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gerryflap

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  • Dutch people be like

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  • Yeah. We use it to settle a lot of things with friends etc. Going out for dinner or having a drink at someone's place? Split the bill and send everyone a Tikkie. Sometimes there's even multiple because someone paid for the beer and someone else for the pizza.

    For context: in the Netherlands we generally pay using debit card instead of physical money or credit card. Almost every bank has their own "Tikkie" service nowadays. There's also Splitser, which allows you to keep track of who paid for what over a longer timeframe with more people. Like a holiday with friends.

  • Diese Gemeinde ist nun Teil der Bundesrepublik Deutschland oder so

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  • This is what my German teacher meant when he said that I'd "need it someday".

    Supertoll. Danke schön. Ich hätte auch gerne ein Pedalo.

  • Beware the Tech Bro Pipeline

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  • I personally haven't seen that either, but that's what the meme says. Not necessarily that I think happens often

  • Beware the Tech Bro Pipeline

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  • Oh yeah, the "information wants to be free" thing shouldn't be attached to techbros. Totally agreed. I think the meme is meant to show a devolution from a tech activist into techbro, but obviously not everyone followed that pipeline. I used to be in the "information wants to be free" and privacy-focused camp 10 years ago and I still am. There will be plenty of us.

  • I remember a time when 1986 was only a few selections down.

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  • I have this on one of the digicams I own. I don't think the designers ever considered that it would still be used in the year of our lord 2025. It's probably from 2010 or something, and it has this horrendous touch UI for selecting the date. You have to press down like 15 times to get to 2025, but due to the laggy unresponsive UI and touchscreen, this is quite the journey. Obviously it forgets the date whenever I take the battery out to charge it.

    I know the little thing isn't sentient, but I still like to imagine it getting more and more astounded as the years increment further and further in the date selector.

  • Beware the Tech Bro Pipeline

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  • "Techbro" is a specific name for a subsection of the tech population who have become complete douche canoes (much like the middle and right people in the image). The crypto/AI/whatever people. These people are mostly male.

    All kinds of awesome people work in tech, but they are not considered "tech bro", just cool tech people.

  • PHP: Gender\Gender - Manual

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  • I don't think "hun/zij" is invalid and I'll happily use it for someone if they want it, but what I mean is that it doesn't feel as natural to use it for a single person as they/them. They/them in English has a history of being used for singular people as well. Saying "someone lost their bag" is a pre-existing language feature. Unfortunately "iemand is hun tas verloren" doesn't sound as natural and I've never heard someone use it like that. It seems to be common to just use the masculine pronoun "z'n" in cases where the gender isn't known.

    Again, I don't mean to invalidate anyone, I'd totally use these pronouns for a single person if they prefer that. It annoys me that our language doesn't have a clear neutral pronoun. But in my experience "hun" is exclusively plural whereas "their" has always also been in use as a singular pronoun next to its use as a plural pronoun.

  • The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.

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  • What a glorious site. I wish every webpage looked something like this

  • PHP: Gender\Gender - Manual

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  • I'm Dutch and I have yet to see gender neutral pronouns etc that really work well. Unless you want to be called an "it", but I've only heard people use that to mock people. They/them works quite well, but we don't really have that afaik

  • Why does Lemmy use "@" instead of ":" like Matrix does?

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  • Personally I like the @ way more. You even read it as "at", which makes sense in this context. "Gerryflap at feddit.nl" instantly makes sense. It aligns with email, so it also makes it easier for newcomers.

  • Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch

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  • Yeah that'd explain some stuff. Happy to have switched to Linux

  • When do I get the home studio

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  • Bwoah that's not very confidence inspiring

  • Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"

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  • I've switched a few months ago. Plenty of issues, but none of them major enough anymore to go back again. All games I play regularly apart from Assetto Corsa work, and AC should also be fixable as far as I read.

    Just a few days ago I got the first racing sim working properly with my wheel. AC doesn't start yet and Automobilista 2 does not match the irl steering wheel movements (this also happened on Windows sometimes), but ACC worked without much of an issue.

    For music production I also got most of my setup working. I'm having a lot of issues with opening my old projects, but I wasn't actively working on them anyways and with some effort I can get them back. Still some issues like the Vital synth CLAP version crashing when the window is opened and the Splice sample thingy not allowing drag and drop, but we'll get there. For new projects it's mostly workable.

    Basically everything else I need just works. Games, photography stuff, everyday programs, and obviously my programming stuff because it was already on Linux.

    I use Arch by the way :3

  • Do you use poweroff or suspend on your Linux systems? Why?

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  • Yeah that as well. Same with my browser. I tend to configure my browser such that it clears all open tabs when closed.

  • Do you use poweroff or suspend on your Linux systems? Why?

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  • I always power off any computers that I won't be using anymore for the day. Be it desktops or laptops. My parents always taught me that leaving devices on (or even connected to power) when not using them was a fire hazard. Although I think it's a bit overblown, powering off anything I don't need has stuck as a habit and I see no reason to change it. With SSDs the startup time had become fast enough to make me stop caring. The wear and tear on the SSD is also not that big of an issue. My laptop and its SSD are from 2014 and have been subjected to the worst of my programming abilities, yet they still function fine.

  • What's something people use the internet for that can be done just as easily offline?

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  • No it's more just browsing social media liek Lemmy or doen specific Reddit communities that aren't here. As a kid I used to be able to read books easily, but it's become way harder with all this "easy" dopamine around

  • What's something people use the internet for that can be done just as easily offline?

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  • Recently I was sitting in a bus for hours. My Steam Deck was already empty. Bravely, I decided to finally continue reading Dune. I was enjoying the experience (after the initial confusion from forgetting who everyone was). But somehow, despite being interested in what was written, my brain constantly wanted more stimulation. To grab the slate of glass that provides endless dopamine. To click buttons. To have a constant stream of simple information.

    I'm kinda scared tbh. This shit is an addiction, and I'm addicted. But most other people around me seem just as much or even more addicted. What happened to just being able to do something for an hour without feeling the need for different stimulation. We're all poisoning or minds until we're incapable of paying attention for more than a few seconds.

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  • I have the same fears about them and would personally never buy them, but the people I spoke who have one all said that they had no issues and loved the screen size. Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable using it knowing that a single grain of sand in the wrong place can fuck it all up. But apparently it's not too bad, at least anecdotally.

  • Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()

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  • Looks like it. It's a complete fever dream graph. I really don't get how someone can use an image like that. Personally I don't really like AI art anyways, but I could somewhat understand it as a sort of "filler" image to make your article a bit more interesting. But a graph that is supposed to convey actual information? No idea why anyone would AI gen that without checking

  • What's a relatively minor thing to most people that you WISH you could have?

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  • Hmmm yeah that sucks. In that regard we aro/aces have it easier I guess. For most people romance and sexuality seem to be tied. I can imagine that it often can lead to incompatibility