Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
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@Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis I don't feel lucky. I feel like I'm watching all my hopes and dreams be torn down for good, just as they were about to finally be within reach. The stuff I worked toward my whole life... I worked toward it for nothing. All the angst, trying to be good enough for my parents and then my children, only to find out it was pointless because it doesn't matter what I do or did. The world has turned to a giant dumpster fire, and I don't know how we will ever climb out of it.
@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
how are you doing fellow Xennial? Take care yourself. I'm where you are right now and I sometimes have to pull away from it all and dive into something completely unrelated to the world around me. I've watched most of my friends and family struggle. It is bleak right now and I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It is very scary.
But you're not alone. Stay strong. Once history turns over again, we'll be needed to help with our unique insights and wisdom as children somewhere between two arbitrarily defined albeit unique generations.
Apes, together, strong.
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@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis this encapsulates what I consider the defining feature of us xennials.
It's not as simple as technology - I spent large amounts of my single digit childhood on a 48k Spectrum, while many of my peers barely touched a computer until late teens.
It's more about us living on the edge of a cliff. We are the tipping point between GenX who could reliably do the career-house-kids-stability thing, and Millennials who had that future ripped from them. Whether any individual of us managed to cling onto the cliff is largely due to chance.@jetlagjen @hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
me and my hand-me-down TI/99/4a computer agree with you!
Chance has a lot to do with it.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis Jones
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Yes, many (not all) were certainly happy to kick the ladders away in the 80s, and that generation's luck has continued with triple-locked, final salary pensions.
I read something recently about European counties where Boomers had higher incomes in retirement than the average salary of working people, but this seems to be changing for more recent retirees thanks to retirement age increases and taxes.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
@thordis@theforkiverse.com bruh i know multiple gen alpha why they haved to get lumped in
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
@thordis *extreme nerdy voice* aktschually I'm a cusp year that's Xennial, but I identify more with millennials than gen X so that's what I chose.
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
@thordis
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@leffe Interesting!
I'm still figuring out the federated aspect of it all, so I actually thought I was directing the question only at the fork-people (the forks? the forksters?)
@thordis
Yeah, I decided you must think you're addressing only forkiverse people. I actually had to look up forkiverse, and ended up looking at the transcript of the first episode of the NYT's Hard Fork podcast. There are millions of currently active fediverse users so the spread of responses you get will depend on how well federated the forkiverse is. -
Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis just a bunch of old farts fartin around
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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Generation Jones
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
@thordis genuinely disappointed to see there aren't as many zoomers (like me) on the fediverse. </3
I mean, I know the reasons why, but it's not as bad as some of them make it look like
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@thordis
Yeah I'm a Millennial (Generation Y) born Dec 18th 1983.
LOLz Boomers are only 13%, that's because for Boomers to be able vote on here they would need someone to help them vote becasue it's Tech/the Internet🤣@ETARD_The_LifeCaster mmm nope. Booxers invented this shit, chief. @thordis
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
@thordis It's a misconception. To make people believe that they are all born with common traits, a bit like a way of putting them in little boxes, is an illusion.
I could understand it for major changes (the war in particular and what shortly followed). But today... Do we have to have a name worthy of the Apple brand on our backs?
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
@thordis Don't know, don't care.
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@hosford42 @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
how are you doing fellow Xennial? Take care yourself. I'm where you are right now and I sometimes have to pull away from it all and dive into something completely unrelated to the world around me. I've watched most of my friends and family struggle. It is bleak right now and I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It is very scary.
But you're not alone. Stay strong. Once history turns over again, we'll be needed to help with our unique insights and wisdom as children somewhere between two arbitrarily defined albeit unique generations.
Apes, together, strong.
@FuturisticRobert @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
First I have to survive. I have lost my job *again*, at the worst possible time *again*. I have no savings, because I used them all up last time I was laid off, and didn't get the chance to build them back up. I don't even know how I'm going to feed my kids tonight. And the job market is *destroyed* for people in my field. (Non-LLM machine learning) Add the tariffs and the oncoming economic downturn they're projecting, and we are screwed.
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@FuturisticRobert @Clem @szczurtorebkowy @thordis
First I have to survive. I have lost my job *again*, at the worst possible time *again*. I have no savings, because I used them all up last time I was laid off, and didn't get the chance to build them back up. I don't even know how I'm going to feed my kids tonight. And the job market is *destroyed* for people in my field. (Non-LLM machine learning) Add the tariffs and the oncoming economic downturn they're projecting, and we are screwed.
@hosford42 @FuturisticRobert @szczurtorebkowy @thordis there's always money in the banana stand chk-CHK
Edit - I should explain. I wasn't trying to be trite about your situation at all even though it looks like I clearly am in retrospect. That was more pointing out how generational wealth breeds the inability to notice others struggles. If you always have a banana stand in your family, you don't have to worry about the day-to-day of people without a banana stand
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
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@thordis not all millennials but definitely all old >_>
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
@thordis This here is a 1976 model, GenX, living tissue over a metal endoskeleton. Or something like that ;)
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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?
Could people boozt this? I am so curious.
Are you a:
@thordis Voted Other since I squarely fit into the dead middle of Xennial.
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I’m a very very old “millennial” or a very very young gen X— not shocked by these results though.
@futurebird @thordis i think we're born in the same year or at least within 1 year of each other, which means most people i've seen born 2-3 years before us who talk about the x/y boundary tend to identify either as millennials or xennials...
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@mcc a third option is I don't use ALSA for playing MIDI files and instead build that functionality into mollytime directly, and just treat ALSA as a means of connecting to MIDI hardware.
This is probably the best option, for also being the most portable :/
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@mcc my best guess on how to solve this is to turn off timestamps on the input port's queue (which preserves the timestamps written by sequencer applications, and then figure out how to translate the two different disjoint timestamp formats into relative time offsets so I can use the audio thread's cadence to regulate playback.
Or see if there's some way for me to tell ALSA when to advance the input queue and by how much (so far as I can tell there is no such mechanism)
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@mcc My other theory is that this might be a consequence of having the jack audio thread crank the synthesizer, which in turn reads events off the ALSA input port, which means an intermittent batched processing thing is periodically polling a real time event source. However, I am under the impression that the audio thread wakes at a fixed cadence, and this wouldn't ever cause the song to get faster just compressed in weird ways, which is not what it sounds like.
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Beans are lowkey goated when "the fridge is empty and I want to eat something healthy" is the vibe.
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@mcc so, I'm not totally sure this isn't just my imagination, but I think switching my laptop's power mode from "balanced" to "performance" while running on battery causes the problem to get worse, which is how I arrived that at my current theory which is that ALSA is not using a stable clock for the MIDI sequencer.
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@migbox @shumann78 @d10c4n3 @alex_ch @steek_hutzee @attualita l’obiezione di coscienza è un diritto umano universale. Se in coscienza non sento di votare in elezioni dove quelli più a sinistra candidano gente che stava a Bruxelles in gruppo coi neonazisti e si avvalgono della prescrizione in un processo contro un ecomostro direi che sono fatti miei e della mia coscienza. Puoi votare tappando il tuo naso, non il mio.
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@aeva super worried about when I have to actually work with this thing
