binarytobis
@binarytobis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Actual theft 3 days ago:
To be honest I just don’t want to google to get more money. They suck.
Also your use case is very specific. The people I was referencing have more basic needs that would be easily bypassed with ublock. It’s fine if the way you like to listen to music is best served by youtube with a subscription.
- Comment on Actual theft 3 days ago:
I’m often surprised when I hear how other people live. Conversation at work will go like:
Employee A: “Youtube ads are getting ridiculous.”
Me: “You still see Youtube ads?”
Employee B: “Yeah, just get Youtube Premium. Such a smart investment.”
Me: “Wait, what?!”
Several of my millennial friends have cable TV and Tivo or something just because they are creatures of habit and are too tired from raising kids to consider changing their process. Weirdly, my boomer parents are the most tech savvy media consumers I know. They just have terrible taste.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 3 days ago:
More and more I’m finding things I want either aren’t on amazon or are buried under so many inferior products that they are hard to find. Earlier I was looking for geek themed ugly Christmas sweaters, and the ones on the first few pages of amazon results were absolute garbage. Found several viable suppliers elsewhere in no time.
- Comment on The Bat 1 week ago:
Only music video from the pic I could place. Love half alive.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 1 week ago:
I’m also hung up on “Crypto is UBI”. Surely this is a one off crackpot quote and not a thing, right?
- Comment on JD, is that you!? 1 week ago:
I guess a Bris fits under “any excuse to party”.
- Comment on I love doing THIS 2 weeks ago:
A real rollercoaster going from “This is a chance to use that word, it fits perfectly!” > “Wait, oh god how do you pronounce it?” > “I think I nailed it!” > “Oh no, they don’t know that word and now I have to explain it like a pretentious jerk.”
- Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate 2 weeks ago:
It used to be the time to buy TVs because they would get heavily discounted like 80% to make way for new stock. I got an xbox 360 for $50 on black friday. Kind of made sense, but I usually stayed home just to avoid the crowds unless I heard of a sweet deal.
I’m not super in touch with these things, but it feels like over the years the deals have gotten worse and worse. Now it’s like 10% off sales, or they mark stuff up 50% then give a price cut to balance it back to full price.
It’s bizarre to me people still get so invested in it. Like they have been wired to think “OK, time for the shopping day. We must go consume. Think of something to buy while I get my coat.” Maybe the deals are good but I’m just too disinterested to find out, idk.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 2 weeks ago:
I used to be a long-time AT&T customer. One time I wanted a new phone after a long time of being the ideal customer, so I looked into making a new contract. Called their hotline and the rep said “We only do deals for new customers, but you can buy a new phone for full price. It’s no problem.”
It seemed weird to me. Shouldn’t the long term customer loyalty be encouraged? I’m not locked into a contract any more, so why aren’t you worried about me jumping ship for a better deal? I tried explaining this to the rep in different ways, but they were genuinely confused. I finally told them “Alright, I’ll just get a deal through Verizon.” and he asked “Why? I don’t understand. I told you that you could buy a phone at full price?”
Never used AT&T again. I haven’t tried the same conversation with Verizon, because I won’t really have many viable options left if I boycott them too. I hear lots of people say “Well you can’t really blame them, it’s a smart move!” which seems weird to me because the smart move they made was to alienate me in order to get new customers. Of course I can blame them. Me blaming them was the acceptable loss they decided was OK.
- Comment on It's happened to me many times 3 weeks ago:
My family was always open to anyone to visit as much as they wanted so my friends came over 95% of the time. Like the third time I visited one friend’s house his mom came in, looked at me, and gave a long sigh before saying “Again?”. She also made him stop what we were doing and immediately shampoo the carpet which his did nearly every day, I assume to get the smell of weed out.
Most families I’ve witnessed were dysfunctional, but I didn’t notice until my twenties.
- Comment on When they get the bill too 3 weeks ago:
Looks like an Onion photo.
- Comment on challenge 3 weeks ago:
I can imagine the genie thinking “Bwahaha I tricked you!” and then getting increasingly frustrated that I never fix a door hinge again even though I didn’t notice the trick wording.
