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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
That is a really good rate. Online only version of Citizens bank right? The regular citizens rates are low like everyone elses, I wonder why they are offering such a high rate? You would think online banking wouldnt be that much of a benefit to them anymore but I guess it is. Pretty rare these days!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Where is this mythical high yield savings account?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Great? The first one was OK. Then it kinda went down hill from there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft mandates a return to office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I keep thinking that. They know everyone is thinking that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft mandates a return to office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
So damn stupid. So they laid people off recently right? They say they are not doing this to decrease their workforce, but I have to wonder.

Also, how many of these “teams” will be returning to the office only to have to work with other teams that are not in their office anyways? Seems like that happens more often than not in global organizations. Anyone know how centralized Microsoft work groups are?

The last person I knew who worked at microsoft was back in the old balmer days who got hired to do nothing to kill a open source project. They put a bar in their office and drank themselves to death. Paid well though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your top games to emulate on a long trip?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I played through Lollipop Chainsaw on my steam deck. No, not the new one, the original ps3 one with an emulator. Don’t bother with the remake.

It is a good time waster and is humorous.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT: Go get a shot, now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I saw a study the other day that mentioned that Sweden during the pandemic had a median time of 30 days sick leave for those who had Covid.

In the US that would be rare if impossible for a lot of people. I would think if someone could get a shot that would lessen symptoms or duration in a country that has such a poor health care safety net it might be worth while.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Wouldnt hold your breath, unless microsoft finally realizes rootkits are a bad thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We replaced “Clock” with ClockPilot. It is so much better! Go ahead ask Clock Pilot what time it is!

You: Clockpilot What Time is It?

🤖 Clockpilot: “Ah, an excellent question! It’s breakfast time in 12 different countries, next week already in New Zealand, and—wait, hang on—did you know Saturn’s day is only 10.7 hours long? If you were there, you’d already be late for bed.

…Anyway. Locally speaking: it’s … thinking …did you adjust for Daylight Savings, quantum drift, or whether your cat stepped on your keyboard last spring?

Would you like me to set an alarm for:
```
Your next existential crisis, The heat-death of the universe, or Dinner? 
```
You: Clockpilot I said WHAT TIME IS IT!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why are you waiting so long? Windows XP pushed me over the edge and I switched to Linux then. Everything was suddenly better. Computers were useful and fun again.

What are you waiting for?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
i’m not gonna manually search for things…

OK you wont find things then. A lot of communities I like are not going to show up in ALL. I seek them out and sub to them. Why be so lazy, it only takes a few minutes? Or simply search for your interests.

I mean if what you are looking for is where people are the loudest and places that are the busiest then by all means stay looking at all.

Lemmy doesn’t have that many users and it also can have multiple subs that are the same category. So discovering those and choosing one, or both is up to you.

So precisely:
1. use the reddit to Lemmy sub finder if you are coming from reddit
2. search for things you are interested in using the community search - flyfishing for example.
3. click “browse communities” and you will get a list of all of them, glance through them and check the box to sub
Not that hard.

Also, use Scaled as sort occasionally. It will let smaller subs rise to the top of you list.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I get it. For what it is worth, I find contributing to the subs I care about does help spur conversation. Some people even seem grateful to have the ice broken and get people engaged. Small communities stay that way if you don’t nudge them along.

Also, every now and then I just browse all the communities (not the content or comments) just communities to see if there is anything I should add to my subscriptions.

But I get that the easiest way is just click “all” and go.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You are confusing seeing other instances with “ALL”. I just don’t want to see what I am not subscribed to. Curation of all this crap just makes it so much better. And focused for that matter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I just go to my subscriptions. Then sort by scaled.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
People use All?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t even know what that is. Microsoft software on my mobile devices? No thank you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Reddit already only allows Google to scrape them now, so as far as I am concerned it is a dead site. Removing my comments is worth it to not feed the monopoly that is Google.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The article says it’s ruining Pinterest?

Finally a good use for AI.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the LG G5’s shocking last-place finish at the 2025 TV Shootout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Lol can’t read the verge article and can’t read the archive one either.

The internet is so fucking dead.

Captchas that don’t work, next to a reminder that to keep from seeing this I should run antivirus.

I am on a damn PHONE! No VPN, just a standard internet connection.

So sick of this shit, I want early 2000’s internet back.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok employees in Germany strike over AI taking their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Wow. You missed my points, and called me a scab for no reason.

You FOR spreading TIKTOK bullshit? Or can you see that it is a sad day to have to work for that company?

Maybe you should look a little deeper and not be such a prick.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok employees in Germany strike over AI taking their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
They want to work for tiktok?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Wait, it has a quick blurb on by default but actually interacting with it requires an opt in. That seems like a gold balance.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Here is the really scary part: so many doctors were using Google lately anyways… Now they are turning to medical llms.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I liked the internet better when there wasn’t a business model.

Even this stupid article wants to sell me something.

I am still hosting websites, for free, with no ads. These are few and far between. All this technology and it only has gotten worse while hosting has only gotten easier.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is rude at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The rude part is judging people.

Not wanting to engage in small talk or banter in a situation that they would not be in unless they were paid is completely understandable. Everyone is different. Nothing on that list is rude.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨W.XP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Left because of XP. Win 2000 was fine. XP started all of the crap. It was when you needed to have a corporate key to actually control the computer and have all the features that win 2000 did. The colors were awful and the design was piss poor of course, but I could have dealt with that.

This was when Microsoft began introducing online accounts. They started trying to really wedge explorer into everything. You could buy music online with them, but ONLY with explorer. There were three programs that were forced on everyone (I forget what they are now). People didn’t like it so they gave people a “remover”, and was supposed to remove those programs. Except they lied, and all it did was hid the icons.

The writing was on the wall. Win XP was when MS jumped the shark and began the decline. I could see it in real time and wanted nothing more to do with them. So Linux it was.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨W.XP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I noticed. When Windows XP came out I saw the enshitification right away. Never mind the play-skool colors and complete lack of security. I couldn’t believe that people were going to be willing to use that crap.

I moved away from it for me and my business fairly quickly, and that was that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

"said that the AI-driven traffic apocalypse is a nightmare for people who make content online…“If we don’t figure out how to fix this, the internet is going to die,” he said.

I make content online. I host my own web pages, I create my own content.

The difference is I don’t do ads and I don’t ask for subscriptions. Like the way it used to be. The internet won’t die, the internet for profit will. I couldn’t care less if AI scrapes my site, it has zero bearing on what I am doing.

The bigger issue, and the article is touching on it “journalism will die”. That is significant. Because any moron can post nonsense on the internet and have it picked up (also why the internet won’t die). Anyone with money in a different business can pretend to be publishing “news”.

I think they are right that AI is not going to save media companies, I don’t know who is going to pay journalists, and there are few laws about owning a monopoly on media companies and requiring them to tell the truth.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I like how everything I read about this uses WhatsApp as a reference. If you are using WhatsApp you already failed and probably don’t care about this, lol.

In any case it’s time to get GrapheneOS and be done with this shot, but the irony is not lost on me that I will have to get a Google product (pixel) to avoid a Google product (Gemini).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yawn. So work with models without guardrail constraints? I am not sure what the point is here.

Seems like it might be just as easy to read the book they referenced in the prompt and go from there instead of working so hard to break a commercially offered AI guardrails.