HeyJoe
@HeyJoe@lemmy.world
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 day ago:
You know he saw that and probably thought how clever he was to point this out while posting it.
- Comment on Attitudes 6 days ago:
I am, but I am also in a tight spot since I have a kid who has 1 more year left until school starts and we can’t really afford daycare. This job has been nice since the work has also been much easier compared to 5 years ago. After that happens I am looking for something new immediately.
- Comment on Attitudes 6 days ago:
My job once gave us water coolers and coffee. At one point the coffee was a big all in one where you can make great drinks with it. Then they took it away because it cost to much. We then had kurigs. They then took away the pods because apparently we cant be trusted and people were stealing them. At least we could still bring ours in! Oh once they broke they refused to replace them so we had no more coffee. Then they took the water away as well once the company claimed it needed cutbacks because it is not doing well. Even the perks are all going away. I remember when I first started 20 years ago we got 2 holiday parties where the company rented a big venue and gave out 10, 15, 20 year anniversary gifts and bonuses and the other party was our department one. Those ended 10 years ago and not a word on anything ever coming back.
The only perk now is that they cutback so much they have no room for my department anymore and we became full remote a little over a year ago. Yay!
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 week ago:
Thanks for the suggestion. Says on it’s site summer 2026 is target for release. Still a while away, I wonder how long we have with Firefox before this takes over…
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 week ago:
Looks like theres a site you can use to get color names. It says its called Browny Green
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 1 week ago:
I watch a bunch of channels that are mostly talking and are 20+ minutes. I always put it on 1.5x speed and its barely noticeable and you get used to it. It saves me time without any loss of what was being shown so I consider it a win.
1 question, this feature already exists for non paying costumers, does this mean its going to be a pay for option only soon? That will piss me off…
- Comment on If you really want to impress them with your first performance you really need to control yourself for at least 3 days before showtime 1 week ago:
Wrong. Something about Mary taught us all that you need to clear the pipes right before the date.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 1 week ago:
I’ve been saying that same thing since 2005 lol. 2004 is peak gaming. It was great living through that era.
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 1 week ago:
Same! Except I use windows and they have a small app that you can install and run in the background which will update the IP if needed.
I also used duckdns for years before moving to this and I never had any issues using that either. It was the same thing, small app that ran on your machine and you needed the token and it just worked.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 week ago:
I don’t think I have ever watched the game awards, but I do look at the results and trailers the day after. I am glad Claire pulled through! I was following that game the year before it released and it looked incredible. For me it was a day one purchase and glad I was right! It was definitely an experience. It’s also the only game I have purchased this year outside of black friday where I used a gift card to buy 3 cheap games.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 week ago:
My biggest complaint is not that they sell you stuff, it’s that they price everything so dam high… like spending $20 in these games should get you something significant in my eyes, instead you barely get a 10 random pull where you probably end up with crap. Screw that… with that said if I do get into one I will normally throw the game like $20 total purchasing a few things if they feel worth it. I am currently playing Chaos Zero Nightmare and the prices are so bad I haven’t spent a dime and don’t think I will. Its a good game otherwise.
- Comment on Exercise can be fun 1 week ago:
I remember this one from years ago. Sadly it’s fake.
- Comment on bing is broken 1 week ago:
Lol just brought weed this weekend and the name of it is super boof. Its really good, but that name was great.
- Comment on Ope 1 week ago:
Pretty sure they are talking about ppl who dont clean their ceiling fans off every season or at least once a year.
- Comment on Where else are you going to watch CoffinFlop? 1 week ago:
I love coffinflop.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 2 weeks ago:
#2, but its bad because thats also most of my days as well.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 weeks ago:
Not everyone has an “adult” sized dick. Also not everyone watching is male.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 weeks ago:
When I went on vaca a few months ago I was caught off guard with this. Kind of crazy that this is going to be everywhere probably… I will never give them this info, there are always alternatives. I just used VPN that week which worked fine.
- Comment on Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards 3 weeks ago:
Wish them luck, but I honestly feel like this should be more about preserving a dying language over saving it. From the numbers provided in the article I would highly doubt this can save it. It can definitely draw attention and allow it to be preserved a lot easier though, which will help it be recognized easier in the future.
- Comment on India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding 3 weeks ago:
I think a bunch still do. I don’t have it because I just purchased the phone with no cell plan. I just use wifi and if I go out I use my work phone Hotspot to provide wifi to my personal. I use Google voice so I have a number and some of those chat apps that my friends use to keep in touch. Im in my 40’s and have never had a cell phone bill still. Outside leaving the house, I honestly cant believe people are paying $60-$100+ dollars a month when you can get everything it does these days off wifi. For the minor inconvenience ive ran into sometimes I still think it’s worth it for the price.
