douglasg14b
@douglasg14b@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 1 week ago:
I think you missed the point.
“No wipe poops” doesn’t mean you never wipe again. It means poop that leaves behind insignificant residue.
I periodicity have these, and it’s a joy. There’s definitely a dietary aspect to it, and moving that direction seems to be the point here.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 weeks ago:
Dude just stated how much of his free time he is willing to provide to others for free and put a line on what he is willing to commit.
And somehow this thread thinks that’s harsh or unprofessional?
Is literally any person complaining about this guy setting reasonable boundaries paying him money to do this work?
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 weeks ago:
Seriously, this thread is honestly vile and these people are a perfect example as to why this is happening.
How they are this blind to their own toxicity is beyond me
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 2 weeks ago:
That’s a great idea. The area I live in is pretty mountainous so putting nodes on ridges provide pretty good coverage
- Comment on Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears 2 weeks ago:
I mean… Why not?
I want Gmail without Google. Protonmail sells that to me, seems like a win/win.
Same for other services.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
FR. It’s just projection.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 2 weeks ago:
Of course they would. It’s only allowed as long as the genders aren’t flipped.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 2 weeks ago:
Everything is incremental progress in some way.
I remember years back someone doing experiments with Wi-Fi to see if a room was occupied based on signal attenuation.
This just looks like an extension of that.
Not everything is a giant leap
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 2 weeks ago:
Given your in-depth knowledge of Wi-Fi to consider it blocked by cardboard, I somehow doubt the rest of this comment is credible…
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
You’re kind of putting words in my mouth here.
I didn’t say that I’m afraid of him dying every time they leave the house, you said that.
I’m afraid of them dying when they’re traveling 20 hours. Or over a mountain pass. Or various other reasons. They travel a lot and I get worried that’s just how it is.
When calculating travel costs, I also dug up some statistics and figured what the chance of crashing, injury and death were based on how much driving we do on an annual basis based on national averages.
I actually thought knowing that would make me less stressed about all the travel but it didn’t help because the numbers are kind of depressing.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
For real and there’s so many people in this thread who have only had toxic relationships or are in toxic relationships, projecting insecurities and lack of trust onto others who may not have these problems.
I don’t think this is a good idea for most people, but for some it makes sense and we need to remember that everyone is in different situations.
When you have a spouse that travels a lot, anxiety can get pretty high.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
A lot of those people are projecting their insecurities onto others relationships.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
if I take a coworker home, go out to lunch, etc w/o telling my SO, and they see that deviation in my routine, they could start doubting that trust
This means there are still insecurities in the relationship that can bubble up.
You do not trust your spouse to trust you and not misinterpret your intentions.
Paradoxally You can defeat some of this insecurity by being transparent and welcoming misinterpretation if you believe you both have full trust in each other.
As a high anxiety person myself, this works to defeat the anxiety which is often feared of the unknown. By proving that deviations to your routine are not something they should feel anxious about, then that anxiety can melt away.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
It’s only vile when you project insecurities or bad intent…
We both know each other’s passwords for everything. We use a shared database for it. We both know each other’s phone, unlock codes and often through laziness will just use each other’s phones for shit. We shared the same bank accounts, we don’t have separate money. We shared the same vehicles…etc
We also both have each other’s location. What do we use this for? Essentially nothing except when one of us is traveling, or someone is feeling neurotic/worried. The peace of mind knowing that your significant other didn’t just die in a car crash part way to their destination and are still making progress is significant.
We don’t hide things from each other. We are completely transparent, and you know what this has helped build? Trust. Know what it has torn down? Insecurities.
Would recommend.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
This is how it works with us too.
I’m kind of neurotic and get worried that something may have happened to her while she’s traveling, which she does a lot. If she’s supposed to arrive somewhere and hasn’t I start pacing and biting my nails thinking of all the bad things that could have happened.
We shared each other’s location and the peace of mind has helped a lot.
We don’t keep secrets from each other. Some folks in this thread see location sharing as a threat, I assume because they are uncomfortable or have existing trust issues with their relationship that are yet to be resolved?
- Comment on Americans could see their credit scores fall through floor soon 3 weeks ago:
Unsure if you read my comment?
