There is a middle ground for sure. Installing an OS sounds like a solid unit in such a curriculum.

I’m totally with you. I just think the level of informed choices that we nerds seek will not be attainable through a reasonable gen ed curriculum. It would be an improvement, though!

I genuinely think the push for bigger maps has been a significant toxic influence on game design. Just look at Yooka-Laylee or even Banjo Tooie TBH. That’s to say nothing of the modern open-world genre.

I feel the same way about photorealism. I want artistic interpretations much more than I want rote simulations.

Only computer nerds think this way. People have a finite time and capacity for learning, and if computers can serve their needs without spending a large fraction of that precious resource it would be terrible to mandate such an expenditure anyway.

I wish we could all be completely educated and independent in every way that matters, but it’s not possible.

This is why people on lemmy are confused about a lack of adoption. Federation is significantly confusing and subtle; we’re just mostly dorks with the pre-inclination to get it.

I too have to watch myself to keep from falling into the hole of blaming the dumbing-down of computing systems on a moral failure of users. It is not.

Really, the fact that you treat anime as a monolith is the wildest part of this take. I’d love to know how you came to such a deep undersanding of the skill that goes into all anime.

Yup, I used to fall into the dumb ‘fax and logic’ hole myself. It’s funny how easy it is to ignore where your axioms come from.

I got into a knock-down drag-out argument recently with someone who couldn’t separate that while there were objective measures by which their assertion scored highest, choosing which objective measures practically make something right or wrong is entirely subjective and context-dependent.

People almost always mean positive punishment when they say negative reinforcement.

I wish more people understood this. Insurance is an extra cost paid to protect from catastrophe. Anything that saves you money on a regular basis is not insurance: where does the extra money come from?

Pet insurance is another bizarre misunderstanding of this nature. Unless there are procedures you are unwilling to forego to save your pet, but completely unable to afford, you are throwing money away in the long run. The entire actuarial profession exists to ensure this fact. Take what you’d spend on premiums, and invest it in a good savings vehicle instead.

That’s super interesting. I adore RPN on caclulators and had never heard any drawbacks well-articulated.

I ended up switching to ‘Simple Keyboard’ for this exact reason. I’ve actually gotten a lot better at phone typing since I’ve been forced to do so. I can go nearly as fast as I used to, though I do have to keep the keyboard in my peripheral vision.

Phone keyboards aren’t nearly as tiny as they were in the OG iPhone era!

The distinction between labor that requires significant existing training and labor that can learn on the job is a useful one. ‘Skilled’/‘unskilled’ is really just a demeaning way of looking at how hard a given laborer would be to replace.

Whether a job must be done by someone one way or another is completely orthogonal. It’s depressing how little value people place on the people who do what must be done. Child rearing is probably the archetypical example.

That’s not devoid of truth, but there’s more to it than that.

A pact of absolute partnership is a powerful thing when both parties truly believe in it. Physical intimacy has a huge and subtle effect on one’s entire being, and restricting it isn’t that crazy. Humans aren’t the only animals which exhibit monogamy.

What is archaic is the opposition to normalizing polyamory as well. There are all kinds of harmful knock-on effects of a monogamy-only society, and people should have the freedom to choose without being ostracised simply for not conforming.

Anyone who thinks monogamy would not exist without social mores to enforce it is fooling themselves.

Plus creators get paid more per premium view than per ad-supported view.

The subtlety that people fall into with the YT hate wagon is that yes, Google is shitty and needs to be held accountable for it, but running a video site on that scale like some loving small community simply is not possible.

I love Nebula, the online video ecosystem is much richer for it, but every time I hear people hoping it can materially compete with YT I have to laugh. Not only do their quality controls not scale at all, but YT having such a low barrier to entry for anyone makes it inclusive in a way no curated community can be, especially over the long term. Nebula is literally an offshoot of YT, it won’t be the last, and that’s part of what’s great about YT.

Now, if only we could convince some other conglomerate to light piles of cash on fire for over a decade to bootstrap a proper direct competitor, then Google would be forced to be somewhat less shitty.

There’s something to be said for coercion. Most people have no option to live without ‘agreeing’ to such a sharing model.

‘Need’ as in why do they need to stretch their development resources to cover a video player when they’re already stretched thin and perfectly serviceable alternatives exist.

I have no actual idea, but that’s what was meant. My guess is they want everything written in Qt6 so it can all be portable to windows etc.

PiHole is the most common way I hear of network-level ad blocking these days.

Liquid coolers are by definition just an extra heat exchange step unless you’re venting heat into the ocean or something like a nuclear plant. Otherwise, the atmosphere is your final heat sink either way.

Unless a liquid cooling radiator is significantly larger than the air cooler that would fit directly on the CPU there’s no point whatsoever.

You’d think, but that’s essentially the California proposition system, and it has significant downsides.

I don’t buy that it’s the vast majority. None of the sports fans I’ve ever known have had any interest in it.

What got you onto Linux so early? Wasn’t it much less practically useful than BSDs at that point?