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Comment on Psychologists at the University of Cambridge developed a Misinformation Susceptibility Tests. What's your MIST score? in ~science
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Comment on What's your retirement plan? in ~finance
imsoenthused Link ParentThe majority of Americans don't make enough money to save any amount that would make an actual difference later in life. They spend it as fast as they get it because rents due and they have to...- Exemplary
The majority of Americans don't make enough money to save any amount that would make an actual difference later in life. They spend it as fast as they get it because rents due and they have to eat. If we want to see people save, then we need living wage laws with real teeth and enforcement, which we're never going to get. A huge portion of us in the lowest income brackets have been indoctrinated our entire lives into believing that voting for even the slightly less morally bankrupt variety of our apparatchik is anti-American and unpatriotic, and even if we can overcome that the slightly better side is only interested in being seen "trying" to fix problems, but not in actually fixing them.
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Comment on Best Linux Distro for gaming/noob in ~comp
imsoenthused Link ParentNobara is an option. It's a Fedora based distro focused on doing a lot of that lower-level configuring out-of-the-box. Personally, I've been happiest with Garuda Dragonized for gaming, since it's...Nobara is an option. It's a Fedora based distro focused on doing a lot of that lower-level configuring out-of-the-box. Personally, I've been happiest with Garuda Dragonized for gaming, since it's basically Arch with all the gaming optimizations I'd have to do already done.
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Comment on Meta is launching Threads, an app to rival Twitter in ~tech
imsoenthused Link ParentI got the joke, I was just pointing out that, depending on where you live, WhatsApp can literally be the case where that contradiction makes perfect sense, because it's practically a utility.I got the joke, I was just pointing out that, depending on where you live, WhatsApp can literally be the case where that contradiction makes perfect sense, because it's practically a utility.
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Comment on Meta is launching Threads, an app to rival Twitter in ~tech
imsoenthused Link ParentWhatsApp is, for a large portion of the world, even more important than SMS is to people from the US. They've made themselves indispensable, and opting out of it is voluntarily opting out of a...WhatsApp is, for a large portion of the world, even more important than SMS is to people from the US. They've made themselves indispensable, and opting out of it is voluntarily opting out of a large part of modern society and infrastructure in those places. Consider how you'd view someone who told you they refused to have a cell phone. Not having WhatsApp would be worse than that in a lot of countries. I'm glad it hasn't caught on to that degree in the US, but pretending it hasn't elsewhere is fairly ridiculous. It's considered the world's first everything app for a reason.
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Comment on What game encouraged you to make your new PC, or upgrade? in ~games
imsoenthused Link ParentDoes your distro use zram out of the box? If not, you might want to look into enabling it first and seeing if it solves the issue for you. I've had a lot of luck using it for old...Does your distro use zram out of the box? If not, you might want to look into enabling it first and seeing if it solves the issue for you. I've had a lot of luck using it for old netbooks/chromebooks with limited memory to make them more useful. I mean, I mainly give them away to kids, so my priority has been to get modern educational websites and Minecraft to run reliably, but it might help you, too.
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Comment on What's your retirement plan? in ~finance
imsoenthused Link ParentUnlikely. American Liberals are mostly lazy, reactionary, center-right shills. Any real leftist movements are hated and demonized. Our political system is a duopoly designed to prevent anyone who...Unlikely. American Liberals are mostly lazy, reactionary, center-right shills. Any real leftist movements are hated and demonized. Our political system is a duopoly designed to prevent anyone who might change things from ever achieving them, unless they benefit capital, and in recent years one half of the duopoly has slid towards open christofascism and active hostility to human life.
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Comment on What's your retirement plan? in ~finance
imsoenthused LinkI figure I'll take up base jumping and paragliding when I hit 55-60 and just let nature take its course.I figure I'll take up base jumping and paragliding when I hit 55-60 and just let nature take its course.
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Comment on What game encouraged you to make your new PC, or upgrade? in ~games
imsoenthused LinkThe one time a game got me to upgrade was Control. I really wanted to play it, but at the time I had an AMD Phenom-II x6 1100T processor, and it didn't support SSE4.2, as its feature set only went...The one time a game got me to upgrade was Control. I really wanted to play it, but at the time I had an AMD Phenom-II x6 1100T processor, and it didn't support SSE4.2, as its feature set only went up to SSE4A. I could bypass that and make it run, but the performance was terrible with emulated SSE4.2, so I broke down and upgraded. I was a little pissed off about it at the time, as that old hex core was still running most new games at 1080p just fine at the time, and a few other games had released before Control with SSE4.2 requirements, and some of them got patches that added a code path that didn't need it without any real performance hit or feature loss, but the Control devs weren't interested in doing so. On top of that, the successor to the Phenom IIs were those garbage Bulldozer, Steamroller, and Excavator processors, which forced me to buy an Intel chip to get decent gaming performance, something that I hadn't done since the Pentium 3. That said, it was probably one of the games I most enjoyed in the last decade, so I can't be too bitter about it.
