MeekerThanBeaker
@MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 3 days ago:
I liked Zune. Microsoft is the real killer of their own demise. They have great products/ideas, but they just torch them before they take root.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 3 days ago:
They did. It was so awful with hardly any updates. I bought some things on it but usually when it was on major discount and connected to Movies Anywhere so I could watch it elsewhere.
I don’t know why they had the same movie for sale… one with bonus features, one without… for the same price. Every other platform includes the bonus features automatically. Why separate them? Is there someone out there thinking, hmm… I like this movie, but I don’t want the bonus features.
It was doomed to fail.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050 1 week ago:
From what I’ve read, it will have the new AMD Ryzen Z2 chipset which could lead to better battery life, also… better grips, impulse triggers, and slightly better RAM.
- Comment on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi 3 weeks ago:
I kinda meant for like future products when AR and VR combine with IoT products, but if those can work on lower ranges with those 6 Ghz devices, then great… but VR and AR will definitely need 6 GHz to be more useful.
- Comment on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi 3 weeks ago:
So if I’m reading this right… wired Internet providers are against this due to home Wi-Fi Internet speeds and phone providers are for this for mobile speeds/bandwidth?
I don’t know how I feel about this as I currently have T-Mobile home Internet and it’s not the best experience… but it mostly works and it’s cheaper than my previous cable provider. However, home Wi-Fi really needs 6 GHz for future IoT devices.
But I am definitely against it because Ted Cruz is for it. He obviously is getting paid/bribed by the telecoms… and he sucks.
- Comment on Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features 3 weeks ago:
Or just doppelgangers.
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 5 weeks ago:
I mean, my phone doesn’t have that.
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 5 weeks ago:
It says for non-emergency calls.
It might actually help with real emergency calls getting through faster.
- Comment on The Switch 2: Is it worth buying? 1 month ago:
I have owned every Nintendo console, but skipped on the first Switch because I was a bit upset with how they treated the Wii U. I get why they let it go so early – lower sales numbers – but was still disappointed. I’m a gamer. I had Xbox, PlayStation, and PC to play with… so I wasn’t worried about lack of games.
I was thinking about getting the OLED Switch when that model came out, but figured I waited this long, might as well wait a bit longer for the next system. Glad I did because with the Switch 2, I now have a back catalog of games to pick from instead of the small amount of launch titles… with faster speeds and visual enhancements.
Not sure if original Switch owners need to buy the 2 right away, however. They could probably wait a year or so when more titles come out.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
I’ve been addicted to Balatro. And Balatro is addicted to me.
🃏
- Comment on My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so? 1 month ago:
I am not a therapist. I’m guessing most people on Lemmy are not. Take anyone’s advice with a grain of salt… including this.
People make mistakes. It’s human nature for men to seek younger women because they are supposed to be more fertile. It’s human nature for women to seek older men because they are supposed to be more mature and protective.
However, that’s just thousands of years of basic instincts. We’re more educated now. We are supposed to behave like advanced creatures, go beyond our primal thinking.
That said, if you have a good relationship with your dad, don’t break ties simply because of his infidelity. Learn from his mistakes. Maybe help him understand what he did wrong. Your mom is angry because he broke a promise, a vow. She wants you on her side because she is angry with him and wants to punish him for it.
I don’t know your mom or dad or their relationship. Maybe she was a perfect saint or maybe she was cold and manipulative. Either way, he shouldn’t have chosen someone else before their relationship ended. It’s just not right to hide something like that.
Typically, a man choosing a younger woman over their wife tends not to think with their brain, but with their lust. He could very well do it again in five ten years with someone younger.
Your mom shouldn’t force you to choose, but you should definitely have some empathy for her on how their bond was broken. She is in pain. She trusted him and he failed her.
Hopefully, you will find some sort of compromise and balance. It may take time for her to understand. A long, honest talk might help the two of you get to that point.
