Hawke
@Hawke@lemmy.world
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Because either way you’re taking a risk.
Security flaws and aging hardware are two obvious problems.
I’d very much question why you’d use windows 10 over something better supported— maybe not Linux but at least Windows Server OS.
- Comment on How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave? 1 week ago:
Thank you for sharing, that was an excellent video.
Also appreciate the edit; it’s amazing how much of a difference those little words make.
Biggest objection to that angle for me is “well I never eat microwave popcorn” makes it too easy to dismiss the problem.
I’d still bet that “groundwater contamination” (or “drinking water contamination” from manufacturing is the single largest source for almost anyone, but it looks like microwave popcorn is shockingly high when it comes to food and food packaging.
- Comment on How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave? 1 week ago:
their packaging is a major source of PFA buildups in our bodies
[citation needed]
There’s no way that more than a few people eat enough microwave popcorn for that to be true.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 3 weeks ago:
I use bgstats.
- Comment on Having to manage cables is a very 80s thing that we still have to do in 2025. 4 weeks ago:
And it still works and looks great today!
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 5 weeks ago:
That I cut a bit of slack for, because prior to the minicomputer let alone the microcomputer, the CPU would likely have been a large component like the whole system is for a desktop PC.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 1 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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 [deleted] 1 month 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 [deleted] 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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’ 1 month 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
These people are slow learners eh?
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 2 months ago:
Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson … how can you go wrong!?
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 2 months ago:
Were they bad, though?
- Comment on The Making of Infocom Text Adventure Games in 1985 | BBC Archive 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Only if they bring Wisconsin with.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 2 months 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. 3 months 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. 3 months 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. 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Alright, what’re we moving to next?
(Thank God, it’s finally over)
Is Mumble still a thing?