When someone messages just “hello” it’s a very useful indicator. They clearly don’t value their own efficiency (as well as not valuing yours) so you can assume their job mostly involves sitting in interviews and chatting to people, and does not in fact consist of actual ‘work’

This is presumably the logic other social media platforms applied when deciding to remove separate visibility of downvotes.

By just showing the aggregate, the poster usually gets to feel better about themselves and still see a positive score (“People like my post!”) even if there are also some downvotes.

And so the poster keeps posting that sort of stuff.

From a commercial perspective this is good, especially because ‘controversial’ content with mixed upvotes and downvotes drives more engagement and more ‘clicks’

Hopefully on lemmy we can stay free from that revenue-brained thinking given we have no profit motive, and keep scores transparent.

(It seems many Lemmy apps already show scores as just a merged aggregate however. Perhaps they simply copied the look of the big players, thought it looked ‘tidier’, or didn’t even consider why it might be better if they didn’t.)

There will be a cohort of people out there who have always been of the opinion “I would prefer an iPhone, but I want to sideload”

Now that android is becoming closed, the main reason they chose it is going away, and therefore they move to Apple.

Not a perspective I personally agree with, but I imagine it’s quite prevalent.

This being a potentially contributory factor to why he hung himself.

So we can also say indirectly that Steam Deck wouldn’t have happened without the horniness of Yoko Taro who created that android ass in the first place.

What a chain of causality that is

The Matrix.

Not sure how that isn’t mentioned yet!

First movie was a masterpiece that became a classic, the rest were completely unnecessary.

When my brother showed The Matrix to his kid, she asked “Is there another one?” and he said “No.”

The first movie was a complete package that told a story well, and where it ended was the right place to end it all.

But of course, money.

Really tarnished my feelings about the first movie and I don’t think I could even watch it the same way anymore.

Also something that might not occur to Europeans (and didn’t to me when I first visited the US) is that different states each have their own tax laws and can set the tax rate independently.

Which contributes to why it’s usual to show price before tax.

I hate it personally, but that’s how it is.

Including the villains, with equally cheesy name-based gags.

“I see they don’t call you ‘blo’-feld for nothing ;)”

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How it is in your head vs how it be.

Kinda reminds me of Chuunibyou actually.

One day is a step to every day. IMO this comic does a pretty good job in the context of its time for showing that domestic labour falls disproportionately on women, and demonstrating that change can happen if you make it happen.

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I did say “historically”

The thing about stereotypes is they tend to persist for a long time, even after they are no longer true (if they even ever were)

Glasses are seen as a sign of intelligence because intelligence correlates with having a good education - and (especially historically) so does being able to afford glasses.

There’s always the option of quietly letting yourself out and posting the key through the letterbox*

*may not be an option in non-letterbox-having regions

If the 1980s means a specific decade, and the 1990s means a specific decade, what numbers mean the first 10 years of the 20th century, from 1900 to 1909?

While this ‘mistake’ is sometimes made by accident, I’m also pretty sure it’s sometimes made on purpose specifically because it really annoys 80s and 90s kids to be told they lived in the “1900s” and makes them feel ancient.

Source: am an 80s kid

Me too, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting one.

I haven’t had a VR headset since the original Oculus Rift. I’m still salty about them selling to Meta, and after I moved to Linux it turned into a paperweight anyway.

Since that point, no new headset had checked all the boxes for features, first-class Linux support, and a vendor I could actually tolerate engaging with.

The Steam Frame is doubtless going to seem very expensive in comparison, but I see that as the price I have to pay to avoid an account on a platform I don’t want and all the associated data harvesting.

I will pay that price.

Also consistent - and all very different from both Tenet, and each other:

Primer (2004) - American low-budget sci-fi darling that didn’t dumb itself down

Summer Time Machine Blues (2005) - Japanese comedy about a missing air conditioner remote

Timecrimes (2007) - Spanish mystery-thriller with twists