Dozzi92
@Dozzi92@lemmy.world
- Comment on Best no install ceiling light? 1 day ago:
I appreciate the pun. Worked at a lighting store for three months, learned very little.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 3 days ago:
I’ve thought of this so many times. I’m fact, I’ve thought about a spring-loaded seat hinge that raises the seat unless there’s a person upon it. If the seat is always up, it is much less likely to be urinated upon. It takes the work completely out of the hands of the user.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 5 days ago:
I have little to no background in IT or CS, but I always wanted to set up networks with those Ubiquiti antennas that can broadcast out a few kilometers. I got a buddy who just happens to be a few kilometers away. We could set up our own private, albeit incredibly limited, internet. Outside of that, if you’re using a utility or a service, you can’t expect your info to be locked up right. And so you need to keep certain shit offline, or use a HAM radio, or some other kind of private network for broadcasting, which is not feasible. But it would be neat.
Could always have a really long string with cans on either end. Can’t tap that phone.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 5 days ago:
I use Google suite. Use it for work stuff, general bullshit. Works great. None of the data going over it is of particular import (to me).
There are things that I believe require a better handling, and they’re handled differently, all the way up to physical media.
It just might be naive, in this day and age, to think a company won’t cooperate with authorities. Yes, there are exceptions, but they either fear repercussions or they were never built well enough to keep authorities out in the first place.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 5 days ago:
Unfortunately I don’t have a receipt in my email for it because I bought it at MicroCenter, got a really good deal on it. So I can’t remember what gen. I think I just need to enable the TPM thingy in the bios, but that it was specifically the processor that was the issue. All this is beyond me, I’m in following instructions mode and not inherent knowledge mode.
A buddy of mine has the same, we bought them together, so I know it’ll work, I just need to do the work.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 5 days ago:
Yeah, that’s why I played inverted for the longest time. Took a break from gaming for a bit and have since switched to standard.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 6 days ago:
I’m a little out of date in my tech knowledge, but I built my current PC, built them all, always had enough knowledge to just get my shit going. It’s a 9900k so I got a do the bios thingy to make it work with 11, but I just haven’t gotten around to doing it. I know it’s not a big deal, but here I am. I even did something in the bios not too long ago trying to use Docker to host a Minecraft server for my kids.
And so yeah, if I didn’t have to TPM, it’d be over and done, but I’m just dragging my feet, and will presumably continue to do so. Hey, maybe they announce a moving of the deadline, I feel like that’s been a thing in the past.
And let me just get out ahead of this: I have a proprietary software that only works with Windows. I’m in a niche field. I’m also not so aggressive about the whole OS thing, it works fine for me. I turn on computer (who am I kidding, it’s on 24/7 for literally every) and it starts up quickly, does what I need it to do, etc. I have laptops with 11 and they do the same. I turn off the stupid copilot features, do some light tweaking here and there, as I’ve been doing since XP, and it works.
I am admittedly interested in the Linux, but my interest in using my computer is not what it was back in my teens and early 20s, and so I just don’t care.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 week ago:
I have great gear, I have FLACs, I have 180g records, and I have Spotify, and they all sound fine. Perhaps I come from a time when 192 mp3s were what you downloaded, but IMO if it’s a 320 mp3 or above it sounds the same. Only time I ever noticed and appreciated a difference was when sampling or mixing, and then higher quality can be appreciated, but if I’m just cranking tunes, Spotify, FLAC, or vinyl, really makes no difference, they all drown out the ringing in my ears just fine.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 week ago:
Yeah, OP’s out here trawling Reddit for stupid bullshit they can post here.
To suggest Reddit is losing it from some niche subreddit nonsense is such typical Lemmy broad brush strokes. And it’s posted in Shitpost because hey, it’s just a Shitpost! Despite the fact it’s clearly more than that to OP.
Shitposts are supposed to be stupid, they’re supposed to mean absolutely nothing, but instead it’s a circlejerk of reddit bad, America bad.
But hey, I’m not a content poster, so I guess I ought to do more contenting before I can complain about the lack thereof.
- Comment on It's efficient. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, ranitidine and famotidine were both very good to me back when I got heartburn often, and I’ll still hit them up once in a while. There’s even ones that haveimt coating, so any indigestion later at least has an air of freshness.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
I’m in a family plan, so when this change hits, going to have to find alternative methods.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
Got a earn that shit. Also gives me something to say hey, get your shit together or no games.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
When I was a kid, we’d get together with family and do our thing. Then we’d all eat a meal, and usually after the meal it was all right, everyone go do whatever you want, and the kids would usually go down the basement and play toys or video games, and adults sit around digesting, having some drinks, etc.
