TrueStoryBob
@TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 weeks ago:
Still… I expect hurricanes in Florida, not in Tennessee.
- Comment on The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? 1 month ago:
I really loved the “Anchor Man” DVD menu. Solid graphics, great playthrough, simple controls.
- Comment on What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage Everyday 2 months ago:
All your need to do is drop in one card randomly with all the holes punched out to screw up those things… there was a name for doing that to be a dick but I forgot and am drunk right now so I don’t feel like looking it up.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 2 months ago:
because I do not trust big tech. Dude, same. I mean, I get that’s why many are here, but it’s just gotten so much worse lately.
Starting to build my first Linux machine to use as my daily driver laptop. Been meaning to get into it all for years, but Microsoft’s constant shenanigans as of late and everyone on Lemmy really pushed me to take the plunge.
It’ll be a “baby’s first project” of a used Thinkpad running on Mint, but it’s a start to getting out from under these corporate fucks. Every step away is a step to which I’m not planning to return.
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 2 months ago:
Automattic declined to share a time frame as to when the migration would be complete, given its scale, but a rep for the company called the progress so far “exciting.”
Yeah, they’ve been talking about this for years now.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 2 months ago:
From what I’m given to understand of my state’s laws, this would be covered under the same kind of thing as the surveillance cameras at a convenience store or shopping center parking lot and the expectations a person would have for their privacy… it just sucks.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 2 months ago:
Some are like six feet away and others are set farther back. It’s not all of the ring came 5 that go off. I know there’s a setting where the user can create a like a bounding box so that they don’t go off unless someone is actually at the door… these folks simply haven’t done that, don’t know to do that, or are watching the sidewalk intentionally. At any rate, my street doesn’t have much traffic so I usually just walk in the road.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 2 months ago:
Some of my neighbors have them and I hate walking down the street. I know it’s a public sidewalk, but hearing all the little pings and “some one is at the front door” it creeps me out. I live in a single party consent state so there’s not like anything I can do but now there’s a database with a record of when I go to/come back from work. I don’t like that. Thankfully, when signing the lease, my landlord forbid in the contact the installation on those. He also owns the houses on either side of mine… a little strip of privacy in a sea of surveillance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If the USA were to have a general strike, it’s more than likely that the UAW would be the ones calling for it. They’re a very large union of which most Americans are aware and likely have a very high approval amongst average people.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’d urge you to organize your workplace and form a union. You can contact organizers at the AFL-CIO (a kind of union of unions in the US) and find which union is right for your workplace. If you don’t work but are still able to do physical or intellectual labor, start getting as involved in your local community as possible… volunteer at food banks, after school programs, nursing homes, etc. The more people you can reach out to and help or with whom you can organize the better. A massive action like a general strike isn’t just organized over night… it takes communities with common cause and familiarity with one another.
If anyone is doing a general strike, odds are it’ll be like United Auto Workers kicking shit off. Maybe the railroad folks or the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, but more likely the UAW will lead the charge.
You’re on the right track asking “how to” and that’s great! Organizing is a rough road, but it’s vital and worth it. United we bargain, divided we beg.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 months ago:
No problem! I work in television/live streaming production. Finding and buying “dumb” monitors when we build out new sets and presentation spaces is literally part of my job.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 5 months ago:
It is still possible to buy “dumb” TV’s. Tons of businesses need them for display purposes (like at fast food restaurants and corporate expos, etc, etc), but you need to search for commercial displays. Like this one.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 5 months ago:
My elderly dad called me a few years ago to let me know that we’d have to change up all the security stuff for our family phone plan because he gotten scammed. He said he got a call from someone claiming to be a representative of the phone company who said they’d like to lower our monthly bill. I stopped him and said “well, that should have been your first clue… when in the last decade of us using them has that ever happened? When was the last time our bill went down instead of up?”
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 5 months ago:
Sure, the scams like pig butchering look dumb from the outside, but never think shit like this can’t happen to you. There’s TONs of ways scammers can trick you, but usually they’ll seek out vulnerable people. Sure the gullible are vulnerable, but just because you’re not vulnerable right now, doesn’t mean you won’t be at some point in the future. Desperation can make scholars into fools.
- Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days 5 months ago:
Larger form factors also means more room for batteries. Granted, larger screens require them, but I think my point stands. I’ve been on the Samsung Note since like the Note 4 (I think). The larger amount of screen real estate is genuinely a welcome upgrade and that’s the whole point of the foldables… it’s the next evolution of the “phablet.”
- Comment on Relationship goals 5 months ago:
Seriously. Straight dudes are missing TF out.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 5 months ago:
Had an upgrade while all that was going on. Got a free 50 inch TV for staying with Samsung for my next phone.