I tell people about lemmy and send them links. Mostly people don't care about anything. Abstract or remote things like "should a platform be owned by one asshole?" just doesn't even enter their brain.
I don't let the problem get that bad in the first place.
On my computer, I close the browser end of day and all the tabs go away. On my phone, it auto archives tabs I haven't looked at in a week. I close those periodically, but a few I use as off brand bookmarks (eg: a recipe I like)
That’s why I did it too, but let’s be fair, dice are supposed to be random.
Yeah, I realized in my older age that I don't actually like a lot of random. I liked new Vegas where you either had the skill or you didn't. In tabletop games I like dice pools to make the results less evenly distributed among all possible outcomes, and then options like fate points and "succeed at a cost" on top of that.
Some people I guess really like the random dice effects, but usually it just makes me grumpy. To each their own.
I've thought about switching. I do like the password saving and syncing between Android and desktop that Firefox does, and I'm not sure if the forks do that.
No regrets on switching to Linux here. Almost all of the time I just use the GUI to launch steam or Firefox. No AI nagging me (aside from whatever nonsense Firefox is up to)
Most of my save scumming comes from being annoyed at the random factor. Like I have a +8 on Skill and it rolled me a 3, failing? Nah that's stupid. Reload.
Less random, less save scumming. You can have good systems with low random factors.
Inspiration helped in bg3, but it's a pretty limited resource and can still fail.
I did save scum once in a fight where I rolled four natural 1s in a row. The odds of that are too low for me to believe that was legitimately random.
, I just go there and while she shows all I do is repeat these two sentences: “What does it say on the screen and what are the options?” and “What do you think you should select?”. She eventually figures it out as I force her to actually read it.
My mother can be the same way. I don't know why. I eventually told her I charge very reasonable $300/hour rates for computer support and she stopped asking for help.
My dad on the other hand... More than a decade ago I got tired of fixing his computer problems so I set him up with ubuntu. He's into it. He manages his own desktop now and never asks for help. I have no idea if he's done weird things on the machine, but he seems happy. He even got a printer working.
I think it's kind of fundamentally unjust that the owner keeps all the profits from what labor produces. That's capitalism. Unions and government are bandaids on top of that.
If you call it out before it happens, they call you alarmist. If you point it out afterwards, they’ve already normalized it
They're not engaging with facts. That's a whole other plane that doesn't intersect. It's just feelings and in-group.
When you point it out early, you're disparaging the in-group so that must be rejected. When you point it out after... You're still disparaging the in-group so that must be rejected.
Ehh kind of. But, you know, nullification is when the laws say they're guilty but the jury says no. Typically because the laws are unjust. But there's an opposite where the laws might say they're innocent, but the jury says guilty because the laws are also unjust.
I was just telling a friend about my how cat was so annoyed today I wasn't sitting at my usual desk. He was yelling and standing on it until I sat down. Now he's snoozing in my lap, at the desk, as intended for this time of day.
I tell people about lemmy and send them links. Mostly people don't care about anything. Abstract or remote things like "should a platform be owned by one asshole?" just doesn't even enter their brain.