ExtremeDullard

@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As most memes are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  5 isn’t a valid function name, is obviously the right answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silly goose⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood how it can even be legal for hospitals to have parking fees for patients. It’s not like you became ill simply to take advantage of the parking situation so why are they charging people?

  In the case of my local hospital, they do it because there are apartment complexes nearby and the residents used to abuse the hospital’s parking spot when they couldn’t find a spot in their residence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silly goose⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, nothing like coming out of a rough week alone in isolation in a hospital room, with friends and family not allowed to enter the room, and finding out the system sometimes makes small allowances for kindness and common sense. It sure felt great.

  Small things like that give me back hope in humanity. Too bad they’re few and far between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silly goose⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to the ER the other day. I drove myself to the hospital, parked at the short-term car park right next to the ER (I was trying to make a beeline there, I really wasn’t concerned about where I parked). I expected to out within 2 or 3 hours but the hospital ended up keeping me for a week.

  When I came out, I expected my car to be impounded, or at least covered in parking tickets. But no: there was only one with a warning and nothing to pay.

  When I checked the case number on the ticket on the city’s parking fine webpage, the comment indicated “Driver reported hospitalized - fine waived.”

  They actually checked with the hospital. Nice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy dying?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit, like Facebook, has the advantage of inertia: most people are on Reddit, so other people patronize Reddit, making Reddit even larger. And just like Facebook, it takes something particularly egregious from Reddit to get enough people to walk out at the same time. And you’re correct: Reddit has learned to slow-boil the frogs to avoid this.

  But - maybe I’m naive - I’m banking of the Fediverse offering consistently better quality and less drama than Reddit to slowly attract people who want something better, and I’m trying to do my part to increase the S/N ratio on here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy dying?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s waiting for some new event that will drive a lot of people away from Reddit again to achieve critical mass and finally outgrow Reddit. In the meantime, I’m trying to keep my little corner of Lemmy alive - my dinky little special-interest communities - so that those who don’t want to partake in the big Reddit equivalent know they have an alternative on here that’s not stale.

• Maybe Donald Trump stubbed his toe on Air Force Onemedia.piefed.social ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SipsTea⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s my suggestion: find someone you won’t have to change the diapers of by the time you start needing reading glasses yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liz Truss: "There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d think a failure the size of Liz Truss would have the good sense to shut her trap forever about anything. But no: like all politicians, she feels no shame and keeps giving her opinion, as if she had any credibility left and it mattered.

  This sort of utter shamelessness is truly what separates politicos from decent human beings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump suggests Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis was a cover-up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He underwent a cognitive test - which he aced.
  So his doctors decided to make him take another one in the same year - which he aced too.
  So his doctors decided to run him through the MRI machine - which he aced of course.

  Because as we all know, when your medical tests come out a-okay, your doctors always make you take more test - probably to marvel at how a-okay all your tests are, no doubt…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump suggests Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis was a cover-up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder which of Trump’s strong paedophilia suspicions or Trump’s strong dementia suspicions are a cover-up for the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most Americans aren’t on board with this shit

  They’re obviously onboard with different shit, else Trump wouldn’t be president. Twice.

  As shit goes, I preferred the old-timey one. At least it was dignified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t necessarily disagree - hence my adding “deserved or not”, if you re-read what I wrote.
  But regardless of what you think, it had that reputation.

  And it doesn’t no more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m old enough to remember the United States as a country that won a World War, won a Cold War, went to the moon, and had a reputation - deserved or not - as a shining beacon of freedom and democracy. Respected or feared by the entire world.

  Now it’s a country run by a paedophile fascist with dementia, elected twice by an equally mentally feeble populace - causing consternation and concern around the world.

  Americans should be ashamed of themselves. But of course they aren’t because they’re not actually capable of feeling shame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s my point: the only emotion Trump elicits in me is nausea and repulsion. And it’s not even a political assessment: he’s simply not a pleasant human being. Why people vote for unpleasant human beings, of find unpleasant human beings somehow appealing, is utterly baffling to me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely have no idea how this guy managed to convince so many trumpanzees to vote for him. Like Nancy Pelosi correctly said, he’s a vile creature: even if you somehow agree with his policies, he’s clearly a terminally nasty and mean misanthrope, and someone nobody with any penchant for nice human contacts wants to spend anytime around of. I completely fail to fathom how such a repulsive human being can have such charisma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This picture says “Some guy is sick, four compassionate people are helping him, and one malignant narcissist with dementia has put his brain on pause until the event that isn’t about him and that doesn’t interest him is over, and everybody’s attention returns to him.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Historian Answers Native American Questions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Native American casinos exist to prove that casinos can be profitable when it’s not Trump running em.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be right there. Oh well. if it’s a bot, it trolled me out of a full minute of my life…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But here? We deal in maximum chaos per Euro spent!

