Hawke

@Hawke@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do.

  This is clearly false. There was a definite point at which it was decided to call Burma Myanmar, or at a more local level Peking to Beijing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The inconsistent naming for insert row/columns in the German MS Office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried sec /scannow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which actor did not have a single bad film?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson … how can you go wrong!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which actor did not have a single bad film?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Were they bad, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uhhh overleaf you say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LaTeX … sheets, you say??

  I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your “newsletter”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uhhh overleaf you say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do I find this “course”. Asking for my self.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me, via my taxes I would expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bins in woodlands do not get emptied often and will often overflow

  Think I found the problem— why not do the obvious thing and empty them more often?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I may have misunderstood, I was interpreting your comment to say that you were sticking with Windows — a paid commercial platform — while complaining about the cost of software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got no problem myself, just pointing out that it’s silly for people to complain about price but then use a paid platform over a free one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but it more “the manufacturer decided not to pay us to test it” rather than “it actually won’t work”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You should probably just throw it away"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  looks at empty wallet after paying for rent and food for the month :P

  continues to choose a paid platform over an arguably-superior free alternative

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is smarter than a genius⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yknow, while I 90% agree with you there seems to be some element between the technical genius (Wozniak) and the idiot businessman that is Tim Apple.

  Jobs may have been an asshole but there’s something to be said for the uncompromising non-technical focus on UX that allowed Jobs to make the iPhone a success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, what’re we moving to next?

  (Thank God, it’s finally over)

  Is Mumble still a thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing likes to change the name of shared file folders when they get new information.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s why most (all?) things that are designed to provide external access have permalinks. Dropbox, Google, OneDrive…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing likes to change the name of shared file folders when they get new information.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That usually doesn’t apply to external access though. You don’t share stuff publicly by NFS or SMB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing likes to change the name of shared file folders when they get new information.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell shitty system does that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people doctor shop? Don't all doctors pass info on all their patients between each other? And in this day and age how do they do it.?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also plenty of people with chronic illnesses need to find a doctor who at bare minimum understands that the disease exists and is willing to try to treat it.

  And women looking for birth control or sterilization procedures (even when sterilization is a side effect such as treatment of endometriosis) will need to “shop around” to find a doctor willing to do so, especially if they are not married and even more if they have no offspring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Slow, extra data traffic, extra battery usage.

  What are the upsides? I could see a phone being a great controller for a remote seedbox for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you torrent from your phone?

  Wrong tool for the job…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My reasons:

  1. Because it just works.
  2. I can uninstall the trash apps that apple includes and use my own preferences.
  3. Don’t have to deal with bloatware from two vendors (Google and Samsung for example)
  4. Vendor lock-in. I started on iOS (iPod touch) and so I have a certain amount of app purchases that are iOS-only. This is the only one that galls me.
  5. longevity / platform support. I’ve had this thing for close to five years, and the battery is only starting to fail in the last few months.
  6. decent display. Samsung galaxy’s PCM brightness control gives me horrible eye strain.

  Maybe it’s just Samsung that’s trash, I dunno. I tried hard to like android and in principle I should prefer Googles more open ecosystem. But it just seems to enable every manufacturer of android phones to try to outcompete each other in how awful they can make the experience of owning their products, all in the name of trying to differentiate themselves from their competitors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point is it even subterfuge?

  They’re not hiding it any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this time it'll be different⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fine from when I’m standing (using Voyager). What client are you using?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spidey senses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t a giant slider be just a burger?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with Signal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is I have yet to see any reasonable alternatives.

  Threema is the closest but it’s not free-of-charge, so a non-starter for most of my friends.

  The others are controlled by Russia (telegram) or Meta. What else even is viable?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  then repeated a dog whistle to the 14-words

  I missed that part. What was it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are color schemes used in video game UIs really subject to trademark?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  reasonable interpretation? No.

  Reality? Depends if there’s enough money and interest in litigation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why can't there be a soda dispenser for energy drinks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t done the math but I can’t imagine that’s the case or most sodas would also be illegal in their concentrated form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing at all. Most people are not creating derivative works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s less clear than you say.

  In principle the First-sale doctrine should apply but it has not caught up with reality yet.