snowe

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on How does this scam work? · c/asklemmy · 30 pts · 48d

Good opportunity for him to say he doesn’t have the money right now, can she buy him the plane tickets and get himself a nice little free trip to LA. She’ll obviously say no, and boom he’s out of it.

on The reddit experience · c/reddit · 142 pts · 53d

Not a joke, that person tried to take over a Colorado sub from my wife. We both saw exactly what he was doing and refused.

on Passkeys · c/privacy · 9 pts · 72d

the amount of people that do not understand how big of an improvement passkeys are is really saddening. They think that somehow these tech companies are utilizing this in some nefarious way, rather than the very very simple explanation that ... tech companies don't want to be responsible for more breaches.

Passkeys are so simple and such a huge improvement that it's literally all upsides and no downsides. Either you use their passkey managers like you would their password managers and it's safer for them, or you use your own password manager with passkeys in it and it's still safer for them.

on Passkeys · c/privacy · 11 pts · 72d

You have a vast misunderstanding of why passkeys aren't transferrable or usable outside of those providers. It had nothing to do with lock-in, but because every implementation was different. And no, you do not 'depend on the site' to let you use that option instead of a major provider. There's a standard now and everyone is following it. If you can use a passkey you can use your password manager to manage that passkey.

on Why I choose Svelte · c/sveltejs · 2 pts · 161d

These were exactly the things that drew me to Svelte as well. And yes, the author is right. If they had claimed that you should use Svelte for everything I would have immediately stopped trusting them.

Svelte is very nice for backend engineers to use for a frontend framework. It makes way more sense from a mental model, and it's incredibly lightweight, at least from what I've seen in other frameworks.

It's the exact same way I feel about Ruby. You definitely shouldn't be using it for everything, even most things, but the stuff it's good at it beats Python by a mile. And it's so much more pleasant to use.

on Gen Z Revolution · c/memes · 1 pts · 281d

I did. Didn’t function at all. Had a ton of issues with the sound card and the nvidia graphics driver also shit the bed multiple times and many games didn’t work. Same for mint though.

I mean sure, but you can say the same about any resolution possible. At some microscopic distance on a 42k display you will be able to see the difference. Your scenario here is pretty much “if you use a display in a manner it wasn’t intended then you’ll be able to see the difference in resolution when you compare it to a display that is used in the manner intended”

I mean that part makes sense. This is essentially the exact same community. Linux users will spread to any “general” Linux community on the web.

It’s pretty hard to fit all of what you just said into a meme. For example your meme does not say that windows users are “dismissing any alternative out of hand”. It says windows users that refuse to switch. Maybe they hate windows but they literally must use Fusion 360 or AutoDesk or Meshmixer or RealityCapture or one of the numerous other software options that just do not work on windows.

Anyway, if what your meme is actually about is people that only use the browser and then refuse to switch but still constantly complain then yeah you’re dead on.

No I’m talking about complaining about the problems you’re having with Linux not asking for help with anything. It’s literally happened in this exact community here, where people ask what issues people encounter with Linux, and if I (or others) say I have any issues I get downvoted to hell.

Yeah it’s super weird, if you go to a specific forum for help, like cachyos or bazzite, the community is bearable, and sometimes very helpful without being rude. But if you go to a general forum and state you’re having any issues with Linux you’ll be downvoted to hell and told Linux is still better than windows.

Sorry for the silence. My years on the internet make me hesitant to claim I'll do something publicly until I'm already almost done. Else it's unlikely to get done and I'm then not keeping my word.