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Nytixus

@ Nytixus @kbin.melroy.org

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  • What do people that are for the first time moving to a place where is snows need to know?

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  • Invest in electric heaters.

    If you already had a place picked that's in the north, make sure you settle in as early as a month or two before it's winter season starts.

    Do not ever neglect snow tires. If you're tight on money, getting even 2 sets of tires for wintry conditions is better than none. But 4 is still recommended and no, All-Seasons are terrible for winters regardless of brand. They just aren't designed for winter conditions, they're designed mostly for Spring/Summer/Fall.

    Buy winter emergency sets for your vehicle. Buy one for the glove compartment, the ones where they actually have emergency power banks in them. Buy another for general use, especially ones equipped with a piece together shovel.

    Use HEET only in 30 below temperatures.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • But did anyone ever say that you HAD to subscribe to everything? No.

    I must be one of the few people in a group who have a better control in what they feel they can subscribe to.

    Adobe expects me to pay monthly for Photoshop? No, fuck you, I've got GIMP and a number of other paint and photo manipulation programs.

    Microsoft expects me to pay for Office 365? No, fuck you, I've got LibreOffice and your older Office software still works as good. Your word processing program, Word, hasn't really changed that much since 2007 or even 2003. Hell, maybe not since 1997!

    I understand this video highlights some of the more draconian practices of subscription services and they deserve to be. But also, people really really need to learn about alternatives instead of feeling like they've got to subscribe to something that they never had to in the first place.

    Also, no, you do not need smart-everything. Leave all of the smart-appliance shit for the richies who happily throw money down on that and let them waste their time and money on the susbcriptions involving them. You don't need them, have some self-respect and know that the dumb versions of those smart things still are just as good and effective.

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  • The mods on lemmy are just as sensitive as the ones on reddit and they lean on excessive bans.

    Man, moderators suck because they're all closeted losers.

  • Recommendations for dumb tech?

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  • You're almost asking to be in an environment where you're surrounded by 386 computers, PDAs, CRTs and beepers.

    We're sadly stuck with the way capitalism has enshittified technology to where it is almost unavoidable and the only options we're down to is how much of ourselves we limit the access to that stuff. We're also stuck with just going second-hand shopping because almost no company wants to go back to the way things were unless they want to market ViNtAgE or ReTrO throwbacks which even they sometimes shit all over those models.

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  • For once, I am not seeing comments where it's just an endless chain mixed with the responses of some dude's alt and people who run a joke right off the treads. I'm seeing just responses. Actual thoughts. Even if the thoughts are shitty i.e argumentative and illogical trolls who bait, they're still somewhat thoughts.

    I don't see a lot of "DATS WHAT SHE SAID!" followed by "AND HE SAID" followed by "AND THE CAT SAID" on and on. That's the kind of trash you'd find on Reddit, even on subreddits where the news is reported.

    Moderators that actually moderate. Now there's still a disagreement with how things are moderated and that's case by case. It's not strictly a Reddit or Lemmy thing. It's an internet thing. But, moderators on the Fediverse in general, seem to be more responsive and a little more logical than any Reddit one ever. Reddit mods, go on power-hungry blazetrails where they just ban and ban based on THEIR interpretations of the rules and not the general rules already set in the community they mod in.

  • Trump prolongs uproar over Puerto Rico slur by driving garbage truck around in ‘total fail’ election stunt | Stunt intended to troll Biden and Harris underlines original source of garbage comments

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  • His voterbase are the ones in the back.

  • What are you tired of helping and educating people about because you know they'll just be ignorant anyway?

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  • Even if someone doesn't regularly use computers, it doesn't hurt to gain some experience in communicating in ways you're not used to. Like, I don't like 'typing' on a mobile phone. The interface is small, customization is limited and you're prone to constantly make spelling mistakes. But I adapted and can at least now type on mobile half the speed I can on a keyboard.

    Generational gaps need not apply. This is simply just a learning thing that is applicable to all.

  • What are you tired of helping and educating people about because you know they'll just be ignorant anyway?

