thepreciousboar
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- Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water 2 weeks ago:
If developers optimized their apps, we could have phones that are 10x faster than 10 yeara ago. Instead they are the same speed and the same amount of apps fit in the bigger storage, because developers are lazy and use heavy, unoptimized technologies that use 10x the resources
- Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water 2 weeks ago:
May be, but I don’t think apps use it. Afaik Teams, Discord and such are all epectron apps, yet they have not much in term of dependencies and large install sizes, so they must ship with their own versions.
- Comment on Futuristic movies timeline 2 weeks ago:
“Was able to establish a wide broascast data link through the planetary communication system” is such a fancy way to say “got viral on a tik-tok livestream” which would be the most likely outcome
- Comment on Form over function, eh? 2 months ago:
I never undertand the more granular, the scale is in 180 because that’s the most precision they could use to manufacture scientific thermometers, nowadays it’s completely irrelevant. Celsius thermometers have a granularity of 0.1°C and that is useful soley when you want to differentiate between “almost a slight fever” and “maybe a slight fever”. Do you find yourself needing to differentiate between 45 °F and 46 °F?
- Comment on Form over function, eh? 2 months ago:
Unless you have some kind of color blindness, orange is among the most noticeable colors to the human eyes, especially in an urban background
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 2 months ago:
Some professors kept the online exams for convenience (theirs and for the students depending on the type of exam), but did in presence in a university class, they dropped the recording but kept the lockdown environment so you cannot cheat even with your laptop
- Comment on FBI Warns Of Extremist MAGA Plot To Go To A Polling Location And Vote For Preferred Candidate 5 months ago:
Sarcasm is the weapon of the weak, especially if it’s your only defense to others accusing your side of being antidemocractic
- Comment on Era of complex and ambitious TV is over, says Sopranos creator 5 months ago:
It really depends on the producers. On one hand netflix is greenlighting everything it can hoping to get a new Squid Game, killing everything that does not become viral in the first season. But then you have series like Fargo, not even producing a season per year, while maintaining the quality constantly stellar over 10 years.
Has the amount of disposable tv series increased? Absolutely. Has the number of overall series increased? Also yes. I cannot tell you the ratio between shallow/complex, but saying that “nothing new is made anymore” is just wrong.
- Comment on Andre Braugher, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ and ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Star, Dies at 61 6 months ago:
Brief as brief in time. So very acute and very fatal
- Comment on Marketing email's subject made me think my card got hacked 6 months ago:
That’s because gmail automatically adds .ics files to your calendar. I don’t even think there’s a way to disable it. I checked and my solution was to not use gmail for those things. For spam emails luckily I don’t have this problem
- Comment on Adobe tells you to use Chrome, not Firefox 7 months ago:
There are browser estensions that do it, don’t remember the name though
- Comment on Windows: we noticed that you kept the useless search bar disabled since 2015, so we sent an update that re-enabled it without your permission 8 months ago:
You’ll be surprised how much you can do with wine and mono. But even so, switching and getting a vm is a viable option
- Comment on Excuse me, Bing Image Creator? 8 months ago:
Should have clicked Nliesat
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 8 months ago:
In Europe you wouldn’t want a dick on your phone while you are in the office or on the subway
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 8 months ago:
The distinction is made to differentiate between two very different and clearly separated categories, one being just inapproriate to show around (a boob on your phone in a public is inappropriate pretty much everywhere, not just in the puritan US) and straight disturbing content that you might never want to see, even in private.
Different customizeable categories would be needlessly complicated to implement in every client
- Comment on An £8 sandwich in Starbucks 8 months ago:
Maybe more than in the UK, but here in a supermarket that would be 0.20€ of ham, 0.10€ of chese and 0.30€ of bread. Considering the volume starbucks has, I don’t think it’s unreasonable they would pay half of what you pay in a supermarket.
Of course these numbers I’m all taking our of my ass, but I think they are a close estimate. There’s a reason if Starbucks is so profitable
- Comment on An £8 sandwich in Starbucks 8 months ago:
£5.1 is slightly less but stil outrageous for £0.30 of food