Ahhh so this explains the Parmesan cartel. If you don’t know, the only “true” Parmesan comes from Italy and there’s a cartel of pretty ruthless (legally, not like drug cartels or anything lol) people that try their best to keep it that way.

There was a bunch of drama once about a guy in the US that was a cheese making hobiest that tried to make his own parmesan using some methods he thought of. The Parmesan cartel in Italy sent him a cease and decist letter.

Condoms?

Sure I guess. There’s plenty of things better about Linux so why lie? This meme misses the mark is all I’m saying.

*Holds power button on windows device

Weird that there’s no mention of what these people reported on that got them to receive said threats.

Jokes on them, if you have a shitty enough computer that’s doesn’t meet the minimum requirements, you get to stay on Windows 10 forever!

“I gambled on a thing now I’m having a meltdown that it didn’t go my way!”

I feel like this happened years ago for me and now it’s just the norm to not spring for any cereal regularly.

I don’t get it. You literally have the choice of any dumb-phone out there, why buy a new one?

They’ll just do it illegally and conveniently leave out how they tracked down whoever’s location but it’s a nice sentiment.

Oh yeah I totally get it! The only reason I’m in the “know” is because I work in IT. I used to love computers growing up but uh… Now that I do it for a career, I don’t have much interest in computers as a hobby. I used to lie at work in entry level positions saying stupid shit like “computers are my life!” Because I thought that’s what I needed to do to “fit in”. But, these days I’m just honest. When I get off work I don’t fire up my gaming pc (don’t even have one), I fire up my grill!

Glad you like it here! I’m pretty new myself. My only issue is there’s not much traffic sometimes but what makes it so “real” is how empty it feels sometimes. You know people read your comments instead of getting buried in thousands of bot comments.

Yeah agreed. But if you’re in a 3rd world country or some broke teenager that money goes farther. Bot farms buy “legit” accounts then influencers pay them for likes and interactions on social media platforms fooling The algorithm into thinking the content is popular then putting the bought content into real human’s social media feeds. I have watched YT videos on how the stuff operates in the past. It just goes to prove that the internet is fake af. Going viral can be bought. Algorithms can be manipulated. It’s all bullshit.

Lemmy seems pretty legit so far though! I’m pretty new here but it seems like a small corner of the internet that’s not yet taken over by 90% bots!

…yet…

I checked my first one (that was banned later) once out of curiosity. 8ish years over 100k karma and it was like $20? You’d have to really grind to make any money like having a bot farm or something. Granted I never actually checked my account specifically, just similar accounts with similar age and karma.

This was years ago that I looked. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number has gone down since then.

Shouldn’t Valve be scanning for these types of things!? The alarming part is that players had to find it