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Comment on The Titan submersible was “an accident waiting to happen” in ~transport
imsoenthused Link ParentGrim was definitely the word that I immediately thought of. That and a scathing indictment of capitalism and billionaires. Like, you can make all the rules and regulations you want, but as long as...Grim was definitely the word that I immediately thought of. That and a scathing indictment of capitalism and billionaires. Like, you can make all the rules and regulations you want, but as long as your system allows an individual to amass that much wealth, they can and will just ignore them as they see fit.
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Comment on What are the benefits of using Linux for the less computer competent? in ~comp
imsoenthused Link ParentI'm constantly amazed that so much of the Linux community is still okay with Ubuntu. I feel like Canonical has made it abundantly clear who they are, and the only sensible decision is to have...I'm constantly amazed that so much of the Linux community is still okay with Ubuntu. I feel like Canonical has made it abundantly clear who they are, and the only sensible decision is to have nothing to do with them in any capacity. The fact that people still recommend, much less use, Ubuntu or anything derived from it constantly amazes me. It's far past time for any Ubuntu based distros to rebase off Debian and everyone else to throw Ubuntu itself on the trash heap of history where it belongs.
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Comment on Best Linux Distro for gaming/noob in ~comp
imsoenthused Link ParentI wish they'd rebase off Debian and stop having anything to do with Canonical, so I could actually recommend their OS to people, but that's just me.I wish they'd rebase off Debian and stop having anything to do with Canonical, so I could actually recommend their OS to people, but that's just me.
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Comment on Dual-boot with a shared partition? in ~comp
imsoenthused LinkI use WinBTRFS, and a simple BTRFS partition with no subvolumes to transfer between Arch and Windows. Works fine for me, might be worth a try.I use WinBTRFS, and a simple BTRFS partition with no subvolumes to transfer between Arch and Windows. Works fine for me, might be worth a try.
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Comment on What are the benefits of using Linux for the less computer competent? in ~comp
imsoenthused Link ParentIt's definitely retro computing at this point, but it's still alive as long as Debian supports it. Once there are no major distros with corporate backing releasing for it, it will really be over.It's definitely retro computing at this point, but it's still alive as long as Debian supports it. Once there are no major distros with corporate backing releasing for it, it will really be over.
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Comment on Reddit is Fun, Apollo, BaconReader, and other third-party Reddit apps have officially shut down in ~tech
imsoenthused Link ParentBaconReader was one of, if not the first android app I ever paid for. Guess I won't be using Reddit on my phone anymore.BaconReader was one of, if not the first android app I ever paid for. Guess I won't be using Reddit on my phone anymore.
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Comment on What are the benefits of using Linux for the less computer competent? in ~comp
imsoenthused Link ParentI think about this when people start saying things like "nobody will use that" when the new cloud implementation of Windows that Microsoft is moving towards is brought up. Like, what you want...I think about this when people start saying things like "nobody will use that" when the new cloud implementation of Windows that Microsoft is moving towards is brought up. Like, what you want doesn't matter, they'll sell it to employers and schools. People will get used to using it at work and school. Then, when a small percentage of them buy their own computers, they'll buy what they're already used to using. Power users and tech enthusiasts just don't matter too terribly much when it comes to the over all market. Think about the generations of Mac users who love them, and swear by them, and only ever used them because they wanted to be artists/graphic designers and that's what school taught them to use.
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Comment on What are the benefits of using Linux for the less computer competent? in ~comp
imsoenthused LinkI think the biggest benefits are getting away from Microsoft's big software as a service and data collection push, and excellent performance on older, lower powered hardware. You can slap a cheap...I think the biggest benefits are getting away from Microsoft's big software as a service and data collection push, and excellent performance on older, lower powered hardware. You can slap a cheap SSD and a light-weight distro in a laptop that would be unusable on the modern web with Windows and have a machine that's perfectly functional and responsive for most people's daily use. All without giving Microsoft access to all your data or letting them serve up ads on your desktop.
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Comment on Linux gamers? If so, what games? in ~games
imsoenthused LinkI've been using Linux for years, since the 90s, went full time on it everywhere but my gaming computer a long time back, but I finally swapped for gaming because of all the Steam Deck driven...I've been using Linux for years, since the 90s, went full time on it everywhere but my gaming computer a long time back, but I finally swapped for gaming because of all the Steam Deck driven improvements. I'm running Garuda on my gaming PC at the moment. Arch based is pretty much all I use anymore for daily use, but I can't be bothered to install and configure it from base anymore when there are Arch based distros as nice as Endeavour and Garuda available.
I play a lot of Warframe, Guild Wars 2, and Elder Scrolls games, also emulate BotW and TotK fairly often, but I play lots of other things, too. The majority of games just work in my experience. I do admit to welching slightly by keep a Windows partition on a separate SSD for the handful that won't, but I've only run into one or two where that wasn't because of unsupported anti-cheat implementations, so I pretty much use Linux full time unless I want to play Black Desert Online or Destiny 2.
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The only one I was unsure of was: One-in-Three Worldwide Lack Confidence in Non-Governmental Organizations
That number just seems really low to me in our modern world, and I also thought, "Hell, I don't trust the Governmental ones, either." Still, went ahead and answered Real, because I figured not everyone was as untrusting of institutional authority as I am. Seriously though, people, you gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers in this racket.