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@thejml@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh the flip side, I have a Bazzite desktop rig running Proton/Steam for gaming and a PS5 and Switch. I’m not in the market for an Xbox and have bought one since the OG… so I’ll just keep not buying their stuff I guess? I feel like boycotting things I’m not buying anyway doesn’t really send a message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a “someone born in the 70s and 80s”, Hollywood doesn’t cater to me… or my similarly aged wife and friends. We go to maybe 1 or 2 films a year tops and only really because of our daughter. We canceled Netflix a while back and just don’t watch much TV at all. One of our 40-something friends doesn’t even own a TV anymore. Everything is just rehashed junk at this point and it’s depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Two European-based cloud service companies, Exoscale and Elastx, tell WIRED they have seen an uptick in potential customers looking to abandon US cloud providers over the last two weeks

  Are these any good? Are there others? As an American, I’m 100% on board with getting my digital footprint out of this country and into the EU somewhere, so I’d love to know!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s become very popular. Jaguar, Lexus, Audi, they’ll use glues at some point. So I’m very surprised. It’s not as if it’s an unknown science. I’ve not heard [of problems] anywhere else.”

  Yeah, none of those brands are trying to be cheap as shit death traps though.

  I also find it fun how i heard this morning that it hasn’t even been fixed in production yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are using Google's new AI model to remove watermarks from images | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So glad we’re destroying the environment and GPU market for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Weekly Occurrence at Work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On one hand, that’s pretty lazy.

  On the other hand, the last office I was in would over pack it in that dispenser and all you’d get were shreds every, single, time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC asks to delay Amazon Prime deceptive practices case, citing staffing shortfalls⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So. the FTC doesn’t have enough people now to do its job… great planning there.

  Except it’s likely on purpose so they won’t have enough people to look into this and other large cases against corporations that might impact the people buying out the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While it wasn’t necessarily pretty and had its share of glitches, I quite enjoyed Arceus. It was a nice break from the standard patterns it’s fallen into.

  Course I say that as someone who also enjoyed Sword and Shield after a skipping a few prior.

  Graphics definitely aren’t everything, but they could stop it With the half finished games with glitches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta fires 20 employees for leaking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a health problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Captain America: Brave New World’ has the MCU’s lowest Cinemascore ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  <Slaps Post>: This list holds so many arguments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My love for you is like a Peregrine Falcon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Berserker!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how that maths out. Last time I booked a ticket (sadly a few days ago), it was a round trip with one connection each way, so 4 flights. It was an extra $600 for first class, so $150 per flight. The planes were around the 20 seats in first class size and that’d be $3k… it’s hard to say that the $3k was the bulk of the income there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larry Ellison wants to put all US data in one big AI system • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My dead grandmother use to tell me stories about the bank account information of everyone in my neighborhood…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily it’s a jeep, so you can just take those off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easier to roll out if no one can saturate it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨S̵̢̡̠̣̜͍̘͍̈́̿͒̈̎̉͌͂̎̾̓Ḩ̶̡̛̯̰̤̻͖̹̝̼͍͔̰̃̅̋̍̈̆̋̋́̔͝Ǫ̴̺͔̫͈͉͎̤͎͗͂̅͒̀͒W̶̛͖̺̰̠̙̲̓͆̋̉̌̆̂͛̀̒̕͘ ̷̨̦̤̇̀̓̉́̅͒̄͝M̶͓̗͚̩̬͈͎͗̓̈́́͜͜Ẹ̵̢̢̺̞͓͓̤͙̙͖̈́̈̉͝ ̶̧̡̲̺͓̮̰̘̮͚͉̝͈̝̀͒́̎̾̓͜͝͝͠T̷̡̟̘̫͋͋̑͊̓͐̊̐̎H̸̪̋͛̓̀̍̂̐̂͐̾̈́̒̃É̵̛̾̅̀͛̃̄̏⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Fire at the disco; fire at the, Taco Bell!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal -- [Opinion]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how now is referred to as the “post-truth era” as if there were pre-truth and truth eras as well… the internet and newspapers in general have never been infallible. Journalistic Integrity was a bigger deal, but it was pretty easy to find false, dubious and inflammatory statements in printed papers and news programs. As someone who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, I remember having to site multiple sources in papers due to inconsistencies and straight up lies and opinions being wide spread.

  What we’re seeing here is less about truth, and more about the speed of information spread, truth or not. Coupled with the lack of questioning from the general public and the acceptance of marginal information by the masses. Anything that fits someone’s personal narrative is championed and distributed as truth. I feel that it’s partly due to the online bubbles that promote such community echo chambers, but we had those in the past as well. Perhaps they just didn’t work quite as well as those that can be both world wide and easily influenced by outside actors.

  I’d agree that some of the perceived lack of journalistic integrity could be exaggerated by the AI and click bait tactics to drive views and revenue.

  I’m all about decentralized social media, but I don’t think it’s a panacea as Lemmy has plenty of echo chambers and questionable information just as any other social media network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lazy scientists announce there are probably several kinds of squirrels but they move too fast to be sure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta go fast!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a disastrous opening, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim heads to digital on Dec 27th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow! I’m looking forward to seeing it in theaters, but there holidays are always hard for me to make time for a movie showing.

  To be fair I’d have never known it was a thing if it wasn’t for Lemmy or seeing the poster in the theater hallway when I saw Moana 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you bother with... mini PCs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  eBay, Amazon, sometimes you can snag deals when they release newer versions, they actually had a few on Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

  Tbh, I got mine in a pack of 4 on eBay (I only needed 3), cleaned them out a bit, bumped the RAM and put new disks in them and they’ve been solid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you bother with... mini PCs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, this goes against Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, but absolutely.

  I’ve got a small stack of 1L PCs running a ProxMox and Kubernetes cluster and it’s been perfect. Highly recommend. I’ll probably get one for my wife’s desk when she sets it up as it’ll do everything she needs and more, and it’s tiny and you can get em cheap lightly used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germ Blaster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always have to imagine I’m playing Operation and it’s going to buzz and light up a red light over my head if I bump the sides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cetaceans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Verified. It’s on the table entry for en.wikipedia.org/…/Tamanend's_bottlenose_dolphin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ambition⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always figure we ask kids what they want to be when they grow up because they have better imagination and we adults are looking for ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google hit with £7B claim over search engine dominance • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I daily DDG and either go to Kagi or, oddly enough, Bing if that doesn’t work. Google is too riddled with ads at this point.

  One day I’m going to run out of free Kagi queries and I’ll probably have to pony up the money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haha SO TRUE!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The phrase “Haha So True!” (referred to as ‘HST’ henceforth to save space and out of respect for the readers’ precious time who would rather engage in intellectual conversations elsewhere than keep repeating “Haha So True!” over and over again

  HST

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're called leaves for a reason.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. There’s a lot in my neighborhood… And it’s annoying when there’s a perfectly good sidewalk right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogma 2 on the way from Kevin Smith⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP Alan Rickman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hiding the Other Half: ‘Wicked’ Is the Latest Film to Trim ‘Part One’ From the Title⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still remember going to see the first LoTR film and right after it fades out, hearing a lady yell “you mean there’s another one?!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyway, i started blastin'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, what are their names?