Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 7 hours ago:
The original Macintosh had 128k of ram.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 3 days ago:
When I’d get stuff, I’d always offer it to the employees first. My employees used to encourage vendors to show up to get free stuff. I’d let them get whatever they could. One employee got free night vision goggles.
- Comment on Update to last week's BestBuy Shenanigan. They refused to refund me after not delivering me the stuff I ordered after a so-called "investigation". 5 days ago:
It’s likely intentional. What’s the point of a good reputation if you don’t milk it for profit? Bestbuy alternates between good and bad. Build a good reputation, the cut corners for profit for several years until people notice while banking that profit. Then restart the good reputation.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 6 days ago:
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that MS fixed Windows search when Google had its Google Desktop search product and Windows Search went back to horrible when Google discontinued Desktop Search.
You can find files faster on Windows by using the command line directly command with recursion switch and watch every directory tree scroll by until it finds the file than wait for the GUI even when Indexed.
- Comment on I put these 2 pics of Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker together, can someone who's more clever than I am come up with with some captions? 1 week ago:
- Comment on They Live 2069 1 week ago:
2069 and vr headset looks like it’s from 2019?
- Comment on Crosspost if you agree! 1 week ago:
He did explain the reason. Garden hose.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 1 week ago:
It doesn’t matter that they have no basis for a lawsuit. Nintendo starts a lawsuit, no matter how ridiculous, and the developer has to pay a lawyer to defend or they lose to default judgement.
The US isn’t like EU. Everyone pays their own costs whether you win or lose. If you win, you can then start a new lawsuit to recover legal costs but that costs more money and you aren’t guaranteed to recover the money.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 1 week ago:
There’s no precedent. Nintendo sues, the developer doesn’t have money for lawyers to defend themselves so they remove it.
That’s how it’s been going for a long time.
- Comment on Movies not starting when they are scheduled. 1 week ago:
Is it always 20 minutes? Or is it sometimes 15 minutes and sometimes 25 minutes?
- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 2 weeks ago:
Yeah if U2 is grunge based on time period, then Motley Crue and Michael Jackson is grunge.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If you want to go tiny you could get an Anbernic Gameboy like the RG35xxSP. They run Linux with a gaming UI on top. But it’s very easy to run full desktop Linux distros on them.
Skip to 5 minutes. youtu.be/EvbGb_rHFqk
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 4 weeks ago:
I got a set, tried to use them twice and they failed both times.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 5 weeks ago:
Les Nessman from WKRP in Cincinnati?
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 5 weeks ago:
That’s Les Grossman.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 5 weeks ago:
He grew up in New York and only recently moved. He’s got that New York attitude. Yeah it’s off putting.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 5 weeks ago:
Forward it to Louis Rossman. He’ll make an entire video about it and add it to the wiki tracking these scummy companies.
- Comment on Number neighbors! 5 weeks ago:
Just a reminder that Epstein was killed when Trump was president. Trump’s attorney general was William Barr. Barr’s dad was very close friends with Epstein, gave Epstein his first job, and Barr’s dad wrote pedo scifi as a hobby.
- Comment on Dont call this number again, we uphold the laws of physics in this home 5 weeks ago:
I don’t get the, “obey laws of physics.” Variable focus reflective optics are a thing. Both by moving the mirror distance or by using fancy materials to change the curvature of the mirror.
- Comment on This AI App Is Using an AI-Generated Ad to Show How Easy It Is to Generate AI App Slop 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t that the right thing? If they didn’t use AI, people would be saying “Haha AI app has to use real people.”
It doesn’t mean it isn’t slop though.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 5 weeks ago:
The only reason Fauci was on TV and setting policy on COVID was because Trump hired him to the Trump task force. Trump could have removed him from the Task force. Instead Trump acted like he had no power over Fauci.
That Fauci had been previously working for the government is irrelevant. Trump hired Fauci to the Trump COVID Task Force. Everything Fauci did was under Trump’s control.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 1 month ago:
It’s new hardware. It needs to interact with Windows or Linux at a level that gives it hardware access. That requires admin (Windows) or Root (Linux) for software to be installed that has the ability to interact with new hardware that neither Windows nor Linux knows about.
Software talks to the Operating System. The Operating System talks to drivers (small programs that understand the hardware). Drivers talk to hardware. Windows and Linux come bundled with hundreds of drivers. But they don’t come bundled with drivers for everything. That’s why you need to install the driver. If software could access hardware directly as a stand alone program, then anything you click on or run on the internet could also directly access hardware and install viruses, Trojans, spyware, etc.
Software that could run stand alone and directly access hardware is how PC’s running DOS worked.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 month ago:
Here’s the official text from TrumpWhitehouse.gov that Trump released on Jan 29 2020 announcing that he hired Fauci for his Corona Virus Task Force.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 month ago:
Fauci was director of NIAID. Trump picked him to lead the White House COVID Task Force. Then Trump threw him under a bus.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 month ago:
??? Trump hired Fauci to lead the Whitehouse Corona Virus Task Force. Then Trump threw Fauci under the bus when his base didn’t like what Fauci said.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 month ago:
Trump hired Fauci to lead the Corona Virus task force. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 month ago:
And they blamed Fauci who Trump hired and could have fired at any time.
- Comment on What are some examples of some of the most well-known and watched TV series at the time that been forgotten culturally? 1 month ago:
Googled and there weren’t aliens in Dynasty. That was The Colby’s.
- Comment on The onion writers crying 1 month ago:
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 1 month ago:
I think because I warned some users a couple of times over a year ago, that he thinks I’m a sock puppet of the person/people he has banned. When he got angry about my warning the user, I didn’t engage at all. But a year later in that thread about Discovery, I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t notice that I replied to him.
He seems to have a lot of drama around him.
