froh42
@froh42@lemmy.world
- Comment on company-wide email 1 week ago:
This is not a reddit, Sir.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 1 week ago:
Wenn der Scheiß Zug kommen würde, könnte ich auch Scheißpfostieren.
What’s the difference between the US and Germany?
In Germany the ICE wilm probably not show up at all to take you away.
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 1 week ago:
Also reddit:
My gf didn’t close the tooth paste in the bathroom.
Reddit: Red flag, LEAVE HER
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 2 weeks ago:
IIRC Germany is named weirdly different around the world with names stemming from several roots.
Deutschland, Germany, Alemania, Nemezky, Saksa,…
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 2 weeks ago:
I’m living with undiagnosed Adhd for all of my life. My son got a diagnosis when he was 6 or 7 - thus I know the symptoms, and frankly I know too much of the diagnosis method now to get myself an honest diagnosis. (I know how to answer to get the results I want). And I don’t need it anymore, I adjusted my life to play more into my strengths and less into my weaknesses. (And the last 10 years - in my 50s - I feel like symptoms are getting milder)
The complicated thing is: Every single symptom of adhd is being experienced by the majority of normal people. It’s just being “more” of that statistically.
It feels like setting the difficulty level on a video game, you’ll see the same things, you’ll see the same bosses. You play on hard while the guy how got to play life in story mode tells you how lazy you are because you didn’t fight all the bosses, yet.
A big part of dealing with adhd is accepting that my challenge is mine and is different from yours.
And that probably is why “being neurodivergent” is so “attractive”. It gives us the freedom of not being seen as lazy or stupid, and that’s something that I think should really apply to every single fucking human on this world.
We all have our challenges. You are OK as you are. You are worthy of love. And yes, life is hard, you’re not lazy.
If seeing people like this were the norm, “neurotypical” people wouldn’t need to see themselves as divergent. People just use “adhd” or “autism” to say “look, I have my challenges, too”.
- Comment on I can still smell them 2 weeks ago:
Ah reminds me. My dad did smoke. And as tobacco was taxed differently he had once used one of these small sliding machines to put tobacco into “empty” cigarettes, sold separately.
He had stopped using these and was back to store bought cigarettes when I found his cigarettes and the machine.
I carefully pulled out all the tobacco from one of his Camel filters, and put it back in with the sliding machine - adding the tiniest firecracker I had.
Few days later he was sooooo angry. And the angrier he was the more I had to laugh.
It did explode in his ashtray when he was concentrating at his desk.
Oh fuck, thats was over 40 years ago and I still have to laugh like a madman.
Remembering him fondly, even when he was mad as hell at me the worst that would happen was him shouting.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 weeks ago:
The Floppotron
Since 2022 it is Floppotron 3.0 playing on 4 flatbed scanners, some hard drives and 512 floppy drives.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 weeks ago:
Ok, you forgot the Kickstart boot disk loading the Kernel before. But yes, the Amiga was amazingly resource efficient.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 weeks ago:
Not all drives had buttons. There were workstations (Sun Sparcs) which had. motorized eject mechanisms.
Used 10 of these workstations to copy my freshly downloaded Slackware Linux to the stack of 60 floppies it took. (Twice, so I wrote 120 disks, as at least one of the disks would have read errors on average). Each time one of the Sparcs was done, it did spit out the disk and I’d insert a new one, labeling the old one with what was written on screen.
Ah the hours I spent downloading and installing 100-200 Megabytes of operating systems.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 2 weeks ago:
Much too frequently, if you need to manage systems for a company.
THAT is my point.
I have spent too many nights unrolling and blocking Windows updates just to keep the fucking MS Exchange server happy.
Yeah it was paid time, but I’m much more happy if the systems I care about just run without hiccups.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 2 weeks ago:
Haha, are you aware of how many layers of Windows are just backward compatibility hacks? Architecturally Windows has changed a lot since Win98.
The fact that your 30year old business software is still running is just the fact that Windows has built in patches for some common programming patterns used at the time and someone having insight enough can enable/disable them (mostly).
