Yes. But more specifically I really dislike the redditism where someone asks a question and is met only with someone getting all upset about that question. E.g.;

OP: “Hey how do I do X?”

Comments: “Don’t do X. Why would you do X? I never do X. I am the moral and pragmatic centre of the universe so I know there is no reason to ever do X. You must be stupid to not be like me. No my underlying assumptions about your person don’t need to be evaluated. It is obvious that I am superior”

One time I asked linux_gaming to give me some reasons I shouldn’t game on Kali Linux, which I clarified as already using as my main and daily driver OS because I work in the sec field and most of what I do outside of work is CTFs and various HackTheBox machines and gaming was a small hobby not worth a separate OS install and disk use for me.

Anticipating the response I’d get, I made sure to mention that Kali is just convenient to have all the tooling available in one box, and as I do some hardware stuff I don’t use a VM. I made sure to mention I know it’s just Debian and there shouldn’t be any problems but just in case there’s some issues with steam that breaks something I figured I’d ask.

The responses?

“Uhh, Kali isn’t for gaming, use bazzite” “You must be new. Visit the FAQ” “No you can’t use it for gaming”

Especially the last, when I inquired as to why the user just kept stating over and over that it’s not what it’s for and it’s why it doesn’t work. His source? Kali FAQ that says the distro is intended for pentesting 🤦‍♀️

It was probably the only thing I ever got actually infuriated by on the internet. The motivation of pure spite got me playing CP2077 with Path Tracing on Kali by the end of the very same day.

Still, it just sucks.

It’s purest form pseudo-intellectualism, where people who pretend to think reveal themselves as navigating by vibes alone. I would imagine (but wouldn’t assume outright) that some of those people probably thought: “oh, LainTrain must be a newbie child (like me) and the only reason I’d use it is if I wanted to be l33t and (like me) LainTrain probably doesn’t know anything”.

Even with the redditism of endlessly providing context, people just don’t really read and still just imagine something completely different and attack that instead.

So that’s why I strongly dislike this shit. I would like the default assumption to be “person knows what they are doing and must know what they’re asking or they wouldn’t be asking”.

It’s frankly shocking to me how acceptable this paternalistic attitude got on the internet.

Like - No, it’s actually not progressive or cool to act like a 1950s housewife smelling marijuana every time someone mentions something that doesn’t seem like YouTube essayists would praise and promote.

Other than a technical label of the same species, folks other than you couldn’t be more different and you have no right to dictate to them how to live or what to do, never, no matter what white picket fence gated community ass “culture” “healthy” bullshit you contort.

Your rights end where theirs begin and vice versa and if bro wants to gamble let him gamble.

OP didn’t ask for a lecture. OP didn’t ask to be judged. OP just asked a question about what people do for gambling these days.

So to OP: if you’re still here, I don’t gamble, but I reckon after WSB GameStop saga, lots of folks moved onto CFDs and stuff like PolyMarket, but I see lads betting on horses too. Robinhood is available in the UK now, but we also have eToro. Their KYC is mostly theatre too. Don’t bother with T212 or anything more “legit” it’s impossible to get verified.

Back to Reddit, Now!

No, what the fuck?

Oh yeah for sure. I still go back and play the main story mode of Crash Team Racing every year as a ritual, on the other hand I’ve literally never played mario kart so the answer is obvious.

What even would that be? Like a CeX in the UK?

*lose, not loose

That’s a C- see me after class. Otherwise nice troll.

Cool band name, though

I never ever thought I’d want to be circumsized. I really enjoyed the sensitivity and all that, blowjobs were awesome etc.

I even remember some PoS noctor pediatrician insisting on it to my parents even as I was like 5-7, which they rightfully called him out on as motivated by his muslim religion/culture rather than sound real medical reasoning.

Even as a kid, it was nice to see my folks stand up to me, and it still matters to my nearly 30 year old ass today when it comes to enjoyment of sex, a whole-ass sex change later.

My also-trans gf said she wished she wasn’t circumsized as well.

My life is pretty good. I enjoy myself more often than I don’t, have plenty of hobbies and love learning about the world. I love myself, truly.

I also believe in agency and doing the best you can to reach for what you want.

However - you are wrong.

You cannot just “quit a job”. If you are fortunate enough to not have your entire life tied to your employment via a visa sponsorship in effective slave labour, that still means a job search in an ever-shrinking job market where increasingly peasants don’t matter as employees not even as consumers as demand and thus supply - shifts towards the ultra rich.

Un(der)mployment is in reality - sky high and most people can’t afford necessities as is, nevermind savings, and if they can, it sure as shit doesn’t make sense to spend a rainy day fund on months of job searching for no reason other than you don’t like your current role in the ever-more-remote hope that you’ll find something better

It’s not impossible of course, but it ain’t an easy decision to make by any means, the hesitation is understandable.

