TomMasz
@TomMasz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 1 week ago:
Has the prediction market latched onto offering a line on Patch Tuesday yet?
- Comment on HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules 1 week ago:
It’s also rampant assholery, but that’s harder to legislate.
- Comment on Lik the bone 1 week ago:
Always great to see scientists with a sense of humor.
- Comment on Makes you think 🤔 🦵☕️ 1 week ago:
They’ve revealed Victoria’s secret.
- Comment on Checkers, not chess. 1 week ago:
Perhaps, but maybe he shouldn’t be using Skittles to play it.
- Comment on In this house 2 weeks ago:
Honey, I won’t try to stop you. But I will film it.
- Comment on It was pretty rough on him for a dozen or so centuries 2 weeks ago:
It was the language of his executioners, so no wonder.
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 3 weeks ago:
“Customers hate AI” means “Cram more AI into everything” to Microsoft.
- Comment on One for the ignition and one for the trunk 3 weeks ago:
This was common for a long time. I have no idea why.
- Comment on In the US we have signs that say No Shirt No Shoes No service. When did this become a norm? Also if I am wearing a shirt and shoes but no pants can I still enter? 3 weeks ago:
I want to say this came about as a reaction to hippy culture in the '60s, but I’m not really sure. It was definitely around in the '70s, though. America has become more and more relaxed about dressing in public since the '60s so stores and restaurants wouldn’t have needed to post such signs prior to that era.
- Comment on Eventually, coffee moves from a drink that gets you going to an emotional support drink. 4 weeks ago:
I can quit it anytime I want to suffer caffeine withdrawal headaches.
- Comment on The original Gremlin 4 weeks ago:
One of the ugliest cars in an era of ugly cars. AMC, undeterred, followed it up with the Pacer. It easily outuglied the Gremlin.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony. 4 weeks ago:
We’re living in post-truth times. Zuck is a large part of the reason why.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 5 weeks ago:
I thought it was obvious.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 5 weeks ago:
This is the future
liberalsno one wants. - Comment on Reddit. It doesn't matter anymore. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been getting Reddit ads on my Fire tablet (that I only use to play games on). They fit in just fine with all the other crappy ads Amazon forces on you.
- Comment on Couldn't have said it better 5 weeks ago:
AI? Or a failure of the educational system?
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 5 weeks ago:
We use Discord in the programming courses I teach, not sure how it’s going to go over with the students.
- Comment on Would you want to go back in time when you were a kid? 1 month ago:
Up until a few years ago, I would have said “no”. Growing up during the Cold War meant always wondering when the nukes would come. Every day at noon the sirens would wail, reminding you of what you’d hear as you rushed to the closest fallout shelter. Car radios had special markers for the Civil Defense stations you would tune to when it happened. It was a lot for a kid to have to deal with.
But the nukes never came. The sirens stopped wailing at noon. The shelters, and the signs that advertised them, are long gone. The supplies they were stocked with expired and were thrown away. The great enemy collapsed under the weight of its own incompetence.
It was an unsettling time, but we didn’t have to worry about being apprehended walking home from school, or having someone from the government break down our front door with guns drawn. The government, to some degree, seemed to have our safety in mind (even if some of those measures would have been ineffective). It wasn’t a golden era, but it was better than what we’re in now.
So, my answer is “yes, yes I would.”
- Comment on A lot of the laid-off staff from the Washington Post should start a news cooperative. Seriously! 1 month ago:
Serious question: What would be the funding model? It seems like the number of people willing to pay for journalism is fairly small, though nowhere near zero.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 1 month ago:
They’re tolerable when scrambled and suitably seasoned, but I detest fried or hard-boiled eggs.
- Comment on If I could choose to not sleep and still be healthy, I'd still choose to sleep every night. 1 month ago:
I like having a break from the thinking and the doing, both of which are starting to feel like too much.
- Comment on Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users 1 month ago:
Google spying on its users? To push ads? Preposterous!
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 month ago:
Definitely did not have this one on the ol’ bingo card.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 1 month ago:
It’s likely this isn’t the only conspiracy theory he believes in. Time for you to find better friends,.
- Comment on Student Parking 1 month ago:
I teach at a local university and it provides some free parking in addition to paid parking. Of course, the paid spaces are closer to the buildings, but at least there’s some free spaces, too.
- Comment on Why do we have a bunch of ways to say good night, but only one way to say good morning? 1 month ago:
No one has the energy to invent new ones first thing in the morning.
- Comment on Is there no instution or person that Trump go after? Or we are all just screwed? 2 months ago:
The only significant opposition has been in a few courts. Everything else is mostly vocal and easily ignored. So, yeah, we are.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Doctors told my mom she had a “twisted uterus” and could never have children. My entire existence has been a big Fuck You to medical science.
- Comment on 'Get the Oil Flowing': Trump's Own Words Make His War Aims in Venezuela Clear 2 months ago:
They were already clear.