Hawke
@Hawke@lemmy.world
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 2 days ago:
Bill Cosby and OJ Simpson … how can you go wrong!?
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 2 days ago:
Were they bad, though?
- Comment on The Making of Infocom Text Adventure Games in 1985 | BBC Archive 1 week 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 week ago:
Only if they bring Wisconsin with.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Explain please.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 5 weeks 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.? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Why would you torrent from your phone?
Wrong tool for the job…
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 1 month ago:
My reasons:
- Because it just works.
- I can uninstall the trash apps that apple includes and use my own preferences.
- Don’t have to deal with bloatware from two vendors (Google and Samsung for example)
- Vendor lock-in. I started on iOS (iPod touch) and so I have a certain amount of app purchases that are iOS-only. This is the only one that galls me.
- longevity / platform support. I’ve had this thing for close to five years, and the battery is only starting to fail in the last few months.
- decent display. Samsung galaxy’s PCM brightness control gives me horrible eye strain.
Maybe it’s just Samsung that’s trash, I dunno. I tried hard to like android and in principle I should prefer Googles more open ecosystem. But it just seems to enable every manufacturer of android phones to try to outcompete each other in how awful they can make the experience of owning their products, all in the name of trying to differentiate themselves from their competitors.
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 1 month ago:
At this point is it even subterfuge?
They’re not hiding it any more.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
Nah. It’s got a big fat [citation needed] from me.
10% of people? Sure I’d believe that 10 % of people have used a fax machine at least once in the past year or something. But 10% of households, and you can’t count email to-fax gateways?
No way.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
All good. I used to make a strong distinction between “video games” and “computer games” and at the time it was true but now the line has blurred to the point that the distinction is in interface style and the scale between reliability and versatility.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
Nah. They might do it from work or maybe by email gateway.
Hell it’s only even possible for the 27% of homes that still have a landline. There’s just no way.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
There’s not a lot of video games that don’t have software.
You’d have to back to what, Pong? I see Monaco GP from 1979 listed as one of the last TTL-based games from Sega, but not sure about other companies.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
Seems crazy to me. I can’t imagine that 1 in 10 household even have fax machines. All the stuff you mention is business and medical stuff. Nobody faxes in their medical requests from home.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
People can’t “still” be doing something that they were NOT doing before!
An individual cannot but a group of people can.
“Children are still fascinated by sticks” is as true as always, even though the individual children have mostly grown up, grown old, and died.
- Comment on You know what Mega Man needs? A gun and the face of a middle-aged smoker. 1 month ago:
Not really needed, you can click on the “memos” to see the corresponding artwork.
- Comment on Web-based Document Editor? 1 month ago:
I find them okay, but I am much more concerned with consistent fonts than with a variety of decorative fonts.
The defaults fonts feel very old-fashioned though.
- Comment on Web-based Document Editor? 1 month ago:
Moving this to a top-level comment.
Overleaf is fantastic, as long as you are okay with non-WYSIWYG document editing and learning some LaTeX.
Typst is also worth looking at, as a similar concept. It uses a very different language than LaTeX, but feels more in touch with modern sensibilities.
- Comment on Web-based Document Editor? 1 month ago:
I’m not a huge fan of Google as a company, but Google Docs seems to be the first and only one that actually put some new thought into how to organize their toolbar, so that’s my go-to.
- Comment on Web-based Document Editor? 1 month ago:
As long as you’re okay with an interface that slavishly clones the terrible MS-Word ribbon bar.
- Comment on Foundation - Foundation 1.0 Is Now Available! - Steam News 2 months ago:
I have. It’s good. I hadn’t played since EA in 2022 (hence my comment).
Lots more polish and finishing touches. I’m quite impressed especially because it felt pretty complete back then.
- Comment on Foundation - Foundation 1.0 Is Now Available! - Steam News 2 months ago:
The 1.0 release is much different and much improved compared to how it was in 2022 though. I’d say it counts anyway!