synicalx

@synicalx@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things at Tesla are worse than they appear⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to see their charging network survive in some way, maybe under someone else’s control. From what I’ve heard from EV owners the Tesla charging stations are the only ones that are readily available especially outside of cities (at least here in Australia).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This translates to fewer Patreon subscribers which means less opportunity and funding to create high quality videos

  If there’s an algorithm to game, and money to be made, I don’t see how that’s any different to self promotion. Boil it down and all that’s happening is you are performing an action, so that more people see you, in the hopes that some of them will give you money.

  The lack of an algorithm is a feature, I don’t want content I havent explicitly asked for to be shown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt there’s any such thing as backups, nothing on there is permanent that’s why so many archive sites exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't believe it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Call me a child, but peas a gross. The rest looks fantastic though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Self promotion is a form of advertising, doubly so if it’s done for the purpose of attracting revenue via some means. People can opt into it if they want via subscribing/following but it’s still advertising.

  So yes most “authentic” content is just people advertising themselves. I would prefer not to see that unless I have opted into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still an ad, you want money for a product you’re offering. The only difference is in your case there’s an extra step between impression and conversion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d prefer for my social media to not be full of ads for “content”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You feel wrong, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Australian here; I much prefer living away from cities. I like having a big house on a big block with lots of nature and as few other people around me as possible.

  The catch is while the housing and land is wayyyy cheaper, other stuff is more expensive and inconvenient. The biggest thing people don’t consider is trades people; you’ll have plumbers, sparkies etc just refuse to even come out when they find out you’re more than half an hour away from civilisation, and if they do come out they charge for the travel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would a gaming react andy get a TV deal? It doesn’t make any sense what are his credentials? Yelling? Catchphrases maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been viable for enthusiasts for a while, but the reason it’s not mainstream is most normal people just don’t want it. It’s clumsy, cumbersome, the content is generally poor, and it’s either a Meta product or very expensive for something that’s ultimately a gimmick at the moment. Not to mention the “metaverse” tarnishing VRs image.

  Even Apple couldn’t make it successful with today’s tech. Best case scenario IMO; company’s starting long term VR moonshot projects right now might have something with mainstream appeal in the distant future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  VR won’t be viable until it’s transparent and unobtrusive; a contact lens, for example. A giant headset that you strap on to your face just isn’t appealing to most customers outside of the initial novelty factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A big heat sink like they used to put on WD Raptor drives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notion Mail - Off the waitlist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hotmail still exists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah another day, another Cloudflare cockup. It would be nice if the service that insists on MitM’ing a huge chunk of the internet could focus a bit more on stability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very cool and they should keep doing this, but no one’s CPE is going to be able to do anywhere near this speed unless they plan on giving everyone large enterprises routers for home use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll show them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They either get paid by the click, or paid upfront if they’re big enough. Me watching them recite the marketing material for Raid, Nord, Raycon, Better Help, or any other scam/landfill they’ve chosen to sell doesn’t affect them financially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll show them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DNS-based Adblock like NextDNS (paid service), or PiHole (DIY option). Sadly that won’t skip sponsored segments though, you’ll still have to hear all about whatever scam or wish.com garbage they’ve decided to shill.