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- Comment on 2 months ago:
No, not THAT Hacker News!
- Comment on Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users 3 months ago:
I’ve been moving over to Okta’s app. Wondering if I should pick something else though. All of my credentials are in 1Password, but I don’t want my 2FA in the same place.
- Comment on I got my first taste of Modern Xbox. 3 months ago:
It introduced me to Sea of Stars and I could not stop playing that game until I completed the story. It made me envy every person that backed the Kickstarter and finally got to play it for the first time. I adore Gamepass for gems like that. You and I could probably exchange suggestions for those 4-5 hour, small indie team games. They’re passion projects for people. I find so much soul and love in those small games.
For example, I haven’t yet played Botany Manor, but still have it installed for when it comes to me. My wishlist on there is huge. I’ll spend 15 minutes sometimes going through every game to add things. My wife will play the same couple games for months and really delve into them. I have a constant rotation of 5-10.
- Comment on Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure 3 months ago:
It’s fun and simple. I feel like it’s pretty in line with the vibe you’re looking for. Someone else suggested Dave the Diver and that one is a great recommendation.
- Comment on Looking for games that feel like a summer adventure 4 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 5 months ago:
This is actually a thing. It’s called “Model Collapse”. You can read about it here.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 7 months ago:
I just started a new Fallout 4 playthrough after binging the show, and my wife hopped back into Fallout Shelter. I guess they added the show characters to FS so that’s fun.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 7 months ago:
Have you gotten the Shark-O-Matic gun yet? It’s hilarious.
- Comment on Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues 1 year ago:
Etsy is now just as enshittified. Almost everything on there now is dropshipped bullshit from AliExpress. You have to trudge through a massive amount of crap listings just to find anything handmade now.
- Comment on ‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content 1 year ago:
Typical government move. Have a blatantly obvious questionable agenda to make spying on citizens easier, but tie it to something like children or “freedom”. Makes it easy to go “don’t you care about the children?!” This approach is so lazy it’s both insulting and nauseating.
- Comment on Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result 1 year ago:
Had a friend open a conversation line by referencing something on Quora and I immediately tuned out. Quora is a wealth of nonsense.
- Comment on Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle 1 year ago:
Unity doesn’t deserve them back.
- Comment on I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much 1 year ago:
The only plus I see is USB-C and that is definitely not enough to justify starting the new phone pay cycle all over again.
- Comment on I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much 1 year ago:
I was just done at that point. I had a slew of problems with the phone and having it be unreliable in a time where I needed it was enough to push me into the walled garden. Everything else? I love to tinker. Linux, the Steam Deck, etc. For a phone, I’m past the age of tinkering. I needed something more consistent.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Their TVs are annoying as fuck. I’ll never buy anything Samsung again.
- Comment on Whatsapp is going to run terribly... 1 year ago:
“Features board members demanded because they increase value for shareholders”
- Comment on Whatsapp is going to run terribly... 1 year ago:
I refuse to use anything Meta has its claws on.
- Comment on I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much 1 year ago:
I was on a Nexus 6P before I finally got sick of disposable Android phones. The last straw that sent me back to iOS and the iPhone was when I was in another country and my phone kept shutting down at 50% battery. No matter what I did, it kept shutting down. This was not good when I was trying to traverse a city I wasn’t familiar with and needed to rely on Google Maps.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Android. I still have a Nexus 5 that has had a ton of different ROMs on it, but the amount of just plain terrible devices I had was staggering. The kind of tech that gets shoved out the door and thrown in the trash a year later.
- Comment on I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much 1 year ago:
My partner and I are still on the 12 Pro Max and have no plans on upgrading. Of course like clockwork, Verizon has texted us both the same upgrade message every few days or so. I finally had to tell them to stop.
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 1 year ago:
I think the endgame is to speedrun getting filthy rich and buying up a chunk of the earth before it’s completely destroyed.
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 1 year ago:
Companies these days: “help us think of products we can sell to procure data. No, I don’t care what the product is; we just want the data.”
- Comment on Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017 1 year ago:
I still have a white HTC Dream, aka the G1. It’s still dope.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 1 year ago:
I used a tool that synced my Spotify playlists to Apple Music. It worked surprisingly well. I signed up the one time, moved everything over, and then made sure to cancel the service.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 1 year ago:
I actually met employees from the company at a conference years ago and knew people that worked there off and on. It was a pretty toxic environment and the management was basically a frat party. The office had an in-house chef for a while before they had to tighten the purse strings due to the multitude of lawsuits they were getting hit with (most of which I learned came from Sony BMG). Their team of lawyers basically worked around the clock.
I used to have a ton of stuff on Grooveshark and had stuff shared to me (and vice versa) from others. It was a cool UI even if it was a little clunky at times. Great place to find obscure stuff.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 1 year ago:
This is what I like to see.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 1 year ago:
What’s to stop every single corporation from leveraging third party contractor companies just to escape union bargaining? Cognizant seems like a company that basically exists for this reason. Both Amazon and Google play this game and it’s infuriating.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 1 year ago:
I mean, they’re already doing it. Not in every role because not every one of them can be filled by AI, but it’s happening.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 1 year ago:
I work with AI and don’t necessarily see it as “dangerous”. CEOs and other greed-chasing assholes are the real danger. They’re going to do everything they can to keep filling human roles with AI so that they can maximize profits. That’s the real danger. That and AI writing eventually permeating and enshittifying everything.
A hammer isn’t dangerous on its own, but becomes a weapon in the hands of a psychopath.
- Comment on Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency' 1 year ago:
Got laid off a while back for about 3 months, along with a handful of others (some of which were there 5-7 years!). When I talked to an old friend that still works there, he said the morale is basically non-existent. The company is also ranked in the bottom 5% now on Comparably 😬
- Comment on Unity apologises. 1 year ago:
TIL. Now I know how to refer to those methods. Thanks!