I’ve been vocally boycotting Nintendo for a few years.

My knees disagree.

Same here but 12 year old me also wanted to be a ninja when he grew up.

This kind of thinking certaintly won’t contribute to that changing.

One of my favorite things is giving fantastic creatures ordinary human names. My group will never forget Walter the minotaur who did absolutely nothing interesting aside from being named Walter.

I also got a refurbished 8a for cheap and stand by that choice.

I hope you’re enjoying the view of our country collapsing from that high horse.

Looks like not voting for Harris really helped that situation.

Gimp refers to sexual exploitation.

No, it doesn’t.

Libreoffice only tells geeks exactly what the product is.

The target market is primarily geeks.

no one can pronounce it.

Sounds like your coworkers should expand their horizons. Libre is a common word in (at least) 2 widely spoken languages.

Being quick and catchy is a pretty low bar.

Not when you’re naming a product. You think its hard to get people to use Lemmy, imagine trying to sell them on “Federated Link Aggregater Website.”

It sounds silly in conversation.

As does Google, Instagram, and Tiktok but they at least managed to pick silly sounding names that don’t sound like a child trying to describe a loose bowel movement.

Gimp is a funny acronym that explains exactly what the software does. Libreoffice also tells you exactly what the product is. Lemmy is quick, catchy, easy to remember, and has a story behind it. Apache is… pretty bad.

Ploopy is literally “poopy” with an extra letter.

After reading up it sounds like a decent product but they should definitely consider rebranding.

I’ve got to say “Ploopy” is one of the absolute worst names I’ve ever seen. Before I even saw the picture, I thought “I bet it looks like shit.”

It was incredibly easy to do and a refurbished pixel 8 is way cheaper than a new phone.

The problem, besides that just being gross, is that hosting csam is a very serious crime in most places. Leaving that unmoderated can very easily end with alphabet agencies from around the world shutting down lemmy instances.

Yeah sure its all fun and games until people start posting csam.

This except I use a laptop running linux mint.

This is the part I can’t wrap my head around. I’ve been a productive member of thr workforce for over 20 years but the idea that this is what the rest of my life consists of horrifies me.

AI could have some pretty cool uses as an enhancement to voice actors. Imagine all of the NPCs in an RPG being able to say the customized name of your character aloud instead of everyone using a title or nickname that you were assigned. It’s a real shame that we have to use everything for evil instead.

Happy Gilmore 2.

WTF? Why is this a thing?

Damn… I thought I’d get to be the old guy with my 35 years experience.