dubyakay
@dubyakay@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 3 days ago:
Does not elicit the image of iron.
- Comment on Sun God 3 days ago:
Adjecent, probably. Very similar, and seems to purposefully be set a hundred years after Blue Mars ends (2212).
- Comment on Sun God 3 days ago:
The nomadic colony got expanded on in KSR’s novel 2312. I don’t actually remember much about it in the Mars Trilogy.
But I’ve seen the concept before in an old EU Star Wars novel, one of the Solo books maybe, where Lando was operating something similar as his new venture.
And before that maybe mentioned by Sagan. And before that…
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
“How can I send Gmails?”
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 week ago:
I love Kate, but I’ve only been using it since last August. Been using npp for a decade before that, even as my IDE, and I felt like it was stronger than Kate.
Kate has a lot of features that are not well documented or that you have to tape together to make something functional, while npp just works out of the box or with one of its many addons. Additionally the Kate documentation website is atrocious, lacking even basic search functionality. I had to join their IRC channel to get help figuring out something (path to some obscure config file that the latest version actually reads from), and while they were most helpful, I really shouldn’t have had to go through all that trouble.
Maybe my approach to trying to solve a problem was wrong, coming from Windows + npp.
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 1 week ago:
Oddly xkcd’s image has no watermark.
- Comment on Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think they are ugly. The truck is an abomination though.
- Comment on Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI, CEO refuses and offers to "buy Twitter for $9.74 billion" 2 weeks ago:
Grok seems to be working fine. It’s about as competent as… Gpt4.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 2 weeks ago:
Megagermans just sound evil.
And milligermans, well there’s a vaccine against that I think.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 3 weeks ago:
Maybe they don’t count temporary residents like students and foreign worker permit holders?
Also can they likely can’t be drafted / join their army?
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 1 month ago:
Me too. But I’ll wait for stable release.
- Comment on Is there an extensive guide on how to protect kids on the internet? 2 months ago:
If the BNPL offer comes with 0% interest and you pay with debit, or a credit card that you always pay off timely, I don’t see how it can be such a bad thing. Spending your money immediately, especially with the inflation accounted for, a fix $50 over twelve or twenty-four months means you actually came out ahead theoretically, since your money went further.
The only catch here is of course that vendors will price their goods accordingly, where BNPL or loans will be the only way to afford their goods.
- Comment on Project Zomboid set for a massive update that should get a Beta before Christmas 2 months ago:
What’s cataclysm?
- Comment on Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps 3 months ago:
It probably affects wanderer.earth.
- Comment on What do you create? 3 months ago:
Time to get off lemmy. Go for a run/jog/walk in the cold to the nearest stationery store and buy some pen and paper. Then get home and get to writing.
You can do it!
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 3 months ago:
I don’t understand this line of thought. As in you are childless by choice BECAUSE of what is going on in the US?
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 3 months ago:
How do you get past the great firewall to post here?
- Comment on Many dictators were democratically elected 3 months ago:
I do. Then the water tank runs out of hot water.
- Comment on Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump 3 months ago:
What’s up with everyone spamming these ad articles for bluesky?
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 3 months ago:
cull classism, fascism, racism, transphobia , homophobia, misogyny, and pedophilia from the world
One of these is not like the others.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 3 months ago:
We’ve dropped it October 2023. Fuck them Zionist shits.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 3 months ago:
For the outer layer, do not go with synthetic stuff, despite what people will tell you. An oversized Icelandic wool sweater or similar will catch snow and wind much more effectively (and dry in no time when indoors.
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 3 months ago:
How do you make it?
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 3 months ago:
I up voted it for their effort anyway. It’s contributing discussion. Including you calling them out on it. You also deserve an (ultimately meaningless and fleeting) up vote.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 3 months ago:
Hope you like your new saviour, Crappy AI Generated Arch Jesus!
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 3 months ago:
Why do folks hate crunchyroll here so much? I’ve been torrenting anime before like everyone else, but a couple years gap later I have found it more convenient to pay $9/mo or whatever and watch shows interchangeably on TV, PC, tablet and phone. I get it, I could do this using self-hosting with various tools, but all those have an upfront cost for a media server and time invested in figuring out how I can make it all work seamlessly on a 2017 LG TV, an iPhone, Linux and a shitty Samsung tablet, plus potentially subscription fee for seed box and/or VPN as well. Whereas crunchyroll just works and if I get tired of anime again, I’ll just cancel the service.
The only thing I don’t like about crunchyroll is the lack of dubbed kids shows.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 4 months ago:
Aka. regulatory capture
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 4 months ago:
It sounds like the problem is not with the feds but with the DMCA. It needs to be overturned.
- Comment on I'm back with another great recipe 4 months ago:
Heresy. Only sweet paprika is real paprika.
- Comment on LinkedIn fined $335 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches 4 months ago:
I think the problem goes deeper. Their page tracks everything you do and then sells that data to third parties. UBO only blocks ads and tracking.
The only way to prevent linkedin from selling data related to you is to not use their site at all.
