I’ll start it off:
- Windows is a perfectly fine OS, as long as you use Enterprise or Server (Home and Pro are crap)
- Self driving cars are the future since the US won’t fully embrace mass transit
Yeah enterprise windows is significantly less awful than personal windows, though i still hate it with a passion.
My own take is that many lemmings hold companies, their products and the people behind them to way too high of a moral standard. I see a lot of “oh this company sent a dev kit to this one guy once but it turns out that that guy tweeted some bad stuff at some point, I’m never buying from that company again”. (Yes, I am also talking about Proton, but pre-AI-tailspin Proton, what’s happening now is too much I think)
voting third party is taboo
being vegan is too radical
Monopolies are bad except when it’s steam.
can you tell what makes steam a monopoly?
Their overwhelmingly large market share.
The only thing they used to get there is the advanced technique of providing a good service, though is still call them a monopoly. They hold a lot of market power and could probably screw over the desktop gaming industry in some pretty significant ways in the short term if they wanted to.
Anyone referring to Lemmy as a hive mind is an immediate red flag. It’s just a coping mechanism people use to feel better about their unpopular opinions. “It’s not that many individuals independently evaluated my take and disagreed with it, it’s the hive mind!” Might as well start calling those who disagree with you NPC’s.
I think you’re being too sensitive. Obviously there are some opinions that are overrepresented here, and that’s a real undenyable thing you’ll have in any community, and that’s what OP is asking about. Hivemind makes for a more catchy title than “opinions held by either a majority or at least a very vocal subset of the community”.
It’s a catchier title specifically because it taps into the narrative that you’re one of the few bucking the system, awake from the matrix, unlike all the cattle that surround you.
Like, I don’t always think it’s a big deal per se, I love slang and poetry, but I do side eye people who use that verbage a bit. It lacks respect for the people around you.
The younger people, by the way, call this “hivemind thing you might disagree with” a “hot take.” Sizzling, even. That’s catchy enough, I’d say.
Chill out man you’re overthinking this
… Sigh, okay, I will shorten it for you: Calling people a hivemind makes you look like the trenchcoat-wearing nerd in Grandma’s Boy.
👍 if you say so
Ok, who is this Lemmy culture?
Winders is shit, as are most Linux distros. MacOS has turned to piss.
Self driving cars can’t tell a harvest moon from a red light.
But there is no Lemmy culture. Do you really just need to fucking belong somewhere? Just be you.
It is a platform for expression, not a fucking fashion trend.
Reminds me of when kids would say dumb shit like, “that’s not punk!”
Well since US elections wrapped up yesterday, I’ll go with lemmy.world having the memory of a bacterium and thinking everything is gonna magically get better because dems have control of congress.
My experience has been different. Lemmy thinks nothing will get done because they think Dems are still corrupt. But the difference is these progressives got elected even by not taking PAC money. The progressive Dems are also much more aggressive than their neoliberal colleagues. So, I think more things will get done than under the establishment Democrats. I think Americans are still just getting used to progressive Democrats because they haven’t had one in decades since the New Deal.
No you don’t understand, everything is fine now. The right folks are in power, we can go back to brunch.
Are you saying that the Democrats, who in the past did nothing to rectify the wrongs of Trump, will do nothing to rectify the wrongs of Trump? I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!
use Enterprise or Server
Still has the Xbox play firewall rules baked in from home/pro, is only QA tested by the crappy insider hub who only use home/pro, and eats just as many resources as home/pro.
Server meanwhile is still propped up by the futuristic technology of AD straight out of 2003.
Enterprise doesn’t even add anything compared to pro aside from like a couple of apps/tools default installed that you can also get on windows education. It’s literally just a business licence so that MSFT can charge more for businesses that have a much larger budget.
You didn’t read the question, did you?
I did, I just wanted to respond to your example seperatley anyway lol
Posting found images without crediting the source,
Wasn’t there a guy who would actively remove artist signatures from comics because he considered it “advertising”?
Yes, the comic strips community rightly banned him for it.
People are generally too obsessed with the current thing and the news cycle rather than the bigger picture.
For example, I hate Trump for ICE, the Iran War, and affordability. I hated him for those things yesterday and I’ll hate him for those things tomorrow. But people seem to think there needs to be constant, wall-to-wall coverage about how every time he sneezes it’s the worst thing anyone’s ever done and his mucus is now defiling the dignity of the noble halls of blah blah blah. It’s counterproductive for so many reasons, first it lets the enemy control the focus, second people just get tired of hearing it, third it takes the focus away from the GOP in general, when Trump is a lame duck who’ll be gone soon anyway. And the shit about how he’ll cancel elections was always exaggerated and unrealistic, but it was taken as absolute fact, you had people being like, “Oh, you sweet Summer child,” and whatnot just if you acknowledged the midterms would happen. So now those people have egg on their face and someone might see that and think, “Oh, people were being alarmist, Trump isn’t as bad as people thought after all.”
Not me, though obviously. Because I still hate him for ICE, the Iran War, and affordability. The same reasons I hated him yesterday and the same reasons I will hate him tomorrow.
