wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron 2 days ago:
I’d have to guess it’s something weird with how they’re using web fonts or something. Looks fine on my end.
- Comment on Why does not LW have it's only little icon that can be seen across the fediverse? To let people know which area of the Fed we represent. I would totally put it by my name. 3 days ago:
What? Nearly every UI for the fediverse displays the instance of the poster after their name if they are not from the same instance as you.
That’s why to you I show up as wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com, and to me you show up as Patnou@lemmy.world
There’s no need for some sort of icon, you show your home instance wherever you go already.
- Comment on Shameful display 6 days ago:
Ugh, when the food places near my work started recognizing me. Yuck.
- Comment on The Head 1 week ago:
Lol no. Very no. Getting gut shot is a wonderful way to die slowly and in agony.
- Comment on If i use Greenluma from a specific site, can i cybersafely play FFXV performing this post Description process, you get combining the processes that appeared there, in the order those appeared? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure there’s like one teenager from india that makes a new account around once a month just to ask stupid questions in varying levels of awful English about pirating Steam games safely.
Plenty of people (including myself) have engaged with them in good faith and gotten absolutely nowhere. It’s like the same three or four games, the same manual method they’re trying to use to crack the DRM themselves instead of just grabbing a repack from fitgirl, this complete obsession with perfect safety, obsession with using the game unmodified, a complete language barrier or lack of any comprehension, and an inability to do any searching themselves past the single idea they’ve already landed on.
- Comment on Oh no, oh Pizza Hut marketing team what is that logo 1 week ago:
What’s that logo? Safe bet that it’s an entirely intentional attempt to go viral by getting people sharing it like you are, going “oh my god that looks like goatse”.
They can safely let it spread brand awareness and salience through posts like this, then never actually roll it out, or make some sort of “apology”, but the goal is already accomplished.
- Comment on You drink? I are did done drunks myselv and I plane on doin moar 1 week ago:
That’s one hell of a story, especially with the little I saw scrolling your profile. Anyway, just wanted to say that a bunch of folks have reverse engineered Lego Island into an open source codebase that they can get running on just about anything now.
You can play it in your web browser even, but it’s a little tough to control on a phone.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 week ago:
Waiting for buses and other public transport especially. In college I had no car and continued working a part time job that I previously borrowed my parents’ car to commute to. My options were: spending an hour and a half to commute taking a bus with a reasonable schedule but I’d have to walk over a mile alongside a busy road to my job, or spend three hours to commute due to how two route schedules matched up to drop me off at the entrance to the shopping center.
Each of those options was one way, and this was before smart phones. I wasn’t getting anything done in that time besides listening to music and maybe reading a book while on the bus itself.
And then I learned that on Saturdays, over half the time the bus just didn’t fucking show up at the stop where I got on, and the support phone line would just fucking lie about it.
Plus, if I had a vehicle, the commute would have been only 20 minutes in bad traffic.
Will say, the regular distance power walking helped keep me in great shape though.
- Comment on SBA #173 insposting 2 weeks ago:
Oh hey, it’s that thing from my last therapy session that hit me like a fucking train because I had to come to terms with the fact that despite the truth of this, I’ve rarely if ever actually felt it.
Thanks for the reminder friendo.
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 2 weeks ago:
Always one of the character ones. The others you can get at stores pretty easily. Not as a kid, but still.
- Comment on “Teaching crabs how to read” 2 weeks ago:
It only takes a few taps to go from a meme, video, or picture you’re showing someone to the browser.
Didn’t have smart phones when I went to college, but I had some friends who prided themselves on how fast they could get to browser history on an “unattended” laptop, as in, I turned around to talk to someone else for ~60 seconds.
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 2 weeks ago:
Also toddlers:
Me: “Why did you just throw your toy? We don’t throw things in the house.”
Toddler: “Because I needed to.”
Me: “Why did you need to?”
Toddler: “I meant it! Hmph.”
- Comment on Post-coital ARAM 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately a number of my friends from college fell prey to League. A few of them were already dating who they’ve ended up marrying, so I can only assume yes.
The key is that they grew out of it.
- Comment on First and final day of posting Subarus slathered in quirky bumper stickers. 2 weeks ago:
My kind of people. Lesbians, apparently?
- Comment on Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty 2 weeks ago:
So much for data being anonymized. They correlate individual users between multiple, completely unrelated apps.
- Comment on This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. 2 weeks ago:
At around 22 years old, I met an athletic little stick of a 19 year old lady who hadn’t grown out of her rebellious phase yet. She was into a somewhat rare combination of dad-bod and bad boy, trying to maximize parental upset. Going for the complete opposite of how she appeared at first glance.
A friend in their late 20s had brought the young one along to help pretend they weren’t rounding the corner on 30 themselves. Funny thing is, the 19yo and nearly 30yo had a falling out later when the younger one settled into responsible adulthood before the older one.
Younger one got out from under her parents and settled into responsible (and domestic) adulthood almost immediately, dropping the bad boys and keeping the dad-bod thing. Married pretty quick too, to what looked like a kind snuggly bear of a guy, before I lost touch with her.
