eek2121

@eek2121@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tipping culture npcs⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had one do that (well, even higher, 25, 30, 35, Other) for a retailer recently. Like, it took them under 10 seconds to ring me up and they should automatically get 25%? I chose zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨text don't call⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same and when I am hiking I also turn on “Do Not Disturb “ mode. It infuriates my spouse, but oh well. 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had to watch ads, I would not use youtube. Period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a popup once, refreshed and it was gone. 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The walmart closest to me only had self checkout and got rid of ALL of their cashier lanes. They had 4 times ad many self checkouts. That lasted for a few months. It went from taking 5-10 minutes in checkout to 45 minutes or more. Why? Untrained people are slow and the software is terrible. In addition, Shoplifting went through the roof.

  They finally added cashier lanes back in. No idea if it was complaints or dropping revenue that caused the reversal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to what others have stated, many casinos have both minimums and caps on maximum bets. This means that you can only do this so many times. You WILL eventually lose it all.

  I managed to do this once with an electronic machine and made money once because it had a minimum bet of $1.00, no maximum, and apparently wasn’t rigged. I made high 4 figures before I got bored. The next time I came in, the minimum was upped, a maximum was added, and the game was clearly changed to favor the house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick your poison. Dystopian style⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen AirBnB pricing and some of the policies/fees the owners of properties have implemented? Cheaper to buy a camper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was one of the reasons they killed the api: to support ad growth. Unfortunately they failed to realize the combination of ad-blocking browsers and users just quitting the site from losing client access means they were never going to hit pre-IPO revenue targets.

  Had they instead focused on affordable API pricing and driving subscriber revenues up, they would have exceeded revenue targets.

  source: I was in a somewhat similar position (not quite the same, no third party client), but chose different and found myself making more subscription revenue than ad revenue thanks to a viewer base more than happy to pay more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can never be sure⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am ashamed to admit having done this more than once. 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! That is good to know. I will check it out. I was thinking of creating one that allows you to BYOC. I need something that is free, cross platform, auto saves, and can keep offline copies. All for just basic note taking.

  No way in hell I am going to pay a ton of money to store a bunch of text. I don’t even need any of the advanced functionality, not even images, just a dumping ground for text notes I take on my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not owned a phone with a headphone jack in a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft readies 'groundbreaking' AI-focused Windows release as new leadership takes the helm⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowing Microsoft? Subscription push or subject you to ads and/or other limitations. Windows 11 already does a ton of spying on you…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloud storage for encrypted backups recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use onedrive because you can get like 6TB of space included with Office for like $99/year. Second choice would be backblaze.

  Out of curiosity, as someone thinking about starting a cloud/hosting provider, what features would make a huge difference to you beyond price? I do plan to have some pretty amazing pricing for individuals/small businesses, but beyond that….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An alternative perspective on Alien.top and the Fediverser project⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen the alien.top stuff yet, but I had a friend that was working on a reddit bridge project that implements api over html for old reddit and new reddit. The idea was that you could target the api and make the client compatible with both reddit and lemmy. (The API is similar to Lemmy’s)

  I got to play with it before he shelved it, and it worked great.

  This seems like a better approach than the one they are trying to take.

  Lemmy also needs a mechanism for linking your reddit user id (and twitter, and…) with your active lemmy id so users can find each other easier. I am surprised we don’t already have this with mastodon. Twiiter oauth is (used to be? I haven’t touched it in a couple years ) like a 5 minute thing to implement. Reddit apparently also supports oauth.

  If you can sign into lemmy via a reddit login path, you could also do some other fun/interesting stuff.

  Regardless, I don’t really see a need for any of it.

  Lemmy has its own set of issues to deal with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good private email service?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can, but it is difficult. Spam prevention has made life hard for those that want to host email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The answer is Yes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SHUT UP WESLEY!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleeper trains are making a comeback. Why are ours being axed?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish we had more trains here in the US. I would love to take a train from my location (major city in SE) to basically anywhere, but it isn’t possible because we had no train service…at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portugal Runs on 100% Renewables Dropping Consumer Electric Bills to Nearly Zero for 6 Days in a Row⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Our electric company charges 25% more for renewables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My Apple TV has no ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How much is Comcast charging you compared to the fiber? If I were in that position I would have decided differently (assuming I owned the property) as the difference for me peaked at $150/mo. Even more if I chose a slightly cheaper plan…and I have AT%T fiber, not municipal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The M3 was announced yesterday: arstechnica.com/…/everything-to-know-about-apples…

  It will be out before these chips are. So will next gen x86-64 chips, Zen 5 at least, and possibly Intel Arrow Lake depending on timing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just hit the refresh button. None of the variants I have seen pop up on reload.

  That being said, as long as you ONLY have uBlock Origin installed (no other ad-blockers), you should rarely see this popup, if at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That is because every single mobile version of Windows was incompatible (After version 6) with the previous. They kept reinventing the wheel over and over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you downloading chrome? You are supposed to download Firefox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  uBlock Origin has no issues with blocking ads.

  I get trying to fight it via legal means, but it is a solved problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2842: Inspiraling Roundabout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a small traffic circle near us, across from an outdoor restaurant. One day I was eating there and saw this dude start circling it endlessly until the police happened to show up, then he took off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly hoping something like this happens in residential real estate, if it isn’t happening already. Housing is well overdue for a correction.

  You can’t tell me that most people can afford a $400,000-$700,000 mortgage. Median incomes don’t support that price point. Median household incomes might support the lower end…barely. So I am starting to wonder just who is buying/selling all these houses. When I see a $600,000 “average” house last 3 days on the market and then sell for $760,000…I have questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do. none of you use case insensitive autocomplete? “do ” “Downloads”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now we know why Elon said he liked Star Trek⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the empire was the true hero in Star Wars, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you resold Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets, the IRS is watching — A new rule from the IRS is punishing those who resold tickets for more than $600 in profit with a tax penalty⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I own a business and can agree with this statement.