Darkassassin07
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 3 days ago:
I’ve not seen one of those in use in the half dozen servers I’d looked at; but I’ve barely used that shit show of a platform.
Regardless, it’s not publicly accessible/indexable and I’m not willing to enter into their new binding arbitration agreement just to look around. (the new ToS)
Discord can go fuck themselves.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 3 days ago:
I fucking hate Discord and how it’s absorbed what should be forums.
When I’m creating a discussion online about a particular game or project, I’m looking to hear from the broader community over a longer term; not just limited to whomever happens to be online on this one specific platform at the time of posting.
People have different schedules, we’re not all online together at the same times; especially when you factor in timezones. Discord however makes it massively frustrating if not impossible to hold a discussion unless everyone you want to talk to is present and ready to read and reply now. Otherwise your conversation gets burried in the mess of other people having their own conversations and nobody wants to scroll through thousands of messages in the history of when they last logged on.
You can break out conversations into their own rooms, but that only goes so far and at that point you may as well just have a damn forum; that’s what they are for.
Then you get into the problem of repetition and searchability. People often run into common problems or ask the same questions; but with Discord, you’ve got to re-explain the same things every time they’re brought up, instead of just pointing the user to an old forum post that already solves their problem (they may have even found it themselves through a web search, saving them from even having to ask and waste people’s time. Discord isn’t indexed by search engines so old conversations/solutions are lost).
A group chat platform is not an acceptable replacement for a forum and I will die on that god damn hill.
- Comment on Dawg... 3 days ago:
What. the. fuck.
I think this graph just gave me a migraine.
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 4 days ago:
That can be found right here:
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 5 weeks ago:
That’s very subjective.
Both platforms have the option for mods to tell you exactly what you did wrong; and on both, sometimes they utilize that option sometimes they don’t.
It’s entirely up to the individual mods in each specific community.
Lemmy does generally tend to be a bit more open; just because it’s a growing platform looking to expand its userbase, so the mods make a bit more of an effort to create peace/understanding vs just ban hammering any problems into oblivion.
Reddits grown big enough that it can throw its weight around a bit carelessly and have less worry of the userbase collapsing.
- Comment on The universe thinks you're gay. 1 month ago:
Or just that “haha rainbow gay”?
Just because there happens to be a rainbow in the image? I’m not sure where you’re getting this at all… There’s absolutely 0 reference to LGBTQ content here.
Seems very clearly ‘the universe is laughing at how small your range perception is’ to me.
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 1 month ago:
Note, this was over 15 years ago; their policy has shifted in that time. I don’t believe the shipping requirement was that strict at the time.
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 1 month ago:
Yup, that was really stupid. A hard lesson learned for literally the first package I’d ever shipped myself.
If I remember correctly though; ebay took the buyers side and refunded them before even informing me of the dispute. While I didn’t have evidence to refute it besides a receipt for shipping, they hadn’t really given me the opportunity to even try… Plus at 14 I wasn’t willing to lose $1k and the cards. :/
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 1 month ago:
That was well over 15 years ago now; I do not. I’d imagine the price has also risen a tad, not something I’ve looked into in quite a while. (I had sold at a similar price to comparable sets on ebay at the time)
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 1 month ago:
I’ve been permanently banned from ebay since I was 14.
Sold an original Alpha set of MTG cards for over $1k. Shipped it without tracking like a moron. Buyer disputed, claimed they never received it; ebay immediately refunded them and came after me for the funds. I said f that and walked away. They didn’t do much to try and collect (not sure they even can against a minor in Canada), but banned my account.
Since; I’ve tried to make a couple other accounts once or twice, and buy or sell stuff. Those got removed and orders cancelled within 24hrs.
- 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 1 month ago:
Did anyone call him out for this during the meeting?
There’s a public comment section, right? Straight up ask why he feels it’s appropriate be deciding matters of public saftey while actively endangering the public himself by distracted driving during this very meeting.
- Comment on These shipping tape things 1 month ago:
They work great until someone drops it and bends the frame. As soon as there’s misalignment it’s becomes frustrating garbage.
Working warehousing, I bought my own and tethered it to my push cart because every one in the building kept getting destroyed by other employees.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 1 month ago:
Until this; I’d never heard of that rapper, and this drove lots of people to at least find the song that supposedly led to the C&D/stranding(real or not).
