Zink

@Zink@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only I had enough for the superior siege engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This probably isn’t common for a lemmy linux nerd, but I have spent a few grand on lumber over the past two years for various projects.

  I bet one could build a properly superior hobby-sized siege engine for a total budget of $1000!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fediverse isn’t worth saving after all.

  The fediverse shouldn’t need A savior. It should be its own thing that no one person can control or stop.

  Maybe this… Maybe this is the fediverse healing? 🥹

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me_irl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But then you are treated to the ultimate satisfaction of “YOUR SOUND CARD WORKS PERFECTLY”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨three cheers for fate!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  An executive whose job it is to increase profits by systematically denying care to vulnerable people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me this morning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a medicated ADHDer and I treat coffee like just yet another medication.

  I was never a coffee drinker (or medicated in general) until my 40s. But now I literally prepare myself a cup of coffee in the morning and at lunch time, the same times I take my adderall. The combination is working great, even if it doesn’t fix everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me this morning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, and I think weed really helped me even though I’m not using any right now.

  Sometimes it’s extremely beneficial to be chemically pushed into a good mood and satisfied with just existing, when otherwise existence just seems to be misery and pain.

  But it is not a permanent fix. It’s a band-aid while you find more permanent ways to improve your life. But band-aids can hurt to take off when you’re done with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can't keep tying healthcare to employment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hospital Corp. of America

  That is the most on-the-nose American-ass name I’ve ever seen for one of our companies, not just a healthcare one.

  It’s right up there with the places of worship named “church of god.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what came to mind for me too.

  It is so much fun to play co-op with my kid. Then I can act old and describe all the gaming industry references that only I get.

  I’ve also been to Sweden two whole times, so I get to act all sophisticated and worldly while describing the real world Goatenburg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrorbird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have watched the simulated running of various dinosaur species in documentaries such as Jurassic Park.

  I have also watched my chickens excitedly run around my back yard.

  There is nothing you can say that will convince me birds are not literally dinosaurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨national anthem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. It would be sweet to live in a world that doesn’t keep proving the cynics and doomsayers correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨national anthem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of an accurate way to describe a lot of society these days though, from doomscrolling to phone addiction to social media disinformation to surveillance and tracking and advertising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, no. If you look closely enough, no lines exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams status⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the beautiful things about being able to run Linux at work and use Teams in a browser is that my status is decoupled from what I’m doing on my machine. Obviously if I’m in a meeting or chatting with somebody through Teams my status will reflect that.

  I bet my most productive days have me away/idle for hours on end, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m right there with you, but the OP mentions social media, and that’s all that shit is.

  Our society has allowed the way many people keep in touch with one another to be via psychologically manipulative, attention harvesting, advertising machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From inside, “Made in the USA” feels like it’s going to be us chained to paying 2x the cost for wildly inferior products. See for example, cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like a lot of good thought and design went into it.

  The biggest problem was/is always going to be consumers wary of trusting a tech company not to mess it up because of greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Useful details, thanks.

  I’ll just point out that they/we did not have a system like that, but just promises of it from a tech giant. (except of course for whatever they had designed internally up until that time) So even as somebody who doesn’t really sell games, I get why people weren’t thrilled with the idea of microsoft being the ever-present broker in the transactions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I specifically remember that their plan was essentially CD Keys. You’d buy a physical game and it would have a code inside, or the discs would have unique identifiers that force linked to your account, or whatever.

  So yeah, essentially physical media with a digital license. If you were going to be able to resell your game it was going to have to go through microsoft, or maybe you could lend a friend your disc and that lets them buy their own license for a small discount to play it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of an era?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It won’t really affect me, but I understand the appeal of a physical artifact servicing as time game’s license for those who like to lend, sell, trade, library, etc.

  And those same benefits are why the corporations can’t wait to do away with it. It’s been quite a while since Microsoft tried the same thing and people freaked out enough that they reversed course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America continues to fall behind the rest of the world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the most dystopian American-sounding thing I’ve heard all day, especially considering the source.

  In this context I expect that “Economic Freedom” means “unregulated, social darwinist, robber baron playground, law of the jungle laissez-faire capitalism.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate my grandma's setup⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lookin’ good!

  No joke though, I currently have my sewing machine sitting in front of the secondary PC in our family room. I have found sewing to be up there with other non-tech hobbies like building things with wood, digging in the dirt, and taking care if my animals as far as brain health and sensory satisfaction.

  I’m a middle aged cishet dad of a boy, too. I just bought the thing last year for some fun crafty projects we had in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨courier transform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  or, no one in charge wants to pay to package properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Demon slayer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at that kind smile, I feel like if I can just get some exorcism of my demons from her while getting my mental health treated by counselor Troi, I can finally get my life together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure it’s bizarre to see somebody believe that, but it’s because it is so easy to believe with all the shit going on, not because it’s something difficult to believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation enduring algae⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc that water released from japan wasn’t even that radioactive on its own before dilution, but nuclear scary stuff gets attention and clicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation enduring algae⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  New phobia unlocked.

  I have had adductor/hamstring leg cramps in the past that were gnarly enough that my muscles bled. Big deep bruises coming up from underneath that looked like I had a broken bone or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation enduring algae⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  cute + gay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the perfect story for this.

  About a decade ago I attended a week-long reliability training held by ASQ (the American Society for Quality). One day heading back to my hotel room I shared an elevator with the then-president-chairman of ASQ.

  He was chatting about airliner safety, and how the engineers would do things like test/measure/calculate to find the necessary thickness of a part, and then just triple it for safety because they could. He said he’d never hesitate to ride a commercial airliner.

  He then said he would never ride in a helicopter as long as he lived, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To cosmic shreds, I say!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, have we just been living inside the worst possible Star Trek episode this whole time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The admins have decided that most of us can take so much more absurdity before we break. This experiment is sick, I tell you.