My coping mechanism:
Block/filter out the news!
(Except for positive/uplifting news)

It does wonders for your mental health!

Most news sources are for-profit,
and they did some research,
apparently depressing news draws more attention / clicks, which results into more profit for them, but it isn’t good for your mental health.

Other news sources just drive an hidden agenda, and aim to manipulate you to believe whatever the rich guy that owns the news site wants.

Also, try to have fun while humanity is sliding down in the background!

Whether you’re depressed or acknowledge and then ignore the facts, will have zero impact on the final outcome which will apply to the whole world.

So might as well aim to be happy in the meantime :)

This is actually quite good news!
Hear me out though.

Encryption has been under attack by government instances for a while now.

They always aim to weaken / backdoor it,
so that they can spy on all their citizens.

China abused the backdoor implemented by the US government,
which sends a message across the world,
being: “Do not backdoor encryption to spy on your citizens, or other countries might abuse it”

Hopefully this will put a stop to governments attacking encryption, at least for a while,
since now they’re reminded of the risks which it brings! :)

Windows is not getting better,
CoPilot, Recall, all more unwanted spyware…

UniGetUI is a good way to maintain software on Windows in a Linux fashion through package managers,
however that does not change that the underlying OS is pure spyware.

That behavior fucking sucks actually

I posted a guide last year on how to do it on Eternity for Lemmy:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026

That’s true,
but hey, filtering and blocking out 90% of the unwanted/negative content is already way better then getting blasted by the full 100%! :D

Bliss for mental health indeed,
been doing this for a while now,
zero regrets.

I have an MSI Bravo 17 for work since this month, quite happy about it so far.

My experience with MSI is best price/value for hardware specs, but with shitty build quality.

However this one feels quite sturdy compared to earlier MSI laptops.

It can get loud under heavy duty,
but it goes quiet again under low workload,
for now at least, my previous MSI laptop sounded like a jet engine whenever it was powered on.

The one you posted seems particularly suited to run Linux upon, since it’s an all AMD machine, and their Linux support is great.

I like and been using JetBrains IDEs for years now,
and am/was happily paying for a good product.

However I feel like they’ve been going backwards in the last year or 2,
it feels less premium,
and more like your a paying beta tester,
since lately I deal with bugs in their IDEs too often to my liking.

But this news kinda scares me,
usually if something is free,
then you are the product,
paying with your data.

Which I can see happen to these IDEs now :/
Especially in this day and age where massive data collection by big tech is sadly normalized, and where coding data likely is wanted to be trained upon by AI companies with the current ongoing hype bubble and all.

If that would start to happen to JetBrains products, I fear for enshitiffication in the forms of:

• Losing your privacy
• Leaking company secrets

And further once the AI bubble pops,
which will lead to less demand for data,
since there will be less companies.

Congrats @MrSebSin,
due to your depressing comics,
without flagging them as such,
without giving us the ability to filter them out,
I decided to un-subscribe and block this community as a whole.

Fuck Cyanide & Depressiness,
I miss Cyanide & Happiness!..

Can you add depressing comic to the title so I can filter/block em?

I like cyanide and hapiness,
but not cyanide and depressiness.

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No, instead they raped his rights with some ToS…

Spying on you :P

That’s why I replaced it with MicroG:
https://microg.org/

Thank you for LibreSpeed! <3
Been using it for a few years now,
and it’s become my go-to network speed testing tool

:D

It’s not dead,
the (over)hyped period is just over.

I for one do plan on picking it up again in the near future, they added quite a bit of new content (pals, tower boss, island, oil rig, arena, raids, …) since I last played it.

Both are spy-ware though.

If you really want to enjoy a chromium based browser, I’d suggest Ungoogled Chromium

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-windows

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-android

https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store

Wayland might be the future,
but today we’re still living in the present…

I was a fan, and tried Wayland,
but it took less then 24hrs before I switched back to X.

Just too many random bugs remain in Wayland rn…

E.g:

• Grayed out screen under HDR
• LookingGlass unable to boot in fullscreen
• Some program icons replaced with Wayland icon when running
• …

= AI bubble