This is actually forbidden knowledge. You shouldn’t have seen it, not sure why you have. It’s a self reinforcing recursive spiral fractal graph, the key to free energy from water. If you put it in a car, it can drive 1000 miles on just 1 gallon of water. Big tech and the capitalists doesn’t want you to know, so they probably did something to delete it from your memory. I’m surprised this post stayed up so long, maybe MOSAD has no eyes on Lemmy yet?

Mac at the end of the day: restart to install updates. Next morning: hang on 10 minutes while I move a progress bar before you can log in. I didn’t feel like going through it alone while you were gone.

I didn’t say anything about not liking either of these. The two scenarios are qualitatively different. The purpose of the one at home is to learn what happened that day, how the other person feels about it, planning what we do with the rest of our day, and so on. It’s an exchange of information.
The purpose of asking the cashier about their day is not to actually learn what happened with them (unless you actually know the person of course). It is exchanging pleasantries or just making banter, without the intent of exchanging any information that matters to the other person. I don’t dislike it. But it’s not a conversation, it’s small talk.
I read your top level comment as well and you do seem really irked that some people differentiate small talk from conversation. It seems like you’re fighting windmills though, and it’s in fact you who for some reason has strong feelings about the topic.
Small talk is an important part of interpersonal communication, and it’s good when it creates a sense of comfort, belonging, or serves as the prelude for a deeper conversation. But it can be annoying if it’s self serving, because either it fails creating any positive feelings, or it never gets past the warmup phase. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with people who don’t enjoy small talk, or with those who do.

The clash of two great masterdebaters.

Asking my life partner how their day was is not small talk. Asking the same question from the cashier at the grocery checkout is small talk.

Ok. We have ice cream sandwich. We have ice cream in waffle cone. At what angular divergence between the waffle layers does it stop being a sandwich and become a cone?

Confirming that you are simply wrong. There are a ton of high yield savings accounts, by mainstream banks, local credit unions and fintech startups, pick your preference; you can deposit and withdraw any amount any time and interest is calculated daily, paid out monthly. Rates are not fix, they have been hovering 3-5% in the past 10ish years.

I don’t see this in other replies, even though it’s incredibly obvious, so: insurance for most people comes as a benefit from work or from the government. So you get something, you take it. Your question only applies to those who are not eligible for any kind of subsidized health insurance, which is rare for those who could otherwise afford one.

Therapy (if we talk about talk therapy with a psychologist) is difficult, and takes a very highly trained and skillful person many many sessions to get a breakthrough. As sad as that sounds, these qualities make it expensive, and thus only available to those who have money or have access to a system that provides it (for which in most places you need to be a very severe case).
My impression is that it’s quite normal for a patient going in completely oblivious about the nature of their issues. If I were you, I wouldn’t expect the therapist to directly address the issue that I name as my top concern. I would expect them to start learning about me, finding out who am I and what my life was like, then identify the issue we need to work on, then gently lead me to discover it for myself. To put it bluntly, if you knew your issue, you wouldn’t need this type of therapy.
Having said that, it is very important to be able to trust your therapist and feel that you are in good hands, and it can take a few tries to find someone who works.
Meditation, exercise and sleep are very very helpful for mental health, but may not be all you need. Still, it’s good to make progress on these fronts as well, won’t hurt. I wish you good luck and I hope you will find the help you need. It took me years of trying different approaches and things before I found a therapist who helped. The issue that I was seeking help for during all those years, was a surface level symptom and had nothing to do with my real issues.

Well, even if you don’t partake, there are trackers with subscriptions and they have subscribers.

There exists multiple types of people who upload pirated stuff. One of these types is the person who, instead of getting a day job, makes a living on selling content that they don’t own. I don’t know what to call that person other than a criminal. And it’s not too far fetched to assume that some people in that scene resort to pretty nasty techniques to obtain content, and that can be way more problematic than sharing torrents.

