They're social engineering the 'normies'.

Yeah, I tried dual booting for a very short time ~20 years ago (oh man...) Every time Windows would obliterate my grub config/mbr and I'd have to dig up instructions to reconfigure grub from live cd. Never again.

Ah, one of those names is familiar. I never paid much attention to instances, only focusing on communities. Until I helpfully reported an obviously misinformation filled post to community on lemmy.ml. An admin copied the contents of the report into a message in that post, making fun of me. Then banned me from all lemmy.ml communities I was subscribed to (for "abusing the report system"). I've since blocked lemmy.ml and am on the lookout for the other similar instances to block, and/or yet another alternative to Reddit/Lemmy.

3rd Rock from the Sun? Been a while since I rewatched that, though. Kinda not "friends" but "co-workers".

The year: 2026

Me: Sent report for obvious misinformation post

lemmy.ml admin: posts contents of my report, making fun of it

Me: banned from all lemmy.ml communities

I suppose there's no real loss. Blocked the instance in my profile, but even as a multi-year lemmy user it's making me look for another alternative to reddit/lemmy.

Me, looking at my Jellyfin server…

Oh. Ok.

A couple things in the way you explained yourself lead me to believe you might benefit from improving your soft skills. Not everything in a job is specifically technical. If you work with people, you have to learn how to work with people. You don't have to enjoy it, but it makes things easier.

Shows up at $3.99 for me.

No lube, just dry, torque to spec. Don't know where you got the idea to lube them, that's super dangerous.

I want candy - bubble-gum or taffy!

Making people opt-out of AI in Preferences, AI Controls (and using a double negative there), instead of having people install the AI stuff as extensions.

They have to default "AI" into it, otherwise nobody would use it. e.g. Copilot. If it was good they wouldn't have to force it.

Sloparr

/s