tiramichu
@tiramichu@lemm.ee
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 8 hours ago:
Well yes, that’s my whole point 🤡
- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 14 hours ago:
The problem, as far as HP will be concerned, is the strategy was leaked to the public. If there was no leak there would have been no news, and no ‘feedback’.
HP won’t take this as a signal to not do the shitty thing. They’ll take this as a signal to back off for now, and then try the shitty thing again later, but slowly and bit-by-bit, so there’s no big news.
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 1 day ago:
The line that really galls me is “generate warranty cost efficiencies” - i.e. make it really difficult to get through so that customers with defective products are incentivised to simply give up, rather than to claim the warranty for their defective product.
Absolute scumbags.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 3 days ago:
“Still” is completely the wrong term here.
A good chunk of the people playing on retro systems never even owned half the systems back in the day which they have collected now. Or they might be new people getting into the hobby who perhaps weren’t even born when those systems were current.
People can’t “still” be doing something that they were NOT doing before!
Such a strange way to phrase it, for a hobby which is more popular now than it ever was.
So it’s tot
- Comment on As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market 1 week ago:
I’m sure that was the original idea behind using caddies.
But it turns out that scratches can be avoided if you are careful, and more importantly, a few scratches hardly prevent the disc being read thanks to the error correction being pretty good.
Back in the day I used one of those AOL internet sign-up junk discs as a drinks coaster for several years. As you’d expect from grinding around on my desk it was dirty and scratched to total hell, never mind the thermal stress of hundreds of hot tea mugs being sat on it. I’d never seen a CD looking so bad.
One day out of curiosity I decided to wipe it off and put it in the PC to see what would happen. I was genuinely surprised when the AOL splash popped up (and also a little disgusted because I had no love for AOL and was hoping I’d killed it)
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 2 weeks ago:
The cause of enshittification is essentially the shareholder pressure for endless and exponential growth that comes from public ownership.
Valve is a privately held company, and as long as it remains that way it doesn’t have those perverse incentives.
Gabe will never allow Valve to go public as long as he is in control, but after he is gone who knows.
- Comment on Emojiis are hieroglyphics 2 weeks ago:
19:00 somewhat ruined the illusion, bringing those modern Arabic numerals into the mix.
There’s a perfectly good sunset/sunrise emoji 🌄
- Comment on Chain of thought AI 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny though, because as humans we also consider a huge number of factors when someone approaches us and says “hi” - but we are so speedy about being context aware we don’t even notice.
In a fraction of a second we are thinking “Who is this person? Where do I know them from? Is this a personal thing or a professional thing? What does their tone and body language tell me about the interaction? What is their motivation? Are they a threat? Do they want something transnational from me, or is this purely just a pleasantry?”
We’re good at that.
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 2 weeks ago:
Google already did it right? But only for the US. Here in the UK it still shows as Gulf of Mexico.
Google is pretty well known for displaying certain ‘contended’ things with different names in different countries.
That this should even be contended is a joke, but Google just views this Trump-pandering as the price of their seat at the top table for this administration and they’re quite happy to do it.
If we have to rename it my vote is for “Gulf of CUM” (Cuba, USA and Mexico)
That’s fair isnt it? 💦
- Comment on It sure gonna break 3 weeks ago:
I was totally confused for a moment because I interpreted “strong” to mean that it has a “strong bed game” and will send you off to an amazing sleep in no time.
- Comment on Unshakable 3 weeks ago:
It’s affectionate headbutts!
- Comment on Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin blames 'dinner party classes' for pubs crisis 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I think you’re right, it’s both aspects. Less affordability, but a shift in generational priorities too.
- Comment on Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin blames 'dinner party classes' for pubs crisis 4 weeks ago:
I mean, the root cause here, if you look at the bigger picture, is that EVERYTHING is getting more expensive and EVERYONE is getting poorer.
Nobody would expect supermarket prices in a pub, it’s obviously going to be more, and that’s expected. It’s not that people don’t want to go out, it’s that they can’t afford to go out half the amount they’d like, because the working class is broke.
