vulgarcynic
@vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA 1 day ago:
Man, I don’t know honestly. I believe i first saw / read it on IRC in the 90’s…
and now I’m turning to dust. haha
Thanks for being social!!!
- Comment on Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA 4 days ago:
"Wow, how cool is it that she’s 13 and already works for the FBI! "
- Comment on Help me navigate the world of debloated/custom Windows 11 Installs 2 months ago:
I run O&O Shut Up 10 on every install of Windows 10 and 11 I need to suffer through. There’s still a bit of manual config to remove search bar and other GUI stuff but it’s a pretty great, free tool.
You also might want to script it to run on boot as Windows loves to revert changes after updates as another commentor noted.
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 2 months ago:
Completely off topic but your username is rad. Now I’ll be humming that song all day.
- Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs 2 months ago:
Went to the one in LA on a trip recently. Was awesome to see that much great music on one spot again.
It’s wild that we probably won’t see a return to those types of stores ever again. COVID really put the final nail in the coffin.
- Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs 2 months ago:
As an avid Bawls drinker, I 100% agree with this sentiment.
- Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs 2 months ago:
Oh yeah man, GameStop was at the forefront of what the industry as a whole is doing now. Acquiring, consuming, shitting out a husk.
I’m of 2 minds with GameStop nowadays. On one hand, it’s somewhat nice to still have a physical game store. On the other, it’s fucking GameStop and all the baggage that comes with that.
I don’t see much of a future for physical shops at this point. Especially with Best Buy, Walmart and Kroger phasing out retail space.
Soon we’ll have nothing but digital and subscription and I guess we’ll like it? I’ll hold on to my dragons hoard of physical games as long as I can (thanks Game Crazy for employing new throughout high school) but it’ll be painful the day I realize I’m no longer adding new stuff to it.
- Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs 2 months ago:
Jesus Christ, content warning for that body count you crossed off at the end there.
Fuck. I miss all those shops. Can I get a R.I.P. for Babbages Game Crazy (pre-hollywood buyout) and Software Etc… while we’re at it?
No sense in not going tottaly dark here. Haha
- Comment on Obsidian's Alpha Protocol is available again thanks to GOG 3 months ago:
Renowned Fighting Scientist Matt Rorie?!
- Comment on Who made more money with it, him or Prince? 3 months ago:
Samuel L. Jackson. The L stands for motherfucker.
- Comment on Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
My last few Pixels have had a similar option when calling IVR systems. “hold for me” it’s labeled as. I stil have to navigate the initial prompts but once it’s hold time, I hit the button and it sits through the hold music, promoting me once it detects an agent.
It will Speech to Text the menus if you press the option as soon as you dial in. That’s a little less useful currently.
- Comment on Shout-out to the mods, keeping this instance clean 4 months ago:
itworkers? No, that’s just lemmings in general I’d imagine.
- Comment on Shout-out to the mods, keeping this instance clean 4 months ago:
Ha! That’ll learn me to post on a Saturday night. Cheers friend! Thanks for the lesson.
- Comment on Shout-out to the mods, keeping this instance clean 4 months ago:
Here here! Proud to be a member of the Shitters. Thanks mod team.
- Comment on US pay-TV subscriber base eroding at record pace 5 months ago:
We’ll line up in the online queue for “Ow My Balls 7” though. And like it.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 5 months ago:
Pleased that I came to this thread looking for a good answer, clicked this link and opened in my preferred browser for project tracking and saw it was already starred in GitHub. Guess I need to actually deploy an image finally and stop lurking for an answer. Lol
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 6 months ago:
Got em
- Comment on Is there a name for downplaying your suffering because other people have bigger problems? 7 months ago:
Comparative Suffering is close possibly.
withtherapy.com/…/what-is-comparative-suffering/
I think these thoughts are a bi-product of empathy. When you are attuned to the pain of others, it can be easy to invalidate your own. I once heard an exchange on public transit where 2 strangers were discussing their hardships and a sort of one upping of trauma was occuring. Eventually one of the participants said “we all feel pain in our own way” and that stuck with me as a tool for understanding my own tendancy to under value the trauma I have experienced throughout life.
Hope that helps provide some insight or a thread to tug at for understanding.
- Comment on OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board 7 months ago:
I have seen no evidence to the contrary.
- Comment on OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board 7 months ago:
Mike Judge does it again!
- Comment on Meta's harmful effects on children is one issue that unites Republicans and Democrats 8 months ago:
How about the harmful effects on adults as well?
- Comment on Got a Soulslike itch, any patient games? 8 months ago:
Mortal Shell was pretty good and can be had for less than $5 pretty frequently. It’s not as long as a lot of other Soulslikes but has some interesting mechanics.
Ashen as well gets a recommendation!