Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Life pro tip: Maybe give her some pointers if it's her first blow job. 12 hours ago:
Sex shouldn’t be this weird thing we make it out to be.
If everyone is comfortable with this proposition, then go for it. It’s not for everyone, but in this case, there is no shame and no hiding. OP even communicated in advance what are his limits.
- Comment on Life pro tip: Maybe give her some pointers if it's her first blow job. 12 hours ago:
For whatever reason, we make sex weird. Communicate with your future partners and it will be a lot more enjoyable for both of you.
You got this.
- Comment on A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year (2024) 1 day ago:
Cutting 10% of the workforce is profit right in the pocket of the shareholders, as long as the company can somewhat continue to go on.
They don’t give a fuck about productivity, but they will dangle that over your head for whatever reason they deem advantageous.
You want a raise? Bummer, productivity is lower than expected, so we have no budget for that.
- Comment on He remains at large 3 days ago:
You gotta be fucking dense to think that this is a normal thing. This is not normal that toddler kill anyone with a gun. If stating a statistic like that make you react like you did, you have a mental problem.
How can it not be about safety when children kills other people by finding a gun laying around?
Keep doing the mental gymnastics, you are winning the gold medal and breaking every record.
- Comment on Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs 1 month ago:
Open-source does not equal free. There is probably a way to circumvent their paywall, but on their website, self-hosted free version has a limit of 1-on-1 for calls.
If you want a group call, you need to pay, even if you self-host.
- Comment on Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs 1 month ago:
An issue with mattermost is that some useful features are behind a paywall, like group calls.
I’d go with nextcloud since all their features are included regardless of if you pay or not
- Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 1 month ago:
Gsuite workflow is terrible. You can’t copy paste files in drive because fuck you.
Gmail chat takes forever to load. And when it loads, it defaults to search contact. So if in the meantime, you pressed the contact you want already because it takes 5 seconds to load, it goes back to the search contact.
You need to have 5 different tabs to work within the ecosystem.
Google docs is dogshit. At this point, I prefer markdown with a latex converter over Google docs.
No desktop clients for their services.
The Gdrive shared with me vs your drive is terrible.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 month ago:
Yeah because we know how it works behind the curtain.
I didn’t go in engineering to fuck people over. I want to be proud of my work, and the salespeople put their dirty shit all over it.
- Comment on what's a good way to stick a laser leveler to the wall? 1 month ago:
Cheap lasers don’t do 360 degrees. Depending on where the line needs to be, you sometime have to elevate it.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I understand your point and I agree. But a lot of privileged people (i’m included in that) should definitely consume less meat or none at all.
This is a strange argument that the problem with vegans is that they don’t do enough for the poor?
I haven’t seen any vegans protesting in a 7/11. It’s usually high end butcher or restaurants.
So again, I agree with what you say, but it doesn’t make sense in the current frame of discussion.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
You are right, but we use this privilege to eat more meat instead of more vegetables. So my point still stands.
And even then, meat is way pricier than vegetables, so the privilege argument is shaky.
But as I said, assume the fact that you eat meat and that it is more damageable for the environment and after that, if you are in a position where you can afford to eat less or no meat, do it if you feel like it.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 month ago:
Always is. They went too far. They scale back and try again when the dust has settled.
Oldest trick in the books
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
If we remove the ethic argument from the conversation, veganism is definitely a better choice for the planet, factually.
People have a hard time detaching their ego from the issue at hand. Since veganism is better for the planet, they are “better” in that specific area of their life.
But it doesn’t mean that vegans are better people than non-vegans, because we don’t know what else they do.
Eat meat if you want. I do. But I don’t feel personally attacked because vegans are right about the carbon footprint of meat, and they preach for it.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
I use LLMs as a starting point to research new subjects.
The google/ddg search quality is hot garbage, so LLM at least gives me the terminology to be more precise in my searchs.
- Comment on Tesla Exodus Continues As Top HR Exec Leaves After Brutal Job Cuts 1 month ago:
It would probably have done a better job for the cybertruck.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 month ago:
Their financials are doing pretty great, but like any enshitification, the UX is degraded by the day to squeeze money out of everything.
