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- Comment on 1 week ago:
My father had an Acer laptop. It broke.
One of my friends had an Acer laptop. It broke.
I think my father had a 486SX Acer laptop which worked wayyyy past its reasonable age, but it’s in the closet and the hinges look crumbly and I kinda fear that if I touch it it will be atomised.
Me, I’ve used Asus laptops since 2011, and these things are only slightly less resistant to nuclear explosions than Thinkpads
- Comment on The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS 1 week ago:
You just know the owner plastered the car with words like Joy, Knowledge, Self-control and Virtue because deep down they know they have none of those qualities and hope that this ritual will manifest them.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 1 week ago:
That’s not Zombo COM1:, that’s the serial port, the one above it. This is Zombo VGA.
- Comment on Day 477 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Oh crap. Reminds me that for some reason or other (Mostly just time issues I guess, and because dualbooting Windows was pain I guess) I never completed Max Payne 2. As a giant fan of the first game I loved it.
Wonder if I need to go dig out the discs. Wait wait what, I already have them on Steam? How? When did I get them? Never mind. Hope these aren’t a massive headache to get running
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Time to quote the Bible to the boomers who always hypocritically claim to love it so much:
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” - Ecclesiastes 3:1
…and mayonnaise should be used extremely wisely: never in vain, never merely due to tradition - and no matter what, it should always be used with full knowledge about its true, if somewhat mysterious and indescribable-in-words purpose. Those who never consider these mysteries are not fit to decide whether it is appropriate to use mayonnaise or not.
[mic drop]
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 3 weeks ago:
Come to think of it, the Covenant have a lot in common with American brand millennial Evangelists. Leaning really hard on immanentising the eschaton.
- Comment on Banana 4 weeks ago:
They’re completely safe what comes to Potassium-40 radioactivity! You need to eat a massive amount of them to even reach the point where you experience radiation sickness. Actually, you might experience excessive potassium toxicity levels first. (Or you might not! Human bodies are equipped to get rid of excess potassium.) Or, you know, you might experience the problems of stuffing too much stuff down your gullet. There’s only so much stuff you can fit in your stomach at one time.
- Comment on International Shitpost Wednesday! 5 weeks ago:
Turtle robot! 🐢🤖 Cutest robots of them all. Very programmer friendly. Very artistic.
- Comment on Sunlight special 5 weeks ago:
I see no problems with cooking meals with sunlight. (…as we say here in the solarpunk instance)
However, I do see the practical limitations what comes to attempting to cook meals with sunlight in the UK. I have heard the weather is often not favourable.
- Comment on Priorities 1 month ago:
Something something tech company CEOs
- Comment on EuLeR iS nOT a PHySicIST 2 months ago:
An old bit of wisdom: “Most scientific concepts are named after the second person to discover them”
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 2 months ago:
Easiest way to avoid formatting the list is to put a backslash before the dot:
12345\. Blah blah...This was a common problem in Reddit in NaNoWriMo when people posted their daily wordcounts and what they had been doing.
- Comment on Sweet dreams are made of these? 2 months ago:
Chud: “There are some who seem to be ignorant of my ancestry. As I have subtly hinted for some time, the answer should be very clear: very European.”
Europeans: “…We’re kindly requesting you should never set foot on our beautiful continent. Thank you.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well, whoever right-wing funnyboy made the original never went to school, so how would they even know?
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 months ago:
There aren’t that many Premium™ Gamers®, and trying to pretend that that is, like, a legitimate target demographic to pander to is just sad, folks.
(The funniest gamer influencer backlash I’ve seen lately was against some YouTuber who blew ~$2K on gaming desk and a chair and called it a “minimalist” setup. People at large rightfully went “are you shitting me”.)
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
I use inverted Y look with pad controls. Because that makes so much more sense. (Normal mouse look is fine)
I like how many new games show accessibility settings on start but it’s still rare for them to have both subtitle settings and invert Y right there. And always a celebration when they are.