Best of luck.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 1 month ago:
I’ve downloaded, but haven’t tried it yet, but hear good things about Mango Languages Learning.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests 1 month ago:
People do use their work email for banking. Trust me. Some older people’s first email account was their work email… and they use it for everything.
And yes, we had to get them to switch all their accounts over to a personal address once they left the company.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests 1 month ago:
Devil’s Advocate… I mean… they don’t work for like a newspaper or a government agency.
Unless there are those who need certain words for their jobs, I can kinda understand why Microsoft wouldn’t want emails from work addresses to go out with political agendas… for either side.
Work emails should just be about work. Too many people use their work emails like a personal email… with their banking, shopping, etc. That’s what personal email addresses are for.
This policy should go for many non-work related topics too. IT can unblock the words for certain users who need to use them for their job.
- Comment on A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish 2 months ago:
It’s a shame we don’t get updated sequels to Heretic/Hexen… or Quake, for that matter.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 2 months ago:
It was bound to happen. I’m okay with ones that were never going to be turned into audiobooks to begin with… but they likely will use that as the norm for all books… I guess unless the author/publisher says not to.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 2 months ago:
I’m lucky enough to own literally thousands of games. Most of which I get at a deep discount. Games like GTA and Red Dead are usually an exception where I’ll play on day one. Even though Rockstar tends to milk a title long after a release, the attention to detail is worth the price to me. I’ll still check reviews first however.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 2 months ago:
I’d say GTA VI would likely earn that for me. I’ll probably spend over 80 hours on that.
- Comment on Prompt engineer : The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete 2 months ago:
I’m in IT. A lot of my job is Googling the answer, but I have to know what to ask and sift through what to look for that most employees won’t know.
A photographer will know what to input better than the average Joe to get a better photographic image out of ChatGPT by giving F-stops/aperture, shutter speed, ISO, lenses, bokeh/depth of field, rule of thirds, etc.
But yes… we’re getting closer and closer to George Jetson’s job of pushing one button and calling it a day.
- Comment on Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. 2 months ago:
Took a Waymo for the first time a couple weeks ago, 20 minute drive. Did a pretty good job. There were a couple times where I wasn’t sure what it was doing… minor things like signaling to turn left but then decided to go straight instead last second, getting a little too close to a curb, etc.
However, it never did anything illegal as far as I could tell. The biggest issue is other human drivers. Since they do illegal things all the time, Waymo has to be extra cautious, which causes longer waits at intersections. Saw a human driver blow past a stop sign when it noticed it was Waymo’s turn to go. 🙄
- Comment on A 19-year-old girl just received the world’s first wireless bionic hands controlled by thoughts 2 months ago:
Technically, her mind controls the muscles that control the hand. But yes, her mind doesn’t control the hand directly.
It is pretty cool to see the hand work away from the limb.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 2 months ago:
We have to go back!!!
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 2 months ago:
Probably referring to this, but don’t know for sure:
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 2 months ago:
I think Mastodon is closer to Lemmy as a Twitter alternative over Bluesky.
However, this does a good job explaining the differences:
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 3 months ago:
- Comment on IGN: Mario Kart World: First Hands-on Preview 3 months ago:
Well, with the system bundle it was only going to be $50 more. No way I was gonna pay $80 for it. With the stupid tariffs, who knows what’s gonna happen?
- Comment on Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty 3 months ago:
I’m so glad that the prices were revealed right before the tariff announcement.
So now… they either stick to that and suck it up or they will increase them and show more people what these tariffs are doing.
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 3 months ago:
Trump was so proud of himself for using the word “reciprocal.” He likely didn’t know what it meant earlier this week.
- Comment on Horror 3 months ago:
Maybe they thought we’d have discovered/created new elements by now that could do this.
- Comment on Horror 3 months ago:
Back right?
I see two in the back left and two more in the back middle without balloons. The two in the back right are the carriage passengers.
