latenightnoir
@latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on when hell freezes 3 hours ago:
Me every time I go out in public.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 3 hours ago:
I’m a side sleeper. Guess I’m doomed.
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 5 hours ago:
Well, there are always ready-to-go solutions. A 1TB external drive isn’t all that expensive nowadays, and they’re enough for daily use!
Plus, honestly… there are soo many tutorials online about how to set up everything, amd most things are a couple of commands one has to copy/paste into a command prompt. The anxiety is far worse than the procedure itself.
Maybe what’s needed is propagating these tutorials more, make them visible and highlight their accessibility in terms of procedural difficulty!
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 6 hours ago:
This! Invest in local storage as much as possible, ideally create your own proper storage server! Given how fragmented and volatile things are becoming, this isn’t even just about access anymore, it’s about archival as well.
- Comment on One of the best parts of Cyberpunk (as a theme) is the ubiquitisation of cultures 12 hours ago:
It was a joke…
- Comment on One of the best parts of Cyberpunk (as a theme) is the ubiquitisation of cultures 22 hours ago:
Facetious question: don’t they own private satellites IRL, too?:))
- Comment on One of the best parts of Cyberpunk (as a theme) is the ubiquitisation of cultures 22 hours ago:
See, that’s the thing, I rarely see these spaces being used nowadays! We have a couple of areas within the city which used to be high-traffic for skaters, bikers and such, now it’s (and I know how this’ll make me sound, but…) teens staring at their cellphones.
And the creepiest thing is that most people are even dressed the same. One used to see entire herds of Metal peeps, or you could tell the bikers and the skaters apart even without their signature implements. Dunno, maybe I’m getting old, but I miss seeing that variety.
Or, hell, maybe it’s just my country slowly dying off!=)))
- Comment on One of the best parts of Cyberpunk (as a theme) is the ubiquitisation of cultures 22 hours ago:
That’s a fair point and an unrealised bias, our country doesn’t have that large of an influx, so it’s generally been mostly just “us” around here.
Even so, when starting from the local flavour, there are very few aspects which stray from globally mass-distributed stuff, y’know? Like, most stuff around here feel pretty American, for one, even though we’re almost on opposite ends of the planet. And it’s the same in many other places I’ve visited. And it makes sense, honestly, it’s easier to interact if everyone behaves in a familiar manner.
- Comment on One of the best parts of Cyberpunk (as a theme) is the ubiquitisation of cultures 22 hours ago:
That’s a very fair point, and I agree that cultural dynamics aren’t uniform. However, the largest beacons/propagators of culture which exist have demonstrated this tendency to run the tender bits through a blender together, then spray it out indiscriminately, because it’s making them money. And, from a functional perspective, it is an effective means of doing so, because we mass-consume Content nowadays.
Honestly, this is a bit paradoxical on my end, which is why I may have expressed myself abstractly - I tend to prefer flexibility over specialisation, but this is one aspect in which I see more value in specialisation rather than flexibility. Basically, I think we’re losing repositories of undiluted culture over time, and I guess I’m just really scared of plastic…
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- Comment on oh cool 1 week ago:
Apep… I mean… I get why they’d want to extinguish the sun, I can’t imagine they had a good time in grade school with a name like “Apep…”
- Comment on Doot doot 2 weeks ago:
So, lemme get this steaight: first they ache like bastards, and now they also induce anxiety. I say we boycott bones.
- Comment on The Mothman 3 weeks ago:
Which would explain why most of the face-to-face sightings happened during the night! Can you imagine trying to be taken seriously while looking like that?
- Comment on tall tails 3 weeks ago:
All dinosaurs had beaver tails, got it!
- Comment on It could just have been a cop's "sniper" with bad trigger discipline and now they try to cover it up with gay bullets or whatever 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t even matter, to the Right it’ll be “the Left” regardless of who actually did it.
- Comment on sponge dna 3 weeks ago:
Total Virgo…
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Oooooh, this explains a lot about my love life!
- Comment on Know Your Kites! 3 weeks ago:
The one on the right looks like the one on the left if it went through 15 years of QA in start-ups.
- Comment on There is no good way to answer a request beginning with "do you mind if I......." 3 weeks ago:
“Yes, I do mind! Drop the fucking mouse, I said we’re listening to Melodic Noise!” There, should cover all the bases!
- Comment on Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around 4 weeks ago:
“But I’m not most people.” Windows USB mount sound
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 weeks ago:
I don’t get it, does Microsoft WANT everyone to stop using their products? First they fuck uptheir OSes, then they start planting shady shit in their OSes, and now it’s down to every single goddamned piece of software they poop out! What in the fuck are they even doing!
- Comment on Musk Sues Apple, OpenAI, Saying They Hurt AI Competition 5 weeks ago:
Can’t they all just go back to focusing on rockets and Mars colonies and such? Would be nice if they fucked off into space and left the rest of us to do not-so-stupid shit…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I sure hope they did! It’s unhealthy to hold it in for too long!
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 month ago:
Can we wear these if we don’t have balance issues? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 1 month ago:
Well, philosophical and epistemological suicide for now, but snowball it for a couple of decades and we may just reach the practical side, too…
- Comment on Microsoft launches inquiry into claims Israel used its tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians 1 month ago:
Mmmhm… just as I’ve been conducting an inquiry in the benefits of quitting smoking for over a decade now…
- Comment on Bonk. 1 month ago:
“Oy! What’s the big idea, can’t you see I’m enjoying my mea-dammit, fell for it again…”
- Comment on I should call her. 1 month ago:
…hmmmmmm…
- Comment on OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament 1 month ago:
Meh… Robot Wars is better…
- Comment on bonk 1 month ago:
All of these names sound like old timey insults…