BallsInTheShredder
@BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Hello
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 8 months ago:
Hello
- Comment on The salaries of Wikimedia executives are sparking an online debate about tech sector wages 10 months ago:
and are now injecting its extension directly into the browser! Firefox?
- Comment on GM Says It's Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for Your Safety 10 months ago:
Makes me miss the days of “plug n play” radios like give me a slot connected to speakers for my stuff, don’t connect it to the car unless it’s to the OBD2 port and shows me diagnostics of everything while I’m driving
- Comment on GM Says It's Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for Your Safety 10 months ago:
Or just an fm radio & a Bluetooth FM transmitter
- Comment on Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced. 11 months ago:
They really do have far too much power and influence. Capitalism without ethics will always be a detriment to the people.
Without ethics in place it’s just everyone out for themselves trying to get paid while the rest just try to survive without losing it all.
Never fully understood how bad it can be until I saw my rural area get taken over. A decade or so ago it was just a town of poor folks and prices for housing, food etc. Reflected that. Then the rich folks, corporations etc discovered that money could be made here and that was it. All of the small businesses have been bought out and replaced with chain stores. Prices for everything have drastically increased to where a cheeseburger that sold for $5 a few years ago is now $25. Homes that were selling for $60k are now hundreds of thousands, a million in some cases. Almost all of the farmland was bought and sold to developers then turned into subdivisions who then marketed to “higher” class citizens who could afford to pay the asking price.
It was a small town where everyone knew each other. To date I’d estimate that 90% of those families have moved within a 10 year period. These are multigenerational families, many of which can date their family history here back to when their ancestors first migrated here.
Now it’s just a sea of opportunity for those into real estate and big business.
The common people never had a choice in the matter. These people just used their deep pockets to take everything over.
- Comment on Why do people always assume you're part of a group just because you're defending them? 11 months ago:
Yeah that’s good advice kind internet stranger and how I operate with many people. I give this person a little more tolerance because I genuinely believe he’s just never developed the skill of listening. It’s actually surprisingly common in my experience with guys from his generation.
- Comment on Why do people always assume you're part of a group just because you're defending them? 11 months ago:
Ain’t mad at ya pardner’, As pointed out in the beginning it was lengthy and petty, just wanted to vent about it to cool these 'ole boots
- Comment on Why do people always assume you're part of a group just because you're defending them? 11 months ago:
While I admit I can be wordy, I’ve been interrupted in conversations after the first few words, where someone has already concluded the opposite what I was trying to say
This habit really grinds my gears sometimes. Especially yesterday. I’m going to rant about this because I didn’t get the chance to actually converse about it yesterday. It will be excessively wordy and petty.
So yesterday I was conversing with a co-worker about having encountered an animal in my backyard. I say conversing but what I really mean is being disappointed.
Anyway I’d seen an animal and didn’t know what it was so I asked their opinion. Was in the back yard and I heard loud noises like a horse breathing hard from it’s nose.
When I finally caught a glimpse it was only briefly and just saw it from behind *Small, pig like tail *Short orange and black fur *Pig like body structure, short legs, round behind *Extremely slow, it “ran” from me at walking pace.
Along with some other things. Began to tell him about it and the first thing I mentioned was the orange and black fur. Was mid sentence trying to elaborate on the rest of the details when he asserted:
“It was a fox!”
It was anything but a fox. I know what foxes look like and explained that to them, along with attempting to explain other observations that would rule out the possibility of it being a fox.
But nah. Fox fox fox fox fox. Nothing I said mattered. What do I know? I was only there, know what a fox looks like which I thought would be the end of story but nope.
Just kept interrupting me with “it’s a fox” and focusing on the orange fur. Ignored completely when I pointed out that it was pig shaped, short tailed, emitted horse/dog noises when breathing etc.
I gave up, it was just an attempt at lighthearted conversation anyway.
Funny part is, when we were leaving work together this same coworker has me stop on the way out. They walk me over and point to a dog with Auburn fur.
Why did they do this? To tell me that it was a fox. The dog was a fox. Not only do they tell me this but they go on to say “this is what you saw!”
I said it wasn’t and that was the end of it. They had said their piece and corrected me, explaining to me how I had erroneously misidentified the mystery animal that I’d seen with my own eyes with a fox.
That was a dog. Beagle to be exact.
- Comment on The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo... 11 months ago:
It’s true, I guess they only built the “5G” towers to have the name alone, figuring customers would want the latest and greatest. It’s worked, most people I see are using 5G even though every 5G network I’ve tested has yielded about the results you describe, 15mbps while I can easily get 30+ via 4glte standing in the same spot.
- Comment on The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deplo... 11 months ago:
$25 a month for truly unlimited? Unheard of and super cool
- Comment on HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers 11 months ago:
Is that a good printer? Sounds vaguely like what I bought from a thrift store a while back.
It’s got something stuck somewhere that I haven’t been able to find by dismantling and cleaning. Didn’t know if it was worth fixing?
