ThePowerOfGeek

@ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Don’t Computers Just Use One Type of Memory?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Screw SSDs and hard drives, we should install more Internets on computers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know if I’ve ever seen a better image reaction to a question than this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are you supposed to put your eyes when you're not using them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  everyone around me treated me like a weird freak for staring off at like a wall or out the window or something else

  WTF? Almost everyone does this! Sounds like you grew up with assholes who were looking for any excuse to mock and berate you. In which case, I’m sorry.

  If you were frequently getting lost in your thoughts and not responding to them when they’d try to get your attention then maybe I could see some light teasing.

  One thing I would add, not because it’s wrong to do this but because it might lead to people thinking it odd: if you are staring out of the same window or at the same wall for more than a few minutes, maybe switch your gaze to something else (a different wall or window or whatever). That way it doesn’t draw as much attention and it’s makes you look like you are more seated of your surroundings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Ireland?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Might have something to do with Ireland repeatedly protesting what Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank. And we all know who is pulling the strings on Trump (aside from Putin).

  Netanyahu: “Ireland is being mean to us! Do something!”

  Trump: incomprehensible AI slop exhibiting hostility towards Ireland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing how incohrrent and fractured humanity is, we’d meet them with a jumbled mix of:

  • Rabid xenophobia
  • Aggressively trying to convert them to a dozen of our different religions
  • Forming multiple cults worshipping them as gods
  • Creating a shit load of really weird rule 34 AI-generated porn focused on them
  • Dismissing their existence as some sort of a deep fake conspiracy
  • Trying to sell them some worthless shit for a massive profit
  • Trying to sell them fellow humans as slaves
  • Trying to steal their technology to conquer the galaxy
  • Flooding then with brainrot memes for the lolz
  • Trying to destroy them with conventional weapons

  And they would see all this and either destroy us in disgust or get the hell out of the solar system ASAP and cordon it off with hazard signs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people really lack civic sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to get the hot branding iron, cowboy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Truck is Stupid Big⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But how else is he supposed to convince himself he’s not an insecure, emotionally stunted man-child?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good, casual mobile games.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a good collection called Offline Games that has a lot of decent mini games inside it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To the surprise of nobody except for OP and a small number of other naive optimists.

  So I guess that answers their underlying question: no, he’s not smarter than he looks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Learning CPR and first aid (and getting certified in those topics) is cheap and ridiculously easy. Look up your local Red Cross organization, since they probably offer local courses in it that are either free or very cheap. And even if it’s not useful to your job it can be very helpful. I’ve performed the Heimlich maneuver (it whatever they call it now) on my wife on two separate occasions when she was choking on some food (due to her thrust bring sworn with a cold and her biting off a bit too much pizza).

  Here’s are some ideas for jobs for younger people with limited to no work experience:

  • Retail stores
  • Restaurants
  • Grocery stores
  • Trampoline parks
  • Lazer tag places
  • Bowling alleys
  • Roller skate parks
  • Ice rinks
  • Instructional assistants at schools

  Good luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you send old camcorder cassettes to a digitising service, do they watch the contents?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well now I want to see a visit of a nine year-old excitedly freaking out over a life-sized Wesley Snipes cardboard cutout!

  But in answer to your question, they probably do watch to a limited degree. But I’m sure they see so much random stuff while digitizing that they don’t pay that much attention. And worst case scenario, they’d probably think your video is a bit weird, but in an adorable way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it, briefly. It was horrible. Definitely right up there for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And a hugely overpriced pastry/cookie company.

  My wife gets the occasional Starbucks gift card from work of friends, so she saves them up and then me, her, and the kids go there (so it used to be about once every 9-10 months).

  Used to be that you could get small coffees, hot chocolates and a little snack for each person for about $30. Now to get that same stuff it’s like $50. Suffice to say, we’re going there even less often now. Which I’m fine with, since I don’t like Starbucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Either way, Dr Beverly Crusher would be aroused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh okay. Looks like World Book is still printing encyclopedias though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you’re talking about an old-school encyclopedia book collection. Like Encyclopedia Britannica. They take up a lot of physical space and sing if the information becomes outdated quickly. But they are a great source for history, geography, science, etc. And you might be able to find them second-hand from an online seller for a relatively reasonable price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Set it up as a PiHole.

  Which reminds me: I need to finish getting mine hooked up to my LAN properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back of the hand high and visible through the rear window, fingers and thumb slightly apart to reduce the chances of them thinking your giving them the middle finger (or two fingers in the UK).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would bring this up with my colleagues (we have a dedicated AI chat), since it’s a good article and brings up good points. But any AI criticism in that chat is met by condescension and dismissal. Too many people in there are just glazing on everything AI all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best free version of word?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using LibreOffice’s Writer for several years. And I’ve been happy with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like others here have said, they are a combination of get rich quick schemes and money laundering. They take the legalized gambling that is the stock markets to a whole new level. I also agree that the underlying concept of them is okay, but they’ve been exploited and hyped up to crazy levels.

  If you want to play with crypto ‘investments’ and you have a bit of discretionary spending, you could try it. But just know it’s super-risky and built on a lot of bullshit. Personally I wouldn’t. I’ll stick to passively-managed index funds. They aren’t air-tight safe either, of course. But at least they are less prone to scams and risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this colour?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mustard yellow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I’m aware of is him publicly slating a could of actors. He was very critical of Paul Dano from There Will Be Blood (which is a bit weird because that movie has been out for a long time). He also publicly slated Matthew Lillard, who seems like a genuinely nice guy and has a lot of fans. I think those (especially the criticism of Lillard) pissed a lot of people off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He clearly lives in a completely different reality to me and millions of other people.

  There was a clip from the other day where a reporter asked him about a person they had interviewed who stated that grocery prices have gone way up.

  His response? “She’s wrong!”

  Putting aside the fact that he was clearly and profoundly incorrect, the unbridled dismissiveness of his response is crazy.

  So the woman who was at the grocery store buying groceries just like she is every week, and noticing prices going up again (not to mention shrinkification), is wrong. And you, who has no fucking clue how much any groceries are, is right?

  Give me a break!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Well it works for unit testing, so just extend that out to all testing! Problem solved!” -Senior Management, probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s are still some consumer TVs out there that allow you to use the green without an Internet connection. Although they are kinda rare these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony Bravia. Because I just did this last year. My old TV was also a Bravia, and it lasted about 15 years. One big selling feature for me was that you can set it up as either a smart TV, or a ‘basic’ TV that doesn’t require an Internet connection and doesn’t pester you for one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been going after private server farms for years, so this is nothing new really. For example, Blizzard forced Nostralrius (sp?) servers to shut down about 10 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heroes For Hire (in development), an MMO guild management game using an OS like interface for gameplay (the game calls it "GuildOS"), released in early access on Steam.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having managed a reasonably large MMO guild for several years, this game sounds about as appealing as getting an eye gouged out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m middle aged.