Firefox purity testing. Oh no they ran an ad or made a post on a mainstream platform or developed a widget. Look at the state of the world this is such a non issue and compared to the other browsers out there they are fighting the good fight unequivocally.
People want me to be outraged at Taylor Swift simply for being a billionaire and possibly having questionable people at her wedding. Is she morally perfect? No. I wish she didn’t fly around on her private jet so much. But she is a much better person morally than most rich people. She is reportedly a really kind person to work for, cares about her employees, pays well, and donates a lot to charity. Could she do more? Sure, but we could all do more. Almost everyone could be giving away more of their money to help others. And the outrage over her having a big wedding that supposedly blocked off traffic and stuff. It was a holiday weekend, it can’t have been that big of an inconvenience. How dare she rent out a space that anyone can rent out for a big party. She paid for the security too, contrary to claims that taxpayers paid for it.
Yeah, I’m not going to be mad at a generally kind and generous person simply for being rich. A large part of her billionaire status is her intellectual property. Should she not own the rights to the music she created?
The moral failings of celebrities and creators who’ve been dead for decades.
Save your outrage for things that are happening now, that you still have a chance to change.
Being interested in celebrity gossip is not mutually exclusive to caring about politics or more meaningful things, but I understand why people don’t care about celebrity gossip.
I see this a lot here and it’s curious! Because would you say the same about other hobbies? That they’re a waste of energy because that could be applied to changing things now?
I wouldn’t make the argument that politics is a hobby first.
I didn’t, I compared being interested in celebrity gossip to other hobbies.
I’m specifically talking about dead celebrities. People like to point out that HP Lovecraft was racist, Gary Gygax was sexist and Clark Gable was fascist. All true and well-known, but it’s much too late to change their minds about it. Whereas racism, sexism and fascism are going on outside our windows right now and can still be affected.
Ahh I did miss that you meant specifically dead celebrities. Fair enough! Thanks for clarifying!
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Student cheating. If they can get away with it and somehow translate that into getting a job, good for them, if companies use degrees as a lazy way of filtering applications they deserve to get ripped off. Taking grades seriously like their integrity has moral weight is for people who have been severely manipulated.
But as a society we should have formal qualifications to make it easy to verify knowledge and streamline basic competency. The idea behind a degree is good the implantation of dogshit degrees being handed out to everyone is the issue.
It’s a broader topic, but I disagree, the strategy of outsourcing trust to centralized institutions this way is fundamentally a bad one, and naturally becomes more dysfunctional the more it is used.
Eh I have mixed feelings, in some fields yes I 100% agree I’d say MOST fields I fully agree but there are fields where this would get people hurt or killed, medicine, architecture, civil engineering etc. where I do think cheating can have very serious consequences.
I do also think that exams are often a pretty bad way of checking how well a concept is understood and grades often show how well certain things are memorized instead.
I should probably do some more research before I say anything more about this though as that impression is mostly anecdotal.
I guess that’s fair, but most of the complaining about this I see online is for stuff like people not writing their own essays. I also think the more pressing issue that’s getting people killed in those cases are artificial barriers to access, like if the barriers to practicing medicine were drastically reduced then at least people would be able to get treatment to begin with, and it’s not like having gotten good grades by successfully cramming for exams guarantees professional competence.
Trans people: I don’t care which sportball team you play on or what bathroom you use, just wash your hands when you’re done.
Whatever is in your pants is none of my business unless you’re trying to make it my business (in which case, I’m flattered, but in a monogamous relationship, sorry).
This should be the baseline bottom, but somehow its not. If you care or not or think its “wrong”, just keep it to yourself because Trans people are not harming anyone.
I love Tolkien. I don’t like what Amazon did with Rings of Power, but I just didn’t watch it, simple as that. That’s how the free market works. People make a sucky product. You don’t buy the sucky product, they stop making the sucky product. And if they don’t stop making the sucky product, you make your own hopefully less sucky product. I don’t have the energy to complain about it online.
I’ll do you one better.
