TrueStoryBob
@TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 week 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? 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Had an upgrade while all that was going on. Got a free 50 inch TV for staying with Samsung for my next phone.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 2 months ago:
*especially if you’ve got nothing to hide.
- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 2 months ago:
“And, of course, this podcast is sponsored by the Claymore Corporation! Remember folks, Claymore Landmines: fuck the person directly in front of you!”
- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 2 months ago:
The granddaddy of science fiction and futurism channels is [Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur] (youtube.com/@isaacarthursfia?si=TltO6YC-Q-MedDM4). The channel has content for days about all kinds of shenanigans humans could be getting up to in space and beyond.
A close second is futurist and science fiction author John Michael Godier.
- Comment on Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring 2 months ago:
Worse case scenario… you get a horse.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 2 months ago:
PornHub has been doing this. A little popup comes on screen when you pause the video for the first time.
- Comment on Virginia is shrinking! 4 months ago:
They know what they did.
- Comment on what lemmy web app do you use and why? 6 months ago:
I’m having the same issue with message/reply but otherwise it’s a great app.
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 6 months ago:
It seems the way VC’s throw money at pure unadulterated hype, don’t count them out just yet. So long as you’re good at marketing, you don’t have to be good at development; you don’t have to have a good idea; you don’t have to have a product that does what you’ve promised, works or even exists… they’ll shower a literal pile of shit with money until it sparkles like a Faberge egg if you can only generate buzz.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
Okay, that makes sense. Was going to ask how proprietary/locked that charger system was as it seems to be the immerging standard.
- Comment on @pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub 7 months ago:
I was wondering when someone was going to create a Fediverse platform like this. Figured it would be the folks at either PixelFed or Peertube. Can’t wait to try it out!
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 7 months ago:
So… like Pornhub has done for years now?
- Comment on Nerding out in group is fun tho 8 months ago:
For anyone unfamiliar, “Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur” is a prolific YouTube channel. He’s out of dozens -of not hundreds- of hours about everything from building archologies to settling what’s left at the end of the universe. What that guy does is genuinely a public service and he’s gotten awards for his work.
- Comment on Nerding out in group is fun tho 8 months ago:
An Acquaintance: “Oh my goodness and they said that people could actually be living on Mars soon! Isn’t that just neat-o?”
Me: Having watched enough hours of “Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur” to qualify for a doctorate
Me: “Yep. Sure is super neat-o.”
- Comment on Follow me for more recipes 10 months ago:
We’ve got to stop size-shaming almonds.
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 10 months ago:
First place my brain went reading this thread…
“Siri, play ‘Zombie’ by the Cranberries.”
- Comment on Wafrn is a tumblr clone that connects to the fediverse 10 months ago:
This is seriously one of my favorite things about the Fediverse… someone decided to make their own experience of it and build a platform… now it’s a thing.
Kudos clever internet person!
- Comment on I dont understand why I have to bring a bottle to the restaurant 10 months ago:
Perfection.
- Comment on Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. 11 months ago:
My Nephew: “What’s a fax machine?”
Me: “A landline network of low quality printers people used to use to do invoices and file for divorce.”
My Nephew: “Landline?”