Xulai
@Xulai@mander.xyz
- Comment on Does anyone use a VPN to subvert the Netflix household device fencing? 3 weeks ago:
Why go through the hassle?
Set up Jellyfin and use your VPN to fill it with whatever you’re wanting to pay corporate overlords for.
You’ve paid for the IP already from the years of subscriptions. At this point they’re just draining everyone dry. Stop letting them.
- Comment on Jellyfin won't fetch the good metadata 4 weeks ago:
The first season is rough.
Honestly if you kinda skim and get the story points to learn who everyone is and what is generally going on- moving on to the second season without finishing the first is completely reasonable.
Everyone was trying to work around the actor that played the lead during the first season- he had an unfortunate mental breakdown during filming and was replaced by Bruce Boxleinter for the rest of the show after season 1, but this naturally made everything more difficult for everyone, and the quality suffered temporarily.
Once you get about 3-4 episodes deep in season 2, you’ll forget all about season 1.
- Comment on Jellyfin won't fetch the good metadata 4 weeks ago:
Blasphemy! It is only Babylon 5 that is worthy of such scrutiny.
~*after you suffer through the first season~
- Comment on Does Fanta Strawberry taste like the strawberry soda from olden days? 4 weeks ago:
There was once (it may still exist somewhere) a strawberry Crush soda that I remember having frequently as a kid. There was Orange, Grape, and Strawberry. There was a generic version called Shasta that tasted the same.
I imagine Fanta is similar. Orange Fanta and Orange Crush are.
- Comment on Ex-Obama aide warns Democrats can’t counter Trump because voters don’t know what the party stands for 5 weeks ago:
The Democrats are serving corporate interests over the people. That’s all there is to it.
They stopped Kamala from campaigning on it, and she lost to Trump’s lies because Biden did nothing to curb corporate greed and corruption and people felt they were better off when Trump was President.
If Democrats cannot work for the working class, the Republicans will burn down the country, and everyone in it. We are well over halfway there, now.
- Comment on Civilization 7's latest update has "hit mods harder than usual", but for a good reason 5 weeks ago:
My buy date is six months after release. For this exact reason.
- Comment on Civilization 7's latest update has "hit mods harder than usual", but for a good reason 5 weeks ago:
Smart people don’t buy games until they are actually finished anymore. Stop feeding bad business practices.
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 1 month ago:
Classic wolf vs sheep paranoid reality of toxic individualism.
These people cannot fathom humanity being bigger than “strong kill weak” or “predator / prey / competitor” classifications.
Many men hold this worldview as their reality as the bro culture and toxic masculinity plays right into it.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 1 month ago:
As someone who works with integrating AI- it’s failing badly.
At best, it’s good for transcription- at least until it hallucinates and adds things to your medical record that don’t exist. Which it does and when the providers don’t check for errors - which few do regularly- congrats- you now have a medical record of whatever it hallucinated today.
And they are no better than answering machines for customer service. Sure, they can answer basic questions, but so can the automated phone systems.
They can’t consistently do anything more complex without making errors- and most people are frankly too dumb or lazy to properly verify outputs. And that’s why this bubble is so huge.
It is going to pop, messily.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Agree.
Complaining about civility is the first step toward letting morons rule.
If one is making foolish or false statements, one should expect to be humiliated. Come back when you are better educated.
If one is being an asshole for no good reason or making false accusations against another due to losing an argument, they should understand that they are now a legitimate target for everyone to dump on with impunity.
Being confidently wrong, or an asshole without cause deserves equal or greater consequences to the harm caused. Public shaming via humiliation - aka incivility - is more effective than actual punishment or moderation.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 2 months ago:
Yeah, not a choice any of us who work in tech can make. But the small choices we CAN make do add up significantly.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 2 months ago:
Amazon is already dead to us. Just like Tesla, Target, Starbucks, and Meta.
They will never be purchased from, or supported in any way- ever again.
- Comment on Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence 2 months ago:
Proper headline:
“Intelligent People Understand the Limits and Dangers of AI; Unfortunately AI Company Leaders Do Not, and Seek to Silence Opposition”
- Comment on Chilling audio captures firefighter begging for help after crazed gunman ambushes crew responding to Idaho fire, killing 2 2 months ago:
“Crazed” doesn’t work for a sniper.
Maybe ICE agents or firefighters working with them.
But not a sniper.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy attempting to radicalise people to enforce class wars? 2 months ago:
It doesn’t seem like you understand how to speak properly.
Pseudo intellectualism is when people present false or illogical statements as fact.
And right now, the only person doing that is you.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy attempting to radicalise people to enforce class wars? 2 months ago:
Sounds like a citizen or fed that is fat on propaganda swallowed whole and without thought is angry that others don’t share his delusions.