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- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 2 weeks ago:
Here in the states we use short hand usually. So your date would just be stated as, “March 12th”. Long format would start off as, “in the year 2026 AD/CE…” which is usually done in things like proclamations by local governments for naming a specific day in someone’s honor.
For previous and current dates, people definitely use mmddyyyy and I don’t like it. I would much prefer to use something along the line of star-dates from star trek time expressed in years only: 2026.19178 (March 12 00:00). This fixes the need for leap years/days/seconds in calendars and instead dates become accurate.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I seem to remember that architecture code is done little endian, and the network stack is big endian. Then there is bi-endian, which I have no clue how that works.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 2 weeks ago:
I’d much rather have consistency. If yyyymmdd is the best solution for file names, it’s the best across the board.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using yyyymmdd and was appalled when I found out the ones appaled by the American method uses ddmmyyyy. It doesn’t even sort chronologicaly in alpha numeric ordering. Just why???
- Comment on Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse - Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, 3 and 4 were amazing. And 3 has Trevor Belmont, Sypha, and Alucard. I always assumed Netflix Castlevania was based on that.
- Comment on Autonomous valet robot that parks on its own [00:30] 2 months ago:
So are you pro valet parking or not? I’m trying to figure out why you oppose nearby parking, genuinely curious.
- Comment on Autonomous valet robot that parks on its own [00:30] 2 months ago:
Parking isn’t always next to the destination.
- Comment on Anon has a plan 3 months ago:
Don’t forget the fake product listings
- Comment on We Finally Know How Much the Xbox Handheld Will Cost 5 months ago:
But can it run SteamOS?
- Comment on Battlefield 6 will be a unplayable on Linux systems due to the anti-cheat 6 months ago:
3% and growing. Be sure to remember the publishers that catered to Linux in the transition and those that cast us aside.
- Comment on Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update 7 months ago:
- Comment on Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices 7 months ago:
- Comment on Anon describes apple's practices 7 months ago:
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 7 months ago:
Eat shit Pirate Software
- Comment on Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2 8 months ago:
7 was the last good iteration of windows imho being that it wasn’t loaded up with a bunch of telemetry being sent to Microsoft like 10 and 11 and didn’t have the terrible UI stuff like 8 and 11.
- Comment on Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2 8 months ago:
2000 was marketed as business and server only, like NT before it.
- Comment on Xbox's handheld is coming this year, is also really a new Asus ROG Ally 8 months ago:
But can it run SteamOS?
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 8 months ago:
My wife’s car? Replaced a few parts over the decade we’ve owned it.
My old truck? Replaced several major parts over the 2 decades I owned it.
Computers? Most of my parts replaced are upgrades, but I’ve replaced a laptop keyboard, a cpu heatsink fan, a power supply, a case, two hard drives, and a dial up modem from a lightning strike all on PCs I’ve personally owned over the course of 30 years that I can remember. I also did warranty repair work for Dell, HP, and Lenovo/IBM in my time as a tech. So many laptop and desktop mainboards…
Don’t sell yourself short. Fixing up a tractor that was free only costs you the time and parts you invested into it. You saved something from being junked and having to buy a working tractor. That alone is worth the endeavor.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 9 months ago:
I’m not going to do all the work for you. Go into business for yourself or check indeed or some other job site. I honestly thought I was being trolled with how little you tried to understand or put forth some modicum of effort, but now I somehow think it’s genuine that you need someone to hold your hand through the entire process. Change is scary and often not easy. I don’t know how else to break it to ya.
If you are the audience, then the industry is doomed to be stuck in the Adobe abusive relationship until some self starters take over. All it takes is some effort to break a habit, effect change, or start something new. If you expect to have other people change things for yourself, well good luck with that.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 9 months ago:
How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products?
Watching YouTube videos, reading manuals, just using alternatives, and asking questions to other people in places like forums, stack exchange, and the like. The self taught route is a completely valid option when the whole world is-wrapped up in nonsense. My experience post school taught me more in 6 months in the field than schooling and prepping for certification exams ever taught me. If you watched that 2nd James Lee video he goes through what he did to switch to DaVinci.
Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market?
Many of these programs are free and open source and available across all platforms.
as far as jobs go, if it’s like mechanics, you bring your own tools and do the job required. Even if Adobe products are provided, use alternatives when and as often as possible. Then when the opportunity presents itself show how you did your work without Adobe to those with purchasing power at the company. Change isn’t going to happen overnight.
Where the easy path that most will take?
I never claimed that ditching Adobe would be easy. My opinion is that it is necessary for the health of the industry.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 9 months ago:
That’s the other half of that saying. Hindsight is 20-20. (I could’ve sworn the tree planting idiom was more well known, sorry for not completely explaining it) Obviously the best solution is to not get in an abusive relationship . The next best time to not be in an abusive relationship is right now.
Yes I know how many users the major centralized social media platforms have. I’ve chosen not to be on those platforms and with it the benefits that come with having those amount of users. Like I said though, I don’t blame one for staying and I cannot pity those that stay because there are options.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 9 months ago:
I thought my answer would be obvious, but the answer was to not use Adobe from the start and the next best time to stop using Adobe is right now. It doesn’t matter where you are at in your career. The answer isn’t always easy to implement and it isn’t what we want to hear. It’s why many of us are here on Lemmy and not Reddit. We decided that not having the good things at Reddit was better than the shit we had to put up with over there.
As far as the cloud goes, moving things back on prem is the best option to not be in that abusive type relationship. It’s what I’ve been learning in my skillset in IT over the past 2 years in my spare time with some junk parts I had laying around, a few hard drives, and retired PCs I acquired that can’t upgrade to win 11. My skills will be sharp as the momentum builds toward the tipping point of moving off cloud including running AI locally. My favorite thing has been learning pf/opnsense. If you’re old enough to remember the PIX before Cisco it was originally created with off the shelf hardware. pf/opnsense feels like a return to that adapting to a lot of different hardware.
Ultimately I don’t blame someone for staying in an abusive relationship, but I can’t pity them when there are options to get out. I just show them how to get out and the struggles that will come with my choices. Otherwise the next cloud thing will be User Operating Systems as a Service and that’s going to be a whole 'nother shitshow. Imagine $20+/mo just to boot your computer/phone/tablet.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 9 months ago:
It’s like the saying: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time to plant a tree is right now.
If James Lee’s videos are a barometer on how artists and creators deal with Adobe, I’m convinced that a relationship Adobe is abusive. He went from defending and offering to help Adobe to cutting them out of his life over the course of 5 months. No one deserves an abusive relationship, but leaving or staying in one is totally a choice that has real consequences.
- Comment on 4chan has been offline for over a week, and it's probably not coming back 10 months ago:
The .edu emails in the mod list didn’t spell it out enough?
- Comment on Former SIEA President Says Players Will Pay $80 For Switch 2 Games 10 months ago:
I think the good will toward players died with Iwata.
- Comment on The Entertainment Software Association have launched the Accessible Games Initiative 11 months ago:
In case you were wondering, this is about accessibility for the disabled, not game preservation or region locking.
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 11 months ago:
Yeah, which is why I included a news article to get a sense of what it is.
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 11 months ago:
I thought there was a social network that is completely filled with AI and no real humans.
- Comment on Making coffee from scratch (is hard) [38:33] 1 year ago:
Hell, a popcorn popper can roast beans if you want to get really cheap.
- Comment on Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo 'Diablo-likes' 1 year ago:
I always thought of diablo as a Gauntlet clone