fafferlicious

@fafferlicious@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does everyone take statements about a population and then try to use a specific example to disprove it?

  I’m talking about generalities. Look at who the majority of boomers vote for. Spoiler, it’s not democrats. I don’t know your grandpa. I don’t know what anyone’s grandpa did. But collectively, generally speaking, the stats say our grandpa’s share blame for voting R for decades and at the very least, for voting for corpo neolibs every primary.

  Because hey, guess what, it’s not the new generations that have the highest participation in primary votes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The boomers have held the lever and power longer than any other generation, at least in America. It is their fault because they run the companies and they run the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t upload it to the internet!

  or use a smart phone

  or corporate searches that track you

  or go to any website with ads - they track you

  hell don’t even search the internet! your ISP tracks dns requests

  or use a modern tv that tracks what is on your screen

  or you can do custom phone from - just unlock the bootloader, root it, and install! then just setup pihole/adguard/self-host everything

  it’s simple, for privacy just go live in a yurt in the woods to not be tracked 24/7

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3117: Replication Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would propose a more generous starting position than “you’re wrong.” Maybe “our understanding is incomplete.”

  There are many stories that could be a long the vein of one I saw personally: a night-shift leaning researcher can’t get a protocol to work after being trained on it. They go back to the post-doc that trained them to troubleshoot - works flawlessly. When they do it by themselves (typically at night) it fails again.

  After much agony and self-blame, turns out the enzyme they were studying was regulated by the organism’s circadian cycle. They protein they were studying was off at night and no one knew.

  Contradiction in science frequently masks a deeper biological truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I…think that’s their point. The only reason it seems good is because you’re bad and can’t spot that is bad, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the new pixel fold. The first and most important part is to understand how Google views the warranty on the inner screen.

  Within two weeks I had what seemed to be hairline fractures on the inner screen and a potential artifact in the fold crease. I wasn’t too worried but I was going to have them check on it. Before I could take it in to the Google store, it snapped. The entire screen flooded black within 14 hours when I went back to the store.

  I was informed that this wasn’t covered under warranty, but they’d make an exception because i literally bought it two weeks prior.

  Their stance is that once the screen is that fatally flawed manufacturing defects and misuse damage (i.e. dropping) looks identical. The curvy bendy middle means the outer edges are under more stress and stiffer so when the screen breaks even from defects or creates impact shatter lines.

  Based on this alone, I wouldn’t recommend anyone get the phone. Not without expecting to have to pay for the insurance plan and to budget for replacing the inner screen at least once. It’s significantly heavier and with the fear of breaking, I have a heavy duty dbrand case. So the phone feels like a bloody brick.

  That said, I do love it. And I don’t know if I’ll go back. I don’t know if I’ll stick to the form factor either. I do a lot of home server shenanigans on it. Home assistant. Control my tv. I live multi-tasking on it when taking notes. I could buy a phone and a tablet for cheaper. But there’s something about just having the extra size always handy rather than having to walk around the house with a mini-tablet.

  Just be aware that there are huge, glaring downsides to the form factor before you buy in. It is objectively cool and I love unfolding it. It never doesn’t feel futuristic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  another vote for walkaway - i got hooked on the idea of “git, but for houses”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What would their response look like if it were almost entirely hyperbole and fiction?

  Would they just let that sit on shelves uncontested orrrrr…would they launch a PR blitz to discredit the author and book?