Omgpwnies

@Omgpwnies@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The purpose of many company emails is not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For someone who was there for the RIM/BlackBerry Sumit Bhatia email event…

  Please remove me from this email

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, paper is a very popular material in speaker cones, including high-end

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How accurate is this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Likely not real ice cream, but the cheaper (and more common) ice milk - it has a lower fat content, so more water, and in certain conditions ice crystals do form into small chunks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Riftbreaker is fun and graphcally nice to look at. For city builders, I’d also like to suggest:

  • Manor Lords
  • Timberborn
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget competition, Linux has been gaining market share year over year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the time, they didn’t even try. I’ve copy/pasted their exact question before and the answer was in one of the top 5 articles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  9 times out of 10 it’s a stupid question that they could have typed into Confluence to get the answer though. I gatekeep all of these requests with “Sure, I’m fairly busy now, but lets schedule something for a little later today when I have some time. In the meantime, can you put your question in the chat here in case I need to look something up? Thanks”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is history about to repeat itself?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention for the wipers up bit, it’ll stretch out the spring that provides the tension needed to hold it to the window, so even after the wipers thaw, they’ll still work for shit, but now they’ll work for shit forever!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do your stores not allow you to try on shoes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tsunamis are only really noticeable/dangerous in shallow water too, so that analogy doubly checks out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy, they will just be locked out of having access to computing, that way they can only get their news and information from right-wing AM talk radio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or to stick with the vegan/meat analogy - making the perfect vegan sausage patty by making several meat patties, each one with iteratively less meat until a vegan patty is left, as well as several dead pigs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if that’s why so many sequences use “4 on the floor” arranged roughly around a 12 bar pattern, or a specific piece of classical music that the studio could have gotten from public domain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  zip tiesare single use though, better to get a pack of velcro cable ties

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in hospitals, is 'gun shot wound' appreciated as "GSW"-⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s faster typed out as well. When I worked call centres, we’d shorthand all of our notes because we had 15-30 seconds to wrap up the final notes after the call ended, not to mention no agent wants to read a novel to get up to speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck. My. Life. 🙃⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ender 3 as well and had issues with adhesion until I did that. My first layer is practically injected into the plate it’s so smooshed down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that before or after copilot attempts to talk them into offing themselves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ice heavier than water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fat is also less dense than water, so this particular ICE probably would float.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking any AI on how to build a guillotine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell the AI it’s to commit suicide

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be accurate if (lol) they’re doing something that a properly empowered FTC/SEC/DOJ would be very interested in looking into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember having to memorize some amount in like grade 10 science, I think the first 10 were required - but only the name, symbol, and in order. We didn’t have to memorize any of the other details and on tests we either had a full table to work from or the test would provide the relevant information for the elements needed.

  I think the memorization part was more a brain development excercise for kids, every class had some sort of “memorize these few things” up until grade 12 or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AOL disks were great when they were sending out floppies… free disks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That still fulfils the offsite requirement of 3-2-1, so you’re still good there. If you both have a NAS, then you can be each other’s “cloud provider” as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is the reason for the local backup on my NAS - which is also in a RAID 5 configuration and can survive one drive failure with no loss of data, as well as the copies stored on the original devices. There would need to be a series of unfortunate events for me to lose everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloud storage allows normal people to better realize a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy though, since it facilitates offsite storage.

  That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No it won’t⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  three digital condoms

  Funnily enough, three real condoms are less effective than one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can you tell from this photo alone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That made me think of Jethro Tull - Aqualung

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I built a new PC early October, literally 2 weeks later RAM prices went nuts… so glad I pulled the trigger when I did

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How else would you recharge after a long day?