[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Rottenstick, Yetitrunk and Farfisa?

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

GNOME is pretty but KDE works.

"Works" as in does what I expect from a desktop without deciding over my head that I should rethink my forty years of accumulated desktop experience without any discernible benefit to it.

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[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 76 points 2 weeks ago

American leftists need to adopt their communication strategy. It doesn't work to have educated people lecture the anti intellectuals. They don't want to hear it and they'll have a knee jerk reaction against it. Study, learn and use their own preferred methods instead. Stickers, simple slogans, rants, fucking flags on oversized wankmobiles if you've got one. Whenever there is a direct consequence of the Trump administration, shout it immediately from the rooftops until people get it. Only talking about it years later at the next election will do nothing because it is already pushed away by the propaganda feed. Use their method of communication but keep it factual and don't stoop down to their hatred and lies. It's not about taunting, it's about informing the uninformed and leading them out of the bubble.

Price hikes? Thanks MAGA. Deportations of integrated citizens? Thanks MAGA. No more social security? Thanks MAGA. Leopards chewing on your face? WELL FUCKING THANKS FOR VOTING FOR THE LEOPARDS EATING PEOPLE'S FACES PARTY!

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 113 points 2 weeks ago

The post is about not letting it happen in the EU.

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I think everybody needs one today

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by whaleross@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Edit; I'm not asking what the 90s were like because I was there. I'm thinking what the pastiche of the 90s would be like should it have a revival like the 80s one that is nothing like the real 1980s by young people that presumably only have vague ideas from magazines and music and movies to go by. Like for example if it takes off from grunge but not like it was then but like it is idealised by kids today, what would it be like? What else was a 90s thing? Boy bands and indie pop mixed together on MTV? Hardcore techno and jungle/dnb with it's own analogue distribution channels by mail, flyers, mixtapes? Last generation of B-movies with practical effects shot on film before that part of the industry degraded into C-tier on digital with terrible CGI in the 00s? Mainstream pop culture, whatever that was? Television and radio, magazines and records before the internet took off? How would any or all of that be reimagined by people that didn't live it back then? I had no interest then nor do I have today for fashion magazines so if somebody knows I'd love to hear your twist on the topic.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by whaleross@lemmy.world to c/music@lemmy.world

I enjoy the 1900s Avant Garde and experimental music.

Then again I'm also not joyful but abstract and dense.

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submitted 3 months ago by whaleross@lemmy.world to c/movies@lemmy.world

Wardrobes and sets that look like 1980s magazines and catalogues but not like 1980s real life, palette with deep blacks and super saturated accents, post processing as if shot on film with optical lens effects and distributed on magnetic video tape though obviously shot and edited one hundred percent digital, modern synthwave heavy soundtrack, titles in red text on black background... You know the entire package. It's starting to feel lazy. For some reason it seems to be the aspiring young directors first feature length flick for the last few years or so. Damn I'd be more impressed by retro theming be the 90s or 00s that should be these directors genuine era of nostalgia.

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submitted 4 months ago by whaleross@lemmy.world to c/guitars@lemmy.world

I plonk bass and klink keyboard. I'm shite at both but it doesn't matter. It's just for fun because I need sorta meaningful things to entertain myself.

I live in an apartment so I'm playing with headphones. I've got the Nux Mighty Plug that sounds all right but the lag on Bluetooth audio is very frustrating. Playing along by ear is ok though annoying with the lag but it is literally impossible for watching video tutorials or play along to tabs.

I'm considering the Mooer S800 electric guitar with built in effects, amp sim and headphone amp with Bluetooth and hopefully not the lag. The idea is to be able to simply pick it up and shred away when the cosmic vibes align and then put it away again. No cumbersome setup or necessary clean up that kills the momentum.

I think €400 seems to be a fair price for the instrument considering it's all included to get started.

Should I consider other options?

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[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 76 points 6 months ago

The Zuck has not been 36 since he shed his baby skin some 800 years ago.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 116 points 7 months ago

Performing sufficiently for cheap production cost, they'd be a low RISC high reward investment.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 99 points 9 months ago

CSAM? What is CSAM? Is it a rewrite of "scam"?

Googles...

Oh no. Oh no no no. Why are people so fucking shit?

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 252 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Because corporate greed and the economic elite around the world hoarding more resources than ever before.

And we let them.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 102 points 10 months ago

It sounds ridiculous that they assaulted an avatar. I think it is the wrong take. The avatar is just the medium. The target was obviously the person behind the avatar. It's like saying that threats over text message is assaulting her phone.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 117 points 11 months ago

Because december is consumerism celebration burn all the money month and January is poor af.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me personally, it annoys me when emojis are used as a lazy replacement for language and it quickly deteriorates into πŸ₯ΊπŸ₯ΊπŸ˜­πŸ˜­πŸ˜’πŸ˜­πŸ˜­πŸ˜°πŸ˜°πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™ sort of bullshit.

In other communication I sometimes throw in a single smiley face because I've been told that middle aged women in particular interpret messages as passive aggressive if I don't.

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