otacon239
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- Comment on Just a Meme. :3 3 days ago:
If you have the opportunity to test $100 as ephemeral, I recommend it. I’ve never kept track of money loaned to friends. If I get it back, nice, but otherwise, I was just helping a friend.
It’s worth noting, I’m not friends with grifters.
- Comment on The U.S. is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs, analysis finds 4 days ago:
and put off big purchases
What are those?
- Comment on what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting? 5 days ago:
Careful. Your spoiler is showing…
Syntax should be
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler hidden content :::
- Comment on Spotify adds lossless streaming after 8 years of teasing 5 days ago:
There is a catch, however. Spotify’s lossless option tops out at 24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC. Apple Music, Tidal, and Qobuz all offer HiRes FLAC support at up to 24-bit / 192 kHz. Granted, once you start entering 24-bit FLAC territory it can get pretty hard to tell the difference unless you’re a particularly demanding audiophile with a soundsystem priced in the same range as a used sedan.
I was about the point of the pedantry in the chest half, but they covered themselves. Anyone who says they can hear this difference is fooling themselves.
- Comment on For people who relocated: when did you realize you want to live in the new place long-term & why? 5 days ago:
When my previous relationship ended, it just instantly called to me. Knowing that I suddenly didn’t have anyone keeping me where I was, it wasn’t even a day before I knew I wanted to move.
I spent 3 years saving and preparing and making sure it was the right place to go, but never doubted it for a second. Made the right move, too. Happier and more confident than I’ve ever been before.
- Comment on what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting? 6 days ago:
Orochi in Okami. You spend the first entire third of the game building up to your first fight with him and by the time you’re fighting him, you have an incredible amount of context for how legendary your battle actually is.
Many of the boss battles in that game had amazing lead-up.
- Comment on quiet place 6 days ago:
2 Quiet 2 Place
- Comment on sinful 1 week ago:
Fuck you, Tony!
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 1 week ago:
I always get annoyed at people jump on all the justifications about how just handing someone a house isn’t enough to set these people’s lives right, and I’m like, “Right. ‘Cause the street will definitely help themselves get back on track. That lack of shelter is an attitude problem.”
- Comment on Mandatory self-reflection hours 1 week ago:
No thanks
- Comment on Mandatory self-reflection hours 1 week ago:
This is ridiculous — No one uses em-dashes anymore
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
Well shoot. Why wasn’t this the case from the start? I’ve only ever had troubles with payments a few times in the 10 years I’ve been renting. Good thing none of that counts for anything and the clock is just now starting.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 week ago:
The fact that you’re not already down this hole is a good indicator that voice is already doing its job. Just keep listening to it.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 1 week ago:
A Lemmy switcharoo? Rare find!
- Comment on ISO 26300 1 week ago:
So does LibreOffice, but they’ve been called out multiple times for purposefully making the format overly complex to make it as hard as possible to reliable read and write to it.
- Comment on Cyclops would be a very different character if his eyelids weren't laserproof 1 week ago:
Someone taught me on this site a while back that his visor isn’t a mirror of a filter. I had questioned why they didn’t heat up and they explained that it’s apparently a straight-up portal that sends the energy to another dimension. Wild stuff.
- Comment on RoadCraft's first expansion adds a bridge layer, two new maps, and the option to make your life much tougher 1 week ago:
I’ve been getting a lot out of this game. They’ve done a great job with this one. The fact that you can just build roads wherever you feel like is just such a great idea for this series. Now whenever I’m really frustrated with a particular road, I can really just go “Fine! I’ll fix it myself!”
- Comment on Age check 1 week ago:
Yeah. The whole reason the Amanda Knox series happened is because Monika Lewinsky has been starting this documentary series where she tries to help victims in situations where publicity ruined their image and give them a chance to tell their story.
What a fantastic way to turn an image around.
- Comment on The Woofstream 1 week ago:
I’ve come to believe there’s a reasonable correlation to the deep-fried-ness of a meme and the level of thought put into the original post. It’s always odd that the pictures that look like they’ve been screen-shotted, filtered and compressed half a dozen times are often the worst drivel and lowest common denominator of meme content. I wonder if, in general, the better-quality memes are shared by people who generally respect the original enough to go and find it more often.
Someone could make a study on this…
- Comment on Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around 1 week ago:
I needed an SD card for a new recorder I picked up and only probably needed a 32GB. Smallest option at the store was 128 for $25 and $30 for 256. I went with the 256 just because I could.
Storage is practically free these days. I’m sure you could find an eBay listing for like 100 of the cheap ones for $10.
- Comment on Creepy companies don't ask for your consent. 1 week ago:
I can’t speak to mail/cloud providers, but the big difference between 99% of open source software and proprietary software is that updates are manually installed by the user.
In theory, this allows the user the opportunity to read the new source before installation to verify it isn’t malicious or to check for any known compatibility issues or bugs.
For instance, “stable” Linux distros are not stable in terms of not crashing, but stable in the sense that functionality will not update and only security patches are applied. But the user always gets to choose when that happens.
- Comment on My favorite board game! 2 weeks ago:
Could probably still start a fire, though.
- Comment on don't trust cowboys or people doing cowboy voices 2 weeks ago:
He said it best. Thanks, pardner 🤠
- Comment on The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame 2 weeks ago:
The difference between a cure and a poison is the dose. LLMs are no different. If it’s your gut reaction to go to an LLM with a critical thinking challenge first, you’ve already lost. Semantic mirror is a great description. It’s similar to writing information you already know down as notes. You’re giving your brain a new way to review and interpret the information. If you weren’t capable of solving the problem traditionally, but just with more time, I’d have to imagine it’s unlikely the LLM will bridge that gap.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 2 weeks ago:
Just had this conversation oddly enough. I’m of the mindset that consenting adults can do as they please BUT power dynamics I feel are far more important than age. If your power dynamics is unbalanced, you can be the same age and have it all go wrong if they’re your manager for instance, but if you’re 18 and your 40-year-old coworker who works in the same dept wants to jump your bones, I say no harm, no foul.
- Comment on BzzzzzzZZZZzzzzZZzzzzz Bruv 2 weeks ago:
I think about this whenever I pick up a spider or similar on my car. I’m transporting them the equivalent of entire planets beyond their perspective. What new world will I bring them to?
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using it for over a decade now and have only rarely come across broken documents due to proprietary features. If you’re making docs for yourself, I’d say it’s pretty much a 100% replacement. Things can get a bit more fucky if you’re having exchanges where you edit with Libre and someone else edits with Word. But other than that, they’re pretty darn close.
- Comment on If Lemmy disappeared tomorrow, what would you use instead ? 3 weeks ago:
At this point, I’d assume there’s just not going to be a platform with my time anymore. At least with Lemmy, there were distinct waves (I came in with the 3rd party app wave). If Lemmy just disappeared and everyone just meandered wherever, I’d probably just abandon the feed altogether.
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 3 weeks ago:
Just added an edit for a game I found tonight.
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 3 weeks ago:
This kills me because the concept looks great, but I’m never really into survival. Hate kill screens in immersive games.