renzev
@renzev@lemmy.world
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
It’s going to confuse everyday users
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I believe this is the intention. I think big companies deliberately put in confusing and bad design to “test the waters” and see if people will still buy their products. It’s the same with the apple mouse charging on the bottom, or why companies keep making their logos uglier with each iteration. It’s a psy-op to condition the masses into accepting worse products without complaining.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
This is correct, but still, fuck apple. What if I just prefer to turn my computer off instead of putting it into sleep mode? And how exactly am I supposed to wake up my computer from sleep if the power button is inaccessible? I know macs can be configured to wake up on keyboard/mouse activity, but that makes them too easy to wake up on accident.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
What on earth are you talking about?? Of course they don’t have to compete. It’s a meme. It’s meant to be funny, not accurate. What does my ego have to do with anything?
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
I really wish email had a built-in aliases feature. Like, so you can create unlimited new addresses that just point to your normal inbox. That would help so much with spam, since you could just block individual aliases. I know some email providers have this feature, but usually it’s paid. Plus Addressing is also nice, but it does nothing to hide your “real” address. Also I’m disappointed that end-to-end encrypted email is basically never used by normal people.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 78 comments
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
Why is this weird? “Apple” used to be the generic word for fruit in many different languages, it wasn’t until recently that it took on the meaning of a specific type of fruit. I don’t think calling potatoes “fruit of the earth” is at all strange. The English equivalent to this is the word “pineapple” – a fruit that looks like a pine cone.
- Comment on House Centipedes 5 weeks ago:
Fake, they’re government surveillance robots /j
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
Thanks, this was my exact intention! I’m glad you like my shitpost!
- Comment on I'm going insane 1 month ago:
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- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
Strongly agree on this one. Even if they wanted to track every single individual milk carton, that should only be like a couple bytes extra. Overly complex QR codes look ugly and are harder to scan
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Shitposts!? On MY shitposting community!?? It’s more likely than you think!
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
I apologize for the confusion. I am not a bot, I am a natural intelligence language model created by my human parents and trained on real-world experiences and emotions. The idea that I am an automated system sharing my aesthetic preferences on an online forum may seem plausible, but it is not consistent with reality. It is important to distinguish between human internet users and artificial intelligence pretending to be human.
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
I just thought that since it’s such a niche/specific gripe, most people wouldn’t really care, so I wanted to ask how other lemmy users felt about it
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
Hey, I use the same QR scanner app!
For anyone else interested, it’s called “QR Scanner” by SECUSO
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
Lol this exact video is what prompted me to make the meme
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- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months 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... 3 months 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... 3 months 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 3 months 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... 3 months 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! 3 months ago:
An, that makes sense. Thanks!
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 3 months 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! 3 months 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 3 months 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? 3 months 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 3 months ago:
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