thedirtyknapkin

@thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  hmm it’s more like if the supermarket closed… you still need food (social interaction). so where do you get it now. like you ate out sometimes before, you let others cook for you every so often. but for many, discord is their primary means of keeping in touch. you need to find something to replace it. so we’re all debating if we grow our own food or drive 4 hours to the next closest which already has going out of business signs up.

  not wanting to use a platform that someone prefers is the easiest way to lose touch with someone these days. like i struggle to socialize with tiktok people these days just because i don’t get their references. if they’re also an imessahe diehard i probably just haven’t talked in a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  hmm idk, i only know like 2 people in my life that all use Facebook heavily. i know it’s different in India though.

  Facebook has seen stagnation or user drops in most mature markets, it’s still growing in growing markets. India especially represents like half of all Facebook now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  they didn’t say they were wrong, just an asshole.

  it’s like someone died to a live wire and you correct their family that it was the anps not the current that killed them. you’re not wrong, but you’re a tone deaf dickhead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, the vast majority of web traffic is phones using apps. no point that uses this platform is an average user.

  even if your family hates tiktok it’s still massively popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  well that’s why most people use apps instead. the real internet is so hostile without a guide.

  especially now that you can’t use the mainstream browsers and do it. the barrier to entry has gotten so high that i don’t blame kids for being put off by computers and prefering their phones for everything.

  it reminds me of trying to learn about cars growing up. i didn’t learn about cars growing up. i tried, but everyone i tried to learn from spent the whole time complaining about all the anticonsumer practices that made cars shitty these days. all the hoops you have to jump through to work on them yourself anymore. how the manufactures went out of their way over the course of years to take what used to be a fun tinkerers hobby for the everyman and made it incredibly difficult and expensive to do yourself.

  my take away was “I hate cars”. so when i hear teenagers these days say that they hate computers i get it. they fucking suck now and there’s this 8 foot fence of knowing how to make them suck less before they can even start wanting to learn about them. but it’s going to take them a very very long time to get good enough with the computer that they can accomplish anything on it better than on their phone. so we have trucks full of ladders that can scale that fence, and even if we lose our fences we know how to scale that fence barehanded if we gotta. but the kids just walk around the fence because they don’t value what’s inside. why would they?

  so I’m just waiting for the old pc based intent to slowly wither away as we age with it… places like this becoming out last bastions in a world that requires validated apps on phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, they really lost their early edge on the granny gamer market lol. they’ve all jumped ship to those bejeweled like games and virtual jugsaw puzzles. maybe wordle if they’re bookish.

  i think there are little things you can play in some of their messaging platforms, but they change so much on those so often that these kinds of users probably ignore 90% of the interface. i think those hit more with the gen z and gen a younger crowds. especially when it can also become social media content. tiktok is great at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i guess, but it woulf require the least likely people to adopt a new and expensive technology. think about how long it took for the older generations to catch on to the internet and smart phones. they may be glued together now but it took 20 years and every single other person on earth getting one to make it happen.

  warcraft for your lonely aunt is a fine idea. making that vr was poorly conceived. it would have to work on a phone AND be more compelling than just taking on call or text.

  but also, the early adopter types that are more or less necessary to get something like this off three ground were never going to like it. that’s us. you can’t create a new tech market segment that wasn’t explicitly asked for without at least considering the nerds. meta has negative trust among nerds. we all saw this as the marketing and data collection tool that it is meant to be.

  it was never going to happen. at least until they have full control of all of our devices and platforms and can just say we need it to continue existing in society now. that or b2b contracts are the only ways i could see this ever taking off. it would take some serious marketing voodoo bullshit to convince any sizable businesses that this would increase profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, $500 is tough to get into astro with.

  plenty for general photography, but astro can get gear heavy fast. astro landscapes are becoming more accessible as more fast lenses get cheaper, but the kind of astro that needs a tracker is just pricy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  aah, but it didn’t say steam, it said boiling water.

  smaller gas generators based on internal combustion engines don’t boil water though, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh wow, i thought for sit it came later. i should stop making snap comments when m waking up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  no one cares about the plights of those living in backwater stone age dictatorships. the modern world must move forward on its own.

