DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 6 hours ago:
You’re not going to get “improvements” in Windows, that should be clear by now. Crystal clear, I would think.
Linux IS good, and today, the “paradigm shift” is more like a gentle learning curve with people holding your hand every step.
I’m an old geezer who made the jump a year ago, it really isn’t hard. Literally, the only thing I miss is the big preview window in the file manager. Big previews for all of the major formats is a big plus for Windows, but not one that kept me on their side.
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 6 hours ago:
This shows you how billionaires imagine middle class to be. They’re completely out of touch, as expected.
Never defend a billionaire, they would never defend you. Don’t defend them, idolize them, or trust them. Billionaires care about money and the power it provides, NOTHING ELSE. That’s the main prerequisite for becoming filthy rich, after all.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 10 hours ago:
Wait, there’s actually humans working at Discord? I thought the entire thing was run by bots.
- Comment on Pronunciation is important 3 days ago:
At least you didn’t pronounce it “gif”.
- Comment on Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters 6 days ago:
Tesla is a shitty company, and everyone who works there is shitty. Same for SpaceX. They don’t have any excuses left.
Anyone who buys a Tesla from this point forward is also shitty.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Statistically, he’ll die of poor health in the next four years. He’s very unhealthy, and very old. Medicine can only do so much.
- Comment on This is unfair! 2 weeks ago:
Oh. I’m making a scene. A scene covered in gravy, and a side of soft serve ice cream and sprinkles. Lots of sprinkles.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
I jumped ship to Linux Mint almost a year ago. No Microsoft products live here anymore. No regrets.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
How about we disallow it completely, until it’s proven to be SAFER than a human driver. Because, why even allow it if it’s only as safe?
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
Five years ago, you could not have brought this up without Musk simps defending it.
- Comment on There are probably fediverse instances being run by governments for surveillance purposes 3 weeks ago:
I use NoScript and uBlock. For this page, there are eighteen different scripts that want to run, but I only allow the two that seem necessary for basic functionality.
Apart from using Tor and allowing zero scripts to run, we have little hope of even pseudo-anonymity on the internet, and increasingly in our every-day lives.
We, as a people, tolerate the surveillance state as long as they increase the surveillance incrementally over generations, distract us with shiny toys, and keep us fighting amongst ourselves over irrelevant subjects.
- Comment on Do animals think we're cute? 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s genetic for all mammals to find all baby mammals cute. Adults, IDK.
- Comment on YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life. 4 weeks ago:
40+ years, and I’m still on number one. I laminated mine, because I’m a rebel that way.
- Comment on how is it to work everyday but Wednesdays and Thursdays? 4 weeks ago:
Split days off sucks, from personal experience, don’t do that. Two days together off in the middle of the week is good if you don’t care about a social life.
- Comment on Bernard 4 weeks ago:
I’m gonna miss Danny.
- Comment on If you think that you are always right remember you could actually be stupid and not know it 4 weeks ago:
Do you know how long it took me to figure out I’m stupid? What am I, stupid?
Oh, wait…
- Comment on If you think that you are always right remember you could actually be stupid and not know it 4 weeks ago:
Well, this hurt. So, there’s that.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 4 weeks ago:
He actually thinks I’m defending fucking TRUMP when i point out Dems fuckups.
Herein lies the biggest problem. We’ve taken up sides along the single line drawn for us, and are therefore blinded to the fact that this is a class war. You can say “it’s not red versus blue”, and get nods of agreement, and then in the next sentence, they’ll say shit like this, showing they don’t really get it.
- Comment on People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes 4 weeks ago:
We might as well just ban porn altogether.
- Comment on People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes 4 weeks ago:
That was the point, methinks.
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 4 weeks ago:
I switched my browser over to it to see how I like it. So far, so good.
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 4 weeks ago:
You can also download it at Github without giving up your email address or agreeing to some dumb TOS.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
I paid for a lifetime membership to Plex in 2012–$75. I stopped using it around 2015, mostly because I hated that I didn’t have access to software running on my server, meant to serve my media, without an internet connection. I knew that meant worse was coming in the future.
I don’t regret switching to Jellyfin.
- Comment on Good morning. What's wrong honey? Part III 5 weeks ago:
I think this is the third time this pic has got me.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 weeks ago:
“Evil attacks”, like we’re killing puppies, or something.
It’s vandalism against machines, and the only victim here is the insurance companies.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 weeks ago:
They’ve become sentient, and are committing suicide.
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point. 5 weeks ago:
Amazon doesn’t sell anything you can’t buy somewhere else for the same price. You have no excuse to keep using Amazon. Correction, I’m sure people who buy from Amazon have excuses, but they aren’t good ones.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 5 weeks ago:
Intelligence and knowledge are two different things. Or, rather, the difference between smart and stupid people is how they interpret the knowledge they acquire. Both can acquire knowledge, but stupid people come to wrong conclusions by misinterpreting the knowledge. Like LLMs, 40% of the time, apparently.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
We should also get rid of starter motors. Who needs them? We can just hand crank the car to start it, like real men did back in the day.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
I held on to my iPhone 4S as long as I could. Now I have a 12 “mini”. I know I’m in the minority, though, because I don’t spend all day staring at my phone. I do like having all the features, but I use them only occasionally–say, once a week or less. I prefer my internet use on my gaming computer with a big monitor, and a full-size keyboard.
I expect I’ll end up with a huge phone for my next one, that I don’t need, just to keep access to the functionality. Like everything else in life, there’s always compromises to be made.