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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of types though. Walmart may not have them, but my little 4 meter by 3 meter patch has several varieties and produces enough bananas for about 4 families.

  So someone will still have bananas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but they were microsoft. So they sucked. That’s how it works. Maybe in the hands of someone else it wouldn’t have been Microsoft crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows needed to die a long time ago… so whatever. Same with XBOX and their phone, just a waste of time. Microsoft never made a product worth owning.

  But the days of Gates saying to every department “how does this sell more windows” are long gone.

  Many years ago a Microsoft team told me that the only thing important was data. The more the better. Windows wasn’t important, products were not important. Harvesting data and creating services was the future and nothing else mattered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see no coffee here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit has an AI? That’s news to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well from every person I asked who uses discord, the last thing they want is to have to deal with game devs on discord. Making a website and chat is so stupid simple, I question g a dev can make a good game if they can’t do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I guess. Hiding their game in a proprietary black hole is their business I guess. In a few years their game will be forgotten all discussion lost and no-one will care.

  Again, they could have all the same thing on their own site and include live discussions.

  But people want shit apparently so here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But you could have all of this on your own page. You could run a chat there. You could have forums there.

  Discord is friction. You have to join. You have to put up with the shttiest interface. You can’t search and find anything in it if you are not on it.

  A game maker that says cone to my discord is going to piss me off and make me not interested in their game.

  I am not going to want to join things to find out about them.

  And by the way, I really don’t want to talk to anyone about a game, I want to search for issues or report them and move on.

  Its a game not an online live discussion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sites that I use IRC with collect and index the logs and have them searchable on their website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s all hidden. It’s not searchable or discoverable. I have zero desire to join or be part of discord. It’s like a hidden part of the internet.

  If you want to talk about your game put it out in public. You can have a web page a forum and a chat without that stupid shit that is discord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about? / There are hundreds if not thousands of american made game companies, many of which are card games.

  I passed a shop just the other day that has a store front for advertising but is a working print and design house. 90 percent of the store is basically a assembly house with a writer and design area up front. They do it in the open to inspire others (and to get noticed) even though none of the sales happen there, it’s all mail and online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody wants random crap, trackers, spyware, and other garbage.

  If photpea wanted to curate their ads, it might be different. Maybe they could even have an artists gallery or subscription to advertise for their heavy users.

  But nobody in their right mind is going to stop blocking the major ad domians. Because that would just be stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok add the context: He was responding to the article that United was going to add more women and people of color to their… TRAINING program. Is there anything wrong with adding DEI to a training program as an opportunity? Both groups are drastically underrepresented, like in the under 10 percent range or so.

  The qualifications are the same, they can’t be a pilot without the qualifying. So either Charlie is lying, stupid, or just plain racist. He does not get a pass on that. He was definitely saying they cant do the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you blame them?

  Religion is running right though politics and global affairs in a very negative way. Not a good look to be on that team. People just saw a man dragging a cross at the huge event for Charlie Kirk trying to show the suffering and burden he carried. These worlds are tied, and you are saying you align with that in their eyes.

  But why you would mention your religious affiliation, is there a good reason?

  Either you personally live by an ideal you can explain (such as feeling empathy for Biden in this thread) or you don’t. There is no need to say you believe in a fictitious being. Your acts and deeds matter more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they disagree with you. I think they see the bullshit that is religion in general, as the comment I replied to was about religion in general.

  But Americans are certainly busy making the Christian religion a very divisive subject. I mean two books by pastors who are pushing the idea that Empathy is a Sin? Or the notion that wealth is an indication of God rewarding the right people? It is a mess.

  But like I said, this is how religion works, people invent it and wield it for personal gain and control. Always has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is all about money and control. You cannot argue any other way. That is what religion does. It may not be what it evolves into exactly, and it may not be what the believers even want.

  But there is no denying it, every modern example is this way without exception. You think people in the past were any different? You think that is why for the longest time Christians weren’t even allowed to read their own book?

  Religion is a tool to enrich some and control others. There are very few exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a garbage site and always has been. Prior to microsoft owning them they were a shit show. They should never have recovered from this, but people are stupid.

  After microsoft bought them, they became nothing more than a data mining operation. Which also should have made people avoid them. But again, people are so damn stupid.

  So train AI on these dumbfucks, why not? They are too dumb to walk away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising Xbox console prices in the US again, five months after its last price increase | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep raising it, or lowering it doesn’t matter.

  Would never own an Xbox. Microsoft products? Hell no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every link went to forbidden as I am not currently in the US. So that was interesting. Then when I did check these rates in the small print I got only with a new account, subject to change, etc. That is a the scummy part I was talking about. I guess if one hoped they could get that rate for at least 6 months and were willing to shuffle it to another bank every so often, it could work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They vary wildly. The typical savings account now as about 1% or less. There are some online versions when offer 3.5. There are a few with stipulations: $200,000 in the account or deposits of $5,000 a month. Those are approaching CD type rates with rules.

  But they are not particularity common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great? The first one was OK. Then it kinda went down hill from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft mandates a return to office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I keep thinking that. They know everyone is thinking that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft mandates a return to office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldnt hold your breath, unless microsoft finally realizes rootkits are a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?