context also heavily welcome.
For context I asked if there was a way to disable “tips and tricks” (aka ads) in the lock screen in Windows without activating Windows. I was told to use NAS (Microsoft Activation Scripts, that can activate windows) in github but I replied with “without activating Windows”
I’ll never understand why people give a shit about votes on a form of social media that is clearly pointless. This place is a timepassing entertainment vehicle full of trolling and silliness. The points don’t matter. Why care?
Up there with people who waste their time browsing other users history so they can remark about it.
I get your point, but for me, I don’t take anything here on the internet serious. so down votes for me, express I posted something, and several people disliked it. To me, this is funny. I just wanted to hear what aponions others had, which they were hated for…
The points matter in so far as they can be used as a metric of what is and is not acceptable within a group (or even society as a whole in some cases) as well as what is displayed first for users who use the default sort method.
Though it’s a crutch. I also regularly get one or two random downvotes for random uncontroversial stuff. I get some proportion of downvotes if I give a nuanced opinion and/or dispell urban legends. And I regularly get very few (if at all) votes by helping someone in the comments or giving the correct answer to a question, while other people get 800 upvotes for posting a meme picture, which they just took from someplace else… Don’t get me wrong, this might be as good as we can do. But I don’t think voting works particularly well for what it’s trying to achieve.
And it doesn’t really help me. If I do the default sort, it’s mostly news articles and pictures that show up and have a score of several hundreds. And the interesting posts are buried somewhere. So I kind of disregard the votes while browsing Lemmy, making them kind of meaningless for me and that purpose. YMMV. But I think I either need to unsubscribe from all those communities, or use several distinct subscription feeds.
In total downvotes, when I expressed support for a smoking ban. I can understand why some people would downvote that I guess.
Proportionally, calling out Hexbear for being authoritarian and rude on lemmy.ml.
I can’t prove it nowadays, but I once remarked that society should find a way for homeless people to be separated by how they became homeless.
The context was that homelessness is a spectrum and that being indiscriminate when doing anything related to the homeless downplays the enormous gap between forms of it. I’ve been on both sides of it before; I’ve technically been “homeless” (I’ve had a roof over my head for as long as I can remember, but it was often couch-hopping), as well as have done things related to the homeless. Sometimes I ask about it, I expect by now it might range between “I’m a teetotaler whose house burnt down and I’ve been on the streets ever since” to “I keep getting a home but keep losing it in shady gambles”. Surely homelessness is a case-by-case thing, right?
People are blind to these differences, however. To most outsiders, homelessness is just homelessness. From the outside, these things don’t come to mind when people are protective, so if you mention wanting to do it case-by-case, you feel the wrath of the population who I have seen seemingly insist I’m being discriminatory over victims of a sensitive topic. I think maybe a few hundred or so people weighed in against me. It was not only what many might call the most particularly severe example but also one of the earliest. The tragically “funny” thing is that it’s one of those things where most people immediately learn the reality of as soon as they become a victim of homelessness, actually interact with them, or even spend time in a psych ward like me because a lot of them turn themselves in because it means you’ll get care, so it becomes one of those things that’s said to be like a litmus test for if someone is genuinely associated with it versus someone who sees portrayals of it and tries to look like they are.
It’s almost as of there are archetypes for patients in hospitals due to common, middle of the bell curve occurrences of comorbidities. Example: diabetic dialysis patient with anemia and 1-2 amputations above/below the knee due to pernicious vascularization complications. No, that’s not your family member, that is a common scenario given the convergence of certain conditions.
Should medical professionals be indiscriminate here? Treat everyone like a dialysis patient? No. That sounds ridiculous because it is. People are wild and varied within every context including homelessness.
Here’s an archetype situation seen among the homeless population. A pernicious issue with lower extremity circulation occurs (due to diabetes, frostbite, infection left untreated) such that patient can no longer walk after receiving medical care (often amputation). Patient is also homeless and can’t just be discharged to street due to inability to walk. Patient needs to be placed, on Medicaid, in a nursing home. Patient is on the sexual predator list and thus no nursing home will allow them in their facility. Patient sits in hospital room taking up space, not receiving medical care because they no longer need any, waiting, for months. That hospital room is now a hotel room with medical professionals supplying room service.
Go to the sex offender registry and do a 3 mile radius search of your own address. Good odds you’ll find some, and more than you think you should. No address, then how do these guys get registered by their location?
