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- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 days ago:
I still have it around somewhere in hopes I can fix it
When I got it, my family said it didn’t work, it had some weird error. I charged it and turned it on so they were like “sure you can have it”
It was my first smartphone,. actually, and I used it for quite a while until it died again. I don’t remember the error, but it was basically bricked and I couldn’t factory reset it via the phone menu. I had a very young child and trying to figure out the android sdk for a computer to fiddle that out was too taxing for me
I really liked that phone for sure. I’m sure it’s a lot of nostalgia, but I miss the older simpler phones. Much easier to handle, too.
I’ve currently just been using every couple generations of the Xa model. This one’s a pixel 7a, last was a 4a which the child has now. It’s got severe battery life issues after that update recently but I haven’t looked into it too hard. Been wanting to look for some alternatives and I’m leaning towards something unconventional, at least by today’s standards. I checked out that phone and it really looks good, both aesthetically and specs wise
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 days ago:
I had a Nexus that I got as a hand me down. It had a ball with customizable colors
The next one I had after that had an led you could customize for different types of notifications
- Comment on Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week 6 days ago:
“here’s a list of shitty things you’ve done and said”
“but that makes me look bad!!”
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 1 week ago:
Oh I made another comment but this was what I was talking about! I was talking to my partner about it last night after watching the CES video. I couldn’t remember the name but this is exactly it
I said it was “Rock Pops” because i think that’s great
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 1 week ago:
I watched a video about the worst of CES. I was kind of amused that some of the winners of worst-of weren’t even new ideas
There was a candy I remember that from a long time ago, idk 2000ish? It was a lollipop you bit down on and you could hear music played through your teeth. I never tried it but it was sold where I worked
Another idea, the worst of the worst, was the smart fridge. I remember from business classes I took many years ago used that as an example of innovation. Or a “smart” microwave. You let it know what ingredients you have, for example by scanning the barcode, so it can recommend recipes or alert you when something is running low
The rendition of those ideas at the CES were so out of touch
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What I imagine is besties; driver is indeed a gay guy but there’s a scrappy chick who’s down for anything riding along
I don’t know where to find it, but it gives me the vibes of this clip I saw: chick getting regular voice comms harassment in a game and she replied (as close as I can remember)
“I’m going to fuck your dad and give him a child he can be proud of” - Comment on We have ways of making you talk, Mr. Frog 2 weeks ago:
Oh man, he was into that
Muppet Treasure Island “torture” scene
If you’re hesitant to click, I assure you it’s legitimately from the Muppets movie
- Comment on THIS is an inventive idea 5 weeks ago:
I guarantee you that’s a tree farm. I’d gladly be proved wrong
The uniform height, spacing, and lush branches are a key clue. I wish I took pictures on my last trip so I could show you what I’m talking about, but I was traveling through a place undergoing logging. In the forest, like you’re thinking, the lower branches are dead because the crowns are crowding out the light. In the understory, lower light plants thrive, ones who can’t really take full sun all day
I say this to hopefully assuage your feelings about the picture. The tree did what it was meant to do, and in a spectacular way
- Comment on :3 5 weeks ago:
Cozy indeed
No farts please tho, personally
- Comment on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels 1 month ago:
Went with my partner to a really cute cabin for a vacation. It was a yurt, and really nice except the partition to the bathroom was just a curtain and the wall didn’t go to the ceiling. It was at least behind a wall so there was a small modicum of privacy
So waaaaaaay too much cheese on both our parts lead to some very unpleasant bathroom trips and a resulting overload of senses. There was a window, fortunately, though it was fairly ineffective but we learned to excuse ourselves from the cabin when the other had to shit their brains out
- Comment on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels 1 month ago:
I haven’t had too many issues lately with hotels and obnoxious lights. And I think it’s because manufacturers have changed something. But every once in a while there’s some device that has a pinprick hole with a blue led behind it that acts like a damn flashlight and sends a faint blue beam across the room, or if it’s aimed at you:
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 1 month ago:
I’m not against bros blowing bros,
But if that were to happen I’m pretty sure it would not be consensual on Mamdani’s part
Cuomo? 100% wouldn’t have given a 2nd thought and assumed it’s true
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 2 months ago:
Definitely, but they did well for themselves and their family. They moved between big name studios but have found a comfortable career not tied to any big name studio
