Adderbox76

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Because once a corporation increases prices due to "supply and demand" or whatever bullshit reason they make up that week, those prices never go back down if the reason changes. conveniently.

Every corporation will say "we need to increase the price on "x" because the primary supplier in Bolivia is facing economic turmoil...blah blah blah." But once that turmoil is over and supply returns to normal, they don't bother taking the prices back down and rely on the fact that modern society is too distracted by their "conveniences" to care.

"The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens." -- a stage play based on George Orwell's 1984

They (the super-rich) have created a class of people beneath them who don't notice or care that they're being fucked over so long as they are provided with more and more vapid content to consume.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

It can be considered correct in casual speech because once something is common, we really can’t call it incorrect

Well, yes. That's generally what I meant. I'm basing it off of the Merriam-Webster definition

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/fewer-vs-less

For the most part, in common usage, the two have become unfortunate synonyms, like literally and figuratively have (ugh).

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was good. Never had an issue with it. I'll generally stick with Plasma desktop centric distros because of the features that they offer that Gnome desktops don't. I switched to Manjaro KDE not because I had an issue with Neon, I just simply was bored and wanted to learn new console commands for the basics after years and years of apt.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Both are technically correct. But the use of "less" when "fewer" is more appropriate triggers me more than it probably should.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 years ago

That's a pretty shit take from the guy who was LITERALLY on stage when the Las Vegas shooter started firing into the crowd.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 80 points 2 years ago (12 children)

GIMP has its share of issues, just like any other software. but it's biggest issue is that somewhere down the line general users got this idea in their head that it was supposed to be a Photoshop clone.

So they go into it with certain expectations and then get frustrated when it doesn't work that way. People like me, who actually learned GIMP before PS, obviously didn't go in with the same bias and therefore have a much better grasp on it.

Gimp is not a Photoshop clone. it's its own piece of kit with it's own design and feature decisions that some may like and others may not. That's life. The developers have no obligation to follow any other software design scheme any more than Sony is obligated to follow LGs TV UI. They're not clones, they're alternatives.

if you think Gimps only function is to copy Photoshop, you're in for a bad time. If you want to use gimp as an ALTERNATIVE and go in without the bias,, you'll likely learn your way around a LOT faster.

I'm not excusing Gimps failings. far from it. but I AM saying that half the issue is the Photoshop users thinking that gimp only exists to copy everything from their precious Adobe daddy. And that's simply not true.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Shrinkwrap modifier on the top edgeloop

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I kind of really love this and really really want one.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

Literally everything to do with modern life.

I'm not saying that we should all pull a BSG and give it all up to be cavemen again.

But our bodies most certainly didn't evolve in order to sit at desks, stare at screens, communicate without physical contact, and avoid sunshine like the plague.

We evolved to be active, but developed the technology that allows most of us to be sedentary 99% of the time, and then we wonder why obesity and chronic back pain are pandemics.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think we all know the answer to that...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Watching any interview with him and he comes across as just such a good person.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 years ago

I liked Brave for a while. But slowly things just started to feel sketchy to me. Their weird insistence on putting their crypto bullshit and wallet services in your face. I just felt like, "I want a browser. Can't you just be a fucking browser?" At a certain point adding all these other 'services' they just end up just a weird-ass money making scheme, like they're two steps away from using my computer for crypto mining.

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