AndrewZabar

@AndrewZabar@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to exclude topics from what I see on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Filters. I use Voyager and I have filters blocking pilotical crap. It works quite nicely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, now that the FTC finally has grown a pair of balls they’re about to be chained and ball-gagged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah whatever. Matter of opinion, quite obviously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… in a perfect world lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I ran an IT company for many years until I became disabled. But I do tons of tinkering selling and supporting still as a hobbyist etc. most of them are laptops. My lab used to have 14 full tower chassis systems Buto got rid of all of those once their functionality was not needed anymore after I closed the business. I mean - computers that I use daily is basically like three or four laptops and a few Android phones. A couple of tablets an iPhone an iPad an Android tablet. Also a few really old vintage devices just for shits n giggles.

  I mean… I got started in tech a long time ago. As in the early 1980s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, just after they make Rorschach’s mask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My twenty Linux machines just giggled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I only ever owned or even used one console the original NES. After that all my gaming was on PC. Consoles are for suckers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Infrastructure running on 22k ip addresses”. Either the authors are dumb, or they’re writing for a dumb audience.

  Correct on both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We are easily thousands of years away from genuinely understanding this stuff. Right now we have absolutely no clue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple reportedly facing first-ever EU fine over App Store rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Over the past few years the EU has become my hero. They’re cracking down on companies for unethical behaviors in a time when the USA is rewarding those companies for unethical behaviors. The EU tells companies they must do XYZ. In USA companies tell the US government what to do. Because they own them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the beginning of the end. If you added up the IQs of everyone in the pentagon, you could still stay under 3 digits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever get a profound sense that everything in your life has happened before?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet no two snowflakes are identical. What a Thinky™ !

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do our noses & anuses think different types of paper are softest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  new “with lotion” facial tissues

  Yeah, uh, they were new in the 1980s just FYI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s social media posts have had a ‘sudden boost’ since July, new research reveals.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right?? lol wow what a coinkidink!
  Jeez, literally anything for a headline.

  I truly think he has gone completely insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is called lying. Politicians do this - usually when their mouths are open - to get elected and stay in power so they can make lots of money and influence, all while standing on your neck. And not having to ever so much as chip a fingernail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It should be noted that Adobe can fuck right off, and computerized art is not the only kind of art. It is generous to even call it art. It’s still all called graphics in my opinion.

  I think they’re worried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I go through 50GB in less than a day. Sometimes an hour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk’s other firms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah so the kind of thing that will maybe happen in EU but no damn way in the U.S.A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic ruling ‘is dangerous’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cry me a river, Google. Or, do you already own all the rivers of the world?

  I hope that it’s not a secret to anyone still that within a few decades, Google and a few other corporations will just be Earth’s government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US judge says Google must open Android phones to rival app stores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I already have several on my Android devices.

  What do they mean? Does Google have to start preloading them? lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is going to show you even more content from accounts you don’t follow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I already just go straight into my groups. The main feed is just garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah. Fucking nothing better to do? We in the USA need to deal with our highest courts taking away women’s bodily autonomy, but over there they are clearly focused on the real issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nonetheless, the best thing would be to let those kinds of fans do what they do, because it is free advertising. But no, they’d rather be right than pragmatic, so they shoot themselves in the foot. Meanwhile, if they’re so worried that these guys have that kind of serious reach and influence - aren’t those the people they shouldn’t piss on??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really think it matters that much. The more of the community you alienate and spit in their faces for loving you, the more youngsters will be given something else to play because their dad wants to see Nintendo burn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so now ten people can upload it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow! Way to tell the world to never buy your products because you’re petty sniveling greedy and absolutely hate your fans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What meds have you just tossed back with a bourbon chaser? You are the one going off the deep end, fella. I merely stated my opinion about something from a purely legal-reasoning perspective and this person got all in a huff and ranted at me - not comprehending what I had said. And now you’re doubling down on that person’s incredulity and outrage. And the sad part is that evidently neither of you have grasped my one very distinct point, and instead have inferred some huge argument in which I never partook.

  Really folks, please stay off the really heavy substances when conversing online. You’re both acting like screaming petulant children. I suspect I’m older than you both combined, no surprise there.

  Please just let this die. Nobody is making the effort to read thoroughly and ASK to understand what I had been saying, instead you continue with your incorrect assumptions and attack those assumptions. That’s called a straw man argument, and you both could fill a scarecrow field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are arguing from an emotional perspective, and also bulldozing in a handful of unrelated topics that you clearly need to rant about. I am not saying I necessarily disagree with you on the specifics, but I was commenting purely from a legal reasoning standpoint. That is a very specific and distinctive principle, or I should say, set thereof. I have heard your type of argument a thousand times, and I am not saying you are WRONG, but I am saying you are not speaking in terms of law, but that of emotional reaction.

  It’s fine, I don’t want to argue with you… My initial comment was one kind of discussion, and you’re arguing an entirely different kind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most editing software can blur faces. Problem solved.