CaptPretentious
@CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 hours ago:
I will income the old words
A/S/L
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 2 days ago:
Right, quick, alert all the pirates downloading software! Alert all the people doing password sharing on streaming services! …
These companies don’t get rich by wasting money. If they’re seeing the change is costing them sales and potential sales, they revert. Fuck, Cracker Barrel last year tried to change its logo. Here are a few other examples time.com/3735718/consumer-pressure-business/. Hell, the biggest example of all, when New Coke was introduced and walked back 79 days later.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 3 days ago:
High traffic area, common product that sees a lot of people. You could get 2-3 in a trip without much worry. Do it every few visits. Get a few additional people to do it with the same plan. If you notice more security, just move on, force them to give up or water a bunch of money. Leave reviews of the store how you don’t like the extra security/cameras. Your a customer not a criminal! Call out the management…
You don’t have to win in a day, but an expensive, annoying, psychological warfare approach… That and going after them on social media.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 3 days ago:
Oh goodie! I mean, Windows 11 was hand-coded. Disgusting! Windows 12 will bring the vibes! It’ll be the most vibe coded OS! (And probably the last when it tanks.) Think about it, AI is monitoring every action you do! Reporting to all it’s masters and their business partners everything you do! Oh all the ads they’ll send you, all the subscriptions they’ll sell! Of course, it’ll be always online else it can’t fully use the datacenters.
I’m being mostly sarcastic (any “excitement” for it). I mean, it’s probably going to have the worst performance since AI will be monitoring EVERYTHING and I really do expect it to be coded via prompts instead of talent. Microsoft and NVIDIA are already having massive issues with everything due to “AI” being used and they started with a working based code. 11 adoption was already bad and they made sure people knew 10 was dying so they could push the numbers… I don’t recall any previous version of Windows getting that treatment.
- Comment on ard 3 days ago:
They bring up wizard… But what about bards?
- Comment on A product of his environment 4 days ago:
I have a Google doorbell and it’s night vision is terrible. I’ve taken the garbage to the curb during the winter when it’s the darkest and the doorbell didn’t register anything not the noise not the motion. Even knowing what I was looking for I barely show up in the video feed, it looks like a ghost.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 6 days ago:
My guess for the only difference is that it’s locked to Azure
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 6 days ago:
Yep, just looking at it screams thin client. This will have just enough for networking (wifi/bluetooth), running three monitors (no gaming), some 3.5mm audio, and usb 2.0. If it’s business focues, probably some remote mgmt stuff, and maybe a default VPN client.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 1 week ago:
I already wasn’t eating BK. And this makes me want to even less. The fake/forced “friendliness” I personally find off-putting. It’s like Chick-fil-a they have to say “my pleasure”. Just some force creepy cult vibes (for some very mediocre food). Idk, maybe it’s me, but knowing someone is being micro-enslaved (sorry, “managed”) just rubs me the very wrong way.
Plus side, my hatred for AI and all these places forcing it on customers, I’ve spent WAY less money eating out and have been eating way better. So silver lining I suppose.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 1 week ago:
There are a bunch of lithium ion chemistries that have come to market more recently
Like what? [Citation required]
If you think rechargeable battery R&D from 10 years ago isn’t making it into mass produced products today, you’re just not paying attention.
Please provide examples.
I mean, as much as a person who doesn’t work in research and development of energy storage, or work in industries directly related to it, I personally feel I’ve kept up. The day Donut Labs announced their battery I was watching review videos about it, and I want to believe, but until I see it for purchase, I’m not going to call it a win.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Na, I’m looking at the RAY-BAN META GLASSES and they look strait out of some 1970s/1980s “I work at NASA/IBM” movie.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 1 week ago:
Weird, I didn’t know Lithium-Ion batteries were still in the lab. I thought for sure we were using those already. I thought the batteries in the labs were various solid-state batteries like graphene or like this sodium-ion battery, where there’s been a rise in patents around it but not a lot delivered
- Comment on Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI 1 week ago:
I wanna make sure I got this right. They used $20,000 in fees in 2 weeks to make a compiler? Also, to what end? Like what’s the expected ROI on that?
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
Watched Cohh play it, it’s a pass for me. The gameplay loop isn’t my style. But it was fun watching someone go from ‘this game is so good!’ to just anger, lol. Some of the music is kind of catchy.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 2 weeks ago:
Listen I hate the unreal engine with a passion. But I also hate their engine with a passion. This amount of tech debt that thing has is incredible, and that’s not a good thing.