Similarly moving out of the slums is not possible for most due to a housing market that prices out residents and carers towards buy-to-let investors (landleeches) and private equity portfolio builders - there are now more private equity companies in the US than there are McDonald’s, it doesn’t take being an Einstein to see what kind of dark future we’re headed for.

I understand your frustration though and I feel similarly sometimes when people seemingly refuse to make choices that I do - e.g. quitting corpo social media, quitting algorithmic feeds, quitting using corpo products, consooming less corpo junk media, etc. etc.

Like it’s almost existential to me in terms of crisis how anyone could fall for misinformation about a topic you even remotely think about ever when you have the world’s information at your fingertips democratised for you right there, easily indexable and searchable for free, all you need is intellectual honesty and you can learn something at least in the ballpark of accurate truth about literally anything in under an hour at most, yet people don’t.

As a Marxist, I can at least somewhat understand like someone being a homeless fentanyl addict who stabs people in the alley due to economic circumstances out of their control that led them down a terrible path of crime and misery, even terrible as the things they do are - they’re worthy of compassion, and they deserve better, we all do.

But I cannot understand how one could ever be misinformed on anything they even remotely choose to hold an opinion on. Information is literally free as in free beer in most cases.

It’s very easy to say then, “I am super smart, others are not, that’s why I do the right things”, but I’m not satisfied with that explanation, it’s too self-serving and I just don’t buy that I’m anything like that.

There is another explanation - more or less, people are the same, they vary in priorities, but largely are some degree of rational, if chaotic actors that navigate the same systems you do from different starting positions.

Even when the actions seem absurd to you - there are reasons people do the things they do, the gambler and the porch parcel thief aren’t a different species of being from you, they navigate the same systems you do, but from different positions.

Assume they are the same as you, put yourself in their shoes, and think about what could make you do what they do, and it starts to add up, you can simulate the path of another by navigating through the systems of our society from their perspective and starting point.

This sort of systematic analysis is not easy, but it can get at things we can actually affect, the system is necessary, but not natural. The world was built this way, and just the same it can be built differently.

So, perhaps instead of virtue signaling yourself and your own assumed superiority by pointing out how you made good choices and other people make bad choices like some sort of slave mentality moral Christian who divides everyone into those who go to Heaven and those who go to Hell - you can ask, you can research, and think hard, because there are definitely reasons one can’t always follow your suggested actions, even if those reasons are also not an excuse to sit still and do nothing, either.

Anyway you are also an obvious troll and “magical hitachi wand” sounds like an alt of yours.

But I’m leaving this up just in case someone thinks this unironically.

Idk his render pipeline breakdown videos seem fairly in-depth. Is it just mumbo-jumbo? I saw some discussion where some devs seemed to acknowledge the perspective but say basically past 10 years of graphics make non-deferred render pipelines utterly unfeasible and thus MSAA, not to mention the issues that TAA “solves” like particularly fine geometry (see guitar strings in TLOUpt.2) or shimmering on stuff that can’t be optimized e.g. hair.

Frankly though I think in practice the difference between graphics in 2015 and 2025 is negligible compared to the difference between TAA (or DLAA/FSR/XeSS/FXAA/SMAA) and x4 MSAA. The only that comes even close is Path Tracing in CP2077.

I agree he seems like a sketchy af grifter, but I’ve not seen a single good rebuttal of his actual points, and even if he was a grifter, that doesn’t invalidate what he’s saying.

That Half-Life Alyx render in flatscreen with MSAA looks better than practically any game I’ve seen.

Ugh games of this era are gonna age like milk with this forced upscaling and blurry TAA smear shite.

More compression and upscaling… How about just better graphics? How about you make a console that can do path tracing that you can get going with a fairly cheap PC setup.

All these years and these consoles still run 720p30fps like the PS3, but it’s ok with some people because it’s using AI to be dishonest and not just lying like back in the good old days with fish AI.

Idk, I don’t agree. I think in many ways actually online is a lot less brainrot.

Online I can block ads. IRL I cannot.

Online I can block morons. IRL I cannot.

Online I can choose pretty freely what to do and when and with whom and why.

IRL depends a lot more on what’s available locally and transport options.

Online I can connect with people across the globe, massively increasing the likelihood of finding friends due to higher overall population meaning more people who are into the same stuff I am.

IRL I’m limited to the smallest fraction of a fraction of people who are coincidentally local and also happen to have things I have in common with, and id also need to meet them somehow, which is about negligible odds.

Online my options for research are practically unlimited, I can see and evaluate multiple perspectives and check the sources easily.

IRL not so, and for news I’m largely limited to propaganda from MSM billionaire outlets.

Online I am safe from physical violence and threats, I’m free to speak my mind and voice my beliefs, IRL - not so much.

