rainynight65
@rainynight65@feddit.de
- Comment on Country music 3 days ago:
I pointed out that your JOKE was shit. You’re the one who started calling me names, so don’t lecture me on twisted knickers.
- Comment on Country music 3 days ago:
Wow, you have even less of a sense of humour than the average German.
Enjoy your two-ingredient Fleischsalat.
- Comment on Country music 3 days ago:
I’m off by one, you’re off by one - shall we split the difference and I’ll overlook that even being merely technically correct I’m still closer than you, who’s both technically and objectively incorrect?
C’mon, no cop is going to give you that deal.
- Comment on Country music 3 days ago:
The recipe you’ve linked has more than two ingredients. To say that it’s ‘mayo on sliced sausage’ is misleading. We Germans are a smidgen more sophisticated than that.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
First source I could find:
drawingsof.com/color-or-colour/
In the early 1800s, a U.S. lexicographer and dictionary creator named Noah Webster decided that the United States of America should use different spellings than British English — ideally to make words shorter, simpler, and more logical.
In the 1806 and 1828 U.S. dictionaries that he published, Webster changed most of the “ou” British spellings of words to “o” — including turning “color” into “colour.” He also changed “flavour” to “flavor,” “rumour” to “rumor,” “honour” to “honor,” and many more. He argued that eliminating unnecessary letters (like that silent “u”) could save money on printing
The claim on England looking down on the colonies wouldn’t check out of you consider that -or in favour of -our is only used in the US, none of the other former colonies (not even Canada).
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 2 weeks ago:
It Hal’s also no erased other languages, many of which use (and pronounce) two i’s.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 2 weeks ago:
Not to mention many other languages that use two i’s:
German, French: Aluminium Spanish, Portuguese: Aluminio Italian: Alluminio
Just to name a few.
‘Aluminum’ is just yet another instance where American English decided to be different for the sake of it, without any rhyme or reason.
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes words aren’t enough.
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 5 weeks ago:
Then you stop them and tell them this isn’t what I asked for. It’s not that hard.
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 5 weeks ago:
If they’re not trimming enough - tell them to keep going. Until they hit the length you want. The job is done when you’re happy with it, not when they think they’re done.
- Comment on RIP in pieces 5 weeks ago:
As much as I am loath to say anything about Musk, but he did actually found SpaceX - although that’s probably the only company he founded (that still exists).
- Comment on Hooooooooooooooooooot 5 weeks ago:
But not all electricity generation is based on boiling water. Wind, hydro and tidal don’t need to generate large amounts of heat to make steam that spins a turbine, they just use natural movement to do so.
- Comment on 400,000 species 1 month ago:
They are extremely relevant, culturally and historically. They broke new grounds for music, and a lot of today’s music would simply not exist without the Beatles, or some of their contemporaries. That alone means they’re not overrated.
However that doesn’t mean everyone has to love them. It’s possible to recognise their relevance without worshipping them.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 1 month ago:
But where are they offering it? Big cities and densely populated areas where people have options and therefore won’t swarm to the product? Or are they offering it in small, remote towns where there’s not a lot of competition?
Where I live, mobile home internet is not available outside of metro areas and larger cities, and in the regions mobile towers are chronically underprovisioned and overloaded.
- Comment on What firing your PR team does to a motherfucker 1 month ago:
I don’t actually have any particular problem with that. So he dabbled in Goth - nothing wrong with it. I’ve been around that particular block, and the Goths I’ve met were very nice people. I’ve had my own leather and medieval phases, and am not embarrassed about them. If anything, they taught me a bit about variety and individuality, and helped make me the person I am today. Maybe if Musk had actually leaned into it properly and allowed himself to explore that or another niche space, maybe even find himself in it, he might be a bit more balanced and happy today.
- Comment on What firing your PR team does to a motherfucker 1 month ago:
‘Mass murder’ is not a ‘good idea’ in any context.
- Comment on What firing your PR team does to a motherfucker 1 month ago:
I literally never saw Musk as a real life Tony Stark. He always was more or less ‘some tech executive’ to me, but my perception of him change to ‘toxic shithead’ the moment he lashed out at people criticising his submarine idea.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 1 month ago:
Net neutrality isn’t going to do a thing about this kind of stuff. In a best case scenario, you’ll end up with overall data usage limitations - no more ‘unlimited mobile data’.
