Ehh, it's a Christian holiday that got commercialized to sell shit. Much like with Christmas (though that has roots in... Just about every religion that came before it, and early Christians didn't celebrate birthdays anyway). AFAIK Valentine's day is an original Christian holiday to commemorate St. Valentino.
This is the other part. Idk if it's me, or my equipment, but like... I listen to music for the music. I might like certain genres (noise music comes to mind) more on higher end equipment, because that's the point, but also... Eh? Not why I'm here.
Where in my comment did I mention my stance on LLM usage? All I said was I knew people would be annoying about Torvalds using LLMs to generate code, and that there was an instance of that here.
Gods. The second I saw that Torvalds used an LLM to generate any amount of code I knew people would be annoying as shit about it. And here we are with people being annoying as shit about it.
Honestly the way a lot of the Tinder-style ones (swiping) are designed it almost feels like they're meant to be half-assed? You can't filter by likes, just exclude by dislikes (ex. Don't include people who don't want kids, don't include smokers, etc) because there's no search anymore. They just show you a profile, and you swipe.
When I was using them I very quickly stopped reading bios before they matched back. I just swiped right on everyone, checked daily for new matches, read those profiles and blocked/messaged people based on what was in their profile.
Speaking on filters, though: They don't even work. I had men filtered out, and I ended up getting about 25% of profiles being men. Like, the only gender tag they had was "Man," which lead to a lot of the "Idk why they even showed me to you I have men filtered out" message being sent.
I wouldn't call this "Trying to steal a dog" this is somehow worse. Holy shit she sued a kid for abusing his dog that got away during one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the US, after the murder-suicide of his parents????
We would complain about bad writing if this was in a villain's back story.
Yeah. In my case they were all poly when they happened. The one where I was a secret had the spouse, and another partner besides me. I was the secret from one of them, but not the other. Were that not my first poly relationship I almost certainly wouldn't have gotten involved, it was... A mess.
It's not always disgusting, first off xD Polyamory is around, though I've only been with... Uhh... Four? Married people, at least while they were married. A few have gotten married since.
Pretty normal, all things going, with three of them. If you mean "What's it like to be the person someone's cheating with" there's a good goddam reason I refuse to be anyone's secret. That one sucks, it's happened once, and was a 0/10 would not recommend experience for anyone involved. The guy blamed himself after I told him, the girl had cotton candy where most people had a spine, and it wasn't even worth it in bed.
I mean, most people should, yeah, but most don't. Hell, most people I know can't change a flat on their car, either, and I personally couldn't change my car's headlight. Probably would've figured it out, since I could change the spark plugs, but still. I think it also comes from a different source, though. It's always been anxiety over ruining things for tech, or sending all of your money to a Nigerian prince. Nowadays it's because tech has become more of a black box (like cars) for capitalism reasons, so most people just... Don't look into it. They don't fix their own cars, they don't fix their own computers, they take them to the dealership, or to GeekSquad.
I honestly don't even know if I would've learned half of what I know if I grew up with today's tech. It's a lot more locked down now, so you can't just curiously fuck around with it and see what you can do without breaking it
I mean... Some people will host free servers, some will be paid. Omg.lol has a fedi server, and a bunch of other stuff, and it costs $20 per year for it. It's fine to expect users to pay you back for your time, effort, and cost???
I'm currently using Lemmy, and Friendica as my only fediverse accounts, and will probably keep it that way. Friendica has a lot of features, but in my experience it's slower than most
I've always had a thing for tech. I used to make my own custom MySpace profiles, and pet pages on NeoPets, apply custom cursors to my PC, handled stuff when thr computer got viruses; all the stuff you'd expect of a 10 year old with an unrestricted internet access, and a love for technology. I did go to college for networking, but didn't finish, and ended up in an unrelated field (won't name here to avoid doxing myself, but I'm not even allowed to troubleshoot any tech to emphasize how unrelated this is).
I did kinda... Completely drop off for a while, but the thing that got me back was my most recent anti-Microsoft kick. Completely dropped Win10 (I'd usually had a windows and Linux machine at all times), dropped Google as my email, started using omg.lol for a lot of things, etc. Then I went half-in on a computer to use as a DNS-wide adblocker, and noticed that I could do... A lot more with it, and I like to tinker, so why not do a lot more with it? 2 years later, and it's still the best $100 I've ever spent tbh.
Ehh, it's a Christian holiday that got commercialized to sell shit. Much like with Christmas (though that has roots in... Just about every religion that came before it, and early Christians didn't celebrate birthdays anyway). AFAIK Valentine's day is an original Christian holiday to commemorate St. Valentino.