Considering moving to France so I never have to use the rotting garbage that is Microsoft Teams every single day

Not talking about its usage as a speculative gambling asset, I’m talking about the blockchain as a part of computer science

Much of historical research was seemingly useless for a very long time until some progress in unrelated fields enabled them to suddenly become very useful. I prefer to be open minded about technology, not tying it to the way its used by the current time and political system we are living in

I think the technology itself has great potential, though capitalism using it for the worst reasons imaginable and making it as inefficient as physically possible will never show us the true potential of this technology.

Under different social structures, it could possibly be a pretty great foundation for new kinds of monetary systems

A 70 euro KVM Switch that I use to switch all my peripherals between my work laptop and my home desktop at the press of a button. My work has a hybrid office policy, so on the days of the week that I need to pack my laptop or plug it back in, all I need to do is remove or insert three cables from the laptop’s ports only, no need to bend under my desk and move the desktop cable to the laptop. It also means that I can very easily switch between work and personal things when there’s not much to do or I’m waiting for a build etc.

that looks really cool, but I’d never risk it malfunctioning and hurting my cats, no amount of good reputation would be enough for me to risk it

Was on vacation to Italy waiting for the train to go to another city, and we met another couple there from Mexico that made some small talk. They told us that they’re going to get married after this trip, then we then talked about our countries and the economic and political struggles of them both, and they gave us a Mexican peso which we had never seen before. Despite it being a pretty small moment compared to all of the amazing things we saw in Italy, this is still one of the fondest memories of that trip

Not new, and I’m fine with lemmygrad but thanks for the concern. I’ll make sure to avoid the likes of you instead

Even tagged them, wow

Your arrogance is beyond words, personally attacking the devs that created and tirelessly maintain the very platform you’re using to write this garbage comment.

Go use reddit, it will align with your worldview much better since it is run by corporations that sell your data for profit, making use of their god given right to “personal freedom” as defined by the CIA, and don’t allow anything left of Mussolini on their platform.

It’s so dystopian that I grew up knowing most of the famous brand logos but didn’t know where to place most countries on the map until I was old enough to care

First off, political “extremism” is a very flexible term. For some, it’s extremism to support a system that leaves people dying of hunger and treatable diseases while a tiny class becomes rich beyond belief and at the same time funding wars and bombings all over the globe for profits. For others, extremism is wanting to materially overturn the former, and not just on words or the imaginary marketplace of ideas.

You can block the political communities if that’s not your thing, but creating a nice capitalist neoliberal bubble that never challenges any world perceptions is not the goal of most instances here, unlike Reddit.

The sign up process is a small extra difficulty, but it’s also part of the reason why you’re not interacting with bot farms instead of people like you do on any big platform.

Fascist dickheads don’t deserve good answers, it’s hate that drives them not logic

Unlike the human brain which is known for always returning 502 Bad Gateway

I believe something as simple as moderated user registration along with their automated filtering goes a long way to combat this. The automated filtering can help remove the spam by recognizing forms filled with random bullshit, or detect input that has been copy pasted multiple times from other registrations, and a human moderator can then have a more manageable amount of registrations to go through and manually accept.

This as well as the email confirmation after the acceptance should already be a big obstacle for massive bot farms. It’s still very much possible for all those agencies that do it professionally and massively with state funding, but at least it would be much more time consuming and expensive for them to do so.

As great as the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular are, I’d honestly prefer if this place kept being niche. Not that I don’t want more people to enjoy online freedom away from corporate owned social media, but I fear that a surge of people migrating to Lemmy would cause the capitalists to turn their gaze over here and find ways to attack it or hijack it. The Fediverse does have its own defenses against these practices, it being completely open source and decentralized being the most important one, but it still wouldn’t be a good thing to have their attention and consent manufacturing bot farms etc. entering here for example

Same, and even if I wanted to install a dishwasher for my rented place, there’s no water supply to connect it to so it would take some very serious work to be done

Yeah it’s still toxic lol

The item issue for new players has mostly been solved nowadays with recommended builds, you can’t go THAT wrong using them exclusively for lower tiers