michaelmrose
@michaelmrose@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 week ago:
Kirk was preaching ugly evil shit I don’t think you can compare him getting sniped to normal people getting hurt
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 week ago:
what the first Civil War was fought over Slaves. Literal human resources were right up their with land as far as property value and ability to continue to earn future value. Enshrining slaves as property forever is virtually the only difference in the confederate constitution.
Lincoln was the first presidential ticket with a northern pres and vp at a time when we deliberately had an equal number of southern and northern states and a bunch of territories to be brought into the union out west. Previously it was possible for a southern pres or vp to enforce this fake equality that couldn’t last because the pres could veto and the vp could vote to break a tie. Once you break that tie you can’t put it back you can now add more northern states without issue.
What were they worried about losing as they lost ground in the house and senate again? Their property and future earnings from that property. It’s popular to quote Lincoln saying he would free none or all of the slaves if he could save the union but that doesn’t tell you what the war was about. They went to war so they could keep their slaves and We went the war so we could keep the southern states instead of having an enemy on our doorstep.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 week ago:
Around 84% of Republicans approve of what is clearly kidnapping murder and open fascism as we are threatening half the world, planning on invading a NATO country, and stealing oil from Venezuela. Conservatives are absolutely our enemy.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 week ago:
They are moving 1500 soldiers to Minneapolis to quell the “violence” which is basically people marching with signs and blocking traffic.
Ice agents are threatening to murder people and telling them they should have learned to be meek so they don’t get murdered like Goode
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
The logic behind not using them is either they can’t or they can’t. They didn’t kill a million russians and junk a fair chunk of their existing hardware for nothing. The reasonable perception is that they couldn’t take Ukraine and fight NATO at all whereas without NATO assistance historical or current Ukraine would have actually fallen in 3 days. Their ability to take Ukraine is therefore 100% a function of how well they can keep NATO out of it and nuking Ukraine blows that objective.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
A tablet screen is too small to use with apps not designed for such a screen. So it will be 100% useless without an actual monitor. Your TV is shit its got shitty text rendering, its massive, and if its 1080p 50" its DPI is shit if its 4K is barely acceptable you are too far from it to be usefully used and you have nowhere to put an actual keyboard.
During operation it will be decoding video 100% of the time so its battery life will be trash on a typical tablet battery and it will get hot.
You could solve all those problems by putting the hardware in a shell with or without fans a bigger battery a keyboard and a screen. Oh look we just re-invented the laptop! Except it only works at all in areas where you have wifi and it costs $30-$50 $50-80 if you have no upfront cost and have to pay for the hardware a month and either you have to manage updates and potential failures on both client and server OR only on the client but the server OS is so constrained that you have no control over it. It is worse and more expensive.
Do please explain what exactly one does with just a slow tablet? Do you use your finger to scroll the too big interface constantly on a laggy interface on your bad wifi whilst your virtual computer slows to a crawl when too many people are home OR do you squint at the poorly sized blurry interface 8 feet away on your 50" 1080p?
People already understand and buy laptops. Why will they buy this?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You would actually need server racks at major ISPs colocated near customers (like netflix does now) to have acceptable latency. To have acceptable performance you would need a cheap small form factor PC, a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse.
None of this is free and if not fucked up on the software side would perform fine as far as normal computing tasks by itself.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It can’t be free because it costs too much. You need data centers near customers for acceptable latency. You also need a computer to connect to your amazon PC.
No your phone won’t work. To prove this. Get a really expensive phone that you can a keyboard and display to. This is already a thing right. Run a remote desktop software on your actual PC wired vastly preferred. Now go next door and ensure you have acceptable wifi. Try this out and tell me how it works for you.
Now imagine it with average wifi which is often terrible in my households with the shitty phones people have creating an experience that is orders of magnitude best case scenario we have created above.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
The stats say that very few kids are hurt by unknown predators but many in fact are hurt on bikes. The stats also say that predators don’t hunt by waiting slavering over facebook waiting for your to post your kids face and tracking them down in real life.
They mostly hunt by ingratiating themselves with the parents. The minority do so by grooming your kid online by direct communication. A VERY VERY tiny amount do so by waiting for your kid to be vulnerable in real space and snatching them. I have literally never in life even heard of someone who got their kids hurt by posting their faces on facebook but there are countless who got groomed by family, priests, teachers,friends who people trusted.
Turn on your brain.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Why a phone connected to the cloud PC is shit
This would be an amazingly trash experience over wireless so you would need to dock both because wifi sucks in most people’s house AND because it would just constantly die.
Then it would ruin the battery to run it this way and on most user devices this is difficult/expensive to replace.
Many people have old phones that would perform even more poorly than average.
Your phone needs to be in your pocket and used for a million and one things not on the desk running a client to the cloud where you are editing an office document .
Oh sorry can’t listen to my music as I walk around the house because I have to fuckin undock it.
No honey you can’t use the PC its actually my phone and I’m running out the door. Let’s undock it and fuck about and make your phone the client oh wait it doesn’t work with your model for some reason? The sound doesn’t work right? oh sorry gotta run out the door.
The efficiency argument and latency are in direct fucking opposition because in order to have acceptable latency you need to have a bunch of server racks near people which absolutely ruins the economics.
