helmet91
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- Comment on Comedy shows have laugh tracks cuz they aren't that funny 2 months ago:
Holy shit, this is much better than the original!!! Damn, I should rewatch the series like this. Where can I find all of it without the laugh track?
- Comment on what lemmy web app do you use and why? 6 months ago:
The amount of people not knowing what a “web app” is, is seriously concerning.
Anyway, I tried “old” and Alexandrite, but I just ended up sticking with the default. I find “old” ugly, and on Alexandrite, I couldn’t find my saved posts. Maybe it has been fixed since, but the default one works for me best.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 6 months ago:
I’ve switched to Gboard on Android back in the days, when it was the only one with proper multilingual features, and been using it ever since.
I’ve experienced the opposite: I actually found it rather more helpful than not, despite the occasional errors like you mentioned. But nowadays it’s quite rare that it “mispredicts” a word. And what I’ve found extremely helpful is, that nowadays it doesn’t only correct individual words, but it picks up other grammatical errors as well in the sentence. So it’s working for me.
- Comment on When you are on a videocall do you also keep looking at your own thumbnail video? 7 months ago:
I find it weird to look at my thumbnail video, so I almost never do that.
- If I have the chance, I don’t even enable my webcam. It depends on the workplace…
- Generally, I always look at my notes, because I’m unable to keep all the necessary things in my mind while talking.
- If no notes are needed for whatever reason, I just look at others in the meeting.
If I look at myself, that happens maybe at the very beginning to check what’s in the picture, but I always hate looking at myself.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
Luckily I’m not involved in this smart-TV saga in any way, as I haven’t been watching TV since my childhood (there were no smart-TVs back then, but TV shows in my country were shit).
Now my biggest fear is, if enough people realize that smart-TVs are shit, then desktop monitors will start to become “smart” too. My life will be doomed if that happens.
- Comment on HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies 9 months ago:
Well, I guess it depends on the use case. For me, mine was a damn good investment for sure.
- Comment on HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies 9 months ago:
I know. Still, that’s the best hardware out there for laptops. I have to add though, only the T and P series are worth buying, the rest are trash.
- Comment on HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies 9 months ago:
Buying HP products is bad investment.
I only had the chance to two of their inkjet printers and one of their office laser printers, plus an elitebook laptop. In short, all of them suck.
Much better (to me, the best) alternatives, that I can safely say are good investments: Canon for inkjet printers, ThinkPad for laptops. Those are quality products. Unfortunately I don’t have any experience with other office laser printers, so I cannot recommend one.
- Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending 10 months ago:
Just as a mildly interesting story, I thought I’d share:
The best self checkout experience I had so far, was at a Japanese clothing store in Germany. There was a box at the checkout station, and each clothing item had an RFID in their labels. You just toss all your items in the box, it detects which exact products you’re gonna buy, and if the list of items shown is correct, you just pay and go.
A few years ago I heard of a similar concept for groceries, but that one was experimental and I don’t think they’ve implemented it ever since. But this one at the clothing store was not a test, and it worked flawlessly.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
Oh. Someone at the EU Commission started to use websites? 🤔
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
Wait, the keyboard layout standardization has been done by Microsoft?!
- Comment on Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! 🎉 Like YouTube, ... 11 months ago:
How is it different from PeerTube?
- Comment on Saying you're down to do something means the same thing as saying you're up for it. 11 months ago:
To me it usually goes like this:
“No.”
Or sometimes:
“Nope.”
Or when I’m feeling polite:
“No, thanks.”
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 11 months ago:
I used it every day, when I had it. I would still use it every day if I had it. Sadly I don’t have it anymore.
- Comment on The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't. 11 months ago:
I’ve always pronounced it as “Linux”. And then, one day I heard it from a native English speaker pronouncing it as “Linix”, and I still keep hearing that everywhere, but I just cannot fix my brain anymore. To me it always remains “Linux”.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
In my opinion, social media is extremely harmful to society. Fediverse has implemented some proper moderation, while those more popular platforms tend to amplify what makes this world crazy (and eventually completely destroyed).
