atomicbocks
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- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 days ago:
Fair enough, though modern cameras are much smaller:
Dimensions of a recent Sony mirrorless camera, shown without lens.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 days ago:
The line between smartphone and dumbphone has always been very blurry.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 days ago:
I’ve seen a few devices go by recently trying to capture that use case. Some have looked promising but I still have a Zune.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 days ago:
There is nothing about those that can’t run on KaiOS, which comes with Google maps and runs on most dumb phones on the market today.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 days ago:
I highly recommend just getting a real camera. The pictures I took with my camera 11 years ago are still better quality than an iPhone can manage today. Modern cameras are far far better.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 days ago:
Sony still makes an Android equivalent.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 days ago:
I really hate when people are like “just stop” like everyone has impeccable self control and executive function.
- Comment on If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. 6 days ago:
Hmmm… but taking your argument to the opposite end; the normal consumption of a cucumber may not typically harm animals but I think there is an argument to be had that the normal consumption, and production, of fossil fuels typically does.
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 1 week ago:
This is the same reason I haven’t switched. My parents use it to watch the local OTA channels and I have zero intention of supporting a site to site VPN on their home network and multiple mobile devices.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 2 weeks ago:
They are cherry pits though, not beans.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Idk about the person you are replying to but I have spent 15 years trying to get out of the state that I am in. It’s really hard to move out of low cost of living areas to higher ones without a job and a lot of planning.
- Comment on Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome! 2 weeks ago:
I just mean don’t rely on backups that you haven’t proven you can restore from. Practice doing a restore when you are happy with your solution to make sure it works.
The only thing worse than losing all your data because you did’t back it up is losing all your data because you didn’t make sure your backup was restorable.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
When people were first using it they were coming from DOS or old machines. Many were using a mouse for the first time. It wasn’t simpler to them.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
Office would have a learning curve too if you hadn’t been using it since you were a child.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 3 weeks ago:
Whenever you do something that results in the death of another human there needs to be an investigation. From what I can tell no culpability has been found yet, but there is at least some evidence that this person was being held against their will.
However, lots of European countries treat violence like the US treats porn so this could easily be something similar to the pearl clutching that would happen here if somebody was asphyxiated during a BDSM livestream.
- Comment on Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have time to visit the hospital right now so why don’t you check it the separate Wikipedia articles yourself.
- Comment on Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t being pedantic, It’s an important distinction. You don’t have to think so though, you don’t have to be rude about other people’s opinions.
- Comment on Child sex abuse victim begs Elon Musk to remove links to her images 3 weeks ago:
Not the Internet, the World Wide Web. But yes.
- Comment on Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome! 3 weeks ago:
Then make sure you can actually restore the data.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 weeks ago:
Often yes, but not always.
And, bonus HP douche.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 weeks ago:
Anybody can download Windows images too. That doesn’t mean the OS is free.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 3 weeks ago:
Sega had an earlier console in 1983 called the SG-1000.
- Comment on The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8. 3 weeks ago:
I mean… Corel still looks the same too…
- Comment on The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8. 3 weeks ago:
Would you prefer something Microsoft has cooked up recently?
- Comment on IYKYK 4 weeks ago:
Yes, we have even made bacteria that excretes fuels. But nothing that competes with just pulling hydrocarbons out of the ground at scale like we have with diamonds.
The main scaling issue is that the constituent carbon still has to come from somewhere, and one of the main carbon sources we have is… oil.
The best solution is to move away from carbon based fuels.
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 4 weeks ago:
Indeed, the models I have seen have a very short battery life, or check in infrequently, or only check in when movement is detected, or use cell signal triangulation to save battery, etc.
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen some pretty small GPS trackers with cell modems, I wouldn’t be surprised if these were that instead depending on the price.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but luckily by the mid 80s it was completely digitized and just there in the basement for reference.
- Comment on Me too. 4 weeks ago:
Conscious (sentience / sapience) is an ineffable, unmeasurable, quality. There is no way to say that one sentient being is more or less sentient than another. In fact there is no way to tell that I am not the only consciousness in existence but it feels rude not to give others the benefit of the doubt. We can create neurons and even small brains in the lab but we don’t have any way to instill life into that neuron. Consciousness simply emerges out of the constituent parts of being alive, possibly even as a result of the interactions of such a complex system.
