Viking_Hippie

Viking_Hippie , vor einem Monat

Personally, I've been really happy with Tiny11.

It's basically Windows 11 without all the bloat, spyware and other annoying anti-features. Switching from Windows 11 to Tiny11 took my 2019 ThinkPad from a boot time of over two minutes to under 10 seconds with all other performance aspects similarly improved as far as I can tell!

It's basically the best of all worlds as far as I'm concerned. And without financially incentivizing Microsoft to keep screwing their end users too!

Viking_Hippie , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

On a laptop with 8GB+ though (or probably even half that), Tiny11 feels like Ned Flanders' ski suit: does everything you want it to easily without getting in the way.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3c6ac005-d70f-4652-801b-03c77fabe103.jpeg

Viking_Hippie , vor einem Monat

Why do you hate comedy?

Viking_Hippie , vor einem Monat

their last full game release, EA Sports WRC

WRC? Watford Recreational Center? With Rectal Cameras? World Record Clitoris?

Viking_Hippie , vor einem Monat

Aww, I was hoping that, against all odds, it would be the clitoris one 😁

Viking_Hippie , vor einem Monat

Do you need someone to talk to, ddg? Or lithium?

It's so happy coz today it found its friends (they're in its head)

Viking_Hippie , vor einem Monat

There's actually a back story to this and it arguably makes the poster even better! ❤️

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

I think it's the turn of Bulgarian physicist Victor Ninov

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

FYI: That's not Charlie Sheen.

Thanks for clarifying for those of us who weren't sure. You never know what the side effects of tiger blood and enough cocaine to kill a small horse might be 🤷

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Freud?

"Nail 'em when they're vulnerable, that's always been my motto"

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Nah, I'm pretty sure he was at his most vulnerable that day lol

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

The event’s organiser said it would not censor the audience

And then deployed anti-boo filters and artificial applause to censor the audience booing and shouting "free Palestine" as the representative of the fascist apartheid regime was performing.

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

It was named after him. I doubt he ever even used a computer, though..

Viking_Hippie , vor einem Monat

An extreme pacifist might get more abuse than someone who isn't, for instance

Don't know whether I'd qualify as extreme, but yeah, pacifism tends to be equated with all sorts of deliberate harm by some people who consider things like war and violent retribution necessary evils if not even inherently good 😮‍💨

Also, there's the "sticking to your principles in spite of popular sentiment is the same as naïveté" crowd 🤦

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

I was prepared for you to go in a completely different direction after the first two 😄

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Yes.

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

close off their borders to preserve their identity

If your ethnicity is your identity, you're by definition a xenophobic bigot.

since I belive in the self-determination of peoples.

Except for people who want to move to the ethnostates you support, of course 🙄

Trying to violently establish an ethnostate is of course something I cannot agree with.

You literally can't establish and maintain an ethnostate without the use of a lot of violence and oppression against people of other ethnicities. That's just how the world works.

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Reminds me of the first time a friend of mine and his dad went to London. They were both more or less fluent, though his dad less so:

My friend's dad, trying to order an extra rare steak:
"A bloody steak, please"

Waiter, without missing a beat: "Certainly, sir. Would you like some fucking potatoes with that?"

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Yeah, as a non-native speaker, I've always considered that really weird too. Same with "well done", which is apparently worse than murder if you're enthusiastic about steaks 😄

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

This meme is about Mennonites

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Whether they believe THIS particular bit of nonsense or not, im very sorry that you're surrounded by a cult!

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Yeah, I have plenty of secondhand knowledge of cults myself, due to my life partner having escaped the Jehovah's Witnesses. She's living her best life now and I hope you are too ❤️

But yeah, while they're nowhere near as bad as the ones you and my partner escaped, that doesn't make Mennonites not a cult 😉

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Related: Crusader Kings fandom reacting to perceiving Crusader Kings 3 to be slightly less intricate than Crusader Kings 2

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Regretfully, I don't think changing Israel's course is as simple as pulling a lever.

Well not sending them the very bombs and guiding systems that they use for the genocide would be a damn good start!

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Yeah. I'm pretty fed up with the phrase "he/they doesn't/don't have a magic wand" at this point..

