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"Fahrenheit describes the level of comfort for a human. From coldest to warmest that you may experience outside."
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Combined with the trite "Fahrenheit is for humans, celsius is for water".
Europeans shaking and crying at the realization that the difference between 70° and 75° is more obvious and meaningful than 21.11° and 23.88°
Americans shaking that 20-25C is more obvious than 68-77
Above 30 you just complain 25-30 you wear shorts 20-25 you wear whatever 15-20 you wear a t shirt and jeans 10-15 you consider a light jacket or a long sleeve 5-10 you firmly wear the light jacket or long sleeve 0-5 you bring a heavier coat Below 0 you complain
Beautiful 5 degree increments that perfectly describe what to wear in C Where with Fahrenheit you end up with weird numbers like 86 degrees
I don't understand why the difference between 70 ad 75 is more obvious than 21 and 24. Can you explain it?
*Europeans, Asians, Africans, southamericans, australiaandoceanians and 23/24 of northamericans
*21.11°
I once got accused of having a corporate shill account after explaining how coupons work.
Man was whingeing about paying full price for Domino's and got pissed at me when I pointed out they didn't use the 2 for 7 deal that takes up half their homepage.
Some people just can't admit they fucked up XD
Someone called me a rapist for saying that I've choked women during sex. Consenting, adult women.
You should have sent them a link to kink.com it would blow their minds.
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One of the first argument I've got myself into was returning the shopping cart to the designated spot. This person was replying to like 5 people at once justifying why they don't always return the cart, because the weather is hot and the corral is far, etc. while we disapproved.
Got some reddit argument PTSD from that lol
I didn't think not returning a trolly was something worth defending 😂.
Lmao I think I remember that one! Big Cart has a network of Lemmy shills, trust no one. 🕵♂️
I started an argument like that once. I made a joke about how there is literally always at least one person who defends not putting the cart back.
Only reason to not put it back is when you don’t wanna fight the homeless person bringing it back for you to keep the deposit coin.
Or when you’re drunk, going downhill with friends, crash and total it and take it home to make a grill out of it.
I suspect that person would also justify littering in order to "ensure street cleaners don't lose their jobs"
I used to not take my cart in, but I worked at Walmart at the time and pushed carts for them when needed. I didn't mind doing it all, and didn't care where anyone left their carts. Now that I've been at a better job for a while I put them up. Don't want to be out of touch with Cary pushing.
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That using 100% free and open source software is more important than actually getting your work done.
In a thread about Affinity Photo where someone insisted that we should all use gimp and just not edit photos if gimp doesn't have the features we need rather than asking Serif to port their software to Linux.
Also in several threads about migrating from Windows to Linux where every missing or complicated feature was brushed away with "just get used to not being able to do it, even if it's critical to your workflow".
That is 10,000% people who don’t do creative work especially professionally. I am fine with gimp and darktable versus anything Adobe/paid but I also barely use them lol. I would be back off Linux in a heartbeat if I honestly couldn’t use something I needed even though I prefer it.
Medical work, too. Several exam machines only work with Windows. I've heard once that "wine's pretty good nowadays", which completely ignores the detail that it isn't tested with said equipment and its drivers.
Anything related to engineering, whether civil or mechanical, also goes with either Windows or Mac, because the free CAD options don't hold a candle to AutoCAD and others.
Lastly, there's no FOSS alternative to completely replace Microsoft Active Directory, so offices where 90% of the work is done on the web browser won't bother because they'll be losing control over individual machines.
There's so much focus on "me" and "freedom" that they often forget there's a whole damn world of different needs around them.
I could go on for days about the problems with medical devices. I write software for one of those at my day job and as much as our team would love to port the software to something other than Windows, that would be a logistical nightmare.
The thunderbolt connection alone can break because of a thousand factors, even on the exact combination of hardware and operating system it was tested with. Processing of medical images is often very GPU-heavy which gives us the same problems as with CAD software.
Even if you get all the technical problems out of the way, medical devices need to be certified before you're allowed to use them for diagnostics. This often includes an exact specification of the platform you run the software on. If you just take something that's certified for "Windows 10 between 20H2 and 22H2, Intel or AMD CPU, device driver version 8.1.23" and try to run it on Wine, I would expect the American FDA, German TÜV and Chinese NMPA to fight over who gets to kick your door in first. It might be possible to get a certification for a Linux version but probably only for one specific combination of distribution, display server and desktop environment.
CAD options also flow over to the whole GPU debate as well. Yes, Nvidia's company practices are awful. Yes, I'd love to have more options. But this doesn't change that most of the heavyweight CAD options out there don't play well with non-Nvidia GPUs.
I'd love it if there were FOSS / GPU-agnostic CAD options. But until then, focusing on what works is important, y'know?
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Once knew someone who was convinced that Rage Against the Machine was a white supremacist band.
Because they liked them or because they didn't like them?
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One that I read on Mastodon:
Every bad thing about commercial software is the programmers' fault. Even if it was something that management decided and the programmer fought against it and lost. They claimed you should rather risk losing your job than accepting an inconvenience for your user. Weird take but okay. Then they started comparing software engineers to soldiers "just following orders" during the holocaust. That's where I blocked them. Cherry on top: they have "if you want to hire me as a software engineer, message me" in their bio. I wonder why nobody wants to hire them...
What kind of idiot can't see the difference between "I'm going to implement this stupid feature that no one wants because my boss says I have to" and "I'm going to murder Jews because my boss says I have to"?
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