Agreed. I think if it’s not literally save the world they think it won’t sell, when some of the best movies I’ve seen this year have revolver mostly around personal relationships. Love, drama, tension. There are millions of stories out there that are ready for the big screen, they just don’t involve the end of the world so Hollywood doesn’t seem interested.

Guess that’s why my money keeps going to A24 and my indie theater.

When full anxiety takes over it’s very hard to go outside and just live normally, I was definitely like that. I had to look up movies ahead of time to see if they were apocalyptic and if they’d be triggering. They still are a bit, but I can enjoy things again. It’s absolutely a thing that Hollywood and big media loves playing up the end of the world and playing on those anxieties.

Could be, of course they’ve been saying that since the 50s too. Maybe time for some self reflection.

Healthy preparedness is having a few gallons of water on hand and having a filter ready. Being constantly afraid of losing water is fear. I hope they are now able to cope

Commenting and doomering is not being engaged. Interesting you assume I am not because I’m not a doomer. You should probably self reflect on those feelings.

Interesting, mine also came from my parents, I guess that’s more common than I thought!

I think 2016 is when it started for me too actually, and it was probably because of the upward trajectory we were on that then became obvious that we werent, at least not how I thought it would be, and I had to learn to cope with that

Thanks for sharing your story

Very well said. The new brings us everything bad and only weird feel good moments. I argue you can be completely informed and not watch the news. When someone tells me they’re anxious about the world, most of the time they watch the news regularly. Their business depends on you being glued to your screen, and anxiety does that well for them.

I was an anxious doomer all the time until I went to therapy. Something they said stuck with me.

The world is not binary, it is not going to be the best case or the worst case. Out of a range of infinite outcomes, focusing on the worst case scenario doesn’t make sense as probability says it won’t happen. What will likely happen is somewhere in that area between best and worst.

Eh they said it better, I’m having trouble remembering exactly. Point is, doomer’ing is a waste of time because it probably won’t happen.

One that got me in the 2010’s were the “Water wars”. People told me constantly only a few more years and we’ll all be at war! I legit had panic nightmares about it. Climate change worries me, and it set off anxiety. Turns out the doomers were wrong then, and continue to be wrong. Will it happen? It might. It might not. It’s impossible to know, but focusing on the worst case scenario is a waste of time.

It’s easy saying everything is going to hell, and to some it makes them feel better. It’s much harder to accept the weird grey area we continue to live in that’s neither good nor bad. So, if you’re like me and things like this immediately spring up a fear response, carry that with you, and focus on you the individual. Maybe this will be the year you get that promotion, or a new job, or start a new hobby, or meet the special someone.

Agreed. Luckily with RAM, you know pretty quickly if a stick is dead. Yeah the test can run for hours, but in my experience if a stick is dead, memtest will go red almost immediately, most of the time not even making it 2 minutes.

In fact they should try. Due to dual/quad mode the only thing testing multiple sticks at once will tell you is if any of the sticks have failed. Only going one by one will tell you which ones or how many, otherwise you’ll have red herrings

Yeah two sticks at once to me says mobo issue, IF you tested each stick individually and they both failed separately. Maybe not fried, I’d be hesitant to try them in a better mobo to not fry a slot too, but they might still be fine.

Did you test each stick individually to confirm both are dead? If two sticks are in there and it fails all that means is “at least one failed”. That’s just an indicator to go one stick at a time to determine which one.

Unless it’s ddr5 check your local ewaste recyclers, most have shops where you can buy used parts.

God awful clickbait headline. Downvotes OP too, it takes just a few seconds to change the title

Exactly my use case, I’m on a couple communities that I’m sure there are people out there don’t like, but for the few of us who do really like the community we enjoy it. Those who don’t enjoy it are welcome to block us or not subscribe to us, but they insist instead on downvoting every single post because they personally don’t like it, ruining the experience for the actual people who do care about the community. You’re also right that it’s a small community, we’re not talking about Ask Lemmy, we’re talking about a small community with less than 100 people. Where a post may get a few up votes

That’s not at all what I’m talking about. Random downvotes are a constant, those don’t matter to me. However if you really hit 80% downvotes in my community alone, then to me I’m doing you a favor. You should have just blocked my community, so I’ll do it for you. It is honestly difficult to get that high or a downvote rate.

Apple showing their gatekeeping attitude people claim to love

Personally I factor this in with bans on my communities. I very rarely ban, but I do if I notice people like this, who I dub “downvote trolls”. They don’t participate (or when they do it’s negatively), the just downvote constantly.

Now I’m fine with downvotes, I downvote, I think it’s healthy to say “I don’t like this content”. However if all you do is downvote (especially in a specific community) then I view a ban as a win win. We don’t have to deal with your negativity and obviously you don’t enjoy being here anyway from your voting patterns, so everyone wins.

For my communities I have a pretty healthy ratio. If you downvote 80% of the content, you’re on my radar. I won’t ban you on that data alone, but seriously 4 out of 5 votes on the community are on average down then why are you there?

Plus it is not hard to get “published” on Amazon. Literally anyone can.

Even those are being locked down behind DRM now

My mother keeps spending 11 hours a day in Facebook and then sending me random shit from it.

Everyone always tries to pinpoint when Facebook got terrible. I was there for it. I remember it. While it happened over time the instant it was uncool and lame was when the first parent signed up.

The moment it was over for me was when my mother sent me a friend request.