Bruncvik
@Bruncvik@lemmy.world
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 1 day ago:
6 and 7. For now, I’ll be monitoring their activity, and we’ll see whether they’ll need any locks. Probably internet filtering on the router.
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 2 days ago:
My kids are getting mini PC’s for Christmas, preinstalled with Mint. They use tablets now, but I want to introduce them to the joys of keyboards and mice (and The Secret of Monkey Island). I hope they’ll like it, so that in the future they’ll stick to PC’s and laptops, which offer far more robust control by the end user.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 2 days ago:
I don’t watch others playing games, either, but someone who likes those streams told me he didn’t see a difference between watching good gamers play games and good football players play football.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 1 week ago:
Dude. I still use 8 of them. And you’ll only take those eight from my cold, dead fingers. Which, apparently, won’t be long…
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 1 week ago:
We have separate bathrooms, but I still have PTSD from the time I changed the skirting boards in hers.
- Comment on Most often are you doing the first or the second? 2 weeks ago:
This shouldn’t be a binary question, but a spectrum. And based on the answer you could guess the person’s age pretty accurately.
- Comment on Why do some Men think all dish washing should be done by their GF or wife? Their help is really appreciated 2 weeks ago:
Why do women have smaller feet? So that they can stand closer to the kitchen sink.
But seriously: whoever is free, does the dishes. And we have the microwave rule: when the microwave is running, don’t stand around waiting, do something useful. Obviously, this is applicable not only to the microwave. So, cleaning the kitchen is an ongoing process, but thanks to that we never get to a stage where doing the dishes or cleaning the counter feels like a chore.
- Comment on As you age your fantasies change 1 month ago:
Funny enough, in some countries the Christmas presents are delivered by baby Jesus, and not Santa Claus.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 month ago:
This is also the reason why Metamucil doesn’t sell in Europe. Seriously: just looking at the left picture gives me constipation.
(I understand that the pic is a joke, but anyone who has a coffee and a fag after breakfast can attest to their wonderful laxative powers.)
- Comment on thats all 1 month ago:
At first I thought I was on c/running and was about to agree.
- Comment on Gee I always thought that they were 1 month ago:
One more week till Halloween. The next day the Christmas season starts, and I’ll gave the three TSO Christmas albums on loop.
- Comment on Back in my day... 2 months ago:
I used to live in the US back then, and it was cheaper to leave voice messages than text. So, I did. One time I called my sister in Europe, and since she didn’t answer, I left a voice message. She called me back later, pissed off, because she had to call her provider to set up her voice mailbox, because “normal people just text when there’s no answer.” These days, she sends me long voice messages on Whatsapp, which I ignore for weeks at a time. Oh, how the tables have turned…
- Comment on Fuck 2 months ago:
Looks like they used CSS on that tree, instead of tables…
- Comment on What would you name this New vehicle outta science fiction movies 2 months ago:
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 2 months ago:
Pringlius. Actually, the Aldi knockoff brand that tastes so much better.
- Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating 3 months ago:
Ireland is a special case here. Not that the population wouldn’t be willing to vote in some extremists, but they may actually be unable. Ireland’s voting system, the single transferable vote, almost guarantees a regression to centrist parties. It would take a change in our Constitution to move allow extremist parties to gain any political power, and given our history and existing political culture, the easiest way to achieve that would indeed be a direct military intervention.
- Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating 3 months ago:
But of course it’s happening here, but at least where I’m sitting, there is an overwhelming rejection of this “bullshittery”. Here in Ireland we have small fringe nationalistic parties, which so far only faced outright ridicule, even though recently I heard about outright hostility (a group of such nutcases was beaten up and stripped to their underwear). We are facing political and financial pressures from the US, and so far we dispatched with them fairly easily. And even though our government’s incompetence invites the more radical groups, I’m fully convinced that it won’t happen here, unless we’re directly invaded.
- Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating 3 months ago:
The US used to export its culture, and people were eating it up. But I actually see an uptick in appreciation of local culture in Europe. As you said, there is lots of external financing to push American culture across the world, but I think that this is just a reaction to people not consuming as much of it as before. I see that here in Ireland as well. So far, we’ve rejected most of it (especially the American religious nutcases who tried to influence our abortion referendum), but it’s a constant struggle.
- Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating 3 months ago:
By “alien”, I didn’t mean any negative connotations. I meant that I don’t understand it. Ugandan or Japanese cultures, for example, are alien to me, because I don’t understand their nuances and can’t be bothered to learn them. The US, with its proud European “descendants” (so many people claim to be European even though they are the third generation to never set foot in Europe), used to be at least understandable, but it’s shifting towards something where I no longer understand how people think or what motives drive them.
- Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating 3 months ago:
My silver lining about Kirk: before he got shot, I didn’t even know he existed. After he got shot, I read up on him and his statements. The amount of bullshit he spewed and the amount of people who believed or liked him helped me understand the US better. And to realise that culturally, the US is so diverging from Europe that we should no longer treat it as our offshoot, but an entirely different (and increasingly alien) culture.
- Comment on breakfast 3 months ago:
I don’t care about raw milk or blueberries, but that upvote counter confused the hell out of me. I spent way too much time trying to figure out when I upvoted the image.
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 3 months ago:
From my personal experience, the 3rd spaces is a huge thing. I’ve met my wife in such a space, and pre-Covid I’ve run a large Meetup group that focused on safe socialization (dinners, cinemas, hiking, art events). I’ve seen countless of hookups and dozens of marriages within that group. Covid pretty much killed Meetup groups on our area, so when we want to socialize all that’s left are pubs and clubs, and there I only see single-gender groups with no overlap. I doubt anyone is getting laid, and even if they do, chances of a meaningful relationship before actually knowing each other’s likes and dislikes, and common interests, are minimal.
- Comment on We all had one 3 months ago:
Tangentially related: it is said that you become a true ultra runner only after you finish a race with at least one sock missing.
- Comment on What does this mean? 3 months ago:
Bankrupt.
- Comment on microsoft 3 months ago:
I wish i was dilligent enough to do that. Generally, for migration, I use a new hdd for the OS, and mount my previous drive as a documents drive. I also get a separate drive for a full backup. I’ve been doing this for so long that I have uninterrupted personal files since 1997. However, it requires a good cleanup and organisation of all documents since the previous migration, and I’m too lazy to do it until I’m forced to.
- Comment on microsoft 3 months ago:
Still using 8.1 on my personal PC. Once Bitdefeder stops supporting it, I’ll switch to Mint and get a few more years from the hardware.
- Comment on W.a.m.d.i.i. 4 months ago:
Strong and bitter.
- Comment on Yeah 4 months ago:
Owned by Microsoft. Microsoft recently blocked e-mail access to a LibreOffice dev. Speculation is that they’ll start blocking projects for competing products next.
(Alternative explanation: Gitlab should be part of IT divestment from US-based services.)
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 4 months ago:
This is just my speculation, so take it as you will. The EU has been pushing for digital ID cards for quite a while, and this is just another attempt. The last serious attempt was the Covid vaccination passport, but so many people still opted for paper certs, and the rest deleted the app when vaccination was no longer mandatory, that it failed again. So, now the authorities are becoming smart and trying to go through the vector that has a proven record of driving technological change: porn.
- Comment on Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 Day 5: What Happens Now — fireborn 5 months ago:
I have a 486, but with MS-DOS 6.2 and Norton Commander as a UI. Haven’t booted it up for about a decade, though, but don’t see a reason why it shouldn’t work. My Win98SE computer (Pentium 100), on the other hand, is still my gaming rig. Don’t need anything better for HoMM2, Master of Orion 2, and TES: Daggerfall.