Unless they’ve started over from scratch but just kept the name I expected to be a piece of crap.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 2 weeks ago:
I disagree, clearly. Owning would be “yes, I messed up, I used AI to write my process and didn’t bother reviewing any of it, I took shortcuts”. That and just that. Using “I was feeling sick” is deflecting blame instead of owning it.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 2 weeks ago:
I don’t care he’s “sick”. Too often, someone, instead of taking accountability, just throws anything to maybe shield themselves from actually being fully accountable. “I was sick”, “Family problems”, “A recent death”, “The planets were misaligned that day”, etc.
I find it to still be cowardice, to not stand by and own what you said, even if it was wrong. He used AI and got caught. And going forward, I’ll be treating Ars Technica as an unreliable AI-generated “news source”.
- Comment on cant take it anymore 3 weeks ago:
Of course there’s not a transparent cow out there. But there is a giant blue ox.
- Comment on Why is self-hosted voice chat so hard? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll 3rd mumble. Been hosting for over a decade.
No tracking, no ads, no bloat… This does it’s one thing and does it very well.
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 weeks ago:
Got it, only do four days in a row.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 4 weeks ago:
Oh man, that hits home… just before COVID hit, I was doing 5k’s and got injured. And I didn’t transition to a lower calorie intake to adjust to the lower physical activity. Just as I was starting to get back into the gym… COVID landed and the gym was closed. Now, I’m a fat bastard. But trying to work on that.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 4 weeks ago:
When I was a teen in highschool… I was in a weightlifting gym class and I did soccer. When is get home, for a snack if have a party pizza (or two). Probably went through a carton of milk myself. God my mom was so pissed. I was probably half or grocery budget alone for a few years
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 4 weeks ago:
So Ubisoft, that failed hard on their own launcher. Made several mistakes when it comes to the games they’ve released, made the wrong kind of news with “The Crew 2”, cancelled a bunch of games (but don’t worry, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is definitely coming out…), goes and fired a lead designer.
Let me break out my magnifying glass to check on their stocks. Oh, they made a slight “comeback” from earlier this week, they’re up to 92 cents a share.
Mgmt at that place is making bold decisions for a company; when if their stock gains a penny, it’s worth celebrating.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s a long-known fact that the Windows code has been shit for decades. That’s been known since at least XP days I think. Pretty sure I first heard about it on TechTV
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 5 weeks ago:
Im on the WIndows 10 Extended support. I’m either going to risk staying on 10, or move to linux. The big problems for me are 1 ) Visual studio doesn’t run on linux so I’d either have to learn a new editor or do a VM… I suppose 2) Gaming. A lot can happen in 8 months for improvements. But this might be the thing that holds me on Windows for a while. Saw a video of native Dota2 on linux runs like shit. 3) A solid remote desktop replacement. One that’s as good or better than what I’m using.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Oh no doubt, same. There’s so much to be said. More than any one person should.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
To add to this list
- Remove WebView apps. Eat our own dogfood and use MAUI.
- Go back to the classic Start Menu. Use API to make the whole UI available for customizations
- Get rid of the whole shitty “Settings” menu and go back to the Control Panel.
- Drop backwards compatibility for a bunch of crap. Stop pulling the 1980s forward, let that shit die.
- Address real modern issues with compatibility and performance with current CPUs
- Undo all the vibe coding.
- Focus on stability and performance, not trying to be “An experience”. Windows runs apps, make it do that the best it can.
- For the love of everything holy, take a risk and modernize the OS. This goes back to 8. But as someone who makes Windows Server golden images for multiple platforms, FUCKING CHRIST. Having to use the Autounattend to even get anything started, and that’s often (Even in Azure) just a minimal thing to get some client to do the real work, should tell you there’s a problem. The Autounattend is poorly documented. I learned more from just building a basic VM on different providers and seeing what they figured out. I could write a god damn novel on the shortcomings of the initial installation and customization of Windows, but it’s especially embarrassing for their Server platform
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been on this rock for more than 30 years. I can assure you we’ve never had orange clouds. I will say sunrise and sunset do some wild things and you see some really cool colors.
- Comment on Fake moo 1 month ago:
Not to be that guy… but all cheese is chemical. You’re chemicals. EVERYTHING IS CHEMICALS. Even Full Metal Alchemist got that.
I’m just so tired of misinformation, implying that one cheese that’s 100% milk is cheese, but another cheese made with that same cheese plus emulsifiers and preservatives is “THE CHEMICALS.” Call it processed, sure. But to imply you somehow have cheese that’s not chemicals… is just, fundamentally wrong.
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 1 month ago:
So growing up I was taught ASL. And I can tell you, knowing how to count high on a single hand REALLY helped in my lower grades for math. I used to see kids put down their pencil to keep counting, and I’d be counting on my fingers with one hand. Very practical.
And when you get older, if you and your friends know ASL, you can sign across rooms (like noisy bars). Just throwing that out there.
