pinball_wizard
@pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 10 hours ago:
Exactly the plan!
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 10 hours ago:
Not brave at all. I assume I would need to tow it, haha!
- Comment on Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth” 1 day ago:
I really liked the addition to canon that the Kligon Empire is experiencing the tail and of a very long fall from grace. It explains a lot about how such a violent fuedal society could have science on par with the Federation.
I didn’t like just about everything else Discovery Klingon’s screen time. They were just so wearying to watch. They felt like some exhausting loud neighbors I have had.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 day ago:
I will get in on the bids. $3.25!
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 day ago:
Sure. Same. I could just throw a tarp over it on my way to the scrap yard, to protect my reputation.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 1 day ago:
Letting Google break the law for years with illegal anti-competitive practices is now hurting everyone else’s ability to earn money.
I wonder if we have the combined will to do anything about it, or if we will wait and hope the invisible hand of the market will fix it…
- Comment on In Movies and TV shows, its always ambiguous if someone is dead or merely knocked out. 5 days ago:
If someone gets decapitated or fed through a wood chipper then you know for sure they’re dead and not unconscious.
“How is he even walking right now, Tuck?”
“He looks like he’s gonna walk it off, he’s gonna be fine!”
- Comment on In Movies and TV shows, its always ambiguous if someone is dead or merely knocked out. 5 days ago:
It’s from Avatar: The Last Air Bender
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 6 days ago:
But will you join us on our quest for the Holy Grail?!
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 6 days ago:
And I’m pissed that you got to this comment first!
- Comment on TikTok fined $600 million for China data transfers that broke EU privacy rules 1 week ago:
Wow. Sometimes data breaches come from the companies we most expect them from.
If I told myself five years ago about this, I bet they would nod slightly in total lack of surprise.
- Comment on Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide 1 week ago:
I wonder if the price increase will be spent on making a chart that tells me which XBox is which?
I don’t know exactly when I got old, but I feel angry every time Xbox reminds me that I’m too old to know which is which.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 1 week ago:
It got worse after a closer look - realizing this is Sunshine, and not something earlier…
- Comment on Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get it, what does “a temporarily embarrassed founder” mean?
It’s a combination of “temporarily embarrassed future billionaire” with the (mostly mythical) “garage software business founder”.
Many software programmers (including me) spent the first decade of our careers sure we would produce a world-shaking program in our garage, and then found a company to scale it to the world.
- Comment on Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs 2 weeks ago:
“I fight for the user” has been lurking in the hindbrains of so many tech workers since the Tron years, somehow nestling comfortably alongside of the idea that “I don’t need a union, I’m a temporarily embarrassed founder.”
Oof. I don’t like this sentence, because I’m in it.
- Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief? 2 weeks ago:
In spite of the intentional similarities between the two games, the court concluded that Data East did not infringe upon Capcom’s copyright, as most of these similarities were not protected under copyright.
So 100% guilty of being a blatant copy, but not illegal.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 2 weeks ago:
Are least it’s evidence that worry they might need to need to influence anther election.
Silver lining…?
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 2 weeks ago:
I mean… Have you seen the stuff my parents share…?
I’m just thankful that my kids will never be embarrassed by me. (This is sarcasm. Of course they will!)
I actually hope my kids are at least a little embarrassed by me, someday. I hope they will embrace new kinds of pragmatic effective compassion and community, even if I’m unable up adapt.
- Comment on xkcd #3073: Tariffs 5 weeks ago:
Joking aside, antifa-whale was a really interesting character in an otherwise predictable film.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 5 weeks ago:
I wanted to like Cloud Atlas. It felt like it was fighting itself for air time. I’ll give it another try someday.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 5 weeks ago:
Tom Hanks is close, but Cloud Atlas exists.
- Comment on Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes 5 weeks ago:
I wanted to fact check this, but I guess Meta doesn’t have a tool for that, anymore. I’ll have to accept it at face value.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 5 weeks ago:
As a developer, we use AI “extensively” because it’s currently practically free and we rarely say no to free stuff.
It is, indeed, slightly better than last year’s autocomplete.
AI is also amazing at letting non-developers accomplish routine stuff that isn’t particularly interesting.
If someone is trying to avoid paying for one afternoon of my time, an AI subscription and months of trial and error are a new option for them. So I guess that’s pretty neat.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 weeks ago:
Can people see what groups you subscribe to on Lemmy?
Other users can see which ones you comment on. I haven’t run an instance, but I imagine admins of our home instances can see what groups we are subscribed to.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
But probably Windows will disable the possibillity to manipulate on kernel level either in the future.
Sort of, right?
We know Windows will continue cracking down on kernel module adds, since the Crowd strike disaster.
But I figure most anti-cheat will just shift to non-kernel and keep working.
Of course, at that point most anti-cheat of will then work under Proton, on Linux, too.
Which was maybe your point.
Okay, I don’t think I added anything for you, but I’ll leave this in case it helps someone reading along with us.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
SteamOS getting an official PC release is going to cause the first time I’ve spent a lot on PC hardware in a long while.
I’ll build it from parts of I must, but I really hope they go for a tie-in deal with Alienware or System76 and just let me buy a big pre-installed tower to play on.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
I too choose your path of not being tempted away from Linux by the lure of an ad-riddled Microsoft-account-locked expensive “upgrade” to Windows 11.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
I’ll second recommending Raspberry Pi as a secondary machine. That way your primary computer is still around as a fallback.
If you have a spare monitor to add, a Raspberry Pi 400 for $100.00 is a great way to try out Linux on dedicated hardware.
The Canakit version even comes with a printed welcome guide.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
But I dont use Windows 10 that often - I don’t see the need. I just have it as a backup OS. I have free enough diskspace on my SSD so currently not doing anything.
I did exactly that for many years. And then one day I had something that called for booting to a separate OS, so…
my solution
Trusting Windows with whatever it was still made me nervous, and I crammed an Ubuntu Live USB into a USB port and booted to that.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not settled on which distro
I distro hop a lot, myself, but I always hear nice things about Linux Mint. (And last time I used Mint, I had no complaints.)