I just thought of a great way for the current Pope to really make a name for himself as the one to stop so much evil pedo shit. Man, talk about rehabbing the image of the church (in the minds of people who pay little enough attention).

Live global broadcast of Trump doing confession with the pope. Trump info dumps either with a camera in the confession booth, or by making a public statement afterward as penance, even if he just reads a prepared statement in either case.

Then the pope says ok you’re going to heaven, and the rest of us try to get the gears of justice turning again.

It’s like if you think of all the ways we influence other people and show our worth to others, all of the most immoral and unethical tactics that actually work in the real world seem to come to Trump instinctively. He doesn’t even have to think about it. I think that helps him instantly jump to conclusions (linkedin filter: he’s decisive and a risk taker!) and have the unearned dunning-kruger arrogance to plow ahead (LF: he radiates confidence and stands up for his beliefs!) and wreck the country just to make some numbers go up for people who otherwise want for nothing.

Or maybe he’s just being controlled by malicious forces. (linkedin: he has high-level connections in the international community!)

I hope they write stories about how a mysterious giant asteroid made of strange synthesized polymers must have smashed our planet. It was probably a devastating mass driver attack by a technologically superior enemy capable of alchemy.

Yeah, it seems that so many people are that way about so many things. And at some point I honestly thing it is bad for you.

Sometimes learning to do the thing and then doing it yourself is a FAR better experience for your well being even if you get worse results in twice the time and at double the cost versus paying somebody to do it for you.

I am convinced that impostor syndrome is just the other end of the spectrum from the Dunning-Kruger effect.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that having impostor syndrome means you’re an expert, but that you have the curiosity to look under the surface and get a glimpse of the long path ahead of you. You don’t just assume you “got this” because one piece of many clicked into place.

I guess my strong impostor syndrome has mellowed over these past 5 or so years while I have been working on myself (as in mental health, not job skills, lol). Some of it is confidence gained by knowing better who I am and what I want out of life, accompanied by elimination of a lot of “I should be learning this / doing that / building my career XYZ” thoughts. And part of it is leaning into what makes me different from others at work versus the others, using that stuff as strengths rather than seeing them as deficiencies where I don’t match up.

I don’t like how clearly I can hear this gif.

because I was interested in how coding works, and trying to understand underlying concepts

Ah, yes. The secret to being better than most people at at most things. Curiosity and giving a shit.

Ooh, I have not read this and it sounds pretty good. Just got lost reading a couple pages of it. Thanks for the link!

To that I say, welcome to Lemmy!

I jumped through hoops decades ago to get tested for ADHD and did not get the diagnosis based on my good performance on the cognitive tests, plus some of my wife’s questionnaire answers not seeming severe enough.

I finally started Adderall here in my 40s thank freaking god.

These companies and their enshittification have kinda killed the broader concept of phones in my mind.

What is my phone? It’s my worst computer, proprietary and closed, and which I have been actively avoiding using all year long in order to improve my mental health. It’s a tool that makes it easier to exist in modern society, not something that enhances my quality of life.

So I’m not thinking about whether I need iMessage vs Android openness like I might have a decade ago. I’m sitting here wondering if I even need a phone number in the first place! But, even with some wonderful Linux phone device that’s like a 6" laptop with a touch screen and LTE/5G, I guess you’d still just have a number associated with your service.

While I do not prefer either of them to an open platform, I think the more common draw of iOS is that you know what you’re getting versus the bait and switch that Google always seems to bring.

The definitely sounds like something to try. Thanks!

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

But also, just because some activities are annoying on the phone does not mean you should be locked out from them.

Oh definitely the stairs, since that’s the “frail old man” tell that he seems most afraid of. And with nobody anywhere near him, and on a beautiful clear day with no wind and no sun in his eyes.

It has to be clear as day that it was a failure of his body and not foul play or trickery.

You may be 100% correct, but I would still fear that the corruption soaked deep into our institutions by this bonkers insane second term would enable the fascist train to keep rolling and take us on the rest of the ride we’ve already started. Everybody around him is appear running the administration.

Maybe if the timing of the passing of the empire is favorable we might have some elections that seem valid maybe?

All developed nations are going to realize they are in a population crisis in the coming decades. It’s no surprise to see bigotry/xenophobia/conservatism hurting the future of a nation, but it’s a bit surprising to see how popular it is across the globe.

I mean, I’m in the US and we are batshit stupid about it too. It’s been the joke all my life about how Social Security won’t be there when I retire one day. So hey instead of adding some of our most efficient workers (low pay, high labor output) to the tax base, let’s commit crimes against humanity! Yeeeeehaw!

We all know the brain drain started in academia, but I’m surprised I don’t hear about it in just about every field.

Just yesterday I wiped the drive and installed Linux on the 3rd old PC for the LAN setup I’m putting together, literally “for the children!”

It’s an i7-920 from 2008. It has TRIPLE channel ram, baby. I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon and it was as quick and painless as usual.

I already get the warm fuzzies when I walk into the room and find my 3rd grader playing on my PC instead of their tablet or even the console. Our first LAN party is gonna be sweet.

Yeah that controller might just have a hardware problem.

I’ve had pretty good luck with Xbox controllers from multiple generations, but it sounds like a LOT of people have problems with them. Even the elite controllers! It’s a shame because their shape and layout work great for me, and I’m sure the same is true of other people with broken controllers and no spares.

Controllers needing to be updated is dumb in a way, sure. But as somebody who has worked in the design/manufacture/test of embedded electronics & software systems, I know the development of those dumb little accessories was a massive project, and there’s so much potential for bugs or security issues down the line. After a quick search it looks like MS claims it was over $100 million in R&D for the xbone controller, and that’s 15 years of inflation ago.

Back around the same time It was part of a $10M project at my job and that thing took over most of the damn company!

Oh same here. I’m hopeful that valve brings us a linux phone, not a gaming phone. I’ve never really gotten into gaming on mobile either.

However, if they DO make a linux phone, I’m sure it will be Steam branded and have all kinds of gaming-specific tweaks.

But again, to me that just sounds like it will have good hardware specs. So not a problem!