Business relationships may be mutually beneficial to those who willingly enter them, but unlike symbiotic relationships, they're usually detrimental to the ecosystem as a whole.
Evkob
joined 1 year ago
I wish there was somewhere to talk about Counter-Strike, particularly the e-sports scene.
Nah if you're an adult and you're "scared" of gay people, you're a bigot. Ignorance is an excuse for fear to a point. If you're a kid getting indoctrinated into hating others, that's one thing, but if you're over 18 and stay "scared" of a whole group of people instead of educating yourself or even (gasp!) interacting with members of the community, that's bigotry.
Please note that most people in my life are fairly ignorant about queer issues. Their ignorance doesn't translate into "fear". It usually translates into curiosity, or simply indifference. It's not the ignorance that makes one a bigot, it's the "fear".
Here’s an analogy for you, if you go into a forest and find a stick and hit some animal with the stick the animal will respond defensively.
Queer people expecting rights and respect from cishet people is analogous to animal abuse, that is a good take! Love it.
It's fine to use jokingly among friends, I do the same with my friend group. It's hardly appropriate for a serious conversation about discrimination with strangers.
"I'd be a bigot at the first sign of someone being mean to me" is an interesting argument to make.
BTW, maybe avoiding the use of "gay mafia" to refer to the queer community would make it more believable that you aren't ignorant.
If anyone wants to spend 30 minutes learning about McDo's ice cream machines, boy have I got the YouTube video for you!
OP wants to download Photoshop Elements, I highly doubt they want to do professional work. For casual use cases, GIMP is more than enough once you take 10-20 minutes to learn its quirks (if coming from Photoshop).
I'm really not one to criticize the work of unpaid and/or underpaid open-source devs, I know they're giving us the end result of countless hours of labour for free. But even I'll admit GIMP needed a redesign 10 years ago. It's kinda crazy that software used to create beautiful things looks like such shit, and just the UI has probably turned many people away from GIMP.
Have you tried changing your user agent string to Chrome? I know it can sometimes sidestep these types of "errors". It can be changed manually through about:config under general.useragent.override, or there exists plenty of addons to switch it more easily.
Real-Debrid and something like Stremio is really all you need.
Here's a link to a reddit thread detailing how to setup Stremio, Torrentio and Real-Debrid. The only thing you pay for is Real-Debrid (which is essentially a server you connect to that hosts torrents so that you can stream them directly with high speeds). It costs around 20$ for 6 months.
I'm not the person you replied to, but the one and only thing I miss about Windows is being able to paste a web address directly into the file picker.
Say I find an image here on Lemmy that I want to share with a friend on FB Messenger. On Windows, I could just copy the URL of the image, go to FB, "upload image" and paste the URL into the file picker dialog.
On Linux, I have to save it to my disk first.