pachrist

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[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I ran Fedora on my Framework when I first got it, a couple years ago, but the battery life and sleep behavior was just awful. Love Linux on desktop, hate it on a laptop. Should I revisit?

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

And a $199 stand for it, sold separately.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Bart Starr was pretty cool. Seems like a nice guy.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I hate this approach to business.

Coupling subscriptions with forced obscolecence is a nightmare. If HP made the best printer money could buy, using it with a subscription model would be a hard sell. But they make shit printers that die at the drop of a hat, so coupling them with a subscription is asinine.

Logitech makes a decent mouse, passable webcams, and shit keyboards.

Just in case anyone from Logitech ever reads this, I own 2 MX Verticals, an MX Ergo, and an MX Master 2S. I love them all, but I'd rather use an OEM bog standard Dell mouse than pay for a subscription.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I like to frame Mr. Beast in the context of the NFL.

The Super Bowl had 123 million viewers this past year. A 30 second ad slot costs $7 million. This is something we can all wrap our heads around. It's a big deal, and that's a lot of people.

Mr. Beast puts out a video about every 2 weeks. Most get more viewers than the Super Bowl. Some almost double. If every video he makes essentially prints him $20 million in ad and sponsor revenue, I wouldn't be surprised.

That's why he can give away $1 million in a video.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago (11 children)

JK Rowling's opinion about slavery is that most slaves like it, they're better off in slavery, and it's just the natural order of things.

When she speaks, she speaks from a place of fear and ignorance.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

So true. If I want to know how old a celebrity is, first result is something about their latest work that doesn't mention age, and then the next 3-4 are usually some ranking articles, "top 10 ceberities you didn't know were 50," and then Wikipedia comes in with the answer.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 65 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I mean, if the choice is instant, painless death or decade after decade of your parents asking why you don't own a house, I guess death is fine?

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 195 points 7 months ago (10 children)

I get that ads pay for a free internet. But that doesn't mean that 60% of my screen needs to be malware to read a local news article.

Until advertisers act in good faith, I block as much as possible.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

I think what Jobs really understood was that in a world of Ford, people crave a Ferrari.

Making the best be beautiful and accessible is hard, but you do it through focus and intentionality. Jobs, despite his many, many faults did that well.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

No, no... slavery, like knitting or moderating a small forum space, is obviously just a hobby, or at worst, a side hustle. It's just a way to grow your personal brand, not the single worst atrocity across all of human history.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean, clicking links in any kind of comment/forum type place on the internet can be dicey, even if it is exactly what it says it is.

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