That’s part of the republican strategy for Trump. Firehose of bullshit, pretty sure Bannon and Epstein were talking about it in the epstein files.
I agree with the hivemind’s general direction, but I really hate its absolutist thinking style, which dictates:
- Every issue has exactly two sides: the Right side and the Wrong side, and they’re extreme opposites.
- Nuances don’t exist; if you think they do you’re just shilling for the Wrong Side.
- Moral and ethical purity are expected of everyone, zero tolerance, no allowance for human weakness - and if you don’t agree then obviously you would forgive Hitler for “human weakness”.
- Everybody is the worst person they’ve ever been. If you cured cancer and brought about world peace, you’d still be a piece of shit for Liking a misogynistic tweet in 2015, and so is anyone who hasn’t taken you off their Friend list and spat on you.
Yes the lack of subtly in the thinking here can be really jarring sometimes
“Everything is political” is technically true but usually pedantry for people who want to guilt trip people for not wanting to think about Donald Trump 24/7. You know what people mean when they say “apolitical,” stop playing dumb.
I agree that not everything is related to Donald Trump and America’s system of government.
I wish some subjects could be apolitical: there’s no reason for trans healthcare to be politicized while other healthcare is seen as a basic need. But as we know, even “healthcare is a basic need” is a topic of political discussion in some countries (cough). The choice to make it “apolitical” is itself a political act. So yes, everything is political. From the food you eat to the music you listen to.
The mindset that treats AI like the bubonic plague. It’s not something that should be avoided. If used properly, it can be a great asset for people.
AI is just a tool, and you shouldn’t blame it for humans’ misuse of it. Instead, we should treat it like other tools: as something to use for appropriate situations/tasks.
The “if used properly” is the hard part: AI is good for simple tasks, like organizing and labeling things. However, as of 2026, AI is not sufficient for tasks involving creativity like art and music. It doesn’t capture that human aspect yet (It could in the future).
TL:DR: My point is that AI isn’t inherently bad, like many people make it out to be. Instead, it’s how humans use it that can make it bad.
AI is not sufficient for tasks involving creativity like art and music. It doesn’t capture that human aspect yet (It could in the future).
There’s a dismissive take on AI creating art that “AI can never create a truly great work of art or tell a truly compelling story.” I worry less about that, since those are really subjective stances to take on a given work; one person’s La Dolce Vita is another’s Dude, Where’s My Car? and vice versa.
What I want us to worry about is: What are we going to do to protect human dignity, even if there’s no profit motive in it? Sure, maybe an AI screenwriter could someday write a movie that people would want to see, but why should that mean that human screenwriters should have to starve even more than they currently do? If we can automate a large percentage of all human labor, does that mean that we’re just going to render most humans unemployable and not change anything else, because that’s what the invisible hand demands? Or are we going to have a serious conversation about how human dignity has value, in and of itself, and totally separate from our ability to increase GDP?
Sure… but I’d like for them to make some sort of amends for stealing all the content on the internet to make it?
And I’d like content made by AI to have that declared so consumers can support human artists and avoid grifters.
It’s interesting to see the collision of academic mindsets with the proliferation of AI. I largely agree with you: if something uses public data it should be offered as a public good.
It makes sense to me why it happened, though. Growing up, I always had the expectation that the stuff I put on the Internet would be there forever and basically used in ways that I wouldn’t expect. I didn’t feel the need to tell people what they could and could not learn from my posts and whatever tiny amount of learning I impart on a person feels perfectly analogous to whatever tiny amount of weight updates I’ll provide to a model.
Academia felt very similar to me. We put out papers because we found the subjects interesting. We didn’t make money from them (public funding) and people would build things on what we learned. It felt like a good model. Everyone shares the knowledge.
My biggest beef with AI isn’t that they trained on the Internet, it’s that they trained on the Internet and kept the result for themselves.
I’m fairly Anti-AI, but some people here definitely have a ridiculously absolutist stance towards it, which seems to be getting more common. Like if AI was used to fix a bug in otherwise human-written code for a videogame? That game is now slop and needs to be shunned apparently. If cancer was cured with the help of AI, I’m sure that medicine would be slop too and they’d refuse it like JWs refuse whole blood transfusions.
but some people here definitely have a ridiculously absolutist stance towards it
I was talking to a guy on here who was comparing AI to nuclear bombs.
I fully agree with you.
I stated something similar a week ago or so and had one dude going nuts. I mean nuts;
- Spamming “fuck you” towards me.
- Saying I was bad at coding (he had no idea that I didn’t even care because, in fact I can’t code and never cared to learn).
- Saying my opinion does not matter (as if his opinion was superior lol).
No idea who the guy was, skimmed the comments and immediately blocked him. I thank Lemmy every day for having a infinite blocklist possibility.
I think people blame AI for incompetent management, which is like blaming a saw for bad carpentry. AI doesn’t force employees to use it whether it’s appropriate or not - managers do that. AI isn’t building massive datacenters regardless of impact - executives are doing that.
