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- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 3 days ago:
ME was a freak of software development, not an outright sadistic experience.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 3 days ago:
Eh, Vista itself wasn’t that bad, the issues stemmed from both marketing way to low quality devices as compatible, and developers getting used to UAC.
Also, Vista did not have the shitty new settings app.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 3 days ago:
Ever since Windows 7, Microsoft has shown to be a sadist.
- Comment on Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries 5 days ago:
Yeah, it is a decent education that is required to become a police officer here, unfortunately some stupid crap is going on with the police here in Sweden.
- The requirements for being a police officer has been reduced in steps, this is due to the status of the police job has been lowered, so fewer people apply.
- This is infuriatingly stupid. There has been scandals where gang members have infiltrated the police, a few years back an employee of the police was caught letting unauthorized persons access the police database. Then recently I read that management discovered that their background checks of new hires was in some way illegal, and they decided to stop the background checks, but keep hiring new personel, only without checks…
Fucking stupid.
- Comment on Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries 5 days ago:
So far the police forces in Finland, Norway and Sweden seems less bad than most.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 week ago:
Like everything in life, most dangers is a matter of quantity.
Listening to music with headphones is a fantastic way to enjoy music, as long as you are reasonable, it is fine to listen to music loud enough to drown out other sounds for periods.
Back in 2022, I got double flat feet, double heel spurs and a bad knee at the same time, walking was agony at the end of the day, so when I had to walk home from the bus stop, I put on some quite loud Sabaton in my headphones, used that to gather strength to move, usually ending up crying hard as I dragged myself up the path to my apartment building.
I still hear ok, sure, I have a bit of bad hearing, but that was something I had found out a decade before.
You won’t go deaf just by listening to music in headphones, they are an important tool in several sectors, especially in music, every live performance artist is wearing in ear monitors these days, they are special headphones that allow the artist to not only hear the other performers and instruments, but also protect their hearing from the extremely loud speakers and crowds at a live event.
Then you have the people working post production, they all wear headphones all day, you have radio DJs, they also wear headphones all day, pilots, air traffic controllers, police, security guards, and similar professions also often wear head phones constantly.
What you are being told about headphones is just fearmongering, but built on a small kernel of truth, loud sounds can and will damage your ears, but that goes for all loud noise, not just headphones.
- Comment on Data hoarders and encryption enthusiasts are the digital equivalent to doomsday preppers 1 week ago:
Water purification is a big problem, however water does not need to be treated to fulfill the standards for normal drinking water here, boiling collected rain water should be plenty good enough at the start.
Further up in the mountain we have soo many freshwater springs that most hikers don’t pack water as it is just dead weight.
Down here by the coast, fresh water springs does exist, but are way fewer.
- Comment on Data hoarders and encryption enthusiasts are the digital equivalent to doomsday preppers 1 week ago:
Fair point
- Comment on Data hoarders and encryption enthusiasts are the digital equivalent to doomsday preppers 1 week ago:
I am not too worried about heavy machines, they work at scale, but require a lot of infrastructure to keep running.
In an apocalypse, manpower will probably be the number one resource of work available, so basic tools is needed, after we have a source of food, security and shelter, we can start looking at researching/refining better tools, once basic needs are met.
- Comment on Data hoarders and encryption enthusiasts are the digital equivalent to doomsday preppers 1 week ago:
I disagree.
Most doomsday preppers won’t really be prepared for a complete fall of society.
Most that I have seen ignore the need for cooperation snd focus on their own individual survival.
That is short term thinking.
Data hoarders are more like private libraries, they can for a long time distribute knowledge and media helping society as a whole.
A doomsday prepper like that, would focus on creating caches of standardized tools, I mean stuff like shovels, hammers, nails, screws, screwdrivers, files, plows, hoes, drills, saws, shoes, and more, so that they could organize a group of people to build a community.
Most preppers seem to just focus on their own survival in the short term, one of the dumbest things I have seen is the “doomsday vehicle” thing, that is just stupid. Get a simple, reliable car, put it in a garage, take it out once every other week for a good drive to keep it fresh, and leave it, that will do far better than any insane custom doomsday car.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 1 week ago:
Thanks, blocked!
- Comment on Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now 1 week ago:
The only complaint I have of 7 what the thick window borders
- Comment on Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now 1 week ago:
I’ll also put Vista’s bad reputation down to that it was the first version with UAC, which if I recall was set too sensitive, combined with the fact that it was something new and weird for most Windows users at the time and the fact that a lot of software didn’t have time to catch up to add proper compability with the system.
- Comment on Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now 1 week ago:
That is correct, I never used ME and Vista at home so I didn’t think to add them.
And as other’s have noted, the opinion on Vista is divided.
- Comment on Former Microsoft engineer explains why Windows 'sucks' now 1 week ago:
2000 was awesome, XP was great, 7 was fantastic, 8 was a good core with a terrible UI, 10 continued the decline, 11 accelerated it.
- Comment on Contents of Queen's Purse 1 week ago:
I remember a documentary about the Queens guard, where they mentioned that she did indeed carry small amounts of cash in her purse.
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 1 week ago:
Probably
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Wow, ok so that is how you deal with critics…
I knew is was going to be a sore point, my hope was that you was going to say something like:
Fair point, I guess I did come one a bit strong on that point…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Downvoted due to your annoying rant about about up/downvotes.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 2 weeks ago:
What would be fair would be if he as he is sitting on the ground a Cybertruck in summon mode careened off the road pinning him against the building not killing him instantly but slowly while the radio in the car is playing a comedy show where he and his companies are the punchlines. The last thing he hears is his legacy bwing laughed at as a joke
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Several, in hopefully this order:
- Mr. - for a few minutes
- Suspect.
- Prisoner.
- Comment on From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good. 3 weeks ago:
Yep, what plenty of people don’t understand, or don’t want to understand is that a good public transport system is seldom directly profitable.
Instead, the profits comes from taxes, public transport enable more people to work in a far greater area, meaning that you get more money through income tax, people earning money also get to spend it, generating more money from sales tax, and so on.
This is also why privately funded public transport systems are less common than state/city funded systems.
- Comment on Nuclear Nightmare is worth every cent (sci-fi horror inspired by The Thing, co-op) 3 weeks ago:
I litterarly just posted a comment about the brilliant BBC documentary Nuclear Nightmares, a documentary about our fear of radiation, you can watch it here:
- Comment on YSK that risks to exposure of nuclear radition are often over exaggerated by considering a Linear No Threshold (LNT), which does not match with many studies. 3 weeks ago:
This is a brilliant documentary from 2006, made by the BBC, on the topic of our fear of radiation, at the end it explains the LNT model and talks about the issues with it.
Please enjoy:
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 3 weeks ago:
Are you sure it was the T800? I can only find the P800 when googling.
I checks as I had never heard about the T800, but remembered my dad having a P800 for a few years
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 3 weeks ago:
Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 3 weeks ago:
Top tip, see if you can get a present box like this, with the printed ribbons it looks really professional.
To print the ribbons I used a Brother label maker with cloth bands you can print on.
One mistake I made was using a sans serif font, a proper serif font like Times New Roman would have looked way classies
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 4 weeks ago:
Well thats what I get when I wake up way too early…
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 4 weeks ago:
The antagonist of the Garfield comic?
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 4 weeks ago:
This is my prepared bottles of rum, dedicated to when I no longer needs to share a planet with these bastards
Currently I have bottles for:
Trump, Putin, Musk, Murdoch and Orban.
The last one is what has been declared “The bottle of the unknown bad guy”, it is meant for when I find out about a person dying and my immediate feeling is “Good riddance”.
