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- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 1 day ago:
says Andrew Castillo, a stock trader from Los Angeles. “It has no political affiliations at all to me.”
He’s getting a head start distancing himself…
In contrast, my car stands for high mileage, oil changes, and having a trusted local mechanic.
Anyone can tell just by a quick look at it.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 4 days ago:
Yes. Boox is nice, if you want it for adding Android apps.
I side load on mine a great deal.
Fast things like games and movies don’t play nice with the slow eInk screen.
But board games, puzzle games, digital comics, and simple websites all work great.
I was surprised that background processes do fine, with some patience. I have something running to back up my notes to my NAS.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 4 days ago:
Boox are great!
I don’t trust the services they default to, but they’re full unlocked Android, so they talk to my NAS and other services I choose.
If you don’t care for the battery life or screen refresh rate, be aware that there’s now a setting so you can pick your preference (faster refresh means shorter battery life).
- Comment on Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises 1 week ago:
What if we raise prices for as many people as possible so a few very rich people can have more money?
- Comment on Does anyone have tried minecraft java edition on mobile? 1 week ago:
It’s worth noting that the full version of Luanti runs natively on Android, is fully free, and plays fully cross platform will all Luanti servers and other copies of Luanti.
One Android phone copy of Luanti can even serve the game to a few other players playing on PC or Android.
- Comment on Harsh 1 week ago:
And the next night, try doing it again with Sony Walkmen.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 2 weeks ago:
My prediction: Minecraft crossover DLC within a year of release.
Advertised with a chicken jockey riding on a covenant walker.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 2 weeks ago:
This feels sad for everyone involved.
There’s so many okay games that could be remastered into excellent ones.
If I didn’t have the Master Chief Collection, I would obtain my copy before Microsoft makes it have an “accident”.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Halo CE plus changes on a new engine sounds strictly worse.
- Comment on How do I make pictures less blinding if I prefer dark apps? 2 weeks ago:
On Lemmy, I just block users who post images with white backgrounds. They’re delightful users, but there aren’t that many of them, and it is worth it to keep my feed dark room friendly.
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- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve noticed that a number of politicians show signs of sociopathy.
I think that’s a key difference.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 2 weeks ago:
Uh…
You and I have visited very different speedways.
Where I come from, if the engine turns over, it is race eligible.
And if the engine doesn’t turn over, there’s a cool giant fire breathing robot we can still feed the car to.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 2 weeks ago:
but you guys are we really so sure that subjecting others to the coercion of a prison-industrial complex is justified when all they’re doing is following their instincts?
Assume we’re not talking desert highway street racing - or places that no one cares:
Their instincts could kill my kid. The prison industrial complex is the nicer response.
People who routinely behave in ways that endanger children are unaware of how many of the rest of us own a good shovel and know a spot to get rid of their body.
How do we know that we’re not the ones who are actually bad people?
Oh. The ethical implications are truly complex, but they don’t matter because we won’t agree to live with them. Child endangerment doesn’t routinely lead to deep ethical introspection. People tend to just go with the instincts that allowed children to survive over so many generations.
And yes, this is also why so many bad laws get passed “for the children”.
My advice for street racers: do it out of sight of any parents, and we’ll away from anywhere that children play.
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft Clippy says “Hello. You appear to be making an invoice. I can help!” Only we’re not making an invoice, and Clippy cannot help.
I can count the number of times that I have looked in an Excel sheet and thought, “I wish this was subtly wrong due to subtle changes made by a hallucination engine.” It is zero.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
My Compact Discs (CDs) and my compact disc players both still work fine.
Occasional visits to thrift shops have expanded my collection at very affordable prices.
The variety of music I enjoy is unimpressive but steady.
But the load times are very nice, and the network resilience is unmatched.
- Comment on Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place 2 weeks ago:
Mastodon is full of scientists. It is amazing.
- Comment on Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place 2 weeks ago:
By ‘professionals’, do we mean Only Fans content creator? I haven’t tried hard enough to find them, but I assumed they’re here?
I follow many professional scientists and librarians on the Fediverse.
Beyond that - well those are the three professions that carry society.
I don’t see a ton of updates from plumbers and auto mechanics yet, but I think that is just adoption patterns at play?
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 2 weeks ago:
A friend and I graduated the same year, and both had potential as a coder or graphic designer.
I chose to focus on coding, he chose to focus on graphic design.
I have had higher income and stronger job stability across my career, so far.
AI has affected both professions, but AI is still shit at doing either job correctly. It seems immediately obvious when companies shovel out AI slop images. It is less obvious when back end web server code is a vulnerable pile of shit. There’s a lot of “fuck around and find out” happening in AI over-adoption, right now.
The market for programming is at an all time low, with like 93% employment, last time I checked. - Which is still pretty nice.
The US gov predicts further recision of programming jobs next year. Recruiters reaching out make it seem - to me - like the demand is heating back up, again. But I’m some random person, and they’re scientists. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ If I were you I would trust them more than me.
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- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
“Paweł undertook this challenge to raise money for the Diamond Soul Foundation, a charity he co-founded which supports people in their recovery from addiction. They also organize free one-week camps in Sicily for underprivileged children.”
Very cool.
- Comment on Friday is a great F word 2 weeks ago:
Fingerprints.
- Comment on Friday is a great F word 2 weeks ago:
We don’t say the F word in this family.
That’s awesome.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to charge UK users £3.99 a month for ad-free version 3 weeks ago:
I agree with the option, in theory.
But of course I trust a Meta company tracking opt out as much as I trust Facebook not to run a secret micro server to evade my ad blocker.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 3 weeks ago:
Yes. I will need to update my budget, as well.
How many zeroes should I add after the first one…
Perhaps I’ll list it as $0.000 this month, for a fun change.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
Who would be the arbiter of truth in this instance?
I generally settle for panels of scientists. Scientists aren’t prone to agreeing on things, but much of (not all, life is cool and scary) what they do agree on is a pretty safe bet.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
Holy mackerel!
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, this was my introduction to gaslighting. I guess I’m thankful for that.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. The Pluto thing is a huge violation of the “rule of cool”.
If there are bigger rocks than Pluto in orbit, we should promote some cool new big space rocks to be new secret bonus planets!
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. We did this experiment in school.
I was told I was doing it wrong.
I did get a quick preview about education, gullibility and gaslighting on that day.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Amazon's strict RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document and insiders 1 month ago:
Plus, they can get the top talent back through illegal aquisitions of competitors every few years.