MIDItheKID

@MIDItheKID@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a special message from our sponsors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They left out the apostrophes and dropped an “L”

  It’s about a crisis that America has been coping with for a while.

  Fent an’ y’all

  It’s a TV show about a dog named Fenton (or Fent, as they call him) who is also a cowboy that is a hero of his community. It’s a spinoff of the show “Heroine” which was about a female superhero who had the ability to save people by miraculasly removing any pain that they felt. But it got kind of too dark when people started depending on her to be there and couldn’t survive without her. The public didn’t respond well.

  Anyway, there was another spinoff of the show Heroine called “Purdue and You” about a similar hero named “Oxy”, and it was basically just the same plot of Heroine but a little bit more family friendly and the audience seemed to accept it more even though it was the same thing.

  So now “Fent an’ Ya’ll” is kind of building on the popularity of both of those shows, but it’s just got much more impact. It’s like each episode feels 100x stronger. You’ll feel love, you’ll feel joy, and it might just leave you standing there doubled over. People are hooked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only real case I can think of where people like thin clients is when they move between stations. I worked at a hospital that used them and it was a fantastic solution. A doctor/nurse/whatever could walk up to any station, beep their ID, and a couple second later their session would load up. It was a huge pain in the ass to build and maintain though. These new devices might actually have a benefit there. Managing W365 through Azure/Intune is leagues easier than managing Citrix with Windows VM pools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I was gonna say. Dell has been making Wyse Thin Clients for a long ass time. This isn’t anything particularly new other than using W365.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two sides to every story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “If it smells like shit everywhere you go, check your shoe” sums it up pretty nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of callous to Postal 2, but not a lot of talk about the GTA series? Weird. Postal 2 was “3 edgy 4 U” and all, there were definitely some hilarious and violent things you can do. I remember pissing in somebody’s mouth and they started throwing up, so I hit their head off with a shovel, and the vomit continued to shoot out of their neck into the sky. But once you get past the shock value the game is pretty bland. I played the hell out of the demo back in the day, and eventually got my hands on a copy and I remember thinking “oh, it’s just the same thing but with more levels”…

  Anyway. The GTA series are actually good games. Like the controls, physics, story, comedy, etc etc… But also, you can go into a boutique clothing store in a affluent part of the city and murder all of the patrons and then when the cops show up - shoot rockets at their cars. Then pull somebody out of a high end vehicle and beat the shit out of them with a baseball bat and escape a high speed car chase. You can even play it in VR. Never done it myself but I remember seeing videos of beating people with blunt objects while they attempted to put their arms up in defense but succumbed to the blows and went unresponsive on the ground and though “holy fucking shit, that was really violent”.

  Anyway… That also lost its shock value pretty fast, but at least the games remained fun when playing the objective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And a chain mail glove.

  Not joking. You can get them cheap and they will save your finger tips.

  Mandolins usually come with those plastic things to hold the food you are slicing, but I always find them to be awkward and kinda sketchy. Like they can slip off the track and send your knuckle down on the blade etc.

  Chain mail glove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re willing to spend the money, get a Ken Onion knife sharpener. It’s a belt sander specifically designed for knives and tools. You plug it in, adjust it to the angle that you want, and pull your knife through while powering it. It’s way faster than any sharpening stone, and has almost no learning curve. You can put higher/lower grit on it depending on what you need. Got a chip in a knife? Hit it with low grit and grind it down until the chip is gone (yeah you will lose some knife, but as far as I know there’s no way to add metal back to a blade). Want to just touch up your knives? Use medium-high and then high grit. Shit, you could sharpen a butter knife to a razor if you’re so inclined. It’s a bit of an up-front investment, but it’s a great fool-proof way to sharpen knives really fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I knew of Lemmy earlier. I've wasted too much time on 'mainstream' social media.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh the terminal doesn’t scare me. I’m a Powershell junkie, so the terminal is warm and inviting. I just haven’t had the time to do it. Im also a windows admin by career so I like to be tuned into Microsoft’s bullshit to some extent, it’s part of my job. One of these days I’ll get around to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But the Canadien stock market is over 33,000!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, like all the time?

  In the US, every time the Winter Olympics come around there is this temporary curling craze where everybody gets super into it and you would swear it’s their favorite thing and then the Olympics end and it disappears out of everybody’s mind instantly. Like a spell being broken or something. It’s weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I knew of Lemmy earlier. I've wasted too much time on 'mainstream' social media.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty great! I miss some of the smaller communities on Reddit, like I still go back there for /r/Intune while I am working, but it will be a cold day in hell if I ever install the reddit app on my phone.