- Comment on boioioioioinggg 2 weeks ago:
People doing crazy shit instead of just finding a ladder.
- Comment on one beer 3 weeks ago:
But I need my armpits for THE STINKING
- Comment on NSA's SIGINT Enabling Project includes sabotaging cryptographic standards. 3 weeks ago:
To surface some important info from the link: IETF standards votes are open to anyone on the mailing list, and a number of NSA workers are voting for the first time on any of these standards in favor of weakening one particular one.
Given that it’s effectively open to the public, the creator of the linked site is urging people to sign up and vote in opposition.
It’s a quick read and all the relevant links are there for involving yourself if you wish.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 3 weeks ago:
So your complaint, for posterity
Pretty much. It’s an unfunny failure of a caricature of these fuckers, based off what is years old news, that does nothing but stoke impotent feelings of elitism.
It’s self-making your own circus for the bread and circus distraction from doing anything useful about the problem, and I find it awfully similar to public masturbation at this point.
A more succinct comment, and what I probably just should have went for my initial comment given this is a shit post community, is the meme of Squidward saying “brave today, aren’t we?”
It’s boring and overdone.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 3 weeks ago:
No shit Sherlock. So why are we trying our best to turn them into the clowns to make a circus to go with the bread instead of talking about how to do something? Why are we helping them make things worse by just turning them into a punchline.
More so, why are we settling for such a weak ass punchline about a version of the problem that’s from multiple years ago?
This limp dicked masturbatory elitism just downplays the seriousness of the situation while stoking a futile feeling of elitism that goes nowhere. “Look, aren’t we better than these hilariously sad excuses for a cum stain? Time to go be smug and continue sitting on my ass doing nothing.”
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 3 weeks ago:
Neither did the constant media and internet frenzy focusing on the stupidest aspects of their bullshit. Are we going to start talking about the two scoops of ice cream again? Look at the birdy and ignore the gutting of the board of education.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 3 weeks ago:
Man, I sure do love when people put words in my mouth I never said. That is one bad jacket there.
There are plenty of more recent and more relevant examples of this type of bullshit without having to go back years, and this is some of the weakest "call out"s of these stains on humanity I’ve seen in a long time.
Next time you want to masturbate about how much better you are than Trump’s useful idiots, get some better material at least.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 3 weeks ago:
Are we really still giving any attention to the tiki torch carrying fucks? How long ago was this shit again?
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 3 weeks ago:
Sink is right there, what’s the problem?
- Comment on League of Legends Classic | Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Jesus Christ this blight has been around that long?
- Comment on Physical copy of GTA VI has arrived 4 weeks ago:
Blu-ray drives can be expensive, but USB DVD drives are only ~$20.
I’d also expect anyone who would care about the “physical” edition of the next GTA only being a download code in the box would have a disc drive on the device they wanted to install it on.
- Comment on SBA #154 Krabsweek 4 weeks ago:
Hello seaman! Have a se-
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 5 weeks ago:
Don’t need classes to make functions (depending on the language of course).
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 5 weeks ago:
I’ll openly admit that I’ve made comments that could be interpreted as this comic. That said, I don’t hate Linux or look to “dunk on” people, I just see a lot of really uninformed takes about Windows being tossed around and can’t help but try to correct people.
Like someone said something abysmally wrong and very confidently, I asked them when the last time they used Windows, and they said it had been over a decade. I get that people pull that sort of thing online all the time, but when I see it it bothers me.
So I end up making the occasional comment defending Windows from blatant misinformation in a Linux thread, or insisting that the Linux experience still isn’t as smooth as it needs to be for non-tinkerers.
Usually someone will pop up and call me uninformed or something, which is rich given I’ve been casually messing with Linux since before USB thumb drives were ubiquitous, and I have a little more than a decade of career experience in IT support and systems admin/engineering/architecture neck deep in a Microsoft environment.
I love Linux and open source software. I want it all to succeed. But Windows does have its place, it is valid for certain use cases, and is not anywhere as awful as it’s made out to be. Especially if you have the tech chops to switch to Linux, de-crappify-ing Windows is of comparable difficulty and I have not had any of the supposedly unavoidable Windows issues people regularly cite in around a decade.
Switching to Linux is a more than valid choice, but I hate to see it happen only because someone isn’t getting good troubleshooting information for a Windows issue.
I also have a seriously hard time keeping my mouth shut when Linux users claim daily driving a Linux Distro as a smooth process. It is leagues better than it used to be. Mind bogglingly so, and getting smoother every day. But it is still inevitable that you will hit a point of major friction and have to get deep into tinkering, and you will still likely need to make concessions in terms of hardware feature support.
I’m no stranger to tinkering. No stranger to compiling things myself, or even troubleshooting an error all the way down to a specific line of source code and making a PR to correct it.
But I’ve reached a point in my life where I don’t want to be spending hours troubleshooting things that in my mind should “just work”. I want more control than Apple offers, and less tinkering than Linux tends to expect.
So I keep up with the Linux space, use it on VMs personally semi-regularly, and maybe once a year give it a serious try as a daily driver. For now, stripped down/customized Windows installs on my gear is more than good enough.
