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[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 1 points 48 minutes ago

I don't understand ๐Ÿ˜ฅ

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry, I had just woken up so I missed it ๐Ÿ˜“. I would suggest asking this in your distro's forum if you still have Linux installed on that laptop.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

What GPU does your laptop have?

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What phone model is it? You can probably unlock the bootloader and install a de-googled rom, or get root access and de-google it yourself.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 5 points 20 hours ago
[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 5 points 2 days ago

But I don't think any frontend allows you to disable those shitty machine translated titles. Like what the fuck is this?:
FreeTube screenshot of a video title saying "I have a ton of balls so why not just force yourself to play?"

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 3 points 3 days ago

I've had a much better experience with OnlyOffice compared to LibreOffice in terms of MS compatibility, and it's a Flatpak so it should have no issues running under Bazzite.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If only it was as innocent as "on and off days". Those statements can be found in this video's first minute. And I hope you're saying "Big Science" satirically as science is not a conglomerate, nor does the worldwide scientific community have any ties to a specific corporate entity/state/nation. And she doesn't "suggest" that "scientific research hasn't delivered as much as it once did", she clearly states that in all fields of science, most of the research paid for by your taxes "is almost certainly bullshit", and that one should not trust scientists. Then after she gets called out for this, she just acts like she was actually only talking about the fundamentals of physics, not every field.

And her defending Eric Weinstein โ€” a man literally directly funded by the Peter Thiel behind the Dark Enlightenment movement โ€” for his pseudoscientific "theory" of everything with obvious fake outrage, saying that "If you take away one thing from this video, let it be that Sabine said Eric's a good and fairly normal person", implying that a theory of everything is something that everyone in her circle has, saying that she hasn't looked into the theory (which is a lie, this gets exposed in the video linked on the original post) and that she "is not interested in unification ideas". Unification in physics by the way is the thing that has been wildly succesful twice and that has allowed her to post her shitty propaganda online. And this is only the first one and a half minutes of that video of hers. As such, I would recommend being skeptical of her opinions on the fundamentals of physics too.

Edit: My apologies if this reply sounds rude or condescending, that was not my intention. It's just a side effect of having to describe people such as Sabine.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't make unhinged statements like "I don't trust scientists" and "Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit" though, at least as far as I know.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have binged on nuts as well, but some nuts are also very calorie-dense and can cause weight gain too.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

She doesn't just talk about String Theory, she acts like an authoritative figure on everything. And I could hardly say that Professor Dave is a grifter.

 

This comes after blatant science denial (this is a link to another one of Farina's videos because it can't be summarized by just one video of Sabine's), attributing academia to "communism" as a fear mongering tactic (her whole point on this was that academia is a form of planned economy or something), and making a video in support of capitalism.

 

Hello!
AFAIK Lemmy itself supports GIF profile pictures, as I have used one in the past on another instance. But trying to set one here gives me a "Type Error" pop-up and fails. Are they disabled here?

 

In Firefox and its derivatives, you can add the non-AI version of DuckDuckGo as a search engine by going into Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts > Add and then giving it a name of your choice with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s being put in the "URL with %s in place of search term" part. You have to remove the 25 part from the URL though, that seems to be a Lemmy quirk with posting a link.

I don't know when they made this available, but I'm learning about this now and it's super useful if you hate LLMs and also use a browser that clears cookies on close (such as Mullvad or LibreWolf).

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