I think the internet is good, actually, and if it hasn’t had a good impact on you, I’m sorry, but that’s a skill issue.

Yeah, true, I’m not racist and I think being in multicultural environments since childhood was basically what did it, international boarding school, city with big international population, etc.

Stop using anything with algorithmic feeds for a start. So no Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, etc etc.

For YouTube - turn off watch history in your account settings. It turns off the home page. Bookmark the subscriptions page and use that and only that so you’re only watching channels you’re subscribed to. I also use ublock to turn off the comments and the suggested bar on the side. I’ve never used the app and I don’t watch videos on my phone.

You can also set an app timer for your Lemmy client, I’ve done it for Jerboa in the past and while it didn’t really work for me, it’s something that may work for you.

With local media that’s a really good idea you got going.

You do need to replace the stuff rather than leave a vacuum, so this would be a good time to pick up a new hobby or get back to an old one, something nice, chill and fairly passive so you don’t feel you’re too exhausted to do it after work, in the same way you’d scroll sm passively.

I may not agree on the whole divorcing from screens thing as IRL really is just a different type of brainrot IMO and an even more biased self selecting echochamber, but I do think divorcing from big tech is a good thing because fuck corpos and regardless I wish you luck!

I see people daily due to living in a city and it only makes me hate them more.

Not everyone has a car y’know. Actually I don’t even know anyone who does.

As long as he isn’t also sporting the Death in June merch

You do realize that countries outside the US exist, right? Because the answer is No. No, they do not do these things outside of United States of America - which is 1 country.

Yes, as weird as it seems to you - the world is not entirely in one country called United States and what applies to what you know of your country does not apply in the entire world.

Here in the UK even grandma does not mail in bill payments, nor do most places accept this, she does it via the app or the utility company website for Direct Debit, or she has someone do it for her via the app before she goes on to be racist on Facebook.

This is the same way for blue collar workers. They in-fact - must have debit cards because they must have bank accounts to even get paid via PAYE and IR35 and thus pay taxes. While there are jobs outside of that, the people who work those jobs will be paid into bank accounts, and cash in hand jobs mean via PayPal or Venmo or some such that all also require bank accounts and KYC.

Hell, you can’t even rent a place without showing them your bank statements, or straight up letting the letting agency login to your bank account via some third party data harvesting / “income analysis” tool so they can “confirm” your income and employment status. I had this exact thing demanded when I was looking for a place up and down the country just over half a year ago by every letting agency under the sun, from small to big, south to north.

Yes there are people without bank accounts, but it’s usually only because they’ve either:

a) Just arrived and have no permanent address which is required to set up a bank account, meaning they have to pay rent upfront for 6mo to a year to avoid checks to even get an address, which they can’t get because they can’t get a job which again - requires a bank account - trapping them in a cycle of poverty unless they have savings in a foreign bank account with which to pay upfront rent Or: b) Are destitute and homeless, again - without a permanent address, which is required for a bank account.

The same goes for smartphones. You’re not realistically gonna get a job without a smartphone.

Credit cards yes - most people do not use them, and their dominance as a default and even commonplace household usage as ‘deficit spending’ on Temu is most commonly a US phenomenon.

That’s because debit cards are the default in the rest of the world - credit cards are not. Since everyone has a bank account and smartphone, most people pay with Google Pay via NFC on their phone anyway IRL, and many people shop online, which is the use of a debit card - paying for things.

As opposed to credit cards, which are seen as borrowing. Not that many people are keen to borrow money or engage in any finance that could be seen as “gambling”, definitely least so the wagies, with the exception of some horse betting or memestocks or in the case of 100% brain use - a savings account at a bank or building society, all of which almost universally already require a bank account meaning a minimum of 2 apps.

I personally do have one but I’m in the minority.

You saying this interaction is pointless is very self-reporting, because you are essentially stating that you will not change your mind regardless of how many times and how much you are corrected.

It is an admission that your bizarre insistence that your experience is universal - as if you not knowing how things are in the rest of the world is some sort of attack on you - is in fact, terminal. I’m sorry for you.

I don’t claim to know how things work in America, I’ve heard American colleagues say crazy stuff about how everything is tied to your credit ratings, which isn’t the case here nearly as much, but I also don’t claim that everything i know about my country - the UK - applies to the rest of the world, because of course it doesn’t, I’m claiming that what you’re saying - what might be true in your country - the US - is a universal worldwide experience.

I’m not sure what you expected claiming this in this international discussion on this international community on this international website on this international internet.

Ah, thanks. Sorry for confusing the languages!

No, we cannot do those things any other way.

Yes, it’s a privilege to be able to simply say no to having a bank account, for one you’d need to not be in paid employment and not on any financial assistance, so basically a NEET and/or like a foreign-born investor, for which you need to be pretty rich.