BarbecueCowboy

@BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes it is just about choosing which fight you want to have today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People are downvoting you because you’re telling them that the law isn’t fair, sucks my friend.

  I do wonder if Xvideos or some of these other companies that are primarily international have any infrastructure in the US/Florida that could be affected by a ruling of some sort. I feel like there might be something there depending on how they’re taking payment for Xvideos Red.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastercard is living the corporate dream. They’ve colluded their way to a near monopoly and don’t have to care about the value of their brand. They just have to be invisible enough that they don’t pull heat for something or other from various governments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hygiene⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be just poop, but combining old man smell, body odor and mold will make some gnarly stench. Still someone needs to get out the cleaning supplies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  New warning label unlocked: Do not eat the Batteries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re basing your value judgement on the price of similar games on the market right now then no, it’s very very unlikely to be worth 70. There are critically acclaimed open world games that will likely beat this on content and potential enjoyment / play time for $5-10 right now.

  Realistically, we’re paying for the novelty though, if you’re desperate for something new it might work. I told myself my price point was $60, but there will probably be some sort of discount on the way to or shortly after launch day for the PC version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fun and I recommend it, but I’m hesitant to say you can ‘replace’ your existing systems with it. You’ll probably mostly be able do what you want to do, but we’re still in the enthusiast stage and there’s going to be annoyances and frustrations. Home assistant is also one of the easier things to setup as far as self hosting goes, but you’re going to pick up some skills on the path to getting it working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who would typically be expected to push back against collective shout also typically wouldn’t be expected to do anything effective whereas the people involved with collective shout are the type of people who give politicians money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also like, have we all forgotten about the possibility of someone having two phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People have tried to setup a federated alternative to Tinder/etc and other things, but population is still real low and we’re still kind of weird. The sparse demographic info we have is also more than a bit skewed, it’s rough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t even have to make it symmetrical my friend, I am still down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good is relative, you forget all coffee you’ve had previously and keep access to your current coffee. All other coffee is permanently worse than this one going forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it lets me breathe properly and consistently living in the south, I don’t even care, throw another one on the other side of my face too as a backup just in case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does technology create new problems for each one it solves?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an idea in marketing that if you create a solution, you also need to create new problems that you can market. For example, you buy a printer to allow you to print at home but now you need to buy overpriced proprietary ink. Or maybe you buy a phone, but now what can we do to make sure you come back to buy a new phone in 2 years? Truly solving a problem sells something once and that will not satisfy the infinite growth mindset.

  It’s a concept up there with Edward Bernays work in popularizing applying propaganda techniques to modern advertising as the idea that may have done the most to really push capitalism to its worst possible end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max Hardcore and the Zodiac killer give updates on likely preventable flood deaths⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  THAT MAN ATE MY SON.

  I’m just saying, it’s hard to prove that he’s not the Zodiac Killer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone thinks their condition normal before finding out it's not.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that was the problem, but it was just sleep apnea causing most of it. Try forcing yourself to sleep on your side, maybe look into a sleep study if you have the option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s been a rumor floating around that it never existed as a game anyways and that the footage they do have is faked. It’s definitely a bit out there, but with the way they’ve acted about it, I kinda believe it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kind of the thing, we want to think they’re a bunch of sexless losers, but the basic tenets of advice you get from the manosphere will probably get you laid. Following manosphere advice works because it’s the exact same advice you just laid out but packaged in a more attractive and focused manner. It just happens to be with a side of right wing politics and more than a bit of misogyny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Executives everywhere are. ChatGPT is near perfectly suited for handling a very large portion of executive level tasks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The demo feels fairly complete. I lost a ton of time in it, you could play it right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I already addressed that, but more than one party can shoulder blame at the same time, not everything is black and white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds nice, and yeah, that’s primarily publisher responsibility, but developers are allowed to talk to their publishers about pricing strategy. Framing it as if they have zero responsibility is a bit of a cop out. Limited comments and we don’t have the full story, but it makes it kind of sound like they didn’t even bring it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RimWorld - Odyssey will bring spaceship building, exploration and a lot more content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, not wrong, is kind of annoying, but is also cool. SOS2 has always been a special mod in rimworld, great concept but long gaps between breaking updates and fixes. I totally get it too, the scope on SOS2 is kinda crazy for a mod, it’s a lot. If you were going to replicate a rimworld mod as DLC, I can’t imagine a better one to pick.

  I do wonder how the SOS2 team is reacting. I hope they take the opportunity to scale back on some of the pieces they have to maintain and try to bring some of the stuff that doesn’t make it into the official DLC into the newer versions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemmy.blahaj.zone has setup a piefed instance.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The ‘features for growing healthy communities’ feels a bit opinionated in a way that makes me feel kinda gross overall in some places. I get what they’re going for, and I want to be on their side… Maybe it’s just the wording that gives me pause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Living a lie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been too long, I don’t know if I remember my voice any other way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like most of the items aren’t going to be real troubleshooting.

  It’s been a good bit since I worked the support desk, but even with generic microsoft updates, most of the ‘questions’ were basically the worst users finding a way to say ‘It used to be this and I want it to be this way, hold my hand for an hour while telling me its not this way anymore until I get tired and then complain to someone else’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am not a builder… but that does not seem right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, it’s been awhile, but I’ve been an electrician. When you get a foreman who has made it to that special level of asshole, your give a fuck starts to run out incredibly fast. Even if you’re not the kind of guy who would do this yourself, someone working with you probably is.

  With that said, I don’t think this would pass code, but I’m honestly curious as to which part it violates specifically. The wire doesn’t look like it’s secured properly at least, but this might be one of those things where this is where they learn that they need to write some new passages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Trakt as a concept, I’ve used it sporadically, but their pricing was always optimistic, even at $30 a year. It has worked for them overall so far because it’s a well made project and people like them, but the value proposition of paying $5 a month now for something like Trakt feels crazy. It’s hard to look at different types of services at that price point and come to the conclusion that Trakt is comparable. There are actual streaming services creating some of the shows that show up on Trakt that are very similar in price (Dropout as a good example).

  Only rational thing I can think of with this recent decision is that they’re tired of running Trakt and hoping to sell it off or close it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse.com is available for sale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If every Lemmy user donated $1…

  You still wouldn’t have enough, but you’d be close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like they’re trying to do whatever they can to replicate the previous functionality, but without the company who made it getting in the way, the hardware itself is kind of interesting. I hear the battery life sucks and nothing on it is exactly novel, but I’d be interested to see what people could do with it’s fancy display options combined with everything else.