zxqwas

@zxqwas@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly listen to music when I’m driving and 4G connection is spotty as soon as you’re outside of town, so I’m still copying the files around. If spotify pisses me off I’ll probably make a media player that syncs mp3s over a vpn. If there is not one already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to move around a huge library of mp3s. I just can’t be bothered anymore and spotify does a reasonable job for a reasonable price.

  If only could easily access most movies and TV with one subscription. But anyway this was about music.

  Price has gone up 30% in 10 years or whatever since I started. But then so has every fucking thing else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You battery operated trilobite would not recognise an offensive sentence if I typed it at you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remembering what password and username goes where.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which career to pursue?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A mediocre engineer makes more than a mediocre artist.

  If you are good at any STEM and any creative profession you should pick STEM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pick up a tiny asteroid and drop it from 1m. It hit the ground slightly faster than a reversing truck.

  Pick up a bigger one and drop it from orbit it’s going to go faster.

  Whatever you drop won’t be an asteroid because it’s already on earth.

  So if you pick up corsica and drop it on florida from less than a meter up (they had it coming) there would be a mass extinction in florida. Everything under corsica would die, buried under a mass of rock, mud and whatever. If it did not die already because it could not squeeze into the less than a meter gap between the masses. There would also be an earthquake, maybe a tsunami if some of it fell in the ocean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Famines due to incompetence or mismanagement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care so much what the underlying thought is. Millions died when either got into power. Learning from history neither should get another opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is communist idea of base & superstructural bullshit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference between Nazis and communists is that one of them lost a world war. You should not give them the time of day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do drug cartels let the US and other countries "catch" their shipments? Like the US caught 1 billion of drugs over here while we ship 6 billion worth of drugs over there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would they? It’s not like the customs guy clocks out early because he found one package.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be many reasons. I can think of two.

  1. Some prefer older women.

  2. The reality for men is that you approach a dozen or two women and you still don’t know what time of day it is.

  He is 24. He is not in a rush to think about the future yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become who you were meant to be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US that seems to get you shot nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what can I do at my workplace during downtime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chess puzzles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A political debate is intended to convince voters that your policies are the right decision. Not that they are correct in a factual sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely lemmings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SnakeToesRFun2eat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you argue that others should not own investment property for whatever reason but you are a valid exception it’s one thing.

  If you say that “look at how much money I’m making, tax me harder daddy” it’s another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m happy we still have two.

  Short answer: hard to start a new company that can compete. Over the decades all the other companies have done poorly and gone bankrupt or been bought out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I can give up that right where I live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creative and Inspiring building design⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, an eye was definitely the first thing that came to my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s even the appeal of Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux tends to get out of your way to let you get shit done. Windows tends to be a marketing platform for Microsoft products that lets you get shit done.

  I don’t see why my office computer needs some xbox app I can’t uninstall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Without doing much research on the topic I’d say time limit it to x years after publication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually round to 5 minutes. If I for whatever reason need the exact minute it will take a couple of second to see, depending on the design of the clock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "AI" the end of truth?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Photos have been staged and lies have been printed as soon as those technologies were invented.

  AI generated stuff will cause video evidence to be weaker in court. Other than that we will quickly adapt as a society to become as resistant to fake videos as we are to fake photos or text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sentence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Competent people get paid more because they get shit done.

  Competent criminals gets punished harder because they get more crime done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The target audience for the gas-station reading glasses are people aged 45+ that need something good enough to read about 30 minutes per day.

  If you are near sighed you’ll probably use them all day every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about UK specifically, but to pay off the national debt is a common argument for austerity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I just create my own drive format?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you could. Noone else could would bother to use your usb/hdd/ssd with your file system unless you gave them the drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Sumatra at work. Might be windows only.

  At home I use whatever distro default is. No clue I’ve not opened a pdf for months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If and only if suffering is good. I’d argue it’s not.

  Occasionally experiencing suffering will lead to character growth, but mostly in dealing with future suffering of yourself or someone else. Not ever suffering and not needing the growth would be better.

  But there is suffering in the world and occasional small doses is dealt out to everyone without anyone of us actively trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll sell you a signed copy of any book you like provided that it’s still in on print and you’re not really fussed about who signed it. (Buyer pays shipping, tariffs, taxes, usury and attention)