GrindingGears
@GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
- Comment on get it Mildred 4 days ago:
Old ladies just have absolutely zero filter, especially grandmas. They can be the sweetest old ladies, yet they ain’t having any of your shit.
- Comment on The Case for a Public Social Media Platform [33:27] 4 days ago:
Yet there’s like 14 people here on the fediverse, where this issues been largely solved.
It’s growing, and I don’t really want the herds and their mindrot either, but it’s the way of the future. Look at the god damn situation we find ourselves in, for example. That’s almost solely to be blamed on social media.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 1 week ago:
I’m nostalgic for it, but at the same time, I’d be nostalgic for 3.5 seconds if I used one again. People tend to forget how frustrating those devices could be too. I had several iterations of the blackberry, and everyone of them came with a lot of quirks that modern phones just don’t have. Sure, I sort of miss the tactile feel of buttons, but it was also a lot of work punching out long emails on them, and pocket lint did a real number on those things too.
- Comment on Touch Screens Are Over. Even Apple Is Bringing Back Buttons. 1 week ago:
I’m of the opposite opinion. I’m tired of dashboards just absolutely smothered in Technicoloured buttons. I much prefer the touchscreen where everything is centralized. I find it less distracting, personally.
Cars are a very intimate personal thing though, and I understand others frustrations with it. Guess I’m the outlier.
- Comment on Monster of 2025: Endless subscriptions 1 week ago:
My garage door keeps trying to sell me a subscription so it will work with my car. My garage door! Where does it end!?!!
- Comment on Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s what we all want. Id be front of line for what you described too.
I’m really paying close attention to those Telo Trucks, but they are a long way from market (if they make it, we’ve been here before, so many times now).
- Comment on Roblox banned in Russia for hosting LGBTQ+ content 3 weeks ago:
I’m really struggling to think of if this is a bad thing, in actuality. I mean the premise, obviously yikes, but this inadvertently also might be the best thing Russia has done for their youth in years.
- Comment on X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles 2 months ago:
And actually as a correction, I think it was Love Connection and Married with Children when that commercial was on, and not the Simpsons. Regardless, Frankie and Johnny are internationally immortal.
- Comment on X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles 2 months ago:
It is, and the funny thing is, I’m actually Canadian. That commercial used to be on during the Simpsons, it was an affiliate channel they used to broadcast into Canada.
Although I did happen to visit NOLA a couple of years ago for work, and had a great time. I even thought of Frankie and Johnny and was prepared to go, as I figured my sister would get a kick out of a selfie in front of the store. Unfortunately I found out it wasn’t there anymore :(
- Comment on X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles 2 months ago:
Like the special man says:
Lettahaveeeeeem
- Comment on Pokemon Legends: Z-A || Review Thread 2 months ago:
So it’s a piece of shit for sure?
- Comment on negativity 2 months ago:
You present a valid argument.
- Comment on negativity 2 months ago:
I agree. But I tear into them like a degenerate, not totally proportioned quarters.
- Comment on negativity 2 months ago:
What’s up with those pancake cutting lines? Who cuts a pancake into quarters? Is this normal? Am I the abnormal one for not doing this?
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 2 months ago:
At some point even visa is going to back off though. I wonder how much money goes through Steam? Maybe if them and some other orgs band together and say fine, we won’t accept Visa or MasterCard at all then, there’s going to be some hell to pay. This can go both ways. Lots of third parties would be caught in the crossfire too, like order payment processors.
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 2 months ago:
If they really wanted to comply, they could find a workaround. This Visa excuse is kind of lame. Enable visa payments to purchase steam points (in exact amounts), that can then be used to buy a game for example, and work around it.
It’s not like this really affects my life, as I’m not a horny teenager or old man buying these games, but it’s the point here that matters. Letting a payment processor dictate content is insane.
- Comment on 📚 Ruminating on eReaders: Rambling thoughts and memories of my first two eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyage 2 months ago:
I used to do that. I actually started with an iPod touch back in the day, then switched to an iPad/iPhone combo when iPads and the iPhone 4 came out. I miss their books app, which I still feel is the best e-reader GUI. Their books seamlessly worked between devices too, I loved reading at home with the iPad and then I could just use my phone on the train when commuting, etc.
