njordomir

@njordomir@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's funny how once a country has Universal Healthcare they never give it up.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, $10m is chump change for a country and even most states. Pretty sure that’s how much it costs to repave a mile of my street nowadays. 🤣

  We may have given money to other countries, but the US has also used it’s influence to shape the world in it’s favor to a much larger self-benefit than few million dollars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox.⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Some dynamic text under the toggle that reads “AI Anti-Feature ‘X’ is on/off” could ensure absolute double-certain clarity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah! Whats the point in having ~2k resolution if everything in the UI gets blown up bigger than it was in the days of 640x480? Do your letters look that much smoother? Do you like only being able to fit a single sentence on screen at a time? If I’m paying for that screen real estate, I want to use it all!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually agree with you, why would I want to text on an itty birth screen. Nevertheless, despite all my efforts, I can’t seem to get myself to switch to those short voice memos you can send in Signal and similar apps. My brother is a pro with those, but it just feels odd to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember having only 200 SMS per month and having to ration them carefully because the plans were structured in a way where ordering more resulted in a big price jump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This sandwich⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of how Germans still have this image of America being full of cowboys with six shooters on their hips.

  Fellow 'muricans: if you ever get a visitor from Germany, take them to a Wild West reenactment. They will NEVER forget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This sandwich⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. American bread is a step above styrofoam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Price of this Candy Bar⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, for that price you could eat real foodlike substances, perhaps even something that was in the ground more recently than it was in a factory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nonalcoholic beer could very well be a healthier choice than cola.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When do we riot?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like, “Die Ärtzte - Deine Schuld”. Translated the lyrics are “It’s not your fault that the world is how it is; it would only be your fault if it stayed that way.” It gives me a little hope that even if they don’t know what to do, other people feel similarly.

  My suggestion to OP would be to collect a few friends and contact your congress people together, mow your elderly neighbors lawn, volunteer somewhere. We need to unite the working class. People who already struggle to eat, won’t ever be ready to discuss the philosophy of social/political change until we give them a hand up Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs. Mamdami is having success in New York by meeting people where they’re at and proving he can do shit by solving neighborhood issues and stuff that affect normal people. Now he has cred with those people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. People are right that a week is unlikely to change much and we should set our sights higher. That said, you are also right that if we approach it with a “this is pointless and will fail” attitude, then no one tries the alternatives at all and the conditions that eventually lead to change will never develop. Best to participate, encourage your IRL friends to participate, and spend the whole week telling everyone who will listen about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, are they going to stop after a week, stomp their foot, and tell Sony to knock it off?

  I boycotted Walmart for years, realized I would never see any change, and continue to not shop there because Walmart sucks and my life is better now. If you make the change the goal, you are lining yourself up for disappointment. If you make doing business with companies congruent with your values the goal, you win if you last a week, you win bigger if you last a month, and you win the grand prize if they change or you leave and never look back!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think we ever got to see a dual disk drive console, at least not in production (exempting gaming PCs). Perhaps in a parallel universe on board storage became cost prohibitive and games came on two simultaneously inserted optical disks, one with the game code and the other with texture packs and art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative medicine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said. A balanced viewpoint that doesn’t try to be all black and white. Even the stupidest bullshit can sometimes contain a kernel of truth. That doesn’t mean the 99% bullshit isn’t any less shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Private owners and small businesses still get to have principles or choose to do things the right way. For all its faults, Steam is often talked about in this way. Corporations on the other hand have to view every square of toilet paper through the lens of profit and loss on the timescale of a single fiscal year or even a single quarter. I often wonder if it is even ethical to invest because doing so profitably seems to inherently feed this system of economic cannibalism.

  We are incentivising companies to find the maximum spread between their expenses and their revenue at any cost and we are arming them with the tools and data to ruthlessly pursue this goal. You WILL be monetized. A scam is the most lucrative business of all because it only takes into account the benefit of one party. No wonder almost every brand name now days carries the reputation of a used tissue. They’re just taking the whole pie because the middle class isn’t needed anymore. It served its purpose by distracting Americans from some of the “communist” ideas happening at home and elsewhere in the world in the 70’s. That’s not needed anymore because they’re projecting power through surveillance and social influencing instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I do with boxes of old photos?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, having the physical medium gives you a more trustworthy backup. Instead of all your hard drives getting wiped by the solar flare, you have multiple different mediums with strengths and weaknesses. I’m also inclined to hold onto physical copies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, if they actually had to clean up their messes a lot of things would have reflected their true costs and we probably would have built out the alternatives way further by now. Imagine if the motorcar had barely existed and we skipped straight to PEVs (personal electric vehicles) and distributed solar battery charging cafes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prop65 label on my beans!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought some imported candy at the Asian supermarket (in the US) and the bag had this warning on it. I know it’s a CA thing. Now I wonder if it’s an import thing too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I broke the ice with a lot more of my IRL friends in the last few months and most lean anti-AI with a few exceptions, for example, when your end goal is actually to get slop.

