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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Systemd apparently. Every time someone brings it up, the thread devolves into a religious flame war.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've never got this either. I've been using Linux exclusively for over 4 years, multiple devices, tested dozens of distros, almost all Systemd-based and I havent ever experienced any problems that the anti-systemd folks talk about.

Or at least, they were so rare and minimal that I didn't notice.

Coming from an IT background dealing with 99% Windows machines and Microsoft products, maybe my bar was on the floor, but Linux has been soooo much more stable and dependable than Windows.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Been using Linux since 2004 and systemd has made my life significantly easier. People bickering about systemd are usually ultra nerds without arguments real people would consider important.

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[–] rouxdoo 116 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Streaming videos on my phone using speaker for audio while at the restaurant eating lunch. I figured for sure, everyone would want to get in on that awesome stand-up comedy action or zany talk show that I enjoy with my meal. It turns out that (gasp!) some people even think it's rude...LOL.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

To those people who say you can't express sarcasm over text.

Fucking really? Can you not see it here either?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I'd rather a hundred of those than some kid with mommy's iPhone watching brainrotting Youtube Kids videos all day with the sound on. At least then I won't feel bad for the kid.

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[–] alokir 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, I hate that. Standup comedy is so overrated, what I want to hear is your phone call!

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Cilantro and onions. Y'all wouldn't last a day in Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I have the gene, but onions are great though.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Cilantro is one of the best things in life.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a generic thing with cilantro that makes some people think it tastes like soap. I don't have it, but my wife does. I hardly notice cilantro, but even a little ruins a dish for her.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the longest time I didn't even know what cilantro tasted like. I thought maybe it tasted like nothing to me. The reason for this was once when my wife and I were at a Mexican restaurant, I got some green salsa. I dipped my chip in and complained to my wife that it tasted like nothing. She dipped a chip in and started gagging. She said it tasted like pure liquid cilantro.

One day I was cutting some cilantro for some tacos I was making at home, and I took a big bite. It didn't taste like nothing to me. I just always associated the flavor with lime because anytime I have something with cilantro, I always squeeze a lime over it.

I always thought that was mildly interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (16 children)
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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

I played like 40hours of Cyberpunk 2077 before going on social media. I Thought it was going to get "mid" reviews, but I guess I got really lucky to not hit any serious bugs. Lesson being: If you wanna enjoy a game, don't look at any marketing materials, and don't seek out social media about it until you've had time to form your own opinions.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read reviews before buying on day 2, basically. Sure, I expected some bugs, as the reviewers warned. I barely got any, just some visual glitches during cutscenes. Still, I would give the game a solid 8/10.

Came out of my playthrough to everyone raging about everything about the game. Couldn't even give an honest opinion about the game without being downvoted to oblivion because people who never even played the game refused to believe the game was playable at all.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (12 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

People who hate them have never driven them

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (7 children)

There's this strange resentment the rest of Germany has for Bavaria that I didnt realize was serious until I moved to Hesse.

[–] cobysev 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My wife and I lived in Germany for 2 years. We went to Munich for a weekend and had an excellent historical walking tour across the city, provided for free by our hostel.

During that tour, we learned that pretty much every stereotype Americans have for Germans (lederhosen, yodeling, beer and brats, etc.) are actually Bavarian culture, not German. And Germans are actually quite offended at the confusion we have between their culture and Bavarian culture.

We also learned that Bavaria used to be quite wealthy and powerful, and intended to split off into their own independent nation at one time. But then Hitler set up shop there and made it his headquarters for the Third Reich. The city was absolutely decimated during WWII, and when the war was over, they not only had to rebuild from scratch, but also had to contribute to rebuilding the rest of Germany, as well as paying for war damages for Europe and all Allied nations, etc. Their wealth was pretty much depleted and their hope of being an independent nation was gone.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Bavaria was a very agricultural heavy state, that made a few things right in the last few hounded years. Bavaria has like every over German state a long and rich independent history. Only Bavarian nationalists dream of an independent Bavaria. Hitler joined the NSDAP in Munich and it was one of it's early strongholds. Most German cities were destroyed in WWII. Germany did not "pay" reparations, because they still had a lot of open dept from WWI. They paid with land, factories, infrastructure and forced labor. What the guide meant was probably the so-called "soli". It is a special tax that was levied from former Westgerman states to support former GDR states, which did not develop as much under the socialist rule. That tax was and is controversial and was changed to nowadays only applie to richer people.

Bavaria was always a big state in german, that tries to play a special role. Especially their main party the CSU participated in German politics, while enforcing predominantly Bavarian Interests. These methodes were obviously anti democratic but only borderline illegal and forced the government to restructure the parliament.

So yea. I grew up in Bavaria and I get why most Germans are quite annoyed with bavarians.

It is the German Texas.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rick Astley. I never really got the point of people getting mad at Never Gonna Give You Up, if anything getting rickrolled is a nice surprise to me.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

1991 Hook with Robin Williams. I love that movie, but it seems that most people I encounter that didn't grow up with it think it's lame and boring.

