[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And it is amazing! Especially further north in like -20°C

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Like any cat, Linux is actually liquid and can flow over the whole sofa if it so chooses.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

It could be a good product. I neither hate it nor like it.

I personally know someone in advertisement and viral marketing is more widespread than I think people realize. That is why I would like people to be sceptical about stuff that gets recommended with this kind of frequency (and IMHO with text in a tone that I've read in actual viral marketing campaigns) especially if the product is commercial.

This method of advertising is used because it works and as you can see by the backlash here merely suggesting that it could be an ad and asking people to be sceptical/cautious is taken as breaking a social taboo.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

My intention is not to personally attack you just to get that out of the way. That is why I prefaced my statement with the tinfoil hat part.

I don't know if the company can afford that. I did not look into it enough but I know that viral marketing is not a very expensive marketing strategy and I hate it.

I can speak only on my experience here on Lemmy where I hear it mentioned with a rather high frequency and in ways that suggest to me that it could be an advert.

I will not apologize for being sceptical when it comes to commercial product recommendations and I suggest everybody do the same as viral marketing is extremely widespread in the modern net.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Like watching a movie you already watched? Having no perceived control over one's actions?

Yea that's called depersonalization...

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Is this a real thing? If so is it meat based? Don't ask me why I know this but in SpongeBob lore the Krabby Patty is actually plant based.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

Ok I need to put my tinfoil hat on for a moment but I think there is some viral marketing going on for it on Lemmy. The frequency I see it recommended or mentioned and the unorganic way it is brought up gives me advert vibes.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Not very surprising tbh. More reasonable even to call it a country than a person

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

I have horrible spelling and sometimes write in an archaic register. I also often write in a way that sounds rather aggressive which is not my intention most of the time. Ai helps me rewrite that shit and makes me more sensitive to tone in written text.

Of course just like normal spell check and auto completion feature one still needs to read it a final time.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

I know of a case in a German university where something like that was dealt with quietly and internally.

But your argumentation structure is flawed. It would be better to argue what an organization ought to do and how that is legally and ethically justified than to argue that every organization would call the cops.

I mean your argumentation boils down to your own ignorance (I don't know of any case ergo it is impossible/improbable) or hand waving that it is obvious. That is not convincing Argument imho even if what you are arguing for is correct. Which I don't believe just to be clear.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

Actually I think games would just include Linux Kernel modules for Anti-Cheat (which would be terrible as the Kernel has no consistent internal api). Or whole kernels that run in a hypervisor.

Never underestimate greed.

[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That is... surprisingly little. Are you sure?

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I hope this is a good place for this. A few weeks ago I started a simple experiment: Block every community in the All feed that is about the US election in some way.

I thought this up after a thread about the Biden debate, as someone kindly (not really kindly) informed me that I should curate my own experience here. I thought about it and realized just how much election/politics stuff there is on the front page. It was quite hard blocking communities I like, especially 196 on blahaj.

Now the quality of my feed did go up in some ways but it's very slow. I also realized that I am feeling a lot less rage/anger than before when scrolling lemmy. I didn't even realize how much the constant political stuff from another continent affected me...

What is your opinion on this? Is Lemmy really filled with too much US political rage bait? Should I continue with my zero tolerance policy?

It would also interest me to hear an American perspective. Is there more or less politics here, on other platforms or real life. How does rage/hate affect you when scrolling through Lemmy and does it take a toll?

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