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sisko never has jellybabies in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh Defiant, sometimes you have 4 decks and sometimes 5

YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Please rewrite this to make sense and we'll get back to you in 3-5 working days.

YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

My brother in Christ you really think we're using APIs?

Please consult the image:

Wise bee rule in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bee rock bee bee rope bee

The Far Right Is Becoming Obsessed With Race and IQ in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Don't you mean weight? Forgive my ignorance but I'm pretty sure in the medical world BMI is literally what determines obesity.

what's with the anti-left sentiment on slrpnk? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

People are people, they all love a good dunk, its about us being social animals first and foremost. IMO, Its all about optics to 99% of people. It's also where satire derives it's power, this is a more toxic nastier version of that, fit for the 21st century online discourse.

Just look at US elections right now as another example. Kamala doesn't have some sort of hugely popular policy, she is simply good at dunking, as a result Trump's optics have been utterly shattered.

what's with the anti-left sentiment on slrpnk? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Agreed, not censoring is the right call, I was just curious why that community specifically.

Confused about how to fix incorrect metadata in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Wild! Had no idea it was an option. Well glad it's all worked out!

what's with the anti-left sentiment on slrpnk? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Posts - sure. Comments? Not so much. https://slrpnk.net/post/12509233

what's with the anti-left sentiment on slrpnk? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What makes you say that at all? Those in fact seemed to be the accusations of other posters in the thread towards the OOP, rather than me who was defending them?

what's with the anti-left sentiment on slrpnk? in c/[email protected]

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Your first paragraph is insightful.

Second, I don't agree with obviously. First of all I had no intention to even insult the other user, to me it was just pointing out that the person suggested they weren't renting yet, so the natural assumption is it's some teenager living with their parents. Hence the "are you a child"

But even if I did, the "you get nearly no downvotes arguing calmly" thing is extremely naive. We have the past decade of western culture war backlash to social justice that shows that rhetoric lives or dies by the dunk.

A good dunk will give the onlookers a giggle, a bit of dopamine and a good association. The point of an internet debate isn't to convince an opponent, it's to demonstrate how the opponent is a stupid idiot head so that onlookers don't feel inclined to agree with them free from the shame of a long drawn out internet holy war, with interaction boiled down to "agree" and "disagree" buttons.

This doesn't always work ofc, the audience has to be receptive first, and most people's political opinions are pre-determined, but there's some space in the middle up for grabs, whether calm or not if people are receptive, it will get upvotes, and if it's a nice charismatic dunk it will get even more upvotes.

All that it shows is what you've said in the first half of your comment - the audience is already pre-determined against critiques of the internal issues if the west.

Just examine that one comment I made where it's coated in pro-western boastful motivational positive language, it's a simple matter of which aesthetics appeal.

Why don't cell phones have BIOS? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There is a BIOS - a Basic Input Output System, usually made by the SoC manufacturer that acts as a bootloader shim to get the Android bootloader going (fastboot/recovery menu level here) which then loads the Android kernel. It's the same as UEFI or the legacy BIOS, but it does not come with a configuration utility which is the menu that most people think of when they think of "BIOS" I.e. "going into the bios".

A BIOS does not inherently have to have a configuration utility.

Unlike an UEFI implementation on modern AMD64 systems, the typical ARM bootrom is a masked rom written to flash-once memory.

This bootrom performs the same vital functions as a bios though, i.e. sending key instructions and data (including setup of requirements) to the processor for it to start executing the bootloader program off of memory, in this case the android bootloader.

Contrary to popular belief and the top comment ITT at the time of initially writing this, android does not use the Linux kernel, it's based on an LTS Linux kernel, but highly modified with patches to form the ACKs. https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel

Without the config utility the ARM SoC BIOS is largely hidden from the user, but the veil is lifted when it fails in spectacular ways: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_EDL_mode