HugeNerd
@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 3 days ago:
Just awful, but I thought it was right there, you know?
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 3 days ago:
Someone should start Blueit. See cuz they blew it, get it?
- 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' 1 week ago:
But Daaaaaaaad, all the other kids are getting a horse farm!
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 2 weeks ago:
Were you rooting for the shark?
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 4 weeks ago:
Something happened a decade ago to a single person. Therefore it follows it affects millions now in ways that persuade me my world view is correct.
I see.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 4 weeks ago:
they can control the narratives and conversations and public sentiment
That sounds almost conspiratorial. How many people know of Reddit, use it, then automatically follow the narrative? Like out of the total population?
- Comment on We are so cooked 4 weeks ago:
It’s called winter.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 5 weeks ago:
I just don’t understand how they jumped from version 7 to 24 …
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for the summary.
- Comment on Enshittification 5 weeks ago:
Ah, finally a reason to upgrade from Windows 7: to make sure the slop really gets into every nanosecond of human existence.
- Comment on Enshittification 5 weeks ago:
Ah, Coffiest is finally here.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
“In a vastly overpopulated world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge trans-national corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and by far the best-paid profession. Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that the quality of life is improved by all the products placed on the market. Some of the products contain addictive substances designed to make consumers dependent on them. However, the most basic elements of life are incredibly scarce, including water and fuel.” This in 1952. Mad Men indeed.
I’m just sitting here laughing by myself in my miserable densified cardboard shack I live in.
A quote from the book:
“each sample of Coffiest contains three milligrams of a simple alkaloid. Nothing harmful. But definitely habit-forming. After ten weeks the customer is hooked for life. It would cost him at least five thousand dollars for a cure, so it’s simpler for him to go right on drinking Coffiest - three cups with every meal and a pot beside the bed at night, just as it says on the jar.”
- Comment on Enshittification 5 weeks ago:
Apparently that book is from 1978. Exercise for the reader: find the similarities between 1978 and now…
- Comment on Enshittification 5 weeks ago:
Everything. Even pet food, I can see the changes, the canned paté my cat enjoyed used to be like a terrine in the can, now it’s a loose watery mess.
- Comment on Enshittification 5 weeks ago:
Fucking. It’s right there.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 5 weeks ago:
It’s called Usenet.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 month ago:
Uh huh, but collecting Blurays is just silly I’ve been told.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 1 month ago:
I came back from the mall, they had one of those little trains for kids. The locomotive had two incredibly bright 6000K (blue-white) headlights. What for? You’re in a mall. It’s lit. You’re going 2 km/h. It’s just cheap one size fits all Aliexpress junk. Not a single thought went into the selection of these abominations.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 1 month ago:
If you need extra lights in summer, in daytime, on a cloudless noon, you shouldn’t be riding a vehicle. What gives you the right to blind and annoy oncoming pedestrians and drivers because of your misguided paranoia?
And typically, from my observations, the people crowing about biking being dangerous and they need safety … wear earbuds. Sure, seal off one of your senses and then complain about safety. We biked for decades without piercingly blinding Cree LEDs taped on our bodies 24/7.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 1 month ago:
Not just cars, goofy cyclists too. Broad daylight, high noon on a cloudless summer day, somehow, cyclists need piercingly blinding bright little lamps on their handlebars. Or their helmets. Or their armbands. Or all at the same time. Cheap electronics from China make this possible. Backpacks. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing the other day, a guy dressed like a manga-ninja, all black with a face mask, and a backpack covered in LEDs.