Bruncvik
@Bruncvik@lemmy.world
- Comment on The meaning of life? 9 hours ago:
Free? That’s when your kids send your grandkids for you to take care of. Ungrateful bastards…
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 1 day ago:
My current computer will be Linux, as soon as I stop procrastinating and clean up my documents and back them up on my NAS. Already did that with my travel laptop.
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 5 days ago:
As one legend to another: Before the Ancestors, there were Legends. That’s what the 70’s kids are.
- Comment on Been putting a lot of thought into this 1 week ago:
Don’t know a day-to-day equivalent, but in winter, taking of your ski shoes after a day of skiing is straight up orgasmic.
- Comment on Dogs welcome 1 week ago:
That’s Crunchbang.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Bastard…
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 2 weeks ago:
Learned from growing up in a communist dictatorship: don’t discuss politics and religion with strangers. And even with friends or acquaintances, don’t discuss it in writing. It doesn’t mean you can’t have strong opinions, but don’t make them public. Talking (not writing) one-to-one or in small groups eventually toppled almost all communist dictatotships, so there’s absolutely no need to broadcast your opinions, unless your goal is to be martyred.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 4 weeks ago:
In addition to “normal” uses, my kids got into the habit of leaving me messages on the camera when I’m in the office and they are leaving for school. I grew to love these messages.
Using Eufy with local storage. Don’t know whether anything gets stored to the cloud, but I guess data still passes through Eufy servers when I view the videos.
- Comment on Fujifilm reportedly working on 180MP medium format camera 4 weeks ago:
I may not be representative of a larger sample, but I used medium format for landscapes, and always shallow depth of field. For sharper images, I used longer lenses on a 35mm camera. So, a diffraction issue wouldn’t be bothering me on a medium format camera, if I ever even found the money to get one.
- Comment on Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite. 4 weeks ago:
Still doing Vivaldi on a daily basic. But I think I’m a very specific use case: an old user who hates to change his ways, and is obsessed with keeping the page tabs on the bottom of the screen.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 5 weeks ago:
When I was your age, we called them Micro$oft. Too bad there were no extensions in Netscape Navigator.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 1 month ago:
I installed Office 97 from 49 floppies on a bunch of office computers. We didn’t have CD-rom drives, so we requested the floppies from Microsoft (this was a free of charge service). Took me a week. Got into graphic novels, as I was waiting for each floppy to load.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 month ago:
My company (130,000 employees) sticks to 24H2. IT wouldn’t approve the 25H2. Don’t know whether the refusal to upgrade hurts Microsoft in any way, but if it does, I think we’re big enough to be on their radar, and perhaps they talk to our IT about concerns and complaints we may have.
- 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 month 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. 1 month 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 3 months ago:
Funny enough, in some countries the Christmas presents are delivered by baby Jesus, and not Santa Claus.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 3 months 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 3 months ago:
At first I thought I was on c/running and was about to agree.
- Comment on Gee I always thought that they were 3 months 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... 3 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 4 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 4 months ago:
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 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 5 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 5 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.