MystikIncarnate

@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we were *just a lil evil*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re given the opportunity to pay us money to get the same functionality you currently enjoy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we were *just a lil evil*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked at a company for a while that had one of these set up… It wasn’t great.

  I can’t describe it, but it was just bad. Compared to what Google search could actually do, this felt like the most basic kind of indexing possible by comparison.

  That search actively made my job harder.

  It was bizarre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we were *just a lil evil*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Google was always an ad driven company. Google Adsense was kind of a big deal there for a while.

  Once they started letting money affect their search results, especially with promoted / sponsored results, everything started going downhill.

  It used to be that nobody went to the second page of google search (because the first page almost always had the result you needed), but now, the first page is almost entirely ads and paid content.

  It’s not the advertising part of Google that ruined it, because that part has always been there. It’s the greedy executives that shoehorned ads into every other product and service possible, and are not cramming “AI” down everyone’s throat, trying to make us all dependent on it, so they can rugpull it and charge us for access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we were *just a lil evil*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, Chromecast was killed?

  I’m out of the loop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice try⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently they’re bothered by the constant calls for the Epstein files too.

  Meanwhile I don’t recall any person I know who was bothered by them asking about the emails.

  Interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice try⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Were people bothered by people asking about the emails?

  I certainly wasn’t.

  Also, not really a liberal thing, more of a people-who-don’t-like-child-exploitation thing…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Ever since I saw the garden in the back yard, which occupies about half of the back yard, I wanted to make a vegetable garden with raised beds, eventually enclosing it like a greenhouse in the long term.

  I’ve been too busy and my money has been to scarce trying to pay enough to live here that I haven’t made any progress on achieving that goal. It really doesn’t help that lumber prices went though the roof around the time we moved in, so I can’t even really afford to buy the wood I would need to make the raised beds. And I don’t want like 6" or whatever raised beds. I’m thinking more like 3 ft. I don’t want to have to crawl on the ground or even really bend over to plant/tend/harvest whatever I plant. So it’s not going to be a small amount of wood that I’ll need.

  Then I need to figure out how to find the time to attend to it, when I should plant/fertilize/harvest, how often I should tend to the plants etc… There’s a lot I don’t know about what it takes to maintain a veggie garden. I’ll get there eventually, or I’ll die trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not a conservative upbringing/mentality… That’s a capitalist mentality.

  The only thing I can really say about capitalists is that they’re some of the worst people I’ve ever known, and I’ve known a few of them.

  Very religious people (usually conservatives) are generally quite kind and generous. If they follow their religious book, that tracks. Since most religions teach about tolerance, acceptance, and understanding. Like the legend Fred Rogers; May he rest in peace.

  Usually very liberal people are about basic social services for everyone, and programmes that support DEI. They want everyone to be on an equal playing field and they want that playing field to be, at a minimum, allowing all people to independently be able to live, have reasonably good health, food to eat, and somewhere to live.

  Meanwhile capitalists always focus on the money. Who is paying for all of this? They don’t want their money (via taxes) to go to people that are less than them. Anyone who makes less or has less is “losing”, and they’re “winning”. All capitalists want to be on top, and they don’t care who they have to trample to achieve that.

  There are exceptions of course, on every one of these groups. For example, Bill Gates who donates a lot of money for good causes. He still has plenty of money, but honestly, he gives away a lot. By no means do I mean to imply that any billionaire is good; in this case Bill is just using the wealth he has to do good. He’s clearly someone that made a lot of money doing capitalism things, and yet he believes in helping others.

  The capitalists I have met are some of the most argumentative, vocal, and toxic people I’ve ever met.

  Good on you for getting away from that mentality and finding enjoyment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you kind stranger. I will look into it.

  The only heartbreaking part is that before we moved in there were perennial flowers planted along the edge of the garden, I guess it was a flower garden for the previous owners, and I’m not sure I can save them before I go scorched earth on the rest of the area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My current grass is patchy, I’m certain there’s little or no nitrogen. I’ve been meaning to pick up a small bag of clover seeds and at least augment my lawn with them to make it a bit more green at least.

