From a completely unscientific but 'experienced' perspective I think the problem is that life just gets in the way as you get older, and you prioritize your own life rather than trying to learn.

Whether neuroplasticity means you can learn things later or not, the opportunity to learn things later just isn't there without effort.

Having a job, kids, a mortgage and no social obligation to learn in a structured and organized way probably impacts you more than anything neurological.

There are plenty of examples to the contrary of this. In particular, I know that factorio has literally never gone on sale on principle, and has only ever gone up in price upon leaving early access. Despite this, it shows up with some regularity in the store.

It's certainly the case that Steam can be a rat race for developers to get attention, but I don't believe your framing is accurate.

Hasn't this been a thing for a long time? Personally I don't eat more than one "proper" meal a day unless I'm being physically active.

I think it's fine. I don't like cooking that much and it's less effort.

Are you really that spite driven against your children?

That would be true worst case, but you're never running inference 24/7. It's no crazier than gaming in that regard.

I don't know that the OP or anyone else necessarily disagrees with you here. It's one of the reasons that I believe we're fucked when the bubble pops. Every other sector is shrinking otherwise, which is only making the mania more extreme.

Trump has fucked the economy, but I don't expect the next administration to be able to pull off a miracle and fix the mess we've created within the next 10 years. Foreign relations and our status as the reserve currency are shot to hell. The US is going to have to answer for our behavior.

This is the central reason I choose not to engage with most posts. It's a toss up whether I'm talking to a rational human being or I happened to walk into the side of the antinatalist hyper accelerationist ML willing to die to defend the most obscure take about consent or something.

I would love a more healthy, less terminally online discourse on Lemmy.

So he didn't literally say it word for word, but the vibes were there.

This is incredibly reductive and at best looking at mumble through Rose tinted glasses.

Mumble has had a rocky past as a useful piece of software and it's absolutely not been a discord competitor any more than TeamSpeak is a discord competitor.

Maybe it's changed recently, but mumble has not had the feature set that made discord useful in the first place.

Don't dead Open inside?

No, It's the children who are wrong!

It has nothing to do with AI, I see it as highlighting the irony in the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps"/grind set mentality. They're stuck in a situation where their options and capabilities are limited, and rather than suggesting something realistic or achievable they're being recommended things that are impossible to do while stranded at sea.

You could possibly make some "let them eat cake" type allegory as well.

Phoronix comment sections never fail to be cesspools

Since we're talking that era, Sliders was a great show early on and it's a tragedy nobody knows it.

I continue to protest against this claim. Blacklisting the kernel module does not work for a bunch of distributions including Alma, Rocky, RHEL and others because they have this module built into the kernel. There's no module to remove. You must use a syscall blacklist or similar mechanism to disable this.

You clearly don't use digital signatures in PDFs

I still don't get the people saying this isn't that bad tbh. Like, it's a massive burden and if implemented reasonably effectively (?) will open the gates to requiring way more PII

I read the first book or two series in middle school(‽) and it was pretty good, if I recall correctly this had a pretty good sibling relationship, and the only thing stopping me from finishing it was the library didn't have the rest.

Definitely don't just dismiss books for YA though! There's no reason you can't enjoy a good book because of the target audience. I still re-read my favorites all the time, and try out new books.

It's my personal understanding/experience that it's a term for babies who are unable to walk, but can crawl and tend to put everything in their mouths.

Why is being used here as an insult or slur is beyond my comprehension.

It has little to do with time on first glance, at least to me I read the name as a gif manipulation library. If it were named jiffy or similar it might be slightly more reasonable.