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  • melooone@feddit.detoScience Memes@mander.xyzPlaceboz
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    5 months ago

    This reminded me of an episode of Mind Field, which shows significant improvent in cases of ADHD, Migraines, and a skin picking disorder in kids just through the placebo effect.

    They use elaborate set ups and suggestions like a turned off MRI machine, fake nurses and doctors in lab coats, etc. And the kids are actually told, that it’s their brain doing the healing, not the machine.


  • I’ve been using Kde for about 3 years now and to be fair, do have some issues from time to time.

    Most annoying has to be that when I try to launch discord for example, I type “discor” and press enter immediately. But it hasn’t really registered the “r” yet so it launches discover instead. But I just learned to wait a bit after typing.

    Kde also had some crashes, although very rarely. So nothing I really care about.





  • melooone@feddit.detolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldSimple as
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    7 months ago

    Tracking can be disabled

    Tracking is one of the main reasons I switched to Linux. You simply can’t know if Microsoft is tracking you, even if you turn off all of the settings. That is because it’s closed source.

    Bloatware can be uninstalled manually/Winget/Chris Titus Tech Tools etc

    Apart from this beeing exclusive to advanced users, in my experience, after updates or at least a reinstall you would have to do it again. And that was just getting on my nerves.

    I never get Ads on Windows

    That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen for anyone else.

    Look, maybe Linux is just not for you I get that. You’ve come accustomed to Windows and are happy with how it works for you. But for some people it might be a good choice. To give an example from my own life:

    I recently installed Debian 12 KDE (looks like windows) on my step dads laptop. He is not technically inclined at all mind you. And apart from setting up auto mounting his ssd, I never had to give him tech support again after that and he is very happy with it.



  • Currently in the process of installing Lineageos on my brothers redmi note 10 pro.

    Its a huge pain compared to my phone, mainly because unlocking the bootloader requires an account with his number connected. Then I had to install Windows to use their shitty unlock app, which the requires you to wait up to 30 days for seemingly no reason. Luckily “just” a week for us.

    But yeah the hardware is amazing.