  I’m fortunate that I was able to get a battery electric mower for my home shortly after moving in. So there’s no inconvenient gas fetching and mixing, just a pair of bigass fuck off batteries that live on the charger between mows.

  The real problem is that we have a garden in the back that I want to set up as a vegetable garden and I just haven’t had time to do the work and it’s currently over run with weeds. I’ll get to it eventually. I’m planning on killing everything currently in the garden with some kind of weed killer, not sure what yet exactly, but I’ve seen some places recommend a soap/brine mix that seems effective. Then cover it with that black landscaping/gardening fabric so shit doesn’t grow for a while, if that’s successful, build raised beds and fill them with fresh, untainted soil and grow veggies there… It’s going to be a project and I have no idea how I’m going to find time or money to do it, but the way things are going, I can’t afford not to do it.

  Anyways. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. I guess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frick. I moved into a house from being in apartments for many years and I have to say, lawn and Garden work, suuuuucccckkksss.

  I hate it. I have too much to do to deal with your… Growth.

  Can I replace my lawn with an emo lawn so it cuts itself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time I checked, people didn’t found their core belief system around whether prisoners of war existed or not.

  Even so, there’s tangible proof of him being there, by his physical body being there, when it happened. This can be proven by science. Obviously that’s not able to be proven after he was released from the camp, and yes, we have to take the scribbles on a page to know it happened.

  I will give you that.

  For anything that is a universal truth, like gravity, chemistry, the properties of light, electricity, and all the principles behind electronics engineering, etc… All of that is provable. Lived experiences, history, sure. We have to accept that what we’re reading is true or not. But that’s a choice.

  Science, which defines pretty much everything that’s happening, why is happening, and how it can happen, is immutable.

  The idea of “God” has no basis more reliable than someone’s report of it happening. For something so universal/omnipotent, the fact that the only “evidence” that it happened is in a book, yet this God has a plan for you right now, but you can’t know it because God won’t tell you, nor do anything outside of what physics/Science says can/will happen, isn’t evidence of the existence of such a deity, regardless of what someone calls “God”.

  All other things that exist, the forces that act on those things, and all of the possible outcomes of that thing existing can be proven by science. God cannot be proven, by science or otherwise.

  Even history, to some extent, can be proven, because the evidence still exists. You can visit auschwitz, and see where history happened from WW2. You can see the damage from bombs and gunfire in structures that were standing when conflicts happened. There’s still evidence for a lot of that. And again, the same cannot be said for any book about any deity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a lot of things.

  🤔

  Science doesn’t work that way. There’s provable and repeatable experiments and proofs that you can independently verify.

  Last time I checked most things that aren’t metaphysical (like philosophy), have some relationship with science, and therefore, only requires that you go through the motions to prove it yourself by creating your own reproduction of an test/experiment/proof…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Willful ignorance.

  They put in effort to understand as little as they can.

  Maybe that’s a personality quirk, maybe their brain don’t work right, who the hell knows. But they try to know only as much as they have to in order to do the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would, but I don’t give any shits about them.

  I would suggest it to my sales team to pursue it, but I couldn’t be arsed to bother.

  They want to be dumb, cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You won’t find me coming to the defense of either large structured religions nor to the defense of the sun god, or his celestial counterparts.

  It’s all Hocus pokus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He has a point. It’s ironic that the only piece of “evidence” most religions have is a book written by humans.

  Any belief in the sun/moon/stars/whatever… At least you can point and say, there it is.

  But Christianity is normal and not crazy at all, and believing in Ra is the crazy thing… Sure. Yeah.

  I think it’s all nuts. But whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Closest we come to something like that is either scan to email (directly from the printer) or scan to (network) folder. I’ve used both in the past, but both require a network connection.

  If they had a network connection to the printer then the user would have direct access to it, and they wouldn’t need a computer to act as a print server.