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 1 month ago:
And everyone is just like “that’s totally something they would do! Lol”… What?
Keep in mind pretty much everyone on this platform already hates Tesla and does not nor would they own a Tesla vehicle. There’s also a certain ‘you got what you deserve by buying that’ kind of attitude towards Tesla owners.
This is behaviour we expect from this shit company and it doesn’t directly effect any of us commenting on it. We just get to point and laugh (for now).
The discussion might be a little different if it was a less expected brand like IKD, Audi. But who’s to say for sure; there’s been a lot of ‘cattle’ behaviour lately.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 2 months ago:
A smart TV is primarily a surveillance device that also happens to display video.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 2 months ago:
Yeah, thermodynamics are a thing. I’m not trying to claim some free energy system saying you could power the whole data center; but if you could re-capture some of the waste heat and convert it back into electricity, putting that energy to work instead of just venting to atmosphere, it could potentially help offset some of the raw electrical needs. An efficiency improvement, that’s all.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 2 months ago:
Collect and condense the hot water vapor, concentrate the heat until you’ve got steam; then pump it through a steam turbine recapturing that energy as electricity.
I’m sure there’s some difficulties and nuances I’m not seeing right away, but it would be nice to see some sort of system like this. Most power plants generate heat, then turn that into electricity. Data centers take electricity and turn it back into heat. There’s gotta be a way to combine the two concepts.
- Comment on When one earbud decides to not charge and I need to remove it from the case and put it back. And I even sometimes don't realize that... 2 months ago:
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Excellent sound quality, durable+replaceable cables, and options between a TRS(aux) cable, USB C cable, or even a Bluetooth adapter.
- Comment on When one earbud decides to not charge and I need to remove it from the case and put it back. And I even sometimes don't realize that... 2 months ago:
I’ve made a habit of wiping the contacts on the earbud and case before putting it away, then I give the bud a bit of a wiggle once it’s in so the contacts rub together and hopefully dislodge/break through any dirt or oil.
- Comment on Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. 2 months ago:
Intentionally defacing/altering currency is a federal offence in itself. Though rarely enforced unless particularly egregious or you intend to defraud someone with it (like altering a 10 to be a 100 for example).
Aside from that, any business you attempted to spend it at could and likely would simply refuse to accept it.
At best you’d be left with a bunch of bills that can only really be exchanged for new ones at a bank. At worst you could face roughly $100 in fines+6mo in jail for each bill defaced.
- Comment on New Android POS at work has 4 notifications but I can't clear them because their MDM locks the notification bar. 2 months ago:
We have company issued android phones with bluetooth headsets while on-premises (they work as ptt radios between staff, and they’re linked to the business phone so we can directly answer calls for our departments.).
There’s like 7 locked notifications and it regularly plays notification sounds but very very rarely displays any notifications that are actually relevant to you.
Finally it automatically logs you out after exactly 8hrs, even if you’re actively typing/using the device. Shifts are 8.5-9hrs including lunch.
- Comment on Why don't women like to be called females? 2 months ago:
Gender culture aside, the terms ‘Male’ and ‘Female’ sound really… clinical. Depending on the context, it’s so formal that it’s bizarre. Like an alien trying to fit in.
“Hello, fellow males, what are doing today.”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
As someone that struggles to sleep in a room with any light; this sounds awful.
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 2 months ago:
Makes download speeds great, but upload drops off a cliff
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 2 months ago:
- Comment on 7-Zip for Windows goes massively parallel with first ‘Threadripper Edition’ — five years after Threadripper debut, Version 25.00 the first to support more than 64 threads 2 months ago:
What in the fuck are you (un)packing that needs 64+ threads???
- Comment on Thumbs up to people dying. 3 months ago:
The times we live in.
I want off this ride.
- Comment on Thumbs up to people dying. 3 months ago:
I can’t think of a place more deserving of a mass-shooting than this room.
- Comment on War Thunder player once again leaks classified military documents to win an argument 3 months ago:
- Comment on Streaming Viewership Surpassed Cable and Broadcast Combined for the First Time Ever in May, Nielsen Finds 3 months ago:
Live sports is one of the only things that still makes sence to have live tv for. Pirate sources for live games is difficult; but I’m not much of a sports fan anyway, so that’s never really enticed me.
