Godort

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  With how much they’re trying to integrate copilot, I imagine they tried to remove a bunch of settings to make them accessible through copilot only

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World of Goo 2 is out now on Steam and a great pick for puzzle game fans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just finished world 2 last night. So far this game does all the things a sequel is supposed to. It feels like more of the first game, but with new content added.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies that list all their products, but don't explain the different product lines suck.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is Microsoft Licensing in a nutshell.

  I have a tinfoil hat theory that they keep it complicated on purpose to add value to 365 certifications

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in an office as a network administrator. Largely my day to day is a meeting every morning to go over what everyone is doing for the day, then looking through and responding to all the alerts that came up from all the servers I manage(things like failing backups, unexpected reboots, stopped services, strange login behavior, etc)

  Then, if I still have time in the day, I put time towards some of the long term projects I have which largely consists of finding things that can be automated and scripting up solutions to that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What, like ET for the Atari? The game that very likely caused the video game crash?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was slop in the old days too, just like there are good ideas now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm making a hedge maze in Inzoi - Check my work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a short story I read a while back that also featured that plot point, but I don’t remember what it was called.

  Only that I found it after reading into inspirations for The Laundry Files by Charles Stross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop having expectations at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  on my last thread somebody wrote that unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments

  How do I stop having expectations?

  This is almost certainly not what they meant. You can’t expect someone to read your mind and solve problems you might have.

  If management is not meeting your expectations, then the answer is to have a conversation with them about it, not to remove them altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not fear of the freedom, it’s choice paralysis. People want to go to one website, sign up for one account and then be part of a network with absolutely zero research beforehand. I like the fediverse, but the barrier to entry is higher than that because it first requires you to understand the technology at a base level.

  Internet services getting shitty and then dying is nothing new. Look at MySpace, Digg, or any BBS. people just abandon the old one and join the new popular one. They’ll leave when it gets shitty enough and join the new thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than Canada and Australia, which countries are best alternatives to traveling to the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends what you want to see from the US. The US is massive and there is a huge difference in visiting NYC vs visiting Omaha.

  It also depends where you are. For example if you’re in the EU then visiting places like Paris or Amsterdam are probably out as they are accessible as a day trip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mortal Kombat 1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hollow Knight fans were, of course, let down with the lack of a Silksong appearance again, but I hope they expect that by now.

  I’m already wearing my clown makeup, you don’t have to be so hurtful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  WB doesn’t seem to know how to release any media post 2010.

  They keep trying to shoehorn IP into trends, years after market saturation to try and capture nostalgia, and then wonder why they didn’t meet sales targets. See MK1, Space Jam 2, or anything related to HP or LotR.

  The other thing they do is when they do have an interesting or original idea with the IP, the executive team seems too risk averse to put any capital behind it. See the two new Loony Tunes movies, one was in theaters for less than a week and the other was scrapped entirely for a tax writeoff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Still Awaits David Zaslav’s Promised Renaissance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just bin some more already completed projects for another tax break. I’m sure it’ll happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3's grip looks the most comfy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct answer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is chasing an old high⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you need a good scanline filter if you want modern pixels to look like classic ones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are lying to us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the thing labeled “What the Fuck” a mercury rectifier?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Things get a little nebulous when you’re talking about microcode running on a proprietary IC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you don’t understand. He’s rich and white, so he shouldn’t be subject to those pesky regulations.

  That’s how it works in the US, so obviously that’s how it should work in South Africa too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Statham Returns for 'The Beekeeper 2'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Beekeeper was the most Steven Segal movie I’ve ever seen. It’s kind of ironic that he wasn’t even in it.

  The entire movie is just scene after scene making sure you know that old people are better than those dang kids with their phones. While every scene featuring the antagonists is either them whining about losing or talking about what a badass this beekeeper character is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current World situation has me like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your magic number is “64517”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, there’s like $900 worth of PS2 games in this image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are complicated and can carry multiple, nuanced beliefs. There are people out there that support LGBTQ+ rights, think that drag is fun, and believe that people of color get treated unfairly systemically without also wanting to take up arms in a violent revolution against the established systems in America because social progress is still happening, albeit slowly.

  Every social media platform(Yes, even the independent ones) tends to remove all nuance and push every issue as binary, and sometimes worse than that, it will bundle issues together. There are people here that will argue in all seriousness that if you voted for the candidate that would’ve pushed forward progressive policies, that you also support the genocide in Gaza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You ever wonder how the right seems to move in lockstep while the left constantly debates between themselves about the details?

  It’s shit like this that fosters that attitude. If some people on the right can look at something like this and then really examine their positions then thats a win.

  The goal with something like this isn’t to get someone to 180 on their beliefs, they know that the government is untrustworthy. It’s to have them really look at what they’re supporting, and if they truly want those changes, after learning what it might cost them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of. There is one punctuation tell that you can typically use to tell if someone is older, and thats if they use ellipsis to separate thoughts rather than line breaks in informal settings.

  Back in the day when you were writing on paper, space was a limited resource, so people that are more used to that will separate ideas with a ‘…’ rather than starting a new paragraph because you can fit more text into a smaller footprint.

  Come the turn of the millennium, digital writing became the norm and people that grew up surrounded by computers tend to use line breaks instead because space is not limited in the same way anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience has been that most people only use a computer at work and use their phone or a smart TV for everything else. Although, they usually also own a laptop for when a computer is required

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a bit more hopeful than that(America is still fucked short term, but humanity might be better off long term). Throughout history, people have been misinformed idiots that don’t think critically. It’s just that prior to about 2008, people didn’t really have access to the deluge of information that is social media and we’re still trying to figure that out.

  The reason misinformation on social media works so well is that people want to learn things, and if someone tells them a believable enough lie, they’ll take that as fact doing only minimal checks(eg: my friend whom I trust shared this article saying that it’s the Mexican’s fault I see so many homeless people, so it must be true).

  Stuff like this has happened throughout history. People published absolutely insane things in books and presented them as fact for hundreds of years, and it set back things like science and medicine for equivalently long, as people didn’t fact check things then either.

  The fact that people are already hammering on about trying to fact check social media means that people are educated enough now to start, and we as a species just need another small push in that direction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got these (notes) provided by my school..⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My so-called introverted friends never want to go out clubbing on a Tuesday night because they only worry about the future like “Oh, if I go out with you tonight, then I’ll be a zombie at work tomorrow”. Like, live in the now and care about other people, like me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My employer blocking trusted adblock extensions but allowing ad blockers that whitelist corporate ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a corporate IT drone, usually the extension blocks come from on high and we have no say in what they are. Also, the users that are smart enough to figure out ways around the blocks are not who we are worried about protecting from themselves.