If there’s one reason why it’s not okay that those platforms are more popular than the fediverse, it’s that at least the Fediverse has the chance to properly moderate content, while on those platforms it’s either unmoderated, or even worse, the quality content is oppressed.
- Comment on English is weird 11 months ago:
“you have got a problem”, which isn’t wrong
Can someone explain to me, why isn’t it “you have gotten a problem”?
- Comment on Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14 11 months ago:
Whaaaat? Damn.
Nowadays I tend to feel fed up with Android and switching to iOS crosses my mind sometimes, but the more I hear about iOS, the more I appreciate Android.
Seriously, WTF?! A web browser is a pretty essential tool, I can’t believe a real Firefox version cannot be installed.
I guess, my long term solution will be some Android-fork.
- Comment on Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14 11 months ago:
What do you mean? How does Firefox behave on iOS? There is no extension support, or what? (I’ve never used iOS.)
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 11 months ago:
I know this isn’t a popular view, but as for me, if Google makes the user experience worse (or blocks services entirely) for Firefox, I’ll just stop using those services. I’ll find alternatives for the essentials, and those that aren’t essential… well, hello, extra free time.
It was a thing of the past, when different browsers rendered websites differently, thus some services didn’t work in certain browsers.
Nowadays all browsers are pretty advanced, they render websites more or less precisely according to standards, so it’s really not hard to make a website work in all major browsers. So if a service doesn’t work in the browser of my choice (whether it’s intentional or not), then that service sucks and isn’t worth my time messing with it.
- Comment on Let's confuse Americans! 11 months ago:
We had that in Europe too, but I don’t see these anymore.
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 11 months ago:
Why is it such a big deal? I don’t regret anything. Back in the days when Google was a cool company and Chrome appeared, it totally made sense to use Chrome. After they gradually started to get more and more hostile, I switched to Firefox. It was just a matter of exporting and importing bookmarks and setting up some plugins. And changing the search engine.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
- Bret Fischer’ Docker courses
- Maximilian Schwarzmüller’s JS courses are said to be good, I only tried his Vue course, that one is indeed good.
- Mosh Hamedani had great C# courses, but sadly he hasn’t been updating them, so by now they’re outdated. Could be still relevant for the basics.
- Asim Hussain’s JS courses
- Aaron Parecki’s The Nuts and Bolts of OAuth - I’ve found it a straight to the point explanation of the basics that should be enough for smaller projects, and also enough for you to make your further research when you need it.
- Not programming, but I would put Kody Amour’s math courses here as well.
- Nathan Stocks’ Rust courses are fine. I got them for free, if you watch out, you might find him posting coupon codes for free access to his courses. I haven’t found them especially excellent, but for free they’re actually pretty good.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Udemy.
The catch is, unfortunately 95% of the courses there are trash, and it can be a real challenge to find those 5% that are actually valuable.
- Comment on Quack? 1 year ago:
If it walks like a banana, quacks like a banana, then probably it’s a banana.
- Comment on Scrollbars are becoming a problem 1 year ago:
I have a broken scroll wheel (which happens every 5-10 years, whenever the lifecycle of my mouse reaches its end), and I feel the pain every freakin time I wanna scroll.
Nowadays with such high-resolution screens I just can’t understand why it’s needed to make those scrollbars so narrow.
- Comment on Scrollbars are becoming a problem 1 year ago:
Well, I won’t agree, because I haven’t met with this problem yet. I’m just here to somewhat disagree with the upvote part: in my book, upvote means agreement. I find it totally unnecessary to repeat the same thing, when you can just upvote. That’s what upvote is for.
(But as I said, I didn’t agree, so it wasn’t me, I didn’t upvote.)
- Submitted 1 year ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says 1 year ago:
I don’t know if anyone told them already, but the trick is, make your search engine usable. Not spend billions.
As for me, I stick with DuckDuckGo, it’s actually usable.