MIDItheKID
@MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 3 days ago:
Ahh yes. Reminds me of my teenage years. Experimenting with Marijuana, pirated MP3s, and the Milkdrop visualization plugin for Winamp. Those were good times… Real good times.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 days ago:
It’s going to be relentlessly compared to OverWatch. It’s basically an OverWatch clone with Marvel characters.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 week ago:
It is however acceptable at the supermarket when a product says “Made with 100% white meat chicken”
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
“You’re not wrong Walter, you’re just an asshole” -The Dude
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
“Nikola Tesla was the electric Jesus”
- Comment on Stuck 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows 3 weeks ago:
Ohhh I completely misunderstood that. I really wanted to watch bootleg animations with the same audio.
- Comment on North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows 3 weeks ago:
But like… Where can I watch these?
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 4 weeks ago:
Tomb Raider (2013).
I just finished Dave the Diver and I was going through the backlog of unplayed games on my Steam Deck. I’m not even sure when I bought this game, I feel like it may have come with a humble bundle or a graphics card. Anyway, I’m about 3 hours in and so far it’s pretty great!
- Comment on Which Mortal Kombat games across the years should I start with? 1 month ago:
Probably “Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero”. Definitely the peak of Mortal Kombat as a whole, and defined everything we know about the series.
And for the love of Christ, /s if anybody didn’t pick up on it.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 1 month ago:
I think you can install all the normal streaming apps on Kodi as well. It definitely takes more know-how than using something like a Roku or smart TV, but FOSS be like that sometimes.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 1 month ago:
Raspberry Pi and Kodi?
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
I don’t do electrical work. I’m usually taking the outlet covers off for painting walls. And I like to paint with the lights on.
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
Yup, I’ve noticed that spanner screws (the two dots) are usually found on elevator control panels. There is no reason that somebody should be able to open those up with a Swiss army knife.
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
I hate slot screws because they are easy to slip out of, and the place that I find them the most is always outlet covers. Like… What the fuck? Why are you gonna put the most easy to slip out of screw next to the most dangerous to slip into hole?!
- Comment on Mystical land pirates (with pizza) 2 months ago:
I delivered pizza for a few years in my early years, and poorly lit addresses were the absolute worst. I was delivering in the pre-smartphone but post mapquest era, and we had a computer in the shop with a touch screen (which was crazy at the time) map on it so you could figure out where we were going. But God forbid you ended up on a one way street looking for an address that was poorly labeled or unlit and you got somebody behind you laying on their horn… At some point I bought a 1000 candle spotlight that I used at night, and that got me pulled over several times because people would fall the police about “a slow driving car shining a spotlight out of its window”… Like… For fucks sake. I’m just trying to deliver some pizza.
With that said, while working I smoked a bunch of weed, listened to a bunch of good music, and generally got tipped well so… It was a good time.
- Comment on Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App 2 months ago:
People keep asking about storage and that’s a valid concern. I remember a while ago Linus made a video about a crypto that can be mined with storage. So he made a huge raid of old drives. I wonder if something like this could or would be practical for a decentralized storage solution. Like… Encourage people to set up NAS’s that can be used sort of like torrent seeding for a decentralized video platform and reward them with crypto.
I dunno… Just thinking out loud.
- Comment on Oopa loomp doopity don't. She should better choices but probably won't 2 months ago:
That cheat code lives in my head rent free.
- Comment on Final Fantasy XIV will launch on Xbox on March 21 2 months ago:
You dropped an X.
I was really confused for a moment. With that said, FFIV is a great game and I had fun with the 3D remake. I never got around to playing “The After Years” though.
- Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. 2 months ago:
This just triggered a deep memory from within me. My brother used to say “half past” when I asked him the time, and when I would say “half past what?” the response was always “Half past the monkeys ass, a quarter to his balls”
I still don’t know what it means or where it came from, but when I was 8 years old, it was hilarious.
- Comment on Protesters Gather Outside OpenAI Headquarters after Policy Against Military Use is Quietly Removed 2 months ago:
“Now it can see humans, identify who they are, and decide who to kill without ever consulting a human.”