So maybe not hate, but not love either.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RUFIOOOOOO

Didn't realize people didn't like it.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] KaiReeve 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Black Licorice

My mother likes black licorice and so my sister and I grew up eating and enjoying it every Easter. Turns out most people hate the stuff.

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[–] eddanja 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I always assumed that was a joke, because they're just kind of bland generic rock and roll that it seems like it would be comical to pretend to have any really strong negative reaction to it. Then I met a few real people who actually despise them, and realized it's not a joke.

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[–] Brimstonks 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was shocked to discover the hatred the old live action Mario movie gets. I enjoyed it when it came out when I was a kid. I rewatched it as an adult to see if my memory was faulty… still enjoyed it. It’s a little campy, but it’s a fun romp! I unironically enjoy it, as a good movie and not as a “so-bad-it’s-good” movie. And yet it gets so much hate

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Large Language Models (such as GPT) and AI image generators.

I follow certain AI related post tags on Tumblr and sometimes I see people expressing pure hatred towards these tools, as they only see the AIs as content thieves.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I don't mind the tool itself if you use it as such. I do mind when people use its output as the final product. See: the lawyer who used chatgpt for a legal brief

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Snap on Ubuntu. I totally did not comprehend that it was proprietary; I just thought it was convenient, like apt.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't know that, but I already disliked it because installed apps don't really integrate in the system (eg: file system access, themes).

Even Ubuntu installs this way something as basic as Firefox, what the fuck? At least I managed to get rid of the snap version and install it properly.

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[–] kaitco 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The third Alien movie, Alien 3.

I love the first one as a proper horror film, and love the second one as a great action film. Alien 3 always seemed to stand well with the other two by returning to the horror genre, and expanding on Ripley.

In the third film, Ripley has lost everything that she fought so hard for in second film, and it’s her against this alien that has taken everything and she knows it’s finally going to take her life in total.

The setting in Alien 3 was very original as a penal colony that’s just hot and dark, and the design of the alien is entirely different since it burst from a dog (or, a bull if you watch the Director’s Cut). The alien moves faster and more haphazardly and the cinematography reflects this as well. The final scene with Ripley’s sacrifice is the fitting end to what was a trilogy at that point.

I don’t know whether people confuse Alien 3 with the 4th one or what, but Alien 3 is a fantastic film that holds up well decades later. I’m always confused by the fact that people slam it so often, and it wasn’t until I saw people crapping on it online that I realized that there was even a consensus that it was bad.

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[–] alokir 28 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Ready Player One. It wasn't the best book I've ever read but I enjoyed it.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Transition Lenses for blocking out sun. So helpful but people think they're nerdy 🤷 with the right frames they look good imo

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah only Nascar for me. Horses are stoopud

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hawaiian pizza

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Rush. The band. Almost nobody in my high school liked them. In the 80s even.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VR headsets with an external battery pack and/or other heavy components on a cable to put in the pocket (as is now a feature of the Apple Vision Pro).

The first time I tried any VR headset I immediately thought why on earth do they not put all the heavy lifting electronics out of this device into my pocket. That would be way more comfortable. But for some reason it was never done and when it was rumored that the Apple headset would do that I noticed people apparently hated the idea. Everyone keeps saying modern headsets are well balanced it’s not a problem, but my experience is different and it’s one of the reasons for me why I don’t like to use it often.

My current headset is the PS VR2 which everyone says is so comfortable and balanced. I just find it annoying after a few minutes.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The 2016 Feig-directed Ghostbusters film. Like, it's not a masterpiece but it's still an enjoyable film.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (24 children)

Polyamory. I knew a lot of people didn't understand, but the visceral disgust at the idea that a lot of people have is surprising.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

Well, granted my sample size is extremely small, but I've only ever known 2 polyamorous groups of people well enough to visit their home. And in both cases, there was always 1 person who wasn't as happy as the other two and was tolerating the scenario due to pressure from the person they considered their 'significant other'.

The dynamic was: A & B would be considered spouses to each other, A wants to bring in additional person C and create a trio under the banner of "polyamory" and B consents (because they are willing to accommodate anything A wants to make A happy). So person C enters the relationship and they form a polyamorous-trio, but instead of it being a true trio, it's more like A & B still have their relationship (now burdened) and A & C have a relationship, but B & C don't engage much. This is the exact scenario I have witnessed in the only 2 households I've ever known doing it.

That's given me the impression that arrangements like that usually serve the needs of one or two people but often leave at least one party secretly unhappy. Maybe if more people actually witnessed polyamory working as it's been proclaimed, there would be higher opinions of arrangements like that. But I sure haven't seen it - my current conclusion is that it's just not within the bounds of human nature for this kind of relationship to work.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think they can work, the problem tends to be people going into it not realizing that it's more demanding than monogamy, one person feeling pressured into it especially when the relationship started as monogamous, and/or it being done as an attempt to "fix" a relationship that clearly isn't working out, the latter of which happened with someone I know.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

People hate tortellini?????

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