lichtmetzger
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- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 2 days ago:
From the guy that brought us: “All the CPUs in the past were built for humans, this CPU is built for agents.”
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I fear for the future of Double Fine. Hopefully Microsoft will not be the ones that will end the Psychonauts franchise. :(
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
I worked in a callcentre for many years and had changing shifts every two weeks. Having to come in at 6am and then getting that switched to 4pm wreaked havoc on my body and after doing this for quite a while, I just crashed and got burnout.
Recovery took me two years, where I basically just slept. It’s a system designed to squeeze the last bit of labor value out of you and I fucking hated it. Nowadays, I’m not able to physically work for more than four days, or else I’ll crash again.
I had a lot of luck, so I can now work entirely from home. No commute, Fridays are off. Sounds super cozy and amazing, but the things is: I need that Friday. A lot of times I’ll just sleep so I can have some energy on the actual weekend.
When it comes to doctor’s appointments, I just tell my boss I have one and that’s it. As it should be. We are humans, not machines.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
Same here. Sometimes I need the Friday just to sleep, but it’s nice.
- Comment on Reckless Ben and the Blatant Corruption - Protest the courts. The Police. The Corporate HQ 1 week ago:
I’d say this whole case is way more than just mildly infuriating.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 1 month ago:
Yes, it’s an older model that still uses those old lamps. I will probably switch over to a laser projector when it gives up the ghost, but so far, it works well.
Thankfully, I never had a lamp explode on me. That sounds absolutely terrifying.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 1 month ago:
Same here, but I run a projector and watch movies and play games on one wall of my room. I love being an irresponsible adult so much sometimes. :D
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 1 month ago:
Thanks for confirming! That’s the box I saw as well, after clicking on it it said I will get an email in five business days - and it really took the whole five days.
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 1 month ago:
I don’t see it anymore either. Might be they’re testing out this feature and not all users get to see it.
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 2 months ago:
I also think they’re more cautious about the EU. There are less consumer protection laws in the US, so they get fucked first.
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 2 months ago:
If you want to try it out yourself: This is the book where it happened. Despite that email I can see all of the reviews again, so maybe it’s a feature they’re testing out.
It’s really shady to have a rating system and hide ratings within that system. Why have it at all then?
- Submitted 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 63 comments
- Comment on caww caww 2 months ago:
- Comment on Shut. The. Fuck. Up. 2 months ago:
Same movie for me as well! Two people got bored halfway in and didn’t stop talking until the end. It baffles me why. They must’ve known what they were getting into after watching the first Dune movie, which is also pretty lengthy and doesn’t contain nonstop action.
I only used the “Shut the fuck up” call during a showing of the last Paddington movie. There were two girls who used their outside voice and it angered me quite a lot. The room was packed and no one else told them to shut their mouth. Thanks for not backing me up to the rest of the society, I guess… 😑
People who talk during a movie or fiddle with their fucking smartwatches or phones constantly can all go to extra hell.
- Comment on Metaverse inventor Neal Stephenson says VR goggles are dead 2 months ago:
I got Virtual Home Theater on Steam to watch 3D movies, it’ s a great experience.
Half-Life: Alyx and the Psychonauts VR game are also great. Pro Tip: The HP Reverb G2 is really cheap and it’s got 2160p per eye. It’s not officially support anmore since Microsoft canceled their VR platform, but Oasis drivers make them work better than ever.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 2 months ago:
The pinnacle of entertainment software.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 3 months ago:
I just put them on my head and it made “crack”. You have to slightly flex the headband every time when putting the headphones on your ears, and I guess doing this for a few hundred times weakens the plastic to the point where it just gives up.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 3 months ago:
250€ 🫠
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 3 months ago:
Absolutely. Added to that, they seem to be actively ruining their headphones with software updates as well. My XM5’s randomly turned off every few hours and thanks to a Chinese hacker I was able to downgrade the software - guess what, the problem went away.
They’re either doing this deliberately so you buy the latest model or their development team is utterly incompetent.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 3 months ago:
On their older models, they earcups were swiveling and you could fold them inwards. It was a really useful feature, they easily fit into a small bag. The newer ones can’t do that anymore and come with an extremely large carrying case. Sony has really lost the plot, but they have really excellent noise cancelling (the main reason for me buying them).
But that’s gonna be my last model now.
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 3 months ago:
Not sure what OP is doing.
Nothing special, I just wear them every day and I have a regular-sized head. I also have XM2’s which still work, they have a more sturdy hinge design. Sony cost-optimized their latest models too much, the headband is much thinner than on the XM2’s as well, which puts more pressure on my head and makes them slightly more uncomfortable. I can only suspect they did that so they have to mold less plastic and save a few cents on each model…
- Comment on Plastic hinges on modern headphones 3 months ago:
This is the second time these broke on my WH1000-XM5’s. At least they’re easily replacable by just removing a few screws and dropping in a new one.
Compared to that, this bad boy is over 30 years old and never broke once - thanks to a headband which is made out of metal. Despite that, it’s even more comfortable than Sony’s modern one:
- Submitted 3 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 87 comments
- Comment on bold words 3 months ago:
Don’t preorder Cyberpunk.
- Comment on OpenAI is discontinuing GPT-4o, GPT-4.1 and o4-mini in ChatGPT 4 months ago:
OpenAI is discontinuing
Should’ve ended it right here.
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 4 months ago:
I don’t see any ads on the paid version here.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 4 months ago:
True, but it also didn’t help that Microsoft set really low system specs for “Windows Vista Ready”. So we had a lot of computers with an official Vista badge that weren’t really capable of running it well.
The specs to earn that badge were 512MB of RAM and an 800MHz processor, which was absolutely not enough for it.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 4 months ago:
That’s hilarious! :D A friend of mine bought a Sony Vaio laptop back then which had a 64bit CPU, but only 32bit drivers. Not even XP, only Vista, so you couldn’t even downgrade.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 4 months ago:
Windows Vista also needed more than 1GB and some manufacturers still sold their subpar devices with it. Some things never change.
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 5 months ago:
That sounds a bit like burnout, to be honest. I stopped reading for a few years, too, and didn’t even know why, I was just not “in the mood” or at least I thought so. I have picked it up again this year and ultimately realized that my job was stressing me out. I was constantly worried about problems at work, but for reading, you need a calm mind.
Quitting my job and going to another company this year was one of the best decisions ever. Since then I have found time for hobbies (and losing weight) again. I also read on a WiFi-less eBook reader and put my phone into another room, so I cannot get distracted.
