IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on openSUSE Leap 16.0 will need Steam gamers to install some extras due to no 32-bit 2 hours ago:
Is this a Leap only problem, or is 32 but going to be dropped from Tumbleweed as well?
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
Who said the device based service has to be closed source?
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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?" 1 month 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! 1 month 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?" 1 month 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?" 1 month 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?" 1 month ago:
That’s pretty much the theme for most of the responses here.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 2 months ago:
We already have a definition for this, the Karman line.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 2 months ago:
In new build stuff, I’ve actually been seeing a lot more torx.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 2 months 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 3 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] 3 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? 3 months ago:
Re-invent. Your still far too late to be first.
- Comment on Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS 3 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? 3 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 3 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] 3 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.