Madrigal
@Madrigal@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade 4 weeks ago:
Just give it a couple of years for the hype/boom/bust cycle to complete, then it’ll settle down and people will start using the tech appropriately.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Main home and a holiday home/cabin or similar. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 2 months ago:
My work machine is W11 and has options to change it. Not one of those stupid ‘home’ vs ‘pro’ version things is it?
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 2 months ago:
They used to have that as a filter. Although for a long while you could pick short (<4 mins) or long (>20 mins) but not medium length videos.
This, too, was a sign they had no fucking idea what they were doing.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 2 months ago:
Nope, I’ve seen it myself. Cannot imagine a more useless feature.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Some older online games have pretty good latency tolerance because they were built in an era before broadband was widely available.
Vanilla World of Warcraft, for example, has a ‘spell batching’ mechanic that helps to equalise things somewhat. You’ll need to play on a private server though because Blizz changed spell batching in Classic.
- Comment on A sports arena in my city is was in debt and a supermarket chain stepped in to ease the debt. The catch? The stadium has to name itself after this supermarket chain. 3 months ago:
Personally I’d rather supermarkets charged more reasonable prices for groceries.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
ADHD is definitely a possibility. I have it and can relate to those issues. However stress, anxiety and fatigue can also cause problems like this without there being an underlying condition like ADHD. Definitely agree on seeking professional help though, if that’s possible.
- Comment on Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere? 5 months ago:
Wouldn’t want them anywhere that is prone to earthquakes - the entire Pacific rim, for example.
- Comment on TIL Press win + k to quickly connect to a bluetooth earphone in Windows 10 6 months ago:
Right up there with Ctrl-X, C and V for Xut, Copy and Vaste respectively.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 6 months ago:
That’s commerce, not capitalism.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 6 months ago:
I wouldn’t object to paying if:
- Their pricing was more reasonable
- A fairer cut went to content creators
- They had something that actually qualified as a search function on their site
- They weren’t trying to bully everyone into paying
- Comment on Scrollbars are becoming a problem 6 months ago:
I recently had to talk a designer out of implementing a “webpage progress indicator” that was a thin horizontal bar across the top of the page that filled in as you progressed through the content.
- Comment on Scrollbars are becoming a problem 6 months ago:
And just straight up broken by idiocy like infinite scroll.
- Comment on "God works in mysterious ways" basically means "this doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm gonna ignore it" 7 months ago:
Worse. It’s “attempting to understand this might cause me to question my faith, so I’m not going to even try.”
- Comment on Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in 7 months ago:
Ahh, if only I had such control over a company assigned machine.
- Comment on Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in 7 months ago:
Much better multi-monitor support
Tell that to the Snipping Tool.
- Comment on George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 7 months ago:
Most of us have reached the Acceptance stage now.
- Comment on George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 7 months ago:
Well, assuming it wasn’t all nuked over the past few months, the fan theory stuff on Reddit was probably a pretty good training dataset.
- Comment on YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star 7 months ago:
I think you might be misreading.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 8 months ago:
This is true, and suggests maybe a broader recategorisation is in order.
I’ve heard one expert suggest that while many disorders feature executive dysfunction, ADHD is executive dysfunction.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 8 months ago:
So much to unpick here, and so little inclination to bother. Like many with ADHD, I’m sick of dealing with the constant disinformation and toxic positivity that surrounds this condition - and which you’re contributing to.
If you think ADHD is about attention, then you really still don’t get it. Go and watch Dr Russell Barkley’s videos on YouTube. There’s a seminar about 2.5 hours long that is well worth the time.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 8 months ago:
That you don’t understand ADHD.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 8 months ago:
I like “Executive Function Disorder” as it actually describes the underlying issue and not just the symptoms that other people can see.
- Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome. 8 months ago:
You clearly don’t understand ADHD.
- Comment on Sisko was kind of crazy... 8 months ago:
Tuvok and Neelix were dead. A tragic accident, yes, but dead.
Tuvix was a living being who wanted - and had a right - to live. How he came to exist is irrelevant.
Janeway murdered an innocent living man to bring two dead man back to life.
- Comment on Sisko was kind of crazy... 8 months ago:
I’ve never forgiven her for murdering Tuvix.
- Comment on What's the word for realizing to have been sucked into the Fediverse and actually forgotten that you are using the Fediverse? Fedi-Immersion-Shock? 8 months ago:
Federated?
- Comment on Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm 8 months ago:
So the thing that was meant to be a learning experience turned out to be a learning experience?
- Comment on AI System Detects Social Norm Violations 9 months ago:
Everyone, starting with the neurodivergent. Or some other favoured boogieman-of-the-day such as LGBT+ people.