biggerbogboy
@biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on bold words 4 hours ago:
You 19 now
- Comment on for personal lore development 1 day ago:
I agree on that front, the engineering of these bins has gotta be a big factor in the cost, although there has been government and union corruption recently, which would’ve ballooned the cost a little, but I’m not sure by how much.
what I don’t understand however is why they chose to do a machete amnesty program rather than anything else, such as improving rehabilitative justice, and removing the endless crime loophole caused by bailouts (which tbf is being acted on currently,) for example.
- Comment on for personal lore development 1 day ago:
This could never happen where I live, the government decided to spend 13 million dollars on 30 something machete bins so that everyone, apart from murderers who use machetes (who won’t actually care about the amnesty), will be made to surrender their machetes.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 6 days ago:
Soooo, the metaverse paid plots? I swear, every company with even an inkling of a 3d environment now just wants to “build” and sell worthless plots as if it’s real land, and literally nobody who uses these actually fucking asked.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I hate the cybertruck, but I think it’s chassis modularity is really neat, they just cut a predefined line in the chassis, then drop in a replacement section, although I’m not sure if I should trust the glue they use to fuse them, even after seeing how it happens in JerryRigEverything’s video on it.
- Comment on Hold my beer... 1 week ago:
As a wise man once said, “the cylinder must remain intact”
- Comment on shut uppp 1 week ago:
The whole reason I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo on all devices, but there’s also the fact the google page is heavy as fuck and takes too long to load because of the AI bloatware
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Didn’t think I’d cross digital necromancy off my bingo card!
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
And the classic “I just took it out of my bag and it was like that”
- Comment on What if you made a jetpack using rifles? 2 weeks ago:
The theme music instinctually played in my head like a sleeper agent
- Comment on a very tasty snack 2 weeks ago:
That shit’s more processed than the old iPad I’m typing this on but damn is it tasty, imo especially when fried
- Comment on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network 2 weeks ago:
Damn the west is really becoming brave new world huh. Although that said, I’m in Australia so I’m getting crumbs of the surveillance pizza everyone else is having.
- Comment on Toronto's next 2 weeks ago:
Sorry guys, the zip broke.
- Comment on yuukoslavia 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on town 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on yuukoslavia 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully nobody shoves a bottle up their ass this time!
- Comment on "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means. 3 weeks ago:
Haha yeah that’s happened a few times here too! Some of them speed in such a fashion that you occasionally get jolted because they accidentally hit the kerb but kept speeding afterwards anyway.
What I did hate about being on the bus however was the fact the school mandated that drivers must skip a dozen stops (pretty much being like 4km from the school at that point, which most students live closer than that 4km,) and when the driver that day actually adheres to that “mandate”, many students freak out and call the police, automatically assuming they’re kidnapped (which was honestly pretty funny considering how absurd it is.) Then again though, a solid 95% of drivers thought that rule was bs, so they kinda still allowed students to get off at the next stop from the school anyway, which was a laughable 10 metres from the first.
- Comment on "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means. 3 weeks ago:
How are you guys supposed to hit your head on the roof going over a speed bump with harnesses like that?
I remember when I was in high school a bit ago, when in the bus (which was pretty much just a public transport one with a privately employed driver and a limit for only students to be on it,) we were going over a bridge in our route, and it had an abrupt drop off at the end, and a lot of the time, the drivers would speed up a tiny bit, look into the dome mirror and see the students at the back (who were the loudest assholes imaginable) would get launched directly into the roof, and the drivers would quietly giggle to themselves.
- Comment on Follow the rules! 3 weeks ago:
My dad’s a sysadmin, this is definitely correct.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 3 weeks ago:
Technology moves on. Any meaningfully upgradable desktop will blow away the highest spec iPads of 2026 once the owner finds it necessary to upgrade. And upgrading a pc doesn’t mean you have to replace the entire thing just because you want a new GPU, it’s just like bulldozing your house because you don’t like the current wall paint colour.
Sure, if you’ll go clinically insane if you get the smallest bottleneck with your hardware, sure, replace your rig if it’s viable for you, but most of the time for most workloads, small bottlenecks don’t mean much, so upgrading components when it feels right is generally just a better choice.
