Hawke
@Hawke@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 1 week ago:
This. I know I did, although nothing else is quite as good as google used to be.
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 1 week ago:
Only office is basically the same interface again, all cloning MS-office 2007-2010.
Bleach.
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s a common phrase and because one can accept that people have a name for their deity even if you believe that deity doesn’t really exist.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 2 weeks ago:
you subscribe to a belief wholeheartedly, even a crazy one, to the point where youd rather die than question it.
That’s what I said too, which is to say that the point is not the killing but the unquestioning nature of it.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 2 weeks ago:
That’s not the point of the phrase — the statement refers to the true believers drinking poison unquestioningly, without entertaining the thought that it will kill them.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
There are, but “long haul routes” are definitely better for a train.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
What an incredibly infuriating waste of effort that would be so much better spent on trains, driverless or otherwise.
- Comment on Fly-tippers’ vehicles to be crushed in bid to save England from ‘avalanche of rubbish’ 2 weeks ago:
For those outside the UK, “fly-tipping” means the much more clearly phrased “illegal dumping”.
It is not similar to cow-tipping at all.
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 3 weeks ago:
I’d say it’s both, yeah.
User demand partly drives what the employer provides, and some people really like those k-cups.
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 3 weeks ago:
They use k cups so being inconsiderate is a given.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 4 weeks ago:
If they sound different they’re not lossless. (Or they’re different masters)
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 4 weeks ago:
I’m with you on the “FOSS office alternatives are shit”, but unfortunately MS office is also shit. Google is the closest I have found to a good office suite but even that is becoming a bit chaotic and awkward. LyX is a promising word processor but also pretty awkward to use in its own way. I’ve got nothing, there.
As far as gaming, this sound less kind than intended but you deserve any shit you get for saying Linux gaming is bad these days. Apart from a few AAA games with anti-cheat where the devs just don’t want to, basically every game just works without any extra effort. Even obscure indie games. I can’t think of the last game I wanted to play that didn’t run on Linux, and often it is better under proton than Windows or native.
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 4 weeks ago:
Nobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do.
This is clearly false. There was a definite point at which it was decided to call Burma Myanmar, or at a more local level Peking to Beijing.
- Comment on Dont copy 4 weeks ago:
The drive had a sensor that detected the notch status and either allowed (or not) the write ability.
Basically the same as SD cards today, it’s just assumed that the drive will respect that switch.
Older 5.25-inch floppies you would cut a notch in a specific place, and you could use tape to cover it and make it writable again.
VHS and audio cassettes work the same way too.
- Comment on Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle 5 weeks ago:
These people are slow learners eh?
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 month ago:
Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson … how can you go wrong!?
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 month ago:
Were they bad, though?
- Comment on The Making of Infocom Text Adventure Games in 1985 | BBC Archive 1 month ago:
Are you borrowing your dad’s Lincoln Navigator?
- Comment on One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll 1 month ago:
Only if they bring Wisconsin with.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 month ago:
I only use it incidentally but my biggest gripe is the total inability to perform its one function of teleconferencing.
The bit where it lags the audio badly and then speeds it up to catch back up to real-time is absolutely infuriating to listen to, and such a failure of a tool that had. one. job.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
“Algorithmic steering” is okay as long as the algorithm is relatively straightforward, public, and well-understood.
The problem is when the corpus tweak it to suit their mass-market advertisers.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
Awesome. That seems like the way to go then!
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 month ago:
Are there good alternatives?
I feel like forums really fell behind the times, with shitty threading systems and awkward text formatting interfaces and the horror that is bbcode.
Meanwhile discord handles image embedding gracefully, with markdown formatting and previews.
What’s the next-gen forum system that’s keeping up with modern times? Is there a part of the fediverse that meets this?
Discourse seems the most modern, but not sure if it is open, let alone federated.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 2 months ago:
Alright, what’re we moving to next?
(Thank God, it’s finally over)
Is Mumble still a thing?
- Comment on Apple refuses to break encryption, seeks reversal of UK demand for backdoor - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Not as it is conventionally used.
If you break a lock, that’s different from unlocking it and removing it.
- Comment on Apple refuses to break encryption, seeks reversal of UK demand for backdoor - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Explain please.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 2 months ago:
It’s an expression meaning you are arguing/fighting over something when both sides actually hold the same position and didn’t realize at first.
- Comment on How do people doctor shop? Don't all doctors pass info on all their patients between each other? And in this day and age how do they do it.? 2 months ago:
Also plenty of people with chronic illnesses need to find a doctor who at bare minimum understands that the disease exists and is willing to try to treat it.
And women looking for birth control or sterilization procedures (even when sterilization is a side effect such as treatment of endometriosis) will need to “shop around” to find a doctor willing to do so, especially if they are not married and even more if they have no offspring.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 months ago:
Slow, extra data traffic, extra battery usage.
What are the upsides? I could see a phone being a great controller for a remote seedbox for sure.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 2 months ago:
Why would you torrent from your phone?
Wrong tool for the job…