Jrockwar

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[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

What you're saying absolutely makes sense. However as someone with ADHD I couldn't relate any less, I wish I could get addicted to something like that and not lose interest after ten minutes!

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Even assuming we're okay with using AI for language learning - then why would anyone pay for Duolingo instead of the many LLMs that people already use and pay for?

They've alienated their customer base hard. And this marketing video pretending they are siding with the users and against "their corporate overlords" is horribly tone deaf.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

I've had success with just dish soap - it makes blockages "slide" more easily.

In the last flatshare I lived, I had a particularly annoying combination of a slow toilet and a flatmate incapable of solving any blockages. Whenever I'd see that, I'd go "fuck this", squirt a silly amount of Fairy in the bowl (I'm talking like 100 ml at least) and usually the blockage would resolve itself overnight.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 168 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Most people tend to develop coping mechanisms that help them pass as non-ADHD individuals, by lowering their standards for what they can achieve in life and by accepting the abnormally high amounts of stress that hiding their ADHD causes them.

Psychologists call this "growing out of ADHD".

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

In my view it's a Linux subsystem for Windows.

Why the name is the other way around, I'll never understand.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fine, whatever. You can't ever search on SearxNG without paying. You win.

I've seen your comment history and it's full of negative comments because you're just trolling everyone. My only mistake in this conversation has been to reply to you when you've only been saying things you don't even believe yourself just to troll me. Sigh.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You're still missing the point, you're comparing hosting vs using.

If you wanted to host Google, you'd have to spend a fuckton of money on servers. If you want to host Lemmy, it's unfortunate that you don't own a computer (this puts things into perspective) but the requirements are absolutely minimal.

If you want to use Google, you have to pay the same as for using Lemmy, or searxNG, zero. However with Google you will pay with your data, whereas with SearxNG you have the option to donate, and the option to self host, if you choose. You don't have the option to self-host something like Google unless your last name is something like Bezos.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You can host lemmy on an Android phone but not on an iPhone, which is pretty locked down - you'd have to convince Tim Cook to open the OS.

You can install it fairly easily on a library computer as long as you get permission from the library. You can't install things on computers you don't have admin rights to; other examples of computers you can't use to host Lemmy are an ATM on the street, a self checkout machine at the supermarket, or the cockpit computer of an Airbus A350.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I (rather obviously) am talking there about the Google search service, not a single query, as Google doesn't disappear after a single query.

I'm not sure what you're pointing at though? Surely hosting Google search is more expensive than hosting Lemmy when you're insinuating otherwise?

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (9 children)

You're funny. 😂 What I actually think is that your mind reading skills are terrible because I never said anything even remotely similar to that.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Enlighten me, why do you think I can't tell the difference? Is it because as a maintainer I want to provide something for free? Do you see "consumers" of free content as leeches?

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Yes I do. I'm totally the one who can't understand that "free" is a nuanced concept and something can be free when there are costs but they are externalised.

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