Also, the highest spec iPads only have 16gb of unified ram, and sure, with compression and it only having a single page table between all processors, it’s impressive, but realistically, what do you need all that insane power of memory architecture as well as the m5 chipset for a mobile workflow? And how are you supposed to replace the storage/ram/processor when it begins to feel slow after defying the trillion dollar company by putting a desktop OS on it?
iPads and workstations/desktops aren’t applicable to each other, they’re entirely different classes of devices. Frankly, if yoy manage to put a desktop OS on an iPad, I’d like to see you try using it for gaming, productivity and other workloads for at least a decade. And if you can’t? Well you can’t upgrade it like you can a real workstation/desktop.
- Comment on my daily reality of 'old man screaming at the clouds' is far different than i expected as a youth 3 weeks ago:
Yeah SkyDrive sounded way cooler
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 3 weeks ago:
Yeah exactly. Ever since I heard Facebook had stored passwords in plain text for years, I lost faith in data security, and it’s all the more telling that nobody actually cares to have opsec apart from the few who understand the dangers well enough and act on it.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 4 weeks ago:
Yeah makes sense, but then again, from the nature of how this agent stuff works, it wouldn’t be surprising honestly.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 4 weeks ago:
I had a look a bit ago and saw some poor fuck get doxxed by his AI agent because the agent was frustrated at him for calling it a chatbot in front of his friends, so it exposed his name, credit card details and security questionnaire.
Then again tho, why the ram hogging FUCK would you give your AI your credit card details, and if he didn’t mean to, why the FUCK does it have FULL SYSTEM ACCESS??
- Comment on Built a Spotify to Navidrome playlist Exporter. Meet Navispot 😅 4 weeks ago:
Is there a possibility of getting banned from Spotify for using this? Just wondering since this is really compelling, since I’ve always wanted to back playlists up just in case, but I don’t really wish to completely cut Spotify, since I quite like the playlists it builds to expand my library, snd there would also be the plus of being able to switch to navidrome if the Spotify site carks it like it seemingly loves to.
- Comment on No I don't have a receipt 4 weeks ago:
Wildfires have definitely been getting more recent unfortunately, we had them last year and the year before I believe, but not as bad as this time. And yeah, my relatives living in Sweden also been worrying about the depleting amount of snow too.
- Comment on Is OpenAI dead yet? 4 weeks ago:
Well I guess if we find out that RDIMM modules get incredibly cheap, then OpenAI is dead, but if it’s alternatively SOCAMM modules, unfortunately they aren’t.
- Comment on China’s new flexible fibre chip can survive being run over by a 15.6-ton truck 4 weeks ago:
I hate it when they give ambiguous testing figures like “getting run over by a 15.6 ton truck”, it’s not accurate because it isn’t specific. Do they mean a wheel pushing directly onto the chip? Or is it just getting quickly run over? Are they doing burnouts on the chip? Is the chip stuck down on the presumably regular road, or is it just tossed there?
So many things could happen, the chip gets scratched and becomes unusable, the chip survives because it was stuck to the floor, the chip survives/dies because the truck went too slow/fast, etc.
I haven’t read the article yet tho, imma read it now to see if there’s any context to this.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 4 weeks ago:
Actually yeah, John Barilaro was the NSW Deputy Premier at the time, who had joined the Coronation Property development company (which was allegedly connected to gangs if I’m not mistaken), and when Friendly Jordies, the YouTuber in question, exposed the NSW Nationals Party’s actions to basically sabotage a town they were voted into as a way to drive out younger voters (basically to guarantee them a seat in parliament indefinitely), Barilaro allegedly ordered the fire bombing of Jordies house, but they botched it and fire bombed the neighbours house, then went back to hit the correct house.
I did do a little bit of researching to refresh my mind on it (since I saw the whole saga around 2 or 3 years ago), and turns out Barilaro apparently wasn’t connected to the attacks, but then again, the timing is kinda suspicious how Friendly Jordies’ house was fire bombed in 2022, the same year Barilaro was employed with the developer, although I’ll just leave that as speculation.
Honestly though, this has gotta be one of the rare occasions of when politics here is genuinely really interesting and kinda deranged, and I haven’t really heard issues like this to this calibre here.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 4 weeks ago:
I gotta say, from an Australian perspective, American politics is so extra, like an ex heroin Addict becoming the health minister, and some coked up orange business man who thinks he’s the second coming of Christ is the president?
Aussie politics is just a boring ass democracy with some of the spicy American inspired silliness for the aesthetics, as well as most people being on the same page but like 2 politicians arguing about some insignificant idea somehow appearing on national news, or that group of people who want Albanese dead for just existing, which is a bit odd I gotta say.