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7e40a058-fcbf-4add-a9ba-d9a0533dad04.gif

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Languages of Malaysia:

English is widely understood and spoken within the urban areas of the country; the English language is a compulsory subject in primary and secondary education. It is also the main medium of instruction within most private colleges and private universities. English may take precedence over Malay in certain official contexts as provided for by the National Language Act

Given that and the fact that the people of Malaysia speak several different first languages but the overwhelming majority speak English as a second language, it's not much of a stretch for there to be English sections of their TV guide 🤷

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

It's a double bluff, you see!

It would be so obvious that nobody would think that they would be that predictable, which makes it totally unexpected!

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

This is one of the best wrong but plausible sounding explanations I've ever seen! Well done to you, Sir/Ma'am/other! 👏👏👏

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

We don't have middle school here in Denmark. That's probably why I was never taught about this.

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

I wonder how much shit I would get if I was to declare Arch the veganism of Linux 🤔

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

That depends: are you holier than thou and bigoted about either? If not, then sure!

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Eating lentils off a tractor tire halfway up a rock wall?

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

I'm more into .cue and .bin dates but then again, I'm very old 😁

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

And also in that most people don't care either way unless you're preachy and arrogant about it 🤷

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

To quote my grandmom (RIP): well, at least it looks like she had fun!

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

So THAT'S why my tortie has been singing My Humps! I was getting a little worried tbh..

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

See also: self referential

goes to dictionary entry for "recursion"

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

I don't think it really is NSFW

Not that I find it in any way objectionable myself, but I'd say that in a very literal sense it's not safe for work. At least if you work for a corporation or similar type of soulless entity 😉

Viking_Hippie , vor 2 Monaten

Could have happened as soon as the 1950s when they first began seeing substantial proof of how harmful fossil fuels are.

But of course, the ones with all the money got to decide what the public gets to know. Just like it's been ever since 🤬

Viking_Hippie , vor 3 Monaten

Congress has literally said it’s about foreign influence

Which is also a lie. The likes of Twitter, Facebook and Google are just as beholden to foreign governments such as the fascist regimes of India, Israel, Myanmar and others. They pay the people in Congress a lot more in legal bribes, though, so they can basically get away with anything.

It’s not a ban, if China gives up control of the app to a United States entity then there’s no problem.

Imagine the uproar if China demanded that Google stopped being a US military contractor..

What the whole thing is about is empty symbolic rhetoric and xenophobia in an election year and oppressive measures to go with it.

Viking_Hippie , vor 4 Monaten

About fucking time! Corporations have claimed POTENTIAL forests that would have covered more than the entire surface area of the planet to "offset" REAL and IMMEDIATE environmental effects! It's the biggest scam since capitalism itself!

Viking_Hippie , vor 4 Monaten

Here's my girls Charlotte and Emily, sisters from the same litter. Charlotte was all up in my grill because I was eating chicken and Emily was spawn camping while I was heating said chicken in the oven 😄

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6f22d593-272d-4edc-82d5-1b0c45705c0e.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ec3494c2-784e-4214-b3b5-258875f737ef.jpeg

As a bonus, here's my mom's dog Walther who I have the privilege of dogsitting every week
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4983ddb9-08ba-4d70-a6e0-557c7b619ecd.jpeg

Viking_Hippie , vor 9 Monaten

You're absolutely right in your suspicion. Like so many "let's punish the poor and vulnerable so they'll stop being poor and vulnerable" policies that people think are just a "righteous" inconvenience, hostile architecture DOES kill people.

It's social murder just so the more fortunate don't have to look at the consequences of an unjust system. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/580eb047-85fc-4380-92ad-6e79e79a425b.jpeg

Viking_Hippie , vor 9 Monaten

That's probably because the loudest and most overly defensive ones are the Americans you're most likely to encounter and remember in online arguments and on American news, so that colors the perception. Especially when you don't live amongst the more reasonable majority of Americans 🤷

Viking_Hippie , vor 9 Monaten

It's a copypasta meant to make fun of overly aggressive keyboard warriors but yeah, it's very un-chill indeed 😁

Viking_Hippie , vor 9 Monaten

Ever heard of guerilla gardening? I give you..a gorilla gardening! https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/41333a70-fe37-4926-a0a5-a8d4d433da0f.jpeg

Viking_Hippie , vor 9 Monaten

You mean like this? https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2f1f7cf7-5ac2-4524-ac17-9dc2ae1a0daa.jpeg