boonhet

@boonhet@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chasing the Elephant⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes, it’s antivax slop and an anti-antivax comment pointing out how ridiculous it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Apollo for reddit was considered one of the best apps. Unfortunately, it was iOS-only.

  Voyager for Lemmy is pretty much a clone of it and it also runs on Android. It’s also a progressive web app so you don’t have to download the app off the store if you don’t want to - you can just go to vger.app on your phone and either browse it like that, or install the PWA (basically creates a separate browser profile and everything so it feels like an app, but really you’re using the website, with some of the files living on your phone). If you really wanted to, you could even run it on a desktop browser (or as a PWA on desktop), but it’s really meant for touchscreens, not mouse and keyboard usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The family name goes first in East Asian names, reflecting the fact that they view family over individual; Whatever the parents' idea of "family" is, triumphs over the children's individuality.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s completely valid. I’ve done plenty of trauma dumping here on Lemmy. 99% of it about my ex wife and the shit she’s put me through (massive debt, constant manipulation, threats of suicide, making me feel guilty for literally everything wrong with the world, etc).

  Sometimes you want to vent to someone, and you don’t want it to be anyone you know. Plus therapy can be expensive (even in my country despite having socialized healthcare, because all the therapists that work with the socialized healthcare system are booked until the next quarter after the end of the universe usually)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The family name goes first in East Asian names, reflecting the fact that they view family over individual; Whatever the parents' idea of "family" is, triumphs over the children's individuality.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think OP has some trauma and just wants to vent.

  I must say, in official matters it used to be common to put the last name first here in Estonia. Nowadays it’s less common, usually first name comes first. Are we “family first” or “individual first”? Idk, I think we’re kinda individualistic, but most people do still value family quite a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh. Sons of Odin or whatever still a thing, or some new groups?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And mid-budget movies!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We have capitalism here in Europe too, and don’t get me started about the work culture in Japan.

  I think there’s something else in the US. It’s a lack of cultural diversity. Yes, the country is a mixing pot of cultures, technically speaking - but it’s also kinda not. US mainstream media (I don’t mean news, I mean games, movies, etc) in general is quite homogenized. It’s also a huge export, so of course people in other countries get influenced by a lot of it too, but we have a lot of our own culture, which doesn’t much influence the US, but influences us.

  I blame the death of mid-budget movies for the death of American media diversity. Which of course is largely due to Netflix et al. So capitalism is still the root cause, but it’s also the extreme cultural dominance of the US. Whereas here in Europe most movies and TV shows get made with the expectation that they’ll be watched by people of the country where it’s made, so it can afford to be jankier, American media has the expectation of being consumed around the world - so it’s a bit more generic and polished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We've done it, boys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a little bit of both of those nowadays with all the corporate maintainers and the fact that the Linux Foundation is headquartered in the US and Torvalds lives in the US too

  But really it’s still a global effort

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be an Epic fail on his part though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Put it this way, I don’t trust a corpo browser and never have. 2008 or whenever it was that everyone switched to Chrome, I stayed with Firefox, which I’d been using for a few years already. I remember upgrading to Firefox 2.0.

  I’m interested when Firefox is pulling this shit and don’t give a fuck otherwise, because I already assume the others do this.

  Idk if we’ll ever get anything decent out of the Servo browser engine. That would be ideal IMO. Mozilla is starting to become part of the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sidebar on the left has one of those star icons that opens an AI chatbot, or you can hit ctrl + alt + x

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parking police⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dealer pricing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  15 years ago Google was a cool tech company that open sourced a lot of their projects.

  That was no longer the case long before Gaza though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨car producers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fail It Again, Tony

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just work a little harder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, I don’t know how I’d function if I had a toddler

  I literally don’t. I’m making do on about a fifth of the income I had when I was still together with my ex and she at least spent SOME time taking care of the child.

