Boozilla
@Boozilla@lemmy.world
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 7 hours ago:
I’m hopeful–perhaps naively so–that he’s pissed off most of the women voters and he will lose. The justice system is taking way too long to put him in prison where he belongs.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 7 hours ago:
I get it. I have friends and family who want to emigrate if orange idiot gets elected.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 8 hours ago:
Not a brag, your languages very relevant to finding a new place to live.
I wish good folks would stay and fight. But at the same time, I don’t blame anyone for leaving.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 8 hours ago:
Sorry if this seems lazy, but Canada has a decent population of Jews. Since you are a nurse, you have a better chance of getting in. Obviously there’s a ton of paperwork involved, but might be worth looking into.
If you speak French, France might also be a good choice. Hella good worker’s rights there.
- Comment on Nearly half of cancer patients have more than $5,000 in medical debt, even though most are insured 1 day ago:
“You didn’t think we actually paid claims did you, you ridiculous little person?” --insurance exec
- Comment on Does Arkham Knight get better? 2 days ago:
It is clunky and I am also old, slow, and uncoordinated. I did manage to finish it, and I ended up liking it overall. I didn’t care for the Batmobile stuff, and I was never good at it. But once I got “good enough” at the Batmobile sections and could solve the puzzles, etc, I have to admit I found it satisfying in the same way you feel after getting your taxes or colonoscopy over with.
If you decide to walk away from it, you aren’t missing anything super fantastic. I love the series, but there’s no requirement to complete all of the games. Life is short, there are lots of other things to do. No need to beat your head against the wall on it.
You might like the Spider-Man games better. The combo moves, power ups, suit choices, etc, are more customizable there and I think it ‘flows’ better. Zipping around a realistic map of NYC is really damned cool, too. (Though I did find myself missing the moody atmosphere and je ne sais quoi of Gotham and Bats). There is are the occasional nasty / annoying boss fights in Spider-Man (one of them early on) but once you face roll past them, the rest of the game is hella fun.
- Comment on NASA remotely reprogramming Voyager 1 also means that aliens can reprogram all of our satellites. 4 days ago:
They should make a Star Trek movie about this!
Oh, wait…
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 5 days ago:
I don’t know much about weapons, but to me, the bat’leth always looked like it was intentionally designed to harm the person wielding it. Like they put it on the wall as a booby trap.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I use it every day and try to contribute actively. I agree it feels stagnant. I see the same users over and over (and there are some I’ve grown rather fond of, so it’s not all bad).
I think Lemmy probably has more users than it seems, because the ratio of lurkers to posters/commentors is very high. This is also true on spezsite. But of course they have a gigantic user base, so it’s not nearly as noticeable as it is here.
Spezsite gets worse all the time, but they are sneaky and introduce the suck slowly, one shitty “feature” at the time. They know most of their users are lazy and hooked, and won’t bail on them unless they add too much suck too fast.
But I’m hopeful there’s a gradual migration that will slowly bring in more participants. I also think the more each of us can do to contribute, the better chance of converting long-time Lemmy lurkers into participating.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 days ago:
UDID is kind-of what you’re talking about, but not an exact analogue.
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 6 days ago:
Love Technology Connections. I learned way too much about pinball machines thanks to thay guy.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 6 days ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 1 week ago:
I think some of the folks in this thread might enjoy the Techmoan channel on YouTube. It’s not about pocket TVs in particular, but he does review and restore old AV tech. It’s a fun channel if you’re into retro tech.
- Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved? 1 week ago:
Nightmare fuel.
- Comment on Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software 1 week ago:
One of my coworkers and I often discuss quitting our stressful-stupid IT jobs and going to work at Home Depot or Costco or even Arby’s.
Today I took my car in for routine service. A place I use all the time. Major chain.
The poor guy checking me in had to click past about 50 stupid pointless prompts on his workstation. He had serious muscle memory going on. The man was impressive, the software was not.
I can just imagine the asshole midlevel manager who made some beleaguered coder write all that pointless popup shit, to make sure “they don’t forget to upsell the customer” and god knows what other inane nonsense .
It’s embarassing how bad software is in 2024. Especially point of sale systems and medical records.
- Comment on Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 1 week ago:
People can’t afford that shit when groceries and fuel prices are inflated this high. And new phones have tiny incremental changes that nobody gives AF about.
- Comment on Is there a "canvas" of the universe? Do we even know? Would a canvas follow the same laws as the paint? 1 week ago:
Dark energy…maybe. Unfortunately scientists don’t really know what it is or if it even exists. It’s somewhat controversial, but theoretical/mathematical indirect evidence points to the possibility. Sabine Hossenfelder on YouTube can explain this stuff far more intelligently and in more detail than I can.
One thing I try to keep in mind is: the observable universe is unfathomably vast… but that’s just the stuff we can detect with instruments. The “canvas” could easily exist beyond our limited abilities to measure or comprehend.
While I think I know what you mean when you say “canvas”, a physicist would probably want a more specific question. It could get into string theory and all kinds of weird stuff that’s way beyond my knowledge.
- Comment on Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher 1 week ago:
He gave them permission to use the social fabric as TP and that’s what they’re doing.
- Comment on What are these "bass" and "treble" that I see in an equalizer ? 1 week ago:
In addition to giving you some control over music listening preference, these are really helpful for listening to podcasts, too. There are a few of them that are either bad at audio mixing, or they think maxing out the bass makes them sound sexy and authoritative. It really just makes them sound boomy and muddy. By cutting the bass and/or increasing the treble I can understand what they’re saying over road noise.
- Comment on Is triple triple the same as triple triple triple? 1 week ago:
“Triple triples” would convey three triples, and “triple triple” would convey two triples, IMHO.
But I’m not a linguist or grammar expert. I’m just posting my opinion, fairly confident some Lemmy pedant will come barging in like the Spanish Inquisition.
- Comment on Why are male social workers so different? 1 week ago:
Studies have shown women in health care are better listeners than men. This may be true of social workers as well. But 2 jerks doesn’t really establish correlation.
- Comment on If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself. 1 week ago:
This is the root of it.
Piled on top of that are layers upon layers of middlemen rent-seekers. The amount of parasitic corporate bullshit that goes on behind the scenes whenever you go to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription would blow most people’s minds.
The good news is, awareness is growing, and there are a few good actors in government trying to do something about it. It’s very much an uphill battle, though.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 1 week ago:
I hope Matthew Broderick buys it.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
You can change PINs and passwords, but you cannot change your biometric data.
It’s about as smart as using your SSN as your username.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
I like how being cautious with my biometric data is beung framed as irrational fear and paranoia. As if ID theft never happens.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
Assuming the phone’s security works as intended, what you’re saying is true. However, it’s a legit concern that the security is not airtight, and physical access is not actually required to harvest your biometric data.
I know the phone manufacturers make all sorts of claims about how secure biometric data is, but they have a profit motive to do so. I’m not being brick-up-my-windows paranoid by pointing out all the security failures and breaches we’ve seen over the years. Companies that have billions on the line are still frequently falling short at securing their own assets, much less their customer’s data.
I understand biometrics are convenient, and many folks love the ease / coolness factor of using them. Just don’t kid yourself that it’s secure by requiring your physical phone. Once the dark web has a digital copy of your biometric data, it’s compromised forever.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 1 week ago:
It’s not a great analogy. Your house and its windows are exposed to your neighborhood/community. Your internet device is adjacent to every hacker on the web.