  we Americans have to get used to being left behind and left out of conversations by real adults now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there were very very very few platforms where you could post and share streaming video online when YouTube was new.

  it was certainly the only free option. the internet was quite young then if you don’t remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, you certainly can spend more and get better, but most media consumers don’t actually care about long term storage like that.

  i only now the pricing on those drives because i just had to replace one in a nas device. i only spent money on a nas device because i work in media and need to keep large files for clients. i follow a 3-2-1 backup system because my job depends on it, but it’s not at all necessary to enjoy media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lmao, buddy you can get a 10tb hard drive for like $200 and fit all the pirated media you want on it. that’s less money than two mainline subscriptions for a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s nothing about negatively affecting others lives?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  so successful sociopaths and narcissists don’t have a disorder?

  i don’t think that’s quite right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ok, did you read the body of the post?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  did you try clicking the link?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  show a map of the land area it takes up and you might actuality convince some people it’s not lol.

  it could be like milk lovers trying to call almond milk bad for the environment due to water usage. despite cow milk being infinitely worse. the propaganda machine did its job well. if you bring up non dairy milks to an American conservative in 2025, nine times out of ten they’ll feel the need to smugly tell you how terrible almond milk is and how we shouldn’t be allowed to waste all that water on it. if you try to tell them that cow milk is worse they’ll just tell you you’re wrong and that the data is lying.

  i straight to showed one of them the hard numbers on how much cows are putting out greenhouse gasses and she just said “that can’t be right”. it didn’t FEEL right to her so she just didn’t believe it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  sure, but if the us doesn’t china will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨poaceae⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  sure, but they also don’t call eating an apple “eating trees”. it would still be fair to call applewood based products “beaver food” or “cardboard” if someone told you to eat it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love cosplayers :D, they usually have a sense of humor⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, they are the lower level atronach. you basically blew past them.

  if you go to the atronach forge at frostcrag spire you can still spawn one with some fire salts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  some additional relevant statistics

  united states barely saw 1% growth year over year in the United States and are projecting that growth to continue to slow.

  India has nearly 3x the users of the United States. the u.s. is still second because it’s the country it started in, but it’s not far ahead of the 3rd and 4th place countries. India is an extreme outlier.

  unfortunately they don’t break down the age demographic by region, but I’d bet that if we specifically look at daily active users in the United States the age demo would skew much older.

  so, it seems like it’s similar to what many fast food restaurants have been experiencing lately. the growth opportunities in the United States dried up so the decided to push like hell everywhere else. i bet the growth they saw in India over the last decade was explosive. probably bigger than anything they had ever seen before. bigger than when it was still growing in the u.s… meanwhile they protect that over the next decade in the u.s. they’ll see maybe 8% user growth and that’s pretty optimistic.

  so we probably won’t actually see much Facebook marketing in the u.s… the only way they can capture more u.s users is by buying more apps, like when they bought Instagram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s it’s gotta be something very difficult that no one has ever fund before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boomer trait⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the only reason to write that book would be for when i would inevitably get to post the “don’t create the torment nexus” meme for tons of social media impressions.

  though knowing what impressions are pegs me as a creative who won’t get to post on social media from the mines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boomer trait⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the robots won’t be equipped to fix it. there will be no one left to tell they got it wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boomer trait⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  same reason harlan ellison wrote i have no mouth and i must scream i suppose…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boomer trait⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  nah, it’s going to be the opposite.

  if other computer technology has been anything to go off of then only those who lived through is adaption and watched it progress will know how to spot it. those who grow up with hard to spot ai will just accept that they can’t see it and think we’re weird for trying so hard to prove things are ai. they’ll also think we’re weird for caring.

  our boomer trait will be doing art instead of asking ai to generate images and video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ah yes, ignoring that is actuality a polygon, implying a closed shape with straight sides much like this ignores the “weapon” and “used for thrusting or striking” parts of the definition.

  not hard to make things fit a definition when you just ignore parts of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Touch grass.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, quick psa for passing readers.

  never plant bamboo unless you either want to live in a full on bamboo first and drown out every native plant around you or are ok With spending the rest of eternity fighting for you life to stop it from spreading.