  I live in the old family home my grandparents built, but it’s a big-ass house and I live in a cold-ass country so like a third to a half of my income goes on heating it in the winter. I could of course move somewhere, but then I’d have to pay rent, and that’s a year-round expense. Place is not in the best shape or a great location either, so I can’t even sell it and buy an apartment in one of the cities where there’s actually shit to do lol

  Luckily once my toddler is willing to spend full days in kindergarten instead of the current 2-3 hours before the nap time, my finances will get better and I can replace the expensive and labor-intensive wood furnace central heating system with an air-to-water heat pump, saving me a bunch of money and some time. Right now if it gets super cold I get to sleep 3-4 hours at most at night because I have to go put in more briquettes or wood lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I moved the home directory to the empty SSD, but still needed to resize the root partition in place. Wasn’t difficult actually, but for some reason it errored on me the first time, the second time I could just do it in place without even rebooting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Found the Swadian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been a fan of xkcd for almost 15 years myself. Randall seems like such a genuinely great person and I cry with the happies a little bit every time there’s another comic on how long they’ve had together after the diagnosis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only a few years left⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OP literally mentioned colonoscopy in a comment lol

• ⁨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:

  Gotta make fresh roadkill, then it’s edible sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sick of these asterisk-holes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Post said threadiverse, not Threads. Threadiverse refers to the part of fediverse that has threads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sick of these asterisk-holes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Lemmy, Kbin, piefed are threadiverse because of the reddit and hackernews style threads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t say that, just said you’re a bit special when you buy tools specifically meant to make money off dealers. Alternatives are cheaper and often more user friendly. The manufactures license the required data to companies that make 3rd party tools. Put it this way, dealers are required to use 1st party, by contract.

  Hyundai is cheap too. I’ve seen dealer scan tools run over 20k, with a 2k annual subscription. Luckily that one is obsolete on cars that support J2534 so small shops can get rid of the 20k up front cost, but dealers STILL have to carry that obsolete version too. Consumers are allowed to get 3rd party alternatives which cost much, much less.

  The target of the scam here isn’t the consumer. The consumer can have use tools. Dealers are REQUIRED to pay for the expensive ones. Just like they are required to buy a lot of other expensive tools from the manufacturer. It’s the price they have to pay for officially being the place that you can take your brand new car to for maintenance. And then THEY can scam you with exorbitant rates and book hours.

  The entire thing sucks and manufacturers SHOULD offer something for consumers too, but this is a different issue, right now we’re talking about enterprise software licensing being expensive for consumers. Yeah no shit, they weren’t expecting him to literally just go and buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not a consumer tool. There are several consumer tools available for much cheaper. He bought into an enterprise solution and wondered why it was expensive.

  Most WORKSHOPS don’t spend on manufacturer specific software. It’s for dealers and specialist shops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  None of these get retrofitted on new cars. They’re literally built to order unless you buy a demo vehicle or an in-stock vehicle and those usually don’t have a lot of variety anyway, they’re meant for fleets more than anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhh… You do realise that you can choose options when you order the car, right? There are enough options on some cars that if you wanted to stock every combo, you’d need billions of cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Chrysler had hidden features before the merger too. The key dance showed drivetrain codes on my 300M. Holding specific buttons showed climate control codes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He shouldn’t even have bought that. Most manufacturers give the diagnostic info to 3rd parties who build consumer tools. That’s how things like iCarsoft support a lot of these dealership tool functions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Two sets of seats you mean. The car is the same. These days they don’t even have to blank out the buttons because it’s a touch screen anyway.

  I already had heated + ventilated seats with the optional multi-contour (air based) cushions, but without the memory package, so they weren’t fully electric. Each of these things was an option, and there were more that I didn’t have that I probably didn’t know. Somehow they made a profit off the car. I also had the four zone climate control as opposed to the two zone, which was also an option over the manual air conditioning.

  This was a 2003 car. No subscription, you just paid for the options you wanted.

  In 2025 I would expect heated seats to be standard in any car more expensive than the very base model Dacia. Super simple tech, very easy to make, and pretty much a necessity in some areas of the world, particularly where I live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Must be newer VAG vehicles then, mine definitely needed a scan tool to put on service mode. Though it’s also pretty old. I had a newer Mercedes and that had a hidden service menu that allowed me to do the brakes.