Godort

@Godort@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering planting it in my garden at this point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have something to try next time I have some fresh mint in the house

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering planting it in my garden at this point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mint in pasta?

  I’m intrigued. Explain further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An impossible choice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  $19 right now, obviously. If I get hit by a bus and die between now and tomorrow, then I’ll have ended up with nothing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was their own suggestion 🤷🏻⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, you could pay me double and I still wouldn’t take my boss’s job. The amount of bullshit meetings and sales/marketing shit that guy has to endure is not enviable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How would this even be enforced?

  Like, it seems like it would be a trivial process to just install a firmware package without the blocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  WeChat is like Facebook and Venmo combined into one app. I understand that it pretty much replaced cash entirely in China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I could quit AI anytime I want to⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The loss of AI would barely be noticable for the average person. A bunch of developers would have a bad day trying to remove all that integration they were forced by management to add, but beyond that, people would move on.

  Removing the Internet as a whole at this stage would be basically impossible without halting pretty much every economic force on the planet, I think. The Internet acts as the backbone of pretty much everything related to monetary transactions or logistics in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨keep scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, why the fuck did they take all the donuts out of the box and just put them on the table like that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Certified post about shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When this happens, the only thing that can make you feel remotely human again is to fully shower afterwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This shit's stupid as hell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The customer is always right.

  If people buy the thing, then it wasn’t stupid to make or sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Greed has been a problem in the AAA game space for a long time. It’s just that before reliable Internet connections, it was harder to exploit people.

  Before this, it was lootboxes and gambling Mechanics, before that, it was microtransactions, balancing the game to incentivise spending money, and before that it was chopping bits off the game and selling it as DLC.

  Prior to that, the worst we got was cheap sequels and shovelware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, you’re who Bad Dragon goes to for those size comparison photos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apu sitting in the corner out of picture⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tord from Eddsworld

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Several of my guests requested them. I didn't know how to make one. So I called the help line⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • Pick a good amount of mint leaves and place them in a highball glass (use more than you think you need. Somewhere around 12)

  • Juice a lime and add one of the halves to the glass

  • Use a muddler(or the back of a spoon) to express oils from the lime and mint(you want to bruise the leaves but not pulverize them)

  • Add 2 Oz of a good white rum(this is the star of the drink so make sure it’s good. I recommend Havana club if you live outside the US.)

  • Add 3/4 Oz of the lime juice you squeezed earlier

  • Add between 1 and 2 Oz of simple syrup, depending on how sweet you want it to be. (Personally I go for 1.5)

  • Add ice and stir until the glass is uncomfortable to hold(about 60 seconds)

  • Top with club soda until the glass is completely full

  • Add a straw and garnish with a lime wheel and a mint sprig

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally HR does something right⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct. HR is not your friend and they are there to make sure that the company is not liable for any damages. If you are in the rare position where upper management is not your opponent and whatever shit is happening can float up to them, then HR can be used as a weapon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The store that sells them is not dumb enough to use them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best argument I heard for getting one of these was an appeal to laziness.

  Either the robot vacuum cleans the floor, or it simply doesn’t happen unless it gets bad enough to justify the time spent doing it. It’s better to live in a house with perpetually clean floors rather than one where the floors get bad enough until you’re forced to take action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still waiting for a response...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The text was sent back in the wild west

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a shockingly common view of this movie. In fact, most media that features a villain protagonist tends to have this problem. Look at Breaking Bad, Fight Club, or American Psycho.

  They present the reasons why the villain makes the decisions they do, in a way that is sympathetic to the audience, then it turns into a bit of a power fantasy before their fall at the end. A lot of people seem to look at the power fantasy portion as fighting against an unjust world, rather than an abuse of normal people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, I can’t wait to pick up a copy of Project Hail Mary on VHS. I’m sure that will be widely available and easy to purchase

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess the game (#004)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true, but the game’s advertisements really pushed the hack and slash component over the RTS one.

  I per-ordered this game because I adored Double-Fine, and a heavy metal-themed Zelda-like starring Jack Black from the creators of Psychonauts sounded amazing. That was not what I was delivered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite gaming console you have played?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The SNES will always be my favorite console. It’s got some stinkers in the library, but the best games of the console still frequently rank among theh best games ever made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men against bush⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This was the first album I bought with my own money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superman is a meanie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The villainous behavior of Superman has been well documented

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A world full of wonders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, I’ve been there!

  That sausage is in a small town east of Edmonton whose name escapes me, but it’s about an hour and a half drive away from The world’s biggest perogy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not exactly the same, because of the turn-based nature of it, but play Baldur’s Gate 3 if you haven’t.

  It’s a massive world with a shitload of things to do and a definite objective (or rather 3 as each act has a major one)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is always about authority. The system that enforces the rules is more important than the rules themselves

  Communism typically fails because the systems that manage it are corruptible. Capitalism has the opposite problem. If there are no rules surrounding what industry is allowed to do, they will always choose the most profitable thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, light exercise is okay at pushing the feeling down. Anecdotally, a change in scenery also helps me when I get that way. Go for a walk somewhere you haven’t been before and see what’s there.

  Also the 54321 rule seems to help ground me if I feel myself start to spiral.

  Name 5 things you can see Then 4 things you can touch Then 3 things you can hear Then 2 things you can smell Finally 1 thing you can taste

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also have this problem, but for me it’s an ADHD stimulation thing. On a screen, you can take breaks between reading large passages bt switching between tasks

  With books, thats a lot harder to do. The thing that fixed it for me was switching to audiobooks. That means now I can “read” while driving, or doing the dishes, or cooking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you explain protocol to a 5 year old ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Computers are really dumb, so when one computer wants to talk to another computer, they need an established set of rules about how each message will be sent and what to do with it when it gets received.

  For IP, it’s mostly about how data is packaged and shipped. It has rules about how much data can be sent in a single message, some information about where the message is going and where it came from, whether or not they expect a reply, and then finally the block of data itself.

  However, inside that block of data, there will be some more information about what that data is, so that the receiving computer knows what to do with it. This is where applications like activitypub do their work.