Of course. It wasn’t meant to be taken literal. It’s a comment about the clickbait nature of the video.

Holy fucking shit… seriously? “I made a mistake… I SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT MORE OF THOSE LAPTOPS!!1 lmao”

That’s ridiculous. I don’t know why people waste each others time so much. I immediately closed the window.

It may be offtopic, but out of interest: I see the “mod” sticker right next to your name. With Reddit, every mod has to post their comment and then click of “mod-comment” afterwards. Otherwise, the comment appears as a regular user comment without any sign of the user being a mod. Is it the same here on Lemmy, or is the “mod” sticker always there?

How come we don’t riot yet?

• I guess because a part of society still wants to become the abusing part and works hard to achieve that goal. It is my opinion that these are typically people on the scale of the anti-social disorder, meaning that they have a lesser compassion, some even have none. That is meant literal. This can actually be physically measured and is a real thing. For anyone interested, look up “mirror neurons”.
• Another part of society suffers from learned helplessness and is just doing whatever they are told - the school system prepares a lot of people to be like that. (See below for more of my personal view on this.)
• And then there’s the part of society that can’t be fooled and wants to riot, but is prevented by the first group, supported by the second group. Some estimates say that the first group is roughly 20%, the second group is roughly 60%, and the third group is roughly 20%. Though, this is really not something that is established. But I fear it might be correct.

If this is indeed so, then we are royaly fucked. I have no idea how to solve this. I have some ideas, but… damn. This problem is so fucking huge…

Right now I’m leaning towards working with children. I was working in the mechanical engineering business before, but I recognized that the products that are created are not making the world a better place, but are abusing the human being and fuck our environment. I realized that the chance of working at a good place is rather slim, so I turned elsewhere. I always like to play with kids, and wanted to become a child carer in my youth, so I tried it out and it was perfect for me. Over time, I learned more about society and children, and it became my opinion that one way to combat these problems is to be there for kids. To love them how they are, to not pressure them into molds, to let them play and live out their natural motivation.

I wanted to say a bit more about the school system. I mean… we all have gone through 10 years of “don’t ask questions, just do, like everyone else in class - if you don’t, you’ll have consequences”. That is one fucking hell of constant shaping and molding. I worked in an elementary school for two years. I’ve seen my share of children suffering there, after at first being eager to enter school, because everyone told them it will be good and nice there, and that the kids will be more grown up there. The first few weeks are typically awesome for the children. Then the horror sets in. They don’t want to draw the same letters again. They already did it, and they think they’re already good at it - and they are mostly right about it. But, of course, everyone has to work through the same sheets. They ask their parents and their teachers why they have to do it. The answer is like that:

“We understand that this is not fun. We also had to do it when we were young. We did not want to do it, too. We can not explain to you why we are doing it like this, because we don’t know ourselves. You MUST suffer through this, just as we did. There is no way around it.”

Of course, not literally that anwer, but that’s the basis of it. Children realize that this is really bad, but… it can’t be changed. Some children ease rather quickly in their destined mold and will get good grades. They will end up in the second group. Some children can’t deal with the situation and suffer greatly from it. They will get bad grades. Some of them will not forget this and end up in the third group, but some will suffer themselves into their molds and end up in the second group. And then, of course, there is the first group, and even when we see children as something innocent and peaceful, there indeed were children who were clearly abusive and manipulative. “Do my homework for me, or we won’t be friends anymore.” These things happen, and worse.

One example I’ve noticed, which still lingers in my mind: There was a girl that was rather young for school. She was just 5 and a half when she started school. Regular age is 6-7. But she was really clever. She was really eager to joing school. She loved to count, she loved to do maths, and she loved to play physical puzzles with me. She had an outstanding three-dimensional imagination. A gifted child with a lovingly happy soul. She lit the room with her smile and her motivation.

Just 2 months into school, and that motivation flew out of the window. She hated school. Do the same shit over and over again - even if she already knew how to do it? She couldn’t understand why, and people couldn’t give her a response that makes sense. What is this shit that is happening? Why are people here so dry and sad? When it came to using substraction, she could not do it at all. I’m absolutely sure that she is not too dumb for that. Not at all. She just didn’t want to learn a new thing, which she then had to do over and over again, without anyone explaining to her… why?

Damn, this poor girl. She must be in third grade now. I hope she will end up in the third group. We need clever and motivated people in that group.

There was one story where this was quite literally the case: A group of people working in a state organisation to check on taxes in the context of high profile companies like big banks and all that found out that there is something going on in one of the main banks in that area. They started to focus their work on that bank. That’s exactly their kind of work. That’s what they are supposed to do. Then, people in that group were actively drawn away from that case in rather obvious ways by their superiors. One dude continued to work in that direction, and actively tried to fight the apparent corruption that was ever more obvious to him.

