JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on Anon makes a big mistake 1 day ago:
The worthwhile posts find their way out.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 1 day ago:
Unless the dev of kbin returns, it’s best to just forget it and think of me in instead.
- Comment on oh and it's also a crime 4 days ago:
Yes, exactly, adopting the term side loading into our common vernacular is exactly what they want us to do. They want us to view installing apps from places other than the Play Store as Bad™ and Dangerous™ so they can better control what we do.
- Comment on oh and it's also a crime 4 days ago:
Google bans screen rotation
- Comment on How long until the rise of games with mods turns into user created games. 4 days ago:
Negative time, many games you know and love began as mods of other games.
- Comment on The original Lemmy shitpost 5 days ago:
High School bathrooms are wild. At least mine was. Kids would just be screaming and doing the most wild shit. I avoided it at all costs.
- Comment on The original Lemmy shitpost 5 days ago:
I was there, Gandalf, 3 years ago. When the bowels of man failed.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 6 days ago:
It feels pretty odd to describe someone seeming to not be focused until they realize someone else is there as them being stuck in a fantasy world as a result of screen usage. Putting a smile on and being engaging can be exhausting. I don’t think we should fault folks for not doing it for 8 hours while they work.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 6 days ago:
Young people in customer facing positions seem fairly unemotive in general, I’m not necessarily sure it’s a new trend. The positions these young people are in are generally minimum wage (or effectively minimum wage). They aren’t really being paid enough to smile lol, or don’t really have much to smile about.
I tend to avoid all eye contact with folks in public so I’m probably not really the best to answer it. It’s sort of something I’ve noticed, but I’m really not convinced it’s new.
That said, I do get that there’s a lot of folks who missed out on a lot of socialization opportunities during the pandemic. Whether that’s enough to lead to an epidemic of young people doing a “stare” I’m not sure.
Every young generation gets clowned on. As a millennial I remember us getting it. So it’s hard to really say if this is something real or just more “youth bad” rhetoric.
- Comment on If you're sexually frustrated & can never find a mate & decide to live a life of "nofap," what are the effects that buildup of sexual frustration has? 1 week ago:
I’d be happy to. I believe they’re being lied to. I was brought up in that same puritanical culture. Leaving the church and religion were the most freeing things of my life.
But even apart from that, if you believe that lust is a sin and/or that pornography is morally wrong, you can still masterbate without that being a part of it. That’s sort of what I was trying to get at without being so direct, as I don’t know if OP is religious or what their beliefs are. Too many people think that looking at porn and masturbating are the same thing. You can look at porn without touching yourself. You can touch yourself without looking at porn. You can even touch yourself without imagining yourself having sex with someone. I have male body parts, and generally “fap” implies male parts, so I sort of assume OP has the same parts as me. It is a very common experience, especially when younger, that any sort of physical stimulation down there results in an erection. If you get an erection because you crossed your legs in tight pants, did you lust? No. Of course not. If you get an erection because you intentionally touch yourself in a way you find pleasurable, have you lusted? I say no, and I feel pretty strongly about that. How is it different than running your shoulders to give yourself some relief if your tense? It’s another physical stimulation that feels good.
- Comment on If you're sexually frustrated & can never find a mate & decide to live a life of "nofap," what are the effects that buildup of sexual frustration has? 1 week ago:
It’s a little odd calling them a “mate” in this context. There’s nothing wrong with masterbation. If you think porn is had and don’t wanna watch it, that’s fine, but genuinely there is absolutely nothing wrong with masterbation. I think a lot of people talk folks’ negative feelings about porn and twist them into negative feelings about self pleasure and try to get people to believe that living some “pure” life where you don’t touch yourself is inherently better than the alternative or something. It’s really not.
Sex is a big part of life. There’s no reason you can’t do it alone. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t do it alone. Go enjoy yourself. Have some me time. It’s not something to feel guilty about.
- Comment on this keeps happening 1 week ago:
Cave diving is so wild to me. All the horrors of spelunking with more cold, extra crap to carry, and a time limit with the consequence of death if it hits 0.
- Comment on this keeps happening 1 week ago:
It’s free real estate
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 1 week ago:
I had one truly awful professor in college. I’m pretty sure he came in hung over multiple times. Regardless of speculation, he definitely DID Google the topic of the say and get notes from other professors from other universities to teach from and then also had the audacity to complain about them. The cherry on the shit cake was him fall asleep during the grad students’ presentations and then was weirdly aggressive and nit picky about what they said after waking up. I really laid into him on the student review. Supposedly their boss reads them all. I hope he saw some consequences. It’s one thing to sort of be hands off and say “you’re in college now, you need to teach yourself,” but it’s another thing to be an asshole and disrespect your students by falling asleep.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Those gluttonous soy enjoyers!
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 1 week ago:
🚨🐒
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 1 week ago:
Then you got Ape Escape and it’s DRUMS AND BASS
Soundtrack for the curious.
- Comment on hey there, hot stuff 1 week ago:
My body is a machine that concerts big packets of energy into multiple tiny packets of energy
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 1 week ago:
I hate gyms so much. My wife’s gym closed and moved and they never told her and kept charging her. She got charged for months for a gym she literally never stepped foot into or signed up for or was told that her contract was sold to another location. And when she called them to ask about it they had the audacity to say they couldn’t contact corporate and that the manager was busy talking to the regional manager. You know, corporate. So corporate was literally there. Idk if there’s any sort of statute of limitations but I have half a mind to take them to small claims court over it.
Also Expedia. Stole money from us. The website said no credit card required but it was a lie. When my wife went to get the rental car they wouldn’t give it to her. Expedia wouldn’t refund her nor give her store credit for another rental. Even ignoring the false advertising, she didn’t get the rental. It wasn’t like something where some.kod accidentally buys something on some.game and you can argue “well you actually received the goods so we can’t refund you” because she literally never received the goods.
But I shouldn’t give this shit any mental energy. It’s ancient history. I’ve moved on. My mental sanity is worth more than the time I’ve spent stressing about it and the money we could potentially get back, but it’s hard to really believe that sometimes.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
I remember as a kid they showed us so many nostalgic images of Ellis Island and talked so much about the American dream. Now they’re so strict on immigration that ICE is killing US Citizens.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 2 weeks ago:
It’s available on both Wii U and Switch. Though I don’t recall it being marketed at a Wii U exclusive, especially prior to the release of the Wii U. Though it could just be something I missed.
- Comment on Anon is terminally lonely 2 weeks ago:
Congratulations on correctly reading the post.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
I would argue that if you know your browser is stripping tracking info for links then the link you clicked on doesn’t have tracking information.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
And you chose to do that or it was a feature that was advertised to you. Adding referral IDs to links you click so the browser company gets money is not comparable to that at all.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
They added referrals to links you clicked. If there is one thing a browser should do its go to the link you click without modification.
- Comment on Every! 2 weeks ago:
Top ten numbers under 10, starting it off with an honorable mention we have 10, which is not a number less than 10, but is equal to 10. Prior to the discovery of the concept of 0 this was the tenth number.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
Or better yet, try to find why they’re using it and help fill those gaps by contributing.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 3 weeks ago:
Also, Adventure Quest had a subscription (not necessarily micro transactions) and the image for Bloons TD is, as far as I understand, from modern Bloons with micro transactions.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 3 weeks ago:
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