And… Medical debt… Is somehow not worse than student debt?
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to the age of bots.
Enjoy your perpetual unavoidable and even undetectable bias and opinion influencing astroturfing.
Paid for by whoever doesn’t want the things that you want, to influence the people around you to bite at each other’s throats and work against their own interests.
- Comment on Americans could see their credit scores fall through floor soon 3 weeks ago:
Nah medical that definitely is worse than student debt.
- It’s involuntary, your life and well-being hinges on your health
- It’s not a metric that determines credit worthiness. You didn’t explicitly go out and get a loan to borrow money for some endeavor like school
- It’s often cripplingly massive
- It often builds up over time and becomes unmanageable as individual debts often have to be paid individually and minimum payments overlap to create unsustainable monthly burdens (ie. $100/m over 18 providers = $1800/m)
- Comment on Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network 3 weeks ago:
Probably the most blind ignorant take here.
Their user base is still growing, and given it was at 100 million in 2024. Yeah, people still use notion.
Idk how one can be this obtuse.
- Comment on Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again 3 weeks ago:
Arrr, my friend
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 3 weeks ago:
It’s a bit of a catch honestly.
OSS/community Linux graphical environments have kind of always been ~5 years out from what’s needed. 15 years ago they were behind ~5 years, 5 years ago they where behind ~5 years.
The only difference is today. I think they’re only behind by ~3-4 years thanks to the backwards movement of things like Windows.
Mobile operating systems are in a worse place.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
Cherry-picked examples are cherry-picked examples.
The trend still sticks
- Comment on YSK about StopICE.net to send and receive alerts about ICE raids in your area 4 weeks ago:
And these claims are largely BS…
Especially given that they can implement notifications, and bypass this system they are concerned about
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 4 weeks ago:
Yes/no.
The data processing capabilities they have will far FAR outweigh anything you can effectively achieve with AI spam at your scale.
Even if you got thousands to participate, it wouldn’t really be all that much.
Remember, these are agencies already doing data processing on social media, meaning they’re already setup to analyze billions of messages a day.
Texting is so low volume it’s almost comical, and people that are trying to poison the well stand out and become easy to filter.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 5 weeks ago:
They learned how to swim by being thrown in.
Which would by definition be a form of practice.
Which means they learned how to swim by practice.
Which means they did not learn how to swim simply through theory. They first had to practice and then apply the theory they learned, which is still learning by practice.
The spirit of ops question would be reading and learning about it and then being able to jump in the pool and swim without practicing, immediately. Because if you cannot and you first have to practice then by the very statement of this sentence you learned via practice.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but if you’re doing it in a swimming pool to practice, then you didn’t learn how to swim. By reading about them, you learn how to swim by practice, which is how everyone learns how to swim
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 5 weeks ago:
That practice isn’t just reading or watching to learn. That practice is the motor skill development necessary to apply what you have learned.
Which means the answer would still be no because you are cheating by practicing. You did not just learn about it by watching videos and reading, You learned about it through development of motor skills through practice.
You have not “learned to swim” by only reading & watching at that point. You have learned to swim the way everyone else does, but being in water and practicing.
Which is opposite to the presented problem.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 5 weeks ago:
Just like many physical things, not really.
A huge part of your brain is dedicated to motor skills and hand eye coordination. You aren’t going to improve or learn these things until you actually do them. It’s neurological, you can’t move a muscle you don’t have neurological connections for, it’s a learned skill. And you cannot learn it without actually doing it and making those connections.
Imagine never letting a baby crawl, and you just teach them about crawling, walking, running…etc once they’re old enough to understand. But they have never moved yet in their life.
They would essentially be disabled, none of the neural pathways necessary for the movement they need to do have been developed. These would need to develop from scratch, by struggling and failing.
- Comment on CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests 5 weeks ago:
Are you a software engineer who has made use of these and similar tools?
If not, this is epic level armchairing.
The tools are definitely hyped, but they are also incredibly functional. They have many problems, but they also work and achieve their intended purpose.
- Comment on CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests 5 weeks ago:
More like they just got their Anthropic bill.
Cloud compute is gonna be cheap compared to the API costs for LLMs they use/offer.