HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on Masters of timing, Microsoft: Just one day from Windows 10 EOL and apparently the official Media Creation Tool isn't working 1 day ago:
Windows 10 reset a lot of UI from 8 to 7 that a lot of users wanted. Some changes were added, but the muscle memory learned since 95 could be used with little modification. Windows 11 broke a lot of those workflows without providing anything better on the higher end of usability.
I agree that 10 started adding things that people don’t like about 11, but 11 actively broke things that people liked about 10.
- Comment on Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others? 1 day ago:
Comfort is a deciding factor on how I dress. Within that, I try to pull off looks that don’t look like ass, which I seem to pull off.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 1 day ago:
In some form, yes. However, a lot of it centered around import fees instead of restricting immigration. It would also usually center around cities, bridges, toll roads, and ports rather than open fields.
If you were the wrong ethnic type in a city, they’d just kill you.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 2 days ago:
Microsoft did cozy up to the PC; it just happened to create a console that acted like a PC to hedge its bets and create a new product line.
The initial development of XBox came from Microsoft’s development of DirectX, which led to Microsoft doing a lot of the heavy development lifting required to make a console. At that point, all Microsoft needed was some hardware and it could ship product. So, Microsoft shipped XBox figuring that PC/XBox compatibility would beneficial for developers.
At that time, it was unclear if consoles or PC’s would win some forms of gaming. By making the XBox, a developer could develop for both, therefore defending PC gaming with Windows as an option.
Microsoft also made a lot of money off the consoles, since development costs were lower due to having to update DirectX for Windows as well.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 3 days ago:
In regards to #1, Antifa isn’t sold as an “antifascist” organization to the MAGA crowd. It is sold as a “leftist” organization that participated a lot in the BLM protests. This is sold as a big scary group that will make America a bad country.
If you aren’t steeped in right wing media, you wouldn’t know of this organization because this organization doesn’t exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Corn hollow structural shapes?
How strong are we talking?
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 4 days ago:
They are a small part of the overall movement.
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 5 days ago:
The question was kind of vague in terms of what part of Christianity he was questioning, but it seems to be focused on how churches currently function. At that point, I figured I’d focus on prosperity gospel for some US churches, which is a uniquely American phenomenon.
To just say “religion has always been like that” may bury understanding on how the current form came into being.
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 5 days ago:
Read up on The Great Awakening in the USA.
You had large parts of the USA without an established church and a lot of religious freedom. So, you had pastors able to preach whatever they wanted without government intervention. This free market Jesus produced a lot of religious diversity. Some pastors used this as an opportunity to turn religion into a business.
- Comment on 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices 6 days ago:
Part of the reason why MetLife Stadium in New Jersey won the finals game is because of the superior transit to the stadium and nearby cities over AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 1 week ago:
The US military rates Japanese as one of the harder languages to learn, with its internal course taking 64 weeks. As others have said, it will probably take you years to learn even with some knowledge of Cantonese and Mandarin.
- Comment on How Long is Too Long for a Reply? 1 week ago:
Whatever timeframe I’d reasonably expect people to read and respond to my comment. For Lemmy, I’d put that at a day.
- Comment on Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos 1 week ago:
Taylor Swift is also one of the top pop artists of all time.
- Comment on Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos 1 week ago:
It is also important to note that Taylor Swift has a very different relationship to her marketing department compared with other artists.
Most artists have agreements with existing agencies and may not have full control over their work. Taylor Swift, in contrast, built a marketing group with the some focus on marketing her. Taylor controls her marketing team entirely, and with that control comes responsibility.
- Comment on it's time 1 week ago:
It was a series of families moving beyond the land they knew because they were pushed out by other families. The response to your discussion would be “Because I don’t want to get stabbed in the face by Kenny.”
- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 1 week ago:
Until the 1980’s, the Federal government never shut down if they didn’t have a budget. Instead, it would operate as previously budgeted and departments would forgo large expenditures. An opinion written by the Attorney General changed that.
I would imagine it could change back to the old system if pushed.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 1 week ago:
Because people don’t want it compared to the current Internet.
There is nothing stopping people from creating the Internet of old.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 1 week ago:
Why would the C suite care about you?
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
Valuation of companies is partially dependent on growth. A company that is projected to grow is worth more than a similarly sized company because it is expected that future growth will make the company earn more in the future, which makes the company worth more now.
- Comment on If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.? 1 week ago:
CEO’s are already using AI as a tool to help them understand their companies by dumping their company data into these models as a way to understand their companies.
I just don’t see any company creating an AI to replace a CEO in its entirety, yet.
- Comment on Should my character be 21-23? 2 weeks ago:
Based on what was written, the relationship age gap seems to be an important part of the character.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yep. It brought about a new hunting strategy that a lot of prey didn’t have a counter strategy for.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 2 weeks ago:
Get a civil engineering degree and go into construction management. Then, crawl your way into international development. You won’t be at home, but that seems like a decent fit for someone with an affinity for STEM and a desire to make money.
- Comment on I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then? 3 weeks ago:
The standard of safety was far lower back then. You could legally drink alcohol and drive in all states in the 1970s and didn’t face a national ban until 1998.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 3 weeks ago:
As others have said, the issue is transmission.
There are parts of the world where solar power is deployed to help with the power grid; the Southwest USA uses solar power a lot as peak solar generally aligns with peak electrical demand. However, there isn’t the infrastructure to move west coast power to the east coast.
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 3 weeks ago:
It is more identifying where the threat is going to come than anything else.
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 3 weeks ago:
South Park isn’t broadcast and the FCC has far reduced powers on non-broadcast television.
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 3 weeks ago:
They would have liked that.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 4 weeks ago:
The conservative need to burn everything down got Trump elected.
The problems with Charlie Kirk’s assassination is the following.
First, random gun violence hit a conservative news commentator. Worse, it was someone who grew up in a conservative family. So, you’ve got a lot of conflicting emotions playing out in real time.
Second, there has been a lot of push back regarding what kind of commentator Charlie Kirk was. The discussions of who Kirk was outside of the conservative bubble are leaking in and a lot of Kirk’s fans hate it.
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 4 weeks ago:
We’re used to kids getting shot.