jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on I kinda feel like if I had one good fart, that'd really sort things out for me right now 8 hours ago:
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 day ago:
The wifi was not related to the medical issues, the symptoms, or the specific clinical term mentioned by the doctor.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 day ago:
None of those data points apply. It was nothing I had searched for or spoken to anyone until I saw the doctor that day and the Instagram ad was present by the time I had driven home, specifically mentioning the clinical term mentioned by the doctor.
It wasn’t even the stated reason for my visit, it was an afterthought at the end of the appointment… “Oh yeah, as long as I’m here, what is this…?”
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 days ago:
Yes, I was on the wifi before the appointment.
- Comment on Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives 2 days ago:
Plus I’d imagine they have no brand awareness in the consumer space vs. the giants like WD, Seagate, Kingston, Crucial, Samsung, etc.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 days ago:
It displayed the ad before I could get home and research it. It had only been discussed out loud and in person.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 days ago:
Instagram showed me an ad for a medical condition I only discussed out loud, in person, in my doctors office.
Instagram was immediately uninstalled that day.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 2 days ago:
I think the trick is you’ll never make it just driving for one service, you have to do Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub, maybe even Instacart as well if you want to do it for a living.
Just like the people who drive for both Uber and Lyft.
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- Comment on Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist 3 weeks ago:
But is it a simulated multiverse?
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes Air 3 weeks ago:
So does AOC and Tim Walz.
- Comment on Cable ISPs compare data caps to food menus: Don’t make us offer unlimited soup 3 weeks ago:
Except that unlimited soup or salad costs the business money to provide.
Data doesn’t. It’s simply 1s and 0s.
It doesn’t cost an ISP any more to provide the 4 trillionth 1 than it does to provide the first one.
Consuming data also doesn’t deny data availability to someone else, unlike electricity or water.
If I decide to fire up a hydroponics operation and start using 4000x more electricity and water than my neighbors, that could impact them negatively. If I run a torrent farm? Not so much.
- Comment on Seems .world and .ee federation are broken 4 weeks ago:
I know there was a problem where federation was lagging by a couple of days, but I thought it was fixed? I’ll hit up the Admins.
- Comment on Democrat Mayors Say They Will Use Police To Obstruct Trump's Deportation Of Illegals 5 weeks ago:
The problem there is, they have no intention of limiting it like that.
It will START that way, then it will become “Well, we can’t separate the family because of one criminal… better deport all of them…”
politifact.com/…/in-context-tom-homans-comments-t…
“Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?” correspondent Cecilia Vega asked him.
“Of course there is,” Homan answered, “families can be deported together.”
- Comment on Democrat Mayors Say They Will Use Police To Obstruct Trump's Deportation Of Illegals 5 weeks ago:
It’s a bad look either way. You give in to the knee-jerk deportation movement… and end up paying reparations decades later, or you resist and are breaking federal law.
They’ve set up a lose/lose situation here.
- Comment on Democrat Mayors Say They Will Use Police To Obstruct Trump's Deportation Of Illegals 5 weeks ago:
But… but… all this time the argument has been “We can’t use the police to enforce federal laws!”
Now they want to use the police to block federal law enforcement? 🤔
- Comment on New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling 1 month ago:
I saw a TMobile ad the other night offering 4 “free” iPhones and I’m like… “WTF do I need 3 extra phones for? Just give me a fair deal on ONE phone.”
- Comment on Any tips for setting up a Mac? A 15+ years Linux user needs help 1 month ago:
Set up an Apple account using the company info, not yours. Problem solved.
- Comment on Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other? 1 month ago:
Really looks like what we have here is a case of the zeitgeist.
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure: Released to theaters February 17, 1989
…wikipedia.org/…/Bill_%26_Ted's_Excellent_Adventu…
Wayne’s World started as an SNL skit, first appeared February 18, 1989.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne's_World
Although Bill and Ted, as a production, goes back to 1987.
- Comment on Is the Wii good? 1 month ago:
The Wii was a console system for people who were unaware of or didn’t like console systems.
So if you’re in that co-hort, or an active Nintendo fan… yeah, it’s a great console.
It says a lot that the best selling titles on it largely came with extra plastic bits that are likely collecting dust now.
Full disclosure, I own a Wii, it’s hooked up and running and everything. Other than occasionally showing off the absolute insanity that is Muscle March, I really can’t think of any game on it I’d still play.
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- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 1 month ago:
You mean like… buying ammo online?
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 1 month ago:
Online? Zoom meetings?
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 months ago:
The statement isn’t about “A” monkey. It’s about an infinite amount of monkeys.
- Comment on Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information 2 months ago:
Jesus, if he had only done the allergy thing and not the profanity or wingdings it’s likely nobody would have noticed and people would have died(!)
- Comment on Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information 2 months ago:
Doesn’t sound like an account access problem, sounds like a shared password problem.
- Comment on Whatever happened to racing games 2 months ago:
I think there’s not a lot of room for competition, it’s either Gran Turismo on PS5, Forza on Xbox or… um… Mario Kart? On Switch?
You could say the same thing about Football games. There’s Madden and NCAA and that’s pretty much it.
The era of having niche games like Metropolis Street Racer, Project Gotham, Speed Devils, or, heck, go back to the OG Playstation with Wipeout, Jet Moto, Destruction Derby… that’s long over.
Which is a shame because I played the HELL out of MSR/PGR.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
On the bottom, in the back…
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 months ago:
Tipping point has tipped?
The one I remember scaring the hell out of everyone is the permafrost melt.
Thaw out enough permafrost and it releases enough greenhouse gasses to self perpetuate. No human interaction required.
- Comment on Disability Rights Are Technology Rights | It’s bad enough when DRM infects your video streams, but when it comes for hardware, things get really ugly 2 months ago:
So, I have an electric wheelchair… I guess I’m lucky because there’s no DRM. It’s not a “smart” chair. It folds and unfolds itself and has a remote control, that’s about as fancy as it gets.
But just about every piece of it is user replacable.
comfygomobility.com/…/iq-7000-electric-wheelchair…
Of course, Medicare didn’t pay for it either, I bought it out of pocket.
