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- Comment on How?!? 2 days ago:
Don’t let your “one big purchase” at BJ’s be electronics. I did, and the TV was pretty obviously a return/factory-second/refurb without disclosing that to the customer.
- Comment on Learning the origin of a phrase 4 days ago:
Well, I got the cannon, you got the ball
C’mon everybody, let’s get, LIT
- Comment on Major Bing Bong 5 days ago:
Better than that, it’s the “Bong Recreation Area”. I searched it and one of the suggestions was “bong repair near me”.
- Comment on Apprehensive 6 days ago:
I also choose death by snu-snu.
- Comment on Everybody: If There Was a Meme Museum, What Meme(s) Would You Put In It? (down below) 6 days ago:
The clip of Oprah when 4chan/Anonymous got her to say “over 9000 penises” on her show.
- Comment on Fake moo 1 week ago:
Ham. Ya know, as in _ham_burgers. Duh!
- Comment on They see me not rolling 1 week ago:
Gotta love Js, but I don’t understand how it always smells so much stronger than the same amount burned in another fashion. Maybe that’s grandma’s problem with it?
- Comment on nor 4 weeks ago:
Any ending vowel. Watching “kung-fu” movies dubbed in Hong Kong (so using British English) and they are clearly saying “ninjers”. 😅
- Comment on "The Cameras Tracking You Are A Security Nightmare" Benn Jordan 2 months ago:
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 2 months ago:
Battlefield 6 by EA, which is now privately owned by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners
- Comment on Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason! 2 months ago:
- Comment on A good tool? 5 months ago:
According to @rtxn@lemmy.world:
It gets better. PowerShell 5, which is still the default installation on Windows 11, aliases `curl` and `wget` to `Invoke-WebRequest`. The fucked-up part is that Win11 includes the real `curl` too, but the alias shadows it, and you have to use `curl.exe`. The even more fucked-up part is that `Invoke-WebRequest` **still uses Internet Explorer** to parse the result, and will panic if `-UseBasicParsing` is not passed every time, or IE isn’t installed and initialized. I used to develop applications in PowerShell. I still wear the mental scars.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 7 months ago:
Of course companies wanted people to share the free demo versions but some full games did have annoying protection schemes in the '80s. Obfuscated data and purposely “bad” sectors on floppy; cardboard decoder wheels; asking for word #x from line #y of page #z of the game’s manual, or, similarly, a page of codes printed in black ink on dark maroon paper to prevent photocopying… leading to folks distributing cracked versions and the cracking tools themselves!
To be fair, it was a pretty ridiculous time. Computer club meetings just turned into floppy-copy-fests.
- Comment on E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos | The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries. 7 months ago:
Washington Death Cult
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Phones’ modems have their own firmware that gets flashed by the cell provider, so I think spies would target that.
- Comment on Math 7 months ago:
I left my heart in ?SYNTAX ERROR
- Comment on Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell 8 months ago:
me@yourmumshouse.cum
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 8 months ago:
Tim Sweeney traveled to Saudi Arabia with Donald Trump’s entourage this past week.
- Comment on fetching bleach after this one 10 months ago:
They’re going to be sad when they find out that tiny dicktator mushrooms only give a puff of spore dust.
- Comment on What exactly are they teaching in our schools? 10 months ago:
Psychology. The sign gets extra attention and also makes one think the people holding the sale might be stupid and not know the value of the items they’re selling.
- Comment on fingerme 10 months ago:
We had a slutski here, too 😂
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 10 months ago:
It sounds like these are modchipped if they come with a USB stick of games (that the owner then burns what they wish?)
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 10 months ago:
I love you. Unironically. 😅
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 10 months ago:
They are y’all.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 10 months ago:
And C: instead of system32, to represent everything that was created using programs that rely on system32.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 10 months ago:
It’s not our fault that the actually reasonable conservative views were already drowned out by the raving lunatic fascist mobs. gestures broadly at US federal government
- Comment on People’s Union USA Calls For National Boycott In A ‘Feb 28 Economic Blackout’ 10 months ago:
I remember reading about it last month… Not sure what it will accomplish but it’s easy to participate when one can’t afford anything beyond food, shelter, and transportation despite working 40 hours per week plus mandatory overtime, at more than four times the minimum wage.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 11 months ago:
I recently saw one of my blank posts on Reddit and almost regretted running the mass eraser…
…Nah, fuck that site. 😂
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 11 months ago:
I almost wish I hadn’t looked; knew my area had paper mills and wood processing, they’ve been dredging the waterways for PCBs (chlorinated organics) for decades.
I work with electronics and have heard from multiple older gentleman that when they were young, they saw old high-voltage transformers from power poles being replaced which would be leaking off the backs of the trucks until empty or even purposely tipped into the storm drains. Why is healthcare so expensive? 🤔
No apologies for being politics-adjacent in the Gaming community, billionaires aren’t keeping their hands out of anything either. Keep rewarding Valve and the good companies and shitting on the bad ones!
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 11 months ago:
Valve applying a bit of regulation (the right way) and still making piles of money, weird how that works.
I’ve been saying for years that if we want healthy economies, compare to human health. When the factors keeping growth at a controlled rate are disrupted, you end up with cancer.
Rant is related although covering hardware manufacturing rather than software:
Commodore manufactured in the USA and Europe some of the best-selling personal computers ever under lack of regulation. When the market became dominated by IBM-compatibles and Macintoshes, Commodore exited the market and left Superfund sites all over. (Superfund is basically EPA disaster declaration allowing for taxpayer funds release for large-scale cleanup operations.) Privatize the profits and socialize the losses. (lack of regulation led to the wrong way)