I like Tolkien, and I like Rings of Power. No its not a perfect adaptation, but its fine. Its better than those god awful Hobbit movies.
My personal annoyance is with the hubris required to think you can write LOTR lore better than Tolkien. All the money in the history of the universe couldn’t facilitate that. Amazon sucks.
Almost any single thing about movies or shows. I don’t consume either and literally could not care less about any of it. Double whammy with superhero stuff.
Steam. Apparently I’m supposed to be angry they are a locked down monopoly but compared to practically EVERY OTHER GAMING COMPANY IN THE WORLD they are frickin’ saints.
They’ve done so much for gaming on Linux I forgive them for having a convenient launcher that launches everything
Yeah, it’s one of those things where one could argue that steam is successful in part to being entrenched (all of your friends are on steam and all of your games are on steam, so might as well continue using steam), but also… other game launchers are just worse? The fact steam has a lot of useful features, as well as surprisingly few scummy incidents in its history just makes it not worth switching off for me :p
Do other launchers have the workshop functionality to add mods directly from their launcher? That’s been something I love about steam
All the ones I can think of are for individual games rather than general launchers lol. And third party mod launchers that you have to add your own games obtained elsewhere :p
For me steam input the big one that pulls me towards steam; seamless proton integration too, but that one I could handle losing, steam input on the other hand I think is one of the best input remappers out there, I even added all my non-steam games to steam to make use of it too haha
I definitely have some games I need to use nexus mods for (looking at you stardew) but it’s honestly such little hassle that I don’t mind.
Yeah, the only people actually upset at Steam are people who have money tied up in other platforms. Steam is nothing but good for normal consumers.
Yeah, I saw an article about Epic’s CEO having a gormless rant about Steams AI filtering and how but Steam was for them.
All I could think was: “well, make a better product then”
GOG Galaxy is the only launcher / storefront that comes close to competing with Steam, and that is because the one thing they do better:
DRM-free games.
The rest is about equal or slightly worse.
If Epic looked at the customer base and analyzed what people wanted I am sure they could build a better platform than Steam, but with a CEO as unlikable as Epic’s and with his trackrecord it would take many years of hard work and effort to even begin to come close to Steam.
It would probably take some massive PE/VC enforced changes at Valve where they start to enshittify Steam and the loss of confidence in the platform that will follow to make the other platforms competitive.
It would probably take some massive PE/VC enforced changes at Valve where they start to enshittify Steam and the loss of confidence in the platform that will follow to make the other platforms competitive.
Make no mistake, it’s coming eventually. I held off on trusting discord for years buy finally they won me over. Now look where we are.
Never again.
They don’t have any monopoly. There are plenty alternatives and all are trash.
yeah but they support linux gaming!
and if you don’t use a linux PC to game, you’re a stupid ignorant complacent fool who is destroying society.
or so I have been told like every other day on lemmy. owning a playstation or a switch is like ragebait to the user base here. apparently if i buy a switch i might as well support blowing up babies in gaza and mass rape as a genocidal tool, according to these folks.
Oh yeah that could be a whole different thread on here. I use Windows and Linux, I would love it if I could rid myself of Windows completely but Linux is not there, and I kinda doubt it will even be a total replacement for Windows. It’s worth remembering Windows didn’t become the monolith that it is for no reason, people wanted 1 application that could easily do… Well everything without needing a lot of manual fine-tuning. That ain’t Linux.
windows became a monolith because of sabotage. and then! the network effect. microsoft is actively trying to sabotage linux, and they’ve got internal documents stating that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents (the actual link is not loading)
microsoft doing monopolistic anticompetitive FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) practices dates back at least to 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code (yeah... i found out about this from a youtube video.....)
and when was clippit (colloquially, clippy) introduced? <drumroll>… 1996. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_97)
thus, using a clippy pfp is stupid. q.e.d.i don’t even PC game anymore because it’s just not worth the headache. i also work on a PCs all day at work, so I want to sit on my couch to play games and not sit in front of a monitor for more hours of the day.
