MelodiousFunk
@MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
- Comment on How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet 11 hours ago:
I love the fact that the channel evolved from dunking on the uninformed public to full blown documentaries.
- Comment on Diagrams 21 hours ago:
Huh, have only ever seen the final form of this one. Didn’t realize there was a progression.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 days ago:
except for the AC compressor, which the generator actually would have had enough power to run, but not to kick-start.
This sentence triggered my PTSD. Imagine, if you will, a world where executives insist that datacenter AC be put on UPS battery. A world where those same executives declare that a different datacenter is just fine running at 95% power capacity because “it’s not 100%.” A world where inrush current does not exist. Except it does exist, but all professional advice is ignored until there are consequences. And even after such consequences are realized, one of those same executives still tries to run his home sump pump off of a desktop UPS during a power outage, pops it immediately, then goes and gets another from the office, which also pops immediately.
The sign in OP’s post will always be relevant somewhere.
- Comment on Yes 3 days ago:
I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should’ve been the last Windows.
Windows 7 was the first and last version that I didn’t immediately (and lastingly) despise. Something something stopped clocks etc.
- Comment on Warner Bros. misses the days when we bought DVDs and Blu-Rays, and says streaming is just not the same 5 days ago:
I also miss the days where I bought physical media. These days, it’s hard to find something new that interests me, is actually available for purchase, and/or isn’t a super limited collectors set with steelbook etc that needlessly inflates the price. Good thing I have decades of physical media to, um… sit on a shelf unwatched, mostly. >_>
- Comment on I'll go first 1 week ago:
Road trip! To Altoona!
- Comment on Oof 1 week ago:
If it makes you feel any better, this all happened 20+ years ago.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 week ago:
Anferny.
- Comment on Oof 1 week ago:
What happens if your school loses accreditation
Ooo ooo I know this one! That’s when you get a letter in the mail saying the feds have taken over your loan, the month payments start being due, and literally no other information. And then you call them and ask where to send payments and they say to send it wherever you had been sending it, seemingly missing the part where they just took over the loan. And then life happens and you realize you haven’t made payments. So you call and get the same runaround. And then you call later and give them an address update when you move, ask them about paying, and get treated like you have three heads. And then a few years later you get a very angry letter that the loan is in default. So you call and explain, and the person on the other end treats you like human filth, barely stopping short of using obscenities. So you hang up to let your anger simmer down, call back, and speak with “a manager.” Explain the whole thing top to bottom. That’s when you find out that when they took over your loan seven years ago, they immediately put it into the delinquent bin even though it was quite fresh at the time. And everyone you’ve talked to since just assumed you were a deadbeat.
Then you pay off the loan total using a credit card (because it’s thousands of dollars and you’re broke) and pay the interest again.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 1 week ago:
Look at you with your fancy PowerPC model. We had to make do with a 68040 and we liked it!
goes outside to yell at the clouds to get off of his lawn
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 week ago:
I only line dry my clothes when I think they need to be seasoned with some guano.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 week ago:
Better put the bread box in the cupboard, just to be on the safe side.
- Comment on A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish 2 weeks ago:
I’m getting a headache just thinking about it.
- Comment on A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish 2 weeks ago:
I have fond memories of Hexen. But most of those are overridden by it being the unfortunate game where I finally realized that first person games make me motion sick.
“Oof, I don’t feel so hot. Let me keep playing to keep my mind off of it. Maybe a bite to eat. Back to the game, I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m…” running to the bathroom and honking up everything I just ate and then some until I’m dry-heaving. I didn’t eat hot dogs for a good five years after that.
- Comment on Oh god 2 weeks ago:
Same, except mine has a fan on it. 🪦
- Comment on Coincidence? 2 weeks ago:
5G makes people glow.
- Comment on Lemmy Shitpost 2 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with hard shell tacos?
takes one bite and the rest disintegrates
That’s what the fork is for.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s not like these measures have been 100% accurate in the past.
This is the part that really frustrates me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of the wording here. Account ban? Sure, against TOS, etc. But affecting the device is a whole other story. Especially when prior account bans have come under dubious circumstances.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 2 weeks ago:
As a cishet white male in the USA, anyone afraid of being “replaced” should actually be replaced. Net positive for the country.
- Comment on ‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct 3 weeks ago:
I used to be good at googling. But then Google changed what googling did.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 3 weeks ago:
Want happier employees?
No, not really.
- The owner class - Comment on Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months 3 weeks ago:
Congrats on being one of today’s lucky 10,000. 🤝
- Comment on Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is this for? (Wrong answers only) 3 weeks ago:
It’s a butphor. Glad you remembered to bring it.
- Comment on Squint your eyes 👀 4 weeks ago:
Elbows up!
- Comment on So true 4 weeks ago:
Not just gaming, but the women and children too.
- Comment on So true 4 weeks ago:
Is that a Hawaiian coke can?
Man, now I want some Mexican coke. Fuck HFCS.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
PBS Digital is a damn treasure trove. Monstrum, Origins, Otherwords, Eons… so much brilliant and inspired work.
- Comment on Is it time to stop? 4 weeks ago:
