I usually watch YouTube through a laptop that blocks ads.

The YouTube ads are still annoying on my phone, etc., but not nearly as bad as Spotify (unusable).

Infinite money. Capital wants infinite money for their imaginary property in perpetuity. Otherwise they’ll get their state to put you in a cage.

Learning vim seems like a right of passage or something.

Yes, I think every developer is dropped into vim at some point unexpectedly (eg. git)… “What is this? How do I close it!!!”

Getting paid for using energy is literally every business model.

Running Debian 12 on a $300 no-name chinese laptop from before the tariffs. Formatted over Windows ofc.

It rules!

Holy stockholm syndrome. Nazi and transphobe have lost their meaning because we lives in a transphobic nazi society.

The whiteness of these people shows through in weird ways.

He is a great influence to a lot of people

lmao

We live in a fascist society. People will defend white supremacy by default.

Haidt … is campaigning internationally to end the “phone-based childhood”. He says… Videogaming, porn and gambling gave boys such dopamine hits that anything else they did felt boring.

This is pseudo-science.

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-neurochemical-self/202106/harsh-truth-about-dopamine
• https://recovered.org/blog/dopamine-addiction-fact-or-clickbait

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There are better terms but capitalist media doesn’t attack its daddy.

it’s somewhat fascinating to ask what “social media” has done… The term now means “let’s keep you addicted to posts from people you’ll never meet”

Sure, if you assume the worst possible definition of “social media”, then it probably hasn’t done anything worthwhile.

So the problem isn’t actually “social media” but corporate control?

Well geez I wonder why everybody is attacking social media… \s

By bringing the violence of the state down upon children.

That’s the point.

USA offering this trash b/c they still can’t compete with BYD.

Slashdot? It’s ok but I still looking for a favorite. Maybe in these comments…

I’ve had no problems with Plasma on Debian. I think the problem is probably the ubuntu, fedora, etc.

Finally some joy in this world. Thanks.