retrieval4558

joined 2 years ago
[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How do you differentiate purposeful manipulation vs it being a natural effect of Western social media? I stopped using Facebook and Twitter because it was obviously toxic and affecting my mental health. I use TikTok a fair amount and don't find it nearly as bad.

It's also possible that there's manipulation in the other direction. In their own app they could be artificially increasing positive content while allowing the natural social media toxicity and ragebait to dominate in other areas.

My personal opinion is that TikTok is a way that peer to peer information and news travels very quickly in a way that they can't control, and they don't like that. As with all things, they want to keep us isolated.

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Throw enough shit at the wall and see what sticks I guess

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I was having A LOT of issues with it earlier this evening but it seems to be back to normal now

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago
  1. I think telegram is more secure than discord. Could be wrong.
  2. I wouldn't get torrents off discord either.
[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Depending on your definition of good, I submit Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Lobster.

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah my answer was "our Most Recent Common Ancestor"

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never seen my exact inner monologue as a poem before. Besides the Ativan. I could use some Ativan.

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Hmmm I'll have to look into it, thanks. It's been a few years since I did research on it, but there may have been phone compatibility issues iirc. I'll recheck in case I'm misremembering or it's changed.

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Science Thor himself

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for answering! I'll do some reading on how package managers work.

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've got a solo line for 1gb/mo included and 10$/gb thereafter. I end up paying ~33$/mo. So far I'm surprised the price hasn't gone up in a few years.

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Noob question: lately I've been using flatpaks for most things because of the packaged dependencies. I am under the impression that as you add and remove programs over time, you'll run into less issues with flatpak than with the distro package manager because the dependencies will come and go with the flatpaks and not sit in the host accumulating my mistakes. Am I wrong about this?

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