Bob_Robertson_IX
@Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world
- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 4 days ago:
Exactly!
I don’t hate TikTok because of its short videos, I hate it because the app is an assault on privacy and potentially a subversive tool to influence the public.
- Comment on Which is better: F-Zero or Super Mario Kart (SNES)? 4 days ago:
I rented that game 4 times and never made it past that level. I’m convinced that no one ever did because it was an unfinished game where they just made the last level they had impossible to pass.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 6 days ago:
Half Life 2… The price was right!
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 1 week ago:
Until they restructure the way OpenAI did.
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 4 weeks ago:
I mean, I have a Pixel 9 Pro running Graphene, but sure this isn’t like my Pine phone (which is fun to pay with but a slog as a daily driver).
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 4 weeks ago:
I think it started with TV being regulated. At first we were strict about only giving her access to ‘educational’ shows, so a lot of PBS Kids shows like Daniel Tiger, but we also did YouTube channels like Super Simple Songs. We avoided anything too commercialized or designed to sell toys (Paw Patrol), but that caused issues when she went to preschool and didn’t know any of the shows and characters the other kids knew, so we relaxed a little, but treated Paw Patrol as a treat (she’d be limited to 30 minutes of it, but could then switch to something on PBS). And even PBS screen time was limited to certain times of the day. It never really became an issue because she never knew any other way.
For the phone, a few years ago on Google Fi it was actually the same price to have 3 lines as it was to have 2 lines, and I had an extra phone and so it just made sense to activate it so she had a phone to use in the car while we took a 12 hour car ride. It worked really well, and she knew that ‘her phone’ would always go right back in my pocket when she wasn’t using it. We also got her some Bluetooth headphones and we’ve taught her that her phone should not make any sound that anyone else can hear when we’re in public. We’re trying to find that balance between making sure she has the skills needed to use technology, but also doesn’t become dependent on it like the rest of us are. I’m not sure it will work in the long-term, but I do know that my family won’t be the ones behind you in a restaurant with the kid playing a loud game on her phone.
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 4 weeks ago:
I was providing context to your question about how long it’s been normalized and when kids get their first phones.
And yes, as a parent I know that I won’t be able to control everything my kid does as she ages, however I think by creating good habits and setting healthy boundaries it will help her make the right choices later in life.
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 4 weeks ago:
Just because a kid has a phone, it doesn’t necessarily mean they have full access to it. My daughter has had her own phone since she was 3 years old, she is now 8 and still rarely gets access to her phone - maybe an hour a week on Saturday mornings or if we’re going on a long drive. There’s never any fights when she has to put it away, and she’s learning good device usage habits.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 2 months ago:
We need municipal datacenters that can be integrated into the municipal water departments, and municipal electrical grid. Use the hot water to provide ‘on tap’ hot water for local businesses that need it.
- Comment on Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week 2 months ago:
Oh, don’t worry about upper management, they can continue to work remotely - but they’ll still have dedicated offices in several locations in case they are forced to travel. And that will be one less office for the schmucks who have to come into the office.
And this isn’t just Amazon. This is an orchestrated push by the CEOs of many large companies, all conspiring together to claw back some control of their employees. And you’ll do it because fuck you, of course you’ll do it… what choice have you got?
- Comment on There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. 2 months ago:
And there are no Indians in Indiana.
To the tune of Home Again In Indiana:
There are no Indians, in In-diana Most were removed, through treaties And the Del-a-ware, had no care went to Miss-ou-ri, with ease The Shaw-nee screwed, the Mi-am-i With the treaty, of, Fort Wayne William Hen-ry Harr-i-son versus Te-cumseh The In-dian’s loss, became, whitey’s gain Now there are no Indians in In-diana
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 2 months ago:
I find a young doctor in a suburb almost 10 years ago. He’s been great and he listens to me, has no problem taking my suggestions into consideration, and he often admits when he doesn’t know something and will literally Google it right there in the room. It took as while to find someone I like, but it was worth looking.
- Comment on NASA says astronauts stuck in space will not return on Boeing capsule, will wait for SpaceX craft 2 months ago:
He hasn’t run SpaceX for a long time. At this point he isn’t much more than a mascot for the company.
- Comment on Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report 3 months ago:
Which is exactly where it should be… having regional phone companies sucked. Having 1 phone company sucked. Having 3-4 is the least sucky, but we have real competition.