Btw, the same for games. Windows detects specific games and re-enables former direct x bugs.
There are numerous layers of abstraction between your Win32 application and the Kernel, there’s no reason they won’t work on another kernel.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 2 weeks ago:
Are you wishing back for Ballmer? IMO things were even worse, then.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 2 weeks ago:
Your best bet to run it probably is on Linux with Wine. Or if it is MS themselves , they already have their own Win32 to Linux translation layers, for example DB2 for Linux runs that way.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 5 weeks ago:
18/20 because waterbeds weren’t a common thing here and I already had internet access and a mail address before AOL was a thing. Whoever made that list should have added usenet.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
As a European - does anyone think we give any fucks when a recalcitrant Island exits the Union?
- Comment on Accidental rapture 1 month ago:
I’m atheist who went through an agnostic phase earlier.
So - as a thought experiment - let’s assume there is a god and heaven and a judgment day.
There are two persons in front of the ultimate judge.
One behaved “good” but just out of fear of ultimate judgement.
The other one just he didn’t want to be an asshole out of his own wishes.
Who’d pass?
So i think god is irrelevant. Belief is irrelevant.
Ultimately these ideas led me down the path of optimistic nihilism.
- Comment on 🎄. (Turn on sound.) 1 month ago:
I miss my poop knife copypasta.
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 1 month ago:
There’s no way individual donations from ordinary people could match Google’s. They’re also likely to be less reliable.
Thank god. I do really believe all the Google money is actively stifling innovation at Mozilla. The only thing they can’t do is building a better browser than chrome is, for fear of becoming a viable alternative again.
So they use the money for some CEO pay. and weird projects while Firefox further falls from popularity.
I hope for the day Firefox’s market share has dropped to a level tha Google just won’t pay any money anymore for the default search engine deal.
That day - and not one day before - innovation will resume.
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 1 month ago:
I did. I rage-signed up for a monthly contribution to the Servo project the last time I read about something Mozilla did.
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 1 month ago:
Recently I go fucking annoyed by Mozilla that I rage-contributed (monthly payment) to Servo.
Mozilla is such a shit show.
- Comment on Teachers never forget 1 month ago:
When I was in 7th grade I had the same teacher in Latin that my dad had.
That teacher was really old. It was hard to cheat in a test, as he had extremely crossed eyes and I never was sure where he looked.
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 1 month ago:
I don’t have a lot of VR experience, but for me being “in” a scene does it for VR, while 3D Glasses are still meh.
Try non-stereoscooic VR by just closing one eye while using your headset - it’s still great. The difference is the one between stereoscopic tvs and normal ones.
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 1 month ago:
I had a TV that was 3D capable along with a PS3. I think I played 30 minutes of 3D games on that TV before I got a headache from the flickering shutter glasses and then they staid in the drawer below them tv for a year ar or two. Next time I wanted to try the batteries were empty.
I also saw a number of 3D movies in the cinema but it’s more for block busters and after a while it just is “meh”.
It’s a wow effect in the beginning, but in the end it’s just a gimmick.
- Comment on Countdown is starting 1 month ago:
Why is everyone ignoring Wham?
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 2 months ago:
In every fucking commercial for a washing machine someone is in their garden and turns on the machine by wifi. How does the dirty laundry get in?
The only interesting thing might be a notification when it’s done.
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 2 months ago:
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He gets knocked down,
does not get up again
You’re never keep him up again - Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 2 months ago:
What about an Emulator like 86box or so? And which game is it?
- Comment on Betrayal 2 months ago:
“Evidence”? What a quaint concept.
- Comment on Let's learn some words in the Finnish language 2 months ago:
As a Bavarian (South of Germany) I agree with the Ch at the start of the word being pronounced like a K (Chiemsee starts with the sound K), but with it depends on the region. I start “China” and “Chemie” with K, but a lot of people start it with “sch” (which sounds like sh in English). But that’s really weird for my ears.
And the father of my ex wife is from Cologne, his “ch” sound quite like “sh” as well. Kirche (church) sounds like Kirsche (cherry) when he says it. Funnily his last name has two “ch”.