This is the technology that I am not confident in, and it makes it the most terrifying. Remember all the issues we have had with facial recognition not working very well on people of color? So instead of having cops misidentify POC and killing them, we will have robots that do it but faster and more efficiently. And if you thought nobody was held accountable before, I got some bad news for you.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 3 months ago:
If anybody is curious, here are the details on how to do that: pdq.com/…/how-to-block-the-windows-11-upgrade/
If you want to take it a step further, write a Powershell script that checks that the registry entry is what you want it to be, and then changes it if it is not. Then create a scheduled task to run at login that runs the script. That way if/when Microsoft pushes an update that switches the registry entry back, the scheduled task will flip it back after installing updates/rebooting/logging in.
I am currently fighting this battle with New Outlook in Win 11 23H2. It’s really annoying. I can get rid of it with registry entries, but when windows does updates it reverts the registry changes back. So scheduled task it is. It would be great if there was an Intune configuration profile to deal with this, but that would go against Microsoft’s current methods of shoving new products down your throat.
- Comment on how did "step" porn become so popular when we did such a good job keeping scat and insest porn out of the mainstream for so long 3 months ago:
Yeah, I miss the old days when the stories were substantial. Like when a whore steals your lemons.
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 3 months ago:
I know you said you don’t agree, so this argument is for the hypothetical person who holds that opinion…
With that said. My wife and I crunched the numbers recently. If we lived like people in the 50s, which is to say, we lived as poor as we could and completely wrecked our quality of life (eating as cheap as possible, no Netflix, never eating out, no luxuries at all), we would save like $10k a year. Which means that if we did that for 10 years, we would have enough for a down payment on a house that we would not be able to afford the monthly mortgage on (and a house in that price range would be a wreck in our neighborhood. A standard 3bed 2bath in good condition where I live starts at about 800k).
It’s insane. This isn’t some “just stop eating avacado toast” thing.
- Comment on Chinese hackers are determined to 'wreak havoc' on US critical infrastructure, FBI director warns 3 months ago:
I will definitely check it out. A lot of what I have heard is from the podcast “Darknet Diaries”. I feel like it is pretty commonly known around here but, man… It exposed me to a lot of things that I did not know were going on. And that’s what is currently public information. What is not public information is probably way way worse. Another commenter below mentioned something about countries spying on countries, but what is currently happening in the digital warfare realm is way more than spying. As the OP article goes into, we are talking about attacks on infrastructure. That is not spying. The line needs to be drawn somewhere. Like… Attempted murder is a crime. Why is attempted hacking on infrastructure that would kill a bunch of people not a war crime?
The concept of war is changing rapidly in the age of information. Why would you deploy boots on the ground when you can use technology to break down a country from the inside?
- Comment on Chinese hackers are determined to 'wreak havoc' on US critical infrastructure, FBI director warns 3 months ago:
The whole “Is hacking an act of war?” thing needs to be seriously reconsidered. Of course, if the US decided it was, they would be guilty of so many acts of war. And it’s not just the US. Everybody is trying to hack everybody and acting like killing people by bringing down a power grid is somehow different than killing people by dropping a bomb. The outcome is the same: You did something that intentionally killed people.
Of course saying that hacking is an act of war opens up a huge can of worms. Suddenly small time hackers are being charged with or framed for war crimes.
It’s a delicate issue, but I think it is worth revisiting.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 4 months ago:
Returns and Hong Kong were good, but Dragonfall rocked my tits right off. Had to have them surgically reattached.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 4 months ago:
ShadowRun: Dragonfall
Its an isometric tactics style game that plays like the tabletop RPG it is designed around. It’s a lot of reading, so if you’re not into that stay away, but man… I remember when I beat it I was like “Fuck… Did I fuck up? I think I may have made some wrong decisions. I feel awful now”
- Comment on Good news, everyone! We temporarily stopped the orphan crushing machine! 4 months ago:
I’m not trying to put the blame on him. I’m more trying to say that maybe he should be paid enough to afford housing and his job should provide sick days and maybe even Healthcare. This guy was grinding himself to death while putting others at risk just so he could get by. That’s not his fault. He was doing what he needed to do to get by. It’s messed up that he had to do that.
- Comment on Good news, everyone! We temporarily stopped the orphan crushing machine! 4 months ago:
“Guy who works in food service admits that he went to work sick and likely spread it to hundreds of people because it’s the only way he could make ends meet, and now he can afford a house but not because of his hard work, but because it went viral on the internet.”
What a heart warming story.