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- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 1 week ago:
Can’t recall the vendor, but I saw at least one that tried a rent-a-PC things aimed at gamers. But the price was egregious, and I wanna say they didn’t even ship the hardware they advertised.
Anyway, point was it’s already being tested in the wild…
- Comment on E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles. 1 week ago:
Uh, no. Maybe check the definition of a word before you accuse people of using it wrong?
Besides, there is literally no benefit to this kind of approach. The most popular use of a word is the definition of the word, not the other way around. And yes, this means it will change over time. So even if motor didn’t literally refer to a certain type of engine, the definition of the word motorcycle is not dependent on the definition of the word motor. So, even if there was a contradiction between the definition of the two words that’s literally irrelevant. There’s no point getting all annoyed about it, that’s just how language works. But you will not help anything by trying to force people to change how they’re using a word. It’ll just cause confusion and make communication even less clear.
- Comment on Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht? 1 week ago:
Oh, I don’t mean it that way. People that use there fear and insecurities to justify hated and fuck right off to the deepest layers of hell!
- Comment on Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht? 1 week ago:
The root is fear. Convince people to be afraid of something, they will let you completely reprogram their mind. Fuck, they’ll even beg you to do so…
- Comment on Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht? 1 week ago:
Child support used to take a full half of my income. So, I can believe it.
Day I got the letter saying I had fully repaid that shit?Fucking brought me to tears.
- Comment on Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht? 1 week ago:
Well, with how many were killed “accidentally” during the removal of homeless encampments in the past couple years, we’re kinda at that point aren’t we?
Fuck…
- Comment on America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs 1 week ago:
And let’s not forget the asinine claim about music composition. Yeah, this is a bullshit fluff piece to keep attention on AI.
- Comment on Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE 1 week ago:
Well, those fuckers captured the US government decades ago. Pretty much why the actual effect of actions taken by either party play out almost the same fucking way…
- Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad 1 week ago:
…a counterpoint that this is not necessarily bloat. It’s debatable that this is the right tool to have this feature…
That’s called bloat.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 1 week ago:
That’s it? That’s why you’re being such an arrogant prick?
Huh. You do you, I guess…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on 'This case is about two of the richest corporations who have engineered addiction in children’s brains' — lawsuit against Meta and YouTube could decide the fate of social media 1 week ago:
Facebook specifically was aware that teenage girls were especially harmed by their algorithms, so naturally, instead of reducing that harm, they leaned into it.
- Comment on People always want their ideal conversation to sound like movie characters, but in reality most people talk as if they're in an interrogation room or how people sound like on police bodycam footage. 1 week ago:
Sounds a lot like taking the role of Dungeon Master in a D&D game. Your goal is to provide a believable world and NOCs as a backdrop for your players to tell the stories of their characters adventures. For me, it was like having a whole fantasy world running in the back of my mind, and I’d often surprise myself with how that works would react to the heroes.
- Comment on Retro StarCraft prizes 1 week ago:
En, why pay extra when there’s always Bobbitty?
- Comment on Simple utility to rename folders/files in a format Jellyfin expects 1 week ago:
Awesome, that asks for the info. Gotta try this out later; I don’t even have a large library, but the renaming is so tedious! But clicking through to identify each file that Jellyfin didn’t automatically identify is worse…
- Comment on US | Democrats introduce 'Virginia's law' named for Epstein accuser to end shield for sex traffickers 1 week ago:
Yeah, my brain was struggling with that one for some reason 😝
- Comment on Simple utility to rename folders/files in a format Jellyfin expects 1 week ago:
Ugh. I was excited until I saw it’s for Windows. Doh!
- Comment on US | Democrats introduce 'Virginia's law' named for Epstein accuser to end shield for sex traffickers 1 week ago:
…who died by suicide last year.
Fuck I hate bullshit like this. I don’t believe for a second it was suicide, especially since she specifically stated that she feared that she would be murdered and it would be covered up by making it look like suicide.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 1 week ago:
“roadways surrounding the stadium” = highways
There didn’t lie; you are misrepresenting what the sign says, though
- Comment on Parents of Melbourne methanol-poisoning victims ‘shocked’ by $185 fines handed to Laos hostel staff 1 week ago:
The families of two Melbourne teenagers who died after drinking methanol-laced alcohol in Laos say they have been blindsided by news the workers responsible for serving the drinks received fines of just $185.
The opening paragraph strongly implies your information is incorrect…?
Got any sources?
- Comment on Landmark trial accusing tech giants of harming children with addictive social media begins 1 week ago:
Not a lawyer, but when the corporation goes to trial instead of selling, that’s not a great sign.
So, my guess is either the defendants know they are probably going to win, or the penalty for losing is likely to be insignificant.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
I agree, except that it’s the data broker corporations that are really behind this.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 1 week ago:
So called “social” media exists to isolate you. The illusion if your life being “crippled” only affects you if you choose to let that happen
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 1 week ago:
Wow are you entirely missing the point.
- Comment on Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection 2 weeks ago:
That’s an interesting bit of trivia, thank you for sharing!
- Comment on Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if they connect all the way back to Micro$oft’s neo Nazi charity from decades ago?
- Comment on Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve. 2 weeks ago:
Well, considering the entire concept of police came from mercenaries who were hired to “patrol” the neighborhood where factory workers and the liked lived to prevent revolts…it’s all bullshit.
- Comment on Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve. 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely agree. The way things are it’s just another flavor of the “we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong” bullshit.
- Comment on Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve. 2 weeks ago:
They absolutely should always be recording - and frequently backing up data to a server outside their control. Although it probably needs to have judicial oversight for access to days files?
But yeah, what’s the damn point if it’s controlled by the very people the technology is intended to provide oversight for?
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 5 months ago:
No
- Comment on Router suggestions for a complete noob 6 months ago:
I generally overshoot when it comes to the hardware specs, if I can. That way you’re prepared in advance if you end up having the option to upgrade your Internet connection.
Otherwise, you may find yourself locked in to the slower plan due to the cost of upgrading your hardware.
But, sometimes you have to choose realistic over optimal, of course. So in other words, I do not think I know what’s best for you! Just offering a perspective that has worked for me, in case it helps you in some way as you evaluate the choice that’s best for you.