Krudler

@Krudler@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I have done it for the last several years and it has brought me amazing new dimensions of sound experience…

  Find an artist that you like, look them up and find out who produced the album and other group members.

  Then do a little Wiki research into the discography and solo work of each of those performers or producers.

  Follow up on interesting threads, and you’ll be exposed to all kinds of amazing new stuff.

  Although I’m definitely out of this listening phase now, an example that worked for me was I got very obsessed with Talking Heads band. Looked them up and found out that Brian Eno produced them.

  Started to notice from other bands I looked up that Brian Eno was mysteriously involved in so many of them.

  Started to look into all the bands that Brian Eno produced and worked with over the years, and then started to look into the music of Brian Eno.

  Starts to give you a realization that the true talent in a band is generally not the performers, but rather the veterans with decades of experienced who guide them.

  Another example is Buckethead, started to see this dude buckethead appearing on literally hundreds of different album credits! Did a lot of research into the guy and the various bands he’s worked with, and that opened hundreds of new experiences to me.

  This comment is getting a little outside of my original point, which is to actually do some research on your own, go out and find the lesser-known works of artists you love.

  Basically just follow different Wikipedia links, and then when you find an album in a discography that you think might be interesting, look it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Good Lord! Thank you for the warning! On lowest audible phone volume it blew me away lol

  What is that and why does it exist??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The best defense against sealioning is to give people more credit than they want and to believe they are smarter than they let on. “Nobody could be this dumb and if they are, it’s fruitless to attempt dialogue” should always be on ones mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is launching Offerwall, A new tool for publishers /websites to paywall their content.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So Google shuts you out of their rankings and results to sell this. Fuck you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Come on people don’t spoil sport this, it was funny!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when Google+ was the future?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In one week, Lemm.ee will shutdown⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just leaving this whole platform.

  It’s nothing special. Every fucking idiot you’ve ever met in your life on Reddit is coalescing here.

  Have you had a meaningful conversation here? An informative one? I’ve been here 2+ years and I can honestly say no.

  Have you seen a link that isn’t effectively a complete recycling of what you already know to be true?

  It’s the same recycled bullshit you have seen for the last 20 years.

  The whole format of a “democratic” link dump site is fundamentally broken. I see that now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Prone?

  Hell, they are almost designed to break. They are utterly shabby in terms of build quality.

  I was one of the early adopters going back to November 2015

  I am not lying when I tell you I have been through 17 of these controllers. It’s the right bumper almost every time.

  I have a giant handful of the dongles. I was saving them thinking they would go up in value but now like $2 knockoffs are available LOL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PEBKAC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the audience of Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards have no idea why slime is a thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the people who watch Nickelodeon don’t know where it came from either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  100%

  People love to discuss these fantasy realms where ad-free decentralized content forms some kind of Utopia that we all enjoy.

  I’m a former content creator with millions and millions of hours of video. I have answered hundreds of comments from people who would like to suggest that my mic is better, or I use a better video camera, better lighting…

  When I say hey I’d love to, can you donate a dollar so I can buy them… Crickets.

  I can honestly say I never made a fucking sent on YouTube and it’s the users that are to blame. They view it as this free thing that they should be entitled. Contribute nothing willingly.

  There is a huge difference between the ethical stance people portray in their online comments, and people’s in real life behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: WD-40 is perfect for removing adhesive left behind by stickers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Recently I discovered I could use a hair dryer from the thrift store that has a diffuser. I have been gently softening the adhesive and peeling them off, and I have been finding that in most cases, it no longer leaves any adhesive behind!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  2 that make fans go bananas.

  Torchlight 2; Grim Dawn

  Right in the middle of the middle part of the middle part of the middle pack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PeerTube just reached its final goal for the mobile app fundraiser - 75k € - with a few hours to spare!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a streamer for an incredibly popular game, I had millions of hours of watch time.

  The total amount I made for the thousands of hours I invested is $0.00

  My costs were in the thousands, when I consider the extra I paid for high-speed internet, computer upgrades, microphones, blah blah blah

  People are a bunch of whining little leeching bitches.

  Everyone can shut the fuck up because nobody will support a creator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love hearing these kinds of retellings from industry insiders, I was deep in Tech and high up in the games industry, and I know the kinds of shenanigans that happen at the CEO and board level!

  But in my view the mobile game was over already in 2003. That’s when Microsoft had everything wrapped up in their hot little hands, but decided that mobile computing was not the future, and that embedded Windows CE on every device is the way to go.

  Everything that happened after 2003 to 2005 basically sealed everything in stone. I think he’s vastly over playing whatever revolution was in his mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you are both a liar and semi-literate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most jokes need to be recognizable as funny?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck and SteamOS hit 20,000 playable games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are 12,000 of them “anime girl fuck fantasy girl love sweet dating woman simulator love sex” game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it’s very circular.

  You know it had nothing to do with the $700, it had to do with not opening precedent to a flood of future lawsuits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leisure suit Larry?

  The Tentacle from MM?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It comes from that massive disconnect that people are largely unaware of, which is the assumption that people purchase businesses to help run them more efficiently and become profitable.

  That really has very little to do with it! It’s a giant shell game. I believe the initial investors came in to disrupt our company, to prime it for fire-sale later. To make us so incredibly uncompetitive that we effectively had to shut the doors. It worked!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A young person died in my youth crisis shelter because instead of getting 911, I was first redirected to an semi-literate moron working in a call center. Which was also “experiencing higher than normal call volumes”.

  Last week I was driving by a wooden apartment complex and I noticed that somebody’s unattended barbecue had gone poof and the balcony was burning. I called 911 and it took 4 minutes to get directed to the fire department.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever sat in a boardroom? I have.

  Decisions are not made based on proper market/business analysis, they are made knee-jerk by overprivileged idiots.

  An example of this was when one of the companies I worked where I was in charge of all the online training.

  Then the big fat morons who invested came into the boardroom, instructed us to change all of our training to Flash clips… Because he also had a financial interest in Macromedia.

  We ended up losing massive business partners and investment firms. Because a huge part of it was being able to provide consistent, usable training material. The company was later purchased for a song and dance. Then shut down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t the $700 dude you have to know that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell me you know nothing about contract law without telling me you know nothing about contract law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, you cannot attend any kind of event where women are involved.

  I’m not doing a battle of the sexes thing, but the reality is that social dynamics massively change when opposite sex are involved. It is fundamentally impossible to have genuine interactions with other men, when women are around.

  Before you get all triggered and decide to hit the downvote, remember I am not doing battle of the sexes…you cannot take women’s wine night for example, deposit a man in the group and expect the social dynamic to remain the same.

  So go find something where women are not allowed. Find a clubhouse with a crudely written sign that says “no girls allowed” and the R is backwards.

  Find a place where men are not in competition for the attention of women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No they’re horrible environments for meeting on socializing with other people.

  If you’ve ever been to a socializing board game night, you would be aware that there’s effectively zero chance to communicate, talk, have a conversation - a group of people can’t focus on two things at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not supposed to make sense...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it is in another dimension. We analyze spatial dimensions in a 3D framework, but it’s very obvious there are additive forces that we don’t understand.

  We don’t live in a 3+1 dimensional universe, at minimum we live in a 4+1 universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m referring to Avatar!

  I cannot believe they blew that kind of money and produced that piece of turd lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So providing NO assistance to customers turned out to be a bad idea?

  THE MOST UNPREDICTABLE OUTCOME IN THE HISTORY OF CUSTOMER SERVICE!