Install Temple OS on your mom’s desktop

I saw the title, and hoped someone was summoning Demons from the Key of Solomon or some shit. Like they were worried about their dog getting possessed.

But yeah, “am I hurting my dog’s brain with a card trick” is pretty funny too

https://protoweb.org/

It’s a proxy server that works kind of like an Advanced version of the Wayback Machine. So old PCs like this, can connect to something like what the internet would’ve been like when they were first made.

I have the Protoweb browser on my Linux mint machine, running through wine. It’s fun to poke around at, and great for internet archaeology

Run protoweb on that bad boy, and keep it alive 😎

ACAB includes the Zootopia rabbit

You’re missing “Arguing on Facebook” followed by, “Still Arguing on Facebook, after Zucc replaces all your friends with robots”

Remember when Covid happened, and suddenly every normie was using Zoom, instead of existing, well-established platforms?

I find that a lot of straight liberals will practically foam at the mouth to identify a Bad removed that they can be homophobic towards.

Remember all of those homoerotic images of Trump and Putin that libs loved to be openly disgusted by?

Is that supposed to be Hibari-kun?

“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism”

Even then, Jerry was always the weakest link on Seinfeld

Really use your noggin for this one.

Why would the Russian and Chinese governments want to influence a small collection of web forums with no real influence on the wider world?

No, they’re not here, they’re on Reddit. As are the US and Israeli governments, for that matter. Online influence campaigns are carried out by governments in places where they’ll be most effective, and by more than just your spooky oriental despotisms.

Now, why might .ml users, in general, be generally pro-china? The people who made Lemmy as a platform, and the folks who were first to adopt it (instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear), were ideologically Marxist. Specifically, Marxist-Leninist. Marxist-Leninists, generally, support the existence of actually existing socialist States, as being socialist.

Contrast that with a Maoist position which rejects these States as not being socialist

You can take that ideological position or leave it, it doesn’t really matter to me. But what’s the more likely explanation here?

That the people who made, and first adopted, Lemmy as a platform tended to have a certain ideology, and so the early instances, like .ml, have people with a broadly shared opinion on a certain topic?

Or that the Chinese government, who probably had no damn clue what Lemmy is, is actively devoting money, and hundreds of people to influence a tiny speck of a Web forum where some nerds circle jerk about Linux, instead of focusing on influencing Facebook or Reddit.

Oh god, are we doing Reddit Atheism on Lemmy now? This sucks shit

Audacious is your friend. It accepts old Winamp skins!

I’ve been rocking the Windows XP skin on Linux Mint

OK, but… Does anyone have recommendations for obscure text-based games? Sounds rad tbh

I mean, I suppose not, but neither do must forms of art. Amateurism, real or percieved, is even a hallmark of many genres, like punk for instance.

But that’s kind of missing the forest for the trees. For the poster to look at a genre that is historically dominated by white people (and one with a history of far-right politics at that), and contrast it as requiring more talent to produce than a predominantly black genre of music… Let’s just say that raises some alarm bells.

I agree that people are often unfairly dismissive of Metal as a genre.

But people are also often unfairly dismissive of Rap and Hip Hop. A lot of the time that dismissal is rooted in racism.

Now, go listen to some MF Doom, and tell me rap doesn’t require talent

Her name is Yotsuba, and she doesn’t deserve this slanderous association

tbh, their funtion isn’t all that objectionable. Mixed use buildings are cool and good, actually. But the fact that they’re made of cardboard and duct tape, look like ass, and are signifiers of gentrification are what suck about them.