Mesophar
@Mesophar@lemm.ee
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 days ago:
Ads and subscription aside, any time there is a feature I like on YouTube, they remove it or change it. More often than not when they add a new feature, it makes the experience worse for me.
I understand they need to make money. I’m willing to sit through ads or pay a subscription for that. But the ads are constantly getting worse. Mid-roll ad breaks that are auto-generated into the video (for older videos, content creators would have to go through their library to manually change them, from what I understand). A push for censoring content to avoid demonetisation, even content not intended for children.
Yes, part of it is that I got used to YouTube in its early days when it was operating at a loss. When it was a wild west of content creation. But it just feels like it has become so unfriendly to users and content creators alike. It has become corporate and sterile, while trying to squeeze in revenue everywhere it can. (Likely to barely break even, sure, but they don’t have to make it crap to use to do that.)
- Comment on Monster 1 week ago:
Don’t even need XKCD for it. The monster self proclaims himself as Victor Frankenstein’s son, giving himself the Frankenstein surname and in another part is referred to as the new Adam. Adam Frankenstein is his name.
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure the majority of people mourning the loss of democracy aren’t saying it because they feel the democratic process was broken this election, rather they say it because Dump vowed to dismantle democracy and serve as a dictator.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t even bother going that far. I just have a [words]receipts@[domain].com and use it for all of those e-receipts, accounts that make you sign up at checkout, known spam generators.
If I need to search for a receipt for any reason, I have it there. But none of it clogs up my real email
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 2 weeks ago:
It’s just different use cases. A tree would show relations to the individual, a line just proves they descended from a particular person. Applications of it might be a bit outdated, but I don’t think there is any more reason to show relations in a tree than “oh, that’s neat”.
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 3 weeks ago:
I suppose it is in a fashion, but not necessarily. Let’s say you know you have a ancestor that was part of the first expedition to the arctic. The line of ancestor to descendent between that person and you would be the bloodline. Everyone you are related to would be your family tree, but that could be hundreds of people depending on how far back you go, and could be thousands of people if you start looking at everyone descended from that person. But you are only concerned with the direct line of lineage between them and you, and that would be your bloodline.
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 3 weeks ago:
It would generally be between a person and a specific ancestors of theirs, so that depends on who is is tracking towards. Often it will be qualified with something like “Paternal Bloodline” or such, in which case it would follow the father, the father’s father, the father’s father’s father, etc. Or for royalty, it would track from some historical sovereign figure and follow their legitimate heirs down to the individual being examined.
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
I will add onto this, that you don’t need to be a programmer or understand how everything works to use the terminal. At first, it’s fine to copy the commands directly into the terminal without really knowing how it all works.
I would very highly suggest to be careful about doing this blindly, you can and will compromise or Bork your system doing this too haphazardly. But it’s fine to learn it piece by piece, looking at what commands do as you go to use them. Treat every command you copy paste into the terminal the same way you would treat a .exe file you download from the internet on Windows.
As you use the terminal more frequently, you’ll being to recognize different commands and what they do. You’ll even start figuring out shortcuts or variations of commands and variables that align more with how you use the computer and what you’re hoping the output to give you.
Linux Mint is a great place to play with this, because most everything has a GUI counterpart so you can see the difference between doing the same task with a GUI vs using the terminal. It is also able to live-boot from a USB, as others have pointed out, so you don’t need to worry about ruining your primary computer experience. I’d suggest trying this out before you build your new computer, just to see what it’s like.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Uplifting Games 4 weeks ago:
Supergiant Games, they made Hades and Hades 2, Pyre, Bastion, and Transistor
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 5 weeks ago:
Eventually, it will. Because even with janky responses like that one, corporations will try to cost save everywhere they can. Is AI at the point where it will happen this year? Hell no! But don’t think it isn’t the direction they are trying to take it.
- Comment on Lord, I was born a scramblin' maaaaan 1 month ago:
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 1 month ago:
It was never about our speed, it was about our endurance and persistence. There’s no point in history where we were the fastest creature in the local food chain, a deer or Buffalo was going to sprint faster than us, but when they had to stop to cool off or recover from the fast burn of energy, we were right there, right behind them, still coming.