Games that don’t even let you invert Y are hella silly. I’m so glad Xbox lets you force the invert. Gotta figure out if you can do that in Windows/Linux.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 2 months ago:
“Redux” is the extended cut, which has ~45 extra minutes of stuff that was cut from the original theatrical release. Some of the scenes are great, but some could have been left on the cutting room floor. “The Final Cut” is basically the definitive extended version.
- Comment on Oppression.jpg 2 months ago:
The most cyberpunk thing I’ve seen, oh, this week, I guess
- Comment on Train your brain 2 months ago:
Yeah, well, Law and Ethics are two separate things which - very rarely these days - seem to cross each other. This is known.
- Comment on Train your brain 2 months ago:
Courts will say “no, that’s not what we meant by that” and will slap you silly.
AI companies aren’t on the side of copyright reform or abolition, they just want an exception for themselves so they can keep doing whatever they’re doing now. (And they also want more IP laws to cover the current grey areas, so they can stop pretending to give a damn about releasing publicly available data/weights)
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 2 months ago:
Sure, there aren’t wild turtles in the Netherlands. But this call was aimed at the turtles in general, worldwide! Turtles will be able to get to the Netherlands from the nearest location. Eventually. We believe in them!
- Comment on Everyone wants a turn 2 months ago:
Aww, no turtles? Come on, turtles, you’re so much faster than snails, go have a walk and demolish that snail distance figure! 🐢
- Comment on leading ai company 2 months ago:
Oh wow, Elon figured out how we’ll finally get AGI. The key thing is to publish an automatic mobile client update every single hour of the day! That was the secret productivity metric that every single other company was missing. Thanks, big brain business boy!
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 2 months ago:
Last time Clock was interesting was in the Windows 3.0 days. Windows 11 clock is just beyond meh.
Since Windows these days can’t be arsed to have an analog clock with second hand (which is what I need for properly setting clocks on all of the devices that don’t have internet access), I just made one myself one day.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 3 months ago:
The currently hot LLM technology is very interesting and I believe it has legitimate use cases. If we develop them into tools that help assist work. (For example, I’m very intrigued by the stuff that’s happening in the accessibility field.)
I mostly have problem with the AI business. Ludicruous use cases (shoving AI into places where it has no business in). Sheer arrogance about the sociopolitics in general. Environmental impact. LLMs aren’t good enough for “real” work, but snake oil salesmen keep saying they can do that, and uncritical people keep falling for it.
And of course, the social impact was just not what we were ready for. “Move fast and break things” may be a good mantra for developing tech, but not for releasing stuff that has vast social impact.
I believe the AI business and the tech hype cycle is ultimately harming the field. Usually, AI technologies just got gradually developed and integrated to software where they served purpose. Now, it’s marred with controversy for decades to come.
- Comment on New idea 3 months ago:
When I was a kid I learned that UK at some point had daily milk delivery. That seemed silly. We here in the continental Europe buy milk in cartons from the store, like civilised people!
Milk on tap would qualify as return to such barbarism.
- Comment on Sounds like a plan 3 months ago:
Software development has been oversaturated for ages. There’s simply far too many applicants and too few open positions. Literally every job offer I’ve seen lately gets hundreds of applicants. Open applications are often not much more fruitful.
I’d be happy to go freelance/consulting/self-employed route, but our unemployment benefits folks recently did a brilliant move of restricting that even further (literally no one on any field liked that). Universal Basic Income would solve so many problems.
- Comment on Skwerl (aka "How English sounds to non-English speakers") 3 months ago:
Horrible mic doesn’t really help make the point
Don’t worry, it’s incomprehensible if you have the script at hand. Which was the point.
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- Comment on Battlefield 6 won't cost $80, but EA aren't ruling out future price hikes "to capture the full spectrum of pricing" 3 months ago:
The “full spectrum of pricing”, from ludicrous to overpriced to straight up exorbitant.
These guys have no idea how many bloody full price AAA games I have on my backlog and I have said, with considerable gravity, that I guess I’ll get to them later. In a few years maybe. We’ll see.