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  • Everyone all denial about diseases and serious illnesses until they get it. Unfortunately, during the pandemic, some of those who did get COVID and denied about it, still downplayed it like it was just a simple cold. Until you know, some of them actually died because of how much they didn't anticipate the probability of getting it.

  • How would Linux look like when it hits 10% marketshare?

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  • How would the mainstream view it?

    A hip cool new thing that they're just knowing. Probably intimidated too.

    How would software support improve?

    Borrowing ideas from already successful ways of supporting software done in other fields.

    How would gaming look like?

    Probably a huge deal breaker for some. If they know they can't run 100% of the games they acquire on an OS, then that's it.

    Which country will become the first Linux majority? India? Seychelles?

    India. It's projected to grow at 25.2%

    How many local governments would start adopting it?

    Not many.

    What year do you think it will happen in?

    If it took Linux 3 decades to finally get to even 2%, I'm betting it'll take another 3 decades or longer.

  • What are some valid criticisms of Lemmy do you hear from people who tried out the platform?

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  • I believe it's just obnoxious trolling users who've been banned multiple times from Reddit now come flooding here to pull their shit again.

  • What are some valid criticisms of Lemmy do you hear from people who tried out the platform?

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  • When you block someone, you can still see that they replied to you. I don't want to know of their existence period, that's why I'm blocking them and they shouldn't have a chance to respond to me period. It's not blocking if they can reply to me and I still see a notification that they did.

  • How many subscribers does a community need to have to become self sustaining so that the active posters can retire?

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  • 5,000. That's really my sincere answer.

  • Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"

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  • I roll my eyes at the dishonest bad faith takes people have in the comments about how people do the same thing behind the wheel. Like that's going to make autopiloting self-driving cars an exception. Least a person can react, can slow down or do anything that an unthinking, going-by-the-pixels computer can't do at a whim.

  • Harris says she strongly disagrees with criticism of people based on who they vote for after Biden's 'garbage' remark

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  • I don't call them garbage. I call them traitors. That's who the MAGA crowd is. A bunch of treacherous traitors.

    Our founding fathers would've worked overtime, rallying and rounding up millions of these traitors to be drawn and quartered. Because, aligning with an obvious dictator wannabe isn't bad enough, it's the fact that they're aligned with the values of a newfound Axis Party between Russia, North Korea and America (under Trump).

    So, they're traitors.

  • Schwarzenegger endorses Harris: Trump would only make us ‘angrier, more divided’

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  • She's a weak candidate considering that:

    She's not the Bill Clinton that built America back up through the 90s that H.W Bush and Reagan ruined and prior to the Monica incident.

    She took away all momentum from Bernie Sanders, who people did actually want. This was 2016 so it was a chaotic mess where SJWs existed so they were more about "we need the first woman president to make history!" without caring that Hillary was the corporate representative side of the Democrats. Something we absolutely did not need.

    So she's no Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders was taken away from us. Now we were down between a rock and a hard place between Clinton and Trump. Sure, the popular vote might've been in Clinton's favor. However I still to this day think that we just had no choice ultimately. Same venue with Biden vs Trump.

  • Schwarzenegger endorses Harris: Trump would only make us ‘angrier, more divided’

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  • Mostly former Democrats who've fallen from grace, got hit on the head the way down and now endorse him. Like Tulsi Gabbard.

  • Schwarzenegger endorses Harris: Trump would only make us ‘angrier, more divided’

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  • This is why I want a woman president so bad. Clinton was a weak candidate but Harris is stronger. Once Harris wins, the misogynists and incels will all lose their minds. So will the bigots and racists. It's like one stone, hitting multiple angry hateful birds in one win.

    I want to see it. "GUD DAMN WOMUN NI...HOW DARE SHE WIN HGUHFSGHSG!!"

  • A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care

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  • GOP Reaction: "Our thoughts and prayers..."

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    Jill Stein ally says the Greens' strategy is about making Harris lose the presidency

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  • All that this bitch is doing is damaging the Green Party's reputation by being associated with it. She's just as batshit as the GOP.