otacon239
@otacon239@lemmy.world
- Comment on cilanto 🌿 9 hours ago:
I am one of those people. An entire burrito can be ruined for me with just a few pieces throughout. I always feel so bad when someone gives me food with cilantro.
- Comment on Heh 1 day ago:
This might legit be one of the first images I ever saw on Reddit.
- Comment on Discord requiring you to add a phone number **after** the creation of your account 2 days ago:
I would love to if all of the most helpful specialized communities didn’t all use it.
I can’t even get my friends or family to use Matrix/Element, let alone the masses.
Trust me, I want to make the full switch, but if I’m hanging out on my fancy open source server with no one on it, what’s the point?
I will agree that anything akin to Facebook or Xitter isn’t helping achieve anything, since they don’t provide communication that can’t be found elsewhere (social updates, memes, event invitations, etc), but for communities like this specifically, there’s just not many other places to go.
- Comment on Understimulated 5 days ago:
Surely an 8th Seth McFarlane comedy will resolve this issue
- Comment on Yes biologists use tiny tiny tweezers to change DNA 6 days ago:
Twæsers
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 1 week ago:
They would just block anything that’s encrypted.
- Comment on Magnets 1 week ago:
Yeah. It was really jarring seeing a Jugallo being depicted as Elon Musk. They’d probably beat the shit out of most any tech bro.
- Comment on He's so negative. He's so weird. 1 week ago:
The burden of fat nuts weighs on us all
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
It’sa silly little thing, but manages to get like 5 days standby or 2-3 days light use.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
Not that it’s everyday practical, but you can definitely get small phones. There are definitely lesser known names out there that make phones in all sizes.
- Comment on When will we have auto turrets mounted on plane engines to stop birdstrikes? 1 week ago:
“Passengers, please disregard the banging noises. That’s totally normal.”
- Comment on I have $5 genuine United States dollars here. 2 weeks ago:
But it was written by Mr. Werberjegermanjensen. He was #1!
- Comment on Got these two most awful yt reccommendations when watching the 50501 protest livestreams. 2 weeks ago:
I’m guessing it’s because I just don’t watch political content on YouTube at all (for this reason), but I actually don’t get any political recommendations right or left. It’s very much just project, gaming, and photography channels and the only time I see suggestions outside that, it’s because I specially strayed from my usual.
I stick to Lemmy for political stuff simply because it doesn’t affect my other algorithms on any other platforms.
- Comment on Anyone ever look at pictures of themselves as a child and feel no connection to them? 2 weeks ago:
That’s because that operation is no longer you. You really don’t have anything in common with them any more. Just a healthy sign that you’ve grown beyond who you used to be and are able to reflect and realize that.
- Comment on Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them? 2 weeks ago:
Anecdotally, I’ve never been pulled over in traffic, but the one time I was pulled over, I was doing 76 in a 65 at 5 AM with no other cars on the road and otherwise driving completely fine.
I guess he was bored. Or an asshole. Or both.
- Comment on Spider-Man 2 Debuts to 'Mixed' Steam Reviews Amid Serious PC Performance Problems 3 weeks ago:
This is a little sad. Both SM1 and MM were great on release day for me. Got the right when they came out and they both lead with great reviews out of the box.
Hopefully this is something they can fix pretty quickly. I want to play as a Symbiote, dammit!
- Comment on I wish I could be unemployed 3 weeks ago:
“My cousin’s broke, don’t do shit.”
- Comment on HEEEEEEEEELP 3 weeks ago:
Tony Lazuto!?
- Comment on Knight Rider in 2025 3 weeks ago:
Oh totally. I don’t doubt increased survivability with all the additional safety features in modern cars compared to old ones.
However, all the other little stuff that has nothing to do with safely delivering passengers have made them demonstrably more distracting, most notably the touch screen. Me, personally, I’d prefer to avoid the crash entirely.
You can take a car from the early 2000’s, add the extra airbags and crumple zone tech that we’ve developed over the years, and you’d have a much safer car than what they’re putting out now.
- Comment on Knight Rider in 2025 4 weeks ago:
I’m lucky enough that I’ve got a barebones 2003 that still runs great. Analog gauges, double DIN radio slot, and nothing else. Every time I get in a modern car, it’s information overload.
I don’t need a bell coddler. I need 4 wheels and a reliable engine.
Cars should be treated a lot more like factory equipment and a lot less like a living room on wheels.
- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 5 weeks ago:
To who?
- Comment on David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive,' dies at 78 5 weeks ago:
Blue Velvet was the reason I started paying more attention to movies. One of the most fantastic directors we will ever have.
- Comment on So that's how they're made. 5 weeks ago:
They’re pretty tasty actually
- Comment on I am unobservant 5 weeks ago:
I’m definitely not with majority on this. Every city I’ve lived in, I can navigate decently well by major streets, highways, landmarks, etc. I think it came with the fact that I moved around so much growing up. I always want to feel like I know the area, so I’ll study a map for a couple hours whenever I first move in.
- Comment on Fun Fact!: no matter in which order you read it, you can still understand this meme. 5 weeks ago:
IGNORE ME!
- Comment on Anon visits America 1 month ago:
- Comment on They live among us 1 month ago:
- Comment on They just don't get me 😫 2 months ago:
I really need to know the gap between January and the apology.
- Comment on I built a Home Theatre for the Price of a Soundbar, and it SLAPS! 2 months ago:
I took a road less traveled and use studio monitors for my TV. You can get 4-5” options for around $200-250 and at that price, they pack a punch. I’ve since upgraded to HS-8s , which admittedly are much more expensive, but for most, are complete overkill.
Most things I watch are only stereo anyway and having used a 5.1 in the past, surround is ultimately novelty for me.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 2 months ago:
It’s not necessarily cheap or convenient, but building a physical collection of Blu-Rays (or DVDs if quality isn’t priority) is something that can’t be taken away.
Add on a compatible Blu-Ray drive to your computer and you can even rip the digital files yourself. It’s taken me a few years, but now I never have to worry if my favorite movie is available when I want to show a friend. It also makes them easy to loan.
