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  • It's all SO simple!

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  • Yeah moving doesn't seem to lose weight (unless you're very overweight). It's very good for you, but muscle isn't lighter than fat. At some point I went from not running to running half marathons and I went from like 86 to 82 kg average, but that only really happened after I also changed my diet. Currently I stopped running temporarily because of some health reasons and I haven't really gained much weight either, I just feel weaker.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • Seriously? I have recently been working on my personal programming projects on my ThinkPad from 2014. That thing also has 8 GB RAM. It's slow, but that's only because the dedicated video card is no longer supported by NVIDIA. I was totally able to run PyCharm, my program (which was hungry for ram), and Firefox with quite some tabs open without any issues. And most people will be doing more basic stuff on this than what I was doing. Browsing around, editing some documents, viewing some photos. I'm not sure how heavy MacOS is, but I'll assume it's more like Linux than Windows. You can do a lot with 8GB if your OS isn't gobbling up resources to spy on you, show you ads, or run some useless AI shit you didn't ask for.

    I agree that it's not a lot, but this laptop is not meant for people who need to do more than what I mentioned, putting much more RAM in there would just creep up the price without really offering anything.

    Note that I'm not an Apple fan or anything, I've never even used anything from Apple.

  • NATO will not join US–Israel campaign, Rutte says

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  • Imo he's buying time for Europe. Most people here obviously despise the US. But we made ourselves reliant on them in every way. If Trump wants, he can absolutely ruin is right now. We need to decouple, but that takes time. Rutte is trying to manipulate Trump until he's either gone or we're self-sufficient enough to not need him anymore. And yes that means praising him for doing dumb shit, for doing illegal shit. But if that keeps us afloat for another few months then that's what it takes.

  • Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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  • Uhhh yeah. My PC is booted in less than half a minute, why would I let it waste energy the whole night just to boot slightly faster? Even when I booted off of an HDD I still did so.

  • Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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  • Uhhh yeah. My PC is booted in less than half a minute, why would I let it waste energy the whole night just to boot slightly faster? Even when I booted off of an HDD I still did so.

  • Linux gamers: Do you ever occasionally shut down your PC?

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  • Uhhh yeah. My PC is booted in less than half a minute, why would I let it waste energy the whole night just to boot slightly faster? Even when I booted off of an HDD I still did so.

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  • I became a "morning person". Or let me rephrase that, I honestly stopped believing in the idea of morning or evening people. Whatever schedule you hold you body to, it tends to be okay with it as long as you're consistent. And bonus points if it generally aligns with normal daytime. I still tend to drift a bit later during long holidays, but I can live with earlier mornings and tend to have my alarm in the same time no matter the day if the week. Unless I had a party or something.

    Also, I also became very nostalgic. The music I listened to when I was a teen remains my favourite, and I've become very sceptical of newer trends. Back in "my day" everything was better lol.

    And lastly, I finally get why my parents have barely any hobbies and instead just sit around or meet up with people. When I was young I always wondered why adults didn't seem to care about learning new things. How their knowledge of subjects like math, biology, geography ,and physics had degraded after highschool. You come home after work and are tired. You need the weekend to recharge. I've already started working less (36 hours per week) and also have 36 days off in a year, which is extremely luxurious, yet I still managed to work myself into a burn-out. Unlike my parents' generation, I feel like we grew up with an expectation to be more than your work. People my age (me definitely included) seem to care so much about the hobbies. Your side projects, programming, photography, art, music, sports, etc. It defines who I am, yet I have way to little time and energy for it next to being a cog in the machine.

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  • I became a "morning person". Or let me rephrase that, I honestly stopped believing in the idea of morning or evening people. Whatever schedule you hold you body to, it tends to be okay with it as long as you're consistent. And bonus points if it generally aligns with normal daytime. I still tend to drift a bit later during long holidays, but I can live with earlier mornings and tend to have my alarm in the same time no matter the day if the week. Unless I had a party or something.

    Also, I also became very nostalgic. The music I listened to when I was a teen remains my favourite, and I've become very sceptical of newer trends. Back in "my day" everything was better lol.

