TheFeatureCreature
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
Hello!
I’m a nonbinary Canadian Blender artist! You can find my work here: Galleries, commissions, prints, and more!
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- Comment on Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages 3 days ago:
Do you know how I can tell when I have an incoming call or message? My phone, which is in my pocket, makes a noise and vibrates. Why the absolute hell would I want my vacuum cleaner to notify me of a call?
And the washer too? Do they seriously think people just sit around at home taking calls every 5 minutes that they need every appliance to be able to make/take phonecalls?
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 6 days ago:
Elizabeth Holmes comes to mind. She manoeuvred herself into a position of wealth and power by defrauding other rich people and got herself 11 years in prison for it. That’s 11 years more than most other rich scumbags get.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 1 week ago:
Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
- Comment on Nvidia creates gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs on your GPU, locally. 1 week ago:
Is it missing ROPs too?
- Comment on How effective would sanctions on US by the international community be? 1 week ago:
Depends on by whom and how long. The US produces a lot of things but also imports a lot of critical goods and materials as well.
If Canada, Mexico, China, and the EU & UK all banded together for sanctions or embargoes? The US economy would be pushing daisies pretty quick.
But the countries issuing those actions wouldn’t be in good shape either. Trade wars are a 2-way street.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
This is why blaming conservatives or getting them to admit fault doesn’t work. It only makes them become more defensive and entrenched.
A better approach is to appeal to their victim complex. IE: Instead of “Trump is ruining this country and its your fault for voting for him!” try “Dude, Trump is screwing us! This isn’t the great America we were promised!” or some variation of that. Gotta use different tactics.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
There are. Heaps of them.
The US is just a big place and very spread out. And the ruling government and its media conglomerates are trying to keep them out of the media.
- Comment on X is having an up and down Monday 3 weeks ago:
trying to flush a turd but it keeps floating back up to the surface.
also
X competitors like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon have so far remained active and accessible, giving X users alternative platforms to jump to while X works on its issues.
Why wait? Jump ship and never look back!
- Comment on Do spiders poop ? 4 weeks ago:
😎
- Comment on Do spiders poop ? 4 weeks ago:
Yes they do. Every living thing does. Even plants do in their own way.
I keep Fish, shrimp, snails, and isopods and they all do too. Fish and shrimp actually poop quite a lot, especially the latter. I don’t think I could ever eat shrimp after seeing how many turds those things produce.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 4 weeks ago:
Beautiful news.
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 4 weeks ago:
That explains all the AI crap they’ve been chasing for a while now. They’ve been trying to juice up the value to make it look appealing to potential buyers because you can basically slap “AI” on anything and it instantly shoots up in value.
Discord is effectively dead if this goes through.
- Comment on When Lemmy got named did no one think that the "lemming" association might alienate people? 4 weeks ago:
Well, I mean…
It’s considerably better than “Redditor”.
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 4 weeks ago:
Not going to happen. Not for a long time. As much as we would want it to.
The phone market is brutally, viciously competitive and an outsider trying to jump in without Android or iOS is almost guaranteed to fail. We used to have numerous options from all kinds of companies that came with a variety of operating systems but each one fell to the duopoly.
People are glued to their phones and social media more than ever. I would expect an attempt to get them to move to a non-American mobile operating system and phone would fail very quickly. Blackberry did used to make their own line of phones that ran BB10 and they were excellent. Nobody bought them though, or at least not enough to justify their continued production. Even fewer bought the following Android-powered BB phones and eventually Blackberry pulled out of the market. The same story for Windows mobile phones.
There are plenty of options for non-American cellphones and I’m sure in the coming years we will see Canadian ones too. The problem is that they will almost certainly run Android which means American control over your data and feeds. Getting Canadians to accept a sacrifice in short-term phone functionality to regain digital freedom in the long run is a tall order.
- Comment on T-Mobile’s parent company is making an ‘AI Phone’ with Perplexity Assistant 4 weeks ago:
This will flop so hard. AI is largely an investor-bait thing; actual consumers are lukewarm to it at best. Especially if they have to actually pay (hundreds) for it.
- Comment on Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China? 4 weeks ago:
Fixed.
- Comment on Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China? 4 weeks ago:
Firstly, I’d imagine China is pleased to see the US becoming weaker on the world stage. At least, in the long term.
But China has its own problems at home right now and the US, which is about to have a lot less spending power, is a huge customer of China’s. Jinping is likely going to take a “wait and see” approach and assess the shifting situation. Any amount of China and Russia getting close would likely be purely from an “enemy of my enemy is my friend” perspective and I doubt it would last. None of the major powers mingle for very long before stepping on each other’s feet.
