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bridgeenjoyer

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  • Do you offer ideas or methods of improvement at your work?

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  • Yeah, I knew it would happen, but hey some jobs are shit some are OK thats how it goes. Thats why we need worker protections so the jobs full of awful people fail because no one is forced to work there.

  • Is life really as awful as politics and the Internet make it out to be?

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  • Ah man. Kind of sounds like my internal thoughts sometimes, also was in an abusive household, entire family is maga and insane (potential mental disorders)

    I definitely feel for you being that age in this shitty timeline. I won't sugar coat it. Today's world is shit. Everything was demonstratably better in the US 20 years ago. Especially for anyone interested in tech.

    Youre right. Everything could go to shit tomorrow. I think this daily, I could get cancer and have a week to live, or damage my brain and be unable to work or do anything I enjoy forever.

    Keep reading, I'm not done!

    However ive found that turning that negative thinking into "I dont give a fuck" has really turned shit around for me. I'm here, I can't choose my family, but beyond that, I can choose my friends and how I live my life and doing what I want without thinking about what others are doing or thinking.

    Another huge help was reading The Power of Now (by Tolle. If you want a copy I'll send you the eBook just message me). Ive read it three times. Its a massively calming book that really helped me just be.

    Another helper, stop reading news bullshit. On my Lemmy app I block specific keywords (trump, ai, llm, openai, etc. ). Our human brains aren't meant for this barrage of information and nothing you do is going to change all the evil people in the world. Uninstall Lemmy for a while and use wikwok to get your scroll fix and learn something while you're at it! Or another tip, on weekends I either shut my phone off or leave it on the bedroom table like a house phone and check it once or twice a day if needed. Its much more freeing. Or just unplug your router and pretend its 1999, I have weekends like that too. Just enjoying the here and now.

    Another thing you can do is find others similar to you either IRL or online and build community or at least moderate aquantanceship (word?). Someone told me this once and I think its good: the only thing that really matters in all this, is people who care. Thats really it. Finding people with similar beliefs and interests is really going to help especially if you live in magaland(it gets depressing, I know)

    Your question of "staying on the internet" I'd say yes, because its awesome, but you need to get off corpo net. Build your bookmarks folder with individual websites from the smolweb, try out gopher or the Gemini protocol, etc. There is so much awesome shit on the internet that unfortunately has been buried and shoved out of our sight (on purpose by corpos) .Especially at your age, you may not have gotten to experience how awesome it used to be before corporations destroyed half of it. But there is still a beautiful human side of the internet; you need to dig for it. Use kagi, ecosia, searxng to find these hidden gems. Or Lemmy smolweb, I have found a lot there too. Stay off the big 3 corpo sites they are just cancer.

    Also it does seem like you may have the mentality of "if I have nothing I have nothing to lose" which isnt a totally bad thing per se, but I like to ask myself if in 10 or 15 years I should have done a thing and if the answer is yes I'll wish i would have, I'll do it (example, gym. I hated the gym but I make myself go and its really not bad at all, and I'm hopefully prolonging my healthy life).

    Anyway, youre obviously aware of the issue which is very good, a lot of folks aren't and they turn to the manosphere or 4Chan trolling. Dont do that. You are already changing your thinking just by recognizing you want a change. Make small changes first.

  • In your opinion is reading War and Peace the same accomplishment as listening to the audiobook? Why or why not?

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  • Reading a long book is just a matter of how much free time one has. Its not really an impressive accomplishment, however if you struggle at reading I could see it being a goal of sorts for yourself.

    writing a book would be a recognizable feat. Writing a great book is a big accomplishment.

    That said, if youre comparing, reading the book to me is better for comprehension than listening but thats different for us all.

    Bonus points for doing both simultaneously.

  • How different does love really feel for people? What are your thoughts on this?

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  • I get that. I also like being alone, so theres that. Not for a very long amount of time, but if I get 3 days completely alone its like a whole new world.

    I also am way more likely to have strong feelings for a stranger or aquantanice I've only met a couple times, if I really like them I can obsess over it. If I already know them it wears off fast.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • You can't invite someone to a game if they dont have steam. On games that ive ever played anyways. I'm sure theres exceptions. I'd say its both really. Its more so a network effect yeah I was misusing the term.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • Its better than others. But still, its "where all your friends are". No one is going to use anything else because everyone uses steam.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • HOAs are hell. I'll never go near one.

  • Do any of you Windows users leverage CLI tools much?

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  • I would like to but my IT locks it all down so I can't do anything beyond CD and tree.

  • Every fighting game has the same general ↺ ↻ ⇄ ⇅ input combos you’re bound to get something right

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  • Yeah I cannot get how to really play those games. Even when I lookup moves, how the hell can i remember them, and how in the world do you do L R updown AB while getting bicycle kicked in the face? Never got it. A shame becuase I love how they look (street fighter 2 etc)

  • A major Windows 11 UI redesign is coming, Microsoft is dumping legacy code for WinUI

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  • Yeah, its insane how shitty it is. Its malaevolance for the user.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • Yep I'd agree. I just am wary of any walled garden, because once they lock you in and kill off everything else (ie, the goal of capitalism) youre fucked. See: apple, amazon, google, etc.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • I'd argue they do have a monopoly. My friends don't know how to get a game if it isnt on steam. They are scared if I show them a game on a website to get (like armegatron).

    I'm just saying, do not trust steam, make sure your games are truly DRM free, and be ready to pay subscription pricing for downloads and steam cloud saves. With server storage pricing being insane and gonna keep climbing, they can't keep giving you unlimited downloads and storage forever.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • In comparison they are very good, however that can turn on a dime real damn quick.

    Scenario: gaben ded, bilzzard exec buys steam and it goes public. Hello enshittification

  • Writing Toy Software Is A Joy

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  • I love this site !!

    I have always wanted to make something but its just so time consuming. I also dont have ideas for something that isnt complex. ...and I refuse to use an llm to do it, for me thats fake and not real learning.

  • Just nod and smile

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  • Its both. Seen the price of HDDs lately? They've tripled since last year. All a plan so you can own nothing. Capitalism end game.

  • Just nod and smile

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  • Yep, doomed!

  • Just nod and smile

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  • The key is, get a horde to do it. Gonna jail an entire city? Nope.

  • Just nod and smile

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  • Far worse friend. Mass surveillance and record keeping so the regime can never be toppled.

    Gotta store the data retrieved from flocks and your cars inside video cameras somewhere. All so it can be alalyzed to put a target on you if you speak out against the regime, then video and photo evidence created to throw you in jail for a crime you never did.

    This is reality , as nuts as it sounds. Truly an awful time to be alive! But we have iphones now, yay.

  • But what if I need it some day...?

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  • More like the fascist state is going to purge the entire internet of everything except their shitty subscription based llms, so you won't be able to get any real information anymore. 10 years maybe? Internet will be dead.