BassTurd
@BassTurd@lemmy.world
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my floor every 2 days? 13 hours ago:
Idk how different cat hair is from dog hair, but we have a Rottweiler and a German shepherd husky mix, and we vacuum daily. We have a Roomba that we don’t really use anymore, but it filled up daily with dog hair. Very little loose hair in the house now.
- Comment on In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters. 18 hours ago:
Biden > Trump, bad mental health or not.
- Comment on In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters. 1 day ago:
No. It takes a truly shallow mind to come to this conclusion. Most of us Democrats understand how politics work and knew it was Trump or Harris once Biden stepped down. That’s it, no third option. Only a true idiot or a Trump supporter (same thing) would think not voting, voting this party, it voting for Trump was in anyway better for Israel, Ukraine, and America.
- Comment on Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry | Hacker News (More like op-out spying) 3 days ago:
If I were using Manjaro right now, at the first opportunity, I would be switching to something else. Too much enshitification happening everywhere, and people need to start voting with their “wallets” to stop these greedy fucks.
- Comment on Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry | Hacker News (More like op-out spying) 3 days ago:
Are you trying to gatekeep Linux to only power users that use a CLI, are way above the average in computer literacy, and happen to know the nuances between Linux and other operating systems?
This is the kind of thinking that will prevent adoption to the masses. Linux doesn’t have to be stupid hard to use. There are specific distros like vanilla Arch for advanced users to tinker with and options like Manjaro and Ubuntu that are ideally functional out of the box for those that just want something to work.
What Manjaro is doing here is dumb AF, and should rightfully be heavily criticized, but you statement feels like your saying you should have to be a computer expert to use any Linux distro, and that’s dumb.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 3 days ago:
You misunderstand. I’m not using any centralized social media. Lemmy is my one and only. I’m saying It’s worth celebrating the small wins and encouraging companies to continue moving to models like this. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 3 days ago:
Switching to vaping is less bad, and for me, it lead to me quitting all together. So to me, this is still a small win, and I like to celebrate small wins these days.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you had a genuine question, but I now feel that was a mistake.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
Anyone can decide what gender they feel like. Most people identify with one of the major genders, but many people don’t for multiple possible biological reasons. Nobody is in good faith identifying as a gender they don’t actually feel like.
- Comment on Of course telecom companies are suing the FTC to block the new 'click-to-cancel' rule 3 weeks ago:
I do believe that’s beyond the power of the FTC, but I agree.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 3 weeks ago:
I interpreted your comment correctly. Make sense to me in context of the OP.
- Comment on How do you get better at debate without necessarily doing a debate? 4 weeks ago:
Music theory.
- Comment on If I took all the Cisco.com programs does that mean I can just apply for a cert? 4 weeks ago:
You would still have to pass the cert exams. The programs are to prepare you for the exams.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
I’m in the slow process of replacing devices with HTPCs then I won’t need to cast anything. Unfortunately computers and time don’t grow on trees.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
It’s not that the site doesn’t work in FF, it’s that casting the stream from that site to a remote TV in the house is only possible in chromium, at least with my current device setup. If I just watch on my computer, I watch in FF.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
I have chromium installed for the sole reason to cast some streams to my remote TVs. Otherwise it stays closed. I tried some work around with FF, but I couldn’t get it to work. It’s only once or twice a week for live sporting events, so I can stomach it.
- Comment on Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera 1 month ago:
Do you know how many of those that you linked have had multiple recalls on them? Clearly some are more significant than a malfunctioning backup camera, but one of the reasons the cyber truck story has more bagging on it is because the number of recalls. It’s a larger indicator, imo, or a poorly made product where the others may be one missed QA or engineering issue, not systemic issues.
- Comment on "Skip ad's" YouTube and "Skip Intro" on Netflix take the same amount of effort but I only hate the former. 1 month ago:
Are you taking about previews? Yes, those are ads. The intro to a show that is the same every episode, those aren’t ads, but are skipable.
- Comment on "Skip ad's" YouTube and "Skip Intro" on Netflix take the same amount of effort but I only hate the former. 1 month ago:
Because it’s part of the show? What is it advertising? Usually there are some amount of credits. Certainly not ads.
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
Being poor is expensive.
- Comment on Microsoft’s more secure Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users 1 month ago:
Shit… Watch out for bad actors too.
- Comment on Microsoft’s more secure Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users 1 month ago:
And it’s impossible to make the data truly secure. If a bag actor gets in, GG everything.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
Yea, I know. But I need a cyber Robin Hood in my life right now.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
Where are all the hackers out there that have the skills to crack a TV to load something open source? They’re computers. There has to be a way to jailbreak/root then.
- Comment on Mod creator who bypassed PSN account linking for God of War Ragnarok deletes it due to fears of "possible threats from Sony" 1 month ago:
Might have been one of those, “dog that caught the car” moments, where it got a lot bigger than he ever anticipated and didn’t expect all of the attention.
- Comment on Mod creator who bypassed PSN account linking for God of War Ragnarok deletes it due to fears of "possible threats from Sony" 1 month ago:
Even if he didn’t do anything illegal, Sony has enough money and lawyers to hurt him. Unless a judge threw out any case early, he’d still have to defend himself, which cost money and takes time.
- Comment on YouTube will shove ads in your face even when you pause videos 1 month ago:
I will often pause educational videos to study something on screen. Putting ads over that ruins the experience.
I have YT premium mainly for YT music, but I do consume a lot (read: too much) YT content. I split the family plan with 4 other members outside of my wife and I, so it’s like $3 per month for just me. I’m not logged in on my work computer, and the amount of ads is insanely intrusive and a off putting. I honestly think that if I didn’t have a premium sub, I’d almost never use the platform because it’s so bad.
- Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs 1 month ago:
Not shit, but isn’t that what brought about mad cow disease? Farmers were feeding cattle brain matter that had infected prions. Idk if it was cows eating cow brains or other animals though.
- Comment on Google is facing another crucial court case in the US – and it could have major consequences for online advertising. 2 months ago:
I should have phrased it, helps pay the bills. For the end user if you don’t want to pay a monetary fee, then ads are the option. I would never go to some pages if I had to have a subscription to view content, and i assume many others wouldn’t either. Ads, as gross as they are, keep the Internet running for now
- Comment on Google is facing another crucial court case in the US – and it could have major consequences for online advertising. 2 months ago:
Nit only that, but advertising pays the bills for the majority of websites. It’s a necessary evil unless people want to pay every website host to see their content.