Pringles
@Pringles@lemm.ee
- Comment on I chose the penguin 4 days ago:
When you click on “What!?” it’s the same text but capitalized.
- Comment on That chicken's name? Joe Rogan 2 weeks ago:
I have been watching Newsradio after seeing a very funny clip, which has Joe Rogan as the IT/maintenance guy. He’s not very funny, but I was surprised it was the same guy as I had only ever heard of him as a podcaster.
- Comment on Deleted my Reddit! I am now entirely federated online except for Pixelfed! 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy: very human to use.
- Comment on Colin Anderson Calls GTA 2 the ‘Unsung Hero’ of the Franchise | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 weeks ago:
I agree it was the best in the series. I never quite enjoyed the later gta games as much as the unbridled fun of gta 2.
- Comment on Pizza rule 3 weeks ago:
I once did something like that to myself. Not satisfied with the tame spiciness of jalapenos on pizza, I decided to put a bhut jolokia (aka ghost pepper) on one. That was a profoundly dumb idea.
I was blinded by the need for spice and suffered twice.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 4 weeks ago:
I think we decided to play 3 more rounds and then count the points, as the game was still gonna go on for at least another hour otherwise.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 4 weeks ago:
That reminds me of the Amadeus bar in Leuven. The owner was notoriously grumpy and curt. I sometimes went there as a student to play board games. One time he seemed very interested as we were playing, as he was looking at the board. We asked him if he wanted to play with and he just went “No, I’m wondering how much longer this game will take so I can kick you out and close.”
Not sure if it’s still open.
- Comment on PC gaming fan Steven Spielberg says he "can't do controllers," prefers keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
I’m in the same camp, although I wish it wasn’t so. I’ve gotten okayish at Rocket League with mouse and keyboard, but that really is a controller game.
- Comment on DarkPattern.games - a website that rates mobile games for their "dark patterns" 1 month ago:
So the only mobile game I really play often is Mad Skills BMX 2 which has 0 dark patterns. Yay
- Comment on AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support 2 months ago:
I have had to contact the vmware enterprise support several times and while it was tedious to do so, they always managed to help us out, including when we had datastore locked vhd’s after a storage crash.
- Comment on Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube 2 months ago:
NewPipe stopped working for me some time ago, switched over to rvx which seems to work fine.
- Comment on Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why? 2 months ago:
Those 'taters ain’t gonna count themselves!
- Comment on Centipedes Don't Fuck 2 months ago:
Don’t humanize centipedes! That leads to strange and disturbing things…
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 3 months ago:
He does a years worth of updates in like 3 or 4 weeks and then takes off for like 6 months. For me that’s acceptable. When he does get around to it, he pushes updates like the Flash on speed and fixes nearly all flagged issues in addition to adding new features that have been requested.
- Comment on pringles 3 months ago:
You’re goddamn right!
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
Your heresy is forgiven because you used the superior spelling of the metal in question.
- Comment on why not 3 months ago:
My wife: “Those are rookie numbers”
- Comment on The Air BnB market is very competitive 3 months ago:
Maybe once they run out of apartment buildings, but that’s not gonna happen any time soon.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 4 months ago:
Feel free to start a competitive game store. There’s a reason why gog, origin or epic hardly make a dent on Valves bottom line.
- Comment on Stoke-on-Trent couple fined £1,200 after clearing up rubbish 4 months ago:
Solution: dump it in the gardens of the local councilors.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
I never had issues with Amazon support. To be fair, the last time I needed support was over 4 years ago, but still. I got to chat with some real person relatively quickly who managed to address the issue swiftly.
- Comment on VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture 4 months ago:
Volkswagens EV platform is a mess because the CEO responsible for the pivot to EV within VW, was only allowed to implement it if he stopped being the CEO. So the next guy half assed the 80B$ pivot to EV, leading to VW being one of the worst performers amongst EV producing OEMs.
So now they are on the market to buy whatever is needed to get them out of the hot mess they created themselves.
- Comment on EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones 5 months ago:
This law, if it were to pass, is 100% guaranteed to be shot down by the European courts for invasion of privacy.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian Opens New Studio As Development On Two 'Very Ambitious' RPGs Continues 5 months ago:
Perfect spot for poaching devs from CDPR
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 6 months ago:
Where do you live? I’m in central Europe and hit the local currency equivalent of 60$ per person per week…
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 6 months ago:
You know, I work full time from home ever since covid and it is brilliant because I had a long commute to an office I didn’t really needed to be in because all my peers/colleagues are in other countries. But when I started out, I worked in a nice office which was a 10 minute bike ride from my home and it was brilliant. If I could do the same work within a 10 minute commute I do now, I would be in the office every day I think.
- Comment on What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)? 6 months ago:
I use an HP microserver gen 8, which I bought second hand (300$) and upgraded with a better CPU (20$ from ebay) and extra ram (80$) and 4 2TB SSD’s (100$ per). I installed Windows server on it because I just wanted it to work in a way I’m familiar with, but a colleague of mine installed Synology OS on it. You can use the cd drive bay for the OS disk (with some tweaking). Since you already have the disks, this would fit your budget.
- Comment on lipids 6 months ago:
This is so stupid. I love it
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 6 months ago:
It’s an impressive piece of software, alright
- Comment on EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn 6 months ago:
This is still quite far from becoming law. I applaud this second open letter for rightfully addressing major concerns with this proposal and I think the timing of it is right. This does show how difficult the line to thread between encryption and privacy on the one hand and fighting crime in the digital sphere like CSAM or communication between members of organized crime on the other hand is. Still, it is important to be very careful with these types of laws. After all, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.