forty2
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- Comment on What can i do with an old netbook? 10 months ago:
Wonder if it would serve well as the brains of a smart mirror? And if you have the inclination to make one…
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 10 months ago:
Remember when just about every government employee was carrying around a BlackBerry device for official business? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
- Submitted 11 months ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Here's your horoscope. 11 months ago:
All roads lead to Pieces these days, might as well embrace it 😂
- Comment on Here's your horoscope. 11 months ago:
Gemini - your FBI agent goes to therapy because of you
Hahahahaha
- Comment on Trump saying he'll be a dictator only on day 1 is the strategy of normalizing it. 11 months ago:
He’s hosed next year if he said that
I honestly wish it was as hands down as that. What he said appeals to exactly the kind of people it was directed at…and there are so SO many of those people out there. Majority? I don’t know; and that in itself is a problem…it should be absolutely obvious that a significant majority of people aren’t aligned with him. But its not.
I’ll betcha this ends up working to his advantage somehow.
fucking depressed myself with my own comment. I’m going to go take an Ace Ventura style shower
- Comment on A gripe about digital ownership and data portability options 11 months ago:
Google could have simply preserved my metadata OR sent the files in “artist/album”
Which they most certainly can do. My condolences to the time you’ll never get back.
I suppose the silver lining is familiarity with a new set of tools and mechanisms for working through arduous minutia of it all. Could be a pretty neat utility if it could all be packaged up.
- Comment on A gripe about digital ownership and data portability options 11 months ago:
This right here is the fail safe that all these SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and other aaS offerings have inherently built into themselves. They make it so “easy” to get your data (as they put it) but so fucking mind-numbingly annoying to have it any kind of usable/archive-able format.
If I want to move my data from one platform to something else, it shouldn’t involve a Six Sigma certified consultant, a bag of bespoke tools, and a sacrificial offering. This isn’t a CRM migration at a multi-national conglomerate, I just want my files (you can have em!) in a usable format (they’ll work!) correctly named and structured (yeah, no…)
The average person isn’t going to go through the lengths you’ve gone through here; because they’ll try to and just go right back. I mean, the average person has a hard enough time getting affordable groceries…forget about a sacrificial blood letting.
Out of curiosity, how much time did you spend researching as you went through this process of hitting speedbump after speedbump?
- Comment on Why do people always assume you're part of a group just because you're defending them? 11 months ago:
I think it stands to reason that on particular levels you’re aligning yourself with “them”. But… that’s the whole point of empathy…its only when you see pieces of yourself in others that you can empathize with their existence or experience.
I guess its the human tragedy…we’re all so much alike in our struggles, it’s just the theatres that are different. But for some, that difference is enough to obscure the mirror and people see a monster where its just a reflection.