Sometime later (and deeper): “hmm… seems very uneven… going to have to use a self leveling magma…”

“retention bots” of some description wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest…

endless wars of who’s federeated with who

i’ve been here for months and months, i might have seen this mentioned as an aside once or twice. but “endless wars”?

Have you considered putting your gaming pc in one of the storage freezers? /s

well who pissed on your chips?

But it’s an outlier right? I guess that’s why it’s joked as an additional force in the comic, because even by “maths just describes reality” standards, it’s weird. Like, it feels like a particle “knows” if the state is already occupied, and that’s why it can’t occupy it. But that implies some communication - the conveying of some force - else how does it “know”?

Google keyboard weirdness. Maybe because I’m of an age where you put two spaces after a full stop. But then the keyboard is automatically adding one to be “helpful” because maybe people don’t do that themselves anymore?

Not that I know much about this, but the Pauli principal always struck me as an observation rather than anything like an explanation. As an explanation it’s extremely unsatisfying. “Why won’t electrons occupy the same space?” “Well… because of the Pauli principal”. No… that’s not the reason, that’s just restating what we observe. Glad to see physicists find it weird too (as is suggested in the comic)

I didn’t unfortunately :/

Debian + GNOME. I’m extremely new to Linux so excuse my ignorance. I searched around the topic a while finding some commands that didn’t work and others having the same issue. If you know different that would be much appreciated!

It seems impossible to set display scaling from the command line. Anything that fixes that would be nice.

The modem is off centre

/pedant

Regular windows user: uses PC

‘Roommate’ standing behind them: takes photo of screen

User: dude…

Roommate: what?

User: what the fuck?

Roommate: is ok… it’s so you can scan through them later and see what you’ve been doing

User:

Roommate:

User:

Roommate: takes photo of screen

User: the… fuck? that’s… that’s my credit card #

Roommate: oh…uhh…I was going to delete that

User: did you even notice it was there?!

Roommate: yes! I mean no! I mean…err

User:

Roommate:

User:

Roommate: takes photo

User: grabs baseball bat

Looking forward to more :)

“Best Guitar Pics”

merely an example. Be sure to let BestOfLemmy etc know…

“dull and completely unimaginative”

and your solution is to tack “Porn” on the end? oh dear

Why does everything have to be sexualised and sensationalised? That’s encouraged on Reddit, and any other profit driven social media, because they’re bending over backwards to bleed you dry of engagement. It’s thoroughly unpleasant.

Lemmy has a chance to be something different. BestGuitarPics is what you’re actually curating. Or AwesomeGuitarPics if you want a little something extra. Jamming “Porn” on to everything just to try and stir a sense of interest is just sad.

The “implied perverse thrill” seems a bit of projection on your part

You can read the critical reception of the film yourself here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_(film)#Critical_response

A sample of adjectives: “nasty”, “nihilistic”, “mean”, “insinuatingly creepy”, “derivative”, “loathsome”, and, yes, “perverse”

“visually appealing/stimulating images that have no context and at best provide a simulacrum of interest in the object or activity”

what a silly self serving definition. “porn” has a particular meaning which you can look up in the OED, Cambridge, Websters etc. Definition 3 is how it was used - with negtive connotation - for “torture porn” and (the example in MW) “the pornography of violence”.

The extension of that to mudane everyday things (food, cars, guitars) and especially when the material shared typically falls well short of “sensational” is just a lazy habit that reddit picked up (and other online spaces too) that I, and clearly others in this thread, think Lemmy wouldbe better without. etto…

that was the beginning of the change, when it was still meant pegoratively and implied the watcher was getting some sort of perverse thrill out of it. later things like ‘earth porn’, ‘food porn’, ‘guitar porn’ are just stupid and rely on the really unpleasant trend of using “porn” to mean anything mildly interesting

“guitar porn”

can we not?

Multipass?