triptrapper

@triptrapper@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, I was doing a similar calculation recently. I think the only subscription I ever paid for was Netflix, and for the others I used family and friends’ accounts. Only replacing Netflix, I haven’t broken even, but considering I pirate content from 5-6 different services, it’s absolutely cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But techbro 10 years ago was an undercut and a leather jacket. I’m hoping there’s a label for this iteration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like he and Zuck have the same stylist. Anyone know what this look is called, with the oversized tee and chain around his neck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta to spend hundreds of billions to build AI data centres⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know someone who just got hired at an unfinished Meta data center, ostensibly to do some low-level hardware monitoring and maintenance. His boss admitted that he accidentally hired people a couple months too early, so the first couple weeks have consisted of sitting around, eating free food and playing mobile games. Next week they’re being flown to an active data center out of state, but they won’t have much of their own work to do for another 4-6 weeks.

  So these guys are being paid $25/hr, 40hrs a week, with a free lunch, and making no money for the company. I would expect any other company to find this unacceptable, but it’s just a drop in the bucket for Meta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire risks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that this is a sickening amount of e-waste, and companies should be responsible for processing/recycling their own waste, but what’s the alternative in this case? Mail the faulty batteries back to Anker?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP wasn’t arguing that Italian-American culture necessarily resembles Italian culture. Of course they’re different. You’re implying that the concept of “Italian-American culture” is superficial or illegitimate because it differs from the way that Europeans talk about international or intergenerational identities, and that’s some prescriptivist bullshit. “Genuine cultural identity”? Get out of here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m naive. What’s the motive for an attack like this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my god that didn’t even occur to me. Maybe I am a beginner!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, I recently got a TCL Roku TV and I almost gave up on trying to use it as a dumb TV. I’m not a beginner at this, but setting up a network connection was so embedded in the initial setup, from the moment you turn the TV on. I did a couple factory resets and I could not figure out how to bypass it. Turns out I had to set it to “store display mode” at a certain point and then connect my other streaming device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  "Our youth love luxury.  They have bad manners and despise authority.  They show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter instead of exercise.  Young people are now tyrants, not the servants of their household.  They no longer rise when their elders enter the room.  They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up food and terrorize their teachers.” -Socrates ~400BC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are we looking at here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Email Scam Includes Pictures of Your House. Don’t Fall For It.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so good. Congratulations.