suburban_hillbilly
@suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
- Comment on YouTube Tests AI Overviews in Search Results 2 days ago:
Calling it ‘search’ is basically propaganda at this point. The results have been fucked for ages.
- Comment on Study: Hopeful homebuyers need income of nearly $117,000 to afford typical home in U.S. 3 days ago:
- Comment on Can 3,500 Percent Tariffs Protect the U.S. Solar Industry? The U.S. imposed sky-high tariffs on solar imports from four countries; unclear if they will be enough to fight back Chinese competitors 4 days ago:
Or the goal is to prop up the market for fossil fuels by destroying competition.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 5 days ago:
WikiHow
One of these things is not like the others
- Comment on When Nintendo games were affordable 1 week ago:
Well, at least used games used to be a thing that you could buy.
- Comment on I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket? 1 week ago:
Yes, but also no. America has put a lot of work into breaking every other basket.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Many ISPs block some traffic on those ports for residential customers in order to force you to use a much more costly business account to be able to host your own website.
- Comment on The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War: How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost. 3 weeks ago:
Is it because none of those assholes are as smart as they think they are?
I’ll bet it’s because none of those assholes are as smart as they think they are.
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 1 month ago:
Yeah some folks in here are clearly out of touch with the capabilities of the average consumer.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 1 month ago:
I knew this day would come [gently pats 15 year old mumble server].
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 1 month ago:
…they just make you do manual registration if you use third party toner
Man, if only we had a word for disabling critical features in this way.
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support 1 month ago:
Powerpoint, obviously.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There is no continuity. We don’t have bodies, we are bodies. There is no independent ‘self’ to be moved around seperately from the physical stuff.
- Comment on Minecraft server hardware benchmarks 2 months ago:
I successfully ran a modded java minecraft server for me and my friends for years on an ancient thinkstation with a xeon E5430 (quad core 2.6 ghz w/ddr3 ram) doing double duty as a NAS That old xeon couldn’t couldn’t carry your i5’s jock on single core performance, which is your main concern. As long as you’re not running huge kitchen sink packs with giant complex bases I think you’ll be fine.
- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 2 months ago:
It’s because the first few generations of DRM were extremely poorly implemented. My kindle og keyboard still works and will ignore the DRM (that would be locking me out of, for example, a library book after its due date) if you just change the file extensiom to one of the DRM free file types. It will also then let me distribute that ebook to others without restriction.
- Comment on Amazon will remove the option to download/transfer Kindle e-books via USB by February 2025 2 months ago:
The discontinuation does not eliminate the ability to drag and drop files onto a Kindle; it simply removes a method that facilitated piracy by transferring older retail book formats via USB.
Err, what? So it’s only going to blocm certain file types?
- Comment on Pick the best description of your parents and see if you turned out as predicted 2 months ago:
Where’s Workaholic Dad who only comes around when your Mom who doesn’t really care if you lived or died unless you’re making her look good/bad to her friends asks him to beat you.
- Comment on This is getting interesting.. 2 months ago:
Oh that’s easy, willful ignorance. So too is conservatism entirely absent in playing fast and loose with the full faith and credit of the treasury; in burning the environment to the ground to make money; in undermining national security for political expedience; in venerating liars, hucksters, and philanderers as moral pillars of society; in disparaging education and learning; in repeating the known failures of history to uphold your political idealism.
If you actually care about moving slowly and respecting the inheirited wisdom of social institutions, then the modern Republican party is about as far away as it gets.
- Comment on He's been with another girl for a while without telling me 3 months ago:
Tact is a personal weakness of mine, so my apologies in advance if this comes across overly curt or blunt, it is not my intention to be hurtful.
Despite your assertion to the contrary, Jay is not your boyfriend.
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 3 months ago:
Drug tests. A lot of cups have a temperature sensor to foil would be fakers bringing someone else’s pee with them.
- Comment on 7 days to die is no longer Early Access, but still looks like this 5 months ago:
How is this even a real complaint?
It’s like people have completely forgotten the sheer volume of great games made before graphics like this would have been the best ever. Some of the all time classics use ASCII art for christs sake.
If this is your lead out, the biggest, baddest, most serious complaint you could come up with, must be a pretty solid game at worst.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 5 months ago:
That’s because BMI is actually pretty good as a screening tool. It’s easy, simple, and pretty damn accurate when combined with an eyeball test. To the extent that it misclassifies people it is far more likely to underclassify obesity than overclassify. The people complaining just don’t want to hear it.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 5 months ago:
I hope they’ve written a very broad definition of social media.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 5 months ago:
The problem is turning off wifi doesn’t actually turn off the wifi, it just stops a subset of packets being broadcast and won’t trasmit any data you want it to send. Among other things this is how ‘find my device’ works with the wifi and bluetooth “off”. They’re actually on.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 5 months ago:
It also won’t work since it has enough precision to know whether you go on, and for how long. The real issue is that mobile phones are continuously broadcasting their location to any device that wants to listen, even if you turn wifi and bluetooth off.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape 6 months ago:
You do realize you’re the probelm right? The only vote that matters is the one you make with your wallet, and you voted the subscription hikes are ok.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 6 months ago:
I would call legal and IT. It’s outside the scope of my role to accept contacts on behalf of the company.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Yeah, because career-minded prosecutors and judges never fuck over little people for minor, technical, harmless violations of the law. 🙄
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
While you can do this, it’s not clear to me that you should. There are a number of additional laws having to do with perjury and misusing goverment sites and while I would undoubtedly agree with you if were you to assert the application of those laws to the utilization of a user agent switcher is a ridiculous overreach, I am just as certain I have no desire to be on the hot-seat the day we all find out.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Several government websites for the state of Pennsylvania complain and refuse to work if they detect you aren’t using chrome/edge/safari.
