southernbrewer

@southernbrewer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting mold on infections? Wait what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to help my sister keep her 8 year old Mac going or buy a new secondhand (cheap) machine. With the options out there and with the state of Windows, I didn’t even consider it.

  She’s ended up with her same 7 year old Mac with Ubuntu 24.04, and I’ve been really impressed with how it’s actually great for non-technical users these days! And works really well on old hardware.

  This should give her another few years of life out of the thing without worrying about software support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better article: theregister.com/…/google_python_flutter_layoffs/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah. I turned that shit off on day one of getting my phone. It doesn’t even make you faster at typing? What’s the point in having it enabled?

  Now when I make typos at least it was me that made the typo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where in the world is laptop gaming the most popular?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have space for a desktop computer - and I have a stabdalone house, it’s not like I’m in some tiny apartment, so I’m guessing this isn’t too unusual? I pull out the laptop when I want to play games.

  It helps that I don’t play AAA games and a decent spec laptop plays what I want just fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On a macbook? You can’t plug a normal keyboard in without a USB hub because there’s no USB-A port

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just in the past, you still can’t install addons in (any browser) on iOS. brave is basically the only option because it adblocks without addons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What else would you call an analog clock?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 38 and still take 10s to read an analog clock.

  I do still say half past etc though. I don’t really associate them with digital vs analog

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why don't people say mega meters⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Odometer readings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These dudes look like we’ve just walked in on them kissing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These things look beautiful though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Universal Paperclips⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also see Antimatter Dimensions, another amazing game in the long idle genre. Highly addictive to a certain sort of brain (mine)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you get Firefox to redirect all YT links to Piped? Please share

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube ads finally got me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why people are just taking it for granted that everyone’s watching youtube.

  I’ve watched maybe a video a month on youtube for the last decade. It’s a noisy loud messy platform and I don’t understand what people enjoy about it.

  I watch Netflix a bit and at least the shows there are actual produced shows and not just some bullshit some teenager made up in their spare time. Even if a lot of them are still trash there’s a much higher signal:noise ratio than on youtube.

  So my solution is: just don’t use youtube? And obviously use an ad blocker or piped.video if you do occasionally visit it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to make my data worthless?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve kind of always wanted to use AdNauseum, but since I still depend on my Google account somewhat I’m hesitant to give them reasons to delete me, and I’ve settled for blocking ads and supporting rival services.

  Has anyone had their google account banned over this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Jesus is the son of God and Satan is the oposite of God, a literal antichrist would be Satan's father, which would God since God gave life to Satan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe in modern media. He’s definitely not portrayed as an equal or opposite to God in the bible. He’s just another angel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sensible $WORDCHARS for Most Developers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can delete a word in a terminal? Is this zsh specific or is there a bash equivalent?

  Terminal user for 20 years, never heard of this.