Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 20 hours ago:
Think a drone could get up above it and drop something into the propeller?
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 5 days ago:
…that enormous library is called “YouTube videos”.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 5 days ago:
I’ve resorted back to piracy, but mostly cuz my taste in music confuses the hell out of the algorithms: I’m a fan of symphonic metal, and seeding one of those songs as the start of a playlist on something like YT music will land you with a combination of heavy death metal and renaissance fair music.
If I ever find one that can actually distinguish sub-genres of metal, then sign me the fuck up!!
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 5 days ago:
Youtube Music is pretty much just youtube with a different UI - the videos are the same. The audio quality is whatever’s uploaded, so it’ll vary a lot song to song.
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 1 week ago:
64gb USB stick filled to the brim with pirated music. No skipping, no ads. This is the way.
- Comment on I've started playing The Witcher. No, not the good one. 1 week ago:
Witcher 1 is so bad it kinda goes full circle into having a certain charm.
It’s like the gaming equivalent of a pug: so ugly it’s cute.
…I recommend modding the fuck out of it to basically godmode blitz your way through the story so you can get on to Witcher 2 which is an actually decent game; and Witcher 3 which remains one of the best games on the market to-date.
- Comment on Moms in the U.S. report large decline in mental health in recent years, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Shocking. I wonder if it has anything to do with women’s rights being obliterated or the world we’re sending our children into being absolutely infested with Nazis / rapidly trending toward being too hot to support human life.
- Comment on Madame Gasket 2 weeks ago:
Our boy’s all grown up! :'-)
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 weeks ago:
"Alright, the implantation surgery was a success, now all we have to do is fire up the remote activation. Throwing the switch in three… two…
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 2 weeks ago:
I mean, if Elon was my dad, I’d probably have some suicidal tendencies too.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, as a stopgap that just releases out of nowhere for the sole purpose of building hype for the actual Witcher 4, kinda like how Bethesda did with their random vault dweller mobile game, I’d be all for it.
Bonus points if it’s 16 bit.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 weeks ago:
There were multiple endings depending on the choices you make throughout the game. Same for the two DLCs.
The ‘good’ endings were in the base game she confronts the winter and succeeds, returns to Geralt as a father figure, and lives on as a witcher. Then in the Blood & Wine DLC, Geralt basically retires in his own vineyard.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 2 weeks ago:
They need to release a fake “Witcher 4” that’s just an older Geralt moping around his vineyard bitching about how his knees hurt. All of his quests would be things like pestering his workers about how badass he used to be, going to town to return a watermelon to the fruit vendor because of a mushy spot he didn’t notice when he purchased it, shit like that.
All the while, the townsfolk would slip idle chatter about crazy shit that Ciri’s doing off camera.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 3 weeks ago:
Start Citizen looked so fucking cool when it was announced like 15 years ago. Since then it’s dipped lower and lower every single time new info comes out.
Like, the hopefully dumbasses that got burned initially like my dumb ass did with No Man’s Sky, I kinda get… but how the absolute fuck are they still getting sales?? Are there seriously still people that don’t know it’s a scam?
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 3 weeks ago:
This gem might need an update.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think there would be any way to protect from that, but you’d have the same issue with full deletion.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 4 weeks ago:
Until insurers decide they’re too expensive to cover.
Light em up!
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 4 weeks ago:
On the flip side, keeping your personal online footprint small is definitely more secure.
Maybe we need a soft kill switch to disassociate content with an account after x amount of time. Like for me personally, I’ve put zero effort into mopping up old content, and as often as I post, I’m sure someone with the desire could put the pieces together and dox me.
I’ve left it up anyway cuz I don’t want to do to Lemmy what you’re concerned about, but if I could nuke all my content older than a few months into an anonymous version, I’d be all for that. Leave the info up for anyone who might benefit from it.
That said, for community building sake, I’d hate to see posts go anonymous right out the gate like some 4chan shit; and posts should be associated with an account at least long enough for mods to have a reasonable amount of time to take action against an account that breaks the rules. But again, posts that are months old? The conversation there is over - my personal involvement is moot at that point, it’s just data now.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 4 weeks ago:
$800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks
Cybertrucks aren’t worth the glass of the molotovs that ignite them.
Worth and cost are not synonyms.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 4 weeks ago:
It was posted 8 years ago, so slightly easier to gather up those relics then.
If I had to guess, the guy might have worked IT for a school or something that went through a modernization, with all the old tech going to the dumpster; got the idea and jumped on it.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 4 weeks ago:
On the off chance you haven’t experienced the Floppotron:
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 4 weeks ago:
I mean… if we reeeaaally wanna carbon date ourselves…
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 4 weeks ago:
Getting Falling in Reverse vibes.
…also this thread needs more links!
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 4 weeks ago:
…don’t leave us hanging, what did the bartender say?!
- Comment on Ancient 4 weeks ago:
“Back when I was your age in the late 1900s…”
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 month ago:
I want teamspeak and vent
xFire. God I miss xFire. It was better 10 years ago than any service before or since.
Iirc Yahoo frivolous-lawsuit’ed them out of existence. Q_Q
- Comment on I see you 1 month ago:
Hey a dopamine hit is a dopamine hit. Someone liking your post enough to upvote it is basically getting an internet first-bump. It’s not much, but getting that approval from people does feel good.
…we all have the super-power of literally administering a tiny dose of dopamine to nearly anyone in the world.
- Comment on This is so strange! Usually, they wait 15 days to elect a new Pope. We could be seeing history in the making. 1 month ago:
