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- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
- not available on all models.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 3 weeks ago:
I’m not a top athlete but I do lift weights and according to my BMI I’m .5 under overweight despite my body fat percentage staying in the 15-17 range. I’m not even that big.
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t either and I can say from my experience my nieces and nephews thought I was mean when they were little because everyone else did talk to them in baby voice. I even asked their parents if I had done something to scare them or hurt their feelings and they couldn’t think of anything and I was never around without their parents there. They grew out of it but it kind of sucked for a while.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have a problem with technology advancing. I have a problem with the goal of all this new shit just being to extract more money out of me while providing as minimal product as possible. An easy example being smartphones. The potential in functionality for them is insane but I can’t buy one today that doesn’t have less features than my 2016 model and I’m constantly fighting permissions bullshit any time I try to do anything fancy with it.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 3 weeks ago:
Phone makers make no money if you don’t buy new phones
Maybe they should make a new phone thats desirable then. I’m still running on a phone from 2016 because there’s no modern one that wouldn’t lose me functionality that I use all the time. Anything I buy would be a downgrade.
- Comment on Badgers 4 weeks ago:
I had a huge buck do that to me once. It was like 3am and the thing just casually walked out into the road in front of my truck and looked at me like “…what?”
- Comment on Opened an old scientific instrument to see if it works... 4 weeks ago:
Duracell suck but Kirkland are so much worse. Rechargeable Eneloops are the way to go.
- Comment on Multiplayer shooters should get "pure" healers that can't shoot 1 month ago:
Last time I played Overwatch I was healing as Mercy and our Roadhog just watched as I fly past while getting chased by someone on the other team and kill the guy chasing me. Then he bitched me out for fighting instead of healing him. I was like mfer if you don’t want me to fight keep them off me. Then everyone acted like I was the toxic one.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
I was a boss for a couple years. I didn’t force anyone to come in but I did find that I got along better with the couple of people who worked out of the office just because it’s easier to see someone as a person when you can sit near each other and BS all day as opposed to the ones who worked from home and I really only talked to when we were in meetings about work shit. I tried not to play favorites but that aspect did probably bleed into things a bit. We had a team chat going but only a few people used it (or they had one that I wasn’t part of so they could talk without the boss looking over their shoulder, which is fine but it’s hard to get comfortable with people you rarely interact with). I’m now on the other side of it with a boss who always works from home while I’m in the office and I’m struggling with that a little too because I have a hard time gauging if they’re upset with me or if doing well when we only talk on the phone a few times a week.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
I’m one that prefers being in the office. My productivity goes to shit when I’m at home because there’s too much other stuff I can do. I also like talking to my coworkers face to face just in general because people are usually more empathetic in person. That being said I don’t think it should be forced on anyone if it’s not necessary to work in the office. The rest of my team works from home without issue as far as I can tell. We are fortunate in that our employer does not have an issue with WFH.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
I’m not buying a bunch of paper books and creating unnecessary waste just to make sure the author gets paid. I guess I could donate them but then the author loses sales that way. I’m certainly not rewarding the use of DRM by paying for it.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
I should have specified I was talking about ebooks. That’s on me.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
I buy DRM free books off humble bundle. Even if I already have previously downloaded them. I will not give money to anything with DRM on it if I don’t have to. These authors aren’t getting money from me because they don’t offer a product I want (DRM free books). Other sources do have this product so they can blame themselves or their publisher for losing sales.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
I own the 1000s of ebooks I’ve downloaded to my personal media server.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 1 month ago:
Is that what killed that girl at Panera a while back?
- Comment on when AI tries to get in my way 1 month ago:
It actually told me how to do something in excel last week. It took like 5 attempts and me giving up, trying to find an answer on google, giving up on that, and trying another 3 or 4 prompts but it’s progress I suppose.
- Comment on TV has failed us by not making a show about catching foriegn state actors and other online trolls in the act. 1 month ago:
That show would be boring.
- Comment on Men: What sequence do you fellow to dry your body off after showering or bathing? 1 month ago:
I go top down but I’ve also been known to reuse towels for more than one day so … yea.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
A long time ago. Now I just do it on the side but knowing how to fix cars has always been a good “in” to get girls to talk to me but from there I still had to actually get them to go out with me and see where it went. It’s not like I was just straight up trading car repairs for sex.
- Comment on The Button 2 months ago:
Any of these cocaine button studies planning on moving to human trials soon? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
It’s not totally de-valued. Being able to fix cars has gotten me laid more than probably anything else.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
The problem is that they didn’t pay for the content they’ve acquired and they’re selling it to others. The creators are not being compensated and may not want to participate in AI development at all. If the creators agree to it then fine but most do not. Just look at what’s happening with art. People are scraping all of an artists work to create AI pictures in their style and impersonate them. That’s not okay.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
I was trying to keep it simple.
I would have paid them by purchasing the iphone and whatever software I used. I paid for the car that transported me. I would have paid for my education. People can also give their work away for free if they want, or be compensated by ads as in the case of Youtube or FOSS.
Current copyright is an utter bastardization of its intended use. Massive corporations are trying to act like they’re fighting for the little guy to own their IP forever. But they buy up all that IP for pennies compared to how they turn around and commoditize it. Then they own all of what society produces in perpetuity. They can sit on their dragon hoards and laugh as they gobble up any new creation that strays too close. And people wonder why everything is a sequel of a sequel of a sequel owned by massive corporations.
What do you think ChatGPT is trying to do? It’s already being used to churn out shitloads of garbage content. They’re not making things better.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
If ChatGPT was free I might see their point but it’s not so no. If you’re making money from someone’s work you should pay them.
- Comment on YSK rice commonly contains arsenic, but most of it can be removed by boiling in water (4:1 ratio) for 5 minutes, and discarding that water before starting the regular cook cycle with fresh water. 2 months ago:
Of course.
- Comment on YSK rice commonly contains arsenic, but most of it can be removed by boiling in water (4:1 ratio) for 5 minutes, and discarding that water before starting the regular cook cycle with fresh water. 2 months ago:
How much arsenic water would I need to distill down to get a useful amount of arsenic?
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
I do work on personal betterment quite a lot and encourage my peers to do so. As for the rest of it, how can I start a support group or YouTube channel if no one gives a shit about me or what I have to say? No one with the power to actually make changes will listen to me. The rest already know change needs to happen but can’t do anything either so it would just turn into another echo chamber. Yes, a more positive one but still an echo chamber.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
Will the matrix it puts us in be in 1999? Because I’d take that deal.
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
Looks like it sticks out a bit. Cut a slot in it and use a flathead.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
How do you propose we bring this change about about? The one’s who need to do it have no incentive. The rest of us can sit and think about things and blame ourselves for being men all we want but it won’t change anything. I can encourage and support my peers all day long but it won’t help them be more successful in life or get women to like them romantically because I have no social capital either.