Psythik
@Psythik@lemmy.world
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point. 5 weeks ago:
Of course. You wouldn’t want to drive for them. The stupid AI cameras are always watching. In the warehouse nobody pays attention to you.
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point. 5 weeks ago:
You misunderstood. What I meant is that for every hour you work, you get an hour of paid time off. So if you work 40 hours, you could go the entire next week without showing up to work at all if you wanted to.
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point. 5 weeks ago:
As someone who worked there for a year, the nice thing about Amazon is that managers don’t harass you—even if you come in late every single day—and the 40 hours of personal time granted every week is great too. It’s the kind of job where you can just put on your headphones and zone out, and never have to come in on days when you don’t feel like it. Just call off in the app.
Still wouldn’t recommend that anyone works there. Everything else about the job sucks.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
Anything made before ~2015. You have a lot of great cars to choose from.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
Furthermore: Slashdot still exists?
- Comment on Google Assistant car mics might be shutting down soon 2 months ago:
I thought this article was going to be about the mics that come included with aftermarket radios. I had no idea that dedicated cigarette lighter mics were a thing. No wonder why they’re shutting down the product. Between the mic(s) on your phone and the mic that came with your stereo, it’s a twice redundant product.
- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 2 months ago:
What I’ve learned from this whole fiasco after owning a problem-free 4090 for over 2 years:
- Don’t use 3rd party connectors, and don’t use the squid adapter in the box. Use the 12VHPR cable that came with your PSU or GPU. If your PSU doesn’t have a 12VHPR connection, get one that does.
- Don’t bend the cable near the connection. Make sure your case is actually big enough to avoid bending.
- Make sure it’s actually plugged in all the way. If you didn’t hear a click, it’s not plugged in all the way.
- Don’t keep disconnecting the cable to check for burns. The connection is weak and designed to fail after only a handful of disconnect/reconnects. If you followed the 3 steps above perfectly, you have nothing to worry about.
That said, I’m skipping this GPU generation (and most likely the next one as well). Hopefully in 2-4 years AMD or Intel will be on more level grounds with nVidia so that I can finally stop giving them money just to have good ray tracing performance.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 2 months ago:
I just installed it and was immediately annoyed by the auto-scrolling feature being turned on by default. Is that really how TikTok works? How does anyone put up with this shit?
- Comment on 30 active communities which are not politics, news, memes or tech 2 months ago:
Can we please have the opposite list, next? The only reason I’m here is for politics, news, memes, and tech.
- Comment on Gottem. :) 2 months ago:
The core is still hot. If we bury ourselves deep underground, there is a chance the humanity could survive for thousands of years without a sun. If not humanity, then some sort of life will survive long enough for future archeologists to find it millions of years later.
But don’t quite me on this; I’m simply reciting from memory something I read in National Geographic or a similar publication 10-20 years ago. IDK how true this actually is.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 2 months ago:
That’s nothing; my Ryzen 7000 machine uses 150w at idle. Modern high-end desktops draw a lot of power.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 2 months ago:
My X670E system also uses a shitload of power. Literally 150w at idle, no matter what I do. Tried disabling every unnecessary feature in the BIOS and enabling all the energy efficient settings I can find, to no avail. Drives me nuts.
- Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits 2 months ago:
Just checked and all these supposedly “banned” subs are up and running.
- Comment on Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites 2 months ago:
Bro. Do you not know what the words “not interested” mean? I wasn’t going to read your first wall of text, and I’m surely not going to read that second one. I can’t handle the ignorance from bigots.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 months ago:
It’s literally just Shower Thoughts: The Website.
I really don’t understand the appeal.
- Comment on Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites 2 months ago:
Any post that starts with “listen up libs” immediately makes me ignore the rest of its contents. Not interested in your MAGA and/or tankie bullshit.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
No not the same. Forums didn’t revolve around media, they revolved around discussions.
And I’m 37, thankyouverymuch
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
You’re literally using social media right now.
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 2 months ago:
And nothing of value was lost.
- Comment on Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity 2 months ago:
Thanks for giving me the idea. BRB, making a keyword filter for the words “slams” and “slammed”.
- Comment on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet 2 months ago:
Same, but to be fair, my working memory doesn’t work at all, whether I’m high or sober.
- Comment on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet 2 months ago:
So glad I waited until my 20s to try weed. Everyone else I know started in their teens.
- Comment on Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to simply not plant any grass? Lay down a heavy layer of gravel and call it a day.
- Comment on Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold 3 months ago:
I’m in an optimistic pessimistic mood right now so I upvoted both of you.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever 3 months ago:
The point I’m making is that we will still have to deal with motion blur at 240 and 480Hz, so I might as well save some money and hang onto my 4K120 OLED until we reach 1000Hz.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 cranks the bandwidth to 96Gbps and aims to eliminate audio sync issues forever 3 months ago:
Let me know when we have cables that can hit 1000Hz at 8K, so I can finally own a blur-free OLED. Until then, I’m perfectly content with 4K120.
- Comment on Amazon worker who was ran over and shot during NO attack denied medical leave. 3 months ago:
Which is so bizarre because when I worked for them, they would let me come in late as often as I wanted to, and take as much leave as I needed.
I went on so many mental health breaks when I worked for them. It was nice to have.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 3 months ago:
So basically only the worst states in the country have this law. Color me surprised.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 3 months ago:
No but I use a 3rd party DNS, which might have something to do with it, now that you mention it.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 3 months ago:
Speaking of which, can anyone please tell me why XHamster now requires a Virgina ID to visit the website, even though I live nowhere near that shithole?
- Why does it have to be a Virginia ID specifically?
- How the hell am I going to get a Virginia ID from out of state?
- Why would anyone give a porn site their ID to begin with? That’s a major invasion of privacy.