In the end, his superior (also a state official, not from a private company or something) sent him to a psychiatrist to check if he was fit to work, and of course the result was that he was “not sane” and not fit to work. Everybody distanced themselves from him. His coworkers, and even his wife. Not because they thought he’s insane. But because they knew what’s happenening, and everybody just wanted to continue their life without being in the focus of powerful people. Understandable, but still…

It took years of hard work with lawyers to overturn that diagnosis. The psychiatrist got a slap on the wrist, and that’s it. If you’re interested in that case, search for “Rudolf Schmenger” and “Kommerzbank”.

I have depression since 10 years. A lot of professionals diagnose a lot of bullshit, honestly. I’m not saying this lightly. But I have to say this after being in my situation, and visiting doctors of multiple different professions.

I frequented a psychiatric ambulance at the beginning of my illness. I had appointments there, diagnosing sessions. Due to multiple reasons (illness of one therapist, pregnancy of another therapist, and meeting the head therapist), I had 4 people diagnosing me, from the same unit, in the same building, all working as collegues.

• The first thought I’m depressed because of my alcohol problems, because that’s the first thing she asked about, and of course the first thing I’ve answered. I told her that I don’t even drink anything anymore, because my current illness (then it wasn’t known if it is depression) makes me incredibly sleepy and nauseous just from one single beer. She took my answer as a lie, and therefor I was an alcoholic who tries to act he’s not one.
• The second one thought that I was depressed because I used cannabis 8 years prior to that. It’s obvious that cannabis causes this, the therapist suggested. So, again, the diagnose was quick, and based on the first issue she heard about, because that was how that dialog was going - by pure chance.
• The third one was sure that it was my heroin addicition I had for 1.5 years, 12 years prior. It was again obvious to that therapist, and it was again the first thing she asked.
• The fourth one simply said I’m an impostor, because I told her that I nearly fainted when I heard a joke that was too funny, and that I never experienced that before. She simply stated that she doesn’t know what would be wrong with a joke. Laughing is good, she said, and not a sign of depression.

That was my first experience with therapists. It was a load of fucking bullshit. It sadly took 8 more years, and a lot of stupid therapists and doctors, to find one who could actually help me. And she only took 2 sessions to find out that I do not only have depression, but also generalized anxiety. She deduced that from me telling her which body parts of mine hurt the most when being very quickly exhausted from attempting to doing sports.

All other professionals simply told me that I shouldn’t be so lazy and do more sports. I always told them that I never had an issue with being unfit, muss less nearly fainting from laughing, or getting visual glitches when walking for 10 minutes (really meant literal), and that I can’t do sports because my current conditions doesn’t let me.

Nearly all of them. Really, almost every single doctor and professional, made me feel like shit and suggested that I’m just lazy and that I want to avoid doing sports. They were all wrong, and honestly, most were assholes about it. I’m quite grumpy about this.

Professionals don’t have much time, and they do indeed want to help. One way to look in the mirror and think of yourself as a person who also does his best and is able to help all his patients is this way: Whenever there’s a patient where you have no idea how to help them - just tell yourself that patient is faking it. Done. This way, you don’t have to take time to actually find a solution, while securing the desired status of the all knowing god in white.

It sucks, but that’s what I think is going on.

I also never had problems with that. Almost all players come with the needed codecs. If you need more, it’s a matter of looking at the optional dependencies or taking a look at the official wiki to know from which official repo to install the needed codec. But that’s only for uncommon codecs.

The regular user should never have to deal with this with pretty much any distro I know of. Where did you have problems?

I really hope they resolved the performance issues LO has. I remember in 2009, I used LO on a really old Laptop in school. I had a very old one from ~2001. 1GHz single core CPU. 256MB RAM. It wasn’t fast, but it actually was usable.

Sometimes, I now have troubles using LO with a machine that is more than 10 times as capable. I don’t know why, but the performance is really really bad in LO. I could definitely not use current LO on that old Laptop.

Mines from 2009. I’m going to watch the very last lumen out of it.

Do you have any interesting links from your research? Are there people who actually use it for all these things?

Yeah. Right. Of course. Just what humanity needed. Even more bland and stereotypically narrated audio books.

Audio books can be great. Not every kind of text is fit for audio books, but those who are (for example Dune by Frank Herbert), can greatly benefit from an actor narrating the story and playing each character while understanding the story.

I only know the German edition of the Dune audio books, but damn… are they well made. I can’t recommend them enough.

