chamomile

joined 2 years ago
[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 1 points 2 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Good stuff, love the drag and drop improvements!

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 9 points 3 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Omg THANK YOU for the per-workspace layouts.

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

@prole Fedora, which Bazzite is based on, disables this at boot time by default. There are instructions on how to enable it in Fedora here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq#How_do_I_enable_the_magic_SysRq_key?

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

@catloaf @open_mind To follow up on this, after the war there was a long and very successful propaganda campaign to whitewash the legacy of American slavery and its importance in the US civil war.[1] To this day, the Confederacy is heavily mythologized and their generals and leaders are lionized as brave and noble rather than what they were: defenders of brutal industrial slavery. You wouldn't think a country would have statues of 150-year-old failed traitors outside state buildings, but we do. (They're starting to come down but it has taken a literal century.)[2] There are many, many people from the south who will insist that the civil war was about the vague notion of "states' rights" without being specific about what specific rights they wanted,[3] and that's because this propaganda was embedded in the education system of half the country.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost/_Cause/_of/_the/_Confederacy
[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035004639/virginia-ready-to-remove-massive-robert-e-lee-statue-following-a-year-of-lawsuit
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZB2ftCl2Vk

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[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 20 points 7 months ago

@FlyingSquid "Ok, then. That was always allowed!"

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@sharkfucker420 It's a good thing "A Modest Proposal"[1] wasn't titled "The Benefits of Cannibalism" because I guess people would have taken that at face value as well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@P4ulin_Kbana @potentiallynotfelix fw = fuck with. It means they like it.

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

@MicroWave

“Why didn't she just keep her job, give us part of the wages to pay somebody else to do it?” he asked. “That is the thing that the hyper-liberalized economics wants you to do. The economic logic of always prioritizing paid wage labor over other forms of contributing to a society is to me ... a consequence of a sort of fundamental liberalism that is ultimately gonna unwind and collapse upon itself.”

“It's the abandonment of a sort of Aristotelian virtue politics for a hyper-market-oriented way of thinking about what's good and what's desirable,” he added. “If people are paying for it and it contributes to GDP and it makes the economic consumption numbers rise, then it's good, and if it doesn't, it's bad ... that's sort of the root of our political problem.”

It's really funny when conservatives are like "See the problem with Wokeness is <describes capitalism>"

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

@snow_bunny Nah, it was Sonos. Which, I guess the app ecosystem is their whole thing - but I didn't know that at the time. I just wanted a basic sound bar, and the reviews didn't really mention that all that extra fluff was mandatory.

In retrospect Sonos sucks for a lot of other reasons too, so I guess it was a bullet dodged.

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 85 points 10 months ago (7 children)

@The_Picard_Maneuver I once bought a TV sound bar that wanted me to download an app, make an account and give it detailed location information just to use it as a wired speaker. I returned it.

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

@SPAUZPiMP @scarabic Oh wow, did he literally say "irreducible complexity?" That is SO blatant lol.

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