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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT help for the parents; It should be quick – Expectations vs. Reality⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point I learned to set boundaries with my mom and IT help. I know I’m good at it, hell I worked geek squad for years, but she got demanding. Started calling me out of the blue demanding help even if I was in the middle of something.

  “My printer doesn’t work”. “Okay, well I’m out right now… I’m not even home”. “BUT I NEED TO PRINT SOMETHING FOR TOMORROW” “Okay, well if it’s that urgent the library has printers, or the FedEx office can do it. I can help you in a couple of days on my day off”

  Me helping is a gift, it’s something I give to you, it’s not something I am required to do or an obligation. Since a couple of confrontations like that it’s gotten much more manageable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hulu quizzing about the ads played⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it’s not a breast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hulu quizzing about the ads played⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s finally here…

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I walk through my house I have sweet motion activated lights and doodads that I have spent hours tweaking and I enjoy thoroughly.

  In the bathroom I use a switch.

  Not everything needs to be “smart”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for keeping the “if not sold”. They’ve had many opportunities to make it legal, and they’ve fought it all the way. It’s not a “ban” as much as it is a forced sale.

  I’m guessing next week we’re going to hear they spun it off to a totally american company, or meta taking it over or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation put the axe in a live service God Of War game, alongside a project from the Days Gone studio⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They write this juxtaposed right next to layoffs, like it’s inevitable. Just make games people want ffs. No one asked for a GoW live service game. You know what people would want? A good single player sequel/prequel/spinoff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It also delivers a set amount of ice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I don’t have one, but my wife is a food scientist working in the drinks industry, so I’ve learned a lot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t mean they didn’t plan the drink with ice in mind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay so I’m going to answer this with soda. So when people order soda no ice, they think they’re being smart and getting more soda. Well, define soda.

  You see, most of those drinks are specifically designed with the ice in mind. All drinks are some sort of mixture with water, and they take ice into account, they expect the ice to melt and become part of the drink. With soda, they made the drink with the ice melting in mind.

  So when you order a soda no ice, you’re not getting more soda necessarily, justa. More concentrated sugary syrupy drink that isn’t properly mixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somebody recreated all of GTA 4's Liberty City in GTA 5 aaaaand it's gone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If only someone kept the torrents…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games like Starfield?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely, instead we only got a kinda crappy book

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games like Starfield?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I always felt Andromeda got a bad rap. It’s not a great game. It’s not on par with mass effect. But it’s fine, I had fun. I never felt like it was a waste of money. Not a masterpiece, but I enjoyed it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m personally looking into setting up a friendica instance for my family

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrek 5 Release Date Shifts to December 2026, Minions 3 Moves to July 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, 2026 Oscars are gonna be pretty light now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I know, it’s just that they said they’re removing moderation for “free speech” and then remove one of the ways you can express themselves. Just hypocritical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just making it clear that it wasn’t about freedom of expression or speech. True freedom of speech would mean keeping these even if it made other people uncomfortable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who works in corporate America this is 10000% true. Giant corporations are hugely bloated, inefficient, slow, and stupid. I honestly can’t believe they are somehow the best way to do things in groups of people. I have never had less work to do than working in a huge corporation.

  It’s no surprise that indie games can compete with them. Working in startups compared to huge corporations, I did more code and we got more done in shorter amounts of time vs big corps. There’s no red tape, there’s no committees or directors or people you have to please. There’s no political games, you just do your work. As simple as that. You come in, you code for 7-8 hours, you push your feature, and you go home.

  In a megacorp you come in, you get 5 minutes for coffee before 3 people are pinging you on slack for some stupid downstream thing they didn’t read the manual on or was never documented, and then you have 5 hours of meetings, lunch, 2 hours of ad hoc meetings, and then Shirley has to swing by to ask you to take another HR training. So you get maybe 20 minutes of coding done in a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He knows the only people who still use that platform are celebrating less facts and more AI slop. It’s time to seriously start getting our parents off of facebook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Think AI Images of Hollywood Sign Burning Are Real [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Phew, and here I thought they let AI out of pandora’s box too early. Good thing we’re ready for it as a society!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man trapped inside driverless car as it spins in circles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re in the mirror verse. Satire writers wrote this entire universe. Next thing he’s going to be auto driven into a shipping container and sent to a private island of a billionaire because the car was called home

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glen Powell Signs First-Look Deal With Universal Pictures⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  God how do people like him. I just do not care for him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please create a non-secure password.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Always remember there is someone much cheaper than you who will do a much worse job, but be more arrogant about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 will be a make-or-break year for triple-A video games as we know them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Got assassin’s creed mirage. Was a decent game. For the $20 sale price I mean. Wouldn’t spend more than that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Google TV update will track your movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Say McDonalds to continue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple killed it’s last version in August because it didn’t respect privacy. Where there’s object detection there’s csam detection. Which hey I think is good, and I wouldn’t expect an announcement about it. I just see how they did this, and this is exactly how I’d roll out a privacy focused csam detector if I was going to do it

  From August 2023, they killed the non privacy focused one: wired.com/…/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-l…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading between the lines, I guarantee they’re doing the same thing for CSAM protection. I think sex offenders caused this to happen, I believe they found out that they were using photos to host that horrid stuff, and apple can’t just ignore it, so I think we have them to thank

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA copycat Paradise is an alleged crypto scam, yet continues to gain Steam wishlists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always astonished at how easily and happily people will hand over their hard earned money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please create a non-secure password.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I see something like this I just laugh because you’re exactly right. Something isn’t being handled properly and their dev team just proved they don’t know how to do some basic handling. Every API library in JS and restful API I know of handle special characters. If they wanted they could base64 encode it over the wire. Then you’re exactly right, if the database “can’t handle it” more than likely it’s a home spun database connection where they’re serializing it themselves (which even then this is solvable), but even then that proves that they make poor choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a new toll I'll have to pay to drive anywhere.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you live in Manhattan, congrats, you’re doing better than the vast majority of the country financially. Even with dependents, you’re doing much much better.

  I’m genuinely curious about whether it’s really slower than mass transit in NYC is.

  There’s no way to know because no other cities in North America have one like NYC. No where has mass transit. I’m in Seattle, we have 2 (disconnected) light rail lines. Houston has 3 light rail lines for the entire city. LA has a metro that doesn’t even connect to the airport yet. You want to know why you’re being downvoted to hell? It’s because you live in the only place in the entire country with an actual, working metro service and you don’t want to ride it because it’s slightly dirty sometimes, or you might be forced to interact with other people. Let me tell you, I travel to NYC regularly, and I wish we had a metro system like yours. I sit in traffic for 1.5 hours each way to get to work, and I live 7 miles away from it. And Seattle has a “good” metro system compared to the vast majority of the country. Last time I was in New York I happily stepped over a pile of human shit to get on the train, and I still got across the city in less than 30 minutes. How many people here have to tell you, you have a golden ticket with your metro service, the ability to go anywhere in your city at any time for $2 and change, and you’re trying to convince all of us that it’s actually not that great.

  Do you know what I’d give to not have to drive? To not have to get in a car every day to go to work? Even if it took longer? To not have to white-knuckle drive, to not have to maintain a vehicle, to not have to sit there day after day. A train would be a godsend, and we’re finally starting to get a working one in Seattle but we’re decades away from a system that can get me to more places than the Airport, downtown, or the university.

  The most ironic thing is that the tax you’re paying is literally to improve the subway, to make it cleaner, safer, to finish the second avenue line, and for maintenance, but you probably still will convince yourself that it’s not worth it.