ALostInquirer

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[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Someone better versed in Lemmy may correct me, but isn't comment activity more of a factor with some of the sorting algorithms (e.g. Hot/Active) here? In which case your upvotes may help but your comment may be even better!

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks, that does read as more balanced, I agree. I opted for what I felt more fitting for a casual community (which is how I see this community), but you're right that in turn it's more charged.

I think I would have been more inclined to write it your way if I were posing the question to a more academically inclined community like askscience or more specifically asksociologists. At the same time, though, I think the nature/nurture framing would lend itself to its own problems as one can readily find across various papers that brush against that sharp splitting vs. a more interwoven assessment (i.e. mixture of the two).

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How might you put the question otherwise?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

For sure, and I failed to really get at this more in the OP, but it's because of those difficulties that in part made me wonder, "Well, what's an alternative look like?"

Individual leadership in particular seems primed for either abuse from above or below (i.e. a scapegoat for people's avoidance of responsibility).

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d answer this by saying it is human nature.

I follow where you're coming from, however I'm quoting this little part as I always find arguments to "nature" suspect, especially regarding conscious entities which complicate this observation/thinking. You can probably guess where I'm going with this, that being, "Well, what is human nature?" which as you say isn't a criticism/dig at you, it's more of a personal quibble with the "nature" line of thinking.

Nevertheless, I lean towards agreeing with you in the sense that it may be more related to an unreflective/unconscious social predisposition of humans specifically (possibly other social species as well in their own forms).

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of people don’t really understand how things work. Rather than try to understand, they latch on to someone who does understand.

Wouldn't it be more apt to say that a lot of people latch on to someone who appears or acts as if they understand how things work, given the thinking that a lot of people simply don't understand to begin with?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Aah, thanks! Was hoping it might've been a third-party app or something.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I charge my phone over night with battery protection limiting charge to 85%.

How do you go about that? Is it a setting with your phone, or...?

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But whose responsibility is it to monitor their internet access? Mom and Dad need to step up and actually parent their children!

Yeah...Isn't this likely unconstitutional given the first amendment? This strikes me as somewhat similar to attempts to regulate video games "for making children violent" or the like. At best this may result in TikTok releasing a children's variation of the app with greater restrictions in terms of use and content, supposing something like that doesn't already exist.

Similar to how YouTube has a variation of their app for children, if I remember right.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The thing is, I don’t think a guide is really needed to install Linux. Most of it is pretty straight-forward. (The only tricky bit that comes to mind is making the USB that you’ve put your distro on bootable. That probably isn’t obvious; and it might not be obvious how to get your computer to boot from a USB anyway if you’ve never done it before.)

It's been awhile since I installed a Linux distro...Have some of them improved guidance related to allocating disk space on install? I remember that was one of the parts that I wasn't entirely confident I'd handled properly the last few times I did so. Something something swap, something /, and the like.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

that is a beautiful thing for my registration-exhausted ass

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Set up an elaborate thievery ring to amass wealth and bribe folks for the permits all in the name of science?

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