relativestranger
@relativestranger@feddit.nl
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 1 day ago:
fuck airbnb. rents have tripled here with so many apartments and homes taken off the market and turned into untaxed and unlicensed hotel rooms.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 1 day ago:
demolished is the only answer.
it won’t be built to code. shortcuts will be taken as everybody looks to score some free cash along the way.
no one will know what ‘extra’ items were planted during its reconstruction. even more significant if the security bunkers underneath the demolished east wing are also rebuilt.
- Comment on grocery shopping 2 days ago:
at the wm here, if you even look at the scanner cross-eyed, it sounds the alarms and halts the register until the babysitter can come over, review the footage and unlock it. if anything passes anywhere in the cameras’ very wide fov and a scan isn’t registered… anything… it stops.
they got sam’s club-like checkers at the exits, now, too. anything not in a bag gets ‘checked’… at least that’s what we’ve concluded is their criteria, based on when we have been stopped trying to leave.
me thinks they’ve had a slight uptick in ‘customer-applied discounts’ lately.
- Comment on GOG say their preservation program has been "harder than we thought", thanks to DRM and elusive creators 1 week ago:
just because one person you believe to be the keepers of the code says it’s ok. doesn’t mean it’s the correct person or all the persons permission is needed from, and modifying or distributing the code yourself is still quite risky.
- Comment on My Wife vs. Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Lock | LockPickingLawyer 2 weeks ago:
it’s not a recent one, and i had not seen it before… but i just knew how it was gonna end.
- Comment on D-d-d-d-drop the base! 2 weeks ago:
firefox just prompted an offer to translate this post.
from french
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 weeks ago:
yea. it might be a good time to buy ‘older’ hardware, but ‘refurbs’ that are blessed by microsoft (gen 8+) are already higher in price than they should be.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 weeks ago:
reads like an old copypasta.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 weeks ago:
the same tool that can… uh… ‘remove the waterMark’… yea, that’s it. can Also help keep your soon-to-be-abandoned windowS updated.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 3 weeks ago:
it’s not happening ‘after’. ytdlp is likely downloading a higher quality file than what the browser or app is receiving for streaming.
- Comment on Can you please help me pick a gaming desktop for my son that can run Monster Hunter Wilds? 3 weeks ago:
either one meets or exceeds the requirements you posted for the game.
note that if you’re able to shop in person at microcenter, many more options are available, including their own brand of prebuilts (powerspec) and custom-builds assembled in-store.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 3 weeks ago:
the only grocery around me that had one took it out when they quit selling coffee that way, a few months into covid.
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 3 weeks ago:
“hey cortana, slo-mo!”
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
i have a trial to cancel soon. betcha it’s still faster and easier to ask ddg ‘how to cancel prime’ than it is to find it solely via clicks on azn’s own site.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 4 weeks ago:
many of those chrome ‘users’ got there after clicking on one of google’s many somewhat misleading ‘advertisements’ or ‘notices’ or ‘warnings’
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 4 weeks ago:
‘greeters’ are also part of security or ‘loss prevention’, even the old guy who can’t stand-up during his shift and needs to sit on a stool at his post.
- Comment on We're all going home early today 4 weeks ago:
a bag of popcorn set to 30 minutes instead of 3 might be all it takes and is an ‘innocent’ mistake anyone could make.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 5 weeks ago:
we would all be ‘shareholders’ of public services for public good.
- Comment on Fall of Western civilization 1 month ago:
we used to have mac tonight at a piano, muzak, black ceiling tiles and club lighting. now it’s the same remodeled mckitchen as everywhere else, stuffing delivery orders into bags and letting the in-person experience go to shit.
- Comment on We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health 1 month ago:
anyone in, remotely affiliated with, or supporting this administration, is “endangering every american’s health”… and well, everyone else and the planet, too…
- Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space 1 month ago:
on the linked page, i get a giant header image and headline, followed by the article text (which accounts for just 15% of the vertical space on my 16:10 screen).
when i scroll as you have, there’s no elements glued to the top getting in the way.
(ubo and um both enabled)
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 2 months ago:
and we’re moving… we’re moving… we’re moving…
this way, gentlemen.
next, we’re off to the royal bathroom where the king-to-be stores his most precious of national secrets. replicas will be available for purchase.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
trump. musk. putin.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 2 months ago:
video chatting with a screen visible to the driver? fk no. also his setup and use of it violates cvc 27602.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 2 months ago:
there’s probably a commission system built-in to pay the value of a month’s rent or something to the ‘agent’ when you sign a lease. which means, of course, they’re financially motivated to steer you to better paying properties (for them), not better units or locations for you.
- Comment on Microsoft yanks the plug on Windows 11 SE, giving school and college IT techs a little over a year to find a suitable replacement 2 months ago:
dumping this one that specifically limited exposure to the trash bits of windows and instead launch a new variant for gaming handhelds that, while ‘optimized’ and limited in the crud that runs, will most definitely be focused on driving gamers to game pass subs and store sales.
- Comment on Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles 2 months ago:
they priced the new one too high, so now they’re raising the old one up so people (especially newcomers to the platform) will think it’s not so bad?
- Comment on Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Did you have one of these? 2 months ago:
the two originate from the same company, iirc.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 3 months ago:
it wasn’t a terrible idea, just the implementations of it–in the efforts to extract maximum profits.
