HubertManne

@HubertManne@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile's satellite service lifts off, and it's open season on rivals⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the feeling but this is basically a safety issue. I don't need it but if I went to places without cell service like hiking deep woods. I would get it.

• ⁨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 ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh. People wasting company time by thinking about their health and welfare and if they can afford their bills. When they should be thinking about the company. Won't someone think of the profits. Theft. Theft all of it! Makes me so sick I have to take a mental health day away from checking my investments. /s /s /ssssssssss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an employer that took a survey and had managers get feedback from their teams. The most common thing seemed to be wfh from it was not all of it. In discussions many would not mind having an office option for those who preferred it and as an emergency place to go if one lost power/internet and for some big time meetings (project scope type of things). Ultimately the companies formal policy was work where you want to but they rented so they basically stopped renewing contracts. By the time I left they had three offices. One was the original office of the company in the stix that they owned. The other was a new headquarters on the east coast and the last was in atlanta and im pretty sure that would go away once it contract ended. Would not be surprised if they sold the original office if they could get a good price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its possible but with all youtubers they basically have to establish an audience and they have to hit tiers of subscriber levels. So basically it was easier to do back when. Its possible you could do it casually and if folks liked you enough you might get to the point where you get some payment and then if it continues to grow at some point you might be able to quit your day job. As you said its a crowded field though and all the established folks will show up higher in searches for games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  collapse. straight out. Your talking about removing almost half the population at least and then you have what the bar to white is. Palestinian? Israeli? greek? italian? ukrainian? russian? etc, etc.... there have been many opinions on what is white enough right down to the aryan stuff. Then of course there is the final throwing away of any compliance with treatise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I totally get your feeling. I stopped playing and sometimes im very tempted to download them again but they do become addicting in the way those stupid phones games get people like from the south park episode. Log in in the morning for quick grinds and then after work for more extensive grinding and over the whole weekend. They are fun but you are more trying to get things than play most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The cryptic mmos. Champions online, star trek online, and neverwinter are all fairly easy with it sorta getting harder along that list but even neverwinter is not super hard. They are free to play mmos and when I played it was completely possible to be competitive with mild grinding. In particular they have several events per year where mild grinding (10 or 20 minutes a day and maybe more like 2 or 3 if you don't alt) will get you high end stuff. Champions stuff is more about costuming to begin with and its top gear is easy to grind. You can make a support character where the passive effects are enough to help a team and I have pointed them out as good games for disabled (Can setup to not need fast reflexes or such) folks. The character does need to be well built but its not hard to learn and there are nice guides on steam. Star trek had an activer reddit community and guides strewn around. It gets a bit more complicated as it has space and ground which is sorta like two different games and your roles can change between them (sci is controllers and debuffers in space and ground but also ground healers, eng are space healers and buffers and ground pet masters and debuffers. honestly they all get mixed around. tac are dps ground or space. there are tons of generic modules that can be used across jobs). Your ship has more effect on your role to some degree and how its built. Fast tactical vs carriers vs behometh type and sci ships. I don't have allot with neverwinter but its made more arcadey. The mmo aspects go down as you go down the list to. champions has day/night cycles in the main area with traffic showing rush hour, ligths coming on as folks get home in their condos, and china town having nightly fireworks. Star trek had day/night on risa but got rid of it and by the time you get to neverwinter its sorta faux open world with most places being a series of trails. All the games allow you to grind for the in game currency but that is not the easy grind of the events and take more time but its a common enough award that if you do not pay attention for a few years you will find you had built up quite a bit from happenstance. Won't allow you to buy everything but eventually you can pick up some particular thing you may have wanted. Star trek also had events that gave away coupons to the store that pretty much would let you get almost anything without to much grind as long as you did not have to have the latest offerings. Now my experience with these where awhile ago. Not with champions you can choose a more comic book rendering or a more standard rending for game play. All are so old it should be practically impossible to have a machine that can't handle the requirements. I know folks complained it did not take enough advantage of gpu and did not require much of one but could hog cpu decently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between a platonic and a romantic relationship?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I give my wife a non sexual peck on the lips or cheek or she gives me one it feels like one with a parent. I love you but not I want to fuck or be fucked. I just don't really see a difference between familial love in that way. I just can't imagine what a non sexual kiss would be that I would feel wierd about if it was another family member.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between a platonic and a romantic relationship?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes sense but there is again sibling, parent/child kiss and sexual kissing. I would be curious about what you think of kissing wise. Like making out tongue kissing versus peck on the cheek or just lip touching. Similarly a familial hug of reassurance vs canoodling type grabby hugging. I guess in the end if you would not do it with your parent or sibling then I view it as sexual (the thing you would not do) and if you would do it I view it as non sexual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between a platonic and a romantic relationship?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it sorta depends on what counts as non sexual. If they could have sex would they? Is there kissing and canoodling like with virgins at the start of relationships. I would call all those sexual just not actively so. Its like potentially sexual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between a platonic and a romantic relationship?