zagaberoo @ zagaberoo @beehaw.org

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When I signed up they just mailed a card with a code to my claimed address.

There's so much garbage on there, but it is still occasionally useful in terms of keeping your ear to the ground.

Oh D-VHS, we didn't deserve you.

What ways do you mean? More than just expert-systems, I'd imagine.

The only meaning is the meaning we forge for ourselves.

The repair cost is ultimately the most significant, that's true.

We'll have to see how statistics play out in the long run: that's where the non-anecdotal evidence for Toyota's supremacy comes from.

Cheap cars definitely are more reliable if you pick the right brands. On all the other points it just doesn't make enough of a difference to me to justify the enormous cost increase.

Our $10k used Camry is still kicking ass over ten years later and hasn't ever needed work more extensive than replacing leaking struts. The reliability truly is astounding.

EDIT: But, let's not talk about my camera-buying habits lol

For podcasts and audiobooks and even incidental music listening $10 panasonic buds go the distance for me.

When I'm sitting down to enjoy music at home, then it's the $80 sony studio monitors. Still excellent value.

Give me my headphone socket back, phone makers :(

It does feel like weird wordplay in a context where 'men' is so consistently used to refer to humankind. Could a boy have killed it?

Split hairs aside, it's an awesome moment for Eowyn.

Play dom-jot, hu-mon?

Well of course, but some of us want to be well-informed on the tradeoffs we're making.

Nope. Car bad!

What do you mean? Payment isn't anti-FOSS at all, it's just a lot harder to make money when the source is libre.

There is a middle ground for sure. Installing an OS sounds like a solid unit in such a curriculum.

I'm totally with you. I just think the level of informed choices that we nerds seek will not be attainable through a reasonable gen ed curriculum. It would be an improvement, though!

I genuinely think the push for bigger maps has been a significant toxic influence on game design. Just look at Yooka-Laylee or even Banjo Tooie TBH. That's to say nothing of the modern open-world genre.

I feel the same way about photorealism. I want artistic interpretations much more than I want rote simulations.

Only computer nerds think this way. People have a finite time and capacity for learning, and if computers can serve their needs without spending a large fraction of that precious resource it would be terrible to mandate such an expenditure anyway.

I wish we could all be completely educated and independent in every way that matters, but it's not possible.

This is why people on lemmy are confused about a lack of adoption. Federation is significantly confusing and subtle; we're just mostly dorks with the pre-inclination to get it.

I too have to watch myself to keep from falling into the hole of blaming the dumbing-down of computing systems on a moral failure of users. It is not.

Really, the fact that you treat anime as a monolith is the wildest part of this take. I'd love to know how you came to such a deep undersanding of the skill that goes into all anime.

Yup, I used to fall into the dumb 'fax and logic' hole myself. It's funny how easy it is to ignore where your axioms come from.

I got into a knock-down drag-out argument recently with someone who couldn't separate that while there were objective measures by which their assertion scored highest, choosing which objective measures practically make something right or wrong is entirely subjective and context-dependent.

People almost always mean positive punishment when they say negative reinforcement.

I wish more people understood this. Insurance is an extra cost paid to protect from catastrophe. Anything that saves you money on a regular basis is not insurance: where does the extra money come from?

Pet insurance is another bizarre misunderstanding of this nature. Unless there are procedures you are unwilling to forego to save your pet, but completely unable to afford, you are throwing money away in the long run. The entire actuarial profession exists to ensure this fact. Take what you'd spend on premiums, and invest it in a good savings vehicle instead.