So you’re telling me that a vaccine for a sickness with basically 1 year R&D to production turnaround time doesn’t cause you to think twice, when a regular prescription can have side effects and need to be changed?

Think of any experience you’ve had with anti depressants or reoccurring drug as a prescription: it’s frequent that people have these changed out because of the adverse side effects or lack of effectiveness. The joke used to be that a commercial for medication would quickly read out side effects on TV for 20 seconds straight.

What I’m saying is the complete lack of any critical thinking before taking the vaccine is disturbing.

My GF and I were talking about vaccines and COVID, mainly doubts about them. We both got the vaccine pretty quick. A lot of the talk was about how a healthy skepticism of the profit driven US healthcare system leaves room for doubt. It’s not like the vaccine made us any less sick or prevented us from catching it, or transmitting it. So we were asking ourselves what was the point?

Ultimately we landed at a pretty logical conclusion which is that the widespread vaccine seemed to ultimately drop the total COVID rate down and we seem to catch some variant of it similar to the flu once a year now. My sister works in healthcare and she usually knows when COVID is making the rounds. I don’t find myself leaning antivaxx. I am skeptical of the Trump and Biden administrations both though in the USA. It’s all too odd how willing people are to put their faith into the vaccine with literally zero doubts.

Even if you don’t agree with any of it, thanks for posting the news. That’s interesting.

I find all this “bog down your system” answers to be a crock of shit. Go run ESET nod32 and put it in interactive mode. Yes, you’ll get a lot of prompts but damn you’ll learn so much about what’s going on in your computer and the networks it’s reaching out to. If you’re on windows run glass wire or OSX run little snitch. I used to know a Linux alternative for those but the point stands that you should have tools that you can use in a desktop setting to really understand what is running, and what it’s connecting to. You should have a program running that can check against a database of hashes of files for signature matches. It seems though like there’s not strong enough AV. And I suspect that’s on purpose so state actors can easily get into our systems in all nations.

Going to add that it seems like you could easily run an LLM bot to just do a yes no on whether a post looks like a bot.

So your solution is make Lemmy like reddit ya fuck that.

The first thing people do with free speech once they realize people have it is limit it. Mods will always come out of the wood works to ban bots its nbd.

got it you’re blocked lol.

Having my lights turn off from a voice control is really useful when I want to take a nap but I found that it was weird having all this shit tied into a strangers cloud (google, amazon, apple, whatever). If its hosted at home its usually just fine. As long as ET doesn’t phone home.

Lots of sensitive susans in the comments. If you don’t like it block it and move on. There’s too many people on lemmy that want to dictate what everyone can and can’t see rather than moderating what they themselves see.

Following that thought through fully: and her wants for those two days happened to be dick from a homeless man.

Lol. I get what you’re saying though.

Dude wipes coming in clutch. Watch me clean my asshole all day long friends.

I don’t think I’m going to smell anyone’s asshole in a nearby future and I pray you don’t either, friend.

Wipe until clean, spray your anus with water, just get the job done and shower often.

I AM TALKING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I AM MAD

HOW DARE THIS FREE SERVICE I USE GO DOWN HOW EVER WILL I POST MEMES FROM MY OPAL THRONE

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

also thank you for hosting us and working on the issue!

I had reasoning for the steam deck when I wrote that but I’m struggling to recall why. There was some niche with Linux for it since it has good support for Linux applications but I can’t remember how I thought it would fit

Anyhow nook and especially kobo are solid.

If that’s happening to you that’s crazy. GitHub is way too noisy though. I get 30 notifications on that apps notification widget though for just bullshit I didn’t even know I signed up for or snyk or some other garbage.

Can I be ridiculous here and say that a nook e-reader or kobo e-reader, and a steamdeck would suffice?

Maybe just a kobo?

I know it’s not Linux and that’s what you asked for, but at the end of 2022 when I looked into this I had a hard time finding Linux tablet with a good UX.