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- Comment on 18 minutes 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 24 minutes ago:
Fingerprints.
- Comment on Friday is a great F word 25 minutes 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 1 day 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 4 days 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? 5 days 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? 5 days ago:
Holy mackerel!
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 days 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? 5 days 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? 5 days 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 6 days ago:
- Comment on Amazon's strict RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document and insiders 3 weeks ago:
Plus, they can get the top talent back through illegal aquisitions of competitors every few years.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 3 weeks ago:
Oof. I only upgraded my last Windows 10 install to Linux Mint a week ago. It feels like I may have dodged a bullet, this time.
As you said, I just don’t have the time or energy for this particular but of computing excitement.
- Comment on what does it mean being nice to your coworkers to you? 3 weeks ago:
During the middle of the work day: it’s one of the nicer parts of my job, as long as nothing urgent (to me, personally) is waiting.
At the end of the day, when I’m on my way home: “My kids are waiting for me to pick them up.” Doesn’t matter where my kids are, they’re always waiting for me, in the same way that it is five o’clock somewhere. Also, the dog needs let out.
- Comment on Frick 3 weeks ago:
Thank you! I have been “volunteering” there - two days each week - since the City Council thoughtfully invited me to.
- Comment on Frick 4 weeks ago:
they lack the ability to manufacture and have little to no engineering education.
…so far.
- Comment on Frick 4 weeks ago:
Yes! I want bigger spiders, too. How can I help?
Wait…I might have lost the logic thread, on this one…
- Comment on I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File 1 month ago:
I’m not sure I want company in the “amazingly productive professional” club.
Let’s not share this insight too far, okay?
I’ll be quite content if everyone competing with me for money keeps investing their energy in AI tools.
- Comment on Does anyone say "What ho!" anymore? 1 month ago:
Well…I do now.
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 1 month ago:
The Windows team has been looking for ways to remove the deeper hooks ever since the CrowdStrike outage last year.
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 1 month ago:
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 1 month ago:
What if being offline for a very long duration of time - means that when connecting it again - the firmware update bricks my TV?
We don’t see many updates that outright brick your product (yet). What we do see is updates that just happen to make your product run much slower than it used to. There’s always excuses why it is necessary, but in the end those updates tend to lead to sales of new devices.
Keeping the device fully offline is a defense against such an update.
Myself, I don’t see any reason for my TV to ever be online, so I take some comfort that it will not receive such an update.
- Comment on Would you rather stop playing a game than lower the difficulty? The First Berserker: Khazan devs reckon you would | Eurogamer 1 month ago:
I set every game to the bare minimum floor difficultly. If I find success at that difficulty for a full playthrough, I’ll up the difficultly on my second playthrough, if the game merits one.
My life is hard. I have bery little free time. My games should be fun.
- Comment on Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice. 1 month ago:
Haha. Thanks!
I try to apply Wil Weaton’s law as consistently as I can.
Also I forget who said it but I ask myself “would am asshole say that?” and if so, I try to say something else.
The faking it part is weird, since it applies to everyone I interact with, for different reasons:
- Coworkers - I just need to earn money to buy stuff. Plus, they’re just in the same boat.
- Staff at places I shop - they’re just trying to get by, and don’t need my crap to make their day worse.
- Actual friends - they probably don’t realize how much I appreciate them, so every little bit helps.
I guess my philosophy is we’re all going through some shit, so I hope I’m making it a little easier where I can.
- Comment on Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice. 1 month ago:
Here’s some ways I can relate:
- I would rather not talk unnecessarily at work.
- But I am aware that I occasionally come across as rude, abrasive or disdainful.
I found that people began to forgive my occasional accidental rudeness after I built up habits for myself to proactively communicate to others that I like them.
Now I have a whole set of habits that don’t take me much energy to apply, and make others feel likes by me. It helps tremendously when I later put my foot in my mouth, which I still sometimes do.
I don’t mean to imply that is your situation. It was my situation, at a time when I felt as you do now.
- Comment on Apart, low in cholesterine 1 month ago:
Imagine living in a world wherein all food products might have at least a little bit of rat poison in it.
Right. Imagine. Wild.
- Comment on It would get old fast 1 month ago:
presumably having to drive 20 minutes to get anything.
I’ve visited friends in such areas. It is hell.
They say “it’s so nice that nothing is more than 20 minutes away”, while ignoring the fact that nothing is less than 20 minutes away.
They can’t even have a corner grocer (due to shitty zoning laws) and they don’t realize how much of their daily life their car eats.
- Comment on It would get old fast 1 month ago:
sports from true rural areas, which I can only assume is rednecks drink driving
We also hunt deer, go fishing, and throw brean bags into a wooden box called a “corn hole”.
- Comment on Puppets Explained, Sybok Teased, TAS Episode Scrapped, And More ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ SDCC Reveals 1 month ago:
I’m sad about the puppets being muppets instead of practical creatures,
I agree. It feels to me that Start Trek has not leveraged creature shop puppet special effects much, over the years. More frequent practical puppet effects would be a welcome addition.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 1 month ago:
Nice try, FBI.