TommySoda
@TommySoda@lemmy.world
- Comment on Or more 2 days ago:
And he was the best friend I ever had.
- Comment on I mean......if you really think about it..... 3 days ago:
No, I just don’t get it. :)
- Comment on I mean......if you really think about it..... 3 days ago:
Honestly, as a huge anime nerd, these names are getting a little ridiculous. It doesn’t stop me from watching them, I just don’t get it.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 1 week ago:
My philosophy is that Civ 5 and Civ 6 are just fine. My friend was going to buy 7 on release and I was like “yeah, but you can just go play Civ 6. It’s not like it’s a bad game just because the new one is out.” And I’m glad I convinced him otherwise because of how “okay” Civ 7 has been so far. Nothing against the game, I just already have the last three Civ games with all DLC and there is still a mountain of content that we already have to play with each other.
- Comment on Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report 1 week ago:
I’ll let you know when it happens. :)
- Comment on Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report 1 week ago:
Jokes on you, I turned 30 a few months ago.
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 2 weeks ago:
As someone that has pretty decent vision, I enjoyed reading this font very much. Imma have to download it just because it’s pleasant to read.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 2 weeks ago:
If this is their way of making AI, with brute forcing the technology without innovation, AI will probably cost more for these companies to maintain infrastructure than just hiring people. These companies are already not making a lot of money for how much they cost to maintain. And unless they charge companies millions of dollars just to be able to use their services they will never make a profit. And since companies are trying to use AI to replace the millions they spend on employees it seems kinda pointless if they aren’t willing to prioritize efficiency.
It’s basically the same argument they have with people. They don’t wanna treat people like actual humans because it costs too much, yet letting them love happy lives makes them more efficient workers. Whereas now they don’t want to spend money to make AI more efficient, yet increasing efficiency would make them more less expensive to run. It’s the never ending cycle of cutting corners only to eventually make less money than you would have if you did things the right way.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 2 weeks ago:
Technically in most cases progresses on a logarithmic scale when innovation isn’t prioritized. We’ve basically reached the plateau of what LLMs can currently do without a breakthrough. They could absorb all the information on the internet and not even come close to what they say it is. These days we’re in the “bells and whistles” phase where they add unnecessary bullshit to make it seem new like adding 5 cameras to a phone or adding touchscreens to cars. Things that make something seem fancy by slapping buzzwords and without needing to actually change anything
- Comment on Filing: DOGE broke Treasury policy with unencrypted email 2 weeks ago:
I’m just waiting for these incompetent fuckwits at DOGE to fuck something up so catastrophically that it backfires on them tenfold. I’d take GeekSquad running the government over these guys.
- Comment on What Fediverse services do you use? 3 weeks ago:
I know, I’m a mad man. But I stand by my principles of seeing boobs at work.
- Comment on What Fediverse services do you use? 3 weeks ago:
I open the links too.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, imma have to go through our equipment to find out if they go through with this. If we do have to replace it, this shit is not cheap.
- Comment on What Fediverse services do you use? 3 weeks ago:
Mostly Lemmy for me but sometimes Pixelfed. I’m also a psychopath and browse “everything” with all NSFW filters turned off while at work, so I’m probably not a good judge.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 3 weeks ago:
If you strive for perfection you will always fall short. Just do what you can. I started actually going to stores instead of buying things online, but sometimes that is not feasible. If I absolutely have to buy something from Amazon, I canceled my Prime and just wait longer for my packages. As for the other services Amazon provides I have no idea. Look for alternatives as best you can.
The goal is more about giving as little money as possible to Amazon as possible. You don’t have to go cold turkey and cut it all out if it causes problems for you. Use this time to research alternatives for the future as you pivot away.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 4 weeks ago:
GPS isn’t just for google maps. I’m a land surveyor and we literally use GPS every single day. Without it we’re basically fucked. We do hydrographic surveying and without GPS we’d have to basically go back to analog as 90% of the equipment on our boat would be useless. Good luck figuring out how much water is left in the Colorado river without it.
The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) will be completely fucked without it as it’s built on decades of data and monitoring. You can’t just look for “alternatives.” Y’all know what a GEOID model, state plane, or ellipsoidal height are? Because I’m pretty sure these cucks don’t and whatever Elmo has is not robust enough for the precision that is required for what we use GPS for. And without shit like that you couldn’t hit the broad side of a city.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
I came from skype so my bar was already pretty low. I’m not defending Discord, by the way. I’ve just been using it to talk to my friends for years because they all had Discord and it was convenient.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s less about trusting Discord and more about not giving a shit. It does the thing they want it to do and that’s the extent of their consideration. It’s the reason why everyone still uses Windows even though it’s basically spyware at this point. Talking to my friends about it is like talking to a brick wall and they just check out of the conversation.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
But the problem I keep running into is getting my friends to switch. They’re not very tech literate as they came from console gaming. I could try to educate them but the response I usually get is “why would I switch to something that might not work when this already works perfectly fine?” And I can’t really argue with it. It’s just not even an issue for them.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
I’ve already switched to Linux. The problem I have with this is that all my friends, a Discord server of around 20 people, are not going to be willing to switch. It’s been the way we have stayed in contact for the past 5 years.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
I used to. It’s entirely too easy of a program to use.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
Jesus fucking Christ, can I not just enjoy one thing in my life without it eventually turning adversarial?
- Comment on Microsoft's ad-supported version of Office only saves to OneDrive 5 weeks ago:
Just use LibreOffice. It’s basically on par with what Office was 5 years ago. The average person won’t even notice a difference.
- Comment on Projected DOGE savings now near $110 billion, or over $700 per American taxpayer. 1 month ago:
And defunding things that help people just because you disagree with it isn’t corruption? Even when you know all this money they are “saving” is just going right back into their pockets? Lemme know when you get your check in the mail and maybe then I’ll believe you.
- Comment on Projected DOGE savings now near $110 billion, or over $700 per American taxpayer. 1 month ago:
And y’all really think you’ll see any of that money? Or that your taxes will go down because of all the new savings? Like I get it, the government wastes money. But if you think this helps the average American in any way you are extremely naive.
- Comment on For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link. 1 month ago:
Its been stuck in my head since I thought of this.
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- Comment on Elon Musk says millions in Social Security database are between ages of 100 and 159 1 month ago:
It takes a five minute google search to figure out why. But I guess getting spoonfed what you wanna hear already takes less effort.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 1 month ago:
The optimist in me says they’re doing this to avoid piracy.
The pessimist in me says they’re doing this so they can purge books because of the Trump administration.
Either way, I can’t say I’m a fan.
- Comment on Trump says US prices ‘could go up’ as he threatens new tariffs on trade partners 1 month ago:
Will* go up
And in the end he’ll just say “they made me do it because of their tariffs.”