MrBungle

@MrBungle@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah gotcha. I’m kind of enjoying just hanging with regular people being regular on mastodon. Probably check out bluesky at some point.

  Thanks for the info!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t been following Blue sky stuff at all. Any reason to use this over mastodon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best distro for linux gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a gaming specific OS, but ive been running Pop!_OS on my main PC for just about 3 years now with mostly successes. Steam runs great with proton and i use bottles for the rest of it (gog, battle.net, uplay, etc)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right on, I rejoined IRC during the COVID shutdowns. It’s just nice to be chatting somewhere where a company isn’t flooding me with advertisements and/or harvesting my data (that I can tell at least).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s some OG shit there! I still remember my number. It was an 8 digit haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Finally Have Proof That the Internet Is Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear you. When I was a teen, Internet was: A handful of focused websites or your buddies geocities / angelfire site.
  Chatting in crazy chat rooms on IRC, and having your close friends on ICQ.
  Using a dial up modem to play doom, Warcraft 2, red alert, duke nukem, quake, StarCraft, total annihilation… etc.

  Those were fun times. Felt like the bleeding edge of tech… hiding out and having fun in places people haven’t even heard of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel might have slipped that Windows 12 is indeed coming next year | Company CFO sees benefits of a coming "Windows Refresh"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pop OS is the whole reason I stayed on linux :) Lots of failed linux experiments in its wake previous to that haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel might have slipped that Windows 12 is indeed coming next year | Company CFO sees benefits of a coming "Windows Refresh"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally jumped onto the linux train after the rumour that windows 11 was going to have ads right in windows explorer. I’m glad it never happened but now that i’m on linux for my main PC… i see no reason to go back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel might have slipped that Windows 12 is indeed coming next year | Company CFO sees benefits of a coming "Windows Refresh"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  new versions of windows just kind of feel like new phones now. It’s good but… who cares?

  I can remember as a teen and upgrading from windows 98 to XP felt like jumping into the future.
  Or, more recently, getting the first samsung galaxy after having a basic candybar phone.

  Just seems like more of the same all while charging an arm and a leg for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI suggests food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot in Canada⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to guess that MS AI determined the food bank is a tourist destination because it learned that more and more people are going there due to the rising costs of … everything. It also probably learned that people don’t like starving to death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will I ever need math? A mathematician explains how math is everywhere – from soap bubbles to Pixar movies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t remember the exact quote but it was something to the tune of “you don’t have to know how a toilet works to crap in one but it might help you appreciate it more”. I feel its applicable here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea. I’m diligent about the phone staying in my own pocket while I’m driving. I forget I can’t always give others the benefit of the doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair. I can understand your view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My biggest gripe is the “safety” features that just enable bad driving. Too lazy to shoulder check? don’t worry, blinky light on the mirror has you. Don’t bother looking back when backing out? camera has you. veering off the road a bit cause you’re not paying attention? lane keep assist!
  Any one of these things can fail and the shit driving habits are all some of these people have to fall back on.

  Let’s go back to roll up windows, standard transmissions, and using your eyes to see where things are.