MuskyMelon
@MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 1 day ago:
I guess I’m just old school and pretty impervious to buying shit I don’t need.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 4 days ago:
Well if they’re collating data, not that difficult to add a new table for gun ownership.
- Comment on Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans 1 week ago:
“Let” is that the wrong word. Microsoft was setup specifically to make BASIC for the Altair. DOS they stumbled into because CP/M dropped the ball. Every other product, they’ve been chasing new markets that they didn’t think of being in.
I’m critical about Xbox handheld/portable because it was so obvious that that’s where the demand would come from.
However, they’ve been better at monetizing their other software and services better than anyone else though.
- Comment on Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans 1 week ago:
And how many years since the Switch? Even the Steam Deck was an open secret for years.
- Comment on Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans 1 week ago:
It’s their own fault they couldn’t see a demand for handheld gaming.
- Comment on Life hack 1 week ago:
Won’t work. Too many different systems between different airlines and aircraft. Pilots won’t be rated to use the right equipment and that’s the last thing you want.
- Comment on Life hack 1 week ago:
Airlines don’t typically want to delay aircraft; they usually have to due to mechanical or other issues they have to check. The more the aircraft is in the air, the more money is made.
If you could see the list of delay causes, you’d think twice about questioning delays.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 1 week ago:
2, 5, 9
- Comment on Amazonian tribe that received Starlink satellite internet sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts. 1 week ago:
I would say that porn is less damaging than social media at this point.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In the 1950s, Louis I. Dublin (1882-1969), statistician and vice president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, established tables of normal weights for clients, after the company noted that more and more claims were coming from their obese policyholders [1].
They may not have created it but they definitely weaponized it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
BMI was developed by the insurance companies to classify people as obese to increase their premiums.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 2 weeks ago:
If it was Linux, you’d still need sudo rights to install a driver and you’ll have to run through the same mousetrap, just Linux not Windows.
- Comment on Color-correcting algorithm removes the effect of water in underwater scenes 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to try this on my dive photos without red filters
- Comment on Congress moves to cut off states' AI regulations: House Republicans advanced a 10-year moratorium on state AI rules. 2 weeks ago:
Where are all the libertarians and states-rights people now?
- Comment on Nvidia seeks Shanghai R&D site after US chip curbs, say sources 2 weeks ago:
Because Nvidia wants to make money, regardless of national boundaries.
- Comment on WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere 3 weeks ago:
Still one of my favorite memes of all time.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I replayed it from the point of no return to see all the different possibilities and the most depressing was the one where you give all your mods and end up as an NPC.
- Comment on Hot sauce is for Dad to protect his food from scavenging by lesser beings 3 weeks ago:
Choppy olives and anchovy pizza was kryptonite to dorm mates in college.
- Comment on Trump would cut CISA budget by $491M amid ‘censorship’ claim 4 weeks ago:
America, ya’ll are fucked.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 4 weeks ago:
The Prince was a warning of what could happen. The Drumpf is the result of ignoring the warnings.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Sony Mavica FD91 was the bomb back in the day!
- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 5 weeks ago:
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Get rid of the Cyberduck
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Fix open issues with existing cars, not come up with new shit to avoid fixing stuff.
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E-muscle car.
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- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 5 weeks ago:
I, the MuskyMelon, officially announce my candidacy for CEO of Tesla!!!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Not just the oligarchs. Lots of rich people do the same for tax breaks or fear of going to hell for the evil they’ve done.
- Comment on Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs 5 weeks ago:
Full stack cause most developers are shitty database architects. I’ve seen so many problems at this bedrock level.
- Comment on Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs 5 weeks ago:
Full-stack and DevOps were enshittification events in my book.
- Comment on Vintage 1 month ago:
More desirable than the new ones. Looks like it could withstand someone spitting on it.
- Comment on Battery giant CATL showcases three innovations: 1500km range battery, 520km in 5 minutes ultra-fast charging, and 2025 mass-production sodium-ion battery 1 month ago:
For Americans, that 932 miles range and 323 miles ultra-fast charging, not that you’ll get to enjoy that on your freeways in the next four years.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 1 month ago:
Too bad the US can’t import any of it.
- Comment on With great power comes great responsibility, but small accountability. 1 month ago:
Welcome to the ARCI matrix.
Accountability > Responsibility > Consulted > Informed