halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Will Firefox die for good if Google is forced to sell off Chrome? 9 hours ago:
It doesn’t even earn any money.
Neither do the rotisserie chickens at the store. Or Costco’s $1.50 hot dog and soda combo.
Chrome isn’t intended to make money, it’s a loss leader.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 1 day ago:
There is a nearly zero percent chance that the game developers are also cloud experts. Having the same parent company means almost nothing, especially when you get to the size of places like Microsoft. The internal bureaucracy can actually make getting things accomplished properly worse. External contracts are usually pretty clear on what’s provided for the payment. Internal processes are often much more blurry, if not completely muddy.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews 1 day ago:
I’d say it’s more on how the developers setup their system to utilize (or not utilize) those dynamic capabilities.
The game devs not taking advantage of that properly should be on them. Put the blame where it belongs.Don’t let the devs off the hook just because you want to at least partially blame the MS cloud. Microsoft’s systems CAN handle dynamic loads when setup properly, we see it all the time.
- Comment on We have the best shaped states, don't we folks 5 days ago:
After learning about the chef, it becomes impossible to not see him anymore when looking at the states.
- Comment on Not So Fast! Judge Halts Infowars Sale To Onion Due To Shady Auction Procedures 1 week ago:
What a surprise. The bid the families are backing to win despite not being the highest, is being challenged.
The higher “backup” bid is a company setup by Alex Jones sycophants to maintain control of their propaganda brand, despite the purpose of the entire defamation lawsuit and the reason for it being sold in the first place.
They can go fuck themselves. The reason it is being sold off in the first place is the damage done to the families. Their opinion should have weight, if not outright make the decision of who wins the bid.
- Comment on But yes. 1 week ago:
I’ve never heard of Hydro power boiling water. Usually hydro power is natural or pumped storage.
You’re just taking water from an upper reservoir and dropping it to a downstream river. Either a naturally-filled reservoir/lake, or a pumped storage reservoir where you use other cheap power during low usage periods to pump that water to a higher reservoir to utilize later. The pump doesn’t heat the water, it just moves it uphill to utilize later, like the Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station in Missouri.
- Comment on But yes. 1 week ago:
Nearly all power generation comes down to boiling water to steam which spins a turbine.
I can only think of two common exceptions off the top of my head. Solar is an exception and Hydro power is an exception ironically, that usually uses the vertical difference and gravity to spin the turbine.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 1 week ago:
I never claimed that email or patient portals weren’t allowed.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 1 week ago:
The “modern” fax machine using telephone was invented in 1964 by Xerox, but technically the fax machine goes back to 1843. Bain patented the electric printing telegraph, which used pendulums and electric signals to scan images and send them over telegraph wires.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 1 week ago:
See, you’re thinking 21st century, but this is both a healthcare management technology and a government regulation issue, so you’re 2 centuries too new. We need to go back to 1843 with the electric printing telegraph, which used pendulums and electric signals to scan images and send them over telegraph wires. That’s where healthcare technology regulations stopped.
- Comment on Premium Ads 1 week ago:
And then you’re stuck constantly reminding every family member which app to use on which device when they come to you because they’re getting ads or something isn’t working right.
For a single power use that’s fine, for a family with kids, it’s nearly impossible without going crazy and killing them.
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 2 weeks ago:
They have been setting the pieces to this eventuality for 60+ years.
Trump just stumbled onto the very carefully set board, and started messing with it, and exposing the plans in the process. Being the narcissist he is, he is incapable of not using anything he wants, so it forced the Republican establishment’s hand. They had to bring him into since the Presidency is necessary to further the plan, and in turn he also became dangerous since he’s 100% the type of person to use that information to extort the outcome that helps him. I don’t think they really understood how bad an idea that was at the times and now they’re stuck.
- Comment on Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs? 2 weeks ago:
Better to do the work they can to help until they’re forced out.
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t underestimate the pissed off poor. The Dems kept telling them that things weren’t so bad while the Reps said they’d change things.
The changes will of course be worse, but if things are clearly shit, and someone keeps telling you that it’s not that bad, you start to despise those people even if they’re right.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Let’s do that instead of trying to ratify citizen petitions, getting collective action, and actually building a unified ideal over time.
Those work on a local level, not federal. Citizens have no control of anything Federal. The Federal government doesn’t have to listen to the citizens at all. The only consequence for them is during re-election. There they’ll just gerrymander the districts to force a win either way overall.
The federal government relies on each branch overseeing each other. And the Republicans have a stacked blatantly partisan Supreme Court that gave the office of the President total immunity. And a Republican majority in both sides of Congress completely willing to let Trump do what he wants as far of the plan.