I love piracy as much as anyone, but I got to be honest, I am a bit irked by how much of a hardon you have for the amazing people who develop these beautiful tools in their free time driven by nothing else just an outbursting of love from their hearths. In reality, while I am sure there are innocent enthusiasts, many of the people who run private trackers, usenet servers, and I’m assuming are developing client architecture, are basically criminals who make a living off stealing protected IP and selling it to people who prefer a subscription for a tracker or server over a streaming service or over purchasing audiobooks, games, or porn directly from publishers. The arr stack is the infrastructure for hosting industrial scale streaming services using pirated content. So that’s part of the reason why the free piracy software is good. There is a very real paying market for it.

Edit: I’m putting a link here so I don’t sound like bullshitting. This is the type of illegal streaming I am talking about, which basically operates as an international organized crime group, with ties to other illicit activities independently of pirating. While I don’t know anything about their tech stack, they need a massive automated system to obtain the media they pass on to their subscribers. It’s not the need to organize the movie library of a middle age dad which justifies configuring a massive stack of services.

https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/successful-operation-against-illegal-streaming-services-millions-users-worldwide

The reason why I don’t think there can be a definitive answer to your question is that wealth, infrastructure and healthcare can do a lot to mitigate the issues with deadly heatwaves.
In a region with no AC, no potable water, and no healthcare, society probably wouldn’t survive a week with wet bulb temperatures above 35C for more than 8 hours every day.
So if that happens in an undeveloped region, a lot of people die, but a lot do find some kind of relief that lets them survive. In a developed, industrialized region, like Arizona or Texas, you can have that kind of weather for months, and most people will just hate the heat but otherwise live and work normally. You could picture a hypothetical technically advanced civilization which exists in a climate that is persistently lethal to humans.
Places that face extreme heatwaves need to build countermeasures, but societies tend to be able to do that, even in the global south.

No, don’t hate yourself, you are doing god’s work. I explicitly came here to say that this us jab-cross-upper-hook, which is an acceptable thing to say in stead of oss oss oss oss.

It’s not like you can detect “if someone tries karma farming”. If the platform displays a measure of engagement with content that a user posts, users will be driven to post things that get them points. Then if the platform uses said metric to rank content, that unavoidably leads to a setup where users look at content posted for the purpose of getting points. Btw lemmy.world is also not free from this, people repost engagement bait stupid shit from Reddit to asklemmy all the time, and those get many upvotes and comments. But at least the users that post these don’t get any meta-post outcomes.

I don’t know about you but I didn’t have to present any form of identification for registering here.

Good point. If there is a karma system, the main activity for a sizeable (and by definition overrepresented) chunk of the user base will just use the platform to maximize karma, whether for nefarious purposes or just because people treat gamified systems like games. Having real user registrations (so you can block individual users) as opposed to a 4chan like thing, but having no karma system or engagement optimization algorithm in the feed, are the requirements for a healthy forum.

As someone who used Notion and thinks about long term accessibility and vendor lock in: the ability to migrate is an important factor but not the only and most important factor. Notion is really, very good, very easy to get started with basic functionality and implement more sophisticated systems as the need evolves. And that is one reason why it’s popular.
I moved away from using it it to another proprietary subscription platform years ago when I changed jobs and started working on new projects. I still occasionally log back in and look up things, but not often because those projects are complete and closed. If Notion becomes unavailable one day, I have everything exported, saved on my computer, and backed up. It would be inconvenient to use those exports, but I didn’t have to so far, and probably never will.
Obsidian or logseq may be very powerful, and would certainly work for my personal notetaking. But for work, I want to avoid spending more time than necessary on configuring things and training people in using it, I need something that is easy to use correctly and securely for anyone. We regularly export and save everything. Migration would be a huge pain, but it wouldn’t be an unsolvable problem, it would just take time. I wouldn’t want to preemptively spend time when the platform may actually outlast the project.

Yeah. Except in Office products on Mac, where some genius realized that when user selects “Save as…”, they don’t want to save the file to the same folder where it currently is, but rather to a random folder that was used for a completely unrelated thing recently.

I find it very easy to install and use. Drivers work fine out of the box. The window and desktop management is my favorite ever, so it stays on the home desktop. There are a few things like flatpaks from the cosmic store not always working properly, and you need to remove them and install stuff from deb packages instead. And I couldn’t get any clipboard manager app to work, I think that’s related to a more general wayland issue, but nevertheless frustrating.