joenforcer
@joenforcer@midwest.social
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Fucking Pocket.
- Comment on why not 3 months ago:
Here’s a killer garlic bread recipe.
Grab a demi baguette from your grocery store’s bakery. Cut it in half both lengthwise and crosswise. Throw them on a sheet pan, cut side up. Drizzle with olive oil, season with salt and pepper. Put in the oven at 350 for 12 minutes or so, so that they’re lightly toasted and the cut side is crisp. Remove from the oven.
This is where the fun begins. Peel a few cloves of fresh garlic… and rub that shit directly on the baguette. Keep running it across the bread until it is gone. One clove total for a balanced taste of garlic, two cloves total for a strong garlic journey, and one for each piece if you are become garlic destroyer of breath.
Garlic spread? Pre-made frozen garlic bread? All trash. Have this once and I guarantee you will never, ever make any other inferior substitute again.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
“Biden wins the election. Here’s why that’s bad for Biden.”
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
RIP anything made of linen.
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
Bro has never owned a piece of clothing made of linen in his life.
- Comment on President Biden is now posting into the fediverse 7 months ago:
You’re right. But, the Fediverse is ActivityPub, and Threads is using ActivityPub, therefore Threads is part of the Fediverse.
The beauty of the Fediverse if you can defederate from whoever you want. But don’t confuse that with thinking that you can change the definition and rules of what the Fediverse is
- Comment on Data contamination expert 👌 8 months ago:
GDPR is no joke. Storing a handful of comments is not worth the penalty if they get caught.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
Worth it how? I feel like every post that claims about how much better Linux is after handling a bunch of tweaks and hacks and workarounds to get into baseline functional doesn’t really get into what actually makes it better. After all of that heavy lifting, you’re already at a disadvantage and I still hear nothing of the benefits. I start to wonder if the “better” is justification for all the effort that goes into tricking it to work rather than being meaningfully superior.
- Comment on Coinbase tells judge that buying crypto is just like collecting Beanie Babies 9 months ago:
I buy Monero to have freedom from being watched by banks and governments.
Boy, do I have some very, very bad news for you…
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 9 months ago:
Enshittification exclusively defines online platforms. Stop using it for everything.
- Comment on xkcd #2875: 2024 10 months ago:
Fixating on Presidents as modern day messiah figures has been uniformly bad for American politics and social progress. And its illustrated by this latent desire for a Lich-King President, a shambling corpse propped up by hagiography and revisionist history, who we’re taught to venerate as the fountain of progress rather than merely the man at the helm during a hurricane who didn’t sink the ship.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
- Comment on Worth trying using a 15 years old notebook for self hosting? 10 months ago:
I don’t understand your math. If the Celeron runs 65W at idle then it is consuming at minimum 1.56kWh a day, at a price of €0.20 per kWh you’re looking at a minimum operating cost of €113.88 a year.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
Pretty sure Gabe lives in New Zealand now. Unless I’m remembering incorrectly, he just got stuck there during COVID and then never left once restrictions were eased.
- Comment on Do you actually own anything digital? 10 months ago:
Hello, owner of lemmy.world!
- Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next. 10 months ago:
With the way federation currently works, it’s impossible, sorry. It’s one of the pitfalls of a decentralized system without consolidated ownership: any of the nodes could fail at any time and the responsibility of bringing it back up is the sole job of that node owner.
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 11 months ago:
Does it have a spell-checker?
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 11 months ago:
I think OneNote can transpose text from images, but it’s been a while since I used the feature.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
Just want you to know that you’re not alone against the massive Lemmy hivemind downvoting you. The car hate is strong here but it’s very easy to block them and ignore them.
- Comment on INSIDE those OLD pinball machines 11 months ago:
AND heat pumps!
- Comment on Choose A or B 11 months ago:
To be fair, infinite rare fish also means this, maybe even more so.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
You mean fuck cars, fuck capitalism, look how cool Lemmy is?
- Comment on Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way 11 months ago:
glances at the Dell Latitude E7450 issued to him over 8 years ago…
- Comment on AAAAtoms 11 months ago:
The United States. We basically pretend that Celsius doesn’t exist in all applications of temperature. Weather, cooking… it’s all in Fahrenheit.
- Comment on Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows 1 year ago:
Sowing*.
It’s spreading it like seeds, not stiching it like a seam.
- Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome 1 year ago:
The answer is very simply advertising and affiliate revenue. If you use Chrome instead of Edge, Google gets the money from their ad engine, and Microsoft gets nothing unless you actively use Bing.
Microsoft Rewards gets you used to using Bing, which can then serve you ads on your searches instead of Google, earning money for Microsoft while giving you tiny fractions of a cent in points as a gamification strategy.
Edge has shopping features that work just like Rakuten or Capital One Shopping, where if you “earn” cash back, Microsoft gets a cut of the sale.
Honestly, it doesn’t bother me much. Edge has some pretty great features added in and it actually actively saves me some money where Google doesn’t cut me in. Plus, it somehow is less of a memory hog and feels snappier than Chrome. It’s a great browser and is a huge upgrade from Chrome from a performance perspective if you don’t value their extra features and just turn them off.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 1 year ago:
Dreamliner.
- Comment on X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue 1 year ago:
Twitter was a public company before Elon’s acquisition. Not sure what you’re trying to get at with the “profit-driven” comment either… every business is by necessity.
- Comment on X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue 1 year ago:
Since Twitter is now private, we’ll never know the real numbers, but the paper value of the Twitter brand itself being cast aside is a huge non-monetary loss.
- Comment on Open for discussion 1 year ago:
I don’t think so. There are very few communities that actually successfully fully left reddit. A good number of them splintered across circlejerkers on multiple lemmy instances with the users remaining on reddit asking “what’s a lemmy” and staying put. The vast majority never left reddit at all, and don’t give a fuck that reddit is trying to build a business.
Where the lemmy hivemind fails is that a bunch of us are reddit refugees that lost our favorite mobile apps, so you get a bunch of delusional people here thinking that reddit is dead and lemmy is the best thing ever. It’s not. Lemmy has a lot of the same problems reddit had, and we’re just repeating history. Wait until you need to squash extremism, prevent illegal content, and people maintaining the main instance (don’t kid yourself, it’s lemmy.world) need to eat.
- Comment on And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere 1 year ago:
Why don’t the banks do this?
They get a cut of every transaction, and the more debt you accrue, the more money the bank makes if you carry a balance. They are financially disincentivized from protecting you from your spending.