laranis
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- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 4 days ago:
Take. My. Money.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 1 week ago:
When politics felt like shades of policy disagreements I could see it. Now it is either you support democracy and human rights or you’re supporting pedophiles and genocide. Not much common ground anymore.
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
You can find all sorts of gore on the Interwebs. This one… This one terrifies me.
- Comment on AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode 1 week ago:
You’re my hero-of-the-day™ for putting quotes around AI. Thank you for all you do.
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I should have specified “people” in this context are coworkers. So, on the same page.
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 2 weeks ago:
Filters are generally stronger when paychecks are involved. That said, there are definitely people who don’t trust others they’ve only met virtually. On the flip side I’ve found people who I’ve met in person are then more apt to share their more extreme views with me online even in a work setting. It is a fascinating psychological and sociological phenomenon.
- Comment on Wendy's closes US restaurants and focuses on value to turn around falling sales 2 weeks ago:
Wendy’s, McDonald’s, and BK all started enshitifying until they realized they were hurting themselves. Even if they all revert to good, inexpensive food they are still left with the biggest problem that I’ve noticed: they have shit employees.
They cheapening also affected wages. Which means everything from line cooks to drive thru people to their store managers ended up being ridiculously inept. Maybe this is old man yells at clouds, but for me to step into one of these restaurants again there has to be attention paid to improving service. Drop the kiosk in favor of a friendly face who wants to help me get a meal I will enjoy. How about making the food semi presentable instead of apathy wrapping in wax paper. And of course I had better be able to walk away with lunch for $8 after tax.
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 3 weeks ago:
Art of the Deal™ mother fuckers!
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 3 weeks ago:
Always.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 3 weeks ago:
ITT: my people.
I love this community.
- Comment on Not sketchy at all 4 weeks ago:
Ahh, yeah, maybe. Looked like exposed copper to me but it might be covered.
All good then!
- Comment on Not sketchy at all 4 weeks ago:
Top right… Wire that comes from the top of the left breaker probably used to go to the right breaker is hanging in mid air. That’s the one most likely to change someone’s life.
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 4 weeks ago:
These dumb shits don’t get it. It was never supposed to be good. It was a bribe. Even wasting a second watching it to do a review is a waste of human effort.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that’s their whole game. More projection, I guess. sigh
- Comment on Why do I push people away if I'm so lonely? 5 weeks ago:
Beautiful. Fuck dog and parent… never had a graph make me well up with tears.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 month ago:
Don’t you dare suggest FreeCAD.
I have a Hope/Hate relationship with FreeCAD. Sometimes I can get it to do something useful and I get hopeful. Then I try to do something simple and ruin the entire design and have to start from scratch and I curse the developers lineage for all of time. I want it to be great, and it is closer than it has ever been. But it isn’t a replacement for professional design suites.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 month ago:
You’ve convinced me that we need more users given the high number of current posters who like to criticize others with insults reminiscent of a bratty 5th grader. We need to dilute that voice.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 1 month ago:
That’s a very capitalist take. Remember how good things used to be? That’s how good the Fediverse is now. We don’t want it to grow or die. If it grows, great. If it doesn’t, great. Quality over quantity, imo.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 month ago:
OpenAI marketing > MIT analysis, apparently
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 1 month ago:
Had someone unironically suggest that if Trump takes a third term that it would open the way for Obama to run again.
Anyone citing the old order of rules, laws, and fairness is delusional or under informed.
- Comment on no training award 1 month ago:
The temu tacti-gear is a nice touch. Can’t even SS properly.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 1 month ago:
Shout out to Bosch… I have a 10-year old dishwasher from them and the drain pump stopped working. It was so easy to replace and readily available. I was actually happy to have it break, all told.
A lot of enshitification has happened in the last decade so no idea if their products are still like that, but when the time comes to get a new one I’ll certainly be giving them my first look.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 1 month ago:
If they had a secret/method/process they’d use it to get rich instead of fleecing people.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
the impression I get from the media
I think this is the issue the OP is trying to point out. There are many more silent, responsible gun owners than nuts.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
They say every gun enthusiast has their scenario they’re planning for: home invasion, civil war, post apocalypse/disaster, mass shooting event, mugging, etc. When I think about what my scenario might be there isn’t a single one where I don’t end up dead, with or without a weapon. There is no number of weapons or amount of ammunition that would change that for me.
I struggle with that reality when I think about my own relationship with guns, but I can’t help thinking that “prepared” is better than “helpless”, even if the outcome is the same.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
Time. A regime as dysfunctional as this can’t go on indefinitely… Like, it is physically impossible for it to think far enough ahead for it to be resilient enough to last. Unfortunately, a lot of good people will suffer before then.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 2 months ago:
Her paper is dog shit, but thank you for calling out this dog shit rubric for a flawed assignment. I’m old now, but I wouldn’t have been able to guess the bar would stoop so low. Scares the fuck out of me that this is what passes for an education.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 months ago:
And disabled by default. You’re not consumer friendly until it is opt-in.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 2 months ago:
I’m hearing a lot about zero trust infrastructure lately and I wonder if this is the reason - the desire to eliminate VPNs. I honestly don’t know enough about IT to know if that even makes sense but it wouldn’t surprise me if these big corpos see the writing on the wall and are figuring out how to work sans VPN.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Fear the 1%.