twinnie

@twinnie@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda get it though. I think every single time in my life I’ve sent a document in the non-Microsoft format I’ve got a reply saying they couldn’t open it. That’s from LibreOffice and from Mac.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a weird time to like computers. Nobody had an antivirus, and if they didn’t it never got updated. You’d just take floppy disks around to your friend’s house and plug them in. Windows gave everything admin rights.

  To be honest, I was using a computer for about five years before the internet happened and I never got a virus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump’s got that kind of moral compass where the US can do whatever they want because they’re the “goodies”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arrest after Churchill statue defaced with graffiti⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely agree. Like it or not if you want your protests to become a movement you have to appeal to “normal” people. When a normal person sees a statue of a person they consider a hero being vandalised or they see a protest full of people with dreadlocks, green hair, and hippy clothes they’re just going to dismiss it as an alternative culture that they don’t relate to.

  If I’m being cynical here it almost makes me believe that some of these people care more about their identity and image than they do about the cause. They’ll go to all the effort of turning up to these things but they can’t even get a haircut and throw on a shirt. I’m going off on a tangent here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How are Anthropic left wing? I thought they were regarded as being not much better than ChatGPT?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Earbugld question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the silicone ones when they fit. I have some round the ear ones for jogging and they’re great. Never budge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember years ago reading about some test where participants lived in a house next to a phone mast. For the first week the phone mast was off, then the next week they turned it on. In the second week a bunch of people complained about getting sick and one person even had to leave. Then it turned out they’d never actually turned it on, I guess to prove that these people were idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked with ChatGPT and Claude and they both said to walk. Then I said “Think about it” and Claude changed to drive but ChatGPT doubled down. ChatGPT was on 5.2 and set to Auto. Claude was on Sonnet 4.5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Texas man who shot a British woman after an argument about President Trump won’t face charges. The jury hails from a pro-gun pro-Trump part of the state, a legal expert says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the headline’s a little misleading though. The guy was British and the woman was his daughter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone’s who’s tasted an egg I can only assume that were part of some elaborate worldwide practical joke to get us to eat them, because I think they smell and taste disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to create new 'British FBI' police service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that’s what the NCA was supposed to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it mold? (More pics in body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done both but I keep coming back to distilling for this very reason. The hardest bit can be drinking it though. For a sugar wash you’re looking at like £6 per batch and you end up with around eight bottles of 40%. I don’t want to tell too many people what I do and even those that know often don’t want to drink it because they think they’ll go blind (which we know is obviously false).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final update on American Brown.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How long though? It will peak at some point and then it’s all downhill after that. I usually just end up drinking pretty quickly as I run out of bottles and space to store everything (and beer in the fridge).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Warrior Within totally fucked up the vibe though, and the combat was rubbish. It’s a puzzle game, the fighting was just a little break, but they tried to make it too big a part.

  Two Thrones was 50% SoT and 50% WW, when it should have been 99% SoT and 1% WW. The voice in your head thing from TT was pretty good, until you have to fight it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake and more cancelled by Ubisoft, with layoffs potentially on the horizon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody’s gonna miss the SoT remake, it looked rubbish. All they had to do was tart up the graphics and flesh out the end game combat just a little and it would’ve been great. The new graphics looked so uninspired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what they’re trying to say though. So many people think they need to keep up with other by having a constant supply of new clothes and a modern luxury car, etc. people will take credit to breaking point just to keep up with other people who are doing the same thing. I’ve done it myself and it took years to dig myself out. Now I take comfort in knowing that I’m not scared to open the mail because I have enough saved to handle any surprise bills. Some things Mee me awake at night but it’s not bills, and I don’t care that phone’s 5 years old and my car’s 15 years old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No small ask. New factories, new supply chains, more staff, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's easy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from some funny guy. I don’t know what his job is but his profile’s full of jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jet Set Radio Future on PC? It's not a guarantee, but a new project may lead to such a, well, future⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved this game, I thought it was much better than the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the unlikely event I had to create a porn site account even the NSA wouldn’t be able to link it back to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Office is one of the most recognisable brands in the world. Why have they jammed it into a brand which is already toxic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was a blast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is a meme but how often are people buying RAM that they find this relatable? I upgraded my PC to 32gb over a year ago, I sn’t that plenty for now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No contest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are people still arguing in the comments. Falcon would be toast before they’d got someone to the turrets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone has a LOT of dusty computers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I had a father.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They should make it a law to require adequate parental controls to exist on a phone in a way that parents can use them, then teach the parents how to use them. If your kid goes and starts viewing porn then it’s your own fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  18 or 20.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it Possible that a Typical Quantity of Sneezes is Inherited/Genetic?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People who have sun sneezes tend to sneeze a bunch of times at once. Sun sneezes are genetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apps were still kinda new at the time and social media was shit hot. iPhones were still premium products and most people didn’t have one.

  I think a lot of people don’t realise that when the iPhone first came out it didn’t have apps. They eventually released an upgrade so that you could pin webpages to the homepage. I remember Apple arguing that web stuff was so good now you didn’t need apps.

  From what I recall around that time the Kin never really generated that much interest. It wasn’t being aimed as a product to replace the iPhone and was targeted at the kind of people who nowadays would sit on their phone and scroll TikTok. There was a lot of change in those days; social media was still pretty new, useful internet in your phone was pretty new (it’d been around for years but it wasn’t so expensive to this point nobody had used it, iPhone made constant internet connections a thing) touch screens were still new and sexy, and more I forget about. The idea that your phone was this little mobile computer that you carried around wasn’t really there yet and they were still mostly for communicating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is pretty normal as you grow up. You get kind of bored of playing games that use the same gameplay mechanisms and you just look for a change. Even if the mechanisms in these indie games aren’t as good, just being different makes the game more interesting.

  Nowadays I’d much rather play a short indie games that a big budget game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t need to court developers, they need to court consumers. The games will be sold wherever people are buying.