Jinping isn’t stupid. I’m sure he’s well aware that Putin would betray him in an instant for power and that Trump is both a Russian asset and a moron.
- Comment on What are the exact ramifications and consequences of the recent meeting with Zelenskyy and Trump/JD? 4 weeks ago:
We really don’t know right now. The US essentially broadcast to the world that they are both diplomatically weak and compromised by the Russians and cannot be trusted or relied on. The meeting with Zelenskyy and the recent trade spats has indicated that the US can and will turn on its historic allies if Putin tells them to.
Beyond that point, everything is pure speculation. My guess? The US will continue to erode from within due to further economic and social disintegration. They are looking at a historic economic collapse which will severely impact the lives of US citizens. I can see them beginning to put increased pressure, possibly militarily, on Mexico and Canada as Trump uses the resources in said countries as a bargaining chip to placate US businesses that will start putting pressure on Trump. Once reality of the situation starts to hit the average US citizen then I think there is a very real possibility of civil revolt.
As for the EU, my guess is they will see a burst of increased unity and solidarity much like how Canada is now. Whether that lasts or will be acted upon remains to be seen, but I think it has become obvious to the EU leaders that Russia is a hostile power on their doorstep and they are on their own; the US will not help them. They will now have to contend with meddling and interference from both Russia and the US as both seek to disrupt and cause unrest in Europe. If the EU plays its cards right they could emerge from this stronger and more prosperous than ever. de Gaulle was absolutely right about the USA.
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 4 weeks ago:
They have a tendency to be cocky, headstrong, and ignorant of the greater world and people around them.
I have lost count of the amount of Americans I have met and spoken to that think them and their country are the centre of the universe. And I don’t mean that in a mocking or mean way - many of them were amazingly nice people but they legitimately did not know any better.
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 5 weeks ago:
Christ, the game industry is absolutely cooked.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster 5 weeks ago:
AMD seriously needs to start taking driver support seriously.
Both my dad and myself have (begrudgingly) moved to Nvidia because we both got hit with constant driver timeout crashes. My dad also got rapidly flashing black and green screens countless times. I use my PC for work purposes so that kind of crap is unacceptable; I need absolute reliability that I can depend on.
Myself and so many other customers would love to see better bang-for-buck options in the GPU space like the good old days, but AMD really needs to sort this shit out. Intel has the excuse of being a brand new player that is working entirely from scratch. AMD has been in the GPU game for decades and should know better. I mean, christ, their CPU division is basically printing money right now.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a bit harder to know what information Apple collects and what they do with it because they’re more obscure about it. Unlike Google that immediately sells your information to the lowest bidder to slam ads in your face at every possible opportunity.
The lack of sideloading is indeed a large drawback. I do miss the apps I used to get off F-Droid when I had an Android phone. I’ve mostly replaced them with, well, nothing. I use my phone less and less as apps, and the internet in general, become more foul and toxic places to be.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 5 weeks ago:
Not an American, but I ended up with an iPhone simply because the cost difference between it and an Android device via my carrier wasn’t that big. It was also a previous generation model at a steep discount which helped a lot.
I am not a fan of Apple but if a company is going to screw me then at least Apple isn’t so in-my-face about it like Google is. Google’s data harvesting and ads are absolutely atrocious.
I used Blackberry right up until they ditched BB10. Sometimes I wonder if I should just get a feature phone because modern smartphones are awful things.
- Comment on YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ is for those that already have a music subscription 1 month ago:
They’ve needed this for a long time.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
In the short term: Yes. Unless the US military decides to remove a sitting president but that is extremely unlikely.
In the long term: Yes, but also no. Fascism is extremely inefficient and expensive and the US is destroying its own economy and pushing away all of its allies and former trade partners. Things will get very rough but it will not last forever. There will be a lot of rebuilding that needs to be done.
Unfortunately this has been a long time coming. The United States has never really been united and it was only a matter of time before another possible civil war loomed on the horizon.
- Comment on HP to Acquire Parts of Humane, Ai Pin Startup From Ex-Apple Managers, for $116 Million 1 month ago:
Overpaying.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 month ago:
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 month ago:
Ditching gmail remains one of the best choices I’ve made in years.
- Comment on French video game developers stage first industry-wide strike 1 month ago:
We love to see it.
- Comment on blocklist for AI music on youtube. 1 month ago:
Awesome! Thank you. Always appreciate new ways to block AI trash.
And trash in general. That addon will be very handy.