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- Comment on If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say? 2 days ago:
Ask them why they drive on public roads.
- Comment on if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself? 3 days ago:
If magic fantasy tech is real can I magic fantasy?
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 6 days ago:
What are garbage smart menus that can’t be avoided?
I’m not being funny. I’m still on a Panasonic last gen thin plasma FHD but thinking of upgrading to a LG C5 OLED when they are on final sale when this year models are rolling out. I’m only watching movies through the box connected to it.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 6 days ago:
Can’t you just use any modem TV and not hook it up to the interwebs?
- Comment on Without vowels there'd be no singing 1 week ago:
Rrrrr zzzzzssssnnnnmmmmnn nh nh nh
- Comment on YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox 1 week ago:
And you can use the three dots menu on each link in the search results to file that a result is AI slop or otherwise not trustworthy and also filter domains from your future search results.
- Comment on YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox 1 week ago:
Me too, but fair warning to double check on the links if it is something niche. Perplexity can not always be trusted to interpret limited information properly. It does a pretty good job on enough for me to use it though.
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 1 week ago:
Mods are gonna mod.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
Yeah, thanks. I did it a couple of times with the free web dev vm of Windows 10 but it is only valid for 30 days so it gets annoying quickly. After identifying the chipset in some devices I’ve tried to get the Linux toolkit or just the flashing tool from the manufacturers but for whatever reason they will not give it out unless you are a customer of their chipset.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t this rather be the case of proxy hardware layer for any driver to talk to that gets forwarded to the USB port in Linux? I mean the drivers are not for PC component but for talking with whatever device and chipset is connected to the PC over USB.
- Comment on Most mouse pointers designs assume right-handed users 1 week ago:
The arrow doesn’t make sense…?
Oh! You have a tiny hand graphic for mouse pointer?
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
Any idea about USB drivers if it will ever be possible? I have synths and gear that needs firmware upgrades with flashers that only run on Win/Mac and I haven’t been able to get them to work with Wine.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 1 week ago:
Wine 1.1, now with AI integration
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 weeks ago:
Flashbacks of flipping around a 5¼" floppy disks that were actually floppy and manually spinning the cassette tape wheels while something is loading.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 3 weeks ago:
No, but you are attempting to critique it as if it was.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 3 weeks ago:
Being transgender is not an ideology, dude.
- Comment on What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)? 4 weeks ago:
The big question is if anybody is buying them.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 5 weeks ago:
Not if you are rich enough you don’t. Most people still do because everybody needs something worthwhile. But you don’t strictly need to work when you have reached some arbitrary level of wealth and ownership.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 5 weeks ago:
The only way to make money without work is to be part of the owner class that lets others do all the work.
- Comment on YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman. 5 weeks ago:
It’s the new “#first” to call everything AI. People that have nothing to contribute but need some attention.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If I was one to troll these idiots, I’d make a campaign on their nazi forums that a serif font is pandering and only a proper aryan gothic will do
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 month ago:
One step forward and two steps un-forward.
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 1 month ago:
I think it is fair to assume that if you get electronics branded by a candy manufacturer, you will not get any sort of quality electronics.
Obviously they shouldn’t be a fire hazard but still.
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 1 month ago:
It’s very useful for dog owners when you can’t give it a proper shower. Dry shampoo and then brush it out.
Pro tip; do it outside. It’s a mess to clean up indoors.
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 1 month ago:
I think it sounds like something different. Lucid dreaming is being in a state between awake and asleep to stay in first person control with the brain in unrestrained creative mode, while this is about training the brain to make up desired interpretations after waking up from full sleep mode.
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 1 month ago:
Oh this is interesting. I’ve recently come to terms with the amazing plasticity of the brain. So if the brain assembles a narrative only after the flood of random stimuli, it should be possible to train it to use certain baselines for what narratives to assemble.
Any neurologists and psychiatrists and other brain specialists in the house?
- Comment on Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration 2 months ago:
My understanding of space engineering is that getting rid of heat is a bigger problem. Makes me wonder how much of efficiency of Stirling engines are lost due to extra weight and complexity for heat exchangers and radiators.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 months ago:
If this post is intended as discussion material; No, not as long that I have my stationary computer that fills my gaming needs.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 months ago:
I think that’s the same game I queued up for like 90 mins at a computer fair to have a few minutes of very confused playtime and that was it.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 months ago:
I remember trying the first VR headset game 1990 that ran on a Commodore Amiga in like 7 fps and was terrible in every way.