FabledAepitaph

@FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for emotional game recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love to do this⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Based

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Portugal., heck yeah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did Your Spotify Wrapped Place You In Burlington, Berkeley, or Cambridge? You May Be Gay⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got Boulder, CO for Foxygen, Broken Bells, and Blind Pilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw, I thought this was about actual Mastodons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, your response is a dumb take, and I don’t know why you’re acting so offended about facts–lol. Let’s just look at your comments one by one:

  Higher demand makes energy exploitation cleaner? Is that way oil and gas and strip mining is so clean nowadays? Lol.

  Yes, batteries are expensive. Higher demand does drive more production, but lowered price of goods is only a textbook theory nowadays. Or is why food has gotten so cheap lately? Is that why vehicles are so cheap post-COVID, because demand is so high? Lol.

  I’ll be waiting for your miracle battery, but it’s still a leap away–we’re not going to see exponential gains in battery capacity like we saw with computer processors. We literally cannot cover “75% of transportation emissions” because less than 60% of transportation emissions are derived from light road vehicles, most of them being trucks and SUVs: www.epa.gov/system/files/…/420f23016.pdf Sure, we can see that 58% shrink, but it’ll be picked up in part by electrical generation and industry with more frequent vehicle replacements. But the corporations will be happy with your purchase. Lol.

  People paying for luxury goods isn’t what made cars take off back in the day. It was Henry Ford demanding his company produce a car that anyone could afford. As long as people keep buying expensive luxury EVs, they will always be out of reach of the regular person. You’ve been brainwashed. Lol.

  Besides–I’m not against electric transportation. Bring on the electric powered buses and trains. Instead of morally pressuring people to make expensive purchases, why don’t you lobby your government to invest in city infrastructure and design to reduce the need for personal transportation in the first place?

  Now are you going to stop acting so upset now that I’ve set you straight, or are you going to come back with another unwarranted, unnecessarily snarky remark?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not against change, and I encourage it. But We also can’t put all of our eggs in one basket. I am glad people are buying EVs, but we can’t let a market for an inherently disposable item dominate over another option (ICE vehicles) that will outlast an EV a substantial proportion of the time. The automotive producers are licking their lips at the thought of getting us all into vehicles that will be be effectively unusable in 10 or 15 years–batteries age with use and also time, unlike steel and aluminum.

  I am an environmental engineer and I have worked on remediation projects for oil and gas, as well as other types of natural resource exploitation such as mines. The damage caused by mining metals from the ground is extreme, and it will last decades, if not forever. “Centralizing” pollution isn’t a good thing–we’re best off distributing our pollution so that the Earth can have a fighting chance of repairing it piece by piece, which may never happen in areas that have undergone certain types of mining and other industry. Look at an old oil and gas site, and you would never even know it was there after 10 or 50 years. CO2 is a problem, for sure, and so is methane, but methane degrades in the atmosphere after just over a decade. Mining causes damage to the air, ground water and surface water, and to the nearby wildlife. Look up Tar Creek in Oklahoma, the Questa Moly Mine in New Mexico, and do you remember what happened in Colorado when the EPA accidentally released an entire mine full of acid drainage into the nearby river? Nothing but dead water life for miles and miles. Mines take some of our most beautiful natural areas and destroy them.

  If you think modern mines are going to circumvent all of these issues, they aren’t. They’re going to have accidents and cause damage just the same as the fossil fuel industry–some ways, even worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People already have ICE vehicles, and they’re going to last for decades to come. I have a diesel Mercedes from 1980 that still runs and works just fine. No battery is going to last 40+ years, and the move to battery powered vehicles is unwittingly entering us all into a “subscription” based transportation society, much like literally every other device in the world that takes a battery. Oil and gas emissions aren’t ideal, but neither are the environmental issues that originate from mining. Mining causes massive amounts of environmental damage to wildlife and the surrounding natural ecosystem, watersheds, and has its own brand of air pollution. Read up on the Questa moly mine is Northern New Mexico if you wish. We’re talking rivers that turn blue, depleted salmon populations, -permanent- groundwater contamination, acid ponds, and heavy metal dusts blowing into nearby towns and exposing people to lead, uranium, and cadmium, among whatever else. Why are people so eager to attack oil “barons” nowadays when the health, tech, and banking industries are bleeding us dry at every corner? At least we’ve got remote work options nowadays–can you say the same for your home loan?