Um, nah… ? I actively avoid half those things and yet use computers constantly. The burden would be on you. So perhaps you can actually give examples that would be true of a lot of people. I feel like you think lemmy users are like most people and just along with what’s popular, but that’s not the case, particularly with computing concerns.

:/

The meme was about pretending to care about definitions.

Who says I’m “making a statement” by using firefox? That’s not the goal at all.

I think that is literally the time between desktop upgrades for me. I was more into Mac laptops then, but I’ve learned better since.

I asked for an example of people getting annoyed about you using a word wrong and that’s what you gave. This conversation has been confusing, but I don’t think we actually disagree after all.

Disagree to all.

Reading what is on a computer screen is beyond 117.9% of the population

Then I guess there would have been no problem there, since you have to read the screen and then type or copy/paste an explicit statement that is essentially impossible to miss. This was not “warning blah blah blah. OK/Cancel” that could be glossed over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc

Trump is on Lemmy? Gross.

I mean yes, exactly. All reasons the tariffs were indefensible to begin with. The damage largely cannot be undone so it was never even excusable as something to try even if done in good faith

TrIcKLE dOwN tHo

Bingo.

Why do you assume that most people are using words as weapons? I was honestly relating to what you wrote until the last paragraph. Especially about “awful hidden views”. In my experience the worst possible way to communicate is to take a tiny statement that does indicate anything bad in particular and assume it actually does. This is why all the infighting on the left happens imo. “They only said/think that because [leap to horrible thing that no one said]”

I’m curious though, who is questioning your use of queer? That sounds exactly like the modern definition of the word to me. Not sure I’ve noticed anyone disputing that.

Also, why are people defending the scumbag for any reason? He was caught manipulating benchmarks after getting paid by a hardware company (forget which company, easy to Google this)

He’s been advocating for and promoting Linux gaming for years now

I haven’t seen any evidence of that.

I don’t agree at all that the average user would read that warning and proceed. I have seen many people freeze up and cancel upon seeing messages nowhere near that level just because they didn’t understand. That was maybe the scariest warning I’ve seen. It explicitly said it probably would break the system. I always find it odd when people act like it’s normal behavior to proceed in that situation.

He explained he was trying to approach it as an average user. But that seems disengenous to me. That warning was scary as fuck. Anyone stupid enough to go far out of their way to break their system against very strong warnings, gets what they get. The average users I know wouldn’t have done that unless they were pretty much done trying and didn’t care if it broke their system anyhow

The user I responded to changed the subject in my mind. Neither of us referenced the original post other than we talked about definitions. The original post is so obviously a bad faith argument coming from the Nazi that it would’ve never occurred to me anyone needs to point it out. This isn’t Twitter where 70% of users are nazis.

I’d need an example to get what you mean. Because part of me thinks you’re describing something I relate to, another part of me thinks you are talking about doing that incredibly annoying thing where you consistently use a word incorrectly and when it’s pointed out you seemed to be saying something very different from what you meant, you blame the other party and get annoyed. I know people who do this, and it’s quite annoying because I’m actually spending effort trying to translate instead of instantly understanding, had they spoken with more consideration for their audience.

I can only speak for the ~5 AMD cpus I’ve bought. Not sure what you’re referring to. I tend to keep the same processor for ~5 years

OMG that was fantastic. Thank you!

Wow. I have a bit more respect for one than the other. The dweeb made a video where he pretended to try Linux and botched it on purpose