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  • Physical encyclopedias are just time capsules of knowledge, sometimes irrelevant. And pricy too. Having them and then saying information is easy to find is entitlement.

    I see what you’re saying. Top up voted corporate social media posts and AI finding top results for search engines and query requests is exactly why people need to ask other people wtf is going on with anything. It’s confusing enough to try to parse through irrelevant information, maybe asking someone will narrow down what you need to know.


  • Aermis@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldDon't reply "just Google it"
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    4 months ago

    It’s not hard. It’s that information from people has become more fact than a single persons opinion on a topic. Do you have any idea how many variables are involved in why my cucumbers are dying in my green house? How many links and articles I’ve read before just asking it to the community and finding the answer in literally the first person who replied?

    Information, wisdom, knowledge are all empowered by a community, and trusting a search engine to populate those will eliminate the community aspect of information gathering. It’ll cause the watered down, lost in information practices that we have going on today.

    Doing this, in 30 years no one will be able to grow cucumbers in their greenhouse becuase all the information you’ll have will be based off the same shitty technique and everyone’s attempt at that technique, and no one will talk about the nuanced variables.

    The cucumbers is an example.




  • Says who? Why is it legal for a man to have power over the lives of millions and used an AI algorithm to further deny necessary Healthcare to millions and then use the defense of the law book to justify that. Law is what we as a society deemed necessary to preserve the society. Once law was dictated by corporate interests with no incentive to preserve society, not adhere to the needs of anyone in the society, then society will deem the laws no longer apply.

    You’re wrong. You don’t see what he’s saying. Because you’re still abiding by a system designed to prosecute you and protect corporate interests. US has warred against leaders with smaller body counts than many of our CEO’s, with their life ending decisions. Don’t be fooled. They just have extra steps ™ to their mass murder cases. They hide behind the social courtesy of a system that they designed. So get over the propaganda you’ve been taught in public school, unveil the crumbling structure of our legal system, breathe the fresh air and join the people’s outrage against the corporate class who has already deemed you and millions of others expendable, a rounding error, a statistic.


  • Imagine taking the technical and stubborn creme of the crop redditors and that’s who’s mostly on lemmy. It used to be those who wanted an open source community, but it got it’s user bumps during the reddit exodus. I would have never heard of lemmy if it wasn’t for the fact I used reddit exclusively through the redditsync app. And when that shut down I came here naturally on the backbone of the developer going here.

    I’ve been here since. The community isn’t bad. I still get responses on niche things like gardening and fish tank related issues I had. It’s just 3 comments vs 30. But somehow it’s better. Because on reddit I can’t even get a post posted half the time, and the other half I find out I’m banned from that sub because of a comment I made years ago on a completely unrelated post on a sub I don’t even know.



  • Man it doesn’t even need to devolve into a debate. You get berated just for having an opinion on something more and more. That’s the problem with the voting system anyways. People that don’t share an opinion with you shouldn’t even have an option to down vote. Just don’t vote at all. Up votes are for shared opinions. But even then the biggest gripe I had with reddit was the system has the up voted “popular” comments as the most viewed as well, leaving the opinions of people unseen without looking for them.

    People are impressionable. If they see everyone agreeing with a comment they feel they need to skew their opinion towards the common dissent or risk being alienated. We’re communal creatures. And social media screwed with our heads with the need to fit in.




  • I got a 3d printer (bambu p1s per someone’s recommendation here) but the bambu software allows very little in the realm of adjusting a print (size for example is mostly what I can do).

    I’ve been heavily overwhelmed looking into a 3d software editing platform to adjust prints. I don’t have the capacity to learn multiple softwares, but I heard blender does pretty poorly in creating prints with hard dimensions.

    While I do like to explore the realm of figurines and characters to print, I tend to use my printer for more engineered prints, things I measure and need a replacement for, or to fill in the need of something I’m I’m constructing.

    This is where Adobe got most of the positive reviews for a 3d software that’s best of both worlds. Creative and engineered. While blender is heavily leaning towards creative.


  • Is it because Microsoft is the big dog with money and Linux is no dog because there is no company backing Linux? Windows sells solely because Windows can push the product?

    Would it be benificial (albeit this will be extremely frowned upon by this community I believe) for a Linux distro to be backed and monetized via a corporation with a legal team to help push a Linux product on the shelves? In the short run it’s a bad idea, but in the long run it’ll familiarize the public, and push software developers for compatability. The incentive being that there’s money now involved and it won’t be a project for people.

    Because right now to use Linux for the majority of user case operations you’d need at least computer science 101 to start installing a distro, partitions, manual software installation, to get running. Or am I wrong on this part?



  • So if you did open a computer shop and are selling this plethora of Linux options, doesn’t that leave you liable if there are issues with the operating system?

    If I buy a laptop and my windows is running poorly don’t I have windows support taking care of my windows problems?

    If I buy a laptop from you with mint installed and am having problems I can’t contact Linux for support, I’ll have to contact you the shop owner.

    Won’t this liability discourage shop owners from selling laptops/desktops with Linux?