Fast forward to now, I’ll bring my kids tablets or whatever, and when the party is entering the food coma stage, I say do whatever you want, you’ve spent the last couple hours talking to people, or just existing around people who are 30-60 years older than you.
I feel like it always comes to this, but everything in moderation. I played a lot of Nintendo as a kid, and I grew up well adjusted (enough), and I don’t doubt my kids can do the same. For me, the whole tablet thing just stretches out the amount of time I get to hang. Kids get antsy. Shit, I get antsy and I’m an adult, but if letting them do whatever for 30-60m at the end of a party let’s me unwind with my family and friends, it’s fine.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 3 weeks ago:
The preexisting condition is having a brain.
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 3 weeks ago:
See, I would call all those macaroni, that’s the coverall for tube-shaped fork-sized pasta. Spaghetti are the long rounds. Linguine flats. And then all the big guys get their own names, manicotti, ravioli, and just stuffed shells, they probably got a band that ends in a vowel but it didn’t make its way down to me from Grandma.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s funny. Sometimes my son, 4, he’ll talk to me, but his speech and communication are still in the very basics, and I’ll say, Buddy, I’m sorry, I don’t know what you’re saying, and he’ll get frustrated, which leads to anger, all because I don’t understand what he’s saying.
Turn the tables, I’m like, Dude, go to the bathroom, we’re getting in the car, you go to the bathroom before we drive, and he’ll say NO! And now I’m the one who’s frustrated and angry because he’s now the one who’s not understanding what I’m saying.
As always, communication is key, and breakdowns always cause problems. And so we’re all just along for the ride.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
I love hearing other parents have asshole kids, because it reminds me that I’m not alone.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 3 weeks ago:
And also sitting down is hard now. But yeah, you have to imagine all the stabilization your muscles used to do are now taken care of by this robot tail. So atrophy away!
- Comment on What’s the plan? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, my wife can drag out goodbyes, but when I’m on my own, or when I can just walk home, I just get up, say “All right, I’m leaving, see you guys later,” and then I just leave. Been doing it for 20 years at this point. I’m not an introvert either, I enjoy parties, but I know when enough is enough, and I just leave. I will see these people again, some of them soon, no need for long good-byes.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
Nerdy.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
What if I want to actually talk to other people, though?
- Comment on The forgotten war on the Walkman 3 weeks ago:
When I run and come on people who clearly have no idea I’m there, I yell “HEY,” when I’m like 15 feet back or so. That’s all I feel obligated to do. If you wander around the world completely unaware that it ain’t a private server, you deserve a little scare.
- Comment on that's a sunday night 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate you not putting a stopper in that wine. Too many people are unfamiliar with the serving size of cab being one bottle.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 4 weeks ago:
I don’t even know how to pronounce it. Forge Joe? For Gay Ho?
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 4 weeks ago:
If you give your kid access to your credit card you’re a fool. Those are parents who perhaps needed to learn some extra lessons in life.
The second the kid goes to school, they’re faced with every single fad anyway. It’s insanity. Everyone wants a croc, a Stanley, a labubu. My kids see the ads built in to the YouTubes, and they see it from friends, and I do my best to explain to them what’s happening.
And if they earn some money, or get birthday money, and they want to burn it on some nonsense, I explain to them what’s happening but ultimately give them some autonomy. And when the next thing comes along and they can’t spend money because they have none, they either learn or they don’t.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 4 weeks ago:
Ehhh, there’s a lot of crap on Roblox, but some of it isn’t bad. There’s just the obvious UI bullshit and constant spam to buy shit, but I take that opportunity to shit on people who do that so that my kids understand that’s a dirty practice.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 4 weeks ago:
The 1080 was a factory freak. I used mine forever, I want to say from a 2015 build as well.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 4 weeks ago:
That’s why I slam that shit home all the time. Robux are a scam. YouTubers are just selling to you. If it has ads it’s not worth watching. Just repeat that every day to the kids and they’re good to go.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 4 weeks ago:
Well, what about this: Early exposure to the shithead practices of modern gaming can enable children to more easily identify what’s good and what’s just trying to take money from them.
I dunno.
- Comment on Parallel Empires 4 weeks ago:
The Decline is definitely my favorite tune from NOFX.