TexasDrunk

@TexasDrunk@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy spicy⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I updated above, and the other commenter is right that legal language is (I think purposely in a lot of cases) confusing. Judge ruled it was filed in the wrong country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy spicy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which, unless I’m behind, resulted in a procedural dismissal and the judge said to go have a trial where it happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I block ads but only because they became super egregious and are a threat vector in some cases. My default state is “oblivious idiot”. It’s not that I’m not susceptible to marketing, it’s that by the time I notice it you’ve already broken the web page I’m on and now I hate you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that I necessarily disagree, I just refuse to give it my energy and don’t understand the folks who make it their whole thing. I can watch older Futurama. Old King of the Hill. Read WoT (the show was fine, I don’t have strong opinions about it except that the timing kind of fucked them with the covid restrictions, it’s unfortunate but I get it). I don’t have to watch the Dresden Files TV show.

  You’re out here with well reasoned examples. You’ve said your piece. I bet if I go into your history (I won’t) that you won’t have 50 posts today bitching about it. Those are the folks I’m talking about. Not people who are disappointed and looking to talk. That’s natural and human!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek has more to offer or it has to end and stop producing more content?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always feel the same way about shitty TV and movie adaptations of books I love. If I don’t like it I can just not watch and go read the book again. The movie/show won’t get the numbers to continue. I never really got the people who are like “new/adapted show/movie ruined X!” then run whatever they can to complain about it like it’s their whole personality. Naw man, they fucked up an iteration. And except in the case of Star Wars and ET they didn’t change the old media you loved so much. No one hired the Pinkertons to break into your house and rewrite your books.

  I remember the Wheel of Time adaptation. You had the camp that enjoyed it. The camp that thought they strayed too far from the books. And very obvious racists.

  I saw more repeated posts and comments about it on my feed from the third group than anyone else, maybe combined. Like the same guy spent half his day just posting about how much he hated it. Cool man. Go read the books again. There’s gotta be healthier hobbies than shitting on things you don’t like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Subscription fees plus the double dip into selling bulk licensing of your thin client to companies who make computers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come on, most people like a little ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey! They also destroy communities by forcing them to pay for infrastructure upgrades while the companies get tax holidays in return for a bunch of jobs that only last 2 years during the construction phase and only add about 25-50 permanent jobs to the local economy long term.

  Let’s also not forget bringing back mothballed coal plants instead of building new ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You bring up a good point. No, I wouldn’t. I phrased it poorly. Imagine I’m having empathy for those in need or redirecting dumb ass kids doing dumb ass kid things.

  But honestly criminal gangs aren’t generally doing penny ante local shop bullshit. They’ll shake them down, but it’s just not worth it to steal from local shops when big retailers offer more goods in one place. Unless it’s a boutique shop, and I’ll be honest, I don’t go to those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether or not I saw something has zero to do with what they’re stealing and everything to do with where they’re stealing from.

  You do not steal from Mom and Pop shops. I will not say anything to the staff, but I might pay for it or I might direct you to a better place to go steal.

  If I see something in Walmart, no I fucking didn’t. I don’t care what it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without hierarchies/authority figures, the bootlickers would be totally lost. 🤠⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my question. I’m working on a brisket as we speak and I don’t plan on watching sports, wearing a red hat, or treating any women like shit.

  I also have a truck that I haul shit in, but notice I don’t feel the need to ask what’s wrong with that. I know very fucking well what’s wrong with trucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck the IRS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the idea of paying taxes, I just hate that I’m paying a larger percentage of my “wealth” than someone whose net worth is several orders of magnitude more.

  The other side of that is when I see someone using a service that my tax dollars are paying for I feel pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Partially correct. They’ll step in because they signed contracts and have moved AI under the umbrella of National Security. Brockman donated $25m back in September. Trump signed Project Genesis in November. So all these hardware companies feel pretty good because it’ll be backed by taxpayers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a few⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They left out the good shit. The Apocalypse of Peter preaching universal salvation and the Enoch books with all the cool stuff in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean we’re (we as in local taxpayers, not me personally in this case) already paying for the infrastructure they use in increased bills. We’re paying for their tax holidays while they’re talking about all the new jobs they’ll bring (lots of short term construction, 25-50 long term employees once the tax holiday runs out, so very little money in the local economy). We (all of us) are paying the price for the mothballed coal plants that are coming back online to support them. We are paying for federal government contracts on them.

