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- Comment on China decries U.S. ‘bullying.’ But, to many, China is the bully. 7 months ago:
It’s funny how Americans hate for “whataboutism” suddenly goes away when the criticisms are pointed anywhere but at them.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 8 months ago:
This version naming is hrllaripusly awful. “It works on rotund tundra, but not alpine fresh. Hope that helps!”
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 8 months ago:
Windows tends to work with ever you throw at it though. Plug it in and somehow it will find a way to work.
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 8 months ago:
Definitely no shady VPNs run by white westerners though. Theyve all got impeccable morals through ans through. Glad you cleared that up.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
That’s literally the same thing the us government is doing here…
- Comment on I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? 8 months ago:
We moved from America to see Asia years ago. We were just talking last week about how racist we still catch ourselves being. We have a sick relative at home who we talked about moving here. They’d be close to us so we could help. And healthcare here is cheap/free often and pretty good.
But there’s part of me that just thinks American = superior. No matter how long I live here I’m not sure it will ever go away. It’s been psychopathically programmed into me. “Yeah it’s expensive, but at least you’re getting a good doctor”. (I’ve had awful and great doctors in both countries) It’s infuriating to realize.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
Are you insinuating Linux (or osx for that matter) is well known for shipping well loved defaults?
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
I will never understand how anyone can take the osx dock and menubar seriously. They’re both just objectively awful uz
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
I get putting it here but it should probably just be in the normal search. Search is shit on every os in general. LLM could theoretically help it find actually relevant stuff (and filter out the kink it usually surfaces).
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
You can add it back in taskbar settings if you use it (and remove the copilot button if you hate it).
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 8 months ago:
I worked at a restaurant as a kid washing dishes and servers did fuck all, made bank, and complained about how it wasn’t enough. I lost all respect for waiters at that job (but I saw the same behaviors repeated too later in life. In the bay you’d notice that as soon as you didn’t order an overpriced cocktail with dinner, your waiter would peg you as a low spender and basically just never come back unless you flagged them down).
Cooks… Good cooks are nuts to me. They’ll be cooking 10 different things simultaneously with timers running in their heads. I had no idea how they managed it.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 9 months ago:
You can have it, but expecting modern windows to run seems a bit silly. It’s a for sale product not a community supported hobby project.
If it was worth supporting for old ATMs or POS terminals, Ms probably would. But the people with those systems aren’t paying for windows updates.
- Comment on Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU 9 months ago:
iMessage is the same though… It only falls back to sms when required (like everything else) and people hate it when it does.
- Comment on Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU 9 months ago:
I don’t think I ever got spam from any jabber server even when google and Facebook were running them. You still have to opt in to messages from something. If I had to guess ,I’d guess every chat service is still an xmpp server under a surface level encryption.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
Tech needs to unionize. The only way to fight this is just to have the entire workforce walk out.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
Writing a new ff UI is pretty easy. The entire UI is written in html at this point. I’m not sure why people would say it’s “hard” to change.
Embedding gecko into something requires work (even that isn’t that hard really, you just have to hand it a gl surface and pass through inputs)
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
It was literally in the chrome “manifesto” when it launched.
- Comment on A gel injected into the scrotum could be the next male contraceptive 10 months ago:
Do you think vasectomies are free?
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
This makes no sense. K is not a constant. Is there a variable in there?
Temperature is a measure of entropy. It depends on the disorder in a system somehow.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Thailand splits theri days in 4 (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_six-hour_clock)
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
Celcius us a horrible scale for science or engineering. The world literally explodes when water freezes.
- Comment on If only it was like that 10 months ago:
I grew up in Iowa which would see 0f and 100f every year easily. Now I live in Bangkok which is basically just 90-100 year round. I’m not sure Celsius helps either that much. But outside Iowa I haven’t cared much about the temp outside ever either.
- Comment on Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games 10 months ago:
I think basically every industry has been dealing with automation for 100 years now. Art is only unique (imo) in that they’ve been avoiding it for awhile. That’s why I only ride in vehicles where every part is hand made and assembled.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
Lots of companies spend more on ads than they make. It’s a growth strategy.
- Comment on Can Chromium resist Manifest V3 or is it doomed to disallow adblockers? 10 months ago:
Firefox already runs a web store that supports v2 extensions and is open source. But… You’d just be chasing your tail forever trying to keep your fork of chromium updated until you gave up and forked it. We’ve seen this happen too often.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Aren’t they doing this already without federating?
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Is threads racist? Or just run by a big company?
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
“it just works” always struck me as such an odd adage for apple because so many things don’t work on their platforms.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
I had a Sony laptop for awhile where you could draw a circle on the touchpad to infinitely scroll/scrub forward and back (if you started your drag on the far right edge). It was kinda amazing once you got down how to do it.
But scrubbers were around way before apple made theirs.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
It’s pretty out of the box now with windows and android. You have to link the two but then it just works (I don’t find it a useful feature though)