Problem is, Apple is the greasiest company in tech, and their customer service is probably the worst in the industry, and their cost to value ratio is also probably the worst.
I had a Google Nexus 9 tablet and I’ve tried using my android phones off and on, but the Google Books app just doesn’t do it for me.
A couple of years ago I wanted something a bit waterproof, so I could read on my floatie while in the pool. I ended up with a Kobo Libra Color, which I actually quite like. It’s an extra device to cart around but it’s nice and thin, you don’t notice it in a bag. I also don’t commute nearly as much nowadays, so it’s less of a factor. It’s still not the apple app, You can still side load books and it’s definitely easier on the eyes over the longer term.
- Comment on I refuse to by a new mouse 3 months ago:
Remember taking the balls out and scrapping all the dust and crap off the rollers? It was a guilty pleasure of mine, but some of the mice from that era got pretty dank. I had one in college that was basically a science experiment at graduation.
- Comment on I refuse to by a new mouse 3 months ago:
ICue is the worst
I totally regret buying that elite LCD that slots over the cooler, and all those Corsair fans + the case. I mean the hardware is fine, everything has been trucking a long for a really long time, the AIO, the fans, I’ve never had a problem with any of it from a hardware perspective. But it also means I’m locked into having that friggin ICue running in the background. The amount of other programs that app interferes with and basically fucks up, is unbelievable. I’m not buying anymore Corsair stuff, and iCue is 110% to blame for that.
- Comment on I refuse to by a new mouse 3 months ago:
I’ve bought some sort of no name quasi-mechanical keyboard that came with a gaming mouse as a combo, that was like $60 on Amazon, five years ago. Literally my favourites, both of them. And I’ve had many different keyboards and mice over the years too.
- Comment on NHL Hockey Review - Game Informer Issue #1 3 months ago:
I’ll never forget that game. Unwrapping my Genesis and popping that in, it was the god damn future.
Then 93 came out, and it was even better. You could put pucks through the glass, and there were even injuries!
94, hoo boy. There was no going back after 94.
- Comment on Sony is reportedly planning a Nintendo Switch-style PlayStation 6 portable | VGC 3 months ago:
They didn’t support either VR’s. Most of the titles for PSVR were third party, there was very little AAA support after the first few months around it’s release. Two years later it was dust and echos, just like PSVR2 (Blood & Truth arguably an exception, but I also believe it was still released within that two year window).
- Comment on Sony is reportedly planning a Nintendo Switch-style PlayStation 6 portable | VGC 3 months ago:
Honestly the biggest failure IMO, was because like usual, they didnt actually support it after release. I’ve fallen for this one too many times with Sony, but no more. Whenever Sony releases something other than their mainstream products, they immediately stop developing for it and basically rely on a bunch of third parties. Who usually give up shortly thereafter when they notice the dwindling support.
My vita is collecting dust with my PSVR, my PS proprietary headphones, and all the other useless shit Sony has released over the years.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 4 months ago:
Even in the non-authoritarian dictatorship countries, one of these is still likely to be prohibitively expensive.
- Comment on preferences 5 months ago:
Bruh…
- Comment on Why did our friends stop posting on social media? 5 months ago:
Facebook went to hell when they let our parents and grandparents on. Not that they are to blame, but it was the beginning of the end.
- Comment on OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services 5 months ago:
cocAIne
- Comment on This Is Why Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Needed Human Babysitters 5 months ago:
My experiences with HW3 and HW4 have been horrifying. I always turn off the FSD trials whenever they push, and the bastards still find a way to enact and screw up my cruise. The car itself is fine, but this FSD shit is a legit scam.
- Comment on Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Is Offering Top AI Talent 5 months ago:
AI is just fancy Google. I have yet to see it produce anything actually useful, or at least much more than a simple Google search could produce a decade ago. It’s like the world’s done lost its mind.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 5 months ago:
I’m so over this AI nonsense. I use AI as a barometer at work, in that the more they talk about AI, the more I know they are adding fuck all to the organization and aren’t actually doing any work.