m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@Toxic_Flange @siliconundergro
People who suggest it's a bad idea to have an optical drive can't possibly imagine the lengths I had to go to play C&C on my 386 not having one — and when Red Alert came out and there was no No-CD hack for it, a friend of mine let me borrow his one, when he was going to the country with his parents.
It was barely playable, but I was still happy 😄
Why go into trouble now when having one isn't a problem? Having authentic experience™ shouldn't be about frustrations 🤔

@Komnene
If you ask me, what they are attempting to do with articles like that is to send mixed messages, so some (businesses) get the message right and start investing, and others (consumers and people who work day to day jobs) don't: "Just trust your monetary and financial institutions, are you stupid?!"
Nothing good will come out of this IMO.
I might be wrong and this article could be about something else — but I won't hold my hopes high, not with a subtitle like that.

@kaia @finlaydag33k

@Komnene
Yeah, consumerism is also a problem — most would spend their money not on something that would enable them to earn more and not even on something that would increase their quality of life, but on something completely useless.
But it's a different problem — same as perceived inflation that they often refer to in these articles.
And yet high inflation is usually a quite clear message from central banks: it's time to spend, not to save.

@kaia @finlaydag33k

@finlaydag33k
BTW as a Russian — I've seen a couple of cases when even getting a loan and spending it on total shit like shiny new computer or phone wasn't such a bad idea, because it was literally about never seeing interest rates like that ever again 😂
But I don't think that Americans will ever experience something like that in their life.
Here people buy foreign currencies like US Dollars or Euros when they foresee high inflation risks — basically it's the same as buying TVs.
@Komnene @kaia

@finlaydag33k
Often true and yet, it's something they can use — unlike money in a bank that they can spend on less things. They get a new car not with intent of selling it for more, but because in a year they might not be able to afford a better car and often even the same one — so why wait?
The question wasn't whether it's the optimal investment strategy, but why they do this — that's why. Inflation makes people give up their long-term plans 🤷
@Komnene @kaia

@rvps2001
That tells heaps about how thoroughly worked through this propaganda is 😂

@astrid
O-o-oh! Party! 🥳
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP9QkMLox3Q

@muzicofiel
He unironically might start using his train more. And no, him having one isn't even a joke 😱
There was a big investigation about it — in 2022 I think, but I don't have a link on hand.
@randahl

@Komnene @kaia
The question in the subtitle is stupid on so many levels 🤦
Like yeah, when your money is losing value and you can't save, that's a very reasonable thing to do — convert that money, which is losing value, into something that might be losing its value less. And as most people can't really "diversify their investments", that's what they do — they start buying things.
Can't believe that this is The Atlantic 😩

@kaia @pi55d
Samurai swords too!
Vanilla Shadow Warrior mode 😜

@bleedingphoenix @theorytoe @ComfyGuy
No, I'm talking about a guy who obviously doesn't care about you and only uses you as an outlet for his self-affirmation in particular — he obviously doesn't respect you and you shouldn't respect him back either. Not in real life, not online and not even in that novel you would never finish — not anywhere. Never!

@theorytoe @ComfyGuy
OMG, respect a person, who does that? Why? 😱

@bean
I use it and I absolutely DESPISE it — worst kernel ever, a total clusterfuck!
But at least it supports more hardware than BSDs and other even more fringe alternatives do. And I can make my system not look ugly as is the case with macOS and… just work — unlike Windows.
All in all, it's just lesser of the evils that comprise the hell that is modern computing.

@kaia
Category: top underrated Facebook jokes 😆

@thisisskaly @freediverx
And while I agree, CIA certainly attempts to influence the policy of foreign nations e.g. by favouring certain factions over others, but this doesn't mean that everything is their doing. The intent might indeed be there — but it doesn't prove they always succeed. I'm pretty sure that they take way greater credit than their actual influence was. They of course might think they are in control — who doesn't like being in control? But it doesn't mean they really are.

@thisisskaly @freediverx
For a lot of Americans information on TP-AJAX being publicly available is somehow the proof that US always does that, but to me — a Russian, it's the proof of the opposite: it demonstrates really well how such an attempt to exercise influence can go sideways. US ended up not benefitting from it in any way and have lost control over Iran for decades. The most obvious lesson to learn from it would be to not attempt this again 🤷

@arcana
I'm not really an Android user — this is the first Android phone in my life. And most probably the last one.
I knew I was going to hate it — I have a severe case of Google idiosyncrasy. It's not bad for an Android phone and it can also run Sailfish, Ubuntu Touch and Droidian — this was my original intent for getting it: an experiment to check out what the state of things are with other systems. I've never used even used the system it came with 🤷

@kirby @mischievoustomato