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can't think of a romantic realtionship where sexual is not a part of it. Without it it becomes much like a family loving relationship. siblings, parent/child, just a good friend. Basically anything where you care about someone else. their wellbeing. on a regular basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife has medical issues and we worry about this type of thing but it has not been an issue in the us. We did not change our names at marriage so they are different. Its actually kinda disturbing that it works fine by and large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you do you should be actively running them. One thing that annoys me with the fediverse is I feel a bunch of communities get created and abandoned. Its like folks are doing the if you build it, they will come and no. No. They will not come. It just pollutes the topic. Similarly if communities around the subject already exists see if that does well enough for you or see if you can become a mod and help it grow. For the same reasons. To much of the same thing. Don't get me wrong I like there being a few different communities just for redundancy purposes being instances can blow up or become abandoned. Honestly people real serious about thier community should really think about having a backup ready for it on another instance. Anyway I block things I don't care for like sports or memes. OMG. sometimes it feels like people make new meme community just so they can have a personal community to post their memes. At times they pop up like crazy and there are a ton already and I get there are different meme subject type things but you will see the exact same subjects. Ok. yeah soapboxing a bit there. Anyway do it if your serious about something and will put the time in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't see how anyone can get by without one nowadays. Now online vs something local is a big deal. I use online for unimportant passwords and local for important passwords. With important being financial mostly but some other things. Unimportant are things that if I lost access to and ended up never using again would not like ruin my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you considering watching playthroughs of a game the same as playing that game?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I will totally watch a playthrough over playing sometimes. There are many games and I only have so much time. Many playthroughs the person already had completed the game and then to boot they will edit out going back to save games. Heck back in the day we would hang at arcades and we did not have enough money to constantly play so we would watch each other or strangers play neat games. Someone who is good might regularly get a little crowd around them. And money is another thing along with time. Games cost money. I have not played deaths stranding or the last of us but I know the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 366 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds a lot like this board game where you win by being the last one to die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember someone had a reply on something that touched on incest porn and they where like. I see it all the time but when you put in blond big boobed blowjob and the title is mom son its like who cares or such. So much porn seems to just get relabeled when it comes to incest porn. This is now a brother and sister or mom/son or father/daughter. It is wierd how that seemed to just blow up in popularity. I mean I think its been that way for a few years but I swear I did not see so much like pre covid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  cloudless does indeed remember correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every last one of these questions is terrible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always called them insecurity questions. Im almost sure its easier for someone or thing with a dossier on me to answer any of them than me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  KT-TOT is close. I actually do have a smartphone that I only use for work stuff since companies now usually do bring your own device with phones. it only has work stuff and I keep it off mostly unless im working in an on call position and am on call. I use voip on it with textnow as a backup. Otherwise I use my laptop with voip. Having any type of phone all the time that someone can text or call you at any time leaves you with the issue the OP has. Have to turn it off and actually be unreachable at times. Considering how often im on my laptop im still reachable pretty darn often. I also have a brother who lets me and my other brother know if extended family stuff shows up on facebook. Like weddings and funerals and such. I do try and check facebook once a week as my condo has a group and the aforementioned family stuff but like funerals are tricky as they can happen in less than a week of death with my family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It hasn’t been this hard for Americans to find work since 2021⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worst since 2010 for me but most of it was really in 2011.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you don't have a smartphone this is not much of an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At last, a promising use for AI agents: crypto theft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  aibots battle to destroy the evil forces of..... the cryptocons. This reminds me of a conversation I had with someone in the mid aughts. It was about how amazing it is that I can say something referencing media and so many people would know what im talking about. The common experiences it gave to americans and many others at the time. He did not think it was that neat but looking at things now I think that period of the three major networks is something we may never see again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I very much doubt it would but it would likely help to some degree. I can say I did not learn till late in life and am a horrible swimmer but do a decent backstroke and side stroke which are, to me, the more useful basic swim strokes. Learning to float on ones back is most of whats needed for a backstroke. The stroke itself can be fast or slow. Most people can be in neck heigh water and just relax to allow their feet to stop supporting them and keep their face and mouth above water. If they fill their lungs with oxygen the chest should naturally go up to the surface as well. Thats like with the worst body shape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe language learning like most anything varies quite a bit individual to individual. Much of it might come down to interest. I am horrible with language. When graduating college a friend and I exchanged transcripts and his comment was. Wow. Actually you get pretty good grades (im looking at him like did you expect me to do poorly?), oh, except in spanish. When english was a subject in school it was my worst subject. Now my brother on the other hand totally geeks out on spanish and latin culture. He says he does not speak that well but in the right scenario (low light setting) it can take awhile for someone to realize he is white. I think they realize there is something wierd about his accent but figure he is from somewhere they are not or was diluted by being in the us or such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is part of my problem. My wife has medical issues and can't work which is exaserbated by our higher than typical medical costs. It sucked before but we managed and now it seems like the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im at 42 weeks. My life plane is heading straight down and the rudder is not responding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh. They are fine in moderation but whole communities just about them is to much for me. Its like I block all sports ones to and im not 100% interested in sports but its not something I keep up with daily or even weekly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I block all the meme communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive seen circles like that and it aint praying. I wonder who the lucky guy in the middle is?