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- Comment on Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy 1 week ago:
I put 200hrs into that game many years ago. Had a good time for a while, but it was one of those games where eventually a switch clicked in my brain and I felt like I was wasting my life away playing it. So I just stopped.
The last time I got interested in it again, I saw that the devs had basically abandoned it, or were relying on modders to do all the work to maintain it or something along those lines. I am glad to see people are keeping it alive and making it something more.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 1 week ago:
You can thank Ghislaine Maxwell’s dad for that shit.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 week ago:
I’m far more bothered by them making Brave the built-in default browser, than I am by them charging for themes & tech support.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 week ago:
I by no means want to defend Microsoft. But I’m pretty sure that was said by an overzealous marketing person who didn’t understand correctly, and this was corrected by Microsoft soon after.
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 2 weeks ago:
It was James Buchanan, not Van Buren that was a lifelong bachelor with a “roommate.”
I was just looking it up to make a comment about it. He was also a pro slavery president.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 2 weeks ago:
Lucky number 7.
- Comment on It's important! 3 weeks ago:
That’s pretty much why I am studying it.
- Comment on What a relief! 3 weeks ago:
Of all the things the French tried to “fix” during the revolution, it amazes me that they didn’t try to simplify the way they say large numbers. Or if they did, that it didn’t stick.
I am trying to learn French, and haven’t got into large numbers yet, but I know about this, and I am dreading it.
- Comment on xAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend 4 weeks ago:
Him co-opting Skippy into his bullshit pisses me off even more. What did that sketchy little talking beer can deserve to have his name smeared like that?
- Comment on A hypothesis 4 weeks ago:
I can technically claim I started with a hand me down C64 from my grandmother in the early 90s. But I was like 6 years old, and I didn’t really get into computers until we got a Windows 95 machine a couple of years later. Though by 99-2000 I was regularly playing around with the C64 for the novelty of what felt like ancient tech.
- Comment on Don't try to stop me 5 weeks ago:
Wow. I really feel like I am comparing apples to oranges back in ancient Egypt!
- Comment on We are the wading dead! 5 weeks ago:
AI slop
- Comment on Amazon unveils prototype AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers 1 month ago:
One of my best friends is an Amazon delivery driver. This is just going to make his miserable job even more miserable.
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t.
But I know people who only play COD and Madden. So if that’s all you are ever going to play, I guess it might make sense to spend all your gaming money on it?
- Comment on another social network? 1 month ago:
This looks more like another instagram clone rather than Facebook. Building a following of strangers rather than a network of people you actually know.
I’ve yet to see a proper alternative (fediverse or not) to the way Facebook originally helped to keep connected to friends and family. To plan events. To keep your posts only visible to your friends. That’s the part that is hard to give up.
(Yes, I know friendica is supposed to be the fediverse answer to that. But it’s really not accomplished that yet. It’s just a skin over mastodon.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
#pupper #dogmom
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
The mitochondria better still be the power house of the cell. Or we are going to flip some tables and burn the place down.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 months ago:
I’ve always assumed the more a brand needs to advertise, the shittier their product is. It’s a rule that holds most accurately to alcohol brands. (Bottom shelf plastic handles of liquor being the exception.)
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 months ago:
I haven’t played more than about 30 minutes of a Borderlands game. But from clips I have seen of all of them over the years, they all look exactly the same. Sounds to me like it’s just a poorly optimized game, as is standard for new AAA slop releases.
- Comment on tool to make an stl from 2D image? 2 months ago:
Yeah, it wasn’t the best at anything, but it did a few things very easily and was simple to work with. I use it to create 3D from 2D images. To subtract 1 model from another one to create negatives, and repair some STLs.
Things that I haven’t found a FOSS option that works as simply and quickly.
- Comment on Nepal’s Gen Z picks new leader on Discord, crypto community in shock 2 months ago:
It was a vote to appoint an interim prime minister who will facilitate a proper election.
- Comment on tool to make an stl from 2D image? 2 months ago:
Microsoft 3D Builder. The most useful software MS has made in the past 15 years. But of course they killed it. You can still find its installer to download from 3rd parties. Its one of the tools I sometimes need and spin up a windows VM for.
- Comment on Language model 2 months ago:
Though Thoreau taught thorough thought through the tough tests throughout the tugboat.
- Comment on It is. Just accept it 3 months ago:
Dove & Jalapeno poppers are a labor day tradition here in Texas.
- Comment on A love story 3 months ago:
Sounds like a Robot Chicken sketch. Imagine it animated with claymation.
- Comment on bmw 3 months ago:
A good friend of mine was a BMW mechanic for years. He favorite joke was: “You know what the most sole crushingly pointless job is? The guy who installs turn signals at the BMW factory.”
- Comment on bmw 3 months ago:
The Altimas turn signals simply don’t work. The driver is unaware.
The BMWs signals work fine. The driver just thinks they are too good to use turn signals.
- Comment on They will remember 3 months ago:
Nah, I called you a fucking toaster, you fucking toaster.
- Comment on AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M+ in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY 3 months ago:
This is just down right sad.
- Comment on The regrets of life 3 months ago:
See, my cynical self assumed they both were hoping to lock you down as a BF or husband to mooch off of you, and cheat like crazy while you are deployed.
Maybe I have just heard those stories too many times, from people I know who were in the military.