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- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 3 days ago:
The point isn’t to absolve people of making bad decisions, but that doesn’t mean the companies whose tools provide dangerous advice in a friendly and factual manner should be without accountability.
Consider that people in all possible situations and mental health conditions have access to these tools.
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 4 days ago:
It’s not like it needs to be perfect in form.
Your middle finger and ring finger are also linked. Keeping only the ring finger straight is more difficult than curling only your pinkie.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
Worse. He believed them.
- Comment on Clues by Sam 2 weeks ago:
“below” means the entire column below, i.e. Xavi and Tom.
- Comment on KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller 2 weeks ago:
You use your tablet as monitor? How does that work, KDE Connect over WiFi or something?
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
“Yes, this is my emotional support firearm. Why do you ask?”
- Comment on Protein bar 2 weeks ago:
There’s basically no lactose in properly aged cheese. Too much of it will do a number on your guts regardless.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
I agree with the conclusion, but your toilet doesn’t simply spawn SARS viruses.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 weeks ago:
80% of the utterly ass things that Apple pushes on people are on iPhone. iOS is a purely consumer product, while macOS has a decent chunk of the prosumer market which has a lower tolerance for enshittification.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 3 weeks ago:
Gold plating is used to prevent corrosion, not optimize conductivity. It matters only for the longevity of the cable.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 3 weeks ago:
For HDMI this is common with active optical cables.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 3 weeks ago:
Neither does the plastic that these cables normally are made of.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 3 weeks ago:
Ha, no. Many older gamers have the disposable income but not the time or motivation to spend hundreds of hours on gaming per month. I know what I’m talking about.
Still never buying into that subscription bullshit.
- Comment on Day 520 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
Here as well.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
If you don’t know what to reply, then don’t. Seek out communities, posts, and comments about stuff you enjoy talking about. Especially when it’s a positive light.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 1 month ago:
The distinction may seem like nitpicking but no, CSAM is a legally defined term of depicting actual children being sexually abused.
This game does not feature any such content. Not just because there are no depictions of real children, but also because the fictional children depicted aren’t sexually abused.
Valve’s language cites “sexual conduct” which in this case reportedly (I didn’t watch it myself) has been stretched to include nudity that is non-sexual in nature.
I get why Valve would err on the side of caution, but that TOS decision is no basis to turn around and make the legally relevant claim that the game features actual CSAM.
- Comment on Embark almost put crafting timers in Arc Raiders when the game was F2P, but the model made it "hard to respect the player's time" 1 month ago:
That’s a new sentiment. Most games try to occupy as much of their players’ time as possible.
- Comment on Oh no! 1 month ago:
I think this is a joke about the first copper-tier sponsor.
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 1 month ago:
It’s not. Roundabouts work better than intersections.
The whole game can be read as propaganda against car-centric traffic management because road planning just becomes a nightmare at some point that incentivizes you heavily to diversify into public transportation and even walkable city blocks.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
So in short, this question could have been used in all sorts of ways to provide an answer that clarified the commenter’s position.
I mean, in the way it was asked not really. It was explicitly asked, or rather condescendingly demanded, as a simple binary choice stripped of all context.
That’s not how you engage with someone when you actually want to get their take on a complex issue. That’s how you engage if you want to score an easy win for upvotes. And I for one am done with that kinda hostile “debate bro” culture / popularity contest that’s defined many subreddits over the years. It shuts down any chance for an actual exchange. So let’s not act surprised at the result.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
Yeah it was asked in bad faith and framed in a manupulative way.
That’s not a good thing, no matter if you disagree with the person it was directed at.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
The question itself was a cheap gotcha. Shockingly, it’s not as simple as that as I’ve been pointing out.
It’s unfortunate that any attempt to insert some nuance automatically makes me the enemy in your simplistic position on the matter. And now ego prevents you from backing off of this kind of thinking by any means, no matter what toxic and regressive conclusions it takes you to.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
I didn’t say the people of South Korea are being subjugated. Not sure how I could have made clearer that these are two separate issues…
You also won’t find me defending NK. Not everything should devolve into tribalism and dunking on whatever we perceive as the other team. Which is exactly what I’m criticizing about this question and the way it was asked.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
So prosperity for one people is worth any price to you?
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
There’s two issues. The one is that prosperity is already very ambiguous, and in the context of nations we usually default to easily measurable things like GDP but that doesn’t define human well-being. Look at the US for a stark example. And the person who asked the question didn’t clarify for a reason.
But the bigger issue is that it’s just the wrong question. Any definition of prosperity for one people can be built upon the subjugation and exploitation of others. And that’s exactly what happened and continues to happen for “former” colonial powers, as well as aligned governments (which includes a lot of puppets). Hence US foreign policy.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
Yeah I guess you got me down to your level.
So now only the difference remains that I didn’t misconstrue your point on purpose to score a cheap dunk.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
I said literally: it means absolutely nothing historically or ethically, or worse it typically means “aligned with imperialist hegemons”.
Do I need to explain to you what this means, or do you have a clue about South Korean history and US foreign policy?
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
What a pointlessly hostile and totally asshole way to make your point! But yeah let’s pretend that’s what “prosperity” means in this context rather than just amassed wealth and GDP which says nothing about how well the population is actually doing.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 2 months ago:
“More prosperous” means absolutely nothing historically or ethically, or worse it typically means “aligned with imperialist hegemons”.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 months ago:
Fortunately I don’t sweat that easily, Alyx was fine for me so far (about 2 hours in). What REALLY gets me going is (modded) Beatsaber. I can only play it wearing briefs and it’s a serious workout if you want to challenge yourself, but it’s so much fun that I’ve managed a few play sessions that lasted for over 3 hours.