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[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember reading that when national parks tried to make a 'bear-proof' trashcan, they found that there was a larger overlap between the smartest bear and the stupidest human to make a viable product.

I feel like it's a similar situation here. The smartest kid and the stupidest adult are far more similar than we'd like to admit.

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Tbh I find it much more surprising that there's an overlap of bears and stupid people than I do smart kids and dumb adults.

I've met an unfortunate amount of people that would struggle to dump water out of their boots with the instructions written on the bottom of the sole.

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't think there is a "dead giveaway". Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can't tell if it's a child or someone who doesn't speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There's a lot of different people in the world.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah seriously, every time someone makes a generalization online "that subreddit is all 12 year olds anyway", "r/teenagers is mainly grown me", it really bothers me because no, you're just overconfident in estimating people's ages from text

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[–] Tixanou@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I aint reading allatπŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ’€

Like if gay is bad and u a sigma (YT shorts raised me)
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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Nice yap sesh

[–] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Nice try little Timmy, but I won't be telling you how to pass as an adult.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Very confidently wrong, poor reading comprehension, poor grammar, limited vocabulary, emoji gore, catch phrase/pop culture quotes/talking points repeated with no comprehension of what they're saying, clearly not aware of how many things in life work, religious regurgitation while being surprised everyone doesn't agree with them. Very easily impressed with basic factual statements, clearly thinking confidence is the main thing that makes someone correct. Thinks their mom telling they they are handsome is a valid point. Idk, that's all I got.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Huh

Hexbear is an 8/10 on this scale

[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 1 points 11 months ago

I think you're handsome too, reader. Don't listen to the haters.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

When they're adamant that voting third party in the United States will be useful in some capacity, I assume they're 13

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm actually gonna give the benefit of the doubt and assume this is actually a grown idiot lol

[–] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Hackers mad

Hackers mad

Hackers mad

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I still stand by full disk encryption accomplishing almost nothing for the average user but separating them from their own files

If you don't have data on your PC that someone might be willing to kill you for, you probably don't need it, and Microsoft enabling it by default for Win11 installs is crazy

[–] lemmyhavesome@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds like the whole hard drive recovery industry is about to go poof.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm inclined to somewhat agree. As someone who enjoyed snooping around a mostly unencrypted and insecure internet 25 years ago, I can wholeheartedly tell you that most people's files are pretty boring.

Corporate computers on the other hand...

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, I think it's a good idea to enable it on a laptop.

I mean if someone steals your laptop they can access all your files without it, and even though 90% of files may be useless there's always chances to find passwords (often reused, even if encrypted can be decrypted if they aren't strong), bank details, documents, etc oh and cookies for your browser sessions etc etc. If I were a laptop thief (which I'm not) I'd probably look for those too before formatting everything, that could be extra money.

That's why I encrypt my laptop's drive. That way even if it's stolen the only thing I have to really worry about is not having a laptop anymore.

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah but I don't think the average smash and grab thief is going to be smart enough to recognize the potential value of the data on the laptop, they're just going to pawn the thing off as quickly as possible

Anyone smart enough to want the data probably doesn't need to smash a window, they'll just access the data remotely when the computer is on and the drive is unencrypted

So even then, it only protects you from the very narrow overlap of thieves who are dumb enough to need to break into cars for a living, but smart enough to harvest data off of stolen laptops

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[–] noli@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Specifically in games: constantly repeating the flavor of the month insults. Typically some influencer comes up with a funny insult then for the rest of the month some kids use that one singular insult for every situation

[–] Theme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Quit yapping πŸ’€

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