It’s not as daily scenario, but a memorable one that happens every 3-6mos like clockwork. And those are just the homeless sex offenders coming in for medical treatment that cannot then just be discharged back to street.
People are not the same and should not be treated as such. You are not wrong there. Destroying children shouldn’t receive the same consideration for an apartment as someone living in their car due to a bit of bad luck.
This was probably all in the phrasing or maybe people just don’t understand the reality of the situation?
I worked for several years doing mobile therapy that included a significant amount of homeless outreach and crisis management. Everyone deserves to be housed, bottom line, but what it takes for that to happen is a complex situation
There’s the “xxx,xxx amount of homeless but xx,xxx,xxx amount of empty homes in america” statistic that people throw around. I forget the exact numbers but I’m pretty sure thats the scale, if not the take away is that you could literally give each homeless person a free house and still have millions of empty houses. But this would not solve homelessness, at least in the current system. The overwhelming majority would be back on the street fairly quickly. Even if you eliminate the need for mortgage there’s still the need for property taxation; if you eliminate that then communities start to get real shitty. Even if you eliminate that there’s still utility and food costs. Even if you eliminate that there’s still maintenance and not actively destroying the place.
Institutionalization isn’t necessarily the answer although in extreme cases it can be. We had supported rehabilitation programs that were pretty successful, basically apartments with staff that would keep tabs on you, help you budget, do resumes, help you get to drs appointments, make sure you took medications (but didn’t force you to unless there was a court order/probation situation and even then it wasn’t like a “force” situation although there was inherent coercion as not taking meds would be reported to po/court), apply for section 8, etc. you would stay there for a year or two and then move to a more independent placement once supports were in place.
There were also longer term programs for people who genuinely struggled and just couldn’t get that step down to work. These were similar but had less focus on connecting to services and were more akin to nursing homes with more psychiatric care
But then there were also more intensive residential programs we referred to for people with more serious mental illness or addiction issues
The issue, of course, was funding. We had like 32 beds in the short term and 11 in the long term. Funding was like 50% state funding, 20% grants, 30% donations and fundraising and the budgets were tight. Meanwhile the town probably had 30-50 actively homeless at any given point on top of whoever wasn’t in the program and another 50-100 with insecure housing. Even the intense programs, which generally had more secure state funding, still had an overall lack of beds and would have very long wait lists. Sad stuff.
That was about a decade ago now, I feel like it has to be worse now post Covid and trump. I can only imagine what the next 4 years will do to their funding
I am not sure. A mod already deleted it and I don’t care enough to look it up. Probably some dumb shit I wrote while being on autopilot.
The post: A picture of bowing nurses in a hospital with the caption: “Chinese Doctors bow down to an 11-year-old boy with brain cancer who saved several lives by donating his organs.He wanted to give another people a second chance he never got”
The comment: “ok, let me position myself… 3…2…1… bow everyone!”
The point being that these idiots obviously either bowed just for the camera or had to organise to recreate the bowing moment, both of which are absurd.
Without looking I’m pretty sure it was something about MLK’s dream speech where he mentions:
“…right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers…”
So, nothing massively contentious so far. The transcriber had capitalised the “B” of black but not the “W” of white. I suggested that seemed a very unequal way to address inequality. There was a mini downvote frenzy - eventually some diamond pointed out “AP” has a style guide that suggest capitalisation of one but not the other is correct. Seems weird, but there it is.
Agreeing that blocking ads is a form of piracy
Wow that is a hot take
What’s your reasoning?
Nothing is ever “free”, most of the stuff on the internet is delivered to you with the “payment” of serving you ads. It’s totally within your right to ignore the ads on your screen as long as it is served out it’s OK, but if you stop ads from ever coming through you’ve just gotten access to the stuff you wanted and no “payment” (ad) has been served.
I consider that to be a form of piracy. I’m not saying it’s always unethical, I would say having a browser adblocker is necessary because of all the bad garbage out there. I run UBlock Origin and PiHole on my devices so I can not see any ads at all and I consider that piracy in my case.
I know alot of people would disagree, piracy may not be the right word but I think it’s important to think about it.
Blocking ads is a security necessity, not piracy.
I’m sure you are trying to equate blocking of ads to cutting off their income stream or something, but it isn’t anything like that. It is just not displaying something that would be ignored anyway with the added bonus of not letting the advertisers collect metadata on you without your permission. Blocking ads is comparable to not looking at billboards, but even better!
