WhyDoYouPersist
@WhyDoYouPersist@lemmy.world
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA calls for a strike against League of Legends 1 month ago:
Let’s fucking go.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
I agree with your point about OS X style menus, they’ve been steadily going downhill since “macOS” though. Granted, they’re still uphill of whatever the fuck Microsoft seems to think of.
- Comment on The most recognizable leaf silhouette is the marijuana leaf. 2 months ago:
Any love for the Hong Kong orchid?
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu is getting a new layout to list your apps 3 months ago:
FUCK
- Comment on Walz pick is proof of Harris’ anti-police agenda, support for illegal immigrants who ‘rape our children’: JD Vance 3 months ago:
Wow that guy’s fuckin nuts, wrapping up my furniture if he ever comes to town.
- Comment on We need this level of energy. All the time... 4 months ago:
This slaps
- Comment on "No Mow May" won't fix our biodiversity problems 5 months ago:
Listen I agree with the sentiment, but certain grasses are much more invasive than others. Like I would have to rip out KR bluestem on sight if I saw a seed head coming up, whereas St. Augustine is also invasive but dies away in a flash without artificial irrigation so not as big of a problem. If I were to let my yard go without easing into controlled reintroduction of native grasses, herbs, and wildflowers, I would just get overwhelmed by KR getting blown in and self sowing into the dead patches of bare topsoil.
- Comment on Google has an idea to prevent phone scams, but it'll mean allowing its AI to listen in on your calls 6 months ago:
What a coincidence!
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 6 months ago:
Like kudzu
- Comment on It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene. 6 months ago:
I guess that makes sense, if there is no night crew then I suppose day crew would just put out the fires next day?
- Comment on Dozens dead after dam bursts amid torrential rain in Kenya 6 months ago:
We collected some of the bodies held by trees and we don’t know how many are under the mud,” said Stephen Njihia Njoroge, who was involved in the emergency efforts.
What a waking nightmare.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 6 months ago:
I’m very much a tech person and can confirm for me personally: T9-Word in combination with physical keys was a much faster, one-handed, and even eyes-off experience. Even when I upgraded to a phone with a slide out full physical keyboard (Samsung Intensity), T9 was still faster. For any word that had repeated keys back-to-back, my hand knew to press the right arrow which would move the cursor to the next position.
I’m purely talking about typing while not looking at the screen (for instance in a pocket like OP mentioned). Not sure why you brought screen resolution into it or media players. I’m not a vintage tech apologist–I’m typing this on an S22 with SwiftKey and it’s fine minus a few mistakes. But there was no way I could do this blindfolded. I’d have exited the app and be typing something regrettable into Slack by now.
- Comment on Antybooties 6 months ago:
I wonder if they happen to use base 10?
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 6 months ago:
“Those are leftover telescopes from the solar eclipse. And yes they are loaded.”
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 6 months ago:
Administration speechcraft level 100
- Comment on Manor Lords - Launch Trailer | Medieval City Builder/RTS 6 months ago:
Haven’t played it yet but between this and Wartales, I’m really liking this period of indie dev creativity.
- Comment on Manor Lords - Launch Trailer | Medieval City Builder/RTS 6 months ago:
Almost to 150k now.
- Comment on The BattlerGC Pro might be the GameCube controller’s final form 6 months ago:
Ah, thanks for the clarification
- Comment on The BattlerGC Pro might be the GameCube controller’s final form 6 months ago:
Sold out
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 6 months ago:
For some reason I thought it was mainly to protect Taylor Swift, with teen girls being the afterthought.
- Comment on UN warns 800,000 people in Sudan city in 'extreme, immediate danger' 6 months ago:
Fucking christ that’s a lot of people.
- Comment on Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet 7 months ago:
I’ve had a lot of trouble searching for a concrete answer to this, but does anyone know what percentage of commercial jets in the US are made by Boeing? I know it’s a duopoly between them and Airbus, but to what extent is Boeing’s domination?
- Comment on To put life into perspective 7 months ago:
How old is the joke about crying in the shower before work? Was it a more popular thing to do then than now? Do we have more to cry about now, but cry less often because we’re numb? What about people with bathtubs but no showers? Why am I crying? Why is Jamie crying?
- Comment on Elizabeth Warren tried to convince AOC not to endorse Bernie Sanders in 2020 by compiling top Sanders backers' mean tweets: book 11 months ago:
: book
- Comment on US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate 11 months ago:
I hope Germany wakes up
- Comment on US joins in other nations in swearing off coal power to clean the climate 11 months ago:
Pretty wild that we happen to live in a perfect little time period for capitalizing on dead plants and animals which have turned into energy sources over millenia. It’s also pretty wild how we’ve made a lot of things out of these dead plants and animals when it will be a bit of a wait until we get more of these dead plants and animals again.
We’re just like ants finding a sugar cube. But with more at stake in some ways.