Bongles

@Bongles@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you avoided Twitter, why would you think you’d like its alternative?

  It’s just a microblog site. Depending on what you’re interested in, it can be good for news, social movements, updates from companies (i followed game devs and would see patch notes and things), keeping up with celebrities or content creators, following topics or hobbies you’re interested in (like you might here), or like when nearly everyone was on Twitter - just seeing what trending things people are talking about. If something is going on, like the Mike tyson Jake Paul fight, seeing everyone’s takes on it, jokes, memes, can be fun for people or make them feel connected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The way sign up currently is, probably not. It would still default to bsky.social and your average person isn’t going to think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth

  “Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered as a service bringing new innovations and updates in an ongoing manner, with continuous value for our consumer and business customers,” says a Microsoft spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. “We aren’t speaking to future branding at this time, but customers can be confident Windows 10 will remain up-to-date and power a variety of devices from PCs to phones to Surface Hub to HoloLens and Xbox. We look forward to a long future of Windows innovations.”

  https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should have elections with no candidates.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What stops them from just saying what people want to hear, then doing what their party wants? There’s no accountability because you wouldn’t know that the party that lied last election is saying the same thing this election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Current Lemmy will circlejerk about the end of any company or product with the smallest nudge.

  Every slightly negative post above a certain threshold of views will have comments about abandoning whatever thing it’s about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should i be giving a shit about my posture?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in that direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there an ebook service like GOG is for games? DRM free so you can keep the books regardless of what happens to the service?

  (I know it’s easy enough to remove it, but I’d rather support a service like that if I can)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All good. I think we’re thinking of this from different aspects anyway. I’m thinking a company just subscribes as part of their office subscription and Microsoft is doing the heavy lifting of the cost and hardware. I don’t know how OpenAI makes money besides their little subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (which you seem to do and keep on posting here)

  I’ve only made the comment you’re replying to. I’m not whoever you’re thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You keep mentioning cost, and in the grand scale of “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” there’s a large cost but for users, they’re just paying for a license from Microsoft to have copilot in their visual studio software or in M365 apps, etc.

  So for helping with development, it’s really not that expensive for the users. Also, “they” make lots of ridiculous claims, and i don’t know who said it, but no developers in 5 years is a wild claim that no one should’ve thought was real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I make games and this literally happened to me this morning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering you’re a hobbyist and probably don’t have marketing, it’s too soon to say it’s a flop. Many games like that pop off later once it gets seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, they did it just out in the open in some dusty warehouse. Comments I’ve read say that’s a pretty big deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans Are Sharing The "Normal, Everyday" Aspects About The US That Are Actually Dystopian, And I Can't Believe We Tolerate Some Of These⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the credit rating one I can certainly get behind but some of it sounds like BS

  It is. There’s no change to your credit rating or report over whether or not you paid interest. It’s not even a reported statistic. At best, you could argue that if they see the credit utilization is low and your payments are always on time that you probably don’t pay a lot of interest, but that is a typical indication of good credit.

  It’s more likely that they had one credit card and not that long of a credit history with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder what the marketing pitch was for Uncrustables⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s literally in the name. “Hey, you know how some kids hate the crust and their parents cut it off? What if we sold it like that.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree to look up a local third party candidate and mention their name to someone you know who is also local?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would I be able to talk to other locals about a third option from my toilet but not about ranked voting from my toilet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the current temperature sometimes lower than today's low temperature? For example right now it 13F with a predicated low today of 16F!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of context you’re right, but most of the time when you open a weather app you’ll get a more detailed view where you can see, in this example, that 29 is the high and 16 is the low for the day with 13 being the current temperature. Once you look at that one time you would know what these numbers are in this shortened view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder how much of youtube content is hardcoded sponsor ads.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as I have seen a reviewer shit on a free product at some point, I’m fine with it. Otherwise I agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Early or late, they’re hardly ever on time anymore. It also feels like they’re going the way of Google and starting to abandon projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So what happens to, for example, the HP reverb g2?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restoring deleted account⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I stop my keyboard from saying help instead of hello?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You won’t die from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I stop my keyboard from saying help instead of hello?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As opposed to: Hello 🥺🥵🫦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine was like that, make sure you check for firmware updates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now, it’s only $700 where I am.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a fan so far myself. It’s not always perfect but you can take your search to any of the other popular search engines right from Kagi if you need to.

  It’s got a quick answer button which is using one of them new fangled AIs to pull an answer for your search out of the results, and then lists the sources for each bit it’s telling you. You can also “summarize a page” for any of the results.

  You have these lenses that people were mentioning and one of the default ones that I use all the time is “forums”. So if my results are a bunch of shitty articles I click that and it shows me only sites like reddit instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally sure, but maybe Microsoft shouldn’t have tried saying windows 10 was the last windows version, to then release a new version that a lot of people can’t even upgrade their current PCs to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You know I used to process claims at a health insurance company in the US and while the general public consensus is that they hate that company, I’ve never seen the really scummy things people mention online about insurance. There were never incentives to deny claims or find loopholes or whatever. They just had the benefits listed, and various guidelines written out and you were just supposed to accurately process it to those guidelines, deny or pay, whatever.

  I’m sure it happens, and there endless other issues, but it makes me wonder what company would risk that stuff if the one I was at didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s the only benefit of premium (on YouTube itself). I guess there are still YouTube originals but that kind of died as far as I can tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Suicide/murder is not even top 10 based on what I’m seeing.

  • www.cdc.gov/nchs/…/leading-causes-of-death.htm (US deaths 2021)

  • www.who.int/…/the-top-10-causes-of-death (Global deaths 2019)

  Admittedly I only quickly googled them and skimmed for the stats.

  I think you’re underestimating the effect of painkillers given when you’re going to die. Otherwise, yeah, fatal car crashes can be painful, or you can die instantly and I have no idea what the ratio is on either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use copymethat.com. you can grab it as an extension in your browser or an app on your phone and then when you find these recipes it grabs the actual recipe out from all the nonsense.