Allero

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[–] Allero 1 points 3 hours ago

As the economy grows and progress creates exponentially more wealth, it's only natural that people demand ever higher standards of living. This is good, this is how it should be.

At the same time, generational theory is bullshit. People in each age bracket are very different, and in each of them you can find what you would call more sensitive or more tough people. And it is good, too! Some people are better at promoting change, some people are better at withstanding the status quo. Both are necessary if we want to have constant growth on a strong foundation. Oh, and every generation has stupid freaks. A lot of them, in fact.

LGBTQ+ youth defending Palestine is not about promoting LGBTQ+ rights. It's about fighting for a more fundamental right - right for people to live. No one in their sane mind expects Palestinian Arabs to go under rainbow flags, but it doesn't matter for as long as life for everyone in the region is endangered. The people you call "weak" are protesting in defence of basic human rights - something "strong" people fought hard for - that are undermined in the world of today. They'd rather see a region that is unfriendly to LGBTQ+ than one that is mass grave.

And you're right - famous people shouldn't be our role models! They just often happen to be so as they are in the spotlight. But we should promote other voices - scientists, engineers, economists, we should promote meaningful art, etc. etc. Parents are not always a perfect role model, as they bring with them a load of stereotypes, cognitive distortions, and are commonly conservative in the wide sense of the word, which hinders the development of new ways of thinking. But they too are undoubtedly important.

[–] Allero -1 points 7 hours ago

My message is clearly in good faith, and you just try to take it down by stating that I "know it's wrong".

No, it is not wrong.

Notice how I didn't state my support for any third party in particular. I do not believe they can change the game, nor am I blind to imagine their candidates have any sort of influence.

What I do say is that Democrats should lose their electorate when they don't deliver on their promises - or else they don't have to do it, really.

Under those circumstances, voting for a third party allows to keep them accountable, while not giving your vote straight to Republicans, either.

[–] Allero 1 points 9 hours ago

Sounds so wholesome :)

[–] Allero 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Seriously though.

Bought an old second-hand Brother printer a while ago and couldn't be happier.

Model is like 10 years old, yet all spare parts and cartridges as well as just toner are readily available and the printer is perfectly fine (damn how precise laser printers are!).

They just make it happen.

[–] Allero -1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Please elaborate

[–] Allero 0 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

You can always be vocal about why you didn't vote Democrat. Voting does not mean you are restricted from saying who you voted for, protesting their decisions, and organizing.

"Less terrible of the two" is a path to gradually degrade the rights and quality of life for everyone.

If Dems are not forced to change, we won't see much improvement. For as long as they're not pressured by anything but literal fascism, they're better off serving their sponsors than their own electorate.

A fairly small percentage of Democratic voters vocally saying "fuck you" is enough to force Dems to either change and finally deliver on their promises or lose. Let's hope they'll be able to do the former.

[–] Allero 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Granted. Now everyone rolls back to Tobu - Candyland

[–] Allero -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

One important and vocalized point is to hold Democrats accountable for their actions. This isn't limited to genocide.

Because as things stand, Dems can get away with anything as long as they are marginally less terrible than Republicans. And as the goalposts move every time, situation gets worse and worse.

Voting third party might force Democrats to actually implement changes they propose in order to attract more third party voters to ultimately win the election.

[–] Allero 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Blocklist member detected.

Seriously, we should collect such nicknames in a convenient list so that everyone would block you as they register.

People like you bring 0 useful contribution and only make this place shittier.

[–] Allero -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Tankie

Fascist sympathizer

I wonder what amounts of crowd mentality and brain stew is required to make someone equate two radical opposites.

[–] Allero 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I personally have little issues with systemd (okay, services can stall sometimes, true), but I appreciate brave minds who use other init systems and keep the variety for us to enjoy should we want to.

Just mentioned it as one of the few controversies surrounding Debian :D But then, on the other hand, there's Devuan for those folks as well...

 

Whenever I see threads and comments about privacy-related or sensitive topics, I often see concerns about China in particular stealing all that data.

