MIDItheKID

@MIDItheKID@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to bring this up. If they just removed all of the slop they implemented in the past 6 months, they could hit that 20% real easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am fully against drinking and driving, but there is definitely some bullshit out there like getting locked up for sleeping it off in your car. I’ve read plenty of stories about people getting arrested for merely approaching their car while drunk, and that shit gets me paranoid. I live in a place where I park on a busy street, and there have been times that I am having some drinks at home and I’m like “shit I gotta go get this thing from my car”. The fact that I can get arrested while going to get my backpack or whatever from my car because I have keys in my pocket and therefore have “intent to operate a vehicle under in influence” doesn’t sit well with me. Go find actual drunk drivers. I swear half the shit cops do is making up crimes because they can’t meet their quotas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So… Just tell them that it’s illegal for them to drive? Kind of like how we tell them that it’s illegal to drink and drive but they did that anyway? The point of the lock is that it’s for people who are going to ignore the law anyway. Not having a license does not stop somebody from operating a motor vehicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not-so hot take: the underlying issue is lack of public transportation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Red, White and Blue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s so fucking backwards. I should be considered a patriot. I want Americans to have access to Healthcare and education. I want Americans to thrive and do great things. But no… Apparently the definition of patriotism over here is “I don’t care about other people, I only care about me, and also, kill brown people in other countries”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨covid.gov redirects to lab leak conspiracy insanity⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a lot of em dashes…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I read the entire article looking for this and couldn’t find anything and I’m so confused. Did they mean to say “Selling weapons and sex dolls resembling children”?

  Or are we literally talking about Desert Eagle Fleshlights?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn Nerf wars gonna be crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a post here somewhere about how younger generations are just using phones to make large purchases and it is baffling to us old folk. I felt so seen.

  Like… If I am booking a flight, or a hotel, or buying an appliance, or electronic etc. That’s a computer purchase. I need multiple windows, tabs, and monitors. I need to be weighing options and doing research with side-by-side comparisons. I can’t do that on a phone. These younglings are doing stuff like that from a phone, and I can’t wrap my head around it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So let me get this straight. Companies were like “instead of paying one senior dev 300k and 5 junior devs 150k, we can get rid of all the junior devs and give the senior dev AI to do all of the legwork thus saving us 750k.”

  And then they found out that AI costs money. So instead of ponying up the 100k in tokens for the senior dev to to their job, they are saying “Hey senior dev, we are taking away your bonus and replacing it with tokens! You can take it or be out of a job, because we refuse to keep anybody on board who doesn’t use AI to replace 5 junior devs”

  So these cheap fucks saved 750k, and are upset with the fact that they might only save 650k?

  While also destroying the planet to generate shitty code.

  I fucking hate this time line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to go back in time and show this to somebody who worked at the Nintendo Power Tip Hotline. They would be all like “oh shit, AI is going to take our jobs in the future?” not knowing that their jobs were replaced decades ago by autistic people with dial-up internet making GameFAQs txt files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI or not, I feel like everybody has had “the incident” at some point. After that, you obsessively keep backups.

  For me it was a my entire “Junior Project” in college, which was a music album. My windows install (Vista at that time - I know, vista was awful, but it was the only thing that would utilize all 8gb of my RAM because x64 XP wasn’t really a thing) bombed out, and I was like “no biggie, I keep my OS on one drive and all of my projects on the other, I’ll just reformat and reinstall Windows”

  Well… I had two identical 250gb drives and formatted the wrong one.

  Woof.

  I bought an unformat tool that was able to recover mostly everything, but I lost all of my folder structure and file names. It was just like 000001.wav, 000002.wav etc. I was able to re-record and rebuild but man… Never made that mistake again. Like I said. I now obsessively backup. Stacks of drives, cloud storage. Drives in divverent locations etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a special message from our sponsors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.