sugarfoot00

@sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There used to be a market for small trucks which has all largely evaporated. I’m all in favour of a smaller utility truck with limited range. Something like this would be ideal for my business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck I still hate them for the minidisc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In that guys defence, it’s pretty common to just have your torrent client on in the background doing its thing. He was likely unaware either until seeing the notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with all of this, but I do have a bit of pushback- The account creation process, with the steps of create, verify, provide username to host, wait for invite, accept invite, pin to sidebar is enough of a barrier that it stops some people. I have a handful of guest accounts already setup and sorted that I toss out to interested people, and if they find it useful only then do I have them jump through the hoops of creating their own account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Best Buy, if only it were that simple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Memory Express is your friend, especially in western Canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s the fun in building an Apple IIe if you use a flash drive instead of the hard drive?

  Not to be that guy, but the Apple IIe didn’t have a hard drive. External tape or floppy were your only storage choices. The real cool kids had two floppy drives, so you could pirate games directly disk-to-disk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thomas Midgley Jr is the same guy that invented leaded gas and also invented freon (chlorofluorocarbons). Imagine being the architect of not one but two of the greatest environmental calamities of the industrial age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I humbly direct you towards the raw milk crowd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember in the 80s several National Lampoon covers that featured this concept. One had a tagline with something like “Welcome to America, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company” or something like that. And then there is the slightly racist one in this image:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I’ve heard jokes about quebecios being snobby with their French but that seems excessive

  It’s not snobby. From an anglo perspective, here’s how it plays out in reality:

  WAITER: Qu’est-ce que vous voudrais? ME: Huh? WAITER: What would you like? ME: {proceeds to order}

  …And life goes on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Reddit...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the club. Fuck that place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Reddit...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After a decade there I also got permabanned. And then I got permabanned 3 more times with alt accounts for saying some pretty innocuous shit, but almost always political.

  I finally got the message. Fuck you Reddit.