- Comment on The more air conditions in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Talk about infinite money glitch. 1 month ago:
It is still highly beneficial in term of heat when there is a lot of shade in a city.
The tarmac gets really hot and release that heat for a long time.
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 2 months ago:
To me, the biggest strength is how small the headset is and the fact that you don’t need to dedicate a room to VR with sensors.
I put a lot of value on how easy it is to setup. When VR first started, I had a dedicated 7x7 space with a pulley system so that the wires wouldn’t get in the way. My computer had to be near as well.
If I had a mansion, I would definitely use a better headset, but if we want a better VR adoption, then it needs to be accessible to as many people as possible.
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 2 months ago:
Is it the cheapest? I don’t follow VR much anymore.
I agree being the best is subjective, but the UX is impeccable.
Pull out the helmet, setup the guardian and you can play pretty much anywhere.
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 2 months ago:
They have the best VR headset in the market. The only problem is that it’s also mining all your data.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 2 months ago:
My uneducated guess is that England had so many colonies throughout history that a lot of languages affected English and we have this Frankenstein of a language
- Comment on Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet 2 months ago:
Yeah but one less airplane in the air with 300 people in a train is a lot better. The issue is the infrastructure that’s shit in North America.
- Comment on Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet 2 months ago:
Boeing was being brash until they got caught with their pants down.
You know for sure that shit happens at other manufacturers but they kept it low, and they probably are tightening their QA to not fall to scrutiny.
I hope that this will trigger heavy scrutiny from the different bodies across the world to make sure that this shit doesn’t happen anymore, but that hope is naive.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 2 months ago:
I was watching a long video on chromecast today and I had ads every three minutes or so. That’s a two hours video. The amount of ads is disgusting.
YouTube is unwatchable without an ad blocker.
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 2 months ago:
They bet on the fact that most people will pay their bullshit fees because they don’t know any better.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 months ago:
Some people also have no qualms in doing the dirty job. They get paid and they don’t care.
- Comment on Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen: Organized crime overwhelms Sweden 2 months ago:
D’accord. On peut parler en français si tu veux.
Imagine utiliser un ordinateur chaque jour pendant 10 ans et ne pas savoir comment l’utiliser. Est-ce que c’est un problème de l’outil qui est trop difficile ou un problème utilisateur?
Si pendant 10 ans , tu résides dans un pays sans en apprendre le langage, est-ce que c’est un problème du langage ou de la personne qui le parle?
Les vieilles personnes sont capables d’apprendre, bien qu’en vieillissant, notre capacité d’assimilation de l’information et de la connaissance diminue. Il faut donc mettre plus d’effort pour apprendre, mais rien d’impossible.
De mon expérience, les vieilles personnes qui n’ont jamais appris la langue de leur pays d’accueil, c’est parce qu’il se sont toujours fiés à quelqu’un d’autre pour traduire. Ce n’est pas un problème d’apprentissage, c’est un problème d’attitude. C’est acceptable au début lorsque la personne arrive fraichement dans le pays d’accueil, mais si après 10 ans, il te faut encore un traducteur pour commander au restaurant, c’est un problème de ne jamais avoir essayé.
Enfin, mon point initial a toujours été d’avoir un niveau conversationnel, pas technique.
Même dans notre langue maternelle, c’est facile de ne pas comprendre le jargon technique.
- Comment on Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen: Organized crime overwhelms Sweden 2 months ago:
Right, I forgot that we stop learning at 50.
- Comment on Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen: Organized crime overwhelms Sweden 2 months ago:
If you need to use a language for ten years in a fully immersed setting and have not learned conversational level skills, the issue is that you didn’t really try, no matter your age.
I can understand if someone has a learning disability, but that is a small fraction of people.
- Comment on Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen: Organized crime overwhelms Sweden 2 months ago:
If you are fully immersed in another language, it shouldn’t take 10 years to have a coversational skill level. It’s on you.