redwattlebird
@redwattlebird@lemmings.world
- Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support 3 days ago:
I recommend Affinity publisher. Purchase once, no subscriptions.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 3 days ago:
Ah, haven’t used that in a long while. I’ll add that to the list to peddle to my mates as well. Thank you!
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 3 days ago:
Not very promising. What a shame.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 3 days ago:
It’s been a number of years since I used it while playing Eve Online, but say it isn’t so! I’m going to check now.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 3 days ago:
Time to introduce my friends to the glory of TeamSpeak!
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 1 week ago:
The 5 star reviews are whack
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You and I are both alike! Atari 2600 was the bee’s knees. The wood finish is such a classic now, too. Super classy. It didn’t matter what I had; it was fun and I had no other games consoles to compare it to.
- Comment on Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election? 2 weeks ago:
How about the government and the different departments move away from big corporations like Microsoft and ditch Windows, Office, Teams etc and go for open source programs?
We’re deeply embedded, yes, but we’d be able to drop them just like that if we really tried. We’re just too happy with the status quo to do anything about it.
- Comment on Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs 2 weeks ago:
I also have family in the US, most of whom voted for the Republican party and, therefore, Trump. Their argument was that the Democrats tax too much. 🤷🏻♀️
- Comment on I miss myspace 2 weeks ago:
You never had to create an account to view anything in the website.
Mindless scrolling was not a thing because links were mostly nested.
It was also extremely easy to chat with perverts on mIRC, the Yahoo chat thing etc. Speaking of chats, all of your chat logs were stored locally on your PC as text files rather than on a cloud so you could delete them if you wanted.
- Comment on How was your valentines day weekend? 2 weeks ago:
No, but I did pay $400 for the privilege!
- Comment on How was your valentines day weekend? 2 weeks ago:
Internal ultrasound scan for me.
It’s exactly what it sounds like.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 3 months ago:
Our bodies are simply not made to leave earth for a long period. It’s a lofty goal but completely unrealistic when considering our biology has evolved specifically to live here.
Has no one learned anything from War of the Worlds?
Also, remember how humanity really messed things up when we started colonising other parts of our globe? We brought disease, we murdered and we polluted.
- Comment on Support local bands 4 months ago:
For the drum machine, definitely! But we largely kept to our tempo or maybe double. It was a free gig and we were getting paid in beers. I think it was pretty funny for the audience too. Great night.
- Comment on Support local bands 4 months ago:
I used to sing in a post punk band. We had a drum machine. In the middle of one gig, the drum machine spazzed out and deleted all the internal memory, and started a 600bpm bossa nova loop. We played right through to the end.
- Comment on TF Is This Shit? - The Office Australian Version Trailer 4 months ago:
None of the jokes landed for me because it didn’t resemble anything that I’ve ever experienced in an office, while the UK version was more aligned with my experience but exaggerated.
Most corporate places won’t allow you to keep pets in the office. There’s no reason why an obviously incompetent worker would end up being a manager. There’s a few instances in the trailer where you can easily dob management to Fair Work.
Here’s what I’d change:
Manager is clearly incompetent but the reason why they’re there is because their underling does all the work for them exceptionally well but doesn’t get any credit. They have impostor syndrome and never think they’ll be manager material. Manager has an MBA that they flout all the time.
IT is incompetent and has weird rules about what you can and can’t do on the office computers. For example, no one has the internet on their PC and can only access it through an internet computer (I’ve actually experienced this). There’s a worker in the office who’s a tech enthusiast and runs rings around the IT person, acting as a thorn in their side.
HR is done unofficially by the admin team because it’s a small business. They’re clearly not qualified for the job and treat it more like an advice service.
And so much more…
- Comment on T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users 4 months ago:
Ignorance is strength
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 5 months ago:
If that’s the case, then people with the new brains should have their sex organs harvested.