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- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 3 days ago:
Even when they give the correct answer they talk too much. AI responses contain a lot of garbage. When AI gives you an answer it will try to justify itself. Since they won’t give you brief responses the responses will be long.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Looking at my nearest Costco vs Walmart prices
Ribeye choice:
Costco $15.99 / lb
Walmart $23.47 / lb
Ribeye prime
Costco $20.99 / lb
Walmart $27.98 / lb
- Comment on Statistics for Strava, a self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data. 2 weeks ago:
I meant Strava, I don’t have a Garmin. I use Strava (I pay for premium) and I like it and they keep adding features (I mostly ignore their AI)
After 3 free apps that I used to track my runs went under or really enshittified I decided it was worth it to pay for something I liked
- Comment on Statistics for Strava, a self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your Strava data. 2 weeks ago:
What do you feel they have been enshittifying?
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a short video of someone receiving help. They explain briefly that they provide instructions to the vehicle, they don’t do the actual driving
- Comment on Bears or no bears? 3 weeks ago:
Pinkouinos / antipinkouinos ?
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 4 weeks ago:
Do you have Android or iPhone? AFAIR the issue started because Google wanted to collect 30% of the sales
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 4 weeks ago:
You can’t get Kindle books on the Amazon app, you need to go thru a browser or the Kindle app
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 4 weeks ago:
You can kinda use it to watch a single video on firefox on android, but you have to log in (that’s my experience)
- Comment on Truth hurts! 4 weeks ago:
An angry Canada goose protecting its nest is enough
- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 5 weeks ago:
I walk a lot and I use them until they are no longer comfortable to walk
I have flat feet and I usually wear down the soles in an angle and I start walking “funny”, creating more issues.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 month ago:
The only thing I need to run on windows now is for H&R block tax software. I wonder if I can try it with wine but I’m afraid of losing the activation license
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 1 month ago:
Aren’t they trying to fix explorer being slow af? How would adding copilot help?
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 1 month ago:
nobody bought the ps5?
Key Figures & Estimates (Late 2025/Early 2026)
PlayStation 5 (PS5): ~84-86 million units (crossing 80M mark by late 2025).
Xbox Series X/S: ~34 million units (estimates vary, but well behind PS5).
Nintendo Switch (Original): ~154 million units (still selling well, nearing DS).
Nintendo Switch 2 (New): Starting sales with ~12.4 million units by late 2025 (estimated).
84 mil seems like a lot. PS games have always been discounted, contrary to Nintendo games
- Comment on xkcd #3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions 1 month ago:
I’m not sure if it’s still the case but most of the population in Mexico is above 3000 feet so recipes had variations for sea level instead (the recipe was made for 1000msnm)
Sometimes it was confusing if you got something imported from the US or some brand that needed to be adjusted for high altitude
- Comment on My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun. 2 months ago:
Something from that game messed with my head. Whenever I played I had a lot of trouble sleeping at night, it didn’t matter if I played 10 minutes or 2 hours or what time of the day I played it
- Comment on Celebrating anti-intellectualism is the biggest danger to humanity 2 months ago:
They mock people that know facts and they are proud to be ignorant
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 2 months ago:
I feel the same as you, my wife loves celery and puts it on everything but I feel like it subtracts flavors on most stuff. She eats raw celery all the time, I can maybe stand it with a lot of ranch next to some buffalo wings
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 2 months ago:
Here’s a better one. We just passed the predicted maximum point
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Can I install/use jellyfin directly on my tv? That’s the only think keeping me on pkex (I haven’t tried jellyfin but I’m open to other options)
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 2 months ago:
My cousin just finished his MBA from a big college, he is so proud that he used AI for most of his assignments, he used 3 out 4 subscriptions to make it “more human” and “not mistakes” and so they couldn’t detect it easily
He said that everybody in his courses was using AI and that most group discussions were about which AI is better, so it makes sense that those managers are so excited about AI, because it was able to do their “meaningless” jobs so they think it can do anyone’s job, but he doesn’t see the irony that he would be the first to be replaced
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 5 months ago:
The eshop is down too. I wanted to check if I had enough balance and I can’t load the site
- Comment on Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles 6 months ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 6 months ago:
Yes, meant not on the equator, above as in northern (or southern)
- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 6 months ago:
The jet steams are above the equator, so they would be smaller
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 7 months ago:
Time for USB-C micro and mini!
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 8 months ago:
I had to allow a bunch of stuff in pihole because I wasn’t able to use Google flights or Google News and some functions in Gmail, the sites never finished loading
- Comment on Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it 8 months ago:
That was me playing Pokemon red. Got it without knowing a bit of English, took me a lot to realize that dialog was important sometimes and it took me several days to figure out how to teach and use the HMs. Later my dad got me the official guide so I could follow the pictures and use a dictionary to figure out some words
- Comment on Soy milk is simply Spanish milk introducing itself 9 months ago:
It works better with chorizo
- Comment on Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town 10 months ago:
