LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 5 days ago:
Dad said we’re getting a sourcebox!
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
I don’t, I just play the thousands of mp3s I’ve collected over the years.
- Comment on They're coming. 1 week ago:
… starting with the Tri-State Area.
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- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 1 month ago:
Too late. Social media was already the end of truth.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 1 month ago:
IF THEN MAYBE... - Comment on 1 month ago:
Funky girl with green hair in a side ponytail: “[click click clickity click]… I’m in!”
- Comment on Still throwing shrimp on the barbie: why is Tourism Australia’s advertising stuck in 1984? 1 month ago:
My guess is that they’re trying to appeal to Americans, who still identify Australia with crocodile Dundee and “shrimp on the barbie”.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 1 month ago:
Same Kristi Noem who as governor spent $5 million of S. Dakota’s COVID money on a tourism campaign, saying her state was coping with the pandemic using “personal responsibility and freedom”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
A friend of mine did it in college, and that was decades ago. Instead of snipping him they put in some kind of little valves that could be turned back on. Later in life he married and had kids, so apparently it works.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 2 months ago:
Definitely very echoey in here.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if the police seized your electronics (for an unrelated investigation) and found out you have a lot of pirated content, what would happen? 2 months ago:
Seems more like an “Ask a copyright lawyer” question.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 2 months ago:
I mostly don’t do either.
- Comment on Readers are canceling their Vogue subscriptions after AI-generated models appear in August issue 2 months ago:
I want to see REAL artificial women not FAKE ones!!!
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 2 months ago:
When they can do transparent aluminum, I’m in!
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 2 months ago:
snot?
- Comment on White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation 2 months ago:
Trump invents the AI Superhighway!
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 months ago:
Never worked in banking or finance. That job was at a company that made ultrasound machines. Funny story though, one April Fools day I started a rumor that the company was getting bought by Toshiba. I created a fake Wall St. Journal article written in their bland style and left a couple copies around the company. Within 2 hours our dept (IT) had an emergency meeting to reassure us all that it wasn’t true. They said upper management was VERY upset and wanted the perp to come forward (no recriminations - yeah right!) and explain the reason for it. I kept my mouth shut. A friend of mine who worked around a lot of managers said the tone of their conversation was like… why now? why Toshiba? As if there might be a grain of truth to it. Months later it turned out our company had a very secret project going with Hitachi to develop a miniaturized combat ultrasound machine for the army, because they were encountering landmines etc that threw out plastic shrapnel, which was really hard to see with x-rays. So apparently the big shots thought somebody might be teasing them about the Hitachi deal, and they were worried about the army getting wind of it and doubting their ability to keep the whole thing secret. Bonus: the device was codenamed the Tricorder, and physically modeled after the shoulder-strap tricorder on Star Trek TOS.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 months ago:
To me it’s weird that people have issues with this. My wife and I, married 35 years, share each other’s locations because if something bad happened we would want to be able to find each other. I don’t even give a second thought to, “…and I can make sure she isn’t cheating on me.”
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 months ago:
Found Hank Hill’s neighbor, Dale.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive 2 months ago:
I just used a free online thing called PDF2Go to split a giant PDF into 4 smaller files. It let me directly download the resulting 4 files without signing up for anything, and they work perfectly on my box (linux mint). Tbh I don’t think the UI is super intuitive but I just googled “How to split a file on pdf2go” and found clear instructions. It has a lot of other tools I have not explored.
Not affiliated with the site in any way, sharing because Adobe is so freaking expensive. www.pdf2go.com
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 months ago:
And the Strategic Office Presence Task Force passed into legend lol.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 months ago:
Suggestion: schedule regular informal zoom calls to trade news, rumors, bullshit. Wouldn’t even matter if nobody talked sometimes - people could just have it open and lurk.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 2 months ago:
Mine was many years ago (this issue has been around since modems) and consisted of me countering every objection my manager had, and him ending the conversation with, “I can see we’re poles apart on this.”
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 2 months ago:
No but the CPU load slows down processing.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 2 months ago:
I avoided this issue by embracing the completely non-controversial “become a contractor” work schedule. When you’re a temp they specifically want you NOT to work overtime without prior authorization - because they have to pay for it. And as a software dev I found being a contractor was perfectly acceptable. I was always treated identically with employees except for a few special things like company meetings. And I got paid almost twice as much hourly vs being an employee. Sure, I had to buy my own health insurance and I didn’t get paid time off, but when you double your salary those are non-issues. Job security as an employee? Don’t kid yourself. My job security was that there are contract jobs everywhere.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 2 months ago:
Technically true and I get the point of the statement, but unquestioningly trusting a whole category of people is no smarter than mistrusting a whole category of people. We’re all individuals with our own levels of honesty, spite, conscience, etc.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 2 months ago:
Reminder: authority only exists because we let it.
- Comment on Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer science 2 months ago:
Taking the black hat off the AI and putting it where it belongs? That’s crazy talk!
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 2 months ago:
I think we’re already productive enough, just not distributive enough.