  It’s corporate welfare all the way down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow the rules!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You must be a sys admin. I used to be and that was my first instinct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are allowed flavor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume that the texture of the onion is part of the appeal. So if you grill it you’ve got to either toast the bread or add a few chips to get that crunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yeah.

  However, in this particular case I think the CEO was running this as a pump and dump for nearly a decade, claiming to be fully funded and having no board (because he claimed it was self funded), and giving himself massive raises year over year.

  So a private equity firm bought something hollow. I have some guesses about it. Probably a friend of his, probably got it cheap, and is about to gut whatever is left now that the guy who did own it got out with what he could. Why would PE buy it otherwise? There’s no goodwill or name to cash in on like what’s being done with Native Instruments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it does depend on what you call a circle. There are maybe a dozen of us in one. In the other there are probably three or four dozen. I don’t know everyone. I got invited because I like genre bending. We’ve got a private forum where we share things.

  Even outside of that, there is a place that used to be less private but has now gone private (guess why) where we would do Sunday songwriters. We’d get a topic, record a little something before the next Sunday, then share. After sharing we’d critique, do mashups, genre hop, create genre crossovers, and generally just have fun with each other’s music.

  I do not know how prevalent this is. I know of two private places, one of which is very small, and a third place that used to be public (with no expectation of anyone actually seeing it) but went private because of Suno.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s already mystery music out there. Small circles of folks putting things out that they don’t expect or want people outside the circle to hear. I’m a nobody and I’m part of two different groups who share music with each other, build on each other’s works, try genre mashups and new shit that may never get done again, many times because it’s a mess but sometimes just because it was a fun one time thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One in 10 Japanese creatives see income fall due to generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think short term, yeah, I think so. Medium term and I think we’ll see a bunch of model collapse or people will get tired of the same story line repeatedly so it won’t be profitable (or won’t be regaining the money they thought they’d save on actual creative folks). Long term, I have no fucking clue if they’ll get around the fact that training AI on AI makes it even weirder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reaper, Studio One (although we’ll see what Fender does to it, we all remember the Gibson Cakewalk fiasco), and Bitwig are all native. Kind of depends on what your workflow is and what plugins you’re using. Yabridge is workable for a ton of stuff and not difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paracetamol is safe in pregnancy, says new evidence against Trump autism claims⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I thought they just made the claim to tank Kenvue so Kimberly Clark could buy them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I said no contact, dammit!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people have a terrible relationship with at least one person. An ex, a parent, a grandparent, an old friend who stole all your alcohol and refused to give it back or pay for it even though he knew you needed it for a get together you were having so you had to go buy all new alcohol on short notice which means you had to leave your brisket smoking unattended so you could drive to the next county and ended up with a brisket that was overdone, whatever. I don’t think it’s “wife bad” so much as it is “everyone knows a shitbag”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby girl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe you’re really mine

  You’re a true gift from heaven

  And I loooooove you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cosmic Christmas Tree⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that was The Grinch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everyone warning!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Entirely unrelated, but the only thing I could think of

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to your point, Xiaohongshu has plenty of people on it who aren’t Chinese as well. Loads. It’s not like they’re in cultural blackout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also kills my retail therapy that keeps my depression in check.

  I’m only half joking there. I don’t want disposable things to fill the hole. I have a stainless steel pan, a carbon steel pan, cast iron, and enamel cast iron. I’ll never need another pan in my life. Whoever gets it after they die likely won’t either. One of my cast iron pans is over 100 years old and works great. Looks almost like new.

  But I do want something to fill the hole some days. I just keep buying old world craftsmanship so I never have to replace shit so I never get my retail therapy.