Hawke
@Hawke@lemmy.world
- Comment on Something something far-left 1 week ago:
It’s not really complicated, it’s just that companies want to find (or make!) loopholes to shirk their responsibilities.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 2 weeks ago:
This. I know I did, although nothing else is quite as good as google used to be.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
you subscribe to a belief wholeheartedly, even a crazy one, to the point where youd rather die than question it.
That’s what I said too, which is to say that the point is not the killing but the unquestioning nature of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s not the point of the phrase — the statement refers to the true believers drinking poison unquestioningly, without entertaining the thought that it will kill them.
- Comment on Fly-tippers’ vehicles to be crushed in bid to save England from ‘avalanche of rubbish’ 4 weeks ago:
For those outside the UK, “fly-tipping” means the much more clearly phrased “illegal dumping”.
It is not similar to cow-tipping at all.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 5 weeks ago:
If they sound different they’re not lossless. (Or they’re different masters)
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 5 weeks ago:
I’m with you on the “FOSS office alternatives are shit”, but unfortunately MS office is also shit. Google is the closest I have found to a good office suite but even that is becoming a bit chaotic and awkward. LyX is a promising word processor but also pretty awkward to use in its own way. I’ve got nothing, there.
As far as gaming, this sound less kind than intended but you deserve any shit you get for saying Linux gaming is bad these days. Apart from a few AAA games with anti-cheat where the devs just don’t want to, basically every game just works without any extra effort. Even obscure indie games. I can’t think of the last game I wanted to play that didn’t run on Linux, and often it is better under proton than Windows or native.
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 1 month 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 month ago:
Have you tried sec /scannow?
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 month ago:
Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson … how can you go wrong!?
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 month ago:
Were they bad, though?
- Comment on uhhh overleaf you say 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Me, via my taxes I would expect.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 2 months 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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.? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
Why would you torrent from your phone?
Wrong tool for the job…
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 months ago:
My reasons:
- Because it just works.
- I can uninstall the trash apps that apple includes and use my own preferences.
- Don’t have to deal with bloatware from two vendors (Google and Samsung for example)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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? 2 months ago:
At this point is it even subterfuge?
They’re not hiding it any more.
- Comment on this time it'll be different 3 months ago:
It’s fine from when I’m standing (using Voyager). What client are you using?