NateNate60
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- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 1 hour ago:
Linux Mint is great for my 80-year-old grandfather. No Microsoft account BS, and the interface is simple enough for him to learn. He only uses the computer to look at his investments online using Microsoft Edge and play Minesweeper (GNOME Mines seems to be an acceptable replacement for him), and look at old family photos. It runs great on his 6-year-old computer.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 3 hours ago:
It’s hard to argue that Windows 10 isn’t way better than Windows 7 in terms of user interface, workflow patterns, security, and feature support. Despite the fact that Windows 10 comes with a lot of useless junk. Hell, even the junk it came with (Microsoft Edge, Cortana, OneDrive) is more useful than the junk Windows 7 also came with.
And similarly, while people have a lot of nostalgia for Windows XP, from an absolute standpoint, Windows XP is complete ass as an operating system. It was only good in comparison to Windows 2000, ME, and 98/95.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 1 week ago:
In terms of their utility as a cleaning tool, sponge daddies are actually quite good at what they do. They’re somewhat more expensive but remarkably worth the money.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 week ago:
If I had to guess this guy is something like a Bitcoin millionaire or something. But that’s just based on the vibes of his speech with no concrete basis.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 week ago:
Question: how does this site differ in function to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine?
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 1 week ago:
- Comment on Go Green 2 weeks ago:
Pot brownies are popular in the United States, which are baked at 180 degrees Celsius. I think the idea is to protect the components that contain THC, i.e. the crust and sauce.
For that reason, thin-crust pizzas like New York-style pizza are out. They are too thin and would expose the THC to high temperatures. Neapolitan pizza is also out because there is nothing protecting the cannato sauce from the 400-degree wood-fired oven. That leaves thick-crust pan pizzas.
Chicago-style pizza is a possibility despite the fact that the sauce is on top of the cheese, because there is so much of it that it becomes soupy. It might be possible to pour ordinary tomato sauce on top of the cannato sauce to protect it. Conversely, Detroit-style pizza does not have very much sauce at all so it’s out.
I think the best contender is a Pizza Hut-style pan pizza, which has a thick crust and an edge-to-edge layer of cheese on top of it, which I think would do a good job protecting the delicate sauce underneath.
- Comment on Go Green 2 weeks ago:
THC oil in the dough, cannatoe-based sauce with dried ground weed added as a garnish… might just send you straight to God.
- Comment on Go Green 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if it is biologically possible to grow a cannabis-tomato hybrid. Like a tomacco, but it’s actually a cannato.
Cannatoes could be used to make pizza into an edible, which might be too much for mere human minds to comprehend.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 weeks ago:
Food in the kitchen is usually measured in pounds for meat and vegetables (similar to the UK) and grams for most other dry goods. So the recipe would call for 2 pounds of beef but 5 grams of salt. The Costco hit dogs are guaranteed to weigh at least ¼ pound.
The most confusing thing is soda, because it is sold in containers of either 350 mL, 16 oz, or 2 L.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 weeks ago:
They’re like $12 for a pack of 18 huge ones at Costco
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 weeks ago:
It tastes similar to Kraft macaroni and cheese (known in Canada as “Kraft Dinner”). So I would guess young, unaged cheddar or Colby cheese. There is also probably a good amount of whey powder, which is a by-product of cheese production.
It’s not fake, just highly processed.
- Comment on Actual footage of real life events 4 weeks ago:
What Dutch, English, or German speakers think about speakers of the other languages
- Comment on Just in time 5 weeks ago:
Remember that one of the biggest contributions to women’s liberation was the invention of the washing machine.
- Comment on Just in time 5 weeks ago:
Congratulations. SpaceX, Inc. is pleased to conditionally extend you an offer of employment (contingent on a successful political background examination, employment eligibility verification and genetic scan) to the position of FACILITIES MAINTENANCE SPECIALIST at ARMSTRONG’S LANDING SPACEX LUNAR BASE. As discussed, your starting daily wage will be 96 DOGE, and working hours will be MONDAY-SATURDAY 05:00-20:00 UTC. Please report to ARMSTRONG’S LANDING SPACEX LUNAR BASE at 04:00 UTC MONDAY 14TH JUL 2093 to begin work.
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Meet at Spaceport 9 at the aerodrome at 04:00 UTC. Remember to set clock to UTC and prepare 7 days for jet lag before arriving. Employee space shuttle tickets from Kennedy Space Centre on Florida Atoll can be purchased from SpaceX site for 20,000 DOGE, company will deduct payment from future payroll. Employee access card can be obtained from security desk in front of Spaceport 7. Welcome to SpaceX family, hail Elon.
- Comment on Dutch government intervenes at Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sora AI Slop is here 5 weeks ago:
Woe will be the day when humans can no longer determine whether a video is AI or not, even after careful analysis. I wouldn’t have caught this one either but if given the fact that it is suspected of AI, it isn’t hard to prove it. The timestamp in the top left corner is off. 22-13-43-21 is a nonsensical date and the time jumps from 23:15:07 to 23:15:98 then 23:15:59 then 23:15:54
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 1 month ago:
People who build their own computers, AKA the group most likely to complain about this
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 1 month ago:
They should make a Windows version called Windows 10P which is the same as Windows 10 but only the bare-bones necessities and no extra crap or required online services, and sell it for $59.99 (seeing that Windows is already de facto freeware). That’s probably an order of magnitude than what they make from intrusive advertising anyway to a single user over the lifespan of a computer.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 2 months ago:
According to some right-wing spaces (r/conservative on Reddit), there is apparently evidence to suggest that the shooter was an outlier within their otherwise hard-right family.
Is there any evidence to the contrary?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Students view doing that as basically the same amount of work as writing the paper yourself
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Aye that’s exactly the same thing that I said
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Just another 1.21 jigawatts of electricity, bro. If we get this new coal plant up and running, it’ll be enough.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This is why invisible watermarking of AI-generated content is likely to be so effective. Even primitive watermarks like file metadata. It’s not hard for anyone with technical knowledge to remove, but the thing with AI-generated content is that anyone who dishonestly uses it when they are not supposed to is probably also too lazy to go through the motions of removing the watermarking.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 months ago:
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 months ago:
Prior to GitHub, everyone just hosted their own Git repositories. The nature of Git is pretty decentralised. And Linux kernel development still uses old-fashioned mailing lists for development co-ordination, rather than something like GitHub. I have heard before someone say the difference between Git and GitHub is similar to the difference between porn and Pornhub.
Prior to Discord, there was IRC.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 months ago:
And now, since you are the father of writing, your affection for it has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are. In fact, [writing] will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.
—a story told by Socrates, according to his student Plato
- Comment on We can't all be astronauts. 2 months ago:
r = 50 m by court order, but m~2~ is also now 135 kg.
- Comment on We can't all be astronauts. 2 months ago:
How do you get LaTeX in the comment?
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 months ago:
Words become more acceptable over time. In centuries past calling someone a devil or saying that they should go to hell would have been deeply offensive. Today these insults are so mild that even schoolchildren say them to each other. Even twenty years ago the word “fuck” was viewed with nearly as much taboo as racial slurs. Now, it’s a very common word that people will throw around in a casual context.
At the same time, new words emerge and get labelled profane. For example, the word t****y (slur that means “transgender person”) would not have meant anything twenty years ago, and now it’s one of the most offensive words in the English dictionary. Similar story with the word f****t (derogatory term for a homosexual person).