I haven’t kept in close contact with them but it’s pretty fun hearing about, or even playing, games they’ve worked on (every once in a while I check up on what they’ve done)
They eventually got into the sound side of things and occasionally would do recordings when family got together. One time in particular I remember, we went on a walk and they brought recording equipment. Recorded the ambient sounds while we were on the trail. Sometimes we’d be talking and other times we were walking in silence. Recording us approaching and departing; the sounds of our footsteps on different terrain: gravel, dirt, grass, pavement. Got some closeups of a small creek that ran next to the trail. Would record the sounds of a field of wild grass, or a stand of trees. I wonder if anything they recorded ended up in some game… That would be pretty dope
Tl;Dr What I can say is, they genuinely loved their job no matter which shitty big name they worked under. And they got to do some genuinely fun things in the pursuit of bettering their work
Sorry for the wall of text, idk I just haven’t really had somewhere to share that. I’ve never heard someone mention infinity ward , like literally ever. Any time I’ve said the name I’ve been met with blanks stares until I say “Call of Duty”
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 2 months ago:
I have a family member who worked for IW on CoD but left shortly after the merger when they saw the writing on the wall. Granted they left for a company just as bad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Loops is now part of the Fediverse! 2 months ago:
To be fair…
I did the thing where I signed up and got the app and promptly never used it
I don’t particularly like short form content (at all) but I was hoping that there’d be some relevant connection between the platforms
- Comment on sadtrombone.wav 3 months ago:
They like moisture. They’re crustaceans like crabs and shrimp so they need high humidity at the very least to survive. Bugs also like to find shelter in shade so a big shady place that also happens to be damp is paradise
- Comment on California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53 3 months ago:
See my platform would be “All Parking Lots Must Be Connected”
Because it pisses me off to no end trying to get to a location I can see with my eyeballs and the lot I turn into is somehow completely isolated from the adjacent onesBut I’ll also gladly take on “Stop Fucking with the Internet” because I’m pretty passionate about that, too
- Comment on What fungus would do this to a tree? Huge blooms. I know nothing about mushrooms. 3 months ago:
To add onto that, by the time some toxins present themselves (as in you’re feeling/noticing effects) it’s already too late and fatality is imminent
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 3 months ago:
And when I’ve tried it numerous times I’ll let them walk me through the process while I browse the internet for a couple minutes while I “wait for the light to turn green”
Nope, it’s still flashing yellow, like it has been, and has been after the last couple resets of everything between me and the wall
Oh you’ll send a technician out? Thx.
- Comment on COMMUNITY REVIVAL: c/juggalos, for fans of Insane Clown Posse and associated acts !!?!! 3 months ago:
Nope you didn’t. It’s from Thy Unveiling
- Comment on Amnesia creators Frictional are teasing what could be Soma 2 through a sinister luxury hotel website 3 months ago:
Here’s the link to the site:
I haven’t poked around yet
- Comment on Day 428 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
It’s hard to get over “that”. It feels good but vulnerable to let yourself out. But literally no one cares
This scene has resonated with me for a while and I love it and embrace it
- Comment on Day 428 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
Oh that looks so fun! I’ll definitely check it out. I feel that I might be able to scrounge together a group that would enjoy this
- Comment on GN's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction! 4 months ago:
I don’t play dnd but I love cards and dice. I haven’t checked out their merch but I’d love to support them. I’ll check out the dice!
- Comment on These pesky airbags 4 months ago:
- Comment on Love when they shit post 4 months ago:
🙄
- Comment on Love when they shit post 4 months ago:
I feel this is tangentially relevant, but I can’t squeeze in a lame pun
- Comment on irl shiny 4 months ago:
A few pet stores are getting on the bioactive enclosure train and they have those guys as well as these cute guys!
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 5 months ago:
I recently had an rfid scanner immediately rma-d back that had just been returned to us. The new issue was caused by a setting and not by a defect. I asked our IT/help desk if it WAS a setting that could be changed
“I don’t know. I get the thing, I check these settings, I check those settings, that’s all I know”
😑😑😑
So me and another person are out of our equipment for another couple weeks while the scanner is sent back for “repairs” and the repair people will go “😑 tap tap tap idiots”
- Comment on What is piefed? 5 months ago:
I appreciate this!
Generally oc forward subs are very stringent about it truly being OC and if caught posting something that isn’t theirs will face consequences
Blurry pics of a cat’s right up on the lens is low effort. Any pictures you see posted in a place like lemmy.world/c/astrophotography will not be low effort because those are removed. They also require the submissions to be OC
