chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Personal Responsibility 3 hours ago:
I have seen a divorce caused by the presence of a kid.
Coworker and her husband adopted a teenager who had issues. He started physically assaulting my coworker and she didn’t feel safe in the house and wanted the kid gone. Husband said they’d made a promise to care for and love him. In the end, he chose the kid over his wife and they ended up divorced.
Also - I first heard this story from her when she had a breakdown about it on my first day at the job when I went to ask for the key to the supply closet.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 1 day ago:
The only thing it’s useful at is shit that isn’t necessary.
We had a P&Z member at the city I work at get butthurt because we corrected him at a meeting, so the city manager asked me to write an apology letter to him.
That was the one time I loved ChatGPT. It was bullshit that didn’t need to happen that I didn’t care about and achieved nothing, so I let the fucking bot write it.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 day ago:
Well, it’s a Seagate, so it still comes out to about a hundred bucks a month.
- Comment on Elmo is on fire 2 days ago:
You should watch Jon Stewart’s monologue from yesterday.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 5 days ago:
You want to hear about a game to play?
Clair Obscur. Made from former Ubisoft team members in what sounds like a healthy development culture and it’s a godamnned masterpiece at every level. Visuals, art direction, story, characters, mechanics, music - it’s all stellar.
- Comment on YSK about StopICE.net to send and receive alerts about ICE raids in your area 6 days ago:
From courts legitimately interpreting the law? Not at all.
But that’s not a guarantee anymore, and the administration also doesn’t care what the courts say. He also just got gigafunding for his Gestapo.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 week ago:
Not everyone can live in California wine country.
Most people live where it gets either dangerously hot or dangerously cold for large portions of the year.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 week ago:
Because I live in Texas and being outside in the summer for extended periods is dangerous.
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 1 week ago:
My recent experience with my phone is I tell it to set a 5 minute timer and it sets one in the fucking Google search browser, and if I page away I lose the timer.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 week ago:
As long they can send people to torture prisons without due process or evidence, we do NOT have a First Amendment.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 1 week ago:
I had a Fold 3, and while I loved the form factor, the battery was shit.
The screen got broken, and I decided to upgrade to a Fold 6 so far I’m very impressed. I took it off the charger in my car at 100% on Wednesday night around 10pm, and put it back on the charger at 11:30pm Friday with 15% left.
48 hours with moderate usage (including some gaming and YouTube) is pretty good.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 1 week ago:
But non-tech people aren’t buying Faiphones, but whatever they’re pushing at the Verizon store.
- Comment on Genius 1 week ago:
Unless you have an older machine, probably the Coke guy.
Coke wants to control what drinks are in the machine and what percentage of the take Coke gets, so they refill the machines.
We used to have an older machine on an old contract, and since we didn’t really care about the income from it we let Coke swap it for a new one they’d service.
About 2 months later, they said we weren’t selling enough drinks and took the new machine away.
- Comment on Genius 1 week ago:
Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 1 week ago:
Buying studios wasn’t stupid.
Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.
- Comment on Xbox is cancelling Rare's 'Everwild' and ZeniMax's new MMORPG IP as part of broader cuts — with 'Perfect Dark' impacted as well 2 weeks ago:
They know they’ve destroyed the planet, so why bother planning for a future they’ve already prevented.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I live in Texas. I own like 2 shirts with long sleeves in case I have to go to a funeral or something.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
That’s just because Microsoft waited until Android and iOS were well-established before trying to make a smartphone OS. It could have been the best OS ever made, and it still would have been a failure because there wasn’t a market for a third OS. It was hard enough at the time to get apps developed for both iOS and Android - there wasn’t room for a third player.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
Everyone talking about how it’s because of Windows 11 or their greed driving people away, etc. But they’re ignoring the big one:
People don’t need as many computers these days. You don’t have a lot of households with a laptop for every member of the family because smartphones and tablets have replaced the PC for many people for media consumption and basic tasks.
- Comment on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes re-wiring a house or building isn’t as practical as setting up a mesh network that’s good-enough.
- Comment on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bad band for cellular. It’s short-range and shit at penetration.
It’s really not even that good for wifi unless you’re close or have a mesh network with APs all over the building.
- Comment on Get Back! 2 weeks ago:
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.”
Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor…I am Pagliacci.”
Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum.
Curtains.
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 2 weeks ago:
Also, don’t use their website.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 2 weeks ago:
And you can turn off some of the survival elements that some people find annoying. For instance, having to spend half your time early on hunting a specific type of fish for freshwater.
- Comment on Air Jordens 2 weeks ago:
I might pay extra for that.
- Comment on I honestly think they're impossible to understand 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Looks delicious 2 weeks ago:
Those are some expensive pickles.
- Comment on Having a big memory card was such a flex 2 weeks ago:
For those who weren’t around at the time: The PS2 had a huge shortage of memory cards the first year or so. So you could buy games, but had to keep the console powered up 24/7 because you couldn’t save your games.
I ended up buying a 3rd party card, but since Sony didn’t officially allow them it came with a disc that launched an application that installed a driver in the local memory that allowed the card to function until the next power cycle. So you’d put in the driver disc, turn on the PS2, load the drivers, then swap discs to the game you wanted to play and pray that the game you were playing didn’t make use of the same memory addresses as the 3rd-party drivers.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 3 weeks ago:
There’s a reason ICE conceal their faces.
They know what they’re doing is wrong and don’t want to be held accountable if their fascist rule collapses.
- Comment on It is what it is 3 weeks ago:
Are people required to know how their car works?
Do people have to understand chemistry to buy gasoline or mercury thermometers?