I think some apps will request all of your comment history and manually calculate karma but it’s not tracked by lemmy

Kids love cyber trucks, teslas, Ferraris, or any car that is perceived as very expensive

It’s just the default front end that does that. Using a front end like voyager can automatically redirect links to the instance you are signed in on, more apps and the default front end ought to do that quite frankly

Really good read. Worth it for anyone with the time to devote to a long post

I think a lot of the pushback can be chalked up to jealousy as well. If you are living paycheck to paycheck, then you can’t afford to take a 15% pay cut. Then of course, you taking leave means that they will have added responsibilities until you get back as well.

But it’s your right, if you can afford it then you absolutely should take it if that’s what you want. You can’t get this time back

Doesn’t mean they are worth something but means you can list them on eBay for $75+

Haha I didn’t even notice. Yeah I’m not running deepseek on my 98 build

Thanks! I will replace the case eventually with something more bland. It’s just so expensive to find authentic PC cases from the time period. There is a local shop that does PC recycling, I’m going to see if I can get anything from them.

What if we had taken the billions of dollars invested in AI and invested that into public education instead?

Imagine the return on investment of the information being used to train actual humans who can reason and don’t lie 60% of the time instead of using it to train a computer that is useless more than it is useful.

Any attempts to implement new taxes are going to hit the middle class the hardest as the wealthiest have the money to be able to move and organize their wealth to achieve maximum tax avoidance. Meanwhile the guy hustling to provide a few rentals to college kids. Or the unlucky couple who lost both sets of parents in the same year are going to see huge burdens because they don’t necessarily have a lot of income but have “wealth”

It’s really not so difficult to file your taxes if all you are a W2 earner and maybe a 1099 for interest income. (Which is the majority)

My state had direct file for the first time and so I was able to file for free, from the web, without any 3rd party software and it was so simple and I got my return in a week.

We need to make this available in all 50 states and advertise it. HR Block can kiss my ass

Ironic considering Lemmy.world is Dutch I believe

I’m mean there is no real downside to having and sharing an opinion outside the “hive mind”

“Karma” on Lemmy isn’t tracked. Having a negative score comment or post doesn’t affect your account or experience at all. I’ve posted plenty that has gotten downvoted into the negative and I haven’t even gotten a warning because Lemmy is an actual free speech platform unlike twitter or Reddit.

That doesn’t mean that everyone has to like your opinions though, hence the downvotes, but that’s ok.

My kids don’t play it, but the whole model is so exploitative to both the “game makers” (the ones who make the various experiences) and the players.

Basically every second of every game you are being bombarded with a prompt for a microtransaction that lets you skip to the end, or buy a pet, or buy ways to grief the other players.

It’s then marketed by YouTube’s who acquire $1000s worth of in game currency and spend it on every single thing in the game. I don’t see how any of those things are fun but it makes me sad that these are the kind of games the next generation have as there foundational games.

Anyone who thinks gaming isn’t shit now and was better 20 years ago is kidding themselves. And thanks to Roblox and Fortnite it’s only getting worse

It looks like you fixed your issue but I had the same thing happen on windows 10 so I am gonna post how I fixed it in case someone runs across this thread later.

In my case everything had been working previously but after an arbitrary reboot, my windows 10 PC could ping the local network and nothing else suddenly. No access to the tailnet, Internet; DNS or otherwise. On the wired interface that is. I could connect to WiFi and it would work just fine. I had a DHCP reservation set, deleted the reservation, let it get a new IP and then it worked. No idea why? Recreated the reservation and it still worked back on the old IP again

That would explain their behavior.

There’s kids today that still do that. And plenty of kids that’s call you a virgin and stuff you in a locker for being able to use a computer without a gui

Duh, I was born in 1901, why do you ask?

You are either a 14 year old socialist furry or a 35 year old Linux user on the fedi. No in between

You get used to being house poor. You learn how to budget how much it really costs you to live.

It beats paying someone else’s bills. That’s for sure

When you think things are bleak as far as repairs/maintenance, look to local lenders in your community. Unless you made a significant down payment they probably sold your mortgage to Freddie but they still can give you loans on your home equity especially if going to pay for things that are going to put more equity in your home.