Why is China, a country across a vast ocean, is seen as a bigger threat in that regard than US itself? Unlike Chinese, the local government does have power over its residents and can actually use this information against you (and it does have a record for doing exactly that). The only places where Chinese espionage would be a concern (military, high-tech industry) lay way beyond what an everyday American faces regularly.

So, is it a new red scare, or is there a substance behind it that I fail to see?

 

Alrightie, so here I am, going for my very own PhD! Getting here was still a lot of stress and I was looking for this moment for a while. Now, finally, it actually happens :)

Science will prevail!

 

It is no secret that prolonged exposure to loud sound is highly damaging to our hearing. Listening to loud music is one of the common factors leading to degraded hearing ability and tinnitus, and is deeply unhealthy.

At the same time, such level of noise negatively impacts the quality of sound perception, which degrades the musical side of the musical performance.

In what seems to be the echoes of the so-called "loudness war", bands still stick to the idea that "the louder you blast it - the better". But it's not true. There are many other ways to energize the crowd without causing them sound damage, and I'd love to see more of those, instead of them trying to be the loudest ever.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Allero to c/linux@programming.dev
 

So, I recently got interested with the idea of an atomic distro, particularly the derivatives of Fedora Kinoite (currently testing Aurora).

What's your experience with them? What are the unexpected troubles and did you manage to resolve them? Do you feel it's worth it to learn the nuances of their use?

Also, on a personal testing note, did you manage to properly run AppImages and what did you do to make it happen? I couldn't properly run them either natively or via Fedora toolbox on Aurora. (Also, I borked Aurora within 4 hours of trying to install Outline VPN that consistently had issues with tunneling).

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Allero to c/eli5@lemmy.world
 

If brown is actually a darker shade of orange (Wikipedia), then how do we get light brown and not orange?

How is it possible to be light and a "darker shade" at the same time?

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Found my love (lemmy.today)
submitted 3 months ago by Allero to c/positivity
 

So, there's a girl I had a crush on for a while, and recently she (I didn't tell her of my feelings) came ahead and actually told me she is into me for a while.

And...yeah? Boom, apparently I'm in a relationship with my crush who also crushed on me, and I couldn't be happier!

Can't wait to see where this leads us...hopefully somewhere good!

 

Just updated to Plasma 6, and got a question: is there a way to make the bottom panel keep at the bottom (like when fullscreen windows are opened) and not float regardless of windows?

Just always stay there without moving, like in Plasma 5.

Or is it dictated by the theme/hardcoded into Plasma 6?

 

I know Lemmy isn't normally the best place to search for this, but are there any high-quality right-wing explainers, or modern books, or media outlets?

I myself am ultra-left (quite literally communist, to the dictionary sense of the word), but I'd like to quit the bubble that inevitably forms around and look at good arguments of the opposing side, if there are any.

Is there anything in there beyond temporarily embarrassed millionaires and fears that trans people will destroy humanity? Is there rational analysis, something closer to academic research, behind modern ideas of laissez-faire capitalism and/or political conservatism?

I've tried outlets like PragerU, but they are so basic they seem to target a very uncritical audience.

I'd like to see the world in the eyes of an enlightened right-winger, and see where they possibly fail (or if suddenly they have valid arguments).

 

Is there any reason, beyond corporate greed, for SMS messages to cost so much?

If I get it right, an SMS message is just a short string of data, no different from a message we send in a messenger. If so, then what makes them so expensive? If we'd take Internet plans and consider how much data an SMS takes, we should pay tiny fraction of a cent for each message; why doesn't that happen?

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Allero to c/positivity
 

Won a scientific competition that will allow me to pursue PhD - all paid by the government!

Now I can apply to PhD programs of top universities of my country without exams and pursue my dreams!

Very happy and currently fairly speechless :D

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submitted 6 months ago by Allero to c/general
 

This seems to be the most active local community, but it is random (and different!) people posting basic abstract pictures of birds in about the same style, with nobody engaging in commenting or even upvoting it.

Is there anyone who can explain the concept?

 
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