I agree with this.
I use AI at work, it has significantly improved my productivity, it does the shit mundane stuff (like transferring information into new corporate templates) leaving me to concentrate on the actual job I need to do.
The virtue signalling here is exhausting and constant. It doesn’t matter what you post or where, 1/4 of the comments will be trying to convince you that you are horrible for whatever it is you posted about, and how the obvious moral thing would be to run off into the woods and eat berries. Everyone is boycotting everything. No nuance ever.
Example: You donated time at a homeless shelter and want to provide a link to others to help donate? The page takes paypal, don’t you understand how horrible that is, and you’re horrible for suggesting they pay in paypal!
I think it scares a lot of people away from Lemmy, and frankly from our political causes as well. People spend so much time making everyone else feel terrible for even moderately trying that they just give up, the other side is usually pretty willing to accept them in and say “no no, you aren’t horrible, look you’re a good person”. With Lemmy and Reddit they feel annoyed as hell here and not welcome, go back to Reddit where they get a warm hug in the thread. With politics they’ll all share in how the other side is crazy. It feels good to be included, and Lemmy is very exclusive.
For a bunch of nerds who claim to have been picked on a lot in high school, we sure do push people away quite a bit.
To turn the example around, a better way to rephrase the response would be “Hey very cool! Is there a way to pay without paypal?”
Very true.
For a bunch of nerds who claim to have been picked on a lot in high school, we sure do push people away quite a bit.
You’d like to think the pain of being excluded would lead to people be more accepting, but it usually just pushes them to form their own groups so that they can exclude others too.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed and all that.
That’s been my experience. The other day we had a post that made fun of “sportsball” and very few seemed to get the irony of it. Sure I made that joke for a while when I was younger, then I realized that by doing it I was doing the same thing to those who like sports that they did to me in high school with video games.
It’s not some equalizing or justice, it’s lowering yourself to their level. What’s worse is that at least most of them did it in high school when that stuff mattered. It’s sad doing it now as adults when it takes nothing to just be accepting of everyone’s interests.
It’s a hard and unintuitive lesson to learn. I used to mock and deride things I disagree with or dislike, but I try to do that less now. I believe it’s better and more interesting to be open and accepting of new things, even if they seem silly or wrong.
It feels like an easy win to define yourself by what you’re “against”, but I think that’s just the tribalism part of my brain talking. It just closes you off to people and calcifies your worldview
That’s the mature take. Define yourself not by what you are against but what you are for, and be open and welcoming as people express what they enjoy as well.
As D N’D Greg once put it, fantasy football is still fantasy.
It’s a big shadow over my head for every time I want to post. Makes me always reread what I drafted. Then at the end if there’s a remote, chance it can bring in an argument, I just delete the draft and not post.
I used to do that too. Then I realised that people will find even the tiniest thing to argue with me about anyway. No amount of qualifiers, “I think”, mincing words, or careful phrasing will save you. If someone’s got a bone to pick, they’ll find one somehow.
But once you realise that, it’s nothing to do with what you wrote at all, it’s their fault not yours, they were going to be jerks regardless; it makes it less annoying. Fuck it, just hit post. Throw your unadulterated raw opinion out into the void. The people who appreciate it won’t tell you.
Then when the losers crawl out of the woodwork and inevitably strawman your comment beyond recognition and make you out to be stupid or evil; just ignore them. Not even a downvote interaction. BITR (block, ignore, tag, report), and move on with your life.
That’s a big shame.
I usually stick to more low stress low “intellectual” posts to comment on. Like this post for example I usually wouldn’t comment because it has a higher chance of getting barbed comments. I definitely do not comment in political posts lol.
We need a lot more sane, non-extremist posters and commentors on the Threadiverse. Maybe try posting and blocking the assholes? The rest of us will appreciate it! :D
Yes, so many people here are desperate to make sure you know how shiny their halos are.
Overall the discourse is very angry and agressive. I get that people are stressed, scared, angry and frustrated, but the number of times people go from 0-60 in 1 second over a political difference is wild. And I’m not talking about “full on Trump supporter” or “ICE is saving America” differences. Like saying “I hate that that Democrat said that he doean’t support trans women in sports but his opponent is literally a Nazi…” will get you dragged to hell. Hell, I’ve seen Canadians snapping at people in political threads, so I know everyone is well past their breaking point.
I don’t fuck with comments much on other sites/apps so IDK if this is a Lemme problem or an everyone everywhere problem.
I have the “oh so you hate waffles” meme saved for use around here.
I’m a bit out of the loop, what’s horrible about PayPal? I’ve been using them for banking for some years now and they’ve always been pretty great to me.
They’ve been known to close accounts and confiscate the funds of people unilaterally with no course for appeal, including vulnerable groups.
ITT: a bunch of trolls baiting you
I really really just want to look at pictures of cats without people bringing up Trump or Musk or Epstein. Yes politics are important and that’s why there are political communities, but even Anne Frank wrote about other stuff in her diary sometimes.
There’s a way to block posts with certain key words, if you go to your settings