  There are some side affects of Lemmy though. I’m pretty close to installing Linux on my computers. Just haven’t found the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Alternatives, Ranked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey… Trillian was awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My Peloton can do this, how come my TV can’t? This technology exists and would not be that difficult to implement for digital media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taste the flavor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like spicy things. I eat spicy things all the time. One time maybe 10 years ago I ate a “stinger” pie from a pizza place. It was a pizza with hot peppers and hot pepper oil. It was so spicy and so so good.

  The events that occurred in the next 24 hours were something to behold. I was sitting on the toilet, sweating, shaking, and making my peace with God. It was an all day event. Full throttle.

  Since then, my intestinal fortitude has been severely diminished. I have to be careful about eating things too spicy or it will mess me up. It’s like I built up a thick intestinal lining over years and years, and this one event tore down the walls. They were blasted out.

  Life has not been the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the fuck has you keep your shoes on? I keep mine on, but if somebody comes over and asks if they should take their shoes off I just say “whatever makes you comfortable. On or off, doesn’t matter to me”

  That’s weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not the person you are responding to, but I am a fellow shoes-oner. I find the soles of my shoes to be way more comfortable than walking on the ground. Like I go to shoes-off homes and they have these foam mats on the floor in their kitchen and it’s like “imagine those foam mats were on the bottom of your feet and went with you everywhere”. Additionally I live in a place where it gets cold. Cold feet suck.

  Now before the “well then wear slippers” gang comes in. I have tried that. The soles of slippers pale in comparison to whatever the fuck my Allbirds are made out of. Additionally, slippers are often TOO warm. I don’t want cold feet, but I also don’t want sweaty feet.

  If I have to wear boots or larger/warmer shoes because of snow/rain, I will absolutely take those off at the door. But when I take them off, I am putting on my Allbirds.

  For me, ultimate foot comfort is my sneakers. I’ll take my shoes off if you have a shoes off home, but I’m not going to enjoy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First-In-Human Trial Of CRISPR Gene-Editing Therapy Safely Lowered Cholesterol, Triglycerides⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait is that true? I would totally eat yogurt if it meant I could enjoy ice cream again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IT admin here, we certainly do know how to do it, and already have. It’s an appx package, and it’s really not difficult to remove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, there it is. At first I was like “well it routes them to the sellers website, so that’s good, right?”

  But I had to stop and think “No. That’s not how Amazon operates. What’s in it for them?”

  And it’s this. This is 1000% the plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still smell them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there was even one more evolution where the plastic caps came in a strip instead of a ring. The strip was put in a magazine that slid into the bottom of the pistol. Most of them just moved the strip up as they fired, but if I recall correctly there were even ones that cut each cap off individually after firing it and ejected it like an empty shell. Awful for litter, but pretty cool for cap gun technology. I am pretty sure all of this stuff has been banned where I live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah thanks. I had no idea about the reference and I was like “That’s a pretty weird animal to use in this context”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A giant sea bird?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that crossed my mind, but if I’m not mistaken Pokemon was developed by Game Freak, only licensed by Nintendo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s capitalism, right? The manufacturers see that their product is still selling at a 300% markup, why would they bring the price back down when they can just make more profit if/when costs for them come back down? Sure they might drop it a little to make it “look” like a good deal. Just like GPUs. They went from being $600 for high end, to being $2000. Then when they announced that the next Gen was “only” going to be $1200 everybody was like “Wow! What a great deal!”

  I hate this timeline. They just keep figuring out new ways to squeeze money out of me and ruining my hobbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As much (well deserved) hate that Nintendo gets, they are fantastic at this. They seem to be able to make games look good on low powered systems with stylistic decisions and smart optimization/coding. They learned some pretty important things in the NES/SNES era about using tricks to squeeze performance out of the few KB/MB they had to work with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 100.00% decompiled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The code for the game has been decompiled. From my understanding that means it’s now readable and can be ported over to other places with some work. What that means is that a true “PC Version” can be made, which will have the ability to support things like widescreen/high resolution, high framerates, native keyboard/controller support as well as whatever mods people feel like developing (new maps, new modes, etc) - in the case of Mario 64, when this happened people got to work on a Multiplayer version, which works really well. So it opens up a lot of possibilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right there next to the poop knife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wanna see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hate being that guy, but it’s “Hi, kids” not “Hey, kids”. It’s actually integral to the rhyme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah. Remember in the Xbox 360 era when everything looked like it was wrapped in saran wrap? I hated that so much. It’s like - some if not most objects are not that reflective. Yes light bounces off of things, but it’s such an “all or none” solution. Things in real life are so much more diffused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GabeCube

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got in trouble in Middle School for printing out an entire FF6 guide from GameFAQs. It had all of the items and their stats, all of the spells, espers, maps etc. It was absolutely massive and the administration was not happy about me using all of that paper and toner. Already printed it, sucks to be them. 3 hole punched it at home and put it in a binder. It was awesome.