vulgarcynic
@vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll. 1 day ago:
Freetube has been failing consistently on all my desktops lately. None of the instances on the main site work. Can you verify it’s till working and maybe DM me the instance you’re using?
- Comment on is that real? 2 days ago:
Rules 34 is “if it exists, there’s porn of it”.
Rule 35 is the truly interesting one here though “if the porn doesn’t exist, you are responsible for creating it”
Don’t quite me exactly on those, I’m about 20 years out from my /b/ days.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 3 weeks ago:
As a shitter on the shitter I vote the name stays.
I’ll take that to Matrix and my grave. 🤣
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 3 weeks ago:
I like the idea of pronouncing it hook-ai-rs just for the implications on Ubers becoming u-bears.
“U-bears for hook-ai-rs” makes me chuckle. It’s just the right amount of churches up.
- Comment on Whatever happened to racing games 3 weeks ago:
There is also The Crew, Forza Motorsport, Forza Horizon as well as Gran Turismo to mention a few more that I have played. Plus a whole slew of hardcore F1 titles, Nascar titles and the Trackmania series.
There might be something in there that catches your attention. Could just be a case of these not surfacing in your algorithm to get noticed.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 3 weeks ago:
How quickly can you write up a proposal? We can have GPT get us a mockup of the ui by tomorrow and be ready for production by Friday…
Did I say all of that correctly?
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 3 weeks ago:
I can’t believe my sleep addled brain read this as “e-scorts” like it was some new gaming thing.
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 4 weeks ago:
Haha, get fucked.
- Comment on Analyst: Private Polling Shows Kamala Harris Is in Huge Trouble 1 month ago:
From Breitbart, the most reliable and unbiased of sources.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
is this sarcasm? lol he did Ready Player One. the ultimate video game movie!
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 1 month ago:
wallbase/wallhaven as well
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 1 month ago:
This is a huge hit to desktop ownership of the OS. Microsoft has officially made zero-trust a reality by doing this.
I expect there will be even more news at Ignite. Bear in mind 11 has been requiring a MS account for years and 10 is in it’s final months. Pushing users to cloud only Windows allows them (and their corporate customers) complete control of the ecosystem.
- Comment on Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong 2 months ago:
It does send a “your safety number has been updated with user” message. But not as an automated message. Only when a new signal thread is started.
Haven’t tried when only logged in to desktop and changing devices / numbers so I can’t speak to that.
- Comment on Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong 2 months ago:
Big concern with your number being recycled and a new user receiving the signal activation key on that number.
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 2 months ago:
The barrier to entry is pretty low anymore for Linux. There’s some really helpful communities here as well. I’ve ran various versions as secondary OS’es since the early 00’s and can pretty confidentially say, its never been easier.
PopOS, Mint and even Ubuntu are super easy to get up and running and Proton makes gaming a breeze like never before.
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 2 months ago:
You’ve got around 9 months left on Win10 supportability. Then it will move in to LTS channels only. It was incredibly well adopted so we have to believe any open vulnerabilities will be targeted quickly and relentlessly. Sadly, we will be in a 11 only world by this time next year.
- Comment on I just learned about The Work Number, what are other methods of employee, medical, or financial data collection can I opt out of? 3 months ago:
Yeah, this is incredibly fucked. I truly wonder if we could have taken control of our privacy and data collection at any point along the way and had a more informed consumer.
It still brings me back to the early days of the internet when you never told anyone your name and certainly didn’t give companies anything more than they needed to send you products.
Unfortunately, I think they have gotten addicted to the blood and we will never be able to stop it at this point.
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns 3 months ago:
I am still so incredibly salty that my quest 1 is a paperweight because of this requirement.
It did not exist when I purchased the product. Full Stop.
When they introduced to that requirement with the quest 2 you were able to use the quest one without it with no issue. Sometime last year we tried to hook our quest one up to Steam Link and were met with a Meta Account requirement. There was no way within the UI to get around it.
In a moment of frustration, wanting to play some Beat Saber with the family, I went ahead and started the process of making a meta account only to be stopped several times along the way by various privacy layers on our network. It was insane. My PiHole about caught fire.
30 minutes in I gave up and dug out the Vive Cosmos and all 20 wires it needed. So disappointed meta is the only wireless headse with decent battery life. They ruined VR adoption for me.
- Comment on The new detachable JSAUX Dock will fit a Steam Deck, ROG Ally X, Legion Go and more 3 months ago:
100% with you. They have one of those unfortunate names that looks like a million other Ali rebrands on Amazon.
Aside from that, we own quite a few of their Steam Deck accessories and all seem to be working great.
- Comment on Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA 4 months 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 months 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 6 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 6 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 8 months ago:
Renowned Fighting Scientist Matt Rorie?!
- Comment on Who made more money with it, him or Prince? 8 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 8 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.