skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on good idea, no downsides 2 days ago:
the worst part is that said electronic component will have been the cheapest one to physically manufacture, but because it’s the hardest to copy they can charge whatever the fuck they like
- Comment on More chickens! 2 days ago:
I had a pair of tweezers confiscated. It’s all arbitrary, and everyone who has ever worked airport security is a wanker
- Comment on Let it sink in. 2 days ago:
lol, I guess I was wrong then - I was about to say that OP seems to think the joke is a lot more difficult (with the post title and ‘wait what’ reaction) than it actually is.
- Comment on good idea, no downsides 3 days ago:
Could go either way I reckon, acoustically coupling the walls of your house to a big spinning drum
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 4 days ago:
You’re just grasping now.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 4 days ago:
So you’ve never run out of space on your HDD, or replaced your machine, or wanted to lend or sell your game? You’re in the minority.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
Publishers have proved time and time and time again that they can’t be trusted to keep that download available to you after you’ve handed the money over.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 5 days ago:
Discworld (1995) came with an actual t-shirt in the box. But there was an insane period in the early 2000s where they’d stopped doing manuals, maps and other extras but still packaged the disc in a box the size of a 450g cornflakes packet.
I’m ok with manuals not being a thing, because it’s a reflection of improvements in both software and game design where you don’t need to read 24 pages of text before you can play a game. But I’m not ok with publishers basically killing the secondary market.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 5 days ago:
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 5 days ago:
Hey now, I know not everyone is a Beatles fan, but you can’t deny Brian played a big part in their success; I think he’d give good advice.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 5 days ago:
“The end of civilization”
: shows image of the peak of civilization
- Comment on Peak HR 1 week ago:
I’ve seen this on every platform out there and someone shared it at work, but always as a deep-fried jpeg without a link to the source. Does anyone know if it’s actually a real job posting?
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
Same. AI/ML background long pre-dating GPT; trying to navigate my career is sending me to an early grave from the number of charlatans and rich idiots flooding every part of the industry, talking complete nonsense, and getting an army of devoted fans who make shit memes dissing “luddites”.
I can’t participate in any AI-related forums any more because of the sheer number of twats pontificating about nature of sentience, who think “backpropagating” is something you’d find at a swingers’ party.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
The misguided notion that you can find some sort of truth by meeting verifiable falsehoods halfway, is like 90% of the problem.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I still can’t find Ultra HD discs in the shops either - it’s easier to find low res DVDs in 2026 than 4k discs even though most TVs sold now are 4k.
I have become convinced that Sony are deliberately sabotaging their own format because Sony Pictures ran the numbers and concluded they’d make more money if everyone had to stream.
- Comment on Y'all remember the Bloodhound Gang? 2 weeks ago:
It’s Photoshop. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 weeks ago:
To extent maybe, but not really? I remember very clearly that one of the objections was that both US and UK Governments were refusing to produce any evidence of Saddam’s supposed WMDs.
If you want to drag many countries into a major land war of aggression, destabilize a whole region, and cause the deaths of millions, you still need to show your working out first - even if it means jeopardizing an individual operation or two. The fact that it turned out their “evidence” was cooked-up bullshit, is almost secondary.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 weeks ago:
in hindsight
- Comment on he might be using me to fulfill his younger woman fantasy, but I’m also using him to fulfill my daddy fantasy, so we’re even 2 weeks ago:
Gives me the ick.
That’s your ick, not theirs.
At some point you need to acknowledge that every detail of their relationship you’re imagining, you’ve invented from zero other information in order to gross yourself out.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I bought a 16Gb laptop in 2012, which is out of the noughties, but still 14 fucking years ago.
14 years before that I had 32Mb; a 500* multiplier.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 2 weeks ago:
many 45s
All 45s. You punched the hole out yourself if you wanted to use it in a jukebox. Image
- Comment on I have questions 2 weeks ago:
Most suspicious front since the Holiday Homes For Pets Pie Company
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
Something like 100% of humans have plastic in their blood
It blows my mind how you’re saying that like it makes it ok
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
There is almost no way it represents any practical differences to wildlife.
Source: your ass?
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 weeks ago:
I was always given to understand that the straw thing was because plastic straws get out and fuck up wildlife, but that message seems to get buried in handwringing over climate change so often that I suspect bad actors are at play spreading all these memes.
- Comment on Why? 2 weeks ago:
Most users outside of Lemmy dgaf about corpos if it saves them having to type in an email address on their phone and get it right and then go to their email and then hit refresh a few times before going back and hitting send again and then checking their spam folder
- Comment on Map of all AI data center in Europe 4 weeks ago:
Lucky that nobody said that, then.
- Comment on Map of all AI data center in Europe 4 weeks ago:
There is a real difference in the type of hardware that gets used in an AI data centre; it’s not a trivial or pedantic distinction.
- Comment on Looking for a career change? Then look no further! 4 weeks ago:
The phrasing of “Looking for treasure” makes it sound like it’s just lying there, possibly buried a kindly philanthropist.
- Comment on NOT THE BEES 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure it was a Doctor Who episode