    And lastly, I finally get why my parents have barely any hobbies and instead just sit around or meet up with people. When I was young I always wondered why adults didn't seem to care about learning new things. How their knowledge of subjects like math, biology, geography ,and physics had degraded after highschool. You come home after work and are tired. You need the weekend to recharge. I've already started working less (36 hours per week) and also have 36 days off in a year, which is extremely luxurious, yet I still managed to work myself into a burn-out. Unlike my parents' generation, I feel like we grew up with an expectation to be more than your work. People my age (me definitely included) seem to care so much about the hobbies. Your side projects, programming, photography, art, music, sports, etc. It defines who I am, yet I have way to little time and energy for it next to being a cog in the machine.

  • me irl rule

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  • Fr.

    (Still cis tho)

  • Game over

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  • It's probably very tasty, but looking at the image I couldn't help myself thinking "at least something edible and healthy in there".

  • Administrative task management

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  • Damn. Even now that I know I'm struggling to find anything that could've shown me. Some things are a bit wonky, like the pants, the calendar, the background. But none of it would be enough to truly convince me if I hadn't seen the watermark. Most of it is easily waved away with the fact that the image is blurry. And details like the books, the screen, parts of the calendar and basically everything else in the image scream "real image" to me.

  • justgermanthigs

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  • Cook wash. Or more accurately boil wash, but the word for cook and boil is the same

  • been both sides of that counter

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  • Lol, you sound like you've never seen public transit in snowy conditions before. Unless you invest specifically in making that public transit resilient against snow and ice, it'll crumble as soon as it starts snowing. Here in the Netherlands, where we have good public transit but no good snow/ice resistance it all comes to a halt when it's snowing. Recently we've had a couple of days where basically the entire public transit system came to a halt. And not for extreme snow or blizzards, but for a relatively small layer of snow. It's simply not worth it to invest all that money just to drive on those rare snowy days apparently

  • Workplace is forcing me to switch back to Windows :(

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  • Yeah exactly. Although it's also totally understandable that OP is unhappy with their decision. At the end of the day any reasonably large workplace just wants all their IT to be as manageable as possible, which means as uniform as possible in hardware and OS. But using windows for many jobs just kinda sucks.

  • You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift

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  • Too little too late. I'm already over to Linux now. Shit's been going downhill even before this whole AI craze went off the rails. I hope Microsoft Windows crashes and burns

  • How important is a DE to you?

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  • I used to feel the same. At some point I put some time into setting up KDE how I wanted it and then I just kinda kept using it. Still use it today. I do find the editing tools of the toolbars etc to be extremely chaotic. But once that's in place it's actually nicer than Gnome imo

  • why?

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  • I'd say it's still accurate for quite a lot of us. Personally I avoid any "smart" device like the plague. I'm kinda done with tech outside of programming. I'd have a dumb phone if it wasn't such a hassle in today's society, none of my appliances is connected to the internet (apart from PC and phone), I like using old DSLRs and film cameras because I don't want to look at another screen when out and about, I read physical books instead of digital, etc. I don't own a car but if I had one it'd probably be some old piece of shit that just works, without all the smart shit if I can at all avoid it.

    I have printers that connect to the WiFi, but they're turned off all the time unless I need them. There's no way in hell my washing machine gets WiFi, nor any other applicance like it. And I'm also very distrustful of video doorbells or even worse, those kind of digital locks that unlock with a phone or something. I'm just tired of everything being connected, everything being a subscription, everything being a security nightmare, everything needing power or having to be charged.

  • why?

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  • We should sprinkle IT people around the offices like wifi routers. To project their aura of auto-resolving constantly throughout the workplace. As a programmer I have more of an aura of auto-breaking any system that I'm near so hopefully they cancel out

  • Waterule melon

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  • it's a simple question

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  • I'm a nightmare for any IT department and software developer. I know enough to do damage, but don't have the patience and knowledge to wield this power. I go around editing shit in random config files in order to "temporarily fix" an issue and then forget that I ever did it, slowly turning and system I touch into a ticking time bomb. This also combined with my unique ability to seemingly break any piece of software by merely interacting with it, especially on Linux, before I even had the chance to install anything. I've installed and used Linux on countless devices and haven't ever had a smooth ride, yet still I'm completely daily driving Linux at this point.

    I use Arch by the way :3 (and Fedora, and Ubuntu, and Raspbian, and God knows what else)