HugeNerd
@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 8 hours ago:
LOL have you never heard of
en.wikipedia.org/…/American_Service-Members'_Prot…
Oh and guess who isn’t part of the ICC?
I’d like to see these “other countries” drag Trump there. How? With what? This isn’t Star Trek, you can’t beam him mid-poop to the Netherlands.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 8 hours ago:
JD Vance wishes he fit in a size 0!
- Comment on I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences 1 day ago:
And what underpins that? Cheap energy.
- Comment on I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences 1 day ago:
Cheap oil allows access to slave labor overseas.
- Comment on I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences 1 day ago:
“to” “a”
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 days ago:
Do you think the CEO of Kraft feeds macaroni cheese dinner from a box to his kids?
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 4 days ago:
- Comment on Ska ftw 6 days ago:
It all sounds so dated now… I used to listen to all this stuff.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 6 days ago:
They are, but since I don’t need anything, I just skip over the pricy stuff. Check my thrift finds on here.
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 6 days ago:
Or a B-2.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 6 days ago:
Me neither. I already have all the material possessions I need, and I don’t want any more. All I need is groceries and clothes from Goodwill.
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 6 days ago:
Instead, tell them it’s banned. That’ll stop them in their tracks.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 1 week ago:
It’s furries that go as Snuffleupagus.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
Seems reasonable. Can I buy left and right click separately as monthly subscriptions?
Boy was I wrong about modern computing, it’s all so powerful and useful!
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 week ago:
None of this is “high performance computing”. Are you simulating nuclear explosions? Airflow around supersonic aircraft? Sequencing DNA?
This is all entertainment, it’s useless, it turns people into potatoes. Digital garbage to make AI fat people fart videos.
Good riddance I say.
- Comment on Ashmelissaleigh 1 week ago:
Qué?
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
Cool! Is the scroll wheel split into up and down services?
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 week ago:
8 GIGABYTES!!? How am I supposed to load a mouse driver in THAT!?
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 1 week ago:
Hey don’t worry, just get a faster CPU with even more cores and maybe a terabyte or three of RAM to hold all the new layers of abstraction and cruft to fix all that!
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 week ago:
Well ya got me, you want your hook back?
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 week ago:
You’re thinking of bell peppers, not onions, they are distinct cultivars.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 weeks ago:
I saw a 16:9 CRT in the trash a few years ago, it had just started to rain, the time it took to arrange secure transport it was soaked, so I passed. I didn’t feel like I could deal with the size and weight of the thing if I had to repair it as well.
But they do show up now and then.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 3 weeks ago:
I’m as atheistic as they come but I’ll maybe ask a demiurge for that to happen.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 3 weeks ago:
The sheer amount of AI slop shorts on YouTube must be generating entire dollars in revenue by now. Who isn’t entertained and eagerly awaiting the next five million videos of the same scenario over and over again?
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 weeks ago:
If you have a better way of generating videos of absurdly obese Olympic divers doing the bomb from a crane, I’d love to hear it.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 weeks ago:
Way ahead of you Luddites
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 3 weeks ago:
Goodness, how am I supposed to store and stream more entertainment than I could watch in a lifetime now?
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 3 weeks ago:
Let’s spell like one first. What a ditz (if this is real.)
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 weeks ago:
Boreball?
