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- Comment on Great Advice 2 days ago:
The alot looks like it could easily eat 7 tacos and still be hungry
- Comment on Bug report: My wifes messages are being duplicated 6 days ago:
Well it works fine in boost
- Comment on No title 1 week ago:
What’s the story with this guy?
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
I mean Adobe is a piece of shit company and if there’s any way you can ditch them, do it. If you can’t, I get it. In that case a Mac is probably the easier way out.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Yes, there are certainly alternatives and there are several with a better UI than GIMP (see Krita and Pixel). But I know there are specific tools and workflows that are missing. Partly it’s probably a matter of finding new ways of accomplishing your goal.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Ubuntu is the typical go-to replacement for Windows as it’s arguably more plug-and-play than other distros.
alternativeto.net is a great place to find Linux alternatives to the software you use. Many products already work on Linux without switching, but some areas might be more difficult. For example depending on your needs you might not find a great drop-in replacement for Photoshop.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
Please, you’re wasting your time explaining. I know all this. I’m talking about how a libertarian would interpret the question due to its ambiguous phrasing. My only point is that of the original parent comment: the methodology of the researcher is bad.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
No, 0.05$ is not a substantial amount of money. A 5 percentage points tax increase could be considered substantial. The question is worded so that it can be interpreted in the latter way, and it’s also using a subjective word like “substantial”. Somebody who is politically against taxes is likely to interpret it the latter way, and hence the poll’s results are skewed by its vagueness.
If we want to measure math skills and understanding of the law, a better question would be by how many dollars the total tax would increase. This would also give us better information on how far off people are.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
I mean I understand all of these things. But the question is worded in a way that can be interpreted wildly differently depending on the political affiliation of the person responding.
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 1 week ago:
Yeah what does “substantially” mean in this context and what are we even measuring? In terms of percentage units, the step from 28% to 33% is definitely a substantial increase. The question doesn’t specify whether we’re talking about total dollars paid or just how much the tax percentage increases in that bracket.
- Comment on rule 2 weeks ago:
Is it really “not safe for work” if everyone at work is in on it?
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 2 weeks ago:
ThinkPad is a work tool. MacBook is a fashion statement.
- Comment on Well, it finally happened: I MET SOMEONE! 3 weeks ago:
What’s her thing anyway? Catfishing?
- Comment on Plex ending support for Watch Together 4 weeks ago:
Would be easier to give “support and understanding” if they actually explained why they didn’t reimplement it in the new “experience”.
- Comment on Google continues pulling the plug on Manifest v2 • The Register 4 weeks ago:
I actually haven’t used an ad blocker in a very long time. I block third-party cookies and trackers, and disturbingly that seems to prevent almost all advertising from working. In fact I frequently get told by sites to turn off my ad blocker, which is impossible since there’s nothing to turn off.
My bigger problem is that these browsers have no good way to clean out the “IndexedDB”, “Service Worker” and “File System” directories in my profile. They are essentially frankenstein cookies that have no expiration date so they keep accumulating. I use the “Cookie Auto Delete” extension for cleaning them up since the functionality is missing in the browser, but it looks like that will stop working with Manifest V3. Once that happens I’m switching back to Firefox or some other browser that gives me enough control to avoid being tracked, and to save 10+ GB of disk space.
- Comment on Google continues pulling the plug on Manifest v2 • The Register 4 weeks ago:
Is that what manifest v3 does though? Ask the user? I haven’t paid a lot of attention but thus far my overall impression has been that they are just simply going to forbid a lot of useful things wholesale.
- Comment on I thought he died before they invented baseball 4 weeks ago:
I mean it’s pretty clear from the texts that he was resurrected and lives on forever. Most Christians seem to agree that he now hangs around like a ghost and helps you do stuff like play baseball or get a promotion. The thing that rubs me the wrong way about this story is: why isn’t he helping every baseball player equally? Obviously some are winning and some aren’t, and presumably that’s because Jesus is helping some people more than others.
Everybody prays they will win the war, but Jesus is helping one side kill more people.
- Comment on Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away... 4 weeks ago:
He means that he doesn’t appreciate how things are going in the US in 2025.
- Comment on Translated from Frog to English: AHHHHHHHHHHHH 5 weeks ago:
Ring ding ding daa baa
Baa aramba baa bom baa barooumba
- Comment on Life goals 5 weeks ago:
Yes officer, this comment right here
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 month ago:
I got the Pixel 9P for this reason. It’s actually notably smaller than the previous models.
- Comment on AI slop 1 month ago:
- Comment on Tough question 1 month ago:
Astrology daughter might have her heart in the right place but she’s still stupid, and her prejudiced woo-woo beliefs are going to end up hurting people.
- Comment on Report: Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Exactly. I see no evidence in the article that this is a trend - that seems to be a naive interpretation by the reporter. They’ve just confirmed something that has always been true.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The good thing that will come of this is that Mark will understand why they should never spend time with his dad again
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I would make quadruple sure that Mark has no traces of that part of the gene pool
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m Swedish. I just assumed everyone else was American. This story seemed to be par for the course.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Let me guess: the dad is a republican
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
But by including that you imply that there is a causality relationship. You didn’t share his hair color even if that would also be more descriptive.
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 2 months ago:
Yes I uploaded the image and asked it the same question as OP
