rustydrd
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- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 1 day ago:
People upgrading to Windows 11 be like:
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 4 days ago:
Depends on your definition of “users”. If “user” means “source of personal information to train AI models” then households absolutely are users. I guess we’re entering a world where different users do different things for a company like Microsoft: Corporations buy licenses for OS and software, households and individuals provide data to train the AI products that permeate it all.
- Comment on Womp womp womp womp 1 week ago:
What country would that be in? Because where I live (Germany), medical researchers face pretty much the same challenges as researchers in other fields.
- Comment on Bo'le of wa'er 1 week ago:
Nor do bagboffers and whopnicks.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
- Comment on If only 1 week ago:
Back in my day, we used the 52x to burn 52 discs simultaneously at 1x speed.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 3 weeks ago:
The Saxons were a group of Germanic tribes/peoples. So similar in origin to “allemannia” (from the Alemanni tribes) and its variants in many other languages.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 3 weeks ago:
in Lithuanian it is Vokietija, of unclear origin, but possibly from Proto-Balto-Slavic *vākyā-, meaning “those who speak loud, shout (unintelligibly)”
DIESE ABSCHEULICHE UNTERSTELLUNG IST VOLLKOMMEN INAKZEPTABEL!
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 month ago:
English is basically three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 month ago:
German, so like VOO.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 month ago:
Us Germans also use this word, but where I come from, we pronounce it RANG-deh-WUH.
Beautiful.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 month ago:
you’re
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- Comment on Creator of Original Thomas the Tank Engine Mod for Skyrim Puts Thomas in Morrowind in Defiance of 'Legal Threats' 2 months ago:
- Comment on Parenting advice 2 months ago:
Also relative to (not around) the sun. The full rotation the earth does in a day is relative to the position of the sun. The absolute amount of rotation is different.
- Comment on Parenting advice 2 months ago:
Or maybe a stew that induces visual deprivation for a time period of 1 full rotation of the earth relative to the sun?
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 2 months ago:
I also find them really helpful for falling asleep. Sometimes when I feel stressed and see mostly noise, I’ll try to spot the color shapes and focus on them. It’s kind of meditative and helps me fall asleep faster.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 2 months ago:
This is just the result of neurons firing and chemical reactions taking place, and it’s normal. Personally, for me it depends on my state of mind when I try to sleep. When agitated, I see noise like in your picture. When calm, I see flat, colorful shapes with soft edges that float around and change shape more or less rapidly (kind of like a lava lamp).
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 2 months ago:
The lies of Big Wire have shackled users for too long!
- Comment on An Idea That I Could Get Behind 2 months ago:
It’s a unit of currency.
- Comment on All grown up now 2 months ago:
I think it’s more about finding a picture with similar clothes. The fact that they’re obviously not the same people is part of the joke.
- Comment on Goddamn it, Gary 2 months ago:
Any fans of 3Blue1Brown? This open problem taught me what topology is
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 2 months ago:
The Assassin’s Creed franchise nowadays seems more like one of those slushy machines at the mall that perpetually move the same ingredients around in a neverending cycle of despair and stagnation.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 months ago:
Don’t remember that dialogue, but the OP made me think of the Jamrock Shuffle (constantly running around town like a crazy person).
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 months ago:
I think this is pretty reasonable and shouldn’t be a hot take. IMO, what macOS does better is to provide a simple UI that protects less experienced users well enough from themselves while keeping developer tools accessible and close enough to standard Unix stuff. It’s easy to get into but not too hard to move past the basics once you need to. In Windows, I often feel like the opposite is true. The UI is a complicated mess of three different UIs that doesn’t even protect users all that well, and developer tools are often separate products with their own learning curve that are aggressively Windows-specific.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 months ago:
The question was where, not what.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 months ago:
As someone whose first TES was Morrowind, it set the bar so high in terms of worldbuilding, I was honestly a bit disappointed with the later entries into the series. Oblivion (more generic fantasy setting) and Skyrim (nordic with dragons) definitely played better, but the worlds were much less unique and memorable.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 months ago:
Mass Effect completely blew me away when it came out. Loved the overall lore about the Reaper threat and how the different species were connected to each other.
Horizon: Zero Dawn was also great in that regard, and the world felt really well out together, even though the lore wasn’t quite as deep.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 months ago:
I feel like this is also a Gen Z thing. Millennials try so hard with everything all the time, Gen Z probably thinks that’s annoying (but maybe cute how naive and stupid we are to still try?). So “Ok Boomer” it is, which makes the exact effort to deal with boomers as boomers make in dealing with everything other than themselves.
- Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society 3 months ago:
Man, I hate these stupid jokes. Every time someone goes “statistically, one in three people is X, now look at the person to your left and right”, I want to scream “HAHAHAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY THAT’S STATISTICS FOR YOU AMIRITE” with an absolutely straight face. Bad enough they don’t know how statistics work, but they’re perpetuating other people’s ignorance on top of that.
- Comment on You mean there's a better way‽ 3 months ago:
