chiliedogg

@chiliedogg@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  If you click on the comic on the site, it goes to the YouTube video of her being grabbed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy moment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see the answers on the right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s part of the problem. If they charged the same to developers as Epic, I wouldn’t be so critical.

  For games primarily sold through Steam, Steam is often the most expensive part of the game. Is it okay that Steam’s take is higher than that of all the actual developers combined?

  Have you ever played a game that was actually worth playing and thought that the fucking storefront and game launcher were worth 30% of the game?

  Have you played a bunch of half-baked PC ports that could’ve used a bit more money on finishing the game?

  Developers decide to launch as-is partpy because they know Steam will be taking a massive cut and there will be no ROI for fixing the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My Samsung phone comes with an alternative android app store pre-installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hating on Apple for their 30% cut is popular.

  Hating on Google for their 30% cut is popular.

  Hating on Microfot, Sony, and Nintendo for their cuts is popular.

  But somehow hating on Steam for their 30% cut is going too far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My school had a number you could call and they’d dispatch a golf cart with 2 student workers to take you anywhere on campus for free, 24/7 (minus holidays and breaks when University offices were cosed).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used lots of FOSS software, and GIMP is by far the worst I’ve come across when compared against its paid competition.

  I hate Adobe the company, but Photoshop really is the gold standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s more difficult to set up, then it may not be better for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about that. The Trump team has been very sucessful this time around.

  It’s just that what they consider a sucess is really, really bad for the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Like it or not (I do not), the most important determining factor in American elections is people’s feelings about the economy. The horrors being done by our government are easy to turn a blind eye to. But the cost of living is something that can’t be avoided or suppressed.

  Economic ruin is how we beat these motherfuckers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same!

  What ZIP code and CVV number did you get?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would make building a $2500 iPhone in the US even more difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of the child laborers making 85 cents an hour?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Name a job where interrupting a CEO’s presentation in public wouldn’t be a terminable offense. What employee handbook says “If you’ve exhausted all other internal channels and are unhappy with the company’s direction, just call out the boss in front of thousands of people and there won’t be consequences.”

  If your company is that evil and unsettling to change, you call them out and resign. Calling them out but still wanting to be paid is saying you’re okay with taking blood money as long as you’re saying it’s bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They could crack down more on pirated Photoshop, but they don’t want to.

  The money is in the commercials licensing, and people who can’t afford Creative Cloud pirating it and learning it is good for them when they need software for work later.

  I’m a massive fan of FOSS. For my GIS work, I use QGIS over ESRI. For 3D modeling, I use Blender. For streaming video, I use OBS. Many FOSS solutions are extremely polished, and even for those that are clunky, they can be made to do what you need with a little work.

  But when it comes to photo editing, the reality is Adobe’s overpriced market leaders also happen to be far and away the best products. It’s not even close. Photoshop and Lightroom are untouched by the competition, paid or free. They’re simply excellent products that provide functionality that isn’t replicated elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I wholeheartedly agree with her message, the reality is that any employee that interrupts a company event to criticize the company until they are escorted out of the room is gonna be fired regardless of the accuracy of their statements. We should be appalled at Microsoft’s complicity in Gaza, not that they fired an employee.

  I applaud her for her stand, but she and everyone knew this would result in her termination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is unfair!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sir, that is all you can eat for $15.99”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Trump Performance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer this to when he went to France and called servicemen killed at Normandy losers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roommates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents have been married for nearly 50 years. My Dad likes to introduce her as “my first wife.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Investors flee U.S. stocks as markets react sharply to Trump's tariff plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Blaming volatility over policy concerns.”

  …Yes. That’s accurate. Fucking stupid policies tend to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody arguing rock, stone, or pebble.

  It’s a jpeg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horror⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see how that cane works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It works well, and I’m a huge fan and contributor to Open Street Maps (which it’s bassed on). But it doesn’t do traffic, which is unfortunately wha I need from my navigation apps 99% of the time.

  If they had a paid option to cover the costs of using TomTom’s traffic API, I’d make the switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and try as we might, we haven’t been able to replicate its biggest selling point. It was unfortunately also its greatest vulnerability regarding the corporatetake over.

  It was a central location from which thousands of large, niche communities could be found.

  Lemmy is great, but the decentralized nature of it also fragments small communities and makes it hard for them to launch. I was super active of the Scuba subreddit, but on Lemmy, there are like 8 scuba communities spread across the instances, but they’re all so small there’s no activity on them, and that fragmentation makes it difficult for one to reach the necessary critical mass to become active.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flushing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please tell me they flushed the signs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They took 3 weeks to attach my new plotter to the network because they didn’t know how to figure out how to trace a fucking Cat 5 cable.

  We have 12 employees in the city. My home office has a more complicated network closet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I’ve tried the shared mailbox thing. I had it at my last city and it worked fine, but our third-party IT service contractor here is the shittiest I’ve ever heard of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in government, and on mobile devices Outlook government accounts are restricted so that all other accounts have to be removed from the app.

  It sounds like a great security feature, but since I need access to 3 accounts for reasons, I’ve got one version installed on my city phone, one on my tablet, and had to install another on my personal phone.

  We’re budgeting in a second city phone for me next year because Outlook sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also feels like something Kavenaugh would have been into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not supposed to be an identifier, but since it’s the only nationally-assigned designation all citizens get it’s treated like one.

  Which is stupid. It’s incredibly insecure, vitally important, leaked to every bad actor on the planet already, and unchangeable when it gets compromised (which it has been).