Dumpdog

@Dumpdog@lemmy.world

I find useful stuff at the dump and make long winded rants against consumer culture. Inspired by Pickle Rick and whatever I can scrounge.

Workflow is Linux + Lineage based on free hardware.

Quit buying shit from companies that destroy the earth in the name of making the already rich even richer.

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Dumpdog,

Unless they build something that isn’t locked down and obsolete shit after 5 years, it is just as fucking useless as a 5 year old iPad.

Dumpdog, (edited )

Can’t upvote this enough. GE is a legend. A perfect example of build what you want and open it up to benefit a community! Thank you!

Dumpdog,

No no. That makes perfect sense… He was making more bread at his new job to afford the rising cost that is baked into a new bicycle

Dumpdog, (edited )

Bicycles are one of the few things I spend money on these days, but I have been lucky to get quite a few for free. For some reason people discard a lot of bicycles at my local dump. I have found some real classics to refurbish. Some I keep and some I redistributed to family and friends.

Dumpdog,

A Trump insider said Trump used to be VERY jealous of Bolsonaro’s crowds.

Trump had heard they had Brazillions out there to support him on election day.

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad (www.theregister.com)

The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine’s unstoppable force.

Dumpdog,

Great point. Not a lot of people have time and two arms

Dumpdog,

You are delusional to think even one of the 9 million kids living in poverty in the US would buy a $1000 iPad as a tool to make music. In 5 years that fucking $1000 iPad is only worth cracking open to harvest as e-waste. A kid buying a $50 dollar pawnshop guitar is far more likely to continue to make listenable music than some fucking dipshit buying an iPad. Maybe in 5 years they can sell that guitar for $50 to another kid who will successfully make music. Or maybe they luck out and that guitar is worth $5000. The kid who can afford to buy the $1000 iPad will hopefully use this as a chance to learn about planned obsolesence…

Here’s a thought, maybe an iPad is a wasteful piece of garbage technology. Maybe this isn’t a rant about technology and preventing opportunities, maybe its a rant against shitty technologies that are wasteful.

Get off all our fucking lawns.

Dumpdog,

Save us 5 years. Just put the new ipad into e-waste collection now. Meanwhile, anyone want to use all the real tools designed specifically to make music? Any kid with half a brain will spend their $1000 musicmaking budget on something useful

Dumpdog,

Does anyone know an even slighty successful musician who uses a 5 year old iPad? Now, are there any slightly successful musicians that we can think of that use a 5 year old (affordable) guitar? Or a 5 year old computer? How about a cheap drum machine or sequencer? How about giving a kid anything but a $1000 iPad (or a 5 year old paperweight)

Dumpdog,

Great counter-point. So we are offended by a commercial AND calling for a ban on differently abled people from using music creation apps! How many differently abled people in your life would love a $1000 iPad designed for an able bodied person? Or would they want something designed with them in mind? Speaking of condescending. "Sounds like a you problem. Don’t piss on everyone else’s parade. “I think a lot of people here are confused and angry at clouds” “I’m sorry your music career didn’t pan out after all that work. Not everyone can be a musician.”

Dis you?

Dumpdog,

There are plenty of other things about Apple we could be complaining about.

My dude. You are so close to getting the point son. We are on the same page

Dumpdog,

*Frantically types genius rebuttal on iPad

Dumpdog,

*Frantically types genius rebuttal on iPad

Dumpdog,

*Frantically types genius rebuttal on iPad

Dumpdog,

My dude! So good

Dumpdog,

Clearly some people should donate their opposable thumbs to someone who might be differently abled and actually get the point

Dumpdog,

Hey Apple, Great ad. It perfectly encapsulates what an iPad is…a shit product juiced from the tears of real creativity - A soul crushing, art destroying block of useless shit forged from real tools.

Dumpdog,

POP is an excellent distro for a number of use cases. I can’t speak to System 76 hardware but Pop is definitely one of the good Distros. I have used it for about 5ish years to run Davinci Resolve on video editing laptops and workstations. Another use case for POP was for breaking Mac OS acclimated relatives out of their walled gardens. Relatives as old as 80 have had very little problem adjusting to it after having help installing it. Looking forward to Cosmic but I will make sure I have backups and other stuff to tinker with during the transition - was the same way during Wayland transition on my other machines.

Positives

  • Davinci Resolve working with a little bit of fiddling and continues to run solidly.
  • No hassle with Nvidia drivers on editing laptop.
  • 4-5 years daily driver on Thinkpads (t460,13) and other older laptops (daily use)
  • Gaming on Nvidia good.
  • Elder folks adjust easily from Mac OS. Its basically Macbuntu for them without the complete pile of shit that is Snaps.

Negatives

  • POP Shop was kinda shite. Had a few problems years ago. Wasn’t patient during upgrades or used terminal. A couple of shitty things happening recently but looking forward to testing out everything Cosmic (I have a rock solid edit station that will remain AMD on Endeavour OS to make sure I can still work).
  • Name doesn’t bother me, but would be better as just POP OS
Dumpdog,

Also, the list is a bit roadie-centric. Add suspension, dropper posts and subtract “smart” indoor training, and Strava.

Dumpdog, (edited )

I would really like to say something positive and community building to this like @CubitOom lemmy.world/comment/8574037
or @BmeBBenji lemmy.world/comment/8570341 - Or perhaps type well reasoned comments such as @SnotFickerman

But… I am compelled by my god Lemmy (Kilmister) and my only personality trait, to proselytize for projects that add value to the world.

What is more concerning (and more entertaining) is all the Windows wankers advocating on an open source forum

Dumpdog,

Perfect answer

Dumpdog,

snapcraft.io/crab

Dumpdog,

I’d have a beer with these fine upstanding young lads.

Dumpdog,

Nice! You even bargained the seller down. It’s always nice to buy from enthusiasts that are encouraging. Ride safe, the XT is a perfect bike for out in the country.

Dumpdog,

Yeah, you are probably right. I apologize. The tone was meant to add to the point not make it unreadable. I stand by the points I was trying to make but I agree the tone is off putting to some.

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