TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@midwest.social
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 14 hours ago:
There is a philosophical difference using Open Source software. To compare it to religion is pretty shitty honestly, even if you find it amusing. Linux is not faith it is logic.
Hoooooly fuck. I was just riffing off the other guy using the word proselytizing. I wasn’t trying to make any sort of point.
Go outside and leave me alone. Fuck. I’ve already explained this multiple times.
Linux is fucking awesome. But you all take yourselves way too seriously. You’re making the community look like complete tools.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 19 hours ago:
I promise I wasn’t trying to make any value statements at all. I wasn’t speaking in favor of Windows or of the Catholic Church. Just something that made me chuckle. 🙄
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 day ago:
I’m not sure I get the analogy here… Do you think there will be less abuse by priests if there are more Catholics?
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First, do you think Microsoft would do less shady shit if there were more Windows users? I’m sort of confused about where you’re finding that interpretation of the metaphor.
But more importantly, as I explained in my other reply I was just riffing on the proselytizing comment. It made me chuckle to think about someone being advised to change religions after voicing a (legitimate) frustration with their religious leadership.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 day ago:
It may be my perspective comes from western civilization, but do Buddhists have similar child abuse scandals?
I have no idea, that wasn’t my point with the metaphor.
I was riffing off the “proselytizing” comment and comparing someone complaining about some shady shit Microsoft and then being advised to change to Linux, with someone complaining about some shady shit the Catholic Church does and then being advised to change to Buddhism.
It’s not a perfect metaphor, but it gave me a chuckle when I thought of it.
I picked those religions because Catholicism in its singular “what the Vatican says goes for everyone” approach mapped well onto Microsoft and Windows, and I thought Buddhism, a religion with many flavors, some of which are more structured than others, mapped well onto Linux and its various distros.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 day ago:
“I see you’re worried about abuse by priests in the Catholic Church. Can I interest you in Buddhism?”
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I remember fucking around with magnets to pull or push a desktop image and being scolded by a supervisor. “You’re going to break it!”
Break what? The photons? All I’m doing is the same thing the monitor itself is doing.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
Maybe. If they’re following the rules they need you to agree to their privacy policies, and to do that you have to connect to the internet. I know from the time I did have it connected (before they rolled all this shit out) that they would let you use the TV without those policies accepted. They would just bother you about it constantly. Since I factory reset and didn’t let it connect, it hasn’t asked.
But that’s assuming they follow the rules. I’m not knowledgeable enough to find out if they’re doing this or not.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
Exactly this. I love my LG, but it doesn’t get internet privileges.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
I have an LG TV. Absolutely love it.
However, it’s not connected to the internet so it doesn’t do any of this shit. It’s just a really nice dumb TV that has the potential to spy on me if I ever gave it a chance to be smart, and I still get to take advantage of the various picture improvements that come from having the processing power of a smart TV.
Just need something else to do streaming if that’s what you want. Like an Apple TV, nVidia Shield, Roku, or game console. Some of those will also advertise to you, but I’ve had good experience with my Apple TV.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 1 week ago:
Though comically, in Iceland they got the populace to convert to Christianity by saying it was okay to worship Thor in private.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, in my younger days I got up to ≈210km/h once. I can’t believe I was dumb enough to do that.
At 200km/h, you’re passing the cars around you as quickly as you usually pass stuff stationary by the side of the road. It’s insane.
The car felt planted and controlled, but still. One slightly wrong move and I would’ve been flying off an embankment or killing a fellow motorist.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 3 weeks ago:
Mentour Pilot did a video about the CFM RISE open fan engines a few months ago, they’re somewhere between a turboprop and a geared turbofan. Able to cruise at turbofan speeds, but much higher bypass ratios like turboprops. They’re not technically new, but they’re possible now due to material advances. Pretty cool concept.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 3 weeks ago:
Mentour Pilot did a great video on these open fan engines a few months ago. They’re somewhere between a turboprop and a turbofan. They’re better than traditional turboprops in that they’re able to handle higher cruise speeds like a turbofan, and they’re more efficient than turbofans due to a higher effective bypass ratio like a turboprop.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 3 weeks ago:
Qi2 standard really helps with that. It incorporates the magnetic alignment and higher speeds from Apple’s MagSafe. Magnetic alignment makes wireless charging much better. Still less efficient than wired charging, but much more efficient than Qi without magnetic alignment.