  Then you have wasted your money. The Flipper can do any chaos whatsoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  […] Turns out it’s the keys to the entire electrical grid!
  …
  I am now fully ready to hack my neighbor’s TV to only show Motorhead concerts.

  Sigh

  This is nonsense like this that gets a useful tool like the Flipper banned in countries with even dumber politicians.

  You want to be part of the electrical grid? Stick your fingers in the mains outlet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨necessary read⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It means let the fuckers know they can retreat from their extreme or misguided political stance and come back to a more reasonable point of view without consequences. It’s a variation of Sun Tzu’s “Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.” : if you don’t, they’ll fight you to the death because they have no other option.

  My problem is, however reasonably the idea, that’s a bit too rich for me to apply to imbeciles who turn their country into a fascist hellhole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨necessary read⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I keep saying: Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom.

  And the disease is that a majority of voting Americans are either morally bankrupt and gullible enough to overlook all that Trump did and said and elect him, or actively fascist.

  And that’s why, when people tell me I need to “make space” for those people and give them an exit ramp, so that when Trump finally turns on them too, and they realize what they done did, the nation can heal and come back together, I say: fuck this shit.

  I don’t want to make space for immoral morons and fascists. These people deserve what they’re about to get, and what they’ve inflicted on the rest of us who didn’t sell out, and they’ll never come back from the moral quagmire that made them think it’s a-okay elect a fascist POTUS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you think this is new?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what happens when Big Tech trap people in information silos and the media manufactures different fake realities depending on the bias of the particular billionaires who happens to own the outlets: people don’t share a common experience anymore and don’t have common facts to agree on. As a result, everybody has their own truths from their own information bubbles and nobody know the actual facts anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the same reason why I gave Ubuntu Touch a go: CalyxOS going stale on my FP4. But I decided to buy an FP5 to give it a whirl and leave the FP4 alone, because I can’t really do without a reliable phone while I make sure the kinks are worked out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure why not:

  • The UI is really quite polished. Honestly, it’s slicker than you imagine.

  There are weird quirk that you simply don’t encounter in Android, like the UI not really tailored for displays with rounded corners or with a camera in the top-middle blocking icons, or the side drag areas being too small for my taste. Or the keyboard’s haptic feedback seemingly not going away when you disable it, because there’s also a general touch haptic feedback that’s well-hidden in the settings menus, that you didn’t know about.

  All this is fixable with enough time and minor hackery, but it still requires time and hackery you don’t need in Android.

  • I haven’t tried an external display. I have a computer for that.

  • Waydroid - the Android emulation - is very slick and quite stable. Integration is quite good: when you install an Android app, it shows up in the UT menu immediately. Sometimes they show up twice: just refresh the menu by pulling down and the extra instance disappears. At least in my extremely well-supported Fairphone 5, there’s no issues with access to camera, networking, NFC… But the camera has a quirk: you have to open the native UT camera first, otherwise Android apps won’t be able to use the camera for some reason.

  • Sharing files between UT and Android apps isn’t a thing natively, but you can download Waydroid helper apps to do that in the Openstore.

  • If you want long-winded Android apps, you have to leave the window open. If you close it, the app stops if it was the only one running in Waydroid.

  • There’s a thing called Libertine to run native desktop Linux apps in UT: I find it crashy at best. But it’s there.

  • Most important apps like calls, SMS, browsing, emails are handled quite well by native UT apps. Other things like maps are handled by web apps, and while I intensely dislike web apps, I must say they work really well.

  All of this is easy to live with if you’re willing and persistent enough. But if you want a phone that Just Works™ like most people do, This won’t cut it. That’s why I’m saying, Apple and Google have absolutely nothing to fear from Linux phones: most people aren’t willing to spend a tenth of the time I’m willing to spend on a quirky phone for the sake of principles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More proof that AI ruins everything - if it was needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an actual person who owns and operates an actual Linux phone that actually works as one of the best Linux phones you can get (Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch), I can guarantee you that neither Apple nor Google are losing a single second of sleep over this - much as I’d love that they quaked in their monopolistic corporate boots…