Habarug

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[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 33 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (7 children)

I would recommend reading the quote in context, and not just headlines. It is not quite as insane as it seems at first glance, although just slightly. Transcript from Yahoo Fact Check:

Musk: The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit. They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response. So, I think, you know, empathy is good, but you need to think it through and not just be programmed like a robot.

Rogan: Right, understand when empathy has been actually used as a tool.

Musk: Yes, like, it's weaponized empathy is the issue.

The point, as I understand it, is that empathy lets people manipulate you into making short-sighted decisions based purely on feelings, without properly investigating the facts. This is true. However, I strongly disagree that this is the fundamental weakness of Western civilization. I think that greed and selfishness are way bigger problems, and this is also what leads to people taking advantage of people's empathy.

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It seems like a game that has quite a lot going for it, the gameplay looks pretty cool, I like the art direction, and performance and visuals actually seem to be quite polished at launch. However, I just know I'll get tired of it, as it is another game that prioritizes being big, with tons of repetitive content, too big of a world, and somehow too many protagonists, which seemingly brings down both the overall gameplay and story.

It's fine that there are games like this that cater to people who want large, expansive worlds to immerse themselves in, but I do get a bit disappointed that "every" single player AAA game is like this. There are many other games for me to play, so it is not like I'm starving for games, but it feels like I miss out on a ton of games I could potentially have liked if the direction was slightly different

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

På privaten har jeg allerede begynt å flytte vekk fra Google de siste månedene, og har nå alt over på lokal hardware og/eller europeiske alternativ. Kjører Linux på både laptop og stasjonær PC. På mobil er det mye vanskeligere. Har per nå iPhone, så vil tro Apple kan stenge den ned med et tastetrykk om de skulle få ordre om det. Er vel mulig å kjøpe Android telefon med åpen bootloader og installere custom ROM uten Google, men da kan man få trøbbel med bank apper og lignende så vidt jeg har sett. Banken min skriver på nettsidene at de ikke støtter "rootede" telefoner, noe som er merkelig når man kan bruke tjenestene deres på PC i hvilken som helst nettleser og alle PCer er "rootet".

På jobb hadde det blitt fullstendig krise, vi er fullstendig avhengig OneDrive, Office, outlook og teams. Prøver å opprette filer i "åpne" filformat så langt som mulig, men er i praksis veldig ofte vanskelig å komme unna Office når jeg skal samarbeide med andre.

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago

How people can watch this and see anything other than a rambling old man is beyond me

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The 12 mini had really poor battery life. I have the normal 12 myself, and even that one has underwhelming battery life, but the mini was way worse. Don't know about 13, but I would hope that recent advances in chip efficiency and battery technology would allow for making small phones with good battery life. Just please make it a little chonkier if you have to.

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Fairphone is interesting, but it is also enormous unfortunately

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 110 points 2 weeks ago (49 children)

Well, I can't speak for everyone else, but I can't go back because they don't sell any small phones.

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I also use Windows at work, and it is driving me insane. The updates can be annoying, but it is mostly just how fucking slow it is. Directories routinely take mulitple seconds to load, and I don't understand why. I also just prefer Gnome in general, but I do think the Window's user interface as a whole is pretty good when it works. I will say, WSL works well for the things I want to run "in linux", and it integrates very nicely with VS Code.

I can actually install Linux if I want. They provide instructions for how to roll it in to Intune etc, and I will probably try it, but keep a dual boot to Windows available for when I really need it. The problem is that my job is married to Office, which doesn't have native linux support at all. We ues OneDrive, Outlook, Teams and collaborative Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Most of these probably run okay enough in browser, but especially for big Word documents where we need to make sure formatting is okay (a nightmare in Word even without multiple users editing the document at once), I am not sure if it works well enough. Rclone can be used to sync to OneDrive. For now I just try to avoid making office documents whenever possible, sticking to markdown, latex and csv files etc., store as much as possible on our i.e. our GitLab instance instead, and hopefully it will it will be easier to switch over time.

I also wonder what would happen if Donny wakes up one day, decides he wants to invade Europe or something and all our Office 365 licenses suddenly stop working. We would have a lot of other bigger issues of course, so it's not the most critical issue.

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 34 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

This is cool, but what actually made Valve do this? Are they just doing this for fun?

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

@LiveThreadBot@lemm.ee -football Real Madrid - Manchester City

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I switched recently, and it is really good. It doesn't have public transport yet (for the most part), and I rarely drive, but for walking, hiking and biking it is very nice. OpenStreetMap is shockingly well developed, I had no idea this existed. It has almost all the local businesses in my area, really did not expect that. It doesn't have restaurant reviews and stuff though.

[–] Habarug@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

How can a semi-automated offside check take 5 minutes

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