folekaule
@folekaule@lemmy.world
- Comment on I thought it was an easy question ... 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, in Unicode land…
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
This needs to go viral and be posted in reviews for every monitor with this “feature”. Heck, make a convenient warning icon indicating “adware” for such reviews so I can scroll past them faster.
No way I’m risking buying a TV or monitor from LG after seeing this. It would go right back in the box to be returned.
- Comment on How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death? 2 months ago:
Your move, Blizzard and Bethesda. This is the boss fight we need.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Everywhere I’ve worked it didn’t matter if I used my equipment or theirs. All IP I created while employed there was the property of my employer. If you’re in the USA, check your contracts.
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 2 months ago:
I don’t mind them when used appropriately, but remember that us old people may struggle to make out which emoji were looking at when the text is small.
To my eyes it also looks out of place in professional writing, so I would find it hard to take you seriously if you use emojis in such a context.
TL;DR: in a casual context, go nuts, but avoid for important communication where clarity and professionalism matters.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
That’s probably what it is. I didn’t go to school in the US but my kids went to school in Ohio and my impression was that metric was not the primary system of units used in education, though it was taught.
The argument I hear most often from people defending the US customary units is that the units are more intuitive. For example, an inch is about the size of a thumb, or 0 degrees is fucking cold and 100 is fucking hot.
On the whole, people seem receptive to metric, but don’t want the hassle or cost to convert. They seem content to use metric where it’s important (science, military) and keep the old ways elsewhere.
I currently with in healthcare research and almost everything not patient facing is done in metric, but there are still conversions going on everywhere, leading to data problems that are hard to correct later. People used to thinking in ounces putting those where grams were supposed to go, and so on.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
Did you go to school in the 70s or 80s? I don’t think it’s like that anymore.
- Comment on PSA: Libraries 3 months ago:
Reminder to vote for any library funding levy in your area. They depend on it to stay open.
- Comment on Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather? 3 months ago:
Unless I misunderstood what you said, that’s not it either. 50% chance of rain means exactly that: according to their forecast models, there is a 50% change it will rain. Snopes did a writeup of this.
- Comment on LOCK EM UP 3 months ago:
And better yet, he’s not running for re-election.
- Comment on Google’s shortened links will stop working next year 3 months ago:
So many links are going to go dead because of this. I’m sure plenty of software out there used this to automatically shorten links for posting on social media etc.
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 4 months ago:
Most of these reports are about preview builds of Windows.
That said, surely you have seen recommendations from Microsoft to try their Office package and such oil up. It’s like that, but more intrusive.
I can’t believe Microsoft is making me switch from Windows to Mac and Linux, but here we are.
- Comment on Eat it 4 months ago:
Even more boring, you do need a license.
- Comment on It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem 4 months ago:
Depends on if you’re a tits or an ass guy, I guess?
- Comment on Disable windows updates 4 months ago:
Yes, unless it is encrypted, in which case you need a way to decode that. You can even boot an OS from a USB thumb drive to recover files from a hard drive.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 4 months ago:
Is moving the drive to another computer as a secondary drive an option? Or put it in a separate USB enclosure? That way you don’t need to boot it at all, unless it’s encrypted or something.