Before tearing apart Google and Amazon, I’df much prefer we have 3-4 choices for internet providers (unless we can turn them into utilities, then we should do that).
- Comment on Microsoft says Delta’s ancient IT explains long outage after CrowdStrike snafu 3 months ago:
Hi, I also know my industry, with over a quarter century of experience in Fortune 500 companies. The old motto of IT used to be ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ and then salespeople found out that fear is a great sales tool.
When proper precautions are taken and a risk analysis is performed there is no reason that old operating systems and software can’t continue to be used in production environments. I’ve seen many more systems taken down from updates gone wrong than from running ‘unsupported’ software. Just because a system is old, doesn’t mean it is vulnerable, often the opposite is true.
- Comment on Why are people downvoting the MediaBiasFactChecker not? 3 months ago:
So, because you don’t like bots, they shouldn’t be made available to others who appreciate them? Fuck that.
The beauty of Lemmy is that you are in control of what you see, but that makes that you have to control it. Stop trying to dictate that I can’t have bots from instances that allow them.
- Comment on Microsoft says Delta’s ancient IT explains long outage after CrowdStrike snafu 3 months ago:
The letter said that after one Microsoft outreach on July 22, a “Delta employee replied, saying ‘all good. Cool will let you know and thank you.’ Despite this assessment that things were ‘all good,’ public reports indicate that Delta canceled more than 1,100 flights on July 22 and more than 500 flights on July 23.”
- Comment on Trump’s ‘no choice’ comment on EVs reveal partisan divide over green tech 3 months ago:
In order to do that the US government would need to heavily subsidize EVs the way the Chinese government does.
I support this… in my view the Chinese government is putting its money out there in order to get more people into an EV. The US should match their efforts.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
Careful, soon there will be Russians having their PTSD triggered by the sound of a drone.
- Comment on Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. 4 months ago:
Houses in my neighborhood are selling as soon as they hit the market, and yes, my neighbors are real people and are actually the homeowners. The family that just moved in next door are immigrants, the wife is a manager at a logistics center and her husband works nights at the local Amazon warehouse.
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 5 months ago:
I have a 3 year old MacBook that runs my local LLM and Image Generator. I read this article from the perspective that the new PC chips would be for people who want to run their AI locally, but I suppose you’re right, Microsoft is going to push their Copilot as hard as possible.
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- Comment on Vera Rubin's Primary Mirror Gets its First Reflective Coating 6 months ago:
What a great article! Very informative and easy to read.
The telescope sounds cool too! An 8.5 meter mirror?! And it’s designed to be able to recoat it over time!
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 7 months ago:
I borrowed $40k for my education. Over 20 years I repaid $75k. Had the repayment plan Biden tried to do in 2021 not been shot down by the Supreme Court, I would have had $20k knocked off my balance, which means I would have still repaid a lot more than I had borrowed.
Why should the government be making money by charging interest on student loans? Plumbers wouldn’t have paid for the repayment, instead it would have been my interest payments paying for it. And the plumber would still be getting an extra $15k out of me in excessive payments that I’ve had to make.
- Comment on NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system 7 months ago:
Or just send a ship out to retrieve, repair, and release it.
I’d like to see some math on how long it would take a fully orbit refilled Starship to reach it and return.
- Comment on Scientists inch forward in efforts to resurrect an extinct giant 8 months ago:
Ok, that sounds a bit dumb. Obviously I didn’t read the article, does it explain how adding mammoths to the artic will slow permafrost that? It’s mammoth poop that great of an insulator?
- Comment on Scientists inch forward in efforts to resurrect an extinct giant 8 months ago:
I doubt there’s a plan to reintroduce them to the wild. If they ever succeed then they will likely only create them for scientific study and to prove out the theories to show it can be done. At best these will be animals kept in a couple of zoos until their species dies out again, or they create a breeding program robust enough to stock other zoos.
- Comment on Google Fi increasing the price of Simply Unlimited plans with 3+ lines 8 months ago:
But don’t worry, the service isn’t changing… they are just charging more because they can.
- Comment on PEMDAS is technically correct, but morally wrong 9 months ago:
I’m guessing it’s CCM=e
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 9 months ago:
Goddamn White Trash by Ministry is my go-to song for 2024.
