GooberEar

@GooberEar@lemmy.wtf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front is back.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To get around back, go left. Because left is right and right is wrong so the only thing left that’s right is left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Onion be onioning again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honey, you have to put some elbow grease into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brooklyn electronics company Adafruit hit with surprise $36K tariff bill: "pay in one week"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I often hear good things about AdaFruit, so it made my terrible experience with them all the more disappointing and unexpected.

  I won’t launch into the full story, but I had placed what was to me an expensive order. One item of the cheapest things I bought was missing a part. Their customer service folks were so dismissive and unpleasant, they made me try to resolve the issue with their supplier (iirc piminori or something along those lines), they insisted that there was no way this could happen because it would never have passed their quality control team, that it wasn’t their responsibility to make it right, etc. It was such a bad experience that I’ve never returned.

  So honestly, I have no sympathy here. From my perspective, this sort of thing could not have happened to a more deserving company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking at the game’s minimum requirements, I’m not sure I how well my available hardware will work. Granted, it’ll probably be some time before I play the game unless there’s a free demo available. I’m more of a patient gamer type and I still haven’t played through Eternal yet (and may not).

  Honestly, from the descriptions and reviews I’ve seen, Dark Ages game play style sounds like it’s a sharp turn away from Eternal, which means it might be more my thing. Granted, I’m also seeing a lot of folks saying it’s super heavy into story telling and cut scenes. Not that I have a big problem with those things, but I enjoy that they’re kind of light in earlier entries of this series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t you just make your own shoes? All you have to do is build your own shoe factory and then hire a bunch of illegals and children to work under the table for cash. You don’t even need a website, just sell the shoes on Facebook Market Place. That’s literally all there is to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unfair is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have ankles. They don’t have testicles. They are missing a bunch of ribs. They don’t fart. They don’t even have a Y chromosome. At a certain point, it’s probably easier to list the things they do have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every phone call⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No? Is that common?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I need to bookmark this for when I have time to read it.

  Not going to lie, there’s something persuasive, almost like the call of the void, with this for me. There are days when I wish I could just get lost in AI fueled fantasy worlds. I’m not even sure how that would work or what it would look like. I feel like it’s akin to going to church as a kid, when all the other children my age were supposedly talking to Jesus and feeling his presence, but no matter how hard I tried, I didn’t experience any of that. Made me feel like I’m either deficient or they’re delusional. And sometimes, I honestly fully believe it would be better if I could live in some kind of delusion like that where I feel special as though I have a direct line to the divine. If an AI were trying to convince me of some spiritual awakening, I honestly believe I’d just continue seeing through it, knowing that this is just a computer running algorithms and nothing deeper to it than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Capybara is short for Cabybaratheon, one of the houses from the Games of Thrones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tender moments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just about to say. Figured it was bait but glad to see it was a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hear me when I tell y'all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you okay? This can be tough. I’ve had several friends go though this over the years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generational differences⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not seen anybody use a vape inside a retail store, so I can’t speak to that part. I just assumed it was covered by the same or similar laws as smoking tobacco products inside businesses.

  On the other hand, my limited experience with some of the younger generations is that they’re way more comfortable with driving while under the influence of thc than older generations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes sense and would explain the mainline windows versioning and probably the xbox versioning too!

  Microsoft to AI: List all the integers from one to eleven.

  AI: 3. 95. 98. 2000. XP. Vista. 7. 8. 10. 11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literal interpretation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every night in my DMs.

  I see poo, I feel poo.

  That is how I know you, go poop.

  Far across the distance.

  And spaces between us.

  You have come to show you, go poop.

  Near, fart, wherever you are.

  I believe that the shart does go on.

  Once more you open the back door.

  And you’re here in my heart and my heart will go poo and poo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Math is amazing!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked ChatGPT and it said the answer is 255.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm jealous⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how I met my partner. We both love dips. We could talk or not talk about dips all day long and then do it again tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm jealous⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re minerals, Grostleton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm jealous⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Peppers and cucumbers are the traumatic forced abortions of the plant world. Broccoli and cauliflower are the amputated sex organs of the plants that were cut from their bodies. Celery, brussel sprouts, and artichokes are severed limbs of plants. This is a literal mass grave of dead and dying vegetation, an alter to the horrific mutilation and abuse perpetrated on an entire kingdom of life by humans. A final act of humiliation before we condemn them to the hell of cooking and consumption. I doubt the spray mist provides much comfort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So much of social media (and online in general) is just ads in disguise and people shilling products, intentionally or otherwise, and it ultimately spills over into real life conversations. So I agree with you completely.

  You might have given a thumbs up to your aunt Gina’s photo of her and her friends at the office party celebrating her promotion. Ad networks see it as you interacting with a photo that contains a bottle of Schmudd soda, even if that’s a detail you didn’t even notice.

