Firipu
@Firipu@startrek.website
- Comment on Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession? 4 months ago:
What’s the last time you met a gatherer doing it as a profession and not a hobby?
Hunters are a little bit more common, but still, full time food hunters are rare.
Prostitutes on the other hand.
So as a simple saying used in a daily life, I can kinda see why it’s used :)
- Comment on Steam is now banned in Vietnam 6 months ago:
You don’t have a separate 100% anonymous steam account to use in case of having to fake your death? Your loss tbh…
- Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? 6 months ago:
To be fair, I’ve been using windows since 3.1. I haven’t paid for windows since xp I think. I got an oem key second hand right around w7 for my desktop. That key has just lasted me all the way to w11. So I haven’t paid ms anything either in decades (except for my personal data I guess?)
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Ever heard of a job? Some people need to work with a specific software suite as part of their job, regardless of their personal convictions :)
I have to use office and chrome on windows at work, I don’t get any choice in the matter.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
As an end user, I don’t care about proprietary garbage, I want my mouse to work :). I understand the aversion to proprietary stuff etc. But non techie end users don’t give a flying fuck.
Also, everyone has had an MS account since the msn messenger and Hotmail heydays. That is an absolute non issue for 99% of the people tbh.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
But that’s the entire point. The windows UI is still easy, especially for people that have always used windows. There have only been gradual changes. :)
And to slap in an anecdote, I am quite proficient with everything IT related. I try installing Linux once a year on average, in general I try to recommended “noob distros” . I always go back to windows after a few weeks at best. You really have to make an big effort to fully go to Linux. I end up spending more time dealing with the OS itself than doing the stuff I want.
I can absolutely see the appeal of it, but I don’t enjoy it :)
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Because Linux doesn’t just work out of the box.
Somehow the Linux evangelists never understand that point.
All your peripherals, no matter how old, and all your (legacy) software just works on windows. Maybe the OS isn’t blazing fast and there is more and more so called bloatware (at least according to FOSS people), but if I plug in my 10y old Logitech wireless mouse, it works in 10 sec. In Linux I’d have to start searching for a solution, a driver, a little hack, a script, a controller repository, etc… It will work eventually, but it’s not intuitive. Doubly so for people that were raised on windows.
Linux is absolutely not user friendly for non techies that have 20y of windows habits in them.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
Anyone worth their salt knows win+D tbh. The button is unnecessary
- Comment on Real! 9 months ago:
Because the entire language is a fucking exception
- Comment on Honestly it's a pretty good idea. 9 months ago:
Japanese pay is quite low compared to eg the US. 10m jpy is a very decent income in Japan. You won’t find many people not in high skilled tech jobs or years of experience with it.
- Comment on How can I prove myself that my brain isn't just creating images so I can experience life? 9 months ago:
Considering how lazy I am, there is no way my brain would bother with all the little details I see everywhere when I go out. When I’m at a busy station or crossing and I literally see thousands of different people walk by, not a single repeat face? Proof enough for me this is real tbh.
(and if you go the simulation way, who cares? If a simulation can give billions of ppl their own lives, feelings, dreams and hopes, it does not matter in the slightest to the ppl living in it that it’s real or a simulation)
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 10 months ago:
Have you actually seen Japan social media usage? They’re like the second largest Twitter market in the world. Why would they be more attuned to Mastodon vs Twitter?
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
Install a 3rd party launcher?
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
This should be higher up… This whole topic is such a big nothing burger. OP and everyone jumping on the Google sucks bandwagon most likely just suck at using a search engine or run into shitty AI articles (which you can’t really blame on your search engine of choice either…)
I personally have 0 issues to find whatever I’m looking for in 3-4 searches at most. Skill issue rather than algorithm issue imo.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
Try to hum the song to Google assistant. Chances are it’ll get it right with just 3-5 seconds of humming. L2use the tools at your disposal tbh
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Tbh, in summer I sleep with the airco on 27c. Where I live summer gets a nice and toasty 30c+ 24/7 @ 80%+ humidity. 25c feels amazing compared to that.
Before I moved here, I’d also have said 20c was ideal though :)
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Same for c, but at half the scale tbh. (with a bit of a stretch to the imagination)
50 is very hot. 0 is cold. 25c is perfect.
- Comment on The Day Before Offline Mod in the Works For Those Still Interested in Playing This Troubled Game 10 months ago:
- Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update 11 months ago:
You’re not. Some oeople are overreacting big time. “change is bad”
Like always the vocal few are making are making a mole hill into a mountain again.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
You finished the gta 5 campaign in 10h? You just speedran it once?
If not, nice hyperbole…
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
I’d argue I got my 60usd worth of content out of the single player. I can understand they focused on MP for further content.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
Gta5 had a shitty single player experience? Did we play the same game? Wtf?
- Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform 1 year ago:
Sms is a 20+y old standard. Could just be sending smoke messages, it would be equally secure and feature rich…
- Comment on I hope you enjoy ads we have to make our $69B back 1 year ago:
No worries. Thx for your thoughtful reply. I understand your point now and certainly don’t disagree with it.
- Comment on I hope you enjoy ads we have to make our $69B back 1 year ago:
Fair enough. Even if I like cod, I’ll still bitch about the campaign this time around. It’s not original and not exciting at all. I still don’t regret getting it for the mp/zombies.
Complaining is in human nature :p
- Comment on I hope you enjoy ads we have to make our $69B back 1 year ago:
Why mindless? Why can’t I enjoy a multi-player arcade shooter without being called mindless?
I almost exclusively play AAA games, with the occasional indie in between. The indies I play are basically all the famous ones that got really big.
It’s my entertainment, my time. Why call me mindless? The only issue Lemmy has, this whole “rebel without a cause” attitude against everything that is mainstream :)
A friend of mine is a top level director on a recent AAA game that wasn’t very well received. I can assure you, he was very passionate about his game.
- Comment on Thank you 🖖 1 year ago:
Maybe take the advice from the other posters over mine :). The original series is very dated by now. You really have to move star trek or old stuff to enjoy it tbh :)
- Comment on Thank you 🖖 1 year ago:
You heathen
- Comment on Thank you 🖖 1 year ago:
Right at the beginning. Chronological. Don’t skip anything, even the shit episodes
If you can’t stomache the old stuff, any of the new trek series are pretty darn good to be honest. I’m especially fond of Strange New Worlds. It captures the adventure of the week style well, just like the old series.
- Comment on ‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes 1 year ago:
As a high value individual you have to accept that you’ll always be a target. Nobodies like you and me on the other hand? Nobody will bother.