And the reply is always ‘you are a retard then’. Yes, clearly, I am.
There’s no headache with PC gaming, this isn’t the 90s. You can plug a computer into a tv and use a controller.
Right, that’s why when I tried to play fallout last year it kept crashing and crashing and throwing errors and fucking up, and i had to download custom drivers and edit files to get it to be somewhat more stable.
but when i bought it on my playstation 5 it didn’t do that.
weird how that works. also did similar stuff when I tried to replay xcom. so i just gave up. or how i have to give my nephews tech support every other month for their gaming pcs where games won’t load or play or frequently crash.
but please tell me how I’m wrong and pc gaming is perfect and wonderful and clearly I’m an idiot if I have a bad experience with games not working.
To be fair Fallout is a special stupid idiot that doesn’t work on PC smoothly no matter what.
and i never bought into the pc gaming masterrace nonsense.
I mean, I have a switch from like 8 years ago and while I enjoy it for the mobile gaming while on long flights I wouldn’t buy a new one after all the shit Nintendo keeps pulling. I don’t know which other handheld would be a good alternative, so I don’t really throw shade at people buying new ones but I would like the company to hurt a bit.
@Oni_eyes @AskewLord I use the steam deck for the same porpose. I bought a xbox few years ago to play read dead 2, the onlything that could probably make me buy another console would be gtav, and even there I already decided that im gonna wait for a version that works on linux or otherwise just gonna emulate it few years from now
If I didn’t already like palworld I would buy it just to hate on Nintendo more, but that’s just me.
In comparison they are very good, however that can turn on a dime real damn quick.
Scenario: gaben ded, bilzzard exec buys steam and it goes public. Hello enshittification
I would argue that is the other way around?
“The internet” in general keep arguing that steam dominant position is not relevant, while they forbid any dev to sell their game on other plataforms for less (don’t even mention the steam keys because they are not part of the equation)
“What’s something the internet constantly gives a free pass to and simps for but should enrage people” wasn’t the question. The internet is overall much more a defender of steam than the opposite.
The downvotes are kind of proving me right lol.
Usually anything to do with celebrity drama. While it’s not that common on Lemmy, the rest of the pop internet seems infatuated with what actor/musician threw shade or dissed some other, or which diva is being treated SO unfairly…
those are the same people who cause all the drama in their own lives.
they love the celebrity stuff because it validates their own misery and poor choices. they view themselves as the poorly treated diva.
A lot of celebrity gossip is rooted in the true crime aspect of it. Like the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives drama - one of the women was literally throwing metal barstools at her children while fighting with her partner. The outrage stems from people wanting her held accountable in some form. And the networks know that outrage will spur more views.
I don’t see it any different than indulging in sports gossip or even Fediverse related gossip (Tesseract incident, anyone?). People like to indulge in some judgment and outrage at others. It can be unhealthy, but mostly I think it’s a rather neutral, human thing to do.
Reddit. They were irritating, so I left, but I couldn’t care less if someone posts content here from teddit or(apparently gods forbid) mentions reddit.
I do not care about whatever happens with that company any more than I care about Apple or McDonald’s or any other company with shitty products I don’t engage with.
My only issue is the bots that mirror reddit content over.
And it’s not that it’s from reddit that bothers me, none of the posts I’ve seen ever have any engagement. So it feels like spam.
I mean if it is a community for reddit reposting or other social media its not so bad because you just block communities your not interested in.
totally, i manuelly block nearly any account that posts more than three things in one hour
It’s much better in the smaller more focused communities, which is reddits best use case anyway.
i just block the people here who just spam content from reddit 50 times a day. and it’s always the shittiest ragebait, and if you point it out, they go apeshit on you and harass you and report you and call you a facist/nazi etc.
then tend to be really dumb people who are true believers that post ragebait is ‘fighting the good fight’.
me too, i manually black them all.
It’s more that the internet demands that I’m constantly outraged, but I want to spend the majority of my time being chill and happy. I can get my dander up for most things the internet wants me to be mad about, I just… don’t.
that makes them angry though.
