athairmor
@athairmor@lemmy.world
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 2 days ago:
You’ve no obligation to socialize with everyone in real life, why should online be any different?
If someone is consistently annoying, rude or spouting noxious stuff, you’re perfectly reasonable in blocking them.
Interaction in written text online is still a fairly unnatural way for humans to communicate. It’s missing the depth that physical and aural clues provide.
Add to that the evidence that humans can’t really manage more than about 50 relationships makes these global forums too much for a person to really handle.
Block away. Trim your interactions to a manageable level.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 3 days ago:
Ponies are supposed to shit. It’s more like if the pony came strapped with ill-fitting saddlebags that leak toxic chemicals.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic 4 days ago:
“You’ve got a stale product that’s not getting any better but need money to keep rolling in? I’m your man!”
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 5 days ago:
Well, both, really.
Make sure they know you won’t be buying their process anymore because of these policies.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 5 days ago:
Send Apple feedback. They need to hear how unpopular working with Trump will make them.
- Comment on A 21-23-year-old dating or sleeping with an older person doesn't automatically make the 21-23-year-old a "victim". 1 week ago:
Whenever a 21-23-year-old is dating or is having sex with men or women. 10, 15, or 20 years older than them, people on Reddit, TikTok, and X will claim the 21-23-year-olds are automatically “victims” of abuse or “paedophilia”, but that’s just not true for the record.
You know social media does not represent general public opinion or the general opinion of experts in the field. It’s just random fucking people with megaphones.
Ignore it. If you’re in such a relationship be mindful of the pitfalls and listen to people you know in real life if they express concerns.
People need to stop automatically giving credence to the opinions of random Internet people. Yes, this opinion, too. Get back to real life.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 1 week ago:
For people downvoting the above, read some criticisms the app such as:
micahflee.com/unfortunately-the-iceblock-app-is-a…
I don’t know of the take-down legit but the security of the app has been questioned, too.
- Comment on New U.S. gov't rule says chipmakers have to make one chip in the US for each chip imported from another country to avoid 100% tariffs — Trump admin allegedly preps new 1:1 chip export rule under new t 2 weeks ago:
Domestic potato chip production about to get a big boost.
Seriously, it sounds like they are not even requiring the same chip produced domestically. They’ll just make the dumbest cheapest chips. And if they can make any chip for less than the tariff, they’ll just make it, toss it and take a tax write off.
- Comment on TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal 3 weeks ago:
They’re going to push right-wing content.
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 5 weeks ago:
I hope the theater is half empty and the audience just walks out after 15 minutes.
- Comment on Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality 5 weeks ago:
I wonder where they think they can get organs whenever they need them.
- Comment on where did we go wrong 5 weeks ago:
Hey, I won’t shame your kinks. Enjoy your MC Hammer 1980s future.
- Comment on where did we go wrong 5 weeks ago:
It seems like futuristic utopia fashion predictions always feature less clothing. Whether something like this or sci-fi like Star Trek TNG.
Maybe, they’re prescient shades of the coming global warming or people’s imaginations are just unavoidably horny.
- Comment on I pressure washed, swapped out the rotten pieces and repainted a deck railing 1 month ago:
Seeing good work like this makes me hate vinyl even more.
- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 1 month ago:
Yeah, I don’t think it’s nearly as popular as this blog post makes it out to be. I kind of doubt it or any paid search engine will ever get widespread adoption.
- Comment on I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house? 1 month ago:
The lower end Synology NAS (like my DS420j) don’t support btrfs. They only support ext4, I think.
- Comment on Jellyswarrm - reverse proxy all your Jellyfin servers from a single interface, presenting as a standard Jellyfin server, clients should work out of the box. 1 month ago:
Jellyswarm doesn’t create users or accounts. You give your existing Jellyfin credentials for the servers where you already have an account.
- Comment on YSK that cholesterol is only found in significant quantities in animal products. 1 month ago:
I don’t think there are any. Plants have phytosterols which are structurally similar.
Anyway, doesn’t matter much. The cholesterol you eat isn’t what ends up in your arteries. You should still limit how much you eat because high cholesterol foods are often high in saturated fat. There’s a happy medium but too much puts you in greater risk of heart disease.
- Comment on Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds files lawsuit against ousted founders for allegedly downloading over 170,000 confidential files 1 month ago:
They had one of the coolest games with a lot of faithful fans and they blew it all up by selling out to a shitty company that is focused on squeezing properties for more and more money.
The only people I have sympathy for are the fans.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 1 month ago:
“Blurry photos”? Those are just photos with a shallow depth of field. That never went out of style.
- Comment on looking for a fediverse website for hosting a guestbook 1 month ago:
Check out: Little Free Library
Build one of these (you can buy kits if you need to) to house your books.
- Comment on Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane 1 month ago:
I don’t know how it does it but earth rotation speed will be different at different latitudes and elevations. Theoretically, a device sensitive enough might be able to determine precise location from just rotation speed and a very accurate geoid.
- Comment on Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue 1 month ago:
Proof that this AI fad is ass backwards.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 2 months ago:
Anyone remember the dot-com bubble?
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 2 months ago:
I’ll just wait until it’s $20.
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- Comment on Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming. 2 months ago:
Transhumanism—if it happens at all—is not happening anytime soon. Like, not for thousands of years if ever.
Listening to people talk about transhumanism today is like seeing people imagine flying cars in the 1950s. “Oh we’ve got this cool technology surely it means this wild extrapolation is right around the corner.”
Give me a break.
- Comment on Stop trying to make ‘kagis’ a thing. 2 months ago:
No, I’m not sure. Haven’t really paid attention to the username to be honest.
- Comment on Stop trying to make ‘kagis’ a thing. 2 months ago:
I thought you wrote ‘felching’ at first and thought “well, that’s bold but since they get their results from other engines, quite appropriate.”
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- Comment on The word literally makes me so irrationally angry 2 months ago:
“Literally” has been used a synonym for “figuratively” for, literally, over a century.
Let it go or I’ll start ranting about “begs the question.”