hardcoreufo
@hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Uhhh... It's a work phone 10 hours ago:
After 15 years of android I cannot get used to my work iphone. Everything about it is wrong.
- Comment on Uhhh... It's a work phone 10 hours ago:
I got three different playa phones. One for each part-time shorty.
But I really have a work phone that they pay for because I am absolutely not putting any work shit on my phone. No teams, no outlook, no workday, no authenticators, no emergency alerts. I think a guy who got fired was using it as a playa phone or porn phone. My boss said his data use was always maxed out and everyone else used roughly 1-2 GB.
I only take it home on weekends on the rare case i want to check an email or request time off through workday. It does come in handy while camping/road tripping. I charge it up and turn it off then toss it in the glovebox as an emergency phone.
We used to have pagers as recently as 2022 which seems way more sketchy for the time but i miss them. Always worked, only got important notifications, smaller.
- Comment on True romance, despite everything. 1 week ago:
It also feels more about submission to me than a joke about homosexuality. When regular people hook up or are in a relationship it doesn’t seem like submissive act but between two powerful men it does.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 1 week ago:
Just went from Bazzite to Steam OS on my TV PC. It’s a little less flexible but I don’t use desktop mode for much on the TV or want to install anything outside a few emulators and external game launchers. I’ve had too many updating issues with Bazzite over the years. The recent deal breaker was sunshine broke preventing it from updating.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 2 weeks ago:
What are you talking about. It has nothing to do with the speaker being too close to your ear, its because they were an awful design. Regular earbuds get the driver just as close and are still made, but arent very popular. The style has trended more towards in ear monitors because they seal your ear canal and get better bass. Due to the sealing IEMs are probably worse for your ears if you crank the volume but you probably don’t need to crank them as loud since they provide some passive noise cancellation.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 2 weeks ago:
Headphones are absolutely fine. I tend to crank music and have 0 loss in hearing over the last 10 years (we get annual hearing tests at work for OSHA). I do have a significant hearing loss in one ear but that is genetics and hasn’t gotten worse in 3 decades of using headphones.
Just don’t turn it up so loud it hurts, and once you find an initial good volume don’t turn it up later. You acclimate to the sound level so it seems quieter.
- Comment on I'm coming for you 3 weeks ago:
Second Harvest.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 4 weeks ago:
Thats a good idea.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 4 weeks ago:
The town home next to ours was abandoned and had the smoke alarm beep every 60s or so. We tried calling the city and they were no help so we broke in and handled it ourselves.
It was a weird system where the smoke detectors were hooked into the security system which was hooked into one of those soda can sized 9v (12v?) batteries in the basement. I guess that battery was dying. Disconnected that and the beeping finally stopped.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 5 weeks ago:
All my schools had them. Sometimes you’d catch them doing a resync and all the hands would spin around. I think they probably couldn’t rotate CCW so had to go around the long way if they needed to roll back a few minutes.
- Comment on Progress 5 weeks ago:
I’ve worn a pebble smartwatch for a decade just to avoid all the annoying noises our phones make non stop. So i keep my phone on silent and I’ve got the pebble set to only get notifications for texts and calls neither of which i get a ton of on a daily basis. I like to be able to glance down and either ignore or pull out my phone and deal with.
I am also a big fan of leaving my phone in the other room and dont wear the pebble a lot on weekends just to get a break.
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 5 weeks ago:
Jar Jar is our only hope.
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 5 weeks ago:
I literally have to think about dependancies every time i install a python script in Debian. It always says its externally managed and use pipx. Then its not in pipx so i have to make a venv. Any other language i download and compile and it only cares about dependancies at build time.
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 5 weeks ago:
I try to avoid python for two main reasons. While coding, white spaces. Who thought that was a good idea? While using, shared dependancies, again who thought thay was a good idea? I have to use pipx or manually make a venv otherwise python scripts start breaking each other. May as well just package it with its own dependancies from the get go.
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 1 month ago:
The hopefully only car I’ll ever total was about 20 years ago. I bought it for 7k and drove it for 5 years. They initially lowballed me at like 3k. I was able to show them Kelly blue book values and current used market it was closer to 6. Ended up getting a little over 5k.
Of course in the 5 years since I got the car the used market was nothing like it previously was. A comparable purchase would have been 12k not 7k.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 month ago:
What’s a liter cola?
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 month ago:
I mostly use qobuz when out and about and vinyl at home. Music streaming is the one streaming media I don’t find objectionable as a consumer. All the services have pretty much the same catalog so pick based on features. I still buy my favorite albums though so the artist actually gets money.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
Dang you will be impressed with the screen on anything you pick up. Resolution and contrast on the text is much better these days.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
The white one with a keyboard?
- Comment on Lead 2 months ago:
He probably did. You know all the republicans hate most what they can’t accept about themselves. Grindr servers crashed in AZ leading up to his memorial.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 2 months ago:
New pipe and smart tube both working for me.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 months ago:
Ahh a “good christian man” he was anything but. Why do all of the “good christians” go against everything Jesus taught? Why do they only use his name to oppress others? A true christian would welcome and accept those that are different not try and belittle and shame them for their differences.
Begone CHUD.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 months ago:
Sounds reasonable.
- Comment on Too soon? 2 months ago:
Nah empathy is for the weak.
- Comment on PSA 2 months ago:
Too late, please advise.
- Comment on Any ideas as to what this is all about? 2 months ago:
Fuck you Shorsey!
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 2 months ago:
Does it have raspberry jamming capabilities?
- Comment on A simpler time 3 months ago:
And thus awoke a dark urge in the mind of JD Vance.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 3 months ago:
Thats fhe story fox news is shilling. So definitely not the real story.
- Comment on Debatable 3 months ago:
Bowlcut in thr front, Vegeta in the back.
