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Apologies, but too verbose and meandering to gain insight/understanding from (and I tried). Also, its murder trying to read that on a phone (vs PC monitor) to boot.

Appreciate the attempt though, thank you for that.

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Good write-up. Thanks for sharing.

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Steam on linux has tons of games. But not all of them (Baulder’s Gate 3.)

I play Baldur’s Gate 3 on my Fedora KDE Linux system just fine.

CosmicCleric, (edited )
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So you’re saying you did know that Lemmy has the thing where if you’re the first one to ask to get community data from another instance the link will give you an error and you must click it again (or reload) to get the instanced version of that community for your instance, and then say that it doesn’t work?

Yes, I did, and that’s bad design, bad programming, and goes against the expectation of every last freaking human being on the Internet as to how a link should work. And I’m saying that as someone who was a software developer for their whole career, and uses Lemmy on a daily basis, prolifically.

Edit: forgot to mention, I tried reloading twice, went back and re-clicked a couple of times, as well as when I did my reply I embedded that original link into the reply and then I tried it again from there, so I tried to resolve the link a bunch of times over a seven-minute period.

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And no, it’s not preventing input to improve a product, it’s asking you to be less absolutist in your comments. “It doesn’t work as well as it should” compared to your “it doesn’t work”. When it obviously does work, albeit could work better.

Can you please stop editing your previous comments to add a new point that can be responded to, and reply instead?

To your point that I quoted above, which is your second edit, they didn’t work for me, at all.

I’m not going to say it doesn’t work well when it doesn’t work at all, I’m going to say it doesn’t work at all.

Seven plus attempts is more than enough for any human being to try to get a link to work, and honestly, links are supposed to work on the first try, or or maybe even the second try if the server is being slammed.

CosmicCleric, (edited )
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Tried clicking on that link, got this error…

The server returned this error: FetchError: invalid json response body at [Redacted]. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error

I’m assuming you were trying to link to here?

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Try the link again. It’s the proper way to link to communities using Lemmy.

I’ll try the link, and if it works, it works. If it doesn’t, I move on. It’s not my job to try to make it work, it’s supposed to “just work”.

Your link doesn’t give people on other instances the easy option to subscribe to the community.

I’m aware, I was just trying to give a pointer to the forum (assuming the link doesn’t work for others as well), so people can manually subscribe if they wanted to, as a community service.

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Yeah, not like boomers blame millenials or gen Z for everything. Oh wait.

Maybe we should stop dividing up into age tribes and attacking each other?

The problems we face affect every age in the same way.

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And as others have also pointed out, the website isn’t anything anti-boomer. It tracks each generation, and it’s just mildly interesting that boomers just hit 1/3.

How it’s presented to us though in this Lemmy article does suggest that though.

On a tangent, I really hate how people who create Lemmy posts really bias the article they’re posting about in the title of the Lemmy post, sometimes to the point where the title doesn’t match the article they’re posting, or speaks about the title in just one/two sentences of a long article.

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This is a neutral post and it isn’t anti-boomer per se.

It’s a little disingenuous to say that though .

How is presented to us, in this Lemmy post, isn’t really neutral though, it leans towards one point of view.

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That’s how statistics work. You take a sample and abstract it to the population. If you required every one to be checked, then no numbers of any sort would be made up because that’s too much work.

Yeah sure, I’m aware of how statistics work. I’m just not confident that they are interpreting the statistics correctly.

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…as long as choice #3 isn’t apocalyptically bad, right?

Right?

That’s only true if everyone believes that, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Would really be fantastic to see just once, one time, everyone interconnects on social media and agrees to vote on a third party, as an experiment if nothing else, to finally prove/disprove that theory.

Funny enough these newer generations have this communicative interconnectivity of the Internet available to them, that previous generations didn’t have, but they don’t seem to use it, instead they just share mene pics/vids, etc.

Could you imagine the political earthquake though if a third party actually won? Would be glorious to see.

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I have served in local politics and public safety

Thank you for your service, citizen.

but my time is long past.

There are always advisory positions available.

It’s well past time the next generations start to run things and I’m tired of waiting.

Well, you know what they say about Power and Vacuums, they get filled, and the current stock of power lords will die off eventually.

So at some point they’ll run for office (if they can put their phones down long enough to do so ( I kid! I kid! :p )).

To be fair though, we’re not making their (future) elected jobs any easier by fucking things up today and doing our elected jobs poorly; its a team effort.

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You will ALWAYS be voting for the lesser of two evils.

Unless you run for office yourself.

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Just checked, wow he’s technically a Boomer! Born in 1964, so just made it.

The identifier should be started at the age you entered society, and not the age you came out of your mother’s womb.

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People seem to have this view that everyone in the '60s was a hippie but that’s just not true.

'60s, maybe not, but 70s? There was a lot more of them then.

But yeah, not everyone was.

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mildly interesting- that boomers just hit 1/3 dead.

I do wonder about the accuracy of that though. It’s not like the website owner went through every death certificate ASAIK.

CosmicCleric, (edited )
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I don’t understand, are you confused at the age range for Boomers? It literally says it in the image…

I get where they’re coming from.

The starting point is normally defined at the time you came out of your mother’s womb, but it really shouldn’t be.

It should be started at the point where you first enter society as a child, and start learning your generation’s societal values.

Basically, when you started kindergarten, or Elementary School.

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Yes. Didn’t notice those dates. Still makes no sense if you take the name literally though…

You’re wrong chronologically, but you’re right based on how those labels are used to judge people’s social values.

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You can infer the age you entered society from the age you left the womb.

That doesn’t work. Technically I’m a Boomer, but I act and think completely like a Gen-Xer.

In fact growing up I used to give Boomers crap myself, until I got more wise. They acted completely different from me, based on the times they grew up in.

CosmicCleric, (edited )
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It must be weird judging a whole generation based only on what you know from learning about via social media.

CosmicCleric, (edited )
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Wait, why do you consider learning about things initially through social media a bad thing?

Sure there is a ton of nonsense and outright lies out there

You answered your own question.

For the record, I’m distinguishing between “Social Media” and “the Internet”. The former is for entertainment, and the latter is for learning/knowledge.

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The problem there isn’t that we (assuming the US) don’t want third parties,

That’s not true. People don’t vote for third party because of the self-fulfilling prophecy, but it doesn’t mean they don’t want it. They also want ranked-choice voting.

I would advocate to put that self-fulfilling prophecy to the test, even if just as an experiment one time.

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This is not an example of that though.

How so?

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Ty

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