Anyone feeling this way was traumatized by the crap the Democrats and Fauci did in 2020 and 2021. “Rules for thee, but not for me.”

This is why half the country votes Republican, and I can see where they are coming from. Anyone who experiences this “pandemic skip” and still thinks their politicians handled it correctly has Stockholm syndrome.

Is there some law that every modern musician has to cover Wham’s song? Because it sure seems that way.

Because you’re on kbin. I don’t use kbin because of the lack of an API and because of weird bugs like those.

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From my perspective, the Fediverse is full of people who think Biden is the greatest president ever, that we should stay locked down in our houses for the rest of our lives, that everything should be free or provided by the government, and that if you disagree with anyone on anything, you’re automatically a Trump supporter and a Nazi. (I don’t like Trump or his cult, btw.)

I do have a PC with Linux, but I can see where you’re coming from. Unfortunately, Linux isn’t for everybody.

Ice Cubes, Mammoth, and Mona aren’t on this list either. Ice Cubes is the app that got me to actually use Mastodon regularly.

And it’s definitely not helping that the biggest Mastodon instance for artists is pretending to be progressive while being hostile to the LGBT community. Mastodon has a chance to snatch up artists who are pissed off about Twitter, and of course they’re going to check out mastodon.art not knowing about their bullshit.

I’m not sure what the solution to that should be, however. Take down mastodon.art? I’ve been telling people to avoid that instance, but non-techie people don’t understand that the Mastodon developers don’t own it.

Yup, I’ve seriously gotten into arguments with people who insist on tipping the doctor.

You’ve never gotten into an argument with someone who says they tip their mechanic and doctor and thinks everybody should do the same?

There absolutely are people in the US who believe that everybody you interact with as a customer should be tipped because they believe all the propaganda from the likes of Readers Digest and Wall Street Journal. They believe everybody must be tipped because covid and “How are those jobs any different from being a server? It’s a SERVICE!” It’s beyond ridiculous. I worked in retail and food service (not tipped) for a long time and would have been embarrassed to have to resort to begging for tips.

Tip culture worship is real. I’ve run into plenty of people online and offline who think that tips should be mandatory everywhere, of all walks of life.

Sure, because everybody who owns a computer, tablet, or smartphone is a web dev. Obviously.

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Like water for chocolate…

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Well, I guess they managed to achieve their goal of copying Elon.

This is clearly not a taco rule

If it’s any consolation, the owner of Squabbles, the site a ton of people praised during the Great Rexxit because Lemmy is too confusing, changed the name to Squabblr and fired all the other admins because he doesn’t believe in hate speech.

I had three accounts at one point, but lately I’ve only been using this one. The first instance I tried could never see any content because it was small. I then joined lemmy.world, and I could see plenty of content… when it wasn’t down. But this instance seems to be working well for me.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the active user count could have been explained by people trying different instances.

That would be nice if the instance wasn’t always overloaded. Ended up blocking the Piped link bot because of it.

Copycat!

You’re probably right, but it definitely seems like the majority of Linux users are still buying Nvidia.

When I last had an Nvidia GPU (secondhand PC), I discovered that the drivers came with altered versions of a lot of the 3D rendering libs. Those drivers are a cancer.