The same happens with live TV and the amazement of having to accept and watch whatever is being broadcast.

I’ve loved getting older and getting more and more out of touch with young people’s social media trends.

Libertarians

Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up!

There’s a lot of social programming at play and it is particularly difficult for women to push back against the enormous pressure. Men get an easier pass for not looking pristine or in line with expectations.

That being said, my wife has changed her outlook in the past 2 years. She has discovered minimalism and anti-consumerism. I myself am much more of an advocate for function above all else.

yet no one seems genuinely impressed by it

You’re living in a bubble. Very many people are impressed, even if you and I aren’t. I never cared or knew about these things before. But my wife does know about brands and will point out when someone is wearing over £20000 in their outfit. My parents push me to buy an expensive car “because of how it appears” to have the more luxury brand car (even when I don’t care). My cousin says he has to go on holiday to fancy places to keep up with what other parents/kids talk about in their private school.

I think it is all nonsense as well, but the reason so many people still do it is because it absolutely works. Most people are certainly impressed even if you aren’t.

There’s plenty to learn about this if you want. But not understanding this at all and dismissing it is living in an ill-informed bubble. For Lemmy nerds the status might not come from Gucci shirts, but instead might come from Thinkpad laptops, more difficult to use Linux distros and socially liberal virtue signalling. Portraying status is part of the human condition and takes many forms (most of which are very absurd).

They are fulfilling their purpose though. These people are trying to announce their “status” in society so others know how rich and successful they are. They’re not advertising the brand, they’re using the brand to advertise themselves. The problem is that a lot of people in society are actually impressed by shit like that.

Ah, I’ve never tried to convert it that way. Laptops all seem to have had USB charging for many years now.

I got it from Ali Express and hope this link works for you. Just look out for the size that fits your current laptop charger. Also check how many watts your laptop charger does, it needs to be able to output 65W if you want to charge a 65W device.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006780830491.html?spm=a2g0n.order_detail.order_detail_item.3.c1d3f19cAswYFz

Pro tip: eBay used laptop USB chargers are dirt cheap compared to a GaN charger + USB PD cable. I’ve put laptop chargers all around the house so I always have one available for my laptop, phone and Steam Deck.

Another tip: even if your laptop charger isn’t USB C, you can get a converter to make it a PD USB charger for a couple of £.

Disappointingly, a lot of good webcomics use Instagram or Twitter and don’t have RSS access.

Fortunately there are still plenty of good ones

We have Linux workstations at work…and these can only be used to access a remote desktop of a Windows 10 virtual machine. 👍

I came to Lemmy just looking for a Reddit alternative. I think this is a superior forum system with user scoring and nested comments. But I do love that it is open and federated and I’m glad to be rid of Reddit completely.

I am a huge tech nerd and love doing these things as side projects (but I prefer making hardware). I like making stuff so the things I’ve been making/setting up are:

• Setting up a R.Pi as a retro gaming console
• R.Pi Kodi media player
• Putting together a hotswap keyboard from a kit
• Migrating to privacy alternatives and degoogling my life
• Migrating to Linux
• Making a fight game controller from scratch
• Making a custom keyboard with soldering and custom layout (and then again for having the same keyboard at work)
• Building a new gaming PC
• Getting a synology NAS and going down the Docker rabbit hole
• Making another fight game controller…or 3

Now I’m planning making a DIY microphone for MS Teams meetings

Is this thing with unsupported bands ever an issue outside USA? It isn’t a problem I’ve ever encountered in using any phone abroad or heard people of any other could try talk about.

And vasectomy should instead be called misterectomy.

Very much worthwhile. Pick up Slay the Spire while you’re at it.

It’s all porn. Always has been.

Damn that sounds rough. Sorry to hear.

What are your days like? What do you do with yourself? Does job hunting take up a lot of the day?

Do you have friends from different socioeconomic backgrounds?

No. Most people I come across scoially are through education, job and family/friends; and all these places have a preselected population in a broadly similar socioeconomic class. Some friends started from a lower socioeconomic position and moved up, but are now in a comparable position to me.

do you wish you did

Yes. I wish society as a who wasn’t so stratified. I wish everyone had opportunities and the experiences of people from different social classes wasn’t so alien and unrelatable (which would be the case if there were equity in society). I’ve known people from different socioeconomic groups and their company and experience has enriched my life…but an ongoing friendship hasn’t been maintained somehow.

how do you think it would influence your perspective?

I’d like to think I keep a pretty broad perspective even now. I do see and support very different people’s personal lives in my work. I would really wish to have everyone on equal fitting as mentioned above.

Where does such a culture exist?