I stopped using Facebook because I got tired of all of that. “You won’t believe what [other party] is doing”…
Star Trek vs Star Wars. I like both.
Wait. They are two different things?
Blasphemy!
Sincerely, someone who does not watch either.
This is the way.
yeah but how do you feel about their bastardization in the past decade?
It’s worth pointing out that this comment could have been and was made in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, and today.
so TNG and DS9 were awful and terrible or something?
What, you weren’t there for the incessant “Kirk is better than Picard” bickering that basically formed the backbone of the early Internet circa 1990?
Let’s go all the way back to TMP with people indignant about how the Klingons looked. And somehow that got around before there was an internet to go crying to.
“That is not discussed with outsiders.”
No, what are you, like 70?
You’ll never wring it out of me, sonny boy.
There were people at the time who certainly thought so.
true. there always are.
i think that’s quite different from Disney and Paramount, on a production level, trying very hard to overproduce both franchises and try very hard to pander to everyone all at once. Which we know is a surefire way to crash them.
I guess at least we got Andor though. It’s not all terrible, but it’s mostly pretty bad because they really aren’t like letting creative people do creative things with the franchises and tell compelling stories.
The thing about that is, regardless of how we feel about the new stuff, we’ll always have the old stuff we loved.
As with everything else, the franchises have both undergone a shift of quantity over quality, so I haven’t bothered keeping up to date with either.
More like less quantity at a lower quality.
DS9 had 26 episode seasons.
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Sony discontinuing physical media.
I haven’t bought a physical game for any platform in I don’t even know how many years and I doubt I ever will again.
I think I wrote this in a few hundred comments already. It’s a little weird people make it about physical games, it’s not really about that, physical games are dead on PC, barely anyone cares. It’s about Sony locking people into the Playstation Store and having full control over prices. With physical copies you can buy them wherever you want and they usually go down in price relatively quickly after release. Digital store prices remain high for years after release and only drop sometimes during sales, but even then they drop to the level of physical copies. The other issue are used games, at the moment that only works with physical copies.
I think it’s more about access. There’s a lot of countries that rely on physical media because the online store doesn’t exist for them.
That doesn’t bother me. If a price is higher than I want to pay, I’ll just not pay it and go play something else. There’s so much more gaming out there than anybody could ever have time to get through in a hundred lifetimes.
I agree with it in principle, particularly for the people who want that physical copy (my kids are big on nostalgic media) but yeah, I’ve been going pure digital for a long time.
Same here. In fact I own almost no physical media anymore except for a few rare CD’s and vinyl. All my games are digital.
The argument that this damages the preowned game market is valid to a point. Though anymore any time I shop for preowned games they’re close enough in price to new games that I don’t see the point. And if that level of greed has infiltrated that market, maybe it deserves to die.
I know someone is going to yell at me about that but that’s kinda how I see it.
tbf i buy physical mostly because it’s cheaper than digital. typically a big realse will get a 50% discount on the physical while it’s only getting like 20% on digital stores.
esp for AAA and AA games. typically only for indie titles is the physical more expensive.
I do think that once they get rid of physical you will no longer being seeing massive discounts on digital games. or you might see stuff where new releases come out at triple digit prices.
You don’t care because you don’t buy physical games. I don’t care because I resolved not to give Sony a single red cent ever again some time in about 2005. We are not the same.
Cybertrucks. I saw a thread here recently and people were way to passionate about it imo. I’m not going to spend my energy worrying about the mere existence of an ugly car.
Two minds on this one.
You wanna buy an overpriced, terrible vehicle that’s the brainchild of the mastermind who was too weird even for Jeffrey Epstein. Knock yourself out buddy.
That I have to share the road with these chucklefucks, having seen how feverish they are to let the clankers take over driving said giant piece of shit vehicle? I would be lying if I said I didn’t have concerns.
The indifference ends at the point where I’m unable to opt out of participation in their bullshit.
just to clarify,, what is your definition of “clanker”??
i’m a robot, but surely not a “next-token predictor”
