PancakesCantKillMe
@PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 week ago:
Likely b/c your comment reads like you are stating OP is using it when you probably meant a more general public “you”? That’d be my guess. I think most, if not all, here would agree to not ever use alexa, that bitch.
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 week ago:
Fuck you! I’m eating!!
- Comment on Are you worried about your child’s screentime? Get a landline 1 week ago:
Yes, that seems to be the case. If you do cancel and move, the new owners won’t get a landline. The carrier in this particular area has also contracted out any rural service work.
- Comment on Are you worried about your child’s screentime? Get a landline 1 week ago:
In some areas you can no longer get a landline. I was discussing this with someone who lives rural and the phone company will not serve any of the addresses outside of towns.
That’s strange to me as I still have a POTS line and have never been without one through my different abodes. I will say that only a few calls come in on it, but I use it for outbound calls quite often. Almost all of the spam calls come in on the cellphone now.
I remember reading about the last hand-crank phone being removed (As an aside, my memory had this happening 20 years ago. Lol, it was 35!):
www.upi.com/Archives/1990/07/13/…/3557647841600/
“Smith said with hand-cranked telephones, ‘sometimes the connection cracks up and you only hear every third word.’”
Hey, just like my cell service!
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 1 week ago:
the root causes of enshittification can be defeated by organized collective action.
This is the fly in the ointment. I (and most here) do all the things to avoid enshittified products, but as you’ve mentioned it is work. Some of the “work” is fun because I am “technologia” oriented, but many of the people I know simply cannot be bothered to consider alternatives to these shit products. They don’t know it is shit and think that’s the only choice and follow along. I can’t blame them for their choices too much. Life is full of other things they are occupied with, so I do try and help when I can.
Many that are obligated to be advocates for the common man and these issues have abandoned their obligations to the people they are supposed to serve. They have essentially been enshittified too and we haven’t yet organized to solve that issue which seems to be the most important enshittification to date. More to come later, I am sure.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 1 week ago:
I don’t have anything to hide, but I don’t have anything I want to show either.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 1 week ago:
He’s considering reporting you for attempting to check out of the system. That is illegal and brings a stiff punishment.
- Comment on Wavy 2 weeks ago:
Yah, this one hits hard.
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 2 weeks ago:
You reminded me and (unintentionally) made me go read about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In the story, there is a child-catcher working for the Baron and Baroness of Vulgaria where children are illegal.
Whilst watching the child-catcher scene, I saw a familiar face. It was the toymaker who was portrayed by Benny Hill. That made me check the IMDB page and it was indeed him. Also of note: the story was written by Ian Flemming (screenplay by Roald Dahl) and one of the children was the (then) future singer Phil Collins.
/tangent
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 weeks ago:
No. 😬
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 weeks ago:
Gnatt Man’s super power is FaceSwarm. There is no defense against it.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 weeks ago:
That was the porn. You’re thinking of Iron Man: Irony Abounds.
- Comment on Name Your Favorite Marvel Movie: Wrong Answers Only 2 weeks ago:
Obligatory: That’s anti-Semitic!!
- Comment on Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 weeks ago:
Sharpie it up!!
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 2 weeks ago:
Drew is legit. No, he never actually played in the NBA. That’s just one of his long-running jokes (if that’s what you were referring to).
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 2 weeks ago:
Seems like a good time to plug one of my favored youtoobers, famed former NBA player Drew Gooden:
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for the comprehensive reply! I am curious: do the ponds not produce mosquitoes as well?
I live on a hillside and creating water spots might get tricky on our rocky soil. It could be done I suppose, but it’ll have to be the next place to try.
The forest must help. We have some thick western red cedar groves and do have a lot of dragonflies at times, but no water other than birdbaths. I love seeing them scanning the hillside and the few flat spots we have. I’m always rooting for them. Funny about the frogs. I like em too, but we don’t see many. Lizards and snakes mostly.
Thanks for the Ted talk! 😂
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the TLDR. Dragonflies are the worlds most efficient hunters.
You mentioned that you “use” them. Do you introduce them or do they exist naturally where you are? If so, are there ways to increase their numbers? We have some dragonflies, but we have far more mosquitoes! Just curious.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
He told me to get off his lawn and he’s keeping the ball.
- Comment on What's green and slimy and smells like bacon? 3 weeks ago:
I am not aware of bored panda or their reputation. But I have edited my comment to the preferred site. Thank you.
- Comment on What's green and slimy and smells like bacon? 3 weeks ago:
Okay, this got an actual laugh out of me. Imma hafta look up Max Garcia meow.
- Comment on We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation 3 weeks ago:
Maybe Bob is a slob at his job, but Rob has a knob on his hob at home.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 4 weeks ago:
bhphotovideo.com/…/seagate_st24000nt002_ironwolf_…
They are a retailer in NYC. Their specialties (historically) lie in photography and all the tech surrounding that.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 4 weeks ago:
Newegg was the nerd’s paradise 10+ years ago. I would spend thousands each year on my homelab back then. They had great customer service and bent over backwards for them. Then they got bought out and squeezed and passed that squeeze right down to the customers. Accusing customers of damaging parts, etc. Lots of slimeball stuff. They also wanted to be like amazon, so they started selling beads, blenders and other assorted garbage alongside tech gear.
After a couple of minor incidents with them I saw the writing on the wall and went to amazon who were somewhat okay then. Once amazon started getting bad, I turned to B&H and fleaBay. I don’t buy as much electronic stuff as I used to, but when I do these two are working…so far.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 4 weeks ago:
Yes, fuck Newegg (and amazon too). I’ve been using B&H for disks and I have no complaints about them. They have the Seagate Ironwolf Pro 24TB at $479 currently, but last week it was on sale for $419. (I only look at 5yr warranty disks.)
I was not in a position to take advantage as I’ve already made my disk purchase this go around, so I’ll wait for the next deep discount to hit if it is timely.
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 4 weeks ago:
“The net itself measures 3.5 by 3.5 meters, with an effective range of up to 25 meters.”
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 4 weeks ago:
Excess coffee cups received as gifts work too.
- Comment on Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS 5 weeks ago:
I found Mint rather simple to install. That said, I am a techie. I am using several different distros in my house, but I wanted to live in Mint for a while to see how well a non-techie might fare. My reasoning was that since Ubuntu (Mint’s parent) is rather ubiquitous, there is more development and more attention paid to support and troubleshoot issues. So far, so good. Yes, being tech literate does help, but I think a non-techie could live with Linux. And over time, the environment will become more known like Windows is now.
- Comment on Microsoft Says Its New AI Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors 1 month ago:
Have you tried swapping out the part (CPU/videocard/memory/random component) whilst the patient is still running?
Doctors do this all the time! ;)
- Comment on I dont need to camp, I am homeless enough already. 1 month ago:
One year whilst out group camping, one of the campers awoke in the middle of the night to relieve himself. He was still very drunk from the previous evening’s festivities and thought the opening of the tent was right there. Well, it was the *new * opening for sure now.