wavebeam

@wavebeam@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean, the food is bad by several measures. But I agree that it’s just a normal bite for a guy who doesn’t want to deal with getting messy on camera. It probably tastes good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's frankly stupid of me to get annoyed when people at work ask me tech questions, I'm getting paid to give 0-effort answers.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is OP ChatGPT?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not nearly cool enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, see that’s the thing that I think people don’t really understand about americans. They won’t. I will be essentially excommunicated. I already mostly am because I don’t use Facebook or Instagram. Cutting off decent messaging by leaving imessage without at least maintaining RCS would really cut me off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to switch from iPhone to Pixel 10 Pro Fold with GrapheneOS, but I needed RCS to work. Unfortunately, even installing Google Messages and allowing it permissions wouldn’t allow RCS to work for more than 36 hours before I had to go through the whole install and allow process again. I would be willing to cut off all Google services, even banking apps and whatnot, but I need RCS to work. I’m unfortunately an American and cannot reliably expect my friends and family to use an app other than iMessage to text, so I need RCS.

  Will Motorola provide some GrapheneOS compatible RCS client? If so, I am likely to switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Move to europe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sell your RAM, and quickly go from COD to the real world.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you’d have to pay in eddies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Foreign Policy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah, those are the authors of Metal Gear Solid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sales =/= quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah! Sabrina is way better than Taylor!

  ~ I don’t actually hold this opinion. I don’t actually give a fuck at all. But I do like them both just fine ~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Being vegan is unnatural"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The picture is of “the vegan police” from Scott pilgrim vs the world (2010)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well FIFA players are mostly just gamblers so that checks out. The contingent of non-gamblers should be big enough to sway the rest of the industry if they really did stop spending though. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s going to happen. Most big games are attempting to shift their players slowly into gambling addiction too. Roblox, Fortnite, Overwatch, they’re all attempting to hook players on gambling. We need regulation to more heavily restrict those games from having anything related to gambling in them before we can expect players to bail (or stop spending) in large enough numbers to make anything change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes this year is going to be really good and productive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean “at will” not “right to work”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law?wprov=sft…

  Sorry, on mobile or I’d embed the URLs as links

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing. Pricing in a direct comparison of inflation and base game label price ignores all the ways in which that same game would have been diluted to increase the average price with microtransactions, deluxe editions, and early unlocks for pre-orders or whatever. It’s not apples to apples with the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Quest VIII is so charming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I adore XI and highly recommend picking it up next time it drops to $20 on steam. My daughter is playing it now and I’ve been really enjoying watching her get into it, knowing what happens later to all the characters she’s meeting now in the early game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the UI of discord is not why I’ve been using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely you can flip it in the emulator’s settings, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re not really raising prices above costs, in fact we’re eating a lot of the cost increases ourselves to flatten the overall increase across the board that ends up with our customers. But a lot of them already made commitments to buy that we have to raise the price on through no fault of our own. And more are coming. So I don’t think the sales dudes are seeing any benefit tbh. Though you’re right to not like them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work for an OEM and the sales dudes have been getting reamed by our customers because they’ve had to deliver this news to folks like you. Sucks all around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tim Epic might not have gotten rich enough early enough to be noticed by Epstein

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been saying for a long time that IG is cigarettes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  32 percent hot is water freezing tho? Idk… 1/3 hot seems like not the right amount for water freezing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I’m running tho, 50 degrees is a medium amount of hot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  can’t believe you’d pirate a pizza box like this. how will Tony ever recover from this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really am interested in a folding phone, but i’m not comfortable with paying apple any new money if i can avoid it. I’ve completed my data migration off of iCloud and into self-hosted solutions, but i’m continuing to pay for iCloud until i’m confident i won’t somehow have issues with nextcloud and immich.

  When my iPhone 14 Pro eventually fails to meet my needs, I’m planning on getting a Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, not because Google is any better, I don’t want to be giving them money either, but it is compatible with GrapheneOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The internet used to be a place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately most standards bodies are pretty much this stupid though. Blu-ray, DVD, USB, hell even codecs like H265 and MP3 have governing bodies that are mostly enterprises enforcing their collective power on standards. That’s good in ways because it means they all have to decide on a standard that’ll work wihh to pretty much anything, but bad because they can also enforce bullying like HDCP onto consumers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a browser extension like the old Cloud to Butt that replaces "AI" with something funny.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did this to myself and it put butt on our website and my boss noticed it while giving a presentation to a client… whoops

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked at a knock-off Apple Store in the PNW from 2009 to 2013 and I told this same line to MANY people. The thing about being an “Apple Specialist” is that we sold more than Apple did, including “aftermarket” RAM modules to do that upgrade on-site for customers, saving those customer money AND netting us more profit than if we had sold them the Apple SKU with more RAM. When Apple closed this loophole it was not just at the expense of end-users, but their channel partners too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  at least they dont look like a complete jackass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Myamoto isn’t dead