IrateAnteater

@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s some more food for thought: what happens if the piss off the Eve players? Those clowns have basically been training themselves on how to come out on top in a no-hold-barred capitalist system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The "We Tried" Award⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a millennial, at no point did we actually want participation trophies. The feeling of coming in last was not changed in the slightest by receiving a junk trophy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The state of mobile phone market in Canada is so frustrating. Not only is our market dominated by 3 players who refuse to actually compete with each other, but we miss out on half the cool phones that the rest of the world gets too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨huge tracts of land⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Capitalism” isn’t some self aware entity that you can blame all evils on. It’s humans all the way down. And it’s not even the cartoon evil type of humans; those are rare. Everyone responsible at each step of the way is terrifyingly ordinary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no way right⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I seriously doubt that will happen. The current administration has shown zero indication that they give two fucks about what the people want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The other side of the coin is that customers aren’t obligated to buy. There’s always a limit to how expensive you can make a product/service before people will simply stop paying for it. Trying to find that balance point can be damned difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sheeple⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you can. Probably shouldn’t though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  VPN becomes VPS and life goes on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in a factory making turbine engines, if I worked in a factory making 50k$ watches we would produce just as much CO2.

  You absolutely would not. Not even remotely close.

  Also, you’re ignoring the emissions over the lifetime of the thing. As soon as the watch is manufactured, it’s emissions contribution is done. That turbine will continue generating emissions over it’s entire existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arcturus looking for playtesters!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because this is Lemmy, I feel like I have to ask, Linux support? Or is it Windows-only for now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The kind of waste I’m talking about doesn’t give two fucks about proportionality. CO2 in the atmosphere makes no distinction between being emitted by a single person or three million.

  Also, fuck living in a world where only things arbitrarily deemed “useful” are considered worthy. Does art have no place in your world? It’s not “useful”. Should people be banned from having hobbies? Those aren’t “useful”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say so in this case. A watch is probably about as close to “good” conspicuous consumption as it’s possible to get. Think about it: it’s generally a “buy once, keep it forever” item, takes essentially 0 resources to keep functioning (generally the expensive ones don’t require batteries), uses very little material to manufacture, and all the price is coming from specialist labour.

  It’s a waste of money, but it’s a harmless waste, especially when compared to things like private jets and yachts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty much the theme for most of the responses here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinda fucked up tbh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We already have a definition for this, the Karman line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In new build stuff, I’ve actually been seeing a lot more torx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Blame Henry Ford. The superior screw head style was available to him, but he refused to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t currently use a VPN provider, but when I do, it now won’t be VPNSecure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re free to do whatever you like, but I really can’t imagine cutting myself off of seeing most of the world, simply because of a bunch of theoreticals. I fly fairly often for work and I’ve not even experienced half of those (I’m not even sure what problem you might have with airport limos). Most of those issues are easily avoided anyway, since they are a product of your own planning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the people end up with nothing left to lose, things tend to get exceptionally shitty for a few generations. Then it’s a die toss to figure out if what comes after that is any better or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance is futile⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say that’s controversial, but it’s really just a matter of choosing which platform you think will enshittify slowest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely love that his name is the first thing anyone thinks about when someone so much as mentions a couch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They would. Just not in the way they’d prefer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Re-invent. Your still far too late to be first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t support this decision in any way, but I can at least think of some legitimate motivation for it (assuming the Synology branded ones aren’t marked up from the equivalent Seagate/Toshiba ones). I imagine Synology has to deal with a lot of service calls and returns for issues that are caused by shoddy drives (like those Seagate drives with the fudged lifespan numbers), not by anything that they can directly control.

  In reality, the above was probably what sparked the idea, but I’m betting that they’re going to jack up the price of those drives just to squeeze out a little more profit for this quarter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sound quality will be exactly the same among any of the services that offer lossless files (ie all of the ones that aren’t Spotify). That’s literally the point of lossless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, hear me out: we split up Alphabet. Ads and search can be one company, since those two are always going to be related, while Chrome, Android, and the hardware division become the other company. This should help reduce Google’s current incentive for privacy invasion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are you referring to? In North America, much of the infrastructure wasn’t changed, it was created for the first time to accommodate cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So after reading the article, are you editorializing or did Wired change their title? No where does it mention the legality of selling the Sakura in North America. It only mentions that Nissan has not chosen to sell it outside of Japan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what knowledge we are talking about. Personally, I’d be feeding it tons of manuals so that I could ask questions like “Which version of software x introduced feature y?” There’s no extra context I need, I just need a version number to give to a customer. And in my industry, that type of info just doesn’t show up on Google. So having an LLM that can answer the question in seconds saves me an hour of sifting through manuals.