- Comment on Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged 11 months ago:
But they did do something eventually lol
- Comment on YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button 11 months ago:
What’s freetube? Ik I can search but so many recommendations
- Comment on X advertisers stay away as CEO defends Musk’s “go f*** yourself” interview 11 months ago:
If you were that person until you read this, fuck you
For 6 million dollars?
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
An Adblocker allowing ads to… start a conversation that’s already been had and over for decades at this point.
People don’t like intrusive ads. Give intrusive ads and we’ll always find ways around them. It’s a story as old as the internet. Google is no exception. You may have billions of dollars and thousands of employees but nearly everyone in the damned world hates ads. You can try to fight it all you want. The only reason that nearly anyone puts up with ads is they want to support the creator or don’t yet know they can avoid the ads. Even those supporting the creators don’t like the damned things.
I’ve seen so, so many people watching ads on their phones
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
What’s this?
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 11 months ago:
Thanks kindly cowpoke but that’s just Eddie Murphy
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
You’re right about that, I’m more weirded out by the salaries of the CEOs compared to the other employees. According to google the CEO of American family has a salary of around a million a year so… someone is profiting from it.
The term non-profit just (to me) almost loses meaning when it makes people filthy rich but you’re right, they are the lesser evil for the time being.
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 11 months ago:
>ahm chayngin’ mAh acceent
- southern American
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 11 months ago:
Why are you talking about me
- Comment on Do I need a license to kill a squirrel? 11 months ago:
be the problem you want to solve
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
I am not a nuclear physicist but have also been practicing that concept. Show me an ad that I don’t want to see? I Boycott.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
Hmm… part of me is not convinced that those companies aren’t benefitting in some way… I mean, the employees do have to be paid don’t they? What about the CEO? Is it just a passion project for them?
- Comment on What is "FUD"? 11 months ago:
I get that web searches make finding knowledge easy but it kind of disturbs me that we shame people for not doing so and basically tell them “just Google it and shut up!”
Are we supposed to just never communicate with other humans aside from chit chat and personal opinions?
Never speaking to others about any info that we could glean from Google seems… weird, doesn’t it?
Who initially began the campaign of “just Google it” anyway? It sounds like an ad campaign for google
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 11 months ago:
Luke, I am… my own father
- Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here? 11 months ago:
When somebody who’s smart believes something that seems dumb to you, doesn’t that suggest that you might be wrong and/or misunderstand what they said?
With you on that but also feel that in general judging others doesn’t ring as being very smart to me. I was bullied a lot growing up, judged etc. And that taught me how people’s judgemental remarks can affect others which helped me avoid that train of thought myself.
I eventually became judgemental myself, for a while and realized that I was a very… angry and sad person.
I think the biggest game-changer for me was being taught gratitude. I went from hyperfocusing on everything wrong about my life, and others to training myself to instead search for what’s nice about life, and others.
So personally? Being judgemental toward another human being doesn’t seem like a smart thing to do as it will just bring down others AND myself
But also… none of us handpicked to be born in our particular bodies. None of us hand-picked and chose the circumstances we would grow up in in life, nor the variables that would change us and mold us, genetics and so many factors form a person. So judging a person that just happened to grow in a different body and think differently than myself? What good does that do? If I was born in their body instead of mine then I would think exactly the same way that they do so I am absolutely no better, none of us are. Sure people do bad things and have annoying traits but at the end of the day being mad at them and judging them does nothing because we would be exactly the same in their shoes. Want to be angry at something or judge someone I guess place that judgment at fate, the cosmos, the universe, just in general things that are out of our control and we do not understand. But people in general aren’t really good or bad we are just a product of trillions of factors that we had absolutely no say in nor control of. It’s not like people can just… exit human existence for a bit become enlightened and then enter our bodies again now thinking exactly the way others think they should… they just got what they got, and our that way because this life made them that way really.
- Comment on YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) 1 year ago:
Hadn’t heard of x manager, thank you! Super giddy right now, I’ve been using modded versions of the apk for years but a few months ago my go-to stopped working and haven’t found a viable replacement until now. Really godda give them props I’m super surprised at how easy that was lol
Also I’d used revanced but quit when the original got buggy. With how crappy their ads have gotten now I’m going to give the new version a shot thanks for mentioning that as well
- Comment on What is a worker's union? How does it internally work? How can a union make the affiliated company do stuff to benefit the union(why can"t a company just say: f*ck off to their demands)? 1 year ago:
Oh wow, so during a strike the union pays employees? Never realized this happened but it makes so much sense now, so the employees can strike without having to worry about going broke. Would be cool if that funding were extended so that if an employer decides to give strikers the middle finger, those people can ride that funding until another job is found. Reducing the hold companies have on employees.
- Comment on How should I go about making an online identity that can't be tracked by advertisers? 1 year ago:
Downloaded it, checked disable ads and it asks for a configuration Id? Assuming I make one on their site but can’t figure how I would connect this app to the site