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  1. Comment on Humble Choice - May 2026 in ~games

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    Diablo IV battle net version is probably not linux native?

    Diablo IV battle net version is probably not linux native?

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Is British English actually better than American English? in ~humanities.languages

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    Would you entertain the option of presenting your own, or would that be too unprofessional, even in this friendly setting? ;)

    One is allowed, of course, to have personal preferences

    Would you entertain the option of presenting your own, or would that be too unprofessional, even in this friendly setting? ;)

  3. Comment on What's your dream job? in ~life

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    What's worse: it is somewhat hereditary.

    What's worse: it is somewhat hereditary.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on The Last Viking / Den Sidste Viking | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Tiny warning: This movie is much more "black" than "comedy". Some of the funniest scenes are about suicide. Not that I would usually consider such a topic to be a valid source of humour - that's...

    Tiny warning: This movie is much more "black" than "comedy".

    Some of the funniest scenes are about suicide. Not that I would usually consider such a topic to be a valid source of humour - that's just the game this movie plays.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on I love bioparks in ~travel

  6. Comment on Single, solo, poor, woman gets $500k pre-tax, how to make the most of it? in ~finance

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    I believe the page below summarizes options and approaches in a good, conservative, wealth preserving way. It is from a community dedicated to J. Boggle, the father of low cost investing....

    I believe the page below summarizes options and approaches in a good, conservative, wealth preserving way. It is from a community dedicated to J. Boggle, the father of low cost investing.
    https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall?utm_source=chatgpt.com

    On more personal advice, maybe some of that money could be used to ease your mental state? Try to address the sources if at all possible, otherwise seek outside help / therapy. I believe bad mental state can overshadow everything else in life...

    5 votes

  7. Comment on Can you recommend some visual aids for 'The City and the Stars' by Arthur C. Clarke? in ~books

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    Honestly, I'm not sure! Every art available online seem to point in a different direction :) Examples:...

    Honestly, I'm not sure! Every art available online seem to point in a different direction :)
    Examples:

    https://www.myconfinedspace.com/2022/09/22/a-farewell-to-diaspar-steve-r-dodd-inspired-by-arthur-c-clarkes-the-city-and-the-stars/a-farewell-to-diaspar-steve-r-dodd-inspired-by-arthur-c-clarkes-the-city-and-the-stars/
    https://arturoperez.artstation.com/projects/aGXLRX
    https://www.amazon.com/City-Stars-Millennium-SF-Masterworks/dp/1857987632

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Can you recommend some visual aids for 'The City and the Stars' by Arthur C. Clarke? in ~books

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    OK, the Tildes hive is probably going to hate me for this, but... I asked ChatGPT to use its new image model to come up with what you are asking for. Here's the result:...

    OK, the Tildes hive is probably going to hate me for this, but... I asked ChatGPT to use its new image model to come up with what you are asking for. Here's the result:
    https://files.catbox.moe/fw3u23.png

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Good time to buy a gas/diesel car (in the EU)? in ~transport

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    You can't time the market. Don't try to time the market. If you see them going down, you may consider buying one. Don't assume any direction their value will take afterwards.

    You can't time the market. Don't try to time the market. If you see them going down, you may consider buying one. Don't assume any direction their value will take afterwards.

    5 votes

  10. Comment on Fits on a floppy - a manifesto for small software in ~tech

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    I didn't mean you - you are free to choose your biases based on any rational, commercial and whatever other reason yourself. I was just surprised to see "a manifesto for small software" - title...

    I didn't mean you - you are free to choose your biases based on any rational, commercial and whatever other reason yourself. I was just surprised to see "a manifesto for small software" - title sounding quite general - focusing strictly on apple.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on Fits on a floppy - a manifesto for small software in ~tech

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    Why the apple bias? Small Linux or Android apps don't count?

    Why the apple bias? Small Linux or Android apps don't count?

    2 votes

  12. Comment on The tech billionaires who want to pave over the universe: Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever in ~society

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    It’s about how tech billionaires have developed a religion based on poorly-interpreted science fiction, poorly-understood cognitive psychology, thanatophobia, and the need to feel morally justified about making unreasonable amounts of money.

    The end result is that the world’s richest and most influential people are working for a future in which AI Jesus solves all our problems and all the matter in the universe is turned into computers for simulating happy humans.

    Becker does an excellent job of breaking down the inaccurate scientific, mathematical, and moral beliefs underlying these goals. Nanotechnology and neuroscience don’t work the way these groups think they do. Neither does space travel.

    EA philanthropists, when helping current real people, often take into account whether they’re from an ethnic group that they think is more likely to contribute to AI alignment.

    Jeffrey Epstein is involved, of course.

    you can see it in the redirection of far too many societal resources to solving a problem with a technology that’s probably not possible, for a future that’s probably not possible—and away from real and higher-probability existential problems like climate change, pandemics, or even cometary impacts.

    Becker points out that humans have a long history of counterproductive, septic belief sets. The difference here is that billionaires have way, way too much power to act on those beliefs, and to push others to act on them as well. His proposed solution: tax billionaires out of existence

    12 votes

  14. Comment on Looking for an online spreadsheet to share with others (not Google or Microsoft) in ~tech

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    Nextcloud with Collabora installed is probably the best you can get... But not very good. Server side graphics rendering makes it clumsy to use. Onlyoffice is much better usability wise, but it's...

    Nextcloud with Collabora installed is probably the best you can get... But not very good. Server side graphics rendering makes it clumsy to use.
    Onlyoffice is much better usability wise, but it's russian, so I wouldn't recommend that.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security in ~tech

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    Hopefully the other way around. I don't want to see reimplementation of an arbitrary proprietary approach to the problem as a distinguishing factor between providers - I'd rather see the feature...

    Hopefully the other way around. I don't want to see reimplementation of an arbitrary proprietary approach to the problem as a distinguishing factor between providers - I'd rather see the feature implemented in a standard way not requiring any special form of support from the server.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Balcony solar is spreading across the US in ~enviro

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    (This looked like an advertisement for the first view, but - IMO - turned out as a nice review of the trend and a political commentary on top of it)

    The balcony solar movement is running hot in Germany, and now it is spreading into the US like gangbusters, just in time for US President Donald Trump’s war in Iran to send the cost of coal through the roof alongside oil and natural gas.

    (This looked like an advertisement for the first view, but - IMO - turned out as a nice review of the trend and a political commentary on top of it)

    9 votes

  18. Comment on Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security in ~tech

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    Actually no, what that statement omits is "...but without the single selling feature mentioned in the headlines." (plugin sandboxing).

    Actually no, what that statement omits is "...but without the single selling feature mentioned in the headlines." (plugin sandboxing).

    7 votes

  19. Comment on "CEO said a thing!" journalism in ~tech

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    This is spot on. They pretend he said something... well not meaningful, but at least grammatically comprehensible, thus lying to the readers.

    translating them to coherent English

    This is spot on. They pretend he said something... well not meaningful, but at least grammatically comprehensible, thus lying to the readers.

    12 votes

  20. Comment on "CEO said a thing!" journalism in ~tech

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    Those especially bother me. The demented fascist clown (those are honest observations, not insults) says everything and nothing in each 200 word sentence he babbles, why would you cite him?

    Those especially bother me. The demented fascist clown (those are honest observations, not insults) says everything and nothing in each 200 word sentence he babbles, why would you cite him?

    15 votes