sanguine_artichoke
@sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
It’s good if you have sets of apps open for different tasks. I used to have one for programming (text editor/browser/console) and one for graphic editing (gimp/console/image viewer/blender), and one for general browsing/time wasting, all on two monitors. Pretty handy to keep your focus.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
The Amiga had the ability to have multiple video screens that you could drag down and even display partially at the same time in different video modes, which was impressive. I don’t recall virtual desktops but I suppose Workbench had that, idk.
Anyway I was just referring to my experience with workspaces/multiple virtual desktops in KDE or whatever.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
Kind of. Not sure what’s out there now but circa 2008 there were Linux distros with multiple virtual desktops each with their own virtual desktop. So you could have one with 3 virtual desktops of its own, another with 3 different virtual desktops of its own, and so forth. Good for true power users but it could get confusing fast.
- Comment on Lyft shares hit 52-week high after accidently including an extra zero to one of its profit margins in an earnings statement 9 months ago:
Some dolt told me that in hospital billing one time. I had two different insurances that said they’d pay. They failed to charge me. They were giving me 30 days before sending it to collections. I have them the insurance numbers twice. I called on day 27 and asked what are you guys doing? The guy said “the computer is going to send it to collections in a few days… it won’t let me do anything!” as if that makes any sense.
- Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? 9 months ago:
What about Github Copilot? It has tons of material available for training. Of course, it’s not necessarily all bug-free or well written.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
That’s the problem.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
It’s confusing to me why people think discord is a good replacement for forums. It’s not even the same paradigm - it’s a chat program. Not being indexed by search engines is a major drawback as well.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
Maybe a free and open source forum software. There are a few out there, maybe you used one before.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
Why are you posting this on Lemmy and not Discord?
- Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? 9 months ago:
This is what I wondered about a few months ago when people were saying that ChatGPT was a ‘google killer’. So we just have ‘AI’ read websites and sum them up, vs. visiting websites? Why would anyone bother putting information on a website at that point?
- Comment on What's wrong babe, you barely touched your hot dog bologna cake 10 months ago:
Not just cheez wiz, but the spray stuff, Easy Cheese.
- Comment on What's wrong babe, you barely touched your hot dog bologna cake 10 months ago:
Give me a slice and mayo and I’d have a little. What kind of jizz is that on the outside, though?
- Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while? 10 months ago:
Well, simpler than I thought!
- Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while? 10 months ago:
They have some carbs and protein at least, and vitamins and electrolytes. The water would probably help but I’d wonder if it would be too salty.
- Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while? 10 months ago:
With a serving size of 20-30g and only 1 g carbs, unfortunately they’re not exploiting labeling. Cucumbers do not have significant carbohydrates, fat or protein and thus neither do pickled cucumbers. Maybe enough carbs to survive but not enough fat or protein, and so you’d end up with protein deficiency and whatever that condition is where people eating just rabbits starve from lack of fat. Probably also a horrific case of heartburn from such an acidic diet.
They do have a decent amount of some vitamins and minerals, and electrolytes such as potassium. It wouldn’t make up for the lack of protein and fat though.
- Comment on What was the original use of the ‘☠️’ emoji 10 months ago:
1993, wow. That’s OG.
- Comment on i think im diabetic?? i dont want to be but its most likely 10 months ago:
So, judging from the “sugar” thing you seem to think you might have developed type 2 diabetes. Do you have any symptoms at all that would support that? It’s very unlikely you’d develop that at the age of 20.
Also, just a note, type 2 is caused by many factors but people are very confused about the “sugar” thing because eating any carbohydrate is the equivalent of sugar. You can view foods like rice, potato or corn as basically sugar, as vegetable starch is just a chain of glucose molecules.
- Comment on Utah Supreme Court says suspects can refuse to hand over phone passwords to the police | Other state Supreme Courts disagree and the case would wind up before the US Supreme Court 11 months ago:
The answer to all of those is they probably beat you with a stick.
- Comment on Severe blizzards blanket Moscow in decades-worth of snow, causing chaos on roads 11 months ago:
I don’t get it either. I’ve lived in places in the US that got 50-80 cm in a couple of days several times a season.
- Comment on Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet says exec 11 months ago:
I guess, but they’d probably rather be a supplier for a successful product.
- Comment on Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet says exec 11 months ago:
Probably they price them at a profit but then lose money from unsold inventory, so nobody really comes out ahead
- Comment on Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users 11 months ago:
Android uses RCS now, a higher quality and more feature rich standard than SMS. However… Apple hasn’t added it to iOS, so it doesn’t work to send to iPhones and they receive bog-standard SMS from Android devices.
- Comment on Your car is probably harvesting your data. Here's how you can wipe it 11 months ago:
Mozilla did a privacy test on 25 different makes of cars and they all failed.
- Comment on Humans were lucky that it worked out that bigger dogs generally are less mean. 11 months ago:
Do you know if that’s a modern change or if it’s always been the case?
- Comment on Humans were lucky that it worked out that bigger dogs generally are less mean. 11 months ago:
Like… wolves?
- Comment on I had to try it to believe it 11 months ago:
that’s your age in 4 years!
- Comment on 13 years later and I still feel the same. 11 months ago:
After asking for months or years for her to stop making me raise my voice and yell back, I started responding in a shitty tone like “WHAT?? WTF DO YOU WANT” which is a negative thing to have to do. But that had no effect either, other than perhaps a negative one on me psychologically.
- Comment on 13 years later and I still feel the same. 11 months ago:
That’s actually what i told my GF. I tried to get her to start calling me on the phone or facetime, which is ridiculous, but I mean she could just walk over and talk to me in person too…
- Comment on 13 years later and I still feel the same. 11 months ago:
If I acted like I couldn’t hear, she’d just repeat it louder and louder.
- Comment on 13 years later and I still feel the same. 11 months ago:
my recent ex would just yell at me from 3 rooms away. I’d be forced to yell back “what??” and then half the time she wouldn’t say anything. So I’d get up and walk over there and ask “what??”. “oh, nothing, I wanted you to see this thing on TV”. I’d ask that she could please walk over and talk to me directly so I didn’t have to yell or get up and it would never happen.