HugeNerd
@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 6 days ago:
They don’t stay still long enough to roll properly.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 1 week ago:
Gosh so many real problems being solved with computers! I always knew they would be useful one day.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 week ago:
Because that way “I see you as a friend!” lies. At least that’s why I’m single.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 week ago:
“physiological” trauma? Like diabetes from all the PDAs?
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 week ago:
Not spelled like that, no.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 week ago:
Having never been a photo nerd or enthusiast, I am in the “good enough” camp. I’ve given up a long time ago on the “metrics bullying” and gatekeeping, electronics have reached such a level of performance and low price, everything is the same to me. If you see neutrinos, great!
Do you ever actually take pictures of anything remotely interesting or worthwhile, or is it just an object you can talk about endlessly and upgrade continuously?
It’s like audio, at some point is it about listening to music or buying new speakers?
Have I mentioned I’m old?
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 week ago:
I don’t need pictures of neutrinos or every individual quark of my cat. We passed the “good enough” stage a long time ago. Point, shoot, digitally hoard pictures for no reason, the end.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 week ago:
Bah just buy clip-on accessory lenses for your phone. Cheap and cheerful. There is/was? even a thread standard for these little monsters. I had a metal case for my S7 that had a threaded opening over the camera and I could screw in a macro lens or a 12x telescope. Got me all the ladies too. No it didn’t.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 week ago:
Canon still exists? People still use dedicated cameras? I found Canon hardware to be overrated, scanners to cameras to printers. All shit in one way or another. And their software, my god, the cruft.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 week ago:
use AI
- Comment on Yes 1 week ago:
I think it was based on the 1960s VTR connector on studio equipment, or Cinch-Jones connectors from WWII. Quite large, yes. I think the connector could carry composite as well as RGB signals, and have various pass through modes.
- Comment on Yes 1 week ago:
- Comment on Yes 1 week ago:
You have spindles of spindles? That counts, yes.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 1 week ago:
When I was a kid I thought computers would be useful.
- Comment on Yes 1 week ago:
I have one, and I’m in North America… I saw it at a thrift store and recognized it, not something I expected to see at a Goodwill.
- Comment on Yes 1 week ago:
lollers I was just going through my stuff and agonizing if I should chuck my XP stuff.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier." 3 weeks ago:
We as a species had the opportunity to build a leisure society many times over the decades. We just prefer torturing each other with meaningless busy theater.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 3 weeks ago:
Huh? That’s the very definition of incentive for a “hacker” (“cracker” should be the term). There’s also nothing really new about having protection checks in many places, usually using illegal opcodes or self-modifying code. At least on a 6502. Processors have changed, so have the tools to go with it.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 3 weeks ago:
Polished mineral? Like a silicon wafer? um??
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 4 weeks ago:
It was silly and goofy at first but quickly became tiresome. I just wonder if the amount of computing power and resources we throw at such frivolities are worth it.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 4 weeks ago:
Enjoy it before Zuck sucks all that water out to cool the computers that bring you Italian brainrot animals and Turbodong 2000 videos.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 5 weeks ago:
Just awful, but I thought it was right there, you know?
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 5 weeks ago:
Someone should start Blueit. See cuz they blew it, get it?
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 month ago:
I’ve seen them on the bus I think.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 2 months ago:
Something happened a decade ago to a single person. Therefore it follows it affects millions now in ways that persuade me my world view is correct.
I see.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 2 months ago:
they can control the narratives and conversations and public sentiment
That sounds almost conspiratorial. How many people know of Reddit, use it, then automatically follow the narrative? Like out of the total population?
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 months ago:
It’s called winter.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 months ago:
So that’s not good enough for you, but still no proof? If it’s so easy to Google, help me out since I’m so inept.
Still waiting for my laptop to be pwned.
Why are you so resistant to facts?
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 months ago:
I did: “how do you get computer viruses”
Answer: “Computer viruses can be spread via email, with some even capable of hijacking email software to spread themselves. Others may attach to legitimate software, within software packs, or infect code, and other viruses can be downloaded from compromised application stores and infected code repositories.”
Try it yourself. No mention of Windows 7, all about USERS INSTALLING THEM.
QED.
- Comment on Enshittification 2 months ago:
Ah, finally a reason to upgrade from Windows 7: to make sure the slop really gets into every nanosecond of human existence.
