Nah, you are speaking sense. I think Lemmy was really pitched as a Reddit alternative (or at least that was my experience)and it makes sense that the first flood of people who got excited about that are people who miss how Reddit used to feel.
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IMHO Lemmy feels similar to how Reddit felt 10-15 years ago. The community seems closer to my age. The population is smaller. The content is less formulaic.
The biases shown here feel like a distillation of the broader internet (similar to what Reddit used to be). We like animals and nature, we hate intrusive powerful forces like large corporations or invasive governments. We share a shit-post-y sense of humor. We tend to lean left politically. We love to feel like we know more than we actually do.
On any given subject, if you ask “What would the internet think about this?” you will probably find that same opinion reflected strongly here.
My point is that the law is just going to keep creeping up in severity because of workarounds like this.
knight_alva@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Let's say you are teaching a basic, 1-hour-long class to the general public about privacy and general tech hygiene. What kinds of topics would you include?7·11 days agoOne class for one hour is not much time at all. To get the most out of it, I would actually try to keep the scope as narrow as possible. I would really dig into these two things:
Password management (make good passwords, use a pw-manager to avoid reusing a pw, change passwords regularly)
Spotting social engineering (I would spend at least 2/3 of the class on this topic) this is by far the most common vector through which people get hurt by poor tech literacy. If you want to do the most good for the most people I would recommend focusing on drilling this skill.
Sounds like a recipe for account sharing. Also, what happens if a parent buys a kid something on the site or the kid steals the parent’s card? The transaction doesn’t imply that the card holder and the account owner are the same person.
I spent 7 years on my 4 year degree for vaguely similar reasons. I didn’t take breaks. I pushed through and cracked and failed and started over in a new major and a new school. That was nearly a decade ago and I’m not really happy with where it lead me. I wish I had taken the time off. If I could go back now with my current knowledge of how my brain works differently, I would be so much more successful. I’m also just rambling at this point.
I guess what I’m trying to say is be kind to yourself over the choices to have made. Not only can you rarely ever take them back, the grass is rarely ever actually greener on the other side.
knight_alva@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•what video game deserves to be in a museum?English5·13 days agoI would add the OG Mortal Combat gave us the MSRP rating system.
knight_alva@lemmy.worldto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Hollow Knight: Silksong will have a playable demo this August at GamescomEnglish12·13 days agoI will remain excited that it exists, I own it, and can play it again.
knight_alva@lemmy.worldto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Hollow Knight: Silksong will have a playable demo this August at GamescomEnglish21·14 days agoI will never stop being excited for this.
I appreciate the Moomlaut
knight_alva@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•You're home alone, sitting down and relaxing with your favorite consumable item, be it drink, drugs, food, what have you. What are you having, and what do you put on the stereo to accompany your eveni2·18 days agoIt’s been a long time since I have actually been able to do this but let me lay out a vibe for you:
I work 2nd shift which ends at 10:30 pm and I used to live in a really rough neighborhood. The kind of place where people mind their own business as a matter of safety. The kind of place where landlords don’t do inspections so everyone has a grill on their patio even though it’s against the lease.
So I would go out every single night at 11:30-midnight, light up the charcoal grill, poor myself a cocktail and spend the next hour or two cooking for myself in the quiet empty dark.
So to actually answer the question:
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the food would change often but always grilled meats and vegetables. A hamburger and an ear of corn, skewered and marinated meats and vegetables with baked beans, everything you would think to pair with a steak, I even grilled cuts of fish on a salt brick a few times.
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the drink would be something seasonal. In the fall I would mix burnt sugar whiskey with hot apple cider. That was my favorite.
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what I listened to was always some audio horror fiction. I love music but there was just something about the fire, the moon, and the colony of feral cats that chilled with me for table scraps, that demanded I listen to ghost stories.
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I started reading because I saw the picture and expected to learn about some pangolin themed dog costume. The actual post has somehow surpassed my expectations and disappointed me at the same time. Idk what to do with that but it’s shaping up to be a wild day on the internet.
Arguably, dark souls 1 (either ending)
The other games leave room for long term consequences but the 1st game is entirely pointless in the broader scope of the story.
If you don’t link the fire, you just did all of that adventuring for nothing. You may as well have just stayed in the asylum and let Gwyn slowly burn away.
If you do link the fire then you just reset the clock for the age of fire to fade again later while you wait for the next guy to come kill you just like Gwyn.