I missed the discussion on voting the other day it seems, but for what it’s worth, I like the voting system. In real life discussions happen in open air, and don’t hang there in posterity for people to stumble upon after. When we come to a consensus in conversation it is then left at that and we move on.

When online, these discussions stay as they are, and I think voting gives a way of people to come to a consensus, to leave a mark upon the conversation such that the people who come behind understand how everyone felt about it.

This is helpful I think, because it does not hide the down votes on nasty comments or ideas that hurt others.

One of the most interesting and horrible things about the internet is that every village has a “crazy Bob” but because they were the minority the good of the people outnumbered their outlandish or hateful ideas.

Now they can and do find each other online, forming a vocal and damaging minority. Without the majority able to show their dislike, human nature means more will fall in line with them and their ideals.

Which Lenovo laptop, if you don’t mind me asking? I know there are Lenovo laptops with Linux support, but I am on a Lenovo Legion Slim 5, and I have heard there are quite a few issues that would need to be sorted.

Wait wait… So his supporters are on a witch hunt for anyone who made assassination jokes… but they can sell these sneakers?

Also the fact that these exist at all is … just surreal. I don’t understand. What is this timeline?

Seriously, this is a wonderful thing to do. Teeth are so important and so fragile. I can imagine a lot of soldiers have damaged teeth, or have dental issues from not being able to properly keep up with hygiene in the field. What a wonderful person.

These look delicious! Do you have a recipe?

“I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.”

I saved this quote years ago, I don’t remember the source, but your post reminded me of it.

What a beautiful story, thank you for posting it.

I know all the words, and yet they make no sense. Are you being snarky? I am new here and trying to learn, and happened to have an experience relevant to the conversation this morning.

I just set up a brand new Lenovo laptop today, that came with Win11. I quickly decided Win11 was hot garbage, and installed Win10, removing all partitions and wiping all drives. I never signed into a Microsoft acct on the machine, created only a local acct in Win11 and again in Win10.

When I installed 10, it never asked me for a product key, which had me scratching my head, until I googled and found that it had already activated Win10 home and how I could activate pro.

Long story short, it does appear that newer laptops have the key in their hardware somehow.

Anyway, the writing is on the wall - I can’t keep going with Windows. Which led me to lurking here.

Agree wholeheartedly.

Maybe they had him in the front seat because it reclines?

Holy shit… If people can buy influence, then the political nutbags that already influence social media through bot accounts will now be able to directly use their money to further push their agendas unfettered… I am so glad I jumped ship when I did.

I have google home to control everything, but I still have to set them up using the original apps. I haven’t checked out Tuya, I’ll have a google thanks.

This looks awesome, I would love if there was an android app for smart bulbs, outlets, etc. I hate having to install a new app for each brand.

I just saw this posted elsewhere, scroll down to the bottom of the home page and click “next” then change the number in the url to “0”.

My url looks like: https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sort/Hot/page/0

You can then refresh to get new posts. I think I read that a fix is coming, but this gives you something to go with in the meantime.