  You have dinner with your dad that night and the topic of Schmudd comes up due to the latest forced controversy (ermagerd the trans) so naturally when you start seeing Schmudd commercials the next day, you might assume your phone was listening to that conversation. But actually the reason you’re seeing the ads is because of the thumbs up to aunt Gina’s post.

  And yes, the tracking and analytics tools find those types of patterns and relationships, and so much more. And they’ve been able to do that for over a decade. No telling how good it’s gotten since I was last working adjacent to that field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, it’s amazingly easy for advertisers to figure out what topics / products you’re talking about without the need for constantly recording via your microphone. In most instances, it doesn’t even really make sense to constantly record audio via the mic to monitor folks, other means are much more cost efficient while being just as effective. That’s not to say that some app isn’t or hasn’t done it, just that historically speaking, it hasn’t been as ubiquitous as a lot of people seem to think or imply.

  Sometimes with these things, you have to apply Occam’s Razor.

  I stayed with some family during the holidays a few years ago and they are conspiracy theory fanatics unfortunately. The type that swear their phones are listening to everything they say. They get ads for things they’ve only ever talked about in person. That sort of thing.

  As proof, they pointed out how the prior night the topic of old timey candy from our childhoods came up and all of a sudden they were getting news stories and facebook ads about those liquid filled wax bottle candies. To them, the only plausible explanation is that our phones were listening to us.

  Except, as I pointed out, I specifically looked those wax bottle candies up later that night because I was curious if they were still for sale. They live way out in the country and there’s limited cellular data, so basically everybody there that night was using the same wifi connection. Which means, our internet activity is all linked because to the outside world, we’re all on the same network/IP address. Even more curious, though, nobody got ads for any of the other candy that we talked about and which I didn’t specifically look up. So, if our phones were actually recording us and serving up ads based on the things we talked about, then why didn’t we get ads for Blackjack gum, wax lips, and Brach’s? Only the very specific one I happened to search for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in a part of the USA where, decades later, I still hear brand new and seemingly made-up idioms on a fairly regular basis. This skill set, making sense of otherwise fake sounding idioms based on limited context is practically a necessity 'round these parts. After all, you can’t feed a cow a carrot and expect it to shit you out a cake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 2 | Available May 15, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My opinion is subject to change, since I do plan to eventually give Eternal another attempt, but I know why I like 2016 better. It’s because I can go at my own pace and have the freedom to play the battle scenarios out how I want to (for the most part).

  Eternal basically tells you early on, you have to go, go, go, go, go. Keep moving or you die. I find that kind of annoying.

  But then the fact that you’re almost constantly being forced to use every single button, skill, weapon, etc on-demand, in very specific ways with a fair amount of precision basically kills the joy for me. I don’t get to play games much, sometimes it’s weeks or months between sessions. I can’t keep up with all that bullshit and it sucks nearly every last drop of fun out of the game if I have to waste my limited fun time having to relearn all the mechanics.

  I just want to casually rip and tear for fun. Eternal felt like a micromanaging boss constantly telling me that I’m doing things wrong and behind on my unrealistic deadlines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mean to speak ill of the dead but that looks like something my ex-bestfriend, Patty Henshaw, would have baked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MY new Tesla? Doubt it. Considering I’m unemployed due to this clown administration and I don’t tend to upgrade much of anything, let alone a vehicle, unless/until the old one no longer functions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The tape is a lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depressed and Lonely? There Could Be a Robotic Sex Partner in Your Future⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mark my words, Big Minge will never let this technology see the light of day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else do you need?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello, nurse!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else do you need?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slaughtered? In THIS economy? Best I can do is have a fairy steal all your teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to ChatGPT, the result is 355.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If History Had Taken a Different Path?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m too lazy to look up the details now, but I’m pretty sure the SNES almost sort of did nearly have an add-on. Sony and Nintendo were looking to create a CD-ROM add-on / upgrade for the SNES. I somewhat remember the rumors from back in those days and I was, at the time, very excited about it. Granted, my parents wouldn’t have been able to afford it, so who knows if I would have gotten to play it. I’m still bummed that I never got to play the Sega CD or the 3DO. Practicality and foresight aside…

  I think a CD-based SNES could have been pretty cool, especially if there were some additional technical upgrades (i.e. updated processor / 32-bit / etc). I suspect that the library wouldn’t have leaned so heavily into full-motion video like the Sega CD, and certainly the first party Nintendo titles wouldn’t have gone that route. SNES had some great RPGs and fighting games and tons of amazing first party titles, so long as the system had enough RAM, those genres would have benefited from more storage. Had there been extra processing power, that would have been a nice step up as well.

  On the flip side, Nintendo hardware is basically just a door to the Nintendo software experience. Lots of great stuff, don’t get me wrong, but also lacking. So, the fact that the Sony collaboration fell through and ultimately resulted in the Playstation probably worked out so much better for the video game industry and gamers.