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- Comment on Skill Issue 😓 16 hours ago:
You’ve never saved contacts like that?
- Comment on Skill Issue 😓 16 hours ago:
The phone was Albert Einstein
- Comment on *landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch". 21 hours ago:
I did read the thread. I was responding more to this:
Would we give it the same scrutiny and pushback? Probably not, because most people don’t smoke these days and that expectation has been normalized.
So, no, we wouldn’t, because it’s an actually defensible protection of the property to prohibit something that clearly causes permanent damage while the other is simply being at home all day. And only specifically at home while working, which makes it even less defensible since the act of sitting at your computer typing and clicking your mouse to work is no more destructive to the unit than sitting at your computer typing and clicking your mouse to post on Facebook or play a game.
Hence, they’re not even remotely comparable.
- Comment on *landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch". 3 days ago:
Smoking causes damage to the unit. Damage which costs the landlord a lot of money to fix, and it’ll never be fully purged.
Working on your computer for 8 hours does not. It would be no different from staying home and playing games all day as far as the condition of the unit is concerned.
They’re not even remotely comparable.
- Comment on It is not an issue 4 days ago:
Holy shit that’s so depressingly relatable
- Comment on Growth 1 month ago:
You mean semi-sexual?
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 1 month ago:
He did not bankrupt a casino.
He bankrupted at least three of them.
- Comment on systemd 2 months ago:
Makes me think of the old saying that Emacs is a great operating system that’s only missing a decent text editor
- Comment on Real and True 5 months ago:
Same, except 3 regulars above the ultra wide
So normal they forgot to even include it
- Comment on Good luck 6 months ago:
I just pour a little of the hot water into it while I start my coffee brewing, swirl it around and pour it out, then wipe out the mug
I’ve never had any buildup and it gets plenty clean enough, and takes effectively zero time because I’m already waiting for the coffee anyway
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 6 months ago:
On the flip side, errors in 3D graphics typically won’t cost a company millions, while errors in an SQL query very well might
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 6 months ago:
Anyone who cannot stop working and live off their own wealth (and not rely on the working income of others) for the rest of their lives is, by definition, working class.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 6 months ago:
To be fair, your credit score can be affected by someone else’s actions if the credit tracking agencies screw up and think you’re the same person… This is hopefully harder to happen now, but my mother and her brother had the same initials in a different order and their SSNs were different by only one number and somehow the credit bureaus messed up and it was a headache getting that untangled.
That said… Yeah, that’s absolutely not how it’s supposed to work and if it happens it’s because someone somewhere screwed up.
Now that it’s all computerized, the odds of that happening should be pretty slim, but things do still go through a human’s hands at some points of the process so it’s still not impossible.
- Comment on friend of mine has this struggle 7 months ago:
For me, I loved it because my combined gifts were much nicer than the gifts for one or the other
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 7 months ago:
Oh yeah, most people just have no clue how much yarn is needed or how much time it takes to make even a fairly simple item
- Comment on idk abbout this one discord 7 months ago:
Then: “If you don’t have to pay for it then you’re the product”
Now: “You have to pay for it and you’re the product”
- Comment on Literally though 7 months ago:
I am so glad this wasn’t a thing when I was in school, I can’t think of much that would have made me more angry than having to defend something I wrote myself against accusations of plagiarism
Or worse, being written by AI
- Comment on "Jurassic" Park 8 months ago:
The fact that the movie turned Hammond into a kindly grandfather figure rather than the rich, greedy bastard he was in the book was probably one of the bigger mistakes in the adaptation… The way he’s presented as a visionary who actually cares in the movie makes the cut costs not really make that much sense.
Greedy capitalist fuck who only sees how much money he can milk out of the park like he was in the book? That made perfect sense.
- Comment on Yea well it still can't have an existential crisis like humans can! Take that! 10 months ago:
Tactfully
- Comment on A Destiny-style social hub is "on the feature list" for Helldivers 3, says Arrowhead CEO 10 months ago:
I’m pretty sure all of the melee weapons are medium pen, that the light pen listing is inaccurate… But I’ll not 100% positive on that
- Comment on A Destiny-style social hub is "on the feature list" for Helldivers 3, says Arrowhead CEO 10 months ago:
The rotating shop isn’t really FOMO, at least not anymore… Only the most recent few superstore pages that release with warbonds are rotating, the rest are permanent, and another permanent one gets added every time they release a new warbond. So, if you miss it, it’ll probably come around a few times before going permanent.
- Comment on A Destiny-style social hub is "on the feature list" for Helldivers 3, says Arrowhead CEO 10 months ago:
There’s nothing pay-to-win about it. You can pay to unlock warbonds, but you don’t need the warbonds to perform well at the highest difficulty, it really isn’t that hard to get the super credits to unlock a warbond in game, and even once you’ve unlocked the warbond you still need medals to unlock the items in the warbond (which you’ll get while getting enough credits anyway).
If you’re still on the vanilla warbond, focus on unlocking that… You’ll have enough credits for a couple warbonds at least by the time you’ve gotten though a substantial portion of it between the credits in the warbond and just drops that you’ll pick up while playing.
Just… Play to enjoy the game with friends (or randoms), you’ll have those things faster than you think, and pick warbonds that have weapons and strategems that seem interesting to you (can even pick up primary and support weapons from teammates to try them out and see if you’ll like them… Just ask first ;) )
- Comment on Root cause for why Windows 11 is breaking or corrupting SSDs may have been found 10 months ago:
This.
And I didn’t even realize just how exhausting it had gotten until I switched and, even with having to relearn how to do certain things, just never felt like I was having to fight with it. It doesn’t change things and move things around on you at random, it doesn’t pester you constantly to do things unless you explicitly set it up to do so, doesn’t shove an online account down your throat, force you to accept updates on their schedule including reboots when you’re trying to get something done…
No, my machine is my machine and it does what I need and tell it to do, not what some multi trillion dollar company thinks it should do.
- Comment on Root cause for why Windows 11 is breaking or corrupting SSDs may have been found 10 months ago:
I already did update, to Linux. Haven’t run into those kinds of issues since.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 year ago:
Cloud, blockchain, now AI… They’re all good for some things but I swear the execs making decisions subscribe to my Aunt Fran’s philosophy with cheese: if a little is good, way too much must be even better!
- Comment on Accurate 1 year ago:
Not hot and trending, they’ve been calling gay people that for a long time
- Comment on "We have no official information on an Oblivion remake," say Bethesda, which isn't a denial, is it 1 year ago:
Starfield wasn’t an MMO…
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan, simpsons never fail 1 year ago:
Was going to say this exactly
- Comment on You better say "Thank You"! 1 year ago:
Not just any AI, really shitty and obvious AI
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 1 year ago:
This would not shock me in the slightest