CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It can be disabled.
You need the PIN.
You’ll also need to leave the Apple Family.
- Comment on Do you hate French people too? If so, why? 5 days ago:
Cheese-eating surrender-monkeys, the lot of them!
But don’t impugn Captain Picard.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 1 week ago:
There’s no way he’s 100kg.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The 1 year chart puts it in perspective. DJIA 1 year chart
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 2 weeks ago:
In both scenarios the profit margin is removed, or the customers are bearing the significant increase in cost. Hence the recession - the stock market plummets or inflation goes up. Or both.
- Comment on We should talk more about air-conditioning 2 weeks ago:
Sure, let’s just gloss over the cost of heating - which relies heavily on fossil fuels or smog-producing fuels, or both.
Datacentre thermal management (especially for AI)isn’t even in the same ballpark as cooling for homes. One produces pretty charts for management, the other keeps people alive.
- Comment on ‘Snow White’, Poisoned By Controversy At Box Office, Won’t Have A Happy Ending With $115M Loss: What Went Wrong 3 weeks ago:
The original movie was made very much with an audience from 100 years ago in mind. Boomers have nostalgia for it, so can’t change the script too much. Meanwhile, millennials are socially aware and see the problems with the story. Disney tried to make everyone happy, and generate a little bit of free press, and failed to make anyone happy.
This was a remake that should never have gotten off the ground.
- Comment on Sony Closes Simon Pegg & Nick Frost’s Production Outfit Stolen Picture 3 weeks ago:
Sony took full control of Stolen Picture in 2022 after originally buying into the outfit in 2017. As part of the 2022 deal, Pegg and Frost resigned as directors and have since stepped away from day-to-day operations.
- Comment on I hate the modern web 4 weeks ago:
They’re there, but harder to find. And some are closing. I’ve had two or three in the last couple years that closed, in the reasonably popular world of cars.
- Comment on I hate the modern web 4 weeks ago:
That’s the problem isn’t it? We used to have forums where people discus things and blogs where people share what they’ve learned, now it is all Reddit and discord and absolute trash in between.
- Comment on What TV shows have aged the best, and what TV shows have aged the worst? 4 weeks ago:
Some parts of MASH hold up pretty well. Some parts do not, but I think they’re the minority.
Battlestar Galactica (new) - just watched this the first time through with my partner, second time for me. It’s doing really well.
- Comment on Russia strongly condemns Israeli attacks on Gaza 4 weeks ago:
Stopped clocks and black kettles and all that
