CameronDev
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- Comment on 4 days ago:
The answer is to fix the hospital issues, not to play Russian roulette with mothers lives. “Fallback” is no good if the mother is bleeding out, or the baby is not breathing, and the hospital is 10 minutes away. Every second counts.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Yeah, no shit. Its basically antivax nonsense applied to birth.
Giving birth in a hospital has its fair share of horrors, but child birth used to have a really high mortality rate (and still does in parts of the world). Anyone who wants to go back to that is ignoring history.
- Comment on CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings 4 days ago:
Except that these are AIs trained on the CEOs thoughts, so its a bit of a “We trained him wrong, as a joke” situation.
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 4 days ago:
Archery. Relatively cheap sport to get into (no consumable bullets).
As for limited mobility, that depends on what you mean, wheelchair - not a problem, upper body - maybe a problem, depending on the extent. Crossbows can solve the strength part, but if you can’t aim, that will be a bit harder.
- Comment on CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings 5 days ago:
Spouting braindead hallucinations
So how do you tell the difference?
- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, further compounding the problem. And if standard carry-on luggage’s dont fit anymore, it’ll force more luggage into the hold, which will also run out of space. Unless there is a new plane built around the standing concept, I just can’t see it ever happening.
- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 3 weeks ago:
Realistically, no. Unless the airline also slashes the ticket prices in half, its just going to make them less popular than regular airline seats.
And even if they did manage to cram 2x more seats, there isnt enough space in the overhead lockers for 2x the luggage, so it just won’t work.
- Comment on Who knew decanters could be in funny shapes 4 weeks ago:
See! Pee is held in the balls!!
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t steam responsible for match making only, and the actual game company is responsible for the servers? Are you sure its not the game servers?
Either way, that would be very frustrating if its happening mid round.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 4 weeks ago:
Whichever gaming store I buy into, I am going to spend thousands on games. I need to be able to trust that they’ll still exist in the future.
I trust (whether correctly or not) gaben more than sweeney.
Of course, the smart thing to do is buy from GOG and keep the games backed up yourself, but failing that, steam is the next most reliable store front.
This all boils down to a personal opinion though.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 4 weeks ago:
My dislike of epic is that they seem to be buying their way into competing, instead of actually competing on features.
Free games sounds good now, but what happens when the fortnite gravy train runs out, and epic needs to start making a profit? They’ll likely have to enshittify fast.
Steam at least has a solid history of being generally good. But who knows what will happen if Gaben ever ascends.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 4 weeks ago:
Does steam really have frequent multiplayer downtime issues? I’ve never notice any issues, but I don’t play a lot of multiplayer anymore.
- Comment on Which kind of applications need legacy processor but up to date OS ? 5 weeks ago:
It could be things like ATM machines, that have bespoke motherboards, but need to be networked, and therefore patched.
- Comment on If you want to know your family heritage and can't afford an expensive DNA test 5 weeks ago:
Thats what I keep telling my wife!
- Comment on Eric Barone, the guy who can't stop updating Stardew Valley, says the words "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2" 5 weeks ago:
A while back he said he would stop developing Stardew Valley 1.
Either way, if he releases a sequal, instant buy from myself and my partner. He’s learnt our trust, and definitely deserves the money.
- Comment on How would legal procedure change if every citizen eligible for jury duty was aware of jury nullification? 1 month ago:
Probably would make prosecutors think twice about bringing certain cases to trial. Any “sympathetic” defendants would likely just get a plea deal, and probably a lax one.
Influencers/Famous people could also do what they like, because prosecuting means risking that a jury could just side with them, regardless of the seriousness of the crime.
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 30 🍙 April 2025 1 month ago:
2tb is heaps for a laptop, do you need that much?
If you drop down to gen 3, it’ll still be plenty fast and slightly cheaper: …com.au/…/silicon-power-2tb-p34a60-gen3x4-tlc-r-w…
But gen4 from the same site is not much more: …com.au/…/klevv-2tb-cras-c910-k02tbm2sp0-c91-pcie…
Never heard of klevv though, could be sketchy
- Comment on Discussion Thread Wednesday 30 🍙 April 2025 1 month ago:
SSDs are getting pretty dirt cheap, you can get a 240gb for $29. Is it SATA or NVME?
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 month ago:
If I am understanding right, when you say “can’t be bothered”, you mean “can’t be compelled/forced”?
Seems pretty reasonable, albeit slightly reliant on honesty. At least for scammers, they aren’t likely to want it back, as that would deanonymise them, so if its definitely a scam, your pretty safe to keep it.
Thanks for the info :)
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 month ago:
Do you know of any countries that have different laws? I’m curious as to how it would work?
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 month ago:
That makes even more sense, they probably dont stand out in the crowded market place, but for a few dollars in shipping and lost product, they can get a glowing review to push them up.
Its important to realise that while the item might list for $$$$$, it probably only costs $ to manufacture.
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 month ago:
It may be a fake item, but also remember that the cost to make jewelry is usually far less than what they are sold for, so it probably wasn’t hundreds of dollars.
I’ll update when I find the video, but there was a woman who gave a blackhat talk about it, and she got a coffee machine, so its not without precedence to spend hundreds.
- Comment on How to get a package to the right owner? 1 month ago:
This is probably a scam:
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 month ago:
Depends if your name is Khaleesi, and how made on power they get. Im willing to risk it though.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 month ago:
I’m sorry :( tell you what, when you run for president of the world, on a platform of “rename all Khaleesi’s to Daenerys”, I’ll vote for you :)
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 month ago:
They probably dont know that its a title, but it doesn’t really matter. The character is colloquially known as Khaleesi, and thats what they are naming their kid after.
I don’t think its a good name either, given the TV series has largely fizzled, so its connection won’t make sense in a few years time, but being a title first doesn’t exclude it by itself (IMHO).
- Comment on This thread is for lizard posting. Post your favourite lizards. 1 month ago:
Mmmm, no, very mammalian.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 month ago:
That isn’t really that unusual, King and Queen are both used as names, so its not that weird. Steven King, Queen Latifah (stage name, but still), King C Gillete (inventor of the safety razor)
- Comment on Jack joined a social media group to find online support. Instead he found a culture of toxic masculinity 1 month ago:
members were required to post a photo of a woman
“A bit misogynistic” - hell of an understatement
- Comment on Is there a way to get a massive dump of memory stuff off my laptop by uploading it to a torrent? If so how and can I make it private just for my access? 2 months ago:
As others have said, torrents won’t work as a backup. This is because when you create a torrent, it isnt uploaded to a server somewhere, other users download directly from you. So if you have it as a torrent, until someone else downloads it, you only have 1 copy.
If you want to use it to upload stuff from your laptop to another PC, then this would actually work, and the only thing needed to avoid it being public is to not share the torrent file itself publically. But there are better tools for this, such as SyncThing. Torrents will work once, but any changes to the files will break the torrent.