Fixing this at a federal level will require getting to the exact opposite point we’re at now since we’ve allowed it to get to this point.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the same rhetoric that got us into this mess. Do nothing that actually makes a difference, but try to “fix” it from within. Meanwhile everything is being stolen with intentional legal loopholes.
How do you propose removing the two party system, which the two parties comprising the entirety of the government have every incentive to keep because it’s the only reason they have the power they do? The only way, as designed an within the existing system is to get enough representation in to force that change, which means replacing 2/3 of Congress essentially at the same time to force super majorities on both sides.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
On the bright side… the rest of the world is realizing that being reliant on one country for military power and maintaining stability was a terrible idea. The UN and NATO only have power if the countries are willing to enforce those decisions, and if the US doesn’t, there isn’t really a comparable backup option. The US military was always the elephant in the room keeping things generally less extreme just by its existence and not reacting impulsively.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
100% his plan the first time was to lose, talk a lot of shit and complain. Sell a bunch of merchandise and try it again over and over, grifting millions from idiots.
You can see it immediately when he wins. Both his and Melania’s expressions when they get the news show that winning wasn’t the plan. It’s also why he immediately started talking about fraud. He didn’t have any prepared talking points for winning, they were all based on losing and using that to power his next scams.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
No they’ll keep things like the farm subsidies, may even expand them. The tariffs will leave those out. That’s the socialism their base is 100% reliant on. They won’t risk turning on the rural farmers until the end when it they’re not a threat. They’ve already shown a complete willingness to ignore absolutely everything else until this point.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
You don’t want it to fall apart after one use, see? Need to make sure it can stand up to the job. We don’t want to build to Harbor Freight standards here. Take pride in our work.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
They’re organized, have begun implementing the government takeover that they’ve worked towards since Reagan, and he’s officially been given immunity for anything he wants to do by the Supreme Court before entering office.
All of these plans have nothing to do with Trump, they’ve been being laid since Reagan and Nixon. Trump just stumbled on them, openly exposing them to the world because he’s such an extreme narcissist he MUST brag about anything he even thinks gives him power. We stopped it the first time, and had a chance to correct, but enough of the population has been drinking the Republican propaganda Kool-aid through Fix News since it’s inception. Fox News was started explicitly as a response to Nixon’s impeachment to provide an open partisan propaganda network for the Republican party. Nixon was going to be just fine until the media started educating the electorate, who demanded something be done. Congress was completely fine with Watergate until that point.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Time to stock up on the automatic rifles they want us all to have so much, and learn carpentry to build some guillotines.
Maybe the French will help us again, they’ve got some experience with this.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing… He said he would bring change. Biden, and Harris after, both said that things would basically stay the same. For a lot of people, that’s an active issue they’re dealing with everyday.
The politicians just don’t understand because they haven’t lived like normal people for decades, if ever given the history and family of many of them.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
I think that most of the Americans want this
Maybe, but none of the facts directly support this.
There have been large campaigns to disenfranchise several types of voters for decades in the country. The Electoral College was designed to be unfair to appease Slave states. Voter turnout is abysmal, only about 35% of eligible citizens vote. Out of those turnout is usually around the same percentage. The highest turnout recently was 2020 only because mail in voting was expanded so dramatically, and even then it was only 67% of registered voters, so it was still only 67% of that original 37% of eligible voters. So with the highest recent turnout, we’re looking at about 25% of eligible citizens actually voting.
- Comment on Boeing factory workers vote to accept contract and end more than 7-week strike 2 weeks ago:
Which also brings up the fact that annual inflation still applies, so realistically it’s more like 6.5% increases. Since annual inflation is usually around 3% or so.
If you’re not getting about a 3% “raise” each year, you’re getting paid less than you were.
- Comment on Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma? 2 weeks ago:
Why should it?
We can see all the negatives every day with reddit.
What positive does a Karma system bring to the platform and discussions?
- Comment on Too spicy for me but thank you 😊 2 weeks ago:
Must have been one of these.
- Comment on Losing the pivotal extortionist vote 2 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me. If Shkreli was streaming it, at least one person was recording it.
- Comment on Losing the pivotal extortionist vote 2 weeks ago:
Whatever happened to that Wu Tang album? I remember reading it was sold to cover debt and the buyer planned for a wider release but never saw any update anywhere.
- Comment on Penguins 🐧 3 weeks ago:
Were they as annoying as seagulls? Because I could see that being a fairly valid reasoning back in the day.