DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 7 hours ago:
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 2 days ago:
I haven’t eaten out since the pandemic. I got used to making all my meals at home, and gosh, the food is better and cheaper.
Convenience has a high price.
I don’t see the end game of continuing to raise prices and lower quality, while not paying us enough to survive, let alone thrive. I guess the stupid, greedy fucks are thinking it will just work out somehow? Maybe Chatbot told them it would all be fine. Fucking Tech Bro AI circlejerk will be the end of us all.
- Comment on Introducing Proton Sheets 2 days ago:
AND, it’s mail. What’s not to like?
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 days ago:
It would be one thing to have this in a world with benevolent leadership. But that isn’t the world we are living in.
So, Fantasyland, then. The closest anyone gets to benevolent leadership is their own parents, and that’s only maybe 50-50.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 days ago:
Amusingly, as part of similar laws in the UK the regulator decided to make a public shame list of non-compliant websites.
The regulator truly believes they are on the side of good, and that everyone agrees with them, except the nasty pornmongers.
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 6 days ago:
Yes, everyone should do everything they can to avoid seeing advertisements. No one is immune, and advertising is very effective. That’s how Trump ended up as President twice. Yes, that was advertising, all of it.
It’s hard for them to show me ads when I barely look at my phone. It’s hard for them to show me ads through uBlock. I go most days without seeing an intrusive ad. I only see ads on the rare occasion I do online shopping. I do that the same way I shop IRL, as quickly as possible.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
Cool.
Maybe they can also stop forcing updates that break my game, too?
Fortunately, GOG exists. Which proves that Steam doesn’t need to force the updates on us, but chooses to.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
No clue. The only time I have more than three open is when I’m researching some stupid question I have, and then I immediately close them after I get the answer. If it’s something I want to save for reference, I save it locally with the SingleFile extension, because contrary to popular belief, shit gets deleted off websites all the time.
- Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate 1 week ago:
I bought FO4 off GOG a couple of days ago, because I’m fucking tired of Steam breaking my game every few weeks with mandatory updates, I think it was on sale for black friday. If that doesn’t count, then count me in.
- Comment on I dunno 1 week ago:
My education system didn’t fail me, I failed it.
- Comment on Crews Walk Out on Nashville Tunnel, Claiming Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns 1 week ago:
Nashville should have consulted with Shelbyville before starting.
- Comment on HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use 1 week ago:
I predict failure.
- Comment on I concur 1 week ago:
I feel seen.
- Comment on Parking police 1 week ago:
Rear view cameras have been required by law for a few years now. I’m pretty sure it was a ploy by manufacturers to get a screen on every dashboard so they could sell ads.
- Comment on Parenting advice 1 week ago:
I don’t see what one-day blinding stew has to do with hair biting. But, I’ll look into it.
- Comment on Change my mind 1 week ago:
Where does arguing on Facebook fit into this? Nextdoor? JFC, my neighbors are a bunch of blithering idiots.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know much about the religion industry, but I suspect this is true for all of them. The fastest way to become a non-believer is to read the religious texts.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
“STOP THROWING APPLES AT US! WE HAVE PhDs!”
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 2 weeks ago:
Chat, is this true?
- Comment on 🧠 🧠 🧠 2 weeks ago:
The other night, I saw a weird spider on the bathroom mat while I was doing my business. The bathroom was lit only by a night light, so I could barely make it out. It was larger than our usual resident spiders, and writhing around like I had stepped on it and hurt it. I finished, stood up, and turned the light on to see the spider better. It wasn’t there. Apparently, spider hallucinations are common.
Several years ago now, I was talking to my girlfriend at the time about an argument we’d had about a week earlier. She listened for a minute and then said, “We never argued about that, where were we?” I told her we were in my car in my garage. She’d not been to my house up to that point. I realized I had dreamt it, but I completely and fully believed it was a real memory, but it simply could not have been. I freaked out for a few days when I read that people often confuse dreams for real memories. I now question which other of my memories are just past dreams. Why would trust any of my memories now, when any number of them might just be old dreams?
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 weeks ago:
LanguageTool agrees that this sentence presents correct grammar.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 weeks ago:
This is the first I’m hearing of this. And, I seriously can’t tell whether you’re joking.
Not for the first time, recently, I ask, “WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!”
- Comment on New thing to ponder just dropped 2 weeks ago:
But, that’s worse. You see how that’s worse, right?
- Comment on *Yawn* 2 weeks ago:
My idea is that yawing helps sync our internal clocks. So, we sleep at the same time, and wake up at the same time. That way, no one is left behind when the group starts moving to the next waterhole, or feeding ground.
- Comment on *Yawn* 2 weeks ago:
Which does nothing to explain why it’s “contagious”.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 weeks ago:
American PUBLIC schools suck NOW (mostly since Bush II, when they really ramped up their attacks). Private American schools for rich kids do not suck, and public schools didn’t used to suck.
This is all by design, to be clear.
I’m sixty, I got a decent public school education, and I was taught about “The Troubles” while they were happening. I was also taught about the horrors of The Holocaust by a history teacher who lived through the war. My eighth-grade English teacher was a WWII vet, and he had some stories.
- Comment on One more internet meme 2 weeks ago:
It’s a good thing those guys are wearing hard hats.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 weeks ago:
The LLMs demand more data, so MS is providing it by scraping our personal hard drives. Well, not mine, but still most peoples.
I still have Win10 running on an air-gapped laptop because there are no Linux drivers for my cheap auto-feed scanner, which I’m using to scan a raft of old photos. Once that project is done, I’ll put Linux Mint on it, and use it for something fun.
Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, Steam, LibreOffice, Obsidian, and Jellyfin do everything I want from a desktop.
- Comment on You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden 2 weeks ago:
Blocked from NYT? Oh, darn. Anyway.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 3 weeks ago:
We could, you know, just wait and see.
*ducks*