If your phone doesn’t have the magnetic ring baked in you can often find cases that provide it, or magnets you can add to the outside of a case. Though my phone does have the magnets baked in, I also have a Snap 4 Luxe and I 3D printed a case that fits around it, to minimize the distance between charger and phone. Works really well!
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 4 weeks ago:
Can u get pregante?
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 4 weeks ago:
I just want a printer that doesn’t require you to upload your gcode to their cloud server before getting permission from them to print.
Even on Bambu’s locked-down firmware you can just toss the gcode on the SD card and print that way if you don’t want to deal with their cloud service. Or throw it on a flash drive and plug into the USB port.
My previous printer could ONLY function via SD card, so I’m kinda used to that anyway.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Bambu locking down their firmware and forcing everyone through their cloud service is shitty. But you can print without it still.
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 4 weeks ago:
But I don’t need this kind of use case as much anymore and have moved to Joplin
My first thought reading this was, “Why does moving to Joplin, MO have anything to do with note-taking?”
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 1 month ago:
The Jira thing has nothing to do with arrogance. That’s just a side note about how much I like working with Germans. 😅
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 1 month ago:
I genuinely can’t tell if they’re arrogant or if they’re knowledgeable and don’t bother to hide their expertise behind false modesty. But damn do German engineers write the best Jira tickets. So much detail, precise test steps, clarity about what changes they want made. Most engineers I get frustrated with because they don’t give us enough to work with, but German engineers almost give us too much.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
There was the iPhone 13 Mini. It’s adorably small. But it didn’t sell well so they stopped making the Mini line.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 1 month ago:
How dare you put Kuni’s lines in Elon’s mouth!
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 1 month ago:
How can it be trained to produce something without human input.
It wasn’t trained to produce every specific image it produces. That would make it pointless. It “learns” concepts and then applies them.
No one trained AI on material of Donald Trump sucking on feet, but it can still generate it.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 month ago:
Yeah, infighting in the resistance is a foolish waste of time.
- Comment on NZ Birbs 1 month ago:
Where Pūteketeke?
- Gives piggyback rides
- Good co-parent
- Bulemia
- Comment on The right person for me deserves better. 1 month ago:
The right person for me deserves better.
I’m sure you’re joking, at least at some level. But if you’re like me, you probably also believe it at some level.
It turns out this is, in some ways, a good mindset. Always keep in mind that your partner deserves better, and you’re driven to be better for them. Not because you aren’t enough, but because you can be your best when you learn to navigate the give-and-take that long-term relationships require. You’ll fuck up, but if you’re willing to be kind, empathetic, and most importantly apologetic, and willing to get up and try again when you fall, you’re already far ahead of plenty of people.
But if you start thinking you deserve better than your partner, you’re gonna have a bad time.
We’re all insecure at our core, but that means so is everyone else. The right person for you also thinks you deserve better. Build them up, and they’ll build you up in return.
(Sorry, I know it’s a shitpost.)
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 1 month ago:
If you watch the more recent footage you can clearly see most of the plane slowly cartwheeling through the sky into the water. It was still mostly a plane.
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 1 month ago:
I was not prepared for boob wings this early in the day.
- Comment on cilanto 🌿 1 month ago:
I compare it to the smell of stinkbugs rather than soap.
- Comment on How do you express romantic interest in someone? 2 months ago:
Nah, Lost_My_Mind gives a much more typical representation.