sugarfoot00
@sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 1 week ago:
Fyi, Skype was officially killed by Microsoft on May 5th, earlier this month.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
One of the security upsides to plex is that any number of people can log in with the same credential.
That means that while Plex can harvest information- what account, what’s being watched, IP address, device and player identifier- It doesn’t know who to attach that information to. So you can get dozens or maybe hundreds of users polluting the same account with watch information. Less useful information to be sure.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 1 week ago:
Oh please. That doesn’t make the math any more forgivable. Every investor made a choice. The fact that it’s an institutional investor and mutual funds doesn’t sever the provider of the money and their demand for returns from the ethical issues of what the companies are doing.
Don’t fail to hold equity investors like this to account because they’re holding grandma’s retirement hostage. That’s on grandma too.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 1 week ago:
Isn’t Spanish for cable just cable (Cah-blay)? That’s what I’ve seen used in Mexico.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 1 week ago:
As a Canadian vending machine, the Cheetos removal may well have been political in the first place. I notice just about everything in there is made in Canada, unlike Cheetos.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 1 week ago:
If I was the vendor, I’d stock the whole thing with Cheetos and then snip the cord myself. Fuck that guy.
As an aside, this appears to be a Canadian vending machine (Miss Vickies, Lays flavours made in Canada, Canadian chocolate bars), so the Cheeto switch may have been political.
So to this guy- Get used to superior Hawkins Cheezies, and elbows up.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 week ago:
The only time I’ve ever seen one in use was a friend that had a shed that was powered with lights etc. He had an external plug box on the shed, and would use one of these to jumper from his extension cord to that external plug. It worked, but I shuddered when I saw it.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
I love that this guy is in an Ivy League school to meet his ‘co-founder’, when it’s hard to believe that someone that knows nothing and is intellectually incurious could ever found anything of value.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 3 weeks ago:
That’s not true at all. It really depends on environment and proper curing. Where I live, carpenters will rarely use dimensional lumber that’s been stored indoors for these very reasons. It’s stored sheltered outdoors, where the air is dry but temperatures can fluctuate between +30C and -30C depending on season. When it’s been through that, it doesn’t automatically screw up like a silly straw the moment you bring it indoors into a warm and more humid environment.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 3 weeks ago:
Slowly grown wood is going to be as crooked as fast grown wood
No, it’s not. Slow growth leads to a tighter grain, greater density, and reduced moisture content. All of those things make it stronger and more stable. That means less twisting and warping.
But because it is increasingly rare, it is generally more expensive.
I recently did a renovation on my 1953 bungalow. The Douglas fir studs I removed from a wall are both laser straight and tough as guts. That wood is so hard that you can’t drive a modern nail into it without drilling a pilot hole first.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 3 weeks ago:
I learned to hate Phillips-head screws with a passion that’s lasted the rest of my life so far
You sound Canadian. You’re ready to enter the wonderful world of Robertson screws.
- Comment on History Channel 4 weeks ago:
Boy, you coulda just said that you don’t subscribe to any philosophy that doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker.
- Comment on History Channel 4 weeks ago:
Canada, most of Western Europe, Scandinavia- All have a greater blend of public and private responsibilities. Because there are some areas of interest that *benefit *from monopolies. Single payer health care. Industries vital to national security (resource ownership like Norway or Mexico as an example). Canada’s government-created Telsat celecommunications put the first commercial telecommunications satellite in orbit in the 70s, and now as a former crown corporation is set to have a better high-speed competitor to Starlink operational by 2026. Fire departments. Policing. Schooling. There are lots of examples where a socialist approach is preferable to unfettered capitalism.
- Comment on History Channel 4 weeks ago:
Wealth inequality is gaining traction. The standard of living of the average poor American is better today than it was in the 1960s. What has changed is how we feel about it. Wealth inequality makes us mad, but it has not resulted in worse overall living standards on an absolute scale.
How you can manage to speak with your head so far up your own ass is an amazing magic trick. Wealth has been decoupled from productivity for more than 50 years now. That’s just facts.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 4 weeks ago:
Like the way California people say their O’s
As a Canadian, it’s all I can hear when they speak.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 5 weeks ago:
Use a different email and a different browser. Turn off IP tracking in settings. You may even need to use a VPN.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely. I lost my 15 year account for using the phrase ‘burn it all down’ entirely metaphorically. They really, really didn’t like Canadians pushing back. Fuck those guys.
I hope Reddit dies in a fire, and not a metaphorical one. One with the ownership group literally aflame. And I’d like to roast marshmallows over that fire.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
We have fully truncated it to just thumb because of how it feels more unique to the others
Kinda like the goalie on a hockey team or the drummer in a band. Still on the team, just a bit weirder.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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:
- Comment on Genius 1 month 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... 2 months ago:
Welcome to the club. Fuck that place.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 2 months 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.