  Hilariously, in that case, the printer has Ethernet, so it’s entirely possible to do what they want. They just need to find a way to plug the printer into Ethernet. I explained this to them, they basically said that there was no way they could do that. Sure. Ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After careful consideration, I think their intent was to say…

  You can come back anytime and if you do, you can always cancel at anytime.

  … More or Less. Basically saying you can join and cancel at your leisure.

  That’s a terrible way to say it, but ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course not. This article was written using vibes.

  It’s vibe reporting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “come back and cancel anytime”

  What the fuck is that wording?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh fuck yes I would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, just thoughts and prayers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say immune, I just have a low tolerance for unfounded claims, and little interest in most of the impulse purchase junk that most ads are trying to sell.

  Give me an ad for good tech at good prices (and actually list the fkin price), and I’m interested.

  Like OP said, if there’s no price, just a “call to get a quote” or some other similar nonsense in place of a price, then I’m either not buying that product, or I’m buying it somewhere else that they list the damn cost.

  “Call to inquire” can be adequately translated to: we want to sell this shit to your entire company, call us so we can convince you to do just that" meanwhile you want to buy one so you can check it out to see if it’s even useful because marketing claims are almost always bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to explain to someone today that, though you can print through someone’s PC to their USB printer, you cannot run the scanner software and connect the same way. So scanning no worky from another computer.

  We have print servers, but we don’t have scan servers. Why is that?

  Anyway, I don’t think they believed me.

  The fun part is that the printer has Ethernet, and if they plugged that in, both systems would be able to print and scan… What a crazy idea!

  But the bossman didn’t think it was going to be possible to plug in the printer to the network without wifi… Idk, I’m not there, I don’t know what color the walls in your office are, nevermind being able to coach you on how to plug in a device I’ve never seen to a network I equally haven’t seen.

  Maybe people should ask their IT people if it’s a good idea to buy a printer when they have these kinds of operational requirements…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh heck. I can’t recall the number of times someone, even myself, has driven significant distances just to plug things in because users are to much of window lickers to understand what a USB cable looks like half the time.

  One of the funniest that I still regularly encounter is people who power cycle their monitor to reboot their computer. Not realizing that the monitor isn’t the computer itself…

  I mean, the list goes on and on and on for this kind of stupid shit. The kicker is that if you even fucking try to make them slightly less goddamned stupid about this shit, they don’t want to hear it.

  You’ll be taking at them and you might as well be taking to the fucking wall for all the good it will do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Most of the time, policies are in place because someone tried what you’re trying and it let them do that thing… And because Windows let that thing happen, something bad happened for everyone.

  So now nobody can do that thing.

  The prosumer tech bro that’s never touched enterprise equipment or dealt with operational requirements are the worst.

  I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that something works fine at their home but doesn’t work while they’re at work. Sometimes that’s intentional, sometimes that’s because the network in the office is about 80,000x more complex than the Linksys you plugged in at home, set a password on once that you immediately forgot, and has been doing little more than source Nat and L2 bridging every since, with no regard to what the traffic is, just sending it out regardless, and creating a goddamned mess in the process, but because it’s only you and your spouse and maybe a kid or two, that doesn’t really matter.

  Suddenly when you’re dealing with hundreds of endpoints on a LAN, you don’t want every broadcast packet being sent out over the dozens of access points you have dotted around, so no, your multicast discovery won’t work Brenda. So you can’t use Chromecast in the office, okay? I don’t care how important you think it is, it would take hours to get this to work properly and I have more pressing concerns at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I generally explain to people that the current state of technology for LLMs is that they’re larger and more complicated versions of the text prediction on your phone, you know, when it guesses what word you want to put next, but with whole sentences using the entirety of the public Internet as the base of reference for that information.

  And they basically burn through kilowatts of power per inquiry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tech Bros drive me up the wall.

  Generally they’re users with just enough information to be dangerous.

  They know some things, but don’t have a knowledge deep enough to know that there are serious downsides to (insert whatever they care about this week here).

  I’m pretty sure I’d be more neckbeard nerd than techbro.