They weren’t meant to be causative, and I stand by both of my statements. Her writing is objectively bad, and it’s a small miracle that she didn’t manage to ruin this series like everything else she’s written. Yes, I know those are strong words, and yes, I do believe them.

DrLupo. I watched him a bunch when he was on twitch, but he got kinda arrogant and negative over the years. Now I watch the people he used to play with before he changed 🤷‍♂️

So no matter how much one hates Rowling (I don’t, she’s done more good than evil by far still), she’s smarter and more decent than most of the humanity. That sucks.

Lol. She lucked into an amazing world that managed to remain a good story despite her writing, not because of it. She’s not an idiot, but literally every other piece of writing she’s ever put out kinda slams the “smarter than most of humanity” line.

lol no, fuck X

Yup, those are both the industry terms

Not OP, but just to serve as another data point: mostly just exhaustion. I am a full-time software developer, so I just really don’t want to deal with configurations and set up complex systems at home. That’s why I haven’t gotten into any smart-home stuff, either - I just don’t have the bandwidth to deal with the issues that come along with the space.

Just a reminder that they do this because SO many dumb motherfuckers lap this shit up. These are billion- (trillion-?)dollar corporations, they wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t profitable.

If you don’t like being pandered to, stop supporting companies that do it… except then that would be seen as anti-LGBTQ, so good luck with that strategy!

It sounds like you’re just eating bad bacon 🤷‍♂️ splurge on something from a butcher and then get back to us - it really is totally different.

The issue with either is from the risk of popping/leaking: if your pillow leaks, your entire mattress might be fucked. The risk vastly outweighs the improvement

I don’t care for bacon

That’s fair, everyone has their own tastes

it doesn’t have much flavor

Uh… what? 🤨 I think this is just objectively wrong

I’m not a weirdo, so I don’t. My friends don’t have to buy into my version of wasting time

Ask my future self. Telling my past self something is very likely to have no affect on my life (what if past actions only affect that “me” and not me-me), whereas asking my future self something will always end up with me gaining information - no guarantee its relevant, but it’s more likely to be.

Turns out its just hot wheels for man-children.

Like 90% of the point of hot wheels was looking cool, so I have to respectfully disagree

It’s interesting to see Torvalds emerge as a kind of based tech hero.

It’s just that almost everyone else that could do it ended up being fucking ghouls of people.

Torvalds can be… brusque, sure. But he doesn’t support child labor, he doesn’t cheat on his wife, and he isn’t some crazy cult leader waging a war against workers’ rights.

Also no US auto-manufacturer is going all in on EVs

Tesla? Rivian? Lucid? Faraday? Fisker?

To be clear, yes, of course I understand that those are all luxury brands, but that doesn’t make your statement any less false.

No, the major auto manufacturers aren’t going all-in on EVs, but that are all getting deeper every year. There’s no reason to expect that progress to slow down, as they’re all quite entrenched in the technology at this point.

The only outrage I see is in your comment 🙄

It sounds like it will be really hard to differentiate bounce trackers from totally valid patterns like routing through federated identity servers 🤔 I wonder how they’re dealing with that

Constant urges to nap and trouble getting up afterwards are both common (but in no way definitive) symptoms of depression. Definitely above Lemmy’s pay grade - you need to talk to a doctor/therapist. Absolutely do not take antidepressants without consulting them.

If you have chosen to sort a subfolder, or if you use an option like “always sort,” then I agree. But if you just happen to be at the top level folder, I don’t think subfolders should be sorted when you click “sort,” because they may be in an order that you want and sorting is an action that shouldn’t be destructive (unless intentionally destructive).

The sort button absolutely shouldn’t sort subfolders. I do think there should be an option to always automatically sort alphabetically, though