FabledAepitaph

@FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re missing the entire point. What Trump did was petty af. Petty shit deserves to get smacked down from every possible angle. If more people stood up on principle like my new Mexican crush here, maybe they’d think twice before issuing their bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Buy Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I saw this in the wall of a place I wanted to shop at, I’d probably just leave

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way. I wish more people would accept what is quite literally only minor inconvenience in the name of starving these insane companies. We honestly have it so good in most of modern society, and some things are just totally optional imo.

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will always be the Gulf of Mexico to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely disgusting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point, there was this shift where the technology was no longer being designed to benefit the user, but to benefit the creator. The problem is that the creators are now trillion-dollar multi-national organizations who also lobby against my wellbeing and safety in areas rulemaking and regulation. So now I am fine foregoing the “technology” whenever I can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Shit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a list of people who’s creations I’d like to avoid, if at all possible.

  It’s obvious for several people on this list, but how do I boycott someone like the Oracle guy? As a non-tech guy, it just seems impossible. I don’t even recognize several of these people, tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will continue to never give Nintendo any of my money on account of their litigiousness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Help me build my echo chamber.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I thought Google was so cool around 2004. Now I can’t wait for them to become irrelevant. I need to stop using “googling” as a verb…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If YouTube were an independent company, I would be much happier to pay like I do for Spotify and even (borderline) Paramount Plus. I have no problem paying artists for their time, and I have spent thousands and thousands on commissions and merchandise from independent people and art businesses. Google already has enough money. I would rather save my money for small(er) companies who actually need it.

  If people stopped supporting these ultra-consolidated megacorporations, we might have a healthier economy and better worker’s rights overall. But what do I know lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had two ASUS gaming laptops, and both of them began having issues within a year, and the second didnt last more than a couple years total.

  The first laptop was one of their enormous ROG 17 inch gaming laptops that looked like it had jet engine exhaust. The hard drive died and the power port broke within the first year, and I had to send it in under warranty. The power brick also died, and I ended up having to replace it myself around the 3 year mark.

  Thinking it was a fluke, I ended up buying a smaller, more portable ASUS gaming laptop next which had more of a standard form factor. Maybe six or eight months later, that one suffered some issue that required being sent in for service as well. It began experiencing the same issue about four months later, I’d sent it in for repair a second time for the same issue, and they apparently fixed it.

  I got to use that laptop for maybe 1.5 years total before it was completely unusable, in spite of two RMAs.

  My current gaming laptop is an HP Omen 17 from 2017, and has been completely stable and reliable up to this day. I love to hate on HP because of their dumb printers, but I’m pretty impressed. I’ll probably end up buying another one, because I will literally never own another ASUS product ever in my life, and there are only so many manufacturers out there who I’d consider for a laptop purchase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to go back to books, fellas. This party is done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for emotional game recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Took me over a year to recover from Outer Wilds. Can’t explain it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love to do this⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I drive a Subaru WRX and I take off from stop lights a little fast. I’m not going crazy fast, but I am usually faster than everyone else 99% of the time without putting too much effort in, and I usually go 5 or 10 over depending on how high the speed limit is. But eventually, I always come across some psychopath driving a minivan, or a base model Nissan Whatever that must just start flooring it as soon as the light turns. Impossible to keep up with them without really giving it the beans, which I’m not up for.

  There’s always someone willing to drive their car more ridiculously lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can get behind this if everything is processed locally. Let my computer do the computing and stop harvesting my data, internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chickens!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Based

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus Christ. Can’t you just read between the lines for two minutes? Every one of us has some government agency that reigns supreme in our respective geographic areas. Just fill in the blank, please.

  What does a nuclear power plant have to do with tracking my Google searches? You think TIkTok on someone’s phone is going to allow them to disable power plants? That’s much more of a stretch than what I was getting at. The FBI, and probably whoever you would deal with, are specifically buying personal data for this exact purpose–to build profiles on people and to use it against us for whatever purpose they desire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The FBI has the power to arrest you tomorrow for all sorts of reasons. The Chinese government as the power to do what to you, again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. The risk of piracy is just the cost of doing business, imo. If you want less piracy, all they have to do is improve price and ease of access. But they’ve already run the numbers and determined that the current price point is where they will see maximum profit. It’s like they’ve approved the “theft” themselves haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another way to look at this, is that we were all shoved in to a society with a financial system that basically requires the expenditure of money to get along. If I’m not entitled to the media, why are they entitled to my money? At the end of the day, none of us asked to be here. Since the dawn of time, people have been taking what they’ve wanted and what they’ve needed–be thankful we’re in a phase of society that were taking pirated media and complaining about pricing, instead of taking eachothers lives for survival (which isn’t even universally true yet lol). I would also argue, but not with any conviction, that we need to consume at least -some- of this media to be able to participate maximally in society. Everyone loves movies and media, and if you’re the one person not consuming it, you’re an outcast. Outcasts proverbially die alone away from the warmth of the communal fire. It’s just human nature, tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The last game I bought was Outer Wilds in 2022, on sale, for like ten bucks. Maybe I bought Firewatch in 2023 as a rebound, but I don’t remember. After that, I decided to finally play through the MCC for most of 2023, which I’d bought years earlier for like 50 bucks, maybe. And how much would I have to have paid to keep acces to these games for so long with a subscription model? Well, just to keep acces with Ubusoft would have cost me nearly 300 dollars since late 2022, for less than 80 dollars worth of games. Of course they want us to have subscriptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “We thought he was hiding a knife in his bullet wound.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would just walk out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, but the sentiment I’ve been seeing is that white people = bad because most of the “rich white dude” politicians are somehow the root of our oppression, and them being white is important apparently. It’s not a “white” thing, but a rich politician thing. Every other color of politician and rich person is fucking us all the same, and the “white” thing is a distraction from what’s important and what matters–that our politicians and government aren’t working for the people, regardless of race. But it’s better for them if we’re all angry at eachother, so here everyone is chasing aftet somewhere easy to put their hatred. And here it is emerging as racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is basically the answer. It caught on somewhere and the people doing it are too stupid to realize that it’s a matter of economic and political “class” oppression, not “race” oppression. But let’s keep hating white people even though most of them are as helpless and economically destitute as every other race.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  12 down votes so far because I called someone out as racist, who is specifically calling out race for no reason. Why don’t these people respond and try to justify it? Because they can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it okay to call out race when they’re “white”? You’re racist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Portugal., heck yeah!