renzev
@renzev@lemmy.world
- Comment on Planet of the apes: Beginning 21 hours ago:
based thailand has toy guns that actually look like guns. None of that rainbow vomit laser blaster nonsense.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 21 hours ago:
Food is fuel and construction material.
I live in the netherlands rn and basically at some point in history there was a guy called Calvin who convinced almost everybody to see food this way. To this day traditional dutch food is the blandest, saddest assortment of dishes imaginable. Thank god for immigrants bringing in some flavour.
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 4 weeks ago:
The reason they don’t want you to unlock your bootloader is because of security…
…security of their revenue stream, that is.
- Comment on Genius 4 weeks ago:
I guess if he’s getting paid to do the interviews then it’s technically passive… wait no, then the whole interviewer thing would just count as advertising for his vending machine business
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 2 months ago:
Huh, this person doesn’t like starbucks
They must be autistic
Peak .world behavior right there
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 2 months ago:
Convenience? The fuck are you talking about?? Have you never heard of soluble coffee? I carry a jar of soluble coffee in my backpack when I go to uni. They have those instant water boiling taps on every floor in my faculty building, I can make myself a mug just like that. Is it good? No. But certainly better than starbucks.
But whatever, I’m not going to argue with someone who’s trying to convince me that the thing I do almost every day with no issues is actually impossible.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 2 months ago:
It has always striked me as a rich people thing
Fastfoods marketing themselves as luxury brand is a relatively recent trend. A decade or so ago starbacks, mcd’s, etc. really were “cheap, fast, tasty”. Fast food used to be a convenience for when you were on road trips and couldn’t make your own food.
All these different fastfood brands built up such a large reputation around themselves that they practically became a part of our collective conscious. At some point they realised that instead of selling food, they could sell their brand. And that’s when it stopped being cheap, stopped being tasty, and generally became a “rich people” thing.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 2 months ago:
So I used to think that people hated on starbucks because “hurr durr real men only drink black coffee” and starbucks had extremely sugary and milky drinks that had barely any actual coffee in it. “No problem” I thought, “I like sugary drinks!”. So I went to a starbucks at the shopping mall close to where I live and ordered something and it was literally just a glass of ice cubes with like three sips’ worth of milk and syrup squirted into it. It genuinely felt like the barista forgot one of the ingredients or something. I thought it was a fluke but when I was at that mall at a different time I got a different iced coffee and it was the same stuff: glass full of ice cubes with a squirtling of syrup and milk. What even is the point!?
- Comment on The only way to be 2 months ago:
No that’s not capitalism, that’s corporatism which is totally a different thing trust me bro! ^/j^
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 2 months ago:
I can’t believe nobody has posted this edit yet
- Comment on Moar garlic 3 months ago:
I refuse to measure garlic by any unit smaller than a whole head. Recipe says three cloves? Pretty sure you mean one head of garlic there buddy.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 months ago:
yeah that’s exactly what I’m trying to get at with my lil meme. I used to get into a bunch of flame wars on the side of android because I would hear the apple people complain about fake made-up issues that I never experienced being a long-time android user. But seeing posts like OP’s makes me realize that those issues aren’t actually made up, they’re completely real and I just wasn’t seeing them because I am running a custom ROM. Like, in another thread some guy was concern-trolling about Google Services crashes being a “well-known issue” and everyone was upvoting him. Of course I would have no clue what he’s talking about, I don’t even have Google Services installed! So yeah, what I’m trying to say is that if you’ve never used an AOSP-based ROM and your entire experience of “android” are the slow buggy bloated ROMs that come installed by default on most phones, I’d understand why you’d choose to go with Apple instead.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 months ago:
I’m not even playing dumb lol, I really am just dumb. If you scroll down a bit you can see that I didn’t even think that apple intelligence was a real product before someone corrected me
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 months ago:
Wow, this is a very insightful remark! Although I’m a little confused by your second point, would you mind expanding on that?
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 months ago:
My pet peeve is m$ changing “My computer” to “This computer”. It’s no longer yours lol.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 months ago:
Ah I see, makes sense. Thanks!
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 months ago:
Is Apple Intelligence even real? I don’t have any apple product myself but my parents have iphones and sometimes I use their ipad and I’ve never seen it or heard anyone talk about it IRL. Pretty sure it was just a prank/marketing trick
- Comment on I'm so vegan I could eat a burger and still be a vegan 3 months ago:
This is basically the plot of The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 months ago:
Is this really what the non-FOSS android experience has become nowadays!? AI chatbots in your messages app? This seems absolutely miserable. I think I finally understand why there are so many iOS users out there.
- Comment on Solid voting advice 3 months ago:
That’s brilliant haha
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 months ago:
You know this is the good shit because when it first came out a few years back google was running a huge disinformation campaign against it. You’d search for “adnauseum” in google and the first result would be an article from some weird advertising company calling is “insecure” and “malware” without any actual argumentation behind those claims, while no other search engine returned that article (I lost the screenshots, so yall are just gonna have to take my word for it). They also delisted it from the chrome store for not discernible reason. They were afraid.
But nowadays I’m willing to bet that they figured out how to detect adnauseum’s fake clicks and filtering it out. Stuff like that needs a talented development team to keep it up to date.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
How well do the signal and whatsapp bridges work? Have you used them yourself? I tried setting up a discord bridge years ago and it was terrible. Is it better now?
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
hmm havent heard of this one yet. Looks promising, gonna try it later. Thanks!
For people seeking an interface similar to signal, I suggest Session. It’s a fork of signal that onion-routes the messages (they have their own onion routing network, not TOR). There are no user IDs stored anywhere, you message people through their public keys. From the user experience side of the coin, it’s a little on the slow side tho.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Whatsapp to messengers is what internet explorer was to browsers lol. Slow, bloated, unfree, universally hated, but still somehow universally used
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
There are many things you can complain about when it comes to signal, but overall it’s a huge improvement from unencrypted messengers like discord and definitely a
stepleap in the right direction - Comment on No means no 5 months ago:
Strange. I use windows 11 occasionally, and it’s never even as much as mentioned onedrive to me. Could it be that it’s a cracked install? Or that I never connected the local account to a microsoft account? Or that I’m in the EU?
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 5 months ago:
When they went to school, my mother learned how to use a sewing machine, my father learned basic carpentry, and they both learned how to shoot and maintain an AK-47. Although the UUSR may not have been the perfect paradise that many people make it out to be, it does feel like modern school systems could learn a thing or two from the communists.
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 5 months ago:
I love how “solarpunk” is such a broad aesthetic that it encompasses both zero-waste high-tech hydrogen powered biocities as well as scrappy revolutionary village communities where people cook food on solar ovens made from shattered car mirrors and fashion antennas out of coat hangers. It can be both hi-tech or lo-tech, as long as the tech exists in harmony with humankind and with nature
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 5 months ago:
Damn, sounds impressive! The experience that inspired this meme for me was swapping the buttons in my mouse for newer ones from a dead donor mouse, which admittedly took much less than 2 hours haha
- Comment on Horse goals 5 months ago:
I don’t mean “redditor” as in a literal reddit user, but as a general insult. The type of person that has nothing better to do than to convince elementary schoolers that apple cores are poisonous… which they are, but not enough to be dangerous. And being pedantic about that sort of technicality is what makes someone a “redditor” to me.