- Comment on India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding 3 weeks ago:
As someone who only uses a phone without a SIM card this would suck for me.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, as a big music fan I have always been disappointed in Embys music functionality. I followed the discussions around this on there site and I was a bit disappointed by the response. They were getting the same feedback around how bad it is and it should be revamped or even have a dedicated app just for music and they just dismissed it basically saying we’ll it can be something we may do later on but dont hold your breath and that they believe it works fine the way it is and dont agree it will help.
Luckily I really didnt care to use it for music anyway. I already had a Subsonic (now Navidrome) server for that. It would have been nice for a few things, but ultimately it was fine. The cool part is the android app Symfonium is the best music app I have ever used and it connects to all the servers to pull data. I obviously still use navidrome, but I could just pull from emby as well with it.
- Comment on What you've been buying? 3 weeks ago:
Sadly not much. No time or money lately. I think the only game I purchased this year was clair obscure exp 33 on release day and loved it. I got a gift card for the price of 1 regular priced game a few months ago for my birthday and about to use it today for black friday which is a day with bigger than usual sales and hope to get at least 2 if not 3 games with it and maybe a few dollars of my own money.
I was thinking of Kingdom Come 2, Dragons Dogma 2, Persona 3 remake, suikoden 1 and 2 remake as they are all heavily discounted right now. And yes I love rpg’s but I am just noticing now thats all I listed and was not on purpose lol.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Dam thats what I thought. Emby has something similar but doesnt force you to use it so I don’t.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Years ago I decided to go with Emby over Plex only because at the time plex didnt support kodi integration and I enjoyed using that at the time for my front-end user experience. Within 6 months they started supporting it and I was upset since I did want to go with plex. Lately I feel like I made the perfect decision. It’s gotta be close to 10 years now and I paid one $100 lifetime fee for Emby and still use it everyday along with some family and friends I gave access to. Also gotta remember I dont believe jellyfin was even an option at that time. I tried it not to long ago and although it was fine, I actually think I liked emby a little more.
As for the remote access, how do they block it? Do they not allow you to setup your own remote connection that does not involve plex? Thats how I do it, I do not use emby connect to make it easier to go through them I just setup my own domain, use ddns, and configure the ports I want exposed and thats it. If plex doesnt allow that then thats already crazy, if they do and even thats now blocked then thats even crazier.
Emby may be simpler, and i heard about plex having a music AI feature that I was actually jealous of, but overall it just works and not paying anything in forever will always be my preferred method over awful monthly subscriptions anyday.
- Comment on If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour? 3 weeks ago:
Weird I just saw a YouTube video on this like a week ago. Basically you would need to eat an amount that would never be possible by a lot for anything to possibly happen. The other point is we have more radiation than a banana to begin with and are hit by more radiation in 1 day than probably a thousand would even create. Our bodies are able to remove some radiation as well. There are even some parts of the world were people are exposed to higher than normal amounts of radiation and we found that over time the rate of cancer is less than the global average so I would highly doubt being around bananas would cause any risk for cancer.
- Comment on Day 498 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
When i was looking into switching to linux I tried out a bunch of flavors through vm’s and I am glad I did because the one I thought I wanted ended up not even working through a vm and in the end I also loved CachyOS the most as well! This was earlier in the year and honestly I am still planning out how to rebuild my main pc. Im more afraid of spending an entire day formatting and rebuilding and not be in a position where it works well enough and be disappointed that I lost my setup that worked fine.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 3 weeks ago:
I’ve used the regkey hack years ago, but recent ones seemed more difficult to bypass. I ended up using a USB stick as well and formatted it with Rufus which has all the options built in to bypass it all. It worked 100% of the time the 3 times I used it. Before doing that 2 systems just wouldnt complete and always ended up giving an error at some point. One of my older systems at work is a Dell Precision which came with a Xeon processor which is normally a server CPU and windows 11 doesnt support server at all so those CPUs aren’t compatible. Been running 11 on it 2 years now and is completely stable. The tower is almost 10 years old now, but I dont want to give it up because I know ill never get anything nearly as powerful as a replacement today haha.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 3 weeks ago:
I would imagine a big reason being that windows 11 doesnt work on a ton of older systems which meant nobody upgraded to it and instead lived out the life of the hardware until they actually needed to buy something new. The crazy part to me is older systems wasnt even that long ago. I remember when 11 came out and saw a bunch of systems only 2 years old that weren’t compatible. I said screw it and just forced it on them and honestly I have had no issues on about 3 different systems so whatever I guess.
- Comment on True 4 weeks ago:
I never thought of it that way, but now I see why they push hard for auto pay. Thats dark.
