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  • tehmics@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    11 days ago

    Moral members of society have an inherent obligation to be activists, for as long as marginalized groups exist.

    That doesn’t mean you have to be ‘out’, but if you’re standing by and watching your fellow humans be marginalized when you could be offering help, that is wholly immoral, and frankly you don’t deserve the safety that you are enjoying when you won’t seek it for your fellow people.








  • A lot of people have already pointed out that the person saying it is an important detail. If your mom says you’re good at python, I’m going to get a very different idea about your skill level compared to your boss saying it.

    Unless you are selling yourself in an interview context, I think it’s very poor form to qualify your own skill level. Let the skill speak for itself, it’s enough to say that you ‘do python’. Saying you’re good at something often comes off as braggadocios more than it is informative. If you must give context, it’s better to talk about how much experience you have, or other objective metrics

    Qualifiers are too context dependant and no matter where your skill level is at, you wont ever have enough context to know how good you actually are, because you can’t know what you don’t know.



  • I haven’t run into any limitations of the file system and I hardly even know what pacman is. And I haven’t felt ‘controlled’ by Valve, certainly not to the extent of a console or even Windows/Mac. I can sudo whatever I want. I’m sure you have a use case, but I’m still just not seeing it.

    Are their proton versions just proton GE? To what extent does it actually run better?


  • More than you think, apparently. I go into desktop mode nearly every time I use it, whether to install mods, non-steam games, emulators, streaming services, web browser, decky loader, etc. knowing it was open like a PC vs a closed off console was 90% of the reason I got one.

    Besides that, is using bash really the metric for Linux user? I did that in Windows. It’s fine if people are using the GUI. This is just weirdly gatekeepy

    The crossover of PC power users and steam deck owners is going to be relatively high compared to a traditional console, which is exactly the demographic that would be persuaded to Linux via the deck. I speak from experience


  • tehmics@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world[Deleted]
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    1 month ago

    People type their credit cards into online stores all the time.

    Sure, under the assumption that it’s not being stored without permission, or securely with permission. People are and should be very cautious about what sites you directly submit your card info to, and for less popular sites people are more and more opting to use a third party payment processor like apple, amazon, PayPal, etc.

    In the US, most restaurants still take your card out of eyesight to be processed, although processing devices at the table is becoming more popular.

    One of the most common ways cards get skimmed in person. You should absolutely be wary of this especially if it takes an unusually long time. I’ve been at group dinners where this was commented on. Seems pretty common sense.

    I don’t think most people even think about it most of the time in the US because the credit card companies take care of disputes. Europe is definitely way ahead of us on secure payments!

    I disagree. This is a common point of concern in my experience with customer facing roles, and anecdotally in my social life. When I worked for a major cell provider, for example, we sent a digital form to the customer so that we didn’t have to collect card info over the phone at all. In the event that we did as a fallback, customers were very wary of this across the board.