FooBarrington
@FooBarrington@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why can computers, like even very old laptops can seemingly get OS updates forever, while mobile devices hardly get a few years of updates before getting stuck out of date? 19 hours ago:
There’s really no way to do this without making the whole driver source-available, as there’s no way to update it to a new Kernel without full source access. That’d be great, but the manufacturers will fight tooth-and-nail against that, especially since the drivers can contain trade secrets.
- Comment on Why can computers, like even very old laptops can seemingly get OS updates forever, while mobile devices hardly get a few years of updates before getting stuck out of date? 21 hours ago:
The APIs are part of the Linux Kernel, so you’d be forcing the Kernel to completely change their development policy of internal breakages being allowed. That’s a no-go.
- Comment on Attention moderators and admins! Risk of "zombie" communities on remote instances (and how to avoid) 1 day ago:
Can you… can you literally not read?
But if you can’t read, how did you read the quoted part?
Please explain how you simultaneously can and cannot read.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign's new "enhanced" boss fights have leaked early, thanks to nosy modders 4 days ago:
Again, please be explicit. Do you think the mod was created & uploaded by FromSoft?
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign's new "enhanced" boss fights have leaked early, thanks to nosy modders 4 days ago:
What exactly is your implication here? That FromSoft created & uploaded that mod by themselves, or what?
- Comment on Blurble 4 days ago:
highfalutin
Person that farts a lot
dogsbody
Body of dog
apiary
BEES
valise
That stuff that reduces friction
collet
Piece of meat
haruspex
Protagonist no. 2 of Pathologic, and protagonist of Pathologic 2
threnody
Made up word
copse
Corpse without r
😎
- Comment on Happened to me last summer 6 days ago:
Gotta play Baldurs Gate 3 to find out
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
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> Faulty is the wrong word, but in the sense that they didn’t really work to keep them locked in. There was no backup plan, nobody noticed when they just walked out. Fair, though this is part of the same hubris angle. > Speaking of Graeners security card: they know he’s dead and that his card is gone but they don’t revoke the card access or change the locks??? I’m pretty sure Mark tested it as well, do they not have access logs or did nobody noticed that a dead guy was opening doors? They specifically said in the show that Graeners card doesn’t leave logs. Lumon had no reason to suspect that an outie would have the card and smuggle it in - it’s normal that these kinds of credentials updates take a couple of days in bigger companies (especially when the employee died, and Lumon probably didn’t immediately have access to his body to check if he still has the card). > It’s true that the show implicitly leans into the hubris angle, but for me that just makes them feel like bumbling idiots instead of a dangerous cult. It was clear MDR was starting to act up and ask questions but they never appropriately elevated their response or security. Milchik got fucking bit and they mostly just shrugged it off… Milchick had to shrug it off because he didn’t want his superiors to find out about the OTC that started it all. They did install the security doors when MDR started acting up, and they had no reason to assume they’d have workarounds for the doors. > Not that bumbling corporate incompetence isn’t also entertaining, it just feels at odds with the dark, meticulous tones they try to set with management/the board. I think this is something they’ll go further into during the next season - the chains the innies saw around them were always more theoretical than practical. Lumon adds more security measures as necessary, but they are inherently reactive (e.g. with the code detectors & the Lexington letter). The innies can break these chains by banding together and overwhelming Lumon, which is what they’re doing at the end of season 2. By the way, regarding the bumbling idiot angle - they literally fired the person that invented the Severance chip and who found a flaw in the system they developed (reintegration), partially because they want to keep the mythos alive that the CEO developed the revolutionary procedure. That feels very realistic in todays’ age.
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
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> MDR is a critical department but you can’t afford more than 1 security officer on the floor? You have all these security cameras but nobody watching them? I feel this is explained well by the hubris of Lumon - they literally think that innies aren’t people, so why go further than necessary to keep them in line? And this seemingly worked as intended, until two pieces of contraband - Graeners security card and the “idolatrous text” of The You You Are - were brought onto the floor. > You demonstrably have the tech to hire any number of goons and sever them. Maybe instead of faulty security doors just have like 2 guys guarding important hallways.
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
You’re completely ignoring the subtext of Milchick, a Black man who evidently gets disadvantaged at work due to his skin color, using his power as the floor manager to choose a marching band as the method of celebration for their achievement. It directly ties into his season-long arc.
It’s fine not to know that such a subtext exists, I also didn’t know when I first saw the scene - but maybe try reading up instead of just assuming that there’s no sense to what you’re seeing?
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
They’re putting temps through brain surgery?
If they’re doing other jobs on the severed floor in-between C&M performances, they’re not temps.
I was being dramatic to express my point
Ah, given that you stated it was 4x the size of all the other departments we’ve seen combined, I assumed you were serious.
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> So then what is the purpose of MDRs work? We know that MDR is creating new personalities for the Severance chips of other people, and we know that there’s a huge milestone with either putting many different personalities onto a single chip, or with a personality confronting the deepest trauma of a person. That’s absolutely no mystery box. You may not like the answer to be so simple (as you’ve stated elsewhere), but that doesn’t mean it’s a mystery box.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 week ago:
If you haven’t already seen it, the show from a couple of years ago reflects on the issues the movie (and partially comics) had, and acts as a great sequel. Can’t recommend it enough!
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
Nowhere is it stated that C&M come into work every day, they might only come in for special occasions, or they could have other jobs in-between. Also, did you count 160 people, or are you guessing? It looked like way fewer to me, though still a rather large number.
I honestly don’t get the “mystery box” criticism. The biggest mysteries have already been explained.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 week ago:
Who wouldn’t love receiving 17 new sets of knives?!
- Comment on Mammal 1 week ago:
… I’ll have to apologize to a lot of cows
- Comment on Existential dread 1 week ago:
There must be an anime about this
- Comment on *fliiiinnnnnggg*. 1 week ago:
Really depends on the weight of the baby. A trebuchet can yeet a 300kg baby 90m.
- Comment on Its that time of year again. 2 weeks ago:
If you play a Windows Vista installation disk in reverse, you can hear a message from Satan.
Even worse, when you play it forwards, you install Windows Vista 😱
- Comment on Calm down 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the only way that I’ve found really works is to use “I” statements.
Aiaiai, you need to calm down!
- Comment on I made this instead 2 weeks ago:
At a global scale, everything increases entropy
- Comment on Avocado 2 weeks ago:
They first tried using avocado pits, but those are a little too uneven, so they went with cooked egg yolks instead.
- Comment on Avocado 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah? And what does skin taste like, if not avocado?
- Comment on 250 Million Honeybees Escape After a Truck Rolls Over in Washington State 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Definitions 2 weeks ago:
I see you’ve never been penetrated by a pizza slicer
- Comment on Aion 2 | Reveal Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Having read the book, I’m supremely confused about this adaptation.
- Comment on Is it possible to have too much? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, and I love you
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign’s Massive Steam Launch Tarnished by 'Mixed' User Reviews Over Lack of Duos Co-Op, Voice Chat 2 weeks ago:
The map pinging has been sufficient communication for me. Other players can “confirm” your pings, which is a great way to show they agree.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Though it’s fairly close at least
- Comment on Is it possible to have too much? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen this guide countless times, and every time I’m sad they didn’t include their “ideal cookie”. Top left looks pretty good!
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! I have neither a positive nor negative opinion of Sidney Sweeney, but if she’s actually a cunt there are surely better insults.
