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Fyrnyx

@ Fyrnyx @kbin.melroy.org

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  • Should video cables come with a new video card or monitor?

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  • I could swear that they came with new monitors which is standard.

    New video cards should come with any extra peripherals needed to make it work with said monitor or whatever features that was advertised.

  • What Can people currently say on Lemmy, but not on Reddit?

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  • I am a proponent for someone to really express what they want to say even if some people think it is politically incorrect to say so. While advocating against the rights of transgenders will always be a wrong stance to take and a wrong belief to believe in because they do deserve their rights.

    But I do think going all-out to protect them from opinions they may not like is an overreaching form of censorship and I have seen that practiced on Reddit way too many times up until my final real banning on there. (Meaning, the last time I ever got to interact on Reddit that isn't shot down to shadow-banning like it is now today, for me)

    I think you should have opinions on them shy from outright calling violence to them or saying they don't deserve a right to live. For example, I truly believe that Transgenders have too much of a stranglehold of the spotlight that it has threatened even the fabric of unity of the LGBTQIA+. I'm not kidding, they have just been hogging the attention for years and it almost feels like the community is strictly just them and no one else, coming from someone who is non-binary and bisexual.

    And this has caused some level of unease in said community where it feels like we have to pledge some separate level of devotion to transgenders or we're seen as bigoted, despite the fact that simply just pledging support and upholding values and identifying with the LGBTQIA+ community as a whole simply isn't enough which I think it SHOULD be enough.

    So it seems like everywhere, especially Reddit, you will be shredded down in seconds if you have a single thing to say against transgenders, even if that opinion doesn't call for the mass execution of them and I think it is outright ridiculous. It is one thing for a Transgender instance or community to bar any opinions against them because it is their rules, than it is for everywhere else barring it just because and I feel it is a cheap way to gain favor with them.

  • What Can people currently say on Lemmy, but not on Reddit?

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  • It is hard to say because there was a time when Lemmy users even got penalized for celebrating what Luigi did.

    And it was a very dumb period. Because I don't see how "I'm glad that piece of shit CEO got what was coming to him" somehow constituted glorifying violence.

    It's such a stupid stance to have and still is, because it is just people grasping for straws as to who is the most moralistic. Come on now, even they behind their keyboards probably celebrated it too.

  • Trump says he’ll send troops to Portland, Oregon, to handle ‘domestic terrorists’

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  • And by "domestic terrorists" he means LGBTQIA+ people and those who disagree with him at this point.

  • Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor

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  • Ha ha, what a lizard-faced fuckball.

  • Should access to computers and the internet be a basic human right?

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  • No.

    Here's my reasoning. For example, when pedophiles are caught online, they have their internet access revoked as part of the punishment to their crimes. If you feel that accessing computers and the internet should be a basic right, you are saying that this pedophile's 'right' to use a computer and the internet is infringed, despite doing a considerably awful thing.

    And that's something I just cannot simply get behind.

    Furthermore, the internet has been contested numerous times and moreso than ever, about the legitimacy of the information on it. We've been going through a few awful periods where right now, information is being fixed and rigged to favor certain political ideologies, pseudoscience and outright bias. I have always been told that everything that is on the internet should always be taken with a grain of salt. I would rather we have a right to a library than we have a right to information on the internet.

    If everyone is complaining so much about the 'damages' of social media, what would making the internet be branded a 'right' improve? Great, you have to the right now, to be lied to and misinformed. Good on ya!

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • Sorry, not sorry, blocking radicals. You're just energy vampires.

  • Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”

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  • I don't care for TikTok, whatever shakes them up and dismantles their foundation. TikTok is just a degradation to society, regardless who has it.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • Absolutely not.

    I really do believe that America should fix America first before it decides to try and 'help' other nations. The problem is, obviously, the wrong people are in place and doing it all wrong as possibly be.

    Illegal Immigration has been a thorn in America's side for a couple decades now in recent memory. The only ones who benefit from it, are obviously corporations who love the idea of cheap labor in the form of modern-day slavery. The immigrants who come here, are not seen as people, they are seen as assets. And it is glaring, how those assets are ironically seen as more valuable than natural born workers who got hired.

    Don't believe me? I've witnessed it where someone who immigrated here, got to take multiple months off from work and come back to retain her job. Meanwhile, people like me, have had to practically work and weed my way through the system to make sure I have days off, to make sure I keep my job secure. Tell me how in that way is it fair. There are probably numerous examples where naturally born citizens are sometimes treated lesser than, than those who came here from other countries and picked up similar positions to work.