Why your TV as a screen is shit
Not positioned in a useful way or with a reasonable DPI or non-shit text rendering , nowhere useful to put the keyboard that is non-awful, pure voice input to use a computer is complete trash
Conclusion
Local clients that don’t suck are going to be basic bitch small form factor PCs with ethernet and wired speakers because those things always work and always work well. If you don’t fuck them up by running complete garbage they already run windows or linux reasonably well without issue. If you need a lot of processing power for AI you can run THAT in the cloud… which is already a thing.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The very idea of simply owning a screen, keyboard, and mouse, and using Windows remotely via a subscription will likely send shivers down many of your spines — but you have to consider the trends here.
You need at minimum an ethernet or wifi adapter and a processor and a GPU to decode video and push pixels to the screen. You need effectively a local PC to rent a remote PC
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well chucklefuck you need a basic PC to act as the client. You know what kind of computer most people have? A shitty PC good enough to be the fuckin client. Why would they want to pay for a shitty pc to rent another one when they can just use the fucking shitty PC they bought at walmart for 300 for 8 fuckin years like they do now? That is $3 a month amortized beat that bitch.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
Kids bicycling is perfectly safe around where i live.
No not it isn’t its in fact far more dangerous than your drive to work by the numbers.
Posting kids’ photos on the internet is never safe unless you take serious precautions (like covering the whole face).
There is no reason to believe someone’s face being posted on the internet is a substantial risk because although kids do get hurt or killed the overwhelming factors are trust by kids and family members and in a tiny minority of cases either opportunity created by the kids being unsupervised and perceptibly vulnerable or tricked into communicating with a bad person.
There is no reason to believe any significant number of cases had its genesis in a situation whereby the perp saw the kids face posted on facebook and said that kid that kid is the one I’m going to kidnap whereas cases that had their genesis in physical opportunity or trust are incredibly common.
How in your mind DOES this work. Do you think that snatchers are furiously combing facebook for kid faces and then doing detective work to identify and surveil the location looking for an opportunity to do the snatch? Does this sound real?
Studies show that we are terrible at understanding the magnitude of risk of uncommon events and drastically over estimate uncommon risk and underestimate commonly faced risks. For example the number of kids who were attacked because their face was posted on facebook in 2025 is probably zero but almost a thousand people per year die on bicycles and 400,000 are injured and end up in the emergency room.
Bikes are very dangerous. Posting your tike’s face… not so much. The dangerous people are statistically the perverts you will stupidly trust because you have shitty judgement WHILE obsessing about not posting their face on facebook.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
You can’t just call anything a sacrament and it magically becomes a different thing legally. It’s perfectly ok to have standards for medical procedure and have it apply to all.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
Tactical nukes are relatively new
Like new if you time traveled from the 50s We literally conceived of a bazooka launched personal nuke. Generally speaking not much was actually made by anyone and is unlikely to have been maintained as they would have been deemed basically useless for decades as is very expensive to maintain.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
You can’t keep such secrets at scale at all. Abortions can be performed by giving someone a couple of pills whilst not being visibly pregnant and thereby avoiding life changing, ruining, or sometimes ending consequences of pregnancy.
It is damn near impossible to keep people from getting abortions because we give women so many reasons to have them. Compared to that almost all circumcisions would stop because it would be impossible to hide any substantial portion of the pop getting or giving them.
You are arguing we shouldn’t enact a policy that would end 99.9% because somewhere someone would be doing 0.1%
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
No no it doesn’t again outside of your fantasy. Almost all harm that comes to kids unfortunately comes from people who are close to said kid.
Did you think there are random people on facebook waiting for a picture of a kid so they can somehow find that kid? Your perspective is demented.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
Why would Rabbis be immune from the law again? If you cannot legally perform a procedure then you cannot legally perform a procedure. No this wouldn’t violate freedom of religion because holding them to the same law as everyone else isn’t discrimination.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
Does removal actually prevent teen growing during the time when the rest of your adult teeth grow? I really wasn’t sure that they were special in this fashion
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
It’s dubious that they have useful nukes available to just drop in an shell to start with. For practical purposes their nukes are fairly large and there are other considerations. Poorly maintained shit may malfunction creating additional doubt as to their military might and it might trigger additional aid by the rest of the world. They can’t actually fight NATO so actions have to be carefully calibrated so as not to bring the rest of the world or even just more of their aid into the fray lest it become even more expensive or even impossible to win.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
Not using nukes isn’t holding back its not inviting armageddon.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
Lol why are they ableist again?
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
You can’t
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
How are people going to be dragged to a cell for getting a procedure done that no Dr will do again?
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
The cost of criminalizing it is virtually nobody does it because they don’t want to lose their license or go to jail this seems pretty cheap
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
This is your fantasy. Sharing their face on social media is less dangerous than biking to a friend’s house
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
Can you legally get any other cosmetic surgery on a less than 1 yr old?
- Comment on Zootopia 2 weeks ago:
Like maybe the cartoon shoe character getting torture murdered or the psychotic killer gloating over the prior killing of the detective’s brother
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 3 weeks ago:
The assertion true or false is that Israel would attack others not involved in its destruction if it should fall. This is like the US worrying about being invaded by the Chinese in the 60s and threatening to nuke Switzerland and Australia to keep people from staying neutral.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 3 weeks ago:
Which suggests that they think teaching tools are how people actually program real software in the real world.
There are GUI tools to script behavior in GUI game engine tools as well but this is only enabled by actual programmers producing the tools and most actual games have a shit ton of code that couldn’t have been scripted with the GUI as well.