Rooty
@Rooty@lemmy.world
- Comment on No more Mr. Nice guy 2 days ago:
Who hurt you man?
- Comment on No more Mr. Nice guy 2 days ago:
Setting up healthy boundaries is ok, yknow?
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 4 days ago:
Official statement from Discord: “Oopse woopse we did a fucky wucky. Sue us hahaha you won’t”
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 4 days ago:
Sadly, a lot of sites have started shuttering their RSS feeds and hiding content behind paywalls. I have to periodically clean my feed and remove dead links.Luckily, there are a lot of sites that basically copy AP and Reuters news verbatim.
- Comment on Here's a fun game. 1 week ago:
Invasion of the dick snatchers.
The sound of dicks
Dr. Strangedick, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved The Dick
Kung Pow- Enter The Dick
- Comment on I volunteer as tribute! 1 week ago:
Man I need to watch this movie again. A lot of gag dubs only work on short clips but this full feature film is funny as shit from start to finish.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Kindles are pretty decent ereaders if you don’t connect them to amazon’s ecosystem and just keep them in airplane mode. And unlike phones, they can hold a charge after a few years.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
Watching people realize this toejam eating weirdo was right about everything makes my day everytime.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
I’m gonna start listening to podcasts, they’re more informative and less bandwidth heavy anyway.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
IDC personally. I remember publishing houses basically forcing the Internet Archive from letting people download books *during the fucking pandemic. They killed fair use, fuckem.
- Comment on Lead 1 week ago:
AI slop is the proper way of honoring this fuckstick.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
I have an ereader and I’ve never bought an ebook. The fact that they’re priced the same as paperbacks is absurd.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 2 weeks ago:
Is taking notes by hand really that exceptional? When I went to college ages ago I only typed essays on a desktop computer, studying was done with textbook + lecture notes, maaybe with a handful of online resources.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is 2 weeks ago:
I think Thiel is is exempt from the position of the Antichrist simply because he has zero charisma and likeability. Also, he needs to take less of whatever substance he’s taking. In every interview he looks like he’s barely restraining himself from tearing his own face off.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 weeks ago:
They are really going balls to the wall with this AI crap, huh?
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
The computer manufactuers knew what they were doing. Although, 8-bit computers were cool typewriter replacements/spreadsheer machines if an adult wanted to use them.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
Meanwhile my fridge made in communist Yugoslavia is still going strong.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
You can get a laptop with no OS preinstalled just about everywhere.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 3 weeks ago:
Dude really had no redeeming qualities.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 3 weeks ago:
Watching all the fascists weep for this idiot and ask for decorum has been the highlight of my week.
It’s not fun when you’re on the recieving end of political violence, is it not?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Nooo, we need more respectability politics, surely if we kowtow to fascist harder they will see the error of their ways.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure SMT has prior art.
- Comment on Only way that you're happy here... 4 weeks ago:
Drug tests in American workplaces genuinely baffle me. If you’re not operating heavy machinery and can do your job while high, who gives a fuck?
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
Of course, i know this because I do 3d art in blender and refuse to set it to metric.
Did the metric system kill your family or something?
- Comment on Oppression.jpg 4 weeks ago:
sigh Guess I’ll have to stalk random passerbys from the sewers again.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
I watch torrented shows with VLC on my laptop. Why would I want a giant smarphone that spies on me?
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 weeks ago:
Dead Kennedys were prophetic when they named one of their albums “Give me convenience or give me death”.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
I am toying with the idea of creating a PDA of sort from a raspberry pie, touchscreen and a powerbank. Case can be 3d printed, it would be bulky af and equipped with Tails or some other secure OS.
- Comment on Why are they even doing this, the grass wasn't even that tall 1 month ago:
Biomass has been successfully decimated, while excess carbon has been ejected into the atmosphere. A win for all involved!