ISPs meter data usage because it’s pretty much the only way they can impose some form of limitation on a finite capacity to provide such data to you and other customers - other than data rate limits (read: slower speeds). They can’t guarantee data rates in almost any setup, because ultimately, while ‘data usage’ is a bit of an artificial construct and ‘data’ is not in any way finite, the pipes that deliver the data certainly are of finite capacity. Mobile data capacity - and in fact, any wireless medium - is a shared medium, the more people try to use it simultaneously, the less pleasant it’s going to be for each individual user. Ask Starlink users in many US areas how overselling limited capacity impacts the individual user.
Mobile data usage also has different usage patterns than if you’re hotspotting your PC. You’re not going to download massive games or other bandwidth hogs to your mobile. You probably won’t be running a torrent client either. So they can give you unlimited mobile data because you’re simply not going to put as much of a strain on the infrastructure with pure on-device usage than you will with hotspotting.
This isn’t a defense of what AT&T is doing. But net neutrality isn’t going to force them to suddenly be all ethical. It’s not going to make them provision infrastructure that doesn’t fall over at the first signs of higher-than-usual load. And it certainly can’t change the physical realities of wireless data communication. In an ideal world ISPs wouldn’t be so greedy and/or beholden to greedy shareholders to be cutting corners, and instead provide sufficient infrastructure that can handle high demand.
And to those who are talking about their workarounds: you may not like it but you’ve signed a contract. That contract stipulates acceptable use, and if you’re found to be breaching the contract terms, the other party is within their rights to terminate the contract. Again, in an ideal world these contract terms would be more balanced towards the needs of the customer, but in the meantime your best recourse against unfavourable contract terms is to take your business elsewhere. And if you can’t do that, everything else is at your own risk.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 1 month ago:
Except there is no ‘unlimited’ for water or electricity.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I didn’t think I needed the /s, but here goes:
/s
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ah c’mon, give them credit where it’s due. They didn’t try nothing - thoughts and prayers were tried in abundance.
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
The irony of someone not wanting to use decimal points for their temperature setting isn’t lost on me, when that same person has to resort to fractions to measure anything thinner than a door.
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
I’ll hazard it’s because all your points sound like pseudoscientific nonsense that you basically just pulled out of your arse.
Dying on that hill doesn’t make you king of the hill. It just makes you a person who chose to die on that hill. Like I said, I won’t stop you. But I will still comment.
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
You have issues. Get help.
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
Whenever I think that I have seen it all in one of these °F vs °C threads, someone comes along and proves me wrong.
No, the F scale was not built around human biology, that is pure conjecture from people who can’t let go of their antiquated system of measures.
But you go die on that hill, I won’t stop you.
- Comment on temperature 2 months ago:
If half a degree Celsius makes the difference between being comfortable or uncomfortable for you, then you have bigger problems than being able to use whole numbers.
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 2 months ago:
If you want good sales you need to do something innovative and interesting, or something cliché but really well done.
Or a recognisable brand. Starfield got panned and still sold oodles.
Taking a look at Doom 2016 (also a single player shooter)
Case in point. Doom has a lot riding on its name and legacy, and many people will buy it just because of that.
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 2 months ago:
Unlike many people in this thread, I actually have heard of the game. The makers of a podcast I follow loved it, and had the head of the studio on their show for a pretty frank interview, too. When I learned that there was a free demo, I decided I would give the game a try some time.
And in light of the overwhelming negativity in this thread, I did so last night. And what can I say? I spent an hour and change going through the prologue, the training and the first battle sequence, and I really enjoyed it. Movement and
shootingslinging magic are great fun, with a diversity of spells available pretty much from the get-go. Just shoot, or throw a massive armor-breaking spell at a wave of enemies, or use a lash to pull a remote enemy close and whack them. I wouldn’t have know what to expect from the ‘CoD with magic’ premise but it’s really enjoyable so far.The voice acting is very good, and while the facial animations are a bit uncanny valley, I am enjoying the snarky dialogues and matching facial expressions. Gina Torres has presence, and the rest of the cast so far blends in fine.
I will definitely spend some more time with the demo, and if it doesn’t annoy me too much, I might just buy this. And that seems to be the feedback the devs got from many people - once players actually get their hands on it, they actually enjoy it. According ton the studio head, sales have picked up towards Christmas, and they’ve been getting a lot of conversions from the free demo.
- Comment on I'm a California restaurant operator preparing for the $20-an-hour fast-food wage by trimming hours, eliminating employee vacation, and raising menu prices 3 months ago:
I assume you’re talking about this being the case in the US, because in many other countries things like annual leave, sick leave etc. are absolutely mandated by legislation or national standards.
- Comment on Squidward 5 months ago:
Country music.