atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 3 days ago:
I grew up with the Magic Eye books and have never been able to do cross-view as a result.
- Comment on Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after 'proving innocence’ 4 days ago:
Nintendo tracked the UID to a different Switch in a completely different geographic location logged in with a different account tied to a different bank card and still bricked it. Even Windows licenses aren’t that much of an asshole.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 6 days ago:
This has $XX on it. Can you put it in my checking account?
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 1 week ago:
I had one of those preloaded cash cards once, my credit union was more than happy to charge it the amount on the card and transfer that to my account, if there was a fee involved they must have eaten it.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 week ago:
let’s ignore XP as a more glossy consumer version of 2000
That feels like a dangerous argument;
- 2000 = NT 5.0
- XP = NT 5.1
- XP x64 = NT 5.2
- Vista = NT 6.0
- 7 = NT 6.1
- 8 = NT 6.2
- 8.1 = NT 6.3
- 10 = NT 6.4 (Later NT 10.0 then 1507 for July 2015 when they made the switch to ‘agile’.)
Unless you are prepared to argue that everything since has just been an updated version of Vista.
- Comment on Milking dust 1 week ago:
The books, Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, are very good and very different from the movies. I also recommend Disclosure by the same author.
- Comment on Enough is enough 2 weeks ago:
Not OP but just to hazard a guess:
Alcohol evaporates quickly. It’s probably there for the same reason it’s used in dry shampoos and antiperspirants; to make something that sprays but drys into a power or thickens to a gel in a very short period of time.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 weeks ago:
That Xbox would become Microsoft’s Steam has been the prevailing prediction for the better part of 10 years. I am immediately dubious of anybody who’s opinion is that a more capable than the Xbox device (as far as availability of games) has no reason to be purchased.
- Comment on Commodore acquired for a ‘low seven figure’ price — new (acting) CEO comes from the retro community 2 weeks ago:
I feel like somebody already tried this a few years ago. I vaguely remember there being an Atom powered C64. I wonder what their product line will be like this time.
- Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 3 weeks ago:
Probably;
Wood structures fair better in high wind and in earthquakes. Things we have far more of in North America.
- Comment on Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know it had a name. I have seen this so much on Lemmy lately.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
Modern cars (in the US) are required to have an OBD-II Port for On-Board Diagnostics. I always assumed most cars these days were just sending some or all of the real-time OBD data to the manufacturer. GM definitely has been.
- Comment on Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow. 3 weeks ago:
The Digital Dark Age is definitely a thing.
- Comment on Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do. 3 weeks ago:
I am sure the likes of Trump Mobile or NewsMax would be happy to have it.
- Comment on 🐇 🐇 🐇 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t really start hating it until not doing it for 13 hours a day meant losing my job because, and I quote, “we can have meetings all day because you have all night to finish your work”.
- Comment on Aging is fun 3 weeks ago:
If this is you, try drinking more water.
- Comment on Always there 3 weeks ago:
“After these messages, we’ll be ‘light’ back!”
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I mean it never hit its rated speed. Also that many modern sites didn’t work any better than they did on the dialup anyway.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 3 weeks ago:
My grandparents lived in rural OK and had dial-up until 2018 when they finally were able to get a 2mbps DSL line. It really wasn’t much faster than the dial-up.
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 4 weeks ago:
Amazon is a technology company now. For a long time the storefront and logistics have been a tech demo for Amazon Web Services.
For instance: FreeRTOS
- Comment on The real question is, which color? 4 weeks ago:
It takes all kinds to make a world; There are even people who don’t like chocolate and would just prefer the peanuts…
- Comment on Ok smartass 4 weeks ago:
They don’t look the same and it doesnt look like differences that can be explained by photoshop.
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 4 weeks ago:
I think I would be more okay with having to undo a screw or two as long as it was still just as easy to get the battery out. The way the Advance SP and DSs handled it. Lithium batteries are slightly more unfriendly to being handled than AAs and this is a device aimed at children. Your point stands though.
- Comment on Wanna tell the class the joke 4 weeks ago:
I actually knew a guy who had a stroke fairly young and lost partial use off the right side of his body but regained some of his mobility. His car had the gas on the left.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 4 weeks ago:
Nokia didn’t suddenly go all in on Windows Phone, they were bought by Microsoft.
There were only ever like 2 phones that used MeeGo. Nokia primarily used an OS called Symbian before they were bought out.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 4 weeks ago:
Remind me, who is it that gets laid off first when the line starts going down…
- Comment on Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis 4 weeks ago:
Yes and no, warp speed only needed to exist in the form it did because Trump had fired the existing pandemic response team.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 4 weeks ago:
Where I am from several years ago the city renamed the Christmas Parade to Holiday Parade in a bid to be inclusive of other winter holidays. A small subset of citizens got butt hurt and have held a competing Christmas Parade several times.
Apparently the war on Christmas is acknowledging that there are other options.
- Comment on Jeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content" 5 weeks ago:
I think you might be misremembering; the original iPhone had YouTube, maps (though it lacked a GPS for whatever reason), a camera, Safari, and even a primitive HTML based App Store that paved the way for modern PWAs. Games like Bejeweled were available months before iOS 2.0 came with the App Store.
The Moto ROKR was an iPod that made calls.