Fascinating read.
I liked learning about the “Simon effect”, only knew about similar, non-spatial ones (colours)…
And I might give non-inverted controls a try, although being a die-hard inverter.
At least it will be some brain stimulus to keep me from cognitive aging too fast. Like changing the mouse hand from right to left and back again once in a while.
And at best I will become the unbeatable Über-Player, because in truth I am a hidden non-inverter! ;-)
Normal News:
Concerned and somewhat worried.
Mostly official-statement- and fact-driven. But that’s normal German news culture (at least compared to the US and if you stay away from the fringe tabloid style media).
Social media:
I guess, that depends heavily on your bubble, as everywhere…
In the parts I am present in, it is source of constant amusement, as the events in the US and the views expressed by US people are just completely ridiculous to the more liberal part of Germany.
But this is probably different for the right wing bubbles, like that of AfD supporters.
I am only exhibiting that specific rational-humane dimension currently because I have the feeling, that Lemmy is too much of an left echo chamber at the moment drifting to much into extreme territory.
That doesn’t solve anything, but is part of the problem.
As is the same process on platforms like truth.social. Just the other way round.
I am actually part of what is trying to bring another (and be it just a single…) additional dimension to a currently totally one-dimensional discourse.
That sounds depressing. But you are still a strong democracy, with powerful and largely intact barriers against fascism. Yes, fight fascism. But perhaps in the democratic and humane way the Constitution envisioned.
Thought about that myself some time ago… Techno-liberal westcoast, Traditional-urban eastcoast and Religious-rural center, each a own sub-country… But I also don’t think that would be a good thing, because that would just increase the pressure on the respective minorities in each part. No, my biggest hope is that they keep their stuff together at least somewhat civilized until the Trump era is over and then manage to figure out some common grounds again…
Perhaps people draw different clues from the same events and it is good to hear them to see which options there are.
And one clue if have is that one of the reasons why things are as they are is that people are too much enclosed inside their own bubbly echo chambers nowadays.
I am not part of your bubble and yet I am talking to you. And that is a good thing.
Just consider if escalating to the next stage is the right response. You are still a democracy. Use that power. Talk to people. Normal people, not crazies on the internet. And also don’t become crazies on the internet yourself. You have a lot of leverage now with all that shit which is going on as arguments to make people reconsider.
But I have the impression that I am watching it becoming a “both sides issue” in realtime… I don’t like that.
Don’t give up your humanitarian values just because parts of the other side do.
Nothing drastic necessary, just a lot of little steps:
Step by step establishing a normal dialog again.
Something drastic would be a civil war, and that would also not unite you instantly again, but just would let you reconsider the tiny-step-by-tiny-step talking-to-each-other-thing from a different perspective again.
Please don’t choose the drastic way. Also because the rest of the world still relies on you too much (speaking as someone from outside the US)
I have to say, reading all those comments during the last two days here, I also don’t get the impression that the left are eager to unite the US again…
Please, get your shit together over there. BOTH sides.
what is needed to run win 11.
And that would be?
x86 processors are fairly standardized, I don’t see anything that could be the reason for such exclusions…?
Well there is a big difference between switching the CPU architecture altogether and just arbitrarily declaring a slightly older CPU with the exact same instruction set to be “outdated”.
Also, the customer profile of Apple users and Windows users is somewhat different. You won’t find a lot of Macs at normal peoples homes in e.g. Indonesia…
Well, we are talking about half the active PCs still running Windows 10 instead of Windows 11.
That’s a lot more than just the few “I don’t care”-people.
Instead it consist mainly of the “I don’t have the means” people, that don’t have the Hardware required to upgrade and also not the money to quickly change that.
Microsoft screwed up here. There simple was no need to demand such harsh hardware requirements and especially no need to enforce them that hard.
I agree that would have been the sensible way to go… Together with an “Install at your own risk” message when trying to upgrade a PC containing an older CPU…
I really don’t know what their reasoning is to enforce the requirements so hard for everyone.
First major requirement is the presence of a recent TPM module, which is absolutely not required performance-wise, but only for DRM-reasons (and read that as “Digital Restriction Management”).
Second even more arbitrary one is that they excluded all CPUs before at least Coffee Lake generation. Perhaps half of the PC stuff people I know to be running at home is still from the mid-2010s, so practically completely pre-Coffee-Lake.
And the IT infrastructure of the e.g. the German executive government branches is on average probably more in the range of 15 years old. A surprising lot of that isn’t even fully switched to Windows 10 yet… (hey, at least we are increasingly migrating away from Telefax…!)
Wait…
Excluding half of the active PCs or so from upgrade due to arbitrary hardware constraints didn’t push upgrading?
How can this be??? 😯🫢
Well, a mindless, repetitive task prone to errors and a task requiring obscure knowledge (“d” as a synonym for dick… one of those self-censoring Gen-Z things?)
Nice to now have tools to solve these tasks and gain some time to do more interesting stuff instead. Lively discussions on Lemmy, e.g. ;-)
Good idea, I could publish a podcast and have a look on how it behaves!
So, just need to think of a podcast topic nobody is likely to want to listen to… hmm…
Test has actually been done in 2025, just 2 or three months ago.
And yes, it took until the next day for the count to increase.
Background for the test was, that I am not using paid streaming services any more (and use ad-blocking apps) but wanted to see if the artists still get the views counted.
Although actually I am more interested if this is also true for YT-music (which is the main one I am using a lot without paying or watching ads).
One might assume it is the same as for the videos, but I don’t know how to test it… So if anyone has an idea…?
Hi diddly ho, my friendly Lemmy-writo!
This might also depend on how much you want to sound like Ned Flanders… So take your pick carefully!