HexesofVexes

So, I’ve been exploring these comments for the past 30 mins. They honestly make me wonder; are we seeing an echo chamber effect by instance?

Does Lemmy have any tools to count upvote/downvote by user instances, especially by comment layer. I think I want to dive into this rabbit hole.

I just had a pint of stout and a burger for breakfast (beer festival!).

Am I gonna make it?

“Ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about how few fucks I give” is my current goto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0HhrwIwp0

(No peeryubr link sadly)

*Peertube

Yeah, it’s the iCloud-local issue. I swear, almost all of them default to that.

It plays fine with R 90% of the time, but when it borks it takes FOREVER to troubleshoot!

Agreed - no cell phones in school, for anyone. If someone needs to contact me while I’m teaching they can go through our admin team!

Honestly, I’ve not had that one but I’ve seen something close. Some students are unaware they need to manually save sometimes, they just assume autosave is always there.

For Microsoft office this tends to be ok (OneDrive default doing something good for once), but once they step out (into SPSS/minitab/R) there is always some lost work in the first two weeks.

The key concept conflict is they think files are inside apps (I teach some basic IT in one of my modules).

When asked to locate an excel file on their computer they point at excel and say the file is in excel. If you show them a .txt file, they’ll claim it’s in notepad.

The idea that a file is like a book, and the program is the glasses you use to read it, and their computer is the bookshelf seems to resonate well though. Then you just have to fight the clusterfuck that is Apple’s file storage, since most bring an apple device to uni.

I’m surprised he didn’t mention the “sense of pride and accomplishment” buying a $9 coffee would bring -_-

We’ll damn, lubuntu was my goto for older hardware.

Sadly, in their aversion to math, they lost all ability to path find (graph theory) and navigate (geometry). Thus the bunnies remained trapped down there, forever lost in darkness…

Online course generally implies online assessment.

The level of academic misconduct in those is insane; I caught 35% of my cohort cheating (using a method (one we never taught) they could not replicate in an in-person test) one year, and those were the ones I could prove. Online assessments just test what a search engine/AI knows really.

(For those about to tout “lockdown browsers”; it’s called “a second laptop” or just “my phone”)

Take a 6 month vacation and then negotiate double my pay when they frantically try to rehire me.

I’m ok with this - lubuntu has my back.

Darkest dungeon - though you need to make it to the ending to find out why you’re evil.

Honestly? I’m on the 3rd cycle with my AAAs (used for an MP3 and small electronics) and the 2nd for my AAs.

I’ve not noticed them lasting less, and I’ve already made back what disposables would cost.

Bonus: I charge them at work because why not.

The fact we have to check tells us a lot about the state of the world.

Apples to oranges - open source is generally done as a charitable act; onlyfans is a profit driven industry.

The former is out to make the software ecosystem richer, the latter is out to make themselves richer (or has no choice).

An interesting note is that OF replaced the informal system that had evolved on Tumblr, and was designed to be less exploitative than mainstream pornography - in this the evidence suggests it has been successful. It, of course, exploits male loneliness like a well oiled machine, but that’s (apparently) ok.

So essentially laying the groundwork to microtransactions for video game guides?