techt
@techt@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's Wednesday, my dudes. 1 month ago:
I’d call that a rattlin’ bog
- Comment on Pill bottle 2 months ago:
I got that advice as well – the explanation given to me was that it’s almost always used incorrectly, so just be safe and don’t. However, I like the way it makes writing more closely resemble natural speech; we usually talk in conjoined clauses rather than complete sentences.
- Comment on Pill bottle 2 months ago:
I’ve been trying to get the semicolon to take off; haven’t had much luck though.
- Comment on Close call 2 months ago:
I think you’ve generalized a bit too much. The gender-swapped format was not created for this exact meme, it’s just a jovial commentary on male stereotypes women find unappealing. In this case, the joke isn’t that she saw a stack of random games, they’re all FIFA – did you maybe not notice that? The annoying male FIFA player is a pretty well-established meme at this point.
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 3 months ago:
Uppies for all of you!
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
Put your foot down everywhere then – it’s a fallacy to think that it’s not worth it to resist data harvesting because it already gets collected “everywhere” anyway, take one step at a time to make it harder and harder. Opting out of this is just one step.
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
Isn’t reducing the size of the dataset worth it? I’d rather them have a picture from three years ago than a new scan every month or two.
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
It’s not such a binary thing as winning or losing, it’s a constantly shifting process. The only way to actually lose is by giving up – instead, consider it making it as hard as possible for your privacy to be infringed upon. Sometimes it’s more inconvenient, but what makes us such a farmable populace is our reluctance to be inconvenienced. Be good at being uncomfortable.
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
I refused, it went fine. I had to repeat myself because it was unexpected and dudebro wasn’t prepared, and they had to turn on the other machine and wait for it to start up, but it only delayed me like 2 minutes. The more people ask, the easier it gets.
- Comment on Is my punctuation correct? 4 months ago:
Mine is sate vs satiate
- Comment on People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are 4 months ago:
I fucking love beans
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 6 months ago:
Crypto did unfortunate things to the space.
- Comment on Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed 8 months ago:
This is a strange response for me because de-federating is an active step on behalf of its admin, usually after a vote amongst its users, at creating a virtual boundary between the two entities. How is that burying your head in the sand? And yeah, lemmy.world is big, but aside from the obvious loss of content/users, what other effect will that have on the mass of de-federated instances?
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
I didn’t realize until now, but I’ve been very fortunate to be able to take the bus to work recently, and the lack of fear of other vehicles on the road is probably a huge contributor to how much better I feel after the commute. I have that anxiety ever-present in the back of my mind while driving a sedan.
- Comment on A sad tale 9 months ago:
You just made an inefficient evaporative purifier!
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 9 months ago:
That is not a link to a survey, and more importantly it doesn’t even say what you claim.
“One in six women and one in four men have not yet had children by the age of 45. One of the reasons is that women do not want to have children with men of lower status,” says the researcher.
In one generation, the proportion of childless women has increased from 9 to 15 percent among 45-year-old women and from 14 to 25 percent among men of the same age. This is far more than the 5 to 10 percent who state that they do not want to have children."
- Comment on Pray for their safety 10 months ago:
There’s a fundamental misunderstanding; the original commenter didn’t mean to use the line-style “queue” meaning, they were using it by mistake and even admitted that in a follow-on comment. They meant “cue” by its distinct definition, not the one that overlapped with “queue” long ago. It wasn’t a spelling correction – it was a homophone correction.
- Comment on Google forced to reveal users' search histories in Colorado court ruling 1 year ago:
How feasible is it to interact with your bank or other necessary services in a browser vs using the play store app? I can see LineageOS being viable if you can make such a transition.
- Comment on Google forced to reveal users' search histories in Colorado court ruling 1 year ago:
Understanding that you probably paraphrased for brevity, it’s hard to respond with anything helpful because only you know where the goalposts of, “actually works,” are – same thing with, “reliable push messages,” and, “works for banking.” I’ve used swipe input on the native Samsung keyboard and SwiftKey and found that they work just fine, but not as good as GBoard. If you’re going from a Google-invested product to pretty much anything else, it’s likely going to be a worse user experience, so you just have to set your expectations appropriately and keep in mind that what you’re getting in return for that is intangible but important.
What have you tried so far, and how have they failed you with respect to the metrics you’ve stated?