subignition

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[–] subignition@fedia.io 28 points 3 weeks ago

"Human Music. Huh. I like it."

[–] subignition@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

Young Americans can already barely pay for food and rent let alone luxuries like entertainment

[–] subignition@fedia.io 17 points 3 weeks ago

Hot take but maybe you should read before replying. He's not been executed yet.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That would be extremely funny

[–] subignition@fedia.io 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you... think that was a "gotcha"? You're proving their point.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You would think this was already a thing, it seems incredibly obvious and intuitive

[–] subignition@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Vertebrae and subcutaneous fat

[–] subignition@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

Reminder that if we taxed the rich (and corporations) their fair share we could just pay for everyone's basic needs and have plenty leftover for the broader betterment of society

[–] subignition@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think I've ever read the source material but dang that's like 70% iambic and I respect that

[–] subignition@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're right, it's not a bad analogy, you're just failing to make a cogent point. Even though you're trolling, I'll bite:

"Using a grocery store" encompasses everything from buying fresh ingredients and cooking your meal (assembling a computer from parts, customizing it to your liking) to buying entrees and sides you like at the deli (ordering a custom build with parts you picked, letting someone else do the legwork) to buying whatever TV dinners are on special in the freezer aisle (walking into a Best Buy or Apple Store and buying anything with a screen, because you need a computer and don't care about the details)

"Hunting for all of your food and cooking it from absolute scratch" would be what, writing all your own software? Fabricating your own CPU from silicon? Obviously vanishingly few people are doing that, though there certainly are people with electronics knowledge going more granular than slotting parts into an ATX motherboard. But that's not what myself (or anyone in this thread from what I can tell) is advocating people do. If you think it is, you grossly misunderstand FOSS. I'm genuinely curious what you think I'm getting at by saying some things are overly simple.

What I'm frustrated with, to use your analogy, are the companies making TV dinners who don't even include the microwave wattage in their vague instructions on the box. And subsequently, the customers buying them, turning an already mediocre product into a disastrous result, and trashing the company on social media. Then reaching out to the manufacturer only to be told they just need to buy a new microwave. Sometimes the customer doesn't even bother to read and puts the TV dinner in the oven instead, then gets mad when their kitchen fills with smoke and their dinner is inedible because of the melted plastic.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

...No. I am saying that too much abstraction of how something actually works is detrimental to the end user. It's not about making things intentionally more complicated, it's about removing the need to understand key components of something ultimately causing more harm than good.

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