    But certain groups of people brush all of that under the rug and play the label game instead, rather than addressing the problem. It's easier for people to side-step these issues when they aren't the one experiencing them, so it must be comfy to think radically as if they don't exist.

    And I don't really buy into the logic that the United States, and ONLY the United States mind you, should have open borders. Countries are allowed to have borders and keep them safeguard, it's been a thing for CENTURIES! But because it's the 2010s or 2020s, no no, we have to discard that ideal and apply it only to the United States. I'm sorry but the United States are as allowed as any other country in the world, to have borders and secure them as they see fit.

    My point of the matter is, is that if you're going to migrate to the United States, you're expected to assimilate. Not be cherry picking and expecting people to bow to your will just BECAUSE you migrated, it doesn't make you that special. You don't charge over into places like Japan, Germany or other countries and expect them to bow to your will just BECAUSE you migrated from the United States, do you? If so, you're part of that problem.

    And if you don't want to assimilate, then you're best being shipped back. Otherwise, it adds to the problem and I think the whole honeypot melting thing that the US Government has tried pushing around for a while now, has been a fundamental failure. Because now it has been completely politicized and only has made more people argumentative over the issue when it should have just been simpler.

  • What is your personal little luxury you aren't supposed to have?

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  • I am not supposed to have anything crunchy, for my oral health demands I get 11 teeth removed with more potentially threatened to decay further. I still got decent teeth to chew and everything, but I have to be cautious.

    Ice Cream as well but not for diabetes, but could be lactose intolerant. It hasn't really stopped me from eating it from time to time.

  • What is your personal little luxury you aren't supposed to have?

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  • McDonalds is guilty pleasure at best. Nobody goes there to feel good about themselves.

  • ‘CEO whisperer’ says US tycoons are privately anxious of Trump’s ‘Maoist’ leadership

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  • They know that Trump is an idiot. But they know they can take advantage of an idiot. It's working for them. It worked when Bush was in office. It worked when Reagan was in Office and the other Bush.

  • Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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  • They'll just insert bots who'll comment generic, soulless things to say instead. "OMG This product amazed me!" or "I cannot BELIEVE how nobody discovered this sooner!" all the while artificially inflating numbers.

  • Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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  • It is like they know you're using adblocks, so instead of trying to force ads down your throat, they try making your experience miserable by breaking their own viewer or whatever. It is absolutely petty of them.

    Leave a video sitting there in idle for too long, come back, it plays for 10 seconds then has to reload itself. Sometimes, it doesn't do this, so it requires a complete refresh.

    They can do this bullshit all they want but I am not letting up on blocking ads.

  • Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs

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  • I want Netbooks to come back for this reason. The only reason they failed the first wave was because nobody at the time thought to treat them as just smaller laptops that could be improved. They were just glorified pre-Chromebooks that were underpowered.

    Technology has progressed since then so there's no excuse not to bring them back. I loved the idea of carrying something that small around and not have it hinder me as much as a full laptop could.

  • do you think Lemmy is dead?

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  • It's not dead, it's just not matching the level of activity of users as the numbers of users there is reported on paper.

    I'd like to see Lemmy get a lot of microcommunities like Reddit but the problem is, one user can do so much.

  • Judge finds misconduct by Trump's DOJ in Luigi Mangione case

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  • That's largely going to be dependent on a couple things;

    Luigi's Attorney now has to hammer on this hard, hard enough to stick it through one ear hole and out the other through the thick skulls of the prosecutors. There are strong pieces of evidence now that say that Luigi's 5th Amendment rights has been violated and that people from the DOJ have overstepped themselves.

    The other thing is whether anything is going to stick. Even if Luigi walks or is given lesser sentencing or whatever. Trump's crazy ass or the crazy ass DOJ of his is still going to want to try and kill Luigi anyways by making him go through another trial by re-writing the rules.

  • How do people in cities have fun without spending money at every turn?

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  • A good city or town is a good one when they can offer things that don't require money. Parks, Events that don't charge anything and vice versa.

  • Google is very sorry for pulling down COVID misinfo and pledges never to use outside fact-checkers

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  • No they're not.

    "Waaah, we were forced to tell the truth and stick to facts. Please oh please, Republicans, allow us to continue lying and misnform the public!"