chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 hour ago:
Did you know you can press “f” to go faster and outrun the Yeti?
- Comment on Who did this 😂😂😂 1 hour ago:
How dare you leave out SkiFree!
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 day ago:
Tracking someone’s history through screenshots sounds like a fucking nightmare for the person doing the searching.
It’s evil, but also a PITA for the analyst.
- Comment on Amazing. 5 days ago:
In high school, I got in a car wreck and had to drive without a front bumper for about a year. When the bumper got torn away, it also took the light housings for my blinkers and running lights.
My dad made new housings with zip ties and soda cans cut in half that attached to the back of lenses we bought cheap at the local auto parts store. He drilled slightly undersized holes in the bottom of the cans that held the bulbs in place when they were pushed through, and he’d polished the inside of the cans to act as reflectors.
It worked great! When we eventually got the bumper replaced, the body guy shop was amazed and said he didn’t see any reason why we should spend the money to buy factory housings, and when we sold that car it still had store-brand diet sprite cans as light housings that surely confused the hell out of someone down the line.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 5 days ago:
I still mess up my sister’s spouse. They’re NB, but kept their name, hobbies, etc. To me, they’re the exact same awesome person they’ve always been, so I still screw up and call them by male pronouns.
I 100% support them, but I screw up and it feels bad.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 week ago:
Cuddling and massages are pretty much where it ends with me. I was in a relationship for a while, but it didn’t work out timing-wiss with careers and locations. We still keep in touch and hang out a few times a year though.
Nice thing about an Ace breakup is there’s less sexual baggage attached to becoming friends again.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 week ago:
There’s a spectrum of Ace. I got one am a heteroromantic ace, and I’m a dude. So I am attracted to women romantically, but don’t want to sleep with them.
It’s a very frustrating combination that makes dating difficult.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 1 week ago:
This isn’t about a failed bet. It’s about investors not being informed of the changes.
It’s closer to having the odds and rules explained, then having the casino change both retroactively after they’ve taken your money.
- Comment on Just got charged for reading it 1 week ago:
I’m in Texas, and our electric provider added a $200/month fee for all accounts for the next 2 decades to pay for the 2021 winter storm. They bought electricity from other providers during the storm for like 1000x the standard rate and passed the cost towards future customers.
And the beauty of that is that those fees also impact solar users who aren’t even using power, since a certificate of occupancy requires that a house be connected to the grid.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
That sounds like a bonus power.
Get them to do my bidding and they don’t even know about it.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
I have to lean sideways anyway because my shoulders are too broad and the side of the plane is round.
There’s so much about flying that sucks as a big person.
My knees are folded up to my chest. I’m leaning to the right to stay off the fuselage. I can’t be in an aisle seat because I’m in the way of the crew, and I have to lean forward the whole time because someone is in the seat next to me. And that person hates me.
My dread of the flying experience is why I never go on vacations.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
Honestly, that may actually be more comfortable for me than trying to fold my legs into the tiny rows they have now.
- Comment on Speak American 1 week ago:
I had a roommate in college royally fuckup a bunch of very expensive ribs we’d bought because the online recipe called for 2 cloves of garlic abbreviated as “garlic 2c” and he pit in 2 cups of garlic powder.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In Texas, government organizations not only can’t divest from aisrael, but also can’t award contracts to anyone who divest from Israel or speaks ill of it.
It’s insane. When analyzing bids for janitorial services for City Hall a few weeks back, I was required to vett them for their stance on Israel.
- Comment on Got any grapes? 2 weeks ago:
Nobody ever remembers to ask for the ZIP code.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 3 weeks ago:
Those are 2 excellent reasons to hate it.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
If you ever want to see 9f you’re on the right side of history, just look at your words:
“Illegal people” is a vile concept.
- Comment on U.S. seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopoly 4 weeks ago:
They don’t even need to donate.
He’s openly selling access to the while house through his crypto scheme. They’re not even pretending to run it through a campaign.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 4 weeks ago:
Because Apple prohibited that.
- Comment on Beans 4 weeks ago:
I’ll be the one storming it.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 4 weeks ago:
If you delete your steam account or decide you no longer want to ise their login/launcher or Valve decides to ban you, what happens to all your past purchases?
You’re locked in. You just have Stockholm Syndrome for the company that started the online requirement bullshit everything has today by locking Half-Life 2 behind a mandatory online service, then letting other devs force the same bullshit instead of just loading up a disc and playing the game.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 4 weeks ago:
One of my University students asked me the other day if I was doing anything special for the 20th anniversary of Revenge of the Sith.
I told him he needs to remember I control his grade.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 5 weeks ago:
Look into Xreal glasses.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 5 weeks ago:
I was slightly wrong about the order. I was actually talking about Black Mesa, which was in the same initial batch of 10 games.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 5 weeks ago:
Steam Greenlight was a program where independent games without a publisher could release games on Steam, but it was absolutely exclusive. They couldn’t sell their game elsewhere.
Literally the first game released on the program was a free Total Conversion mod that you could download anywhere else for free, but if you wanted to get it installed through Steam, you paid them for the privilege.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 5 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what Steam Greenlight was before they stopped all curation of games.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 5 weeks ago:
I think a middle ground may be having that requirement for background mic usage, or usage without a specific user prompt that turns on a mic.
Lots of apps have legitimate use for the mic. Apps having legitimate use for the mic while you’re not actively using the app on screen are more limited and need stricter permissions.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 5 weeks ago:
Epic charges 12%, but they’re somehow the villain.
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 5 weeks ago:
Trump is voiding student visas and illegally arresting and detaining students that speak out against genocide. The video linked is security camera footage of masked gestapo goons disappearing a student off the street.
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 5 weeks ago:
If you click on the comic on the site, it goes to the YouTube video of her being grabbed.