Bruncvik

@Bruncvik@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like when your headphone cords get caught on a door knob.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how many kids still know what headphone cords are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What brings you peace in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hiking. Alone. No technology along, just my walking stick and backpack. Bonus points when it’s foggy and I feel like the only person on the trail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an account where I only post after I translated my writing through three different languages and back to English. The original input and the output convey the same message, but have very distinct styles. Randomizing the three languages in my translation sequence introduces enough variety that I doubt current LLM’s can identify me. (Full disclosure: I don’t post any sensitive information under any account; I do it just for fun.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting question. For me it would be a dead grandfather⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keanu Reeves. Just the two of us, each on one end of the bench, enjoying a sandwich, and not talking but still content with each other’s company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The meaning of life?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s Crunchbang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bastard…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny enough, in some countries the Christmas presents are delivered by baby Jesus, and not Santa Claus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hmm breakfast⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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…