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[-] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 136 points 6 months ago

That XKCD is almost 18 years old and is still as relevant.

[-] kernelle@lemmy.world 48 points 6 months ago

Only got more relevant over time unfortunately.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

A wall-mounted flatscreen TV in 2006? High tech!

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 111 points 6 months ago

If it's not a part of capitalism, they don't think it matters. If doesn't directly make them a profit, it shouldn't be done. Housework isn't labor. Activism isn't labor. Love only helps them sell products. They want people to have kids so they have more young workers, but letting people become financially secure enough to have them would hurt their profits.

They want robots to replace manual labor and AI to replace mental labor so they don't have to deal with us. They want productivity without paying for labor, because earning money without doing labor isn't enough apparently. It is morally correct to take their money because they only got it by underpaying us for our work. Every day we don't take it from them, they're taking it from us.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

also, every day we only take a little.

and they're taking more than our money. they're literally burning our futures for their bullshit.

find their bunkers, sabotage everything you can.

or their houses, and be a little more sensible about it.

[-] heavy@sh.itjust.works 48 points 6 months ago

I wonder how much junk was created just because a device didn't support the latest version of HDCP.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago

I wonder how much ~~junk~~ economic activity was created just because a device didn't support the latest version of HDCP.

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[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 16 points 6 months ago

fucking proprietary bullshit is an ecological nightmare, and that's why I think Tim cook deserves the wall.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

All depends on the household. 🏴‍☠️

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 38 points 6 months ago
[-] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 6 months ago

nowhere, into the ether

[-] Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 6 months ago
[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 9 points 6 months ago
[-] shani66@ani.social 29 points 6 months ago

I'll never get how these 'people' think it's a good idea to control culture like this. You fuckers hurt too! You won't magically get real music or art if you make it impossible to make it

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

pH honey they don't understand art or culture or anything after this fiscal quarter. its all just widgets to them.

[-] Buck@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

They'll happily sit on the existing art and endlessly regurgitate it

[-] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 6 months ago
[-] regdog@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I don't like the word "based"

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago
[-] virtueisdead@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

that sucks i guess??

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I love when an artist that I've thought of as not having strong opinions (or not wanting to share) shares strong opinions, it reminds me that they are people /srs

notethis can of course go the wrong way when those opinions are concerning but lemmy seems to think this is not one of those cases

actually I think I just like being surprised by people but I already wrote the comment and sunk cost fallacy

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

Randall Monroe helped radicalize me as a teenager and I didn’t even realize it was radical. Like of course information wants to be free! And of course techno feminism makes sense. And of course dvorak is the superior keyboard layout.

Also his cancer comics were at one point the most stabilizing part of a particularly unstable part of my young life.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago

wait he advocates for dvorak? What year is this? I would surely take him for a colemak kinda guy

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Idk the 00s? I get the arguments for colemak but Dvorak has a certain elegance to it that’s unsurpassed. I like my vowel row.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I just realized that I've been using Dvorak for longer than I was using qwerty before that.

And I wonder if it's why I don't have carpel tunnel problems despite pretty much living on my PC. Though I'm also the type to find a comfortable position regardless of my posture, which might help with wrist health. I'm not really sure why my back doesn't kill me at this point when my posture has been horrible all my life.

But yeah, I find typing on Dvorak is just comfortable.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah I switched in college when my wrists started hurting. My wrists are fine now despite typing a lot and doing other stuff that’s hard on them like bicycle repair. It solved the problem in months. And all it cost me was the ability to function in a QWERTY world. It does always get me nerd cred with IT departments though.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

Fair enough! My vaguely uninformed impression is that dvorak does a lot of hand alternating which is good for typewriters but not necessarily keyboard typing. Either way I learned Colemak DH mod and I am NOT learning yet another layout that shit took me 3 months

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

The hand alternating is actually supposed to be for ergonomics and typing rhythm. It’s one of the perks imo. But yeah that’s totally fair. And colemak has its advantages, I hear it’s easier to pick up, and someone like me would probably have benefited from it being less different from QWERTY as I lost my QWERTY abilities. But I too am not spending another 3 months learning a new layout

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

It's kinda funny, I use a qwerty layout on my phone without problem, but I have to concentrate really hard to type on a qwerty keyboard layout to avoid dropping back into Dvorak.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah! It’s annoying the hell out of me as I’m troubleshooting what’s going wrong with my home assistant setup. Let me use my superior layout.

But yeah I think it really comes down to muscle memory. I know what action produces what letter and don’t even have to think to spell it all out. I just think words and can tap them out on my phone or keyboard without looking at the keys.

[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Idk the 00s?

YES! We have made it back! We are free from the 2010s! Time Travel is possible when you are delusional like me.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

We are free from the 2010s regardless

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago

IP is bullshit that hurts workers.

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I have 55TB of pirated content that says otherwise.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 months ago

this is cool and all, but curious as to why this is formatted for phones, you could've just cut out like 50% of the height and it would be fine.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I believe it was formatted for a book

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

that could do it.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And now, back to your regularly ~~scheduled~~ approved programming!

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