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- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 months ago:
I would have preferred a ‘will it blend’ format with the ultimate test being the Cybertruck’s own keyfob (you have one job!)
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 months ago:
Man youtubers are dumb as hell. Use a stick or something
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 6 months ago:
I never open a video where 3 or less paragraphs of text would suffice. I feel like we’re heading back to drawing things on the walls of caves
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 6 months ago:
Next stop: advertisers pushing product placement into generative images, and generative images with product placement littering image searches. It’s a pandora’s box we can’t close
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 7 months ago:
Not only monetization but also the whole sorting/ranking algorithms. Youtube is a bit better than Facebook reels and instagram due to the thumbs down button, but some people go out of their way to make nonsensical garbage because viewers will then comment, and there’s no way to tell if a video is good or bad based solely on engagement. Those videos where people have some DIY hack to clean a toilet bowl and they just pour random condiments in the toilet for 3 minutes and cut the video before any conclusion, those types of videos
- Comment on Progress! 7 months ago:
I wouldn’t want to see how someone would react after going through something like that. Sounds like a supervillain origin story or some shit. “Jokes on you, it was a simulation! Now grab your stuff, you are free to go!”
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 7 months ago:
Lets all scavenge old tech and run vms with Win7 on a ramdisk to deal with all the vulnerabilities
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
It’s gonna be trained on everything, even the stuff from 2009, so I’m expecting less of that and more random ‘my fedora chortles intensify’ word salad
- Comment on Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game 9 months ago:
Might be the people that play only one game. I used to play WoW and then Diablo III exclusively like it was a full time job, and wound up in social bubbles with people who were equally invested. I never spent money on cosmetics or in-game items or anything but at that point it’d be pretty easy to rationalize since it’s something someone is spending 20-80 hours a week playing.
Back in WoW we used to sell one slot on our Algalon raid (hardmode only raid boss) and pay for our Ventrilo and website with that lol
- Comment on Must be a pissing contest in there 10 months ago:
It’s the 16th annual Larry Craig foot tapping invitational, hosted every year in a bathroom at MSP’s Humphrey terminal
- Comment on It's a good thing they aren't in charge of adult toys... 11 months ago:
Ace Hardware has Dremels, solder, epoxy, and 600 grit sandpaper, and if you stare at this sign for no less than 40 seconds an employee will saunter up and you can ask them where to find all that stuff.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts 11 months ago:
Possibly unpopular opinion but I think the Cybertruck is about as dumb-looking as most any other truck on the market. 4 big doors, more cabin than bed, trucks in general are all goofy looking parking lot crawlers nowadays
- Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea 11 months ago:
Here’s what would happen in capitalist America: entities would own those machines and use them as a means of personal enrichment, it’d displace a ton of human workers, the taxes generated from profits generated wouldn’t offset the economic impacts, and then half of the lawmakers would introduce bills that would provide lucrative incentives to those entities if they maintain a certain ratio of human workers and they’d staple a bunch of regressive crap onto it like abortion or whatever, it wouldn’t pass because the other half of lawmakers would want to tax the hell out of profits made with those machines, government would shut down 4 times a year, Jeff Bezos builds a vacation home on the moon
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
There are more than a handful of places near me that used to have decent delivery but Door Dash etc basically shut them out. They lose business by not being affiliated and not getting exposure, so they get on Door Dash and lose even more business to Door Dash, next thing you know they have no in-house delivery and all the prices on Door Dash are jacked up so they can give Door Dash their take.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Might & Magic II: Gates to Another World (1988 dungeon crawler type RPG)
Diablo I
Toss up between Stardew Valley and Final Fantasy III/VI
I’ve played a load of late 80s/early 90s RPGs but right at the top is Might and Magic II
- Comment on Twitter takeover: how a year of Elon Musk rendered the platform useless | Pranav Dixit 1 year ago:
It’s a strange social experiment. Everyone is staying in and loathing it only because there hasn’t been an exodus. It’s like swinging the barn doors open and watching the cows stare longingly at the pasture in solidarity
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
Was this an offer or was this Elon Musk pandering to the 6 year old bully demographic? It’s hard for me to tell because it’s been 30 years since I’ve seen someone swing this much weight to try to make a dick pun at someone else’s expense
- Comment on Another 62 ‘Girls Do Porn’ Victims Sue Pornhub for $600 Million 1 year ago:
I’m not gonna google the whole ‘GDP’ franchise/entity for hopefully obvious reasons but the ‘GDP’ franchise very well could be a verified account that creates content through exploitation and that being a very real possibility punches a hole in the effectiveness of attempting to moderate content by only allowing content derived from verified accounts. The article notes that the actual people reviewing flagged content can’t handle the sheer amount of flagged content so it’s likely they can’t handle verifying that content created by verified accounts isn’t content created through exploitation, so it’s probable once an account is verified it can just start sliding in all sorts of stuff that will go unchecked (as it apparently did in this case and others).
- Comment on amazon anti union posters put up by the company 1 year ago:
I’m union (USPS) and the only thing I’d ever do that would require me to go to the union is a schedule change, and the only reason for that is so the union can make sure I’m of sound mind and making this decision out of personal interest and not at the request/insistence of management - I have a schedule and any time worked outside of that is at time and a half, so if management wants me to change my hours for them, they gotta start paying me 50% more, or just give me overtime. Unions are cool
- Comment on What's your hobby? 1 year ago:
I got the “find a new hobby and get so totally wrapped up in it that 6-18 months later I get bored with the hobby and find another hobby”. Like, I’ve attained a certain level of expertise and understanding which makes it quite dull, time to bounce
- Comment on Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time 1 year ago:
I think that’s their plan - everyone will be on reddit bashing F5 and trying to build protest banners and stuff, and admins will be sitting there writing over everything. They’ll get huge traffic and it won’t be a dumpster fire