Maybe “reflexively” more than “instinctually”, since it’s more cultural than biological.

Basically: signal-to-noise ratio

Cory Doctorow explains it better than I can: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/25/communicative-intent/

I loved my Eee PC so much.

I’ve been watching and hoping for a modern ARM equivalent, but haven’t seen anything quite right so far.

Okay, question to people on Lemmy: What’s the right community for asking questions about Lemmy?

Shit is a crucial part of the food web. Please don’t insult shit by comparing it to this fascist.

The video “Tomatoes, or How Not To Define Art” (by Ian Danskin, who also does The Alt-Right Playbook) presents this very well: https://youtu.be/XmxIK9p0SNM

Lots of folks in the US don’t really have an understanding of religion as a separate thing from nationality.

They think of “being Christian” as “being like the other white people in my neighborhood growing up”. End of thought.

So drinking beer, watching football, and hating taxes are all “Christian things” to them.

So when they say “Christians — and only Christians — died for this country”, they’re 100% correct, according to their understanding of “being a Christian”. Cuz to them it basically just means “being an American”.

There’s really no way to convince them otherwise. It’s like telling someone that Velcro is really called “hook and loop”.

Yall have the ability to change your avatars?!

I set up a PiHole for my Hisense TV.

Thought maybe I didn’t do it right or their ad-delivery was too sneaky, cuz the home screen still defaults to full-screen promos for shows I’ve never watched. Oh well, leave it how it is.

Disabled the PiHole for a couple days to test something else.

Holy shit, banner ads everywhere on the TV.

Fedicon is just a protocol. You can give/attend a talk wherever/whenever you want. I went outside and gave a talk about peanuts to some crows. Best Fedicon ever.

Eh, every distro is trade-offs. There’s not a straightforward “better or worse”.

The worst mistake you could make? Making it hard for you to change your mind later.

So take notes on what you modify, try to keep your data/configs consolidated so you could easily migrate to a new distro, etc.

And ideally have your hardware set up so that you can try booting a new distro without losing your existing setup.

Honeycombrade

Idk man. The Sneetches “got really quite wise on that day”, but they still never guillotined Sylvester McMonkey McBean.

The context “Rotten Tomatoes” primed my brain to interpret the (75%) as a score, and I was like “There’s no way Comcast is even in double digits.”

No thanks, I don’t want to hear that creature’s voice

You’d probably enjoy the full podcast, cuz that’s basically the overarching theme of not just the episode but the whole series.