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- Comment on Are airports difficult to navigate? (first time flyer)? 2 hours ago:
To the last point, I wouldn’t trust anyone at your departing airport who tells you your bag will go to the destination. Almost lost a bag that way. Thankfully, my uncertainty made me ask again at the layover airport “just in case”…lol
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data | TechCrunch 15 hours ago:
Stealing from Reddit is just stealing from a thief in a way…
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 1 day ago:
run by a guy that was so afraid of paying child support that he literally killed himself
Where can I read more about that?
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 4 days ago:
In North America, most major mainstream news companies are owned by right-wing or right-leaning corporations. In Canada, I think it’s literally all of them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Gotta ask. Do you really think this community has a list of pornographic actresses names and automatically filters posts with them?
Aside from that, ChatGPT isn’t a reliable source of information, and probably can’t tell you much about another source’s reliability… especially on a topic like this.
- Comment on Microsoft bans words like "Palestine", "Gaza" and "Genocide" in all company emails and fires the employee who protested Microsoft during event. 2 weeks ago:
how Microsoft couldn’t afford to keep creating e-waste
23 years later, they seem to be affording it quite well! Haha
- Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there are subcultures within “Internet culture”…but these days, I don’t think “Internet culture” is cohesive (and omnipresent) enough yet to call it a “culture”.
It’s complicated and messy. Hard to define, lol
- Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity? 3 weeks ago:
Ethnicity, no.
Culture, I think that’d be a bit of a strong claim.
Sub-culture, definitely.
- Comment on SILENT HILL 2 remake gets a surprise GOG release 4 weeks ago:
GOG is doing amazing work these days. I’m always happy to support them when I can.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Should’ve been “Until the tariffs are gone, right?”
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 5 weeks ago:
“Mom! I want to read articles on Polygon!”
We have Polygon at home.
The Polygon at home:
Polgyon
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Though please be aware, generally when a link shows up on Facebook and gets formatted with a picture and a paragraph underneath it. This feature is controlled directly by the external sites integration with Facebook or social platform, and they can choose how much of the link is condensed or shown.
This is what seals the deal for me as the news companies being in the wrong here.
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 1 month ago:
your options are shite and I refuse them all is a valid vote, why make it harder for someone to choose that than necessary?
The only way that’s communicated is by officially declining the ballot. And I agree with the other commenter that it should be easier to do this.
By not voting, you’re communicating “They’re all fine; I can’t be assed to pick”.
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 1 month ago:
You don’t actually have to fill out the ballot. You can tell the voting officer that you decline it, you can write profanity on it, or you can vote for your dog.
It’s a minor civic duty. Much less onerous than jury duty, lol
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 1 month ago:
Yeah, broadcasting to the world that you’re playing a game that hasn’t been released yet isn’t a great idea. Particularly when it’s Nintendo. It’s pretty common knowledge how petty they are even with stuff that’s less flagrant
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 1 month ago:
It doesn’t become useless, it just misses out on a bunch of useful features for the drives.
Still ridiculous, of course
- Comment on is there a community for asking specific questions such as “is this user a troll”, “why do people act this way,” “what should I do”, etc.? 1 month ago:
Yes. There’s the .ml instance. If they’re from there, they are a troll!
/kidding
- Comment on The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices. 1 month ago:
Ah, I forgot about index and didn’t know about indices.
I’ll continue to use the plural “tissues”, though! Lol
It’s funny to me to see someone simultaneously prescriptively linguistic enough to use a Latin pluralization but not pedantic enough to use the proper non-genericized term for tissues, haha
- Comment on The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices. 1 month ago:
What other word follows this?
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 month ago:
its far to iphone(esk) in design
It’s far too iPhone-esque in design
“It’s” has the apostrophe because it’s “it” + "is
“too” has two o’s when there’s an excess of something. More stuff = more o’s!
“esque” is uh…just how it’s spelt
iPhone capitalization is just their branding.
I only commented to help with “esque”, but saw other things I could help with. Knowledge is power!
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 month ago:
My decent Bluetooth headphones have the option to plug in a headphone cable to use them wired. I use it occasionally so I can reduce audio latency, which can be useful with gaming…and essential with rhythm games.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 month ago:
Because they display (or even host, potentially) content that’s “illegal” in Turkey.
What they should probably be doing is just hiding said content from users in Turkey…and encouraging users in Turkey to use VPNs, lol
- Comment on Trump reportedly suspends Nvidia H20 export ban plan after $1 million dinner with Jensen Huang 1 month ago:
Yes, there will be consequences. Things will get better for those businesses!
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
What is a Personal Pronoun?
A whole bunch of angry Americans would fail to answer that question correctly these days…
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says 1 month ago:
To clarify, I don’t think the writers did anything wrong. The headline will be misleading because Nintendo’s being somewhat misleading.
I don’t know how much the headline could be improved, if at all.
Nintendo says NS2 GC controller will only “officially” support GC games
Or if they can’t quote “officially”, they could quote “only”. Which could arguably be more clickbaity, but also clue in a casual reader that there’s more to what Nintendo officially says.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says 1 month ago:
It’s somewhat misleading. It’s not providing the additional background information, and it leads the headline with the claim (not that Nintendo is making a claim).
I don’t think it’s a bad headline. It’d be hard to include all the information in the headline. But if someone only reads the headline (something like 73% of people), they could end up with a mistaken conclusion. And those people will have been lead in that direction (so, mislead).
- Comment on Can I sue my apartment management company? 1 month ago:
Doesn’t this kind of depend on where you live? Lol
- Comment on Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout 1 month ago:
The games don’t drop in price, but the consoles do. There’s even a chance the price could go down for the holiday season, even if it’s something miniscule. This launch price is the early adopter tax.
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 1 month ago:
“But I haven’t seen you in over a decade!”
I said, SAME. OLD!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, I use some software that’s Windows-only, and can’t be bothered to set up a VM or anything