DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 day ago:
We could, you know, just wait and see.
*ducks*
- Comment on You just couldn't be satisfied with slow and easy 1 day ago:
That’s where you hang your favorite poster until you move out.
Either that, or tell her the truth, she’ll understand.
- Comment on We have all done THIS 1 day ago:
I did it a couple of times. Just went home and never went back, never called, blocked the number. I highly recommend it if you have the means.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 days ago:
You can roll your own with Magic Mirror
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 days ago:
I’ve heard that people spend quite a bit of time in the kitchen cooking and socializing. I don’t know anyone who does that. I don’t know anyone.
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 5 days ago:
It would certainly make their job harder. We could go back to invisible ink and writing by hand.
- Comment on Guys, I fucked up 5 days ago:
I cracked a mirror five years ago, but it didn’t come off the wall. I thought it didn’t count.
- Comment on Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out 6 days ago:
I haven’t been out to eat since the pandemic. I got used to cooking my own meals. The prices have gotten ridiculous for what you get, and the service sucks. They can all go out of business for all I care.
- Comment on Splashed again 6 days ago:
Hold it straight down, is what I tell myself every time.
- Comment on You should start doing this today 1 week ago:
Over the years, there have been fewer and fewer people in my life. Sometimes I told them to fuck off, sometimes they told me to.
Now that I’m retired, there is no one left, except my adult son, and the cat. It’s fine.
I do what I want to do, when I want to do it, and answer to no one. No compromising, no tongue biting, no one pushing me to do something different.
I’m happy and content. No regrets.
- Comment on Boeing won't face criminal charge over 737 Max crashes that killed hundreds of people 1 week ago:
I’m shocked! SHOCKED!
Well, not that shocked. Really, who didn’t see this coming?
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 1 week ago:
The only way this sees the market is if it is nerfed to require reapplication every six months.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
So, like plain water, then?
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 1 week ago:
Can’t put it science, they’ll gripe, “Why is this fluff cluttering up my feed?!”
It fits well enough in Science Memes, tho.
- Comment on Humans BY DEFAULT do not want to commit violence towards other humans, otherwise things like Killer's Remorse and PTSD would not exist. 1 week ago:
In war, most soldiers don’t want to kill the enemy. And, many don’t, they won’t fire their weapon, they miss on purpose, etc.
- Comment on xkcd #3163: Repair Video 1 week ago:
The guys who make appliance repair videos and sell the exact part you need, and you can get the part number and find it cheaper somewhere else. But, thanks for the video.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 1 week ago:
Those who used it imagined Swiss law to be less intrusive? I suppose it sounds like a good idea to anyone, which is mostly everyone, who doesn’t know Swiss law.
Yeah, they rolled over to the authority, as expected. But, they sold themselves as “private”, not “private up to the extent of Swiss law, and our laws here are very intrusive, so really the private part isn’t going to get anyone very far if they use this service for anything slightly questionable, let alone outright illegal. You might as well be using GMail for how ‘private’ this thing is.”
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 2 weeks ago:
I don’t cry for industry, I cry for the workers who constantly and disproportionately bear the brunt of the failures of industry leaders. Unregulated capitalism makes slaves of us all. And, we keep letting them do it for their forever unfulfilled promises and fearmongering.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 2 weeks ago:
I dipped my toes into “smart” thermostats with a Wyze. Meh. I don’t really need to set the temp from my phone, or any of the other features, beyond having a simple schedule. I’m seriously considering reverting all the way back to an old-school bimetal strip, dial on the wall type, in private protest of all this crap.
(Don’t get a Wyze. I think they’ve been discontinued anyway. The damn thing loses connection to the wifi three or four times per year, then I need to go through the ENTIRE setup process again, from the very beginning. The wifi antenna is in the closet not three feet away. POS.)
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 weeks ago:
Finally, some good news.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
They want it to be the next step in controlling and raping the masses. That’s why they’re shoving it down our throats.
I suggest keeping your mouth closed tightly, and not engaging in any way with it. We should all see these early reports of people becoming obsessed with their AI relationships as a huge warning–red banners and klaxons sounding. Run! RUN! Run far away and stay there.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 2 weeks ago:
The extent of my use of AI: I downloaded and installed Deep Seek locally and played with it a bit. I also installed Forge AI locally. I didn’t see anything of interest to me and removed it. There’s no way I’m making an account on any of the online AI sites. I’ll leave that to others.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 2 weeks ago:
It always happens in the middle of the night, like it’s waiting. I tore one of mine off the ceiling and put it in the car, in the garage, so I couldn’t hear it. I damn near smashed it, but then I had the idea of putting it in the car.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 2 weeks ago:
Not next door to me, but a house on my walk has done this twice over the past few years. It’s been going on for at least a month this time, every time I walk past BEEP BEEP BEEP! I think the house is a rental. If I lived next door to that, I would 100% break in and solve the problem.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
They all go to Ivy League colleges, and they all take the same public speaking classes.
It’s a big club, but we’re not in it.
- Comment on No shit! I would also run like hell away from that. 2 weeks ago:
This might be a temporal anomaly.
A very painful temporal anomaly.
- Comment on Sometimes I think Back hole Sun by Soundgarden, just singing about anilingus 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad it’s Black Hole Sun, because that’s what I thought it was all these years.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 weeks ago:
Musk is just Nazi-washing what he stole from Wikipedia, he doesn’t have the base of volunteers and employees to maintain his latest toy. A year from now, it will be gone and forgotten, and we’ll all be shouting at each other to go vote.
- Comment on If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one 2 weeks ago:
The fact that this would never occur to me as a viable product probably shows my age. I guess?
I get the point, you can show the pictures and lie about going on vacation. And, come to think of it, the idea is akin to using filters on zoom, and even makeup, to an extent.
Hmmm, I suppose someday we’ll be buying designer digital clothes to wear since everyone will have on AR glasses for every waking moment. After we get rid of the fascists again, the future is going to be weird.
- Comment on I've spent 3 days working in dust tearing down this bathroom 2 weeks ago:
That’s how I do bigger projects, too. I plan the steps, and do one step at a time. I don’t rush, because it’s not a paying job. Although, I suppose if this is your only bathroom, you might feel some pressure to complete it quickly.