YurkshireLad
@YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Microsoft gaming head Phil Spencer is retiring, replaced by an AI exec who promises no "soulless AI slop" 6 days ago:
My brain read it as “AI soup”. Oops.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I think it’s McNallyOfficial.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 2 weeks ago:
It’s possible. Sorry I can’t remember the name.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know the answer but there’s a guy on YouTube who easily opens all locks, sometimes by just hitting two together or by insert part of a beer can to, well I’m not even sure what to call it. It’s interesting stuff.
- Comment on Epstein files leak personal passwords including #1Island and ghislaine 2 weeks ago:
Mostly Trump, so he could throw everyone under the bus?
- Comment on Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes 5 weeks ago:
Maybe the patch will get merged in.
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 1 month ago:
Who are “they”?
We use MariaDB at work but I don’t know why it was originally chosen over PostgreSQL, as that was before my time.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 1 month ago:
Microsoft aren’t content with 20 different UI styles in windows, they need a 21st. Especially after they saw the latest iOS design.
“Hey! Let’s take the new iOS design but without the transparency!”
Desperate move, desperate times.
- Comment on Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill 1 month ago:
That’s pretty good!
- Comment on Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill 1 month ago:
How much storage is it using?
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 month ago:
Revenue and data.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 months ago:
THIS is the year of the Linux desktop!
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 months ago:
I wonder if ZorinOS gathers runtime statistics and can tell if those new installees stick with Linux or switch to Windows or MacOS.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 3 months ago:
“more pervasive”?
Must have been auto corrected from “more invasive”.
- Comment on Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet 3 months ago:
I’m sure the police will notice that crime suddenly only happens when it rains.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 3 months ago:
I don’t know if it’s my phone or wifi, when home, but Apple Maps will often be incredibly slow, or just refuse to display tiles when I zoom in or out. Particularly if I change the zoom by quite a bit in one action. It’s very frustrating.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 3 months ago:
It’s all about portraying authority and trying to give off the “trust me” vibe.
I’d love to see an interviewer respond with a bizarre hand gesture in response.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 3 months ago:
I worked in a couple of pubs in england back in the 90s and there were definitely regulars that would come in every weekend night and quite often, some week nights.
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 4 months ago:
The iOS app on my phone doesn’t have that option.
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 4 months ago:
Hopefully they improved face tagging. I can’t work out how to add a new person’s name.
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 4 months ago:
Awesome! But damn, I just installed
v1.144.1last night to play around with it. 😁 - Comment on Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to his Gen Z factory workers: ‘They were saying [they] had to have three jobs’ | Fortune 4 months ago:
“CEO of company that produces cheaply made, sub-standard products realizes he underpays his staff”?
- Comment on Electronic Arts to be bought by Saudi-led consortium for $55 bn 4 months ago:
Anything involving Kushner is bound to involve a quick downward spiral.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 4 months ago:
Windows 11 will turn this into a 486.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 5 months ago:
Exactly!
“We hate the fediverse! Join us on our Lemmy server in the fediverse!”
- Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 5 months ago:
Copilot? No thanks!!
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 5 months ago:
Another platform to avoid.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 months ago:
Office is the product that helped keep Microsoft ticking over. The world is too dependant on Office and people won’t abandon it just because of this.
My fat fingers keep trying to type Microsoft Orifice.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 6 months ago:
Sadly Trump will probably be dead before his place in Florida is flooded by the rising ocean.
- Comment on Amazon deploys its one millionth robot, releases generative AI model 7 months ago:
I wonder if Amazon delivered it. Was the box five times too big and mostly empty; was the box dented and crushed; was it half sealed; was it stolen by porch pirates….