It really is… !
Except Piracy is good actually.
We used to get up to piss and do other things during commercial breaks.
Suggesting that the cold-blooded murder of an unarmed man is morally indefensible. We all know what I’m talking about.
That’s definitely a terrible take but there’s no reason to downvote it. I don’t think you’re trolling. You just have a different opinion and that’s fine.
What a world to live in where being against first-degree murder is a “terrible take”! But I agree about opinions. Personally I don’t even touch the downvote button.
Had to go and look. (don’t really pay attention to these things normally)
Wooow, 180 seconds (which probably won’t even get to timeout) when shutting down my computer. My life is ruined forever because I had to wait sooooo much. /sarc
Me dissing yet another “SYSTEMD TAKES TOO LONG TO SHUT DOWN >:(((((((” whinememe on a Linuxmemes community.
I stand by what I said. If waiting 2 minutes for your computer to shut down is so life-ruining for you, you probably don’t even know what a real problem smells like & should probably see a therapist about your lack of basic patience and frustration tolerance
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I stream vr games, reboot before each stream for fresh, smooth run
Yeah I mean. To me “shutting down the computer” means I’ll be going away from it
Like if I’m going out the house or to bed.
At that point I just tell the computer to turn off and walk away
Also really, waiting two minutes is not a big deal. Y’all are too spoiled by modern machines. Just go have a cup of coffee/water/diet coke/take a piss while your OS does its thing if you’re doing a reboot for some reason.
Wait, are people sitting and watching the computer as it shuts down? I shut my computer down every time I walk away from it for more than an hour or two, and every night. I just type the command and then walk away to do other things while it shuts down…
It’s a habit that’s easy to build if you’re used to windows. Windows really likes to let applications (including task manager) prevent you from shutting down. Especially on slower machines, it will often fake you out by giving you the “shutting down” screen without telling you about the application it’s going to fail to close until like 30 seconds after you hit the button, so you come back to a still-on machine.
I shut down my work laptop every night before going home.
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I’ve had issues with it coming out of standby/sleep as well as with swapping docks if i need it at home. It also boots relatively quick and ensures that any leaky applications are killed.
The better question is: why not?
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A comment describing car ownership as a lifestyle choice… on the fuck cars muni.
The post was a news story about a sports arena calling a kid to the front and saying Santa got him a new PS5 but they didn’t end up giving him one.
A top comment claimed this is legally considered theft. I replied saying it’s shitty but it’s not legally theft. Got 91 downvotes for that.
All my other downvoted comments come from posting in video game communities about how I don’t think video games need to exist forever.
I posted a meme of Trump giving the viewer the double fingers with “Cry Harder” as a caption.
It was intended to be sarcastic, as in NOT Pro-Trump, and a cursory view of that account’s posting history would support that view. The crowd went berserk and that account was banned from the Political Memes, News, and asklemmy…Was there anything to suggest it was satire, like the title maybe?
Nope, just the meme. Can’t even recall what the post was about, long pre-election and normal lemmy anti-maga content.
Mine was the first comment and immediately went to -1, got dogpiled to about -50, then removed by moderator, and I was banned.
dang… I hate when this happens, you post something, and you think its abvious satire. And then nobody gets it and you get insulted by your own peers.
Not to mentioned being banned from a Political Meme sub for posting a <checks notes> political meme.
Plus, lemmy dogpiles from the get go: if your post/comment gets to ‘-1’ off the bat, there’s zero chance of recovery.
Saying: “Google says stalking is a crime in 50 US states.” gave me 29 downvotes. The question was: “Would it be legal to crowdfund a licensed private detective to investigate a public figure and publish their results publicly?”
oh, I saw that question. But I think, its legal to hire someone to “investigate” someone, but not do it yourself. At least I heard it somewhere.
This one: https://feddit.nl/post/1819542/1925630
The funny thing is, if you click on the context button and show all the comments, one agreeing with me has something like 120 upvotes, so I suppose I was just being too cheeky or something. Sometimes I wonder what proportion of people are using the downvote as a disagree button compared to as a “doesn’t contribute to the discussion” button.
I use it as a “don’t like it” so if I disagree I downvote, if it doesn’t fit in the discussion I down vote as well. I don’t think it matters too much, what matters is your own opinion.
