jaemo
@jaemo@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 3 days ago:
Nope. This just seems patently obvious to any but the dull-witted or anyone whose paycheck depends on denial of some fairly basic facts.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 4 days ago:
Doesn’t the use have much higher wealth inequality than China’s? If so, is that not the result of corruption? If not, so you consider the visible symptoms of it?
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 4 days ago:
Maybe the problem is our lifestyles. I’m unaware of any long term studies suggesting that in a situation in which the population increases and the resources and land are fixed, that it gets cheaper for anyone wanting anything.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 5 days ago:
It’s not really an odd question from that particular user, if you consider the context that they have an agenda; FUD and misinformation about EVs.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Agreed. The innumerable problems that coincide with fossil fuel based technology means it’s a terrible idea to continue to subsidize it at taxpayer expense.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 week ago:
www.amazon.ca/dp/B0CCVPZL78 these have been in my shopping cart for a few months.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
Evs make us reliant on lithium
Oh no! No the third most abundant element in the universe! WTF are we gonna do? Use another metal with a large valency shell that makes it ideal as a dense storage medium for electrons? the horror
- Comment on Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform? 3 weeks ago:
Also my axe, additionally.
- Comment on Blanket physics is harder to understand than Calabi-Yau Manifolds 3 weeks ago:
There’s a great book by Greg Egan called Diaspora that explores the idea that every atom is a Calabai-Yau manifold, and the aperture to a wormhole via Kaluza-Klein handwavery. It’s a bit of a heavy read at times but super interesting.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
Laughs loudly in perfectly working steam index on Linux.
- Comment on A mere 57 mega polluters 80 per cent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, new analysis shows 5 weeks ago:
I feel that too, but counter it with some good old Taoism:
“A good person is the bad person’s teacher. A bad person is the good person’s task.”
It’s ok to be the good person who sets an example, you are still making a difference. Stay motivated friend!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
His face deserves an interview with a cheese grater after a smarmy-fuck reply like that. Fuuuuuck him.
- Comment on Google might make users pay for AI features in search results 5 weeks ago:
It will. 5, maybe 8 years ago, google mighta gotten this one over on us, but it’s way too late. I don’t even trust google search results anymore, haven’t used it to look up something in over a year. Maps, sure. Web search? Nahp.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 1 month ago:
Ok, but if your expectations are permanent nerfed you’re gonna be a much easier mark… Plus tacit acceptance of a shitty status quo is pretty self-defeating.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
I guess a lot of us didn’t learn from history, or even go see ‘Oppenheimer’…
- Comment on As a precaution, houses of worship in New Jersey are getting bleeding control kits 1 month ago:
It is most gratifying to me that you feel like your imaginary sky wizard is a he, only a man could be such a colossal screw up. Thanks for bone cancer and parasitic worms, sky guy!
- Comment on As a precaution, houses of worship in New Jersey are getting bleeding control kits 1 month ago:
It is my understanding that they think pregnancy in the case of rape works that too way so, this 100% tracks
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 1 month ago:
It also tells us how hypocritical we all are since absolutely every single one of us would make the same decisions they have if we were in their shoes. This shit was one bajillion percent inevitable; we are in a river and have been since we tilled soil with a plough in the Nile valley millennia ago.
- Comment on No tip 2 months ago:
Tune in next week on the rural juror to find out!
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 2 months ago:
What’s more likely to work is something else will appear and distract the gnat-like attention span of our status-obsessed species, and we can go back to tik tok being the sound your you hear at night when you visit your boomer relatives and try to sleep in the guest bedroom.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
Any rolling distro that you enjoy is the way to go here I suppose. I’d also hitch my wagon to and arch variant personally but tumbleweed wasn’t terrible either. Just not my mojo.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
Anecdotally; I am running Manjaro, with a valve index, and other than a few need-to-disconnect-and-reconnect my HMD, it’s been solid and painless.
- Comment on No tip 2 months ago:
Context is king: that cashier sees none of those tips because you used your debit card and the ‘tip’ goes directly into the corporations bank account.
Loblaws already has a fat enough margin with the gouging, they don’t need any extra boosts from my just-about-broke ass.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
It would also be popular if the entire crypto landscape wasn’t replete with late stage capitalist-douche tech bros trying to scam literally everyone.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
You actually make a better case for replacing politicians with benevolent AI than for replacing ballots with transactions on a blockchain.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Only non-fungible commits.
- Comment on Rude. 2 months ago:
Hmm. Box right. But earth all me got.
- Comment on Linux market share passes 4% for first time 2 months ago:
No, I have been using some form of Linux at home and at work since then too. I distro hopped for many years until one of my coworkers showed me Arch. Oldest story in the book right? I eventually ended up on Manjaro after a drive failure and the need to get something arch-based up fast.
To the substance of your point: no question that the internet was rougher around the edges too though in the early aughts right? Does you want an ActiveX or an ObjectEmbed? Let me load my 2000+ line navigator.appName giant if-then config for my site. Or how about when it was all tables and shim.gif and img tags with width and height. Good times.
There were plenty of these problems between browsers on just one OS. Or even versions of IE. I still see the rows of testing machines in my dreams sometimes, each with a slightly different version of XP and IE. 5.1, 5.5, 6. Ugh. Or how about the early days of flexbox when it was 7s turn.
Chrome wasn’t even a thing until 2008 iirc, but that was also post safari-shaking-things-up too. And safari was from WebKit, and WebKit was from who? KHTML baby. (The K is for KDE.)
TLDR you’re right, but I don’t feel like it is, or ever was just Linux based OS’s being targeted so much as bifurcation of standards, or just lack of all the relevant parties (like the W3C and browser makers) sitting down and establishing those standards. It’s also a chicken and egg thing with tech too.
None of that is to say it never happened though, I’m just skeptical it was ever at any meaningful scale.
- Comment on there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop 2 months ago:
Yeah. I absolutely cannot square that circle either. This is a very, very thick supra-orbital brow take.
- Comment on Linux market share passes 4% for first time 2 months ago:
Gonna second you in this one. My Manjaro box is what I run to as a gold standard if one of my families windows machines using Chrome fails to load something. It’s consistent, reliable and fast. What I think is missing from this conversation is: wired or wifi. One of the reasons the Linux machine is the yardstick is that it’s not using wifi; never had a first page load fail.
Slack on Linux however… Eesh. Never had an app so reluctant to launch.