I just hope they - somehow - find a solution for the problem that you can’t verify a build as of now. It was apparently not really easy to do with software, but with hardware? It seems almost impossible. But in order to be really sure that what you see is what you get - we need that verification.

Don’t ask me how that would even be possible. Because every solution my buddies and I have thought of is impossible or means to have hardware that is akin to the state of things roughly 50 years ago and extremely slow.

I’m simply using text files with markdown. Extremely portable, syncing is done by whatever I’m using to sync, and you can use it on any device.

It might very well be natural inclination. Humankind had this kind of thing going on for a very long time: Women create offspring, therefor they tend to do things that are less dangerous and more stationary (even in the nomadic context). Men tend to go out and aquire food. Tools are being used for killing prey since a very, very long time.

That’s of course just a thought, and it might not be as pronounced as it shows now, but there’s a good chance that there is a significant natural component there, that can’t be changed quickly, and not even in thousands of years. Evolution isn’t that quick. But that’s no problem. Because having different inclinations is very much okay.

I’m sorry, but you’re disagreeing for the sake of it. I’m not sure why, but with what you’re saying - you’re essentially making my point more detailed and useful. Again - I’m not disagreeing with you, yet talking with you sounds like some kind of struggle against each other.

I’m not sure if I remember right, but I think we already had a similar situation. Maybe you should consider what I said about disagreeing for the sake of it. My younger self sometimes was like that, and I hate myself in retrospect for that. I’m also forgiving myself - now that I can be easier torwards myself and others.

Maybe I’m wrong about that, though. Might be. Peace.

You’re talking about people wanting to be productive and to have meaning in their lives.

That’s not the kind of people I’m addressing here. Most people hate their job - but don’t stop doing it.

It just means you have a much greater freedom to choose what type of work you will do.

That’s not how it is in Germany. Most people hate their job, and a fair share of people even think their work is generally useless, and they wouldn’t do it “if they wouldn’t have to” - which they don’t, but as I said, they still continue to do it.

If that sounds illogical, that’s correct - that is the point I’m making.

I very much agree that doing what you love makes you happy. That’s something that is always true.

This seems to be some kind of miscommunication. As I said, I understand what you’re saying. I’m adding to what you’re saying. I’m not disagreeing with you.

Money also means that you’re free from want and never have to worry about meeting your needs.

That, however, is something that I do disagree with. If we’re talking about basic needs, nobody in Germany would work. The welfare is waaay better than people in Germany make it. Germany is fucking rich. The life as a welfare person is quite good in comparison to the rest of the planet. Most people on this planet would very much LOVE to have as much as people on welfare in Germany have.

But the reality is that most people want to work. So if we’re talking about basic needs, that doesn’t seem to play a role - at least in Germany, because Germany is incredibly rich, and in comparison, welfare people of course have “less”.

That’s the point: Enough is not enough when other people have more. Which tells us a lot about the perception of being happy.

I did of course understand what you are saying. What I said is still valid. For what you say to work, you have to be in the position to use your free time to be happy. For some people, this works out. Other people are still unhappy because they need more money to buy the things that they think will make them happy.

If free time would be the only thing, nobody in Germany would work - welfare covers everything you need for a decent life. But, here we are: People are working hard to be more happy - well, they’re trying, but it mostly doesn’t work out.

I know a person who wakes up crying because she is so poor. She has a lot of time, because she pays people to do her stuff: They have a person doing the garden, a person doing kitchen and housework stuff, and she has a personal assistant for her work. She is is a freelancer that works as a consultant for lawsuits. Apparently, this is very well paid, because - at most - she does 10 hours per week, and still earns enough money so that they bought a second Italian stainless steel coffee machine for their second floor in their house. You know, an actual coffee shop machine, cost 2k.

And yet, she is crying at night for being so poor. This is not a joke, and not a bullshit story. Even money and free time still doesn’t lead to happiness.

It’s really weird, but that’s how it is.

You can still be extremely unhappy if you think that you don’t have enough money to do the things you think you want to do. That’s the point of such studies. But this particular study is flawed - there’s no control group, and the participants know what is studied, and the participants give literally only self-report. There’s not much to gain from this. Honestly sounds like money laundering.

Eh… I don’t hate him. But Valve could do a lot more right with the ridiculous amounts of money they receive from gamers. The Steam client is more and more a mess. It’s a ressource hog and runs badly more and more. The video streaming is broken most of the time.

Is it better than the Epic store? Of course. But… yeah. That’s not really a good measure.

Valve is doing a lot of good things, for example with their Linux support, or the way they handle refunds. But then again, they were forced by the market and laws to do these things. I’m not sure if both would exist without the moves of Microsoft or European laws.

Still, the dude seems nice and friendly, and kinda down to earth. I like that.