- Comment on Oxygen 2 months ago:
Interactive Education was always my favorite series from r/HFY
- Comment on Does AAAA just mean awful triple A games now? 2 months ago:
I’ll only support this if I can pre-order it for double the price, and have an option at launch to pay an additional $50 to make the butt sprites into dickbutt instead
- Comment on I hate people like this 2 months ago:
“Just kept tossing their hair and looking at me.”
Are we sure the employees weren’t shaking their heads at the customer and they are just an idiot? I’m also assuming the doors were already locked, or they would have just walked in, and the hours are typically posted on the door. I feel that should be enough of an indication the store is closed. People don’t need to have their hands held through everything I life. Expecting a little independence from them isn’t being not nice.
- Comment on Small Talk 2 months ago:
Just run through a doorway, he’ll have to slow down to walk through sideways
- Comment on Just why?? 3 months ago:
Either put both the coins and bills in your pocket together and sort it out later, or don’t pick your items up off the counter until you sort out your change.
Because even if they gave your paper bills back separate from the coins, if your other hand is so occupied with the items you purchased, how were you going to get the bills in your wallet anyway?
- Comment on The problem with sleeper ships 3 months ago:
They didn’t make a movie, but The Forever War is one of my all time favorite novels and deals with this situation exactly.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] AMD Delays Ryzen 9000: “Did Not Meet Quality Expectations” 3 months ago:
The new launch will be right in the middle of Intels proposed fix, so will still be able to cash in on the troubles Intel is facing (especially if it doesn’t work right away), while making sure AMD processors don’t have a similar fatal flaw. Nothing would be worse than swooping in to take over the share of consumers trying to leave Intel, only to run into their own stability issues.
- Comment on Does anyone speak hairdresser? I need help communicating. 7 months ago:
It’s 100% this. Asking for a cut that’s super short, the hairsresser can always take more off but can’t add it back on. Either keep telling them “a little more off”, show them a picture of what you want (preferably a picture of yourself with the style from when you’ve previously had it done), or at the very least give them assurance not only that you are ok with the buzzer size you give them, but that it’s alright if it ends up shorter than expected.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 7 months ago:
I thought you were talking about the better, original version “Repo! The Genetic Opera” at first
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 7 months ago:
Foyer, mudroom, entrance way. If you don’t have a small cube between a storm door and a front door, then just as you come inside.
This isn’t some privilege thing, it’s literally just an area of your house or apartment. Different environments have different entryways for the houses there. No need to be so hostile just because you don’t know what a “mudroom” is.
- Comment on Spectator rushes stage at CS2 tournament and gets tackled into trophy, smashing it to pieces 7 months ago:
Yes, the trophy was security’s fault because it was from excessive force. He was already restrained! I’m not saying the guy wasn’t in the wrong for climbing on stage, but people climb on stages all the time without security breaking the centerpiece of the event while apprehending them.
- Comment on oc based on a true story 8 months ago:
Brother, is that you?
- Comment on text don't call 9 months ago:
Tbh if I was lost and I got a call come through, I’d answer regardless of what caller ID said. If they were wasting my time, I’d just hang up.
Now, at home when I’m safe and everything is fine… I’m sure I’ve missed phone interviews at least once or twice letting voice-mail catch it…
- Comment on Does matcha tea need to be combined with milk or can I use water? 11 months ago:
I’ve not had bubble tea, so can’t comment Typically matcha powder is used in hot tea (with hot but not boiling water)
- Comment on Does matcha tea need to be combined with milk or can I use water? 11 months ago:
I had never heard of matcha tea with milk before, only matcha with water. I guess making a latte with matcha tea would use milk in it, but you are absolutely fine just using hot water, as that is the traditional method.
Cold brewing, though, I have no idea for.
- Comment on It's dangerous to go alone. Take this. 11 months ago:
Nah, glasses need to be ranked much higher. Do you realize how powerful those are just in every day use? Always impress at job interviews or reviews for promotions/raises? Use in sales jobs or anything customer/client facing to always come out of it ahead? Not only being able to be effortlessly popular in all forms of relationships, but also always know the right things to say to help those people or help them feel better?
“Social situations” is such a broad term that applies to so much of life, and being able to navigate them perfectly implies more than just schmoozing your way to the top. They’d help you do better and be better, basically everywhere.