  It’s probably the friend group you hang with. Based on your lack of capitalization, I’m guessing you are younger than me (maybe I’m wrong). A lot of young folks don’t see it because the worst AI shit was targeted at them and poisoning their development with AI dependence.

  I do have someone close to be who loves AI, but I think they’ll come around when they see the US start paying for its AI missteps. Taking shortcuts only matters because quality and thoroughness isn’t valued. A good email should take at least a few minutes to write and a pro can weave in the appropriate details, requests, confirmations way better than a clanker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Building on your first one: I would make businesses publish the one, singular, authoritative, legal price for their product and a percentage breakdown of where the money goes (wages, CEO compensation, raw materials, legal battles, royalties, brand name deals). No hiding discounts or costs behind loyalty programs, exclusive tiers, affiliate programs, surveillance pricing, etc. You take the manufacturing cost, add your margin, and divide by the number of units and that’s the price you sell to everyone.

  Your product gets judged on a fair playing field based on quality, price, and how you pay your employees/ use your profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, typically safe. If it overheats it will likely thermal throttle and lag on intense graphics tasks.

  When I was in college, I had a extremely weak netbook that I would carry with me and even that Celleron processor, without a graphics card, could run the original Torchlight game with minimal lag. I play Minecraft on a Dell XPS 9370 with an i7 and no discrete graphics card all the time, I just can use shaders or excess mods. It doesn’t feel snappy like my desktop, but it is 100% playable, even at full resolution.

  Some games won’t run well on weak hardware, but if you look for the recommended specs you’ll see which developers went put of their way to support weaker hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always had it on, and got banned from my favorite game server for possible alt-accounts. It’s a tight-knit community and the admin fixed it for me a few times until it got annoying. Now I start my game with a shell script that turns off the VPN via CLI before loading so I don’t get banned over and over. 90% of everything else goes through a VPN, not because it has to, but because I want my ISP to be blind by default, at least to the degree I can make that happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Find Cow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good description. I read this and perfectly estimated the location you described within 5 seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good etiquette to show you are doing a U turn in a left turn, so the cars behind you know?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I look for lane positioning to see if the person in front of me is doing a u-turn. We have mostly 2+2 and 3+3 roads and almost everyone drives these big clunky SUVs and massive trucks. They’ll turn from the furthest right part of the left turn lane and still need the whole road and the merge lane to spin around. Conversely, people turning left tend to sit in the middle or on the left of the lane. The bigger problem is many don’t realize that a u-turn must yield to all other movements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any ways to reverse AI brainrot and force myself to do any creative endeavor, even if inspiration didn't strike?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take the hard path on purpose. It’s about the journey.

  My friends and I did a silly PowerPoint night where everyone made a presentation on a topic they found interesting. I think I did dystopia in video games, a friend did the great Australian Emu war, and we had a half dozen others. It was surprisingly fun. Without the pressure of having to make it flawless I got to be more creative and silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It hurts.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Cities Skylines had traffic that was reactive to design. I’ve played some CS2, and while some things are improved (like lane connection), it feels like the traffic is just simulated sprites based on a traffic congestion variable for the area or something. Upgrading roads sometimes helps, but providing better routes doesn’t always help like you would expect. It feels very disconnected and rewards linear progression rather than skillful or smart gameplay. I still play CS1 and I check in on CS2 once or twice a year to see if it still sucks. I did enjoy the bike patch to some degree, but the gameplay in general just seems artificial and lame. CS1 may be old with mediocre graphics, but it’s still a 9/10 game in my opinion and you can buy in cheap nowadays to get caught up on DLCs and such. I have nearly everything except the radio packs. The menus are inconsistent and the way they organize things doesn’t always make intuitive sense. I think they would be better off recreating CS1 on a more modern engine than trying to reinvent a masterpiece. For me CS2 was the biggest disappointment of the gaming decade. With that said, lots of games sucked on release. Fallout 76 grew into it’s shoes, Stalker 2 was panned at release and is now much more highly regarded. I hope CS2 finds its way back into sync with the community, but I’ll be enjoying CS1 and other games until that happens. Thankfully MS hasn’t completely destroyed Minecraft. I practice city design on a much smaller scale on there (more “place making”, less traffic management, more roleplay, less mechanics).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It hurts.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see the pic, but I am gonna guess Broadway and Lincoln between 19th and 20th?

  Interestingly enough, Denver has 3 main grids:

  The range and township grid as the typical NS/EW grid, the Araria grid by DU which is largely built over, and the downtown grid, the last two of which are aligned to Cherry Creek and the Platte River, though I’m not certain which one to which waterway. If it wasn’t for one-ways, that area would be screwed up beyond belief. As it stands, it just looks a little odd and everyone needs to try to pick their lanes in advance. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Monetizing that pill and wringing every last dollar out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plastic hinges on modern headphones⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a dangerous position to put people in: run vulnerable software or we will break your device. No one should have to choose between breaking their TV via update or staying on an insecure OS version and getting hacked.

  In a functioning economy, the consumer goal of not getting hacked and having a functional device would be shared by the consumer AND the manufacturer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plastic hinges on modern headphones⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they vibe coded the driver. :-D