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  • Either way, assuming I can find a large stick or rock, I’d have enough patience to do a manual physical uninstall and get back to my solitude. So I think I’d be pretty ambivalent.
    I guess smashing the shit out of windows would be slightly more satisfying - but that’s not really the main reason I’m alone in the woods.

    And yes - before you ask the obvious follow-up - I have smashed the shit out of a thinkpad in the past, they’re not as tough as people say they are; it’s mostly false bravado. Don’t be afraid to stand up to the bully (ymmv).




  • As i understand it it (somewhere between barely and not at all) the idea is not that It’s “expanding” in the sense of a balloon inflating into the space around it.
    Its more stretching internally.

    So the distance (or time it would take at constant speed) between any 2 points is geting bigger.
    You could maybe also say it’d take more energy to move between the points in a set time.

    There’s probably nothing outside, but the distances inside get longer.

    It’s probably something to go with gravity, momentum and entropy. The actual concept of “distance” between things might not be what we think.

    But all these theories give rise to the concet of large amounts ob unobserved ‘dark’ mattter and evergy, so the actual basis of currently observable fact (i.e. energy / mass) is a small fraction of what is needed for these theories to work.








  • oo1@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlCan you live without YouTube ?
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    6 months ago

    Yes, I can live without youtube I survived the 1980s and 1990s - I’m not saying my life is or was “meaningful” though - that’ll be discernable if the maggots enjoy their dinner whenever the time comes.

    I also think there were at least a few generations of humans before that, some of whom may think they led at least slightly meaningful lives.

    I don’t think youtube makes anyone’s life more or less “meaningful”, it’s just a way to pass the time - but that’s just my opinion on carbon-shuffling in general. If you accept peoples own objectives instead of mine, then youtube might help them learn stuff - but even then I’d look to measure the content of their consequent actions, much more than learning in abstract. They’ve still got to put their new knowledge together with skills , practice and the real world circumstances to before anyting “meaningful” happens - and that’s due as much to their hard work as much as to their teacher.

    But I do prefer to watch a few people’s videos on there as entertainment, only a few of them post on that p2p thing “lbry” or whatever so i dont use that. I will continue to watch youtube videos given the choice, and not having somethign better to do, until those people move their videos to somewhere else.

    I’ve recently been finding out that freetube client removes much of the front end unpleasantness.








  • shareware - I mean they probably didn’t make much money.

    But apogee, epic, id all came fom releasing shareware initially.
    but also nethack and all that stuff.

    I can’t really remeber how it worked, but i think you got these bundles of paper stapled pamphlets for free with hundreds of shareware packages listed with a few lines of text describing each one.

    If you didn’t have BBS, you sent a real mail back to a distributor and they send you disks in the post ffor a fairly small charge.

    Some shareware was so good the magazines had to cover it (for example, doom)

    Also i think there just werent as many big budget titles back then (on PC),
    Consoles probably had most of the money.
    elite 2 was massive, but still only 1 bloke i think.