binarytobis
@binarytobis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Actual theft 6 days ago:
To be honest I just don’t want to google to get more money. They suck.
Also your use case is very specific. The people I was referencing have more basic needs that would be easily bypassed with ublock. It’s fine if the way you like to listen to music is best served by youtube with a subscription.
- Comment on Actual theft 6 days ago:
I’m often surprised when I hear how other people live. Conversation at work will go like:
Employee A: “Youtube ads are getting ridiculous.”
Me: “You still see Youtube ads?”
Employee B: “Yeah, just get Youtube Premium. Such a smart investment.”
Me: “Wait, what?!”
Several of my millennial friends have cable TV and Tivo or something just because they are creatures of habit and are too tired from raising kids to consider changing their process. Weirdly, my boomer parents are the most tech savvy media consumers I know. They just have terrible taste.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 1 week ago:
For me I just want a fast forward button. They have something they call fast forward, but it seeks instead.
- Comment on The Bat 1 week ago:
Only music video from the pic I could place. Love half alive.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 2 weeks ago:
I’m also hung up on “Crypto is UBI”. Surely this is a one off crackpot quote and not a thing, right?
- Comment on JD, is that you!? 2 weeks ago:
I guess a Bris fits under “any excuse to party”.
- Comment on I love doing THIS 3 weeks ago:
A real rollercoaster going from “This is a chance to use that word, it fits perfectly!” > “Wait, oh god how do you pronounce it?” > “I think I nailed it!” > “Oh no, they don’t know that word and now I have to explain it like a pretentious jerk.”
- Comment on The Turing test has been inverted. 3 weeks ago:
Some captchas use AI generated images which have been categorized using AI to have me verify I’m human. What are we doing here, guys?
- Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate 3 weeks ago:
It used to be the time to buy TVs because they would get heavily discounted like 80% to make way for new stock. I got an xbox 360 for $50 on black friday. Kind of made sense, but I usually stayed home just to avoid the crowds unless I heard of a sweet deal.
I’m not super in touch with these things, but it feels like over the years the deals have gotten worse and worse. Now it’s like 10% off sales, or they mark stuff up 50% then give a price cut to balance it back to full price.
It’s bizarre to me people still get so invested in it. Like they have been wired to think “OK, time for the shopping day. We must go consume. Think of something to buy while I get my coat.” Maybe the deals are good but I’m just too disinterested to find out, idk.
- Comment on Pebble Time 2 has screws 3 weeks ago:
I was a backer of the first version of the Pebble, and by the time mine came in they had released a newer, better, cheaper version which made mine feel a lot less cool. Doubt I would buy one again no matter what they did.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 3 weeks ago:
I’m saying that building one small is difficult.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 3 weeks ago:
I think people underestimate how hard it is to build a computer this small and this functional with off the shelf parts. I have a case that just has a motherboard, power supply, and SSD in it for video streaming and web browsing on my TV, and it’s almost as big as this. It’s a relatively high spec MOBO since I wanted to stream fames from my PC initially, but still.
I don’t have confidence I could make this myself at these specs.
- Comment on It's happened to me many times 3 weeks ago:
My family was always open to anyone to visit as much as they wanted so my friends came over 95% of the time. Like the third time I visited one friend’s house his mom came in, looked at me, and gave a long sigh before saying “Again?”. She also made him stop what we were doing and immediately shampoo the carpet which his did nearly every day, I assume to get the smell of weed out.
Most families I’ve witnessed were dysfunctional, but I didn