separated. Some personality types are just not compatible and that is OK. We still have common spaces and can still be civil, mostly.

For now, there isn’t as much room here for business. Sure, we have plenty of porn but this platform isn’t as easy to exploit for money as Reddit was. No centralized advertising structure is awesome, IMHO. (Some clients still leverage ads, but I don’t use them.)

Build a live boot USB for windows: https://monovm.com/blog/how-to-create-a-windows-live-usb/

There is a chance that the exe is just a wrapper for a compressed archive that contains the app to flash the bios and also the image. If the bios actually supports flashing manually, that would be super convenient.

It depends on what kind of IC you need. If you need an authentic part that has been tracked and verified through every step of distribution, you pay a premium.

For hobby products, sure. Spend 30 cents on that 5 dollar part.

However, a bad batch of fake ICs could potentially cost a company millions of dollars in returns, or worst case, liability lawsuits. (It has personally only cost me a few bucks and some wasted time.)

My personal trust in any Chinese sourced electronics is zero. It’s less than zero if I attempt to buy a proper name brand IC. I ain’t salty about it since I know my odds of getting defective or improperly labeled (or relabeled) parts: Expect about a 30% failure rate or parts that are way out of spec.

Simply put, QA is generally poor and the supply chain is sketchy. If that doesn’t matter to you, so be it.

What happens is it chips do come from the same Chinese manufacturer, you can get spectacularly different grades of parts depending on how you bought them.

Big Clive has a voice to sleep to. If you are not familiar, he does electronics teardowns and reverse engineering. While I usually just watch his videos to actually learn things, his voice will knock me right out if I need a nap.

Ask! I am sure your nephew will be glad to give you a not-so-short summary of the entire Pokemon universe. (Most kids that have hobbies like that usually have every tiny detail memorized and are willing to show off their expertise.)

Well, it will train it’s AI on everyone else’s posts. Just not your posts.

Oh, OP is already contributing, for sure.

Those were words, yes.

How the fuck you were able to mash them together like that is beyond me.

De-escalation is easy: Russia can get the fuck out of Ukraine. All of it.

I just ignored all the ads and any news, so you are likely correct. I did think that most of the games were mobile, but I must have been mistaken in thinking it was playable on Netflix clients on your TV or something.

I used to play Pac-Man on my old FireTV with the controller while I was killing time in the mornings before work, so I thought it was similar in that regard.

It should have been a AAAAA studio. That is where they fucked up.

Or, they fucked up thinking that people wanting to watch movies wanted to play games…

Good. Let’s keep it that way.

Eyyy! One mac down, one to go.

It was just a shame to have this spare compute just sitting around and am glad it has avoided the recycling bin for at least another 4-5 years. (I don’t like throwing electronics away. I’ll even harvest components off of old stuff before it gets tossed, usually.)

Rock on, I’ll give it a shot. Thanks!

From personal experience, these kinds of things are usually based on “security by obscurity” and is just a matter of pushing the right buttons in a specific order.

Unless hardware fuses are physically blown, there is usually a chance. While possible, I don’t think any laptop manufacturer would implement that functionality without an expensive, special order contract.

One is a model “A1989” and another is “A2159”, both of which are at least from 2018.

I believe I got them to a state where the recovery OS was re-installed? I am charging them now to get more information.