Had a ton of fun writing that haha, I was so sleep deprived almost choked on my coffee, nice to know you enjoyed it!

My mom’s laptop was dying and as she works on it it was more and more annoying to use due to constant slowdowns and freezes, she asked me to recommend her a new laptop maybe to buy in installments.

Instead, I went ahead and pulled my mint xfce drive, jiggled it, turned it face down, then up, then down again, I slot it deep into her dell laptop, straight up no lube, then filled it up to the brim with the new OS, even though we started at 50/50 win/mint ratio, mint slowly spilled over windows, eating it up, absorbing it, ripping pieces off, just how Alice stole from Jensen. Consuming it.

Now win10 is reduced to its cuck chair, still installed, but never picked, every day it passes he falls deeper on the realization he’s not mom’s favorite’s toy anymore, and will probably never be touched or started again, unless by accident.

Loved the positivity

That’s crazy

Good catch, might have been wrong on that one, but in any case, the point still stands, its assumed that by liking X you support an ideology of the creator/brand or whatever, I love the movie Oliver Twist from 2005, even if Roman Polanski the director sexually assaulted a kid, doesn’t take away that the movie was good and I can still enjoy it and say without shame that I’m a fan

(sorry slipped and pressed enter) Like I know people may dislike arguing or being harassed by people online making a ton of guesses about you when they don’t know one thing about you, but man, what I dislike the most is that the arguments are so weak, most of these can be refuted super quickly, they have no substance, there should be a place on lemmy to point out bad arguments, mostly blatant attacks that have no supporting argument (not like oopsies but bad intentioned attacks with no supporting argument behind them)

New user here, overall I feel there’s quite a few people eager to express their opinions here, a lot of the times inside YOUR posts or comments, this isn’t a bad thing necessarily, but a lot of the times they don’t really have a ton of supporting arguments under their opinions, and those comments can really be shut down if you slow down the conversation into a logical argument, they crumble down if you point out the obvious problems in the thing they are saying or how they misread what you wrote and just made up an alternative reality version of what you put in.

Like assumptions for example:

• I like Harry Potter = I support EVERYTHING jk rowling did or will ever do = therefore, I am transphobic.

Those are completely unrelated things that are assumed and the thing that’s attacked is not the statement made by the guy that said he’s into Harry Potter, but the assumption made like 2,3,4 chains down the line, completely hallucinated by the guy replying and not based on reality.

Like I know

Makes sense

I mean, I appreciate the concern, even if you are wrong is really nice to know there are people concerned about the well being of strangers like that online, and because I can’t reasonably prove to you or convince you of my mental state (not that I would even need to try to do that, as you are a rando on the internet) I think there’s no use on trying further to explain the situation.

In any case, thanks a lot for the kind words and concern given so selflessly.

Oh that makes a ton of sense, sounds like we already are living through that by what im reading in your example, never even noticed that

Yes, you are right, but you could scan people for any electronics, I didn’t clarify that’s what I was thinking about, that’s my bad

Yeah I’m scared about something like this “virtual signaling - game of the year edition” update to using the internet

Well, that’s kind of why the post says “current” you know? The future part getting at “this might get even worse as time goes on”

From what you write, I feel you know nothing about the business of psychiatry, I’m prescribed antipsychotics while not having any psychosis or symptoms that could be helped by its use, I’ve been prescribed wrong things multiple times in the past aswell, and being told “just believe this doctor because the doctor is the authority and knows best” some of the meds i have taken in the doses i was prescribed back when i trusted the doctors made me actually suicidal (outside of the organ damage of course)

You will know if you ever get into taking psychiatric meds and how that works. I WISH it wasn’t like this, I really do. But it just isn’t. I was never warned of any side effects short or long term by any of my doctors, and when i had them, unless they were like super apparent like not sleeping for 4 days or something, they were hand waved away.

My intention is not to be mean or dismissive to you, but I do feel in this one case at least, you don’t have the experience required to know how it works in reality (and not only what the media tells you “stay on your meds!”)

I do take some pills selectively as I’ve read on them and their usefulness in my case, even suggesting pill changes in my schema, to pretty good success actually.

The fact im storing up on dozens of antipsychotics (cause yay i was feeling better and i didnt need but my doc wanted me on them) now doesnt sound such a bad idea, maybe i can just absolutely dismantle all my brain functions into death or becoming a vegetal, you know, live life but keep your options opened, I’d hate to live like a bitch like that, always being watched like if i was on reality TV or some bullshit, i read a bit on the TV stuff (i think you are referencing 1984 or bnw maybe) but i dont have a tv, a pc is more than enough

I don’t see many ways out really, its depressing

you mean you have, or you mean you should in theory, have those

could i ask what you do/avoid doing? im curious (ofc if you feel comfy sharing)

I mean, that’s kinda the whole point about anything that steals your agency, If I could be 100% sure no doubt in my mind that the entity/person that recorder all my data from birth to death would never use it for anything that could harm me, yea record even my gooning sessions, my psychological breakdowns, all my breakups etc etc etc

Thing is you can’t really make that assumption in this world, also because you not only need your current overlords to be 100% good, but every single new overlord you are going to get in the future (at least for the next few decades while you are still alive)

following on the analogy, what lube-like policy you think could end up being introduced to facilitate such a process? (if any)

Yeah, that sounds like a pain, as you can’t check that (you wont slice them open), but % of pacemaker/vital tech should be super small