Treczoks
@Treczoks@lemmy.world
- Comment on 14 hours ago:
“It’s different! It is not what I learned to use!”
- Comment on This job description for a job posting by Amazon 21 hours ago:
Let me guess: Zero hour contract, availability within 30 minutes, and minimum wage?
- Comment on YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in... 21 hours ago:
As someone without a YT account, I have seen this with regards to age verification (on rather random videos, actually), but not with “you might be a bot” reason.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
As you failed to prevent fascism at the voting booth, you will have to learn how to stop it now. This is the situation the second amendment had been written for. After being abused to allow criminals and mentally retarded to get access to weapons they should never have, you can now put them to good use.
- Comment on Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News 2 days ago:
“Sotheby ground” as in “going, going, gone”?
- Comment on Anon sets up a prank at school 3 days ago:
My card reads “Embedded Systems Architect” ;-)
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 6 days ago:
If they pay for it. The ISP would hold both hands open to get money.
- Comment on Anon sets up a prank at school 6 days ago:
I remember the times when our school got our first computers: three C64 with C1541 and one printer. The math teacher who wanted to learn computer science to one day teach it vs. us three who were fluent in assembler, knew the key routines of the OS by heart, and even knew the hardware inside out.
I exchanged the C64’s OS ROMS for EEPROMs with four different OS images and hid the switches inside the extension slot. Yes, for this I opened the computers, de-soldered parts, soldered other parts in, etc. The teacher never noticed. Spare keys are fun. Modern school IT would probably faint if a student tried this.
Occasionally, I exchanged the EEPROMs for other variants, like one day where I had an image where the printer suddenly printed everything in reverse. OK, I did not turn around the letters (no space in the code for that, and the printer only had eight user-definable characters, so this would have been a major operation).
The teacher was confused, he just wanted to print a small basic program he had written, and it produced something like “olleH” tnirp 01 instead of 10 print “Hello” (not the actual program he had written). Switching the computer off and on did not help, either. So he asked for help, and I took his C64, turned it upside down, knocked on the bottom three times, and placed it back on the table. During this last motion, I knocked back the switch for the EEPROM selector to the standard ROM image. And then I made the teacher print his text again…
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 6 days ago:
This will make Amazon a wee bit unhappy.
- Comment on Incoming!! 1 week ago:
Slamming on the brakes under these road conditions might lead to interesting effects, even without the snow load.
- Comment on Ringing the devil's doorbell 1 week ago:
Is that real? If yes, some Americans are really, really nuts. Let me guess, this is the same bunch that home-schools children. …
- Comment on Aerodynamic Improvements 2 weeks ago:
The new shape suspiciously looks like Cyprus
- Comment on If you're falling apart at only 27 you're in real trouble 2 weeks ago:
Just wait another 15 or 20 years…
- Comment on What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard? 2 weeks ago:
A hot dog is a sandwich.
- Comment on What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard? 2 weeks ago:
I was sitting in a restaurant, when the people on the next table discussed how to suppress certain topics from a minister-level EU meetings, as one person wanted to delay any action on that. The discussion also involved passing an envelope, and the one person covering the rather substantial bill.
- Comment on My YouTube homepage after I watch one balatro video 2 weeks ago:
What is balatro?
- Comment on Babyllionaire Musk got r/whitepoepletwitter banned 2 weeks ago:
What a snowflake.
With all those right-wingers being whimsical snowflakes, we can wait for summer or we can create the fire to melt them.
- Comment on See something you like? 2 weeks ago:
We actually have two of them here. One is at the farm shop, the other one at the poultry farm.
The one at the farm shop offers eggs, milk, and apples. You drop in the money, enter the number of the flap you want, and it buzzes open.
The one at the poultry farm only has eggs, but in different sizes (M and L) and amounts (6 or 10). You drop in the money, enter the number of the product, a lift rises towards that row and a pack of eggs is carefully pushed on that lift, and then the lift moves down to the flap where you can take you product.
I prefer the vending machine at the farm shop, as the one at the poultry farm has once eaten my change…
If you wonder about the farm shops products: It is an apple and pear farm, but they have vegetables, meat, and eggs, too, which they get from other farms and a local organic butcher - with the eggs coming from the same poultry farm.
- Comment on See something you like? 2 weeks ago:
Not that I know of. But you have to keep in mind that outside the US, farms often have way higher standards of hygiene. Which might make the difference here.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Basically my son. He currently studies math and computer science, and for the first time in his life he does not feel bored to death.
- Comment on See something you like? 2 weeks ago:
No need to stock up. The organic XL eggs from the farm shop are €0.45, and available every day. At night we can get the smaller (L or M) eggs from their vending machine.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 2 weeks ago:
The “Bahnhof verstehen” comes from the notion that many people learning a foreign language start with some simple sentences like “Can you tell me the way to the train station”. So people who only “Bahnhof verstehen” (OK, horrible grammar here) have not proceed past the first lesson.
- Comment on We still have three eggs up for auction. 2 weeks ago:
That would give you 60 or 70 cents in civilized countries.
- Comment on Anon is 33 2 weeks ago:
He sounds like he would need luck to even get a four figure salary…
- Comment on Trump Officials Release Water in California That Experts Say Will Serve Little Use 2 weeks ago:
So, basically he commanded to waste resources, so the Californian people will suffer in the summer with empty reservoirs. This is not about water management, this is just petty revenge by an asshole in power.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It is available on YT. Quote, from memory: “They gave me 125 dollars for the swamp, but I’m not sure what kind. I know gold dollars and silver dollars, and even those newfangled paper dollars, but what is a mllion dollar?”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The words “Beverly Hillbillies” come to mind…
- Comment on Lady Gaga: 'Joker: Folie à Deux' 'Didn't Connect' with Audiences 3 weeks ago:
Oh, “Didn’t connect with the audiences” is the new “this was shit”? Or is it like modern art, where it is the observers failure to appreciate color thrown randomly at the canvas as beautiful, vibrant, or whatever?
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 3 weeks ago:
VAT is a sales tax, not an income tax.
- Comment on I am in the US and its gotten very political but as pretty much a peon do I just tune the stuff out thinking its fear mongering? Or should I closely pay attention to it? 3 weeks ago:
If you haven’t noticed that a lot of things in your life are political, I feel sorry for your lack of grasp on reality. The taxes you pay are political. The laws you have to follow are political. Decisions on how your kids go to school are political. How you work (you payment, your job- and personal safety) - guess what, it’s political. If the CDC will protect you against the next pandemic, if the FDA will protect you against being poisoned - it is all political.
Tune out reality at your own risk. You should have paid attention to this ages ago.