I do agree that swapping the VAT around would be fair, because booze is only a component of a supermarket’s business while it’s a mainstay of a pub’s business, but that’s not the main reason people aren’t going out anymore. They are drinking less and less even at home, too.
- Comment on 'Ripped off' caravan owners start compensation fight 1 month ago:
Honestly, it’s absolutely disgusting.
For a time my retired father was looking into buying one, but I’m super glad in retrospect now this has all come out that it didn’t go through and he walked away.
These parks and the individuals who run them are intentionally scamming vulnerable people out of their entire retirement by painting a false picture that these holiday caravans are a sound investment just like owning a house, while all the while knowing fully that people will lose almost all the money they put in.
- Comment on The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025 2 months ago:
I use Pop for gaming and it just works.
As a plus, I also love the somewhat mac-ish UX design, although that won’t be to everyone’s taste.
- Comment on the council 2 months ago:
Heart of the Sea
- Comment on oh no 2 months ago:
Ignorance is bliss
- Comment on Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US 2 months ago:
If your device can be disabled remotely, it isn’t your device.
- Comment on Instagram faces backlash for lowering quality of low-engagement videos 3 months ago:
You’d be surprised.
I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who use their Instagram or Facebook as basically the history of their social lives, where all their memories are, the local copies long gone.
It’s a terrible idea, but I’m certain people are doing it.
- Comment on Instagram faces backlash for lowering quality of low-engagement videos 3 months ago:
YouTube videos degrade in quality over time too, as they reencode from one codec du jour to the next.
Heck, even Google drive pulled that stunt where they stopped storing photos in original resolution.
Point being, none of these companies exist primarily to archive your content - they exist to monetise it.
If you want to safeguard your content in original quality, then you need to either put it on a cloud storage that you are PAYING for, or keept it on your own hardware.
- Comment on SPOOPY TARDIGRADE 3 months ago:
In English too, the colloquial name for tardigrades is “water bears” :D
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 3 months ago:
Even being prerendered, it was an intensely impressive game for 1993.
And it’s not like they didn’t have plenty of problems to solve.
Here’s an interesting interview with founder Rand Miller about developing Myst and how they were barely able to make it work due to the limitations of CD drives.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 months ago:
I appreciate your point, but here’s why I don’t agree with it.
In fiction writing, the ideal case is that the words themselves slide neatly out of the way and become invisible, leaving only a picture in the reader’s mind. Generally speaking, anything distracting is thefefore counter-productive for fiction. Strange fonts and strange typesetting, while interesting, take the reader out of the prose. There’s a reason almost every fiction book you pick up from the shelf uses Garamond.
In an engineering context, remembering “12 eggs, 6 toast” is probably the most important thing, and numeric digits assist in that. In fiction however it doesn’t matter if, by the next page, the reader has forgotten exactly how many eggs there were; the important aspect is to convey the sense of a large and chaotic family, and the impression is more important than the detail.
Thats why although the numbers are important for setting the scene, we really don’t want them to jump out. We don’t want anything at all to have undue prominence, because the reader needs to process the paragraph as a cohesive whole, and remember the scene not the numbers.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 months ago:
Cooking is just applied chemistry, after all.
- Comment on No excuse 3 months ago:
I feel like it’s also an outlook/mentality thing.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 months ago:
Context is everything, IMO.
In engineering work numbers should always be digits. In prose numbers should be spelled out.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; twelve eggs and six rounds of toast for their three sets of boistrous twins.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; 12 eggs and 6 rounds of toast for their 3 sets of boistrous twins.
To me it’s pretty clear which of those reads better and more naturally as prose; digits really ‘jump out’ on the page, and while that is great for engineering texts, it is incongruent and distracting for prose.
- Comment on Vital Statistics 3 months ago:
Proper massive innit
- Comment on The Elder Gods 4 months ago:
Does a male’s eye look substantially different?
- Comment on Probably 4 months ago:
That’s what you get for being indecisive!
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 4 months ago:
UK here and they are turned on.
Thanks a lot, Brexit :(