ShepherdPie
@ShepherdPie@midwest.social
- Comment on Donald Trump Team Plans to Cancel Biden's $7,500 Tax Incentive On EVs 1 day ago:
Especially right after everyone began retooling factories to produce them and the rest of the world leaves us behind in development. America will be producing the Yugos of the 1980s in a few short years.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 2 days ago:
Just use the TV as a display and try to dink around with some open source media player box if you want to create your own custom OS.
- Comment on Do gangs "jump in" new recruits? Or is that just for movies and tv shows? If so why do they do that kinda seems anti productive. 3 days ago:
- Comment on Is there a 'ama' sub? 4 days ago:
What exactly do you find bizarre about it? Like how is it not identical to reddit with the exception of federation?
- Comment on Is there a 'ama' sub? 4 days ago:
And this place is designed to be a clone of reddit so it seems dumb to be bothered by someone using reddit terminology here.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
How would you know if it’s hidden?
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
More recently, they throttled Netflix until they could extort them to pay for the traffic being used by their own customers, who were already paying Comcast for the very same data ussge.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 3 weeks ago:
That’s true it was excellent and an outlier for the franchise.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Renewed for Season 2 4 weeks ago:
Hopefully nothing because every first season of a new ST series is a flop.
- Comment on Star Trek: Lower Decks Releases Homage Poster for Final Season Celebration 4 weeks ago:
Why are the ending the show after 5 seasons without any real replacement? Seems like it’s easy to keep an animated show going since you’re not limited on what’s ‘realistic’ like with live action
- Comment on Goodwill is out of control 4 weeks ago:
I do this too. Any junk that might be sellable but likely not goes to Goodwill so they can deal with it. The decent items go to a local thrift shop that actually helps the community.
- Comment on Goodwill is out of control 4 weeks ago:
The jobs training program where they hire people with disabilities and then pay them below minimum wage because of a loophole in the law?
- Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks? 4 weeks ago:
Typically no but my current employer pays us for 1/2 of our 1 hour lunch.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 weeks ago:
It’s not just the bandwidth that’s the issue it’s the amount of data as many people have datacaps.
The article says:
official Microsoft bandwidth recommendation for that game was 50 Mb/s.
which comes out to 23GB/hr. That can add up quick. 10 hours in a month equates to 20% of my cap with Comcast.
This also neglects people who live in rural areas that might not even have 50Mbps available and can’t play because MS streams half the game to you rather than include it in the install files.
Also *Mb/s not MB/s
- Comment on What do sister communities refer to? 5 weeks ago:
On the lemmynsfw instance, are they referred to as step-sister communities?
- Comment on What does a federal ban on price gouging look like? 5 weeks ago:
My cynical view is that this is a campaign promise that even if passed, won’t lead to anything of benefit for the average citizen. My solidly blue state has price gouging laws and yet businesses were permitted to price gouge water, charging as much as $60 for a 12 pack of bottles, when we had a toxic algae bloom in our water supply and couldn’t drink it a few years ago. Hundreds of complaints were filed and the governor went on the news said they couldn’t substantiate any of it, even with photo evidence, and none of the companies were punished or at most were sent a letter to “knock it off” even though residents were still having to pay these insane prices if they weren’t able to drive hours away to find normally priced bottled water.
I think if we had an actual left-wing party, I’d have a different view, but instead, we have right-wing and diet-right-wing
- Comment on "incel" 1 month ago:
There is a lot of very unusual things in their post history.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
For the fourteenth time, it’s completely irrelevant to the discussion.
You talk about conveniently ignoring things while you’re ignoring the whole topic so you can keep talking about some updates to Fallout '76 as if that has any bearing on Bethesda trending toward doing worse and worse with each new release. You’re making a completely separate argument to the rest of us.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
Is that my “line of thinking” when I never said anything of the sort? I don’t think so.
I’ve never played Cyberpunk 2077 nor No Man’s Sky and have zero opinion on them, but you bringing them up out of nowhere as some sort of ‘gotcha’ screams “my argument is based on emotion and not fact.”
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
So Bethesda is good because Starfield might be worth playing 10 years after it was released? You’re obviously not understanding the point here.
It doesn’t matter that they improved '76 after the fact. It matters that they keep releasing top dollar garbage that needs years of work after the fact to even be playable.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
“Bethesda hasn’t improved since Fallout '76 was released”
Make sense now?
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
and they ended up with something that didn’t really work and shouldn’t have shipped.
That sure didn’t stop the marketing department, as this game was being shoved in our faces left and right as if it was the end-all-be-all game we’d be playing with our grand children in 50 years.
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 1 month ago:
These look like Crumbl cookies which are sold in their own stores for ridiculous prices. One cookie can legitimately feed 4 people since they’re so rich (and delicious)
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 1 month ago:
Based on what measure?
- Comment on Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?" 1 month ago:
What about using my George Foreman grill?
- Comment on Why does Facebook and Instagram still provides web interface when most of their users use the Android or IOS app? 1 month ago:
They make it so painful though to obviously twist people’s arms into installing their data harvesting apps. Facebook on mobile is so stripped down and actually freezes half the times you try to use it.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
People eat that shit up because it’s they same way they’re fed all their propaganda too
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
Oh so that’s why they call it that.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Pro-China sycophants. They’d be the ones driving the tanks at Tiananman Square.
I’d also argue that these people only put up a facade of being leftist. I’ve never once seen a hexbear user actually make arguments for leftist policies, socialism, or communism. They just shitpost a bunch of anti-American memes and rally for the Russian and Chinese governments.
- Comment on Well, I wanted to enjoy stream sticks 2 months ago:
I don’t think any of those services will block youtube ads since they’re coming from the same domain as the videos. Only UBlock can block them in a browser. There may be some other YouTube front-end available out there on streaming sticks but they’d likely require root access.