- Comment on Not impressed 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes teachers repeat a lesson plan over and over, and a small innocuous statement grows in intensity with each retelling and each argument with students as the teacher digs in their heels, until it’s ballooned into something silly. I’ve also heard that suction and centrifugal force aren’t real.
OK, I understand that you’re trying to make a point to better my understanding of the material you are currently teaching, but now I’m hung up on this weird thing you said. It usually comes down to something “the language to describe this thing is insufficient when expressed this way” but the way they say it is like “this concept is a lie, full stop, no more thinking.”
Maybe they initially wanted to use more definitive statements to make students listen in class or something.
- Comment on Not impressed 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never once voiced this thought out loud, but every time someone says something like “I don’t want fish, I want to eat meat” I think “Well, you’re wrong, but OK.” There’s some arbitrary dividing line people assume is logical, but I don’t think it would hold up to serious scrutiny.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 5 weeks ago:
When I was 14, I got in a flame war with another kid in the pokemon forum. I dropped a “What do you know? You’re probably 12!” He replied “Yeah, I’m 12. This is a pokemon forum. What are you doing here?”
I felt so thoroughly burned that I stayed out of internet arguments as much as possible from that point forward. A real valuable lesson early on. Thanks, GameFAQs!
- Comment on You should start doing this today 5 weeks ago:
I regret not causing at scene at the last few jobs I left. I even gave two weeks notice? Lame. Wish I was more like my idol.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 weeks ago:
It’s funny, I literally downloaded that one last night.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 weeks ago:
I enjoyed Blue Prince, I’m exactly who it was made for, but it was definitely much worse than people would lead you to believe.
The game makers had no respect for players’ time. You solve one of the large, run-independent puzzles and it all clicks, then it could take you several hours to playtime to luck into the conditions to actually test your solution. Everything takes longer than it should. It’s obvious that I’m going to toggle security settings every time I’m in the Security Room, why do you make me go through this slow as hell PC every time? It’s not for realism because no PC back then had such fantastical functionality, so why not make the PCs load screens faster? How does the slowness enhance the experience? Why not just put buttons on the wall you can toggle for the security settings, at least? There were times where I figured something out, and rather than spend ten hours trying to actually do the thing, I just looked up that part of a walkthrough to get the next info.
Really interesting game, but I did some napkin math and I wasted 25 avoidable hours during my playthrough (long unskippable loads and such) that could have been spend completing an entire different game.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 5 weeks ago:
I go in between the buttons to cut them into 1 button tall max slices.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 5 weeks ago:
I was going to say, this is one job that actually makes sense to automate. I don’t know any QA testers personally, but I’ve heard plenty of accounts of them absolutely hating their jobs and getting laid off after the time crunch anyway.
- Comment on How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster 1 month ago:
They did say bad, I suppose.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the doors 1 month ago:
The problem with anime soundtracks is they get me excited about the source band, only to find out they don’t have any other music like it.
Had the same problem with the Blade Runner soundtrack.
- Comment on Slow ass apocalypse 1 month ago:
The “ass apocalypse” was caused by that unnaturally large butt plug in the picture.
- Comment on reaction 1 month ago:
At a lot of BBQ places, if you order a sandwich it’s literally just a small normal slice of white bread with the same amount of meat sitting on top of it as you would get from a “platter” option. I’ve had a real pulled pork sandwich before, and it was a actual sandwich you could pick up with your hands. What you have given me is a crime against common decency and language.
- Comment on Oa oa a 2 months ago:
I’m in this picture. My main medication seems to have pretty mundane effects, and there’s a chance that it will completely shut down my liver. However my quality and duration of life have gone way way up and I have no regrets.
- Comment on POV: me mentoring my juniors 2 months ago:
- Comment on POV: me mentoring my juniors 2 months ago:
I’m with you. It may be that it’s “technically legitimate use of language” according to linguists, but that doesn’t mean my distaste for it isn’t any less legitimate either.
- Comment on Don’t Be a Sucker (1947) U.S. anti-fascist short film 2 months ago:
Tbh “Worst Generation” isn’t nearly as bad as “Last Generation” or “Still Not the Worst Generation”. I’ll take it.
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 2 months ago:
It always seems weird to me that they didn’t market it for its true potential, as a D&D and board game medium.
I built one myself with diffusive plastic, a short throw projector, and a PS3 camera, and it ruled.
