neonspool

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[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

as with all technology though, as they become more accessible with newer models being made and other companies making foldables, the price for the same kind of quality product we have today will inevitably be less in the future.

this is already happening with cpu performance, display quality, etc.. it's finally very affordable to get a 120 hz phone with a fantastic display and snappy processor, specifically thinking of something like the Galaxy A54 or Pixel 8 (on a sale)

a general rule i use regarding technology purchasing is that newest featured top of the line products are best left to rich people who can afford it, as badly as i might want it.

this goes for cars, phones, etc.. one benefit to this is that it gives the product time to become not just more affordable, but better quality as well.

the earliest foldables cracked at their fold points, but Samsungs newest fold phone survived JerryRigEverythings bend test which is impressive.

in a few more years, this quality will surely be available at sub 1000 dollar prices, containing the most modern hardware which will be even better than is available now.

[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

besides uBlock Origin,

Consentomatic automatically declines cookie consent notices. works very well.

[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

i use Quad9 in everything which has uBlock Origin as an available extension, otherwise NextDNS with OISD and/or Hagezi Normal. (hagezi pro broke some images for me which were not ads or trackers)

for a quick and easy set and forget ad and tracker blocking DNS, definitely Adguard. i set this DNS on my parents devices like phone and firesticks. i set the router DNS to Quad9 to serve as a phising and malware blocker for anyone on the network.

there is a Roku in my household which can't have DNS specifically changed, so i have to use NextDNS for my router (Adguard would work too), though ideally i just want Quad9 in most places due to the Swiss law enforced privacy policy which promises no personally identifiable logging

[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

i know truth itself is not relative, so what is moral truth? to me it sounds like saying that following X persons subjective view of morality we can objectively say that Y is bad. this just then makes objectively proving a persons subjective morality a relative truth though, and not an objective truth, because we could express any side of morality, good or bad, objectively, and as you said, truth is not relative and only one truth must exist.

if you're talking about things like Sam Harris' definition of morality being a sort of "majority wellbeing", i'm sure that while we can theoretically allow for the redefinition of morality and make some objective truths regaridng that subjecte moral viewpoint, but as it is not being absolute in the universe and moreso being related to subjective wellbeing of the most amount of living things, i feel that this is still just fulfilling the subjective definitions.

interestingly though, Sam Harris will go on all day about how we can't redefine free will as being the ability to make choices which all life evidently has in common. just because these choices aren't ultimately free, he rejects the "compatibilist" redefinition of free will.

[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

isn't moral truth determined by people making moral judgements?

[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sam Harris doesn't like this idea, lol. "morality is wellbeing!", well then what is wellbeing to a bad person? it's all relative

[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i generally like reuters so i submitted feedback (bottom of reuters website) regarding that article in the hopes that something will come of it. i agree that it does seem very weird to do

[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

i do chaotic neutral cause it's essentially neutral evil but with at least the illusion of a more secure seal

[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

lawful neutral, then chaotic neutral when i lose the thingy

[–] neonspool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i don't think it matters how expert of an opinon one has when considering confidence on whether someone truly existed or not.

being an expert in history wouldn't help you confidently confirm that anything you read wasn't part of a big popular information conspiracy unfortunately.

their examples of Shakespeare, Socrates, etc. are much more strongly suggestive of being true because of a larger sample size of "historical evidence" from people claiming to exist at the same time as those who wrote about them, and the several events popularly known to be directly caused by them, and not some 50 years removed gospels which may very possibly have been hear-say. (told indirect information, then made a claim based on that)

regardless, it pretty much doesn't matter in philosophy whether someone exists or not since the important thing is the idea associated with the person. the issue is that theology is associated with Jesus, and since theism is a confident belief position, it just doesn't make a ton of sense to live and believe by historical evidence alone. i think complimenting historical evidence with empirical science is a lot more reasonable

to me this would be like if someone had a box, and i really wanted to know what was in it, and they told me it was a carrot and sent me off. now i can believe it was a carrot because they were right there and if they were honest then it should be a carrot in the box, but to personally commit myself to that belief, i would have the see inside the box myself.

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