otacon239
@otacon239@lemmy.world
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 6 days ago:
Is that for here or to go?
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Australian's criminal history went viral after annoying the wrong repair guy 1 week ago:
Don’t fuck with Louis or Right to Repair.
He WILL figure out what your deal is.
- Comment on I asked Alexa Plus to tackle my to-do list — it mostly failed 1 week ago:
Alexa Plus is ambitious but unfinished
So it’s in direct competition with there rest of the market 👍
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 1 week ago:
I think when we capture nature in a hyper-realistic way, the takeaway is control. We get to choose exactly what is included and what is not. It’s also about admiring the process that goes into it. We’re able to comprehend the work that went into making that possible. It also means that you get to stop time in the piece. You’re seeing that very specific part of reality that artist wanted you to see.
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 1 week ago:
I think all experience of art, enjoyable for us or not, is something the brain adheres to because it is unlike nature. Nature tries to all blend together in a very loose way. We categorize many things like animals, land, the stars… but it all is really just one thing. Art is the ability to purposefully change that continuity with intent. To see something sitting there, doing nothing, and you feel the desire to arrange it in some way.
Music is no different. We realized sound was one of our senses and most of nature’s songs are chaotic, outside the rare particularly talented bird.
We’ve found ways to harness sound into whatever we found is most pleasing. And it seems what it pleasing is different from one person to the next, but also shares ground through the instruments we use.
I imagine when we first started rhythmically hitting sticks on rocks, it wasn’t long before we had an arrangement of our favorite sticks and rocks to hit together. And we just kept getting more creative from there.
- Comment on ChatGPT Agent Wants You to Hand Over Full Control of Your Computer 1 week ago:
It’s only a matter of time before one of these starts spawning another company’s agent that’s known to be better and just comes back with the results taking credit.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 2 weeks ago:
I guess I have to put my foot in my mouth over a comment I made a month or so back. I had said an XBOX handheld would sell out against the Steam Deck simply due to brand recognition.
This was of course before I thought they’d be dumb enough to make a console twice as expensive aimed at the mass market. If this was targeted at the same price as the Deck, they might have had a chance.
I don’t know anyone that would consider one of these now.
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 2 weeks ago:
There’s other hand-craft trades that don’t involve sewage. If you get into the commercial space, there’s a good chance you’d deal with it a lot less if at all since they would need a specialist for biohazards.
- Comment on Insomnia pose 2 weeks ago:
Does it mean I have insomnia of this position reliably gets me to sleep in less than 15 minutes but no other position? What makes this position unique?
- Comment on The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, even if it’s a big brand attachment or whatever, I’m never going to complain about a big charity donation. (as long as it’s not a bogus charity, of course)
- Comment on The GameStop stapler that punctured a Switch 2 screen on launch day is being auctioned off for charity 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the person surrendering $120,000 actually cares about the console so much as they’re donating to charity.
- Comment on Shitsharing 2 weeks ago:
I’ve literally only ever seen Political Compasses used as memes.
- Comment on Anon is damned 2 weeks ago:
Oh duh. Forgot about Appendix D.
- Comment on Anon is damned 2 weeks ago:
Do you think he has sudo privileges or does he su in?
- Comment on Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later 3 weeks ago:
Or just don’t finance any non-essential purchase. The idea of financing anything smaller than a couple thousand dollars is just wild to me.
- Comment on Anon listens to the radio 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, that’s entirely on purpose to keep you listening.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 weeks ago:
Having used these mice, you can get through the day with like a 2-minute charge, then leave it overnight to cover the next few months.
- Comment on All downhill from there 3 weeks ago:
I’m kind of surprised considering there’s a massive mod scene. Not even with a custom difficulty mode?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you actually practice Christianity, and really the majority of popular religions, in the way they are intended, they all sort of circle back to a lot of these same concepts. It’s when you start attaching material specifics to these intentionally abstract concepts and governing others based on those specifics that things get messy. A true follower of their religion is often not vocal about it.
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 3 weeks ago:
I stand corrected. You learn something new every day.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Mindfulness is its own reward and prayer, even to a rock, can help. It’s about surrendering and accepting that there is something in the universe that you have no power over.
It’s not about believing the rock is alive or capable or changing things for you, but by simply reframing your desires as a universal one rather than an internal/personal one you can find yourself motivated in a different way and opportunities may present themselves differently.
I’m also talking about the traditional concept of prayer, not whatever the fuck the Christian’s are doing.
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 3 weeks ago:
If everyone simply replaced the batteries on their phones, not using Apple’s service (even when they’re willing to do the work), then they probably wouldn’t be worth a trillion dollars.
Hardware margins are tiny. Most companies, including Apple, don’t make their money on hardware. They make almost all their money on ad revenue, data collection, and subscriptions.
Someone might get a new phone once every 1-2 years and make Apple ~$50-100 one time, if that, but they likely had to pay for an employee to sell it to you and for the store to be open for you to buy it.
Compare that to the nearly 100% profit on every digital service you pay for, such as Apple Music/TV.
I see it going one of three ways.
- Fake and gay
- The phone was beat to shit and Apple didn’t feel comfortable working on it
- Had a super old model that they no longer had parts in store for.
Not defending Apple or anything, but hardware is often the last place a modern tech company makes a profit.
- Comment on Milking dust 3 weeks ago:
They just work for IGN
- Comment on riders on the storm 3 weeks ago:
I moved away from a state that has them. They’re so beautiful to watch over a big open field. Like stars that fill the ground to complete the sky.
- Comment on Can anyone do the maths? 3 weeks ago:
If I had to guess, probably since right around 2000.
- Comment on Every summer be like this 3 weeks ago:
Headphones are pretty much only a night shortened in the summer for me. And even then often on borrowed time.
- Comment on Excel having a stab at dates 4 weeks ago:
Listen. Let’s just do it simple. Everyone sync their clocks with mine right now. It says it’s 10:57 at the moment, but we’ll just subtract that in the future going forward. Ready? 3, 2, 1, Go! Now we know where 0 is, whew. Problem solved, scientists!
- Comment on Doctor Debates 4 weeks ago:
I got the chance to see this live and some of those scenes should make you bright red around your parents. I can confirm this advice. Great show otherwise!
- Comment on Doctor Rockso 4 weeks ago:
What a heartthrob
