renzev
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- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 1 week ago:
Do these things correlate that much tho? Not to toot my own horn, but I am fairly tech-proficient and have terrible typing skills. My technique is somewhere in between hunt-and-peck and touch-typing, despite regular typing lessons in elementary school. I imagine a lot of other people are like this, and vice-versa as well.
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- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 4 weeks ago:
It’s true what you say about volatility. It’s not just the internet, it’s everything digital, even offline storage.
A few months ago I was about to sell/give away a bunch of old childrens books that I had, my reasoning being that I will never want to read them again, and even if did want to for whatever reason, I could always find ebook versions of them.
Ultimately I decided to keep the books – what if, sometime in the future, I wanted to share these books with my (potential) children? Would all of these books have been preserved in digital form? Would I rather be giving my children a physical copy that I owned and read personally, or emailing a PDF? Physical media holds real value.
- Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen some niche bands release (free) official torrents of their music on a certain piracy website. It’s kind of surreal. If you can’t beat em, join em I guess
- Comment on Danger 4 weeks ago:
Transcript:
DANGER
DO NOT OPERATE
THIS EQUIPMENT, SWITCH, VALVE, MACHINERY,
REASON Fucked.
Open your eyes, have a think about it
look
SEE ALSO OTHER SIDE - Comment on If buying it isn't owning it... 4 weeks ago:
It’s a shame that in the age of the internet, we still sometimes have to buy physical in order to actually own things. I like buying CD’s for music that I really really like, but most of the time I just get a digital copy from Bandcamp. It’s cheaper and doesn’t clutter up my house. It’s a shame that there’s nothing like bandcamp for movies (at least as far as I know).
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 4 weeks ago:
An, that makes sense. Thanks!
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 4 weeks ago:
There’s something so on-the-nose about having “with ads” as part of a subscription tier’s official name. For decades companies have been coming up with euphemisms for their low-cost services (e.g. “economy class” on airlines, “community edition” for freemium software). But now here we are with Disney pretty much saying “Go watch ads you poor bitch”. It’s the death of a euphemism. They’re selling a crappy service, and they aren’t afraid to say it.
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 4 weeks ago:
The name of the subscription tier is “Disney+ Standard with Ads”. So you’re meant to parse it like “Subscribe and get 7 days of [subscription] on us”. But yeah it’s total word salad. It’s like they’re deliberately trying to weed out people with common sense.
- Comment on Guess I'll km/s 4 weeks ago:
I can’t tell which unit is more cursed: millihertz or meter hertz. Surely, anything that could be measured in millihertz is more natural to measure as a period, or as revolutions per minute or something, right?
- Comment on What if? 4 weeks ago:
Burn me at the stake if you must, but I think if I was a woman and I saw that a potential mate’s recommended was full of *ndrew t*int videos or similar, I would take it exactly as that: a red flag. Not an immediate condemnation but a sign that something MIGHT be wrong. It could be that they’re watching the videos with a critical mindset, or the algorithm is just doing some wonky shit, but I would probe further just to make sure that they aren’t a raging misogynist
- Comment on Guess I'll km/s 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 5 weeks ago:
There are some pretty smart people in America tho
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve heard that kWh/1000h is used as a power rating for light bulbs, because if they just wrote it as watts, people might confuse it with a brightness rating (e.g. “this LED bulb produces as much light as a 100W incandescent bulb”)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’d rather live in a world where corporations are financially incentivised to pay lip service to LGBT rights and issues than financially disincentivised.
Good point. Maybe it’s good to see advertising not as a force of its own, but as an indicator of a culture’s values? Companies have been co-opting culture for marketing purposes for a really long time, and the fact that now they’re doing it with LGBT+ culture just shows that it’s no longer as stigmatized as it used to be
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I actually saw that video, but thanks for sharing anyway! It’s such a good video essay, perfect balance of information and humor
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah fair enough
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Hmmm I think I remember seeing something similar at an airport once. I think it’s a good example of a company using their platform to spread a positive message.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
…and yet you’re the one publicizing the guy’s name? Who exactly is doing the “amplifying” here?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, normalizing pride is a good thing. It’s also pretty funny when chuds lose their shit over “companies going woke” and the like, so I guess it’s not all bad.
- Comment on Many such cases 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I though so too. Like, the antivarises use actively malicious marketing tactics to scare users into giving up their money, paypal is a piece of shit, and flash was a security nightmare. Jquery is allright. If a website uses it and nothing is actively broken, then there really isn’t a reason to replace it.
- Comment on Many such cases 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for providing a different point of view, I didn’t realize things were so complicated in the united states. In the EU there is a system called iDEAL which iirc is maintained by a collaboration of different banks and lets you pay for stuff online instantly and with zero fee. For sending money person-to-person, there are apps like tikkie that are just a thin wrapper around iDEAL. And in cases where these things don’t work, you can just do a direct bank transfer by typing in the other person’s IBAN in your bank’s app/website. Slightly less convenient, but still nearly instant and zero fee.
- Comment on Many such cases 5 weeks ago:
What first party solved the issue with PayPal?
iDEAL solved it for countries that participate. For countries that don’t, sadly there’s no good first party solution. Revolut and Transferwise are much better alternatives to paypal tho.
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- Comment on Trump's answer today reminded me of his infamous "Nuclear" quote. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Trump's answer today reminded me of his infamous "Nuclear" quote. 1 month ago:
Trump has been replaced by a LLM-driven cyborg?
Language Model for sure, but “Large” is giving him too much credit. He speaks like a smartphone predictive text keyboard trained on a dataset of elementary school worksheets that somehow got contaminated by posts from /pol/
- Comment on Who knew Unicode was so versatile? 1 month ago:
Yep, exactly. After someone pointed it out on twitter, unicode consortium updated the standard to increase the number of eyes to the correct number (10), but so far I haven’t seen a single font that actually implemented the change.
- Comment on Who knew Unicode was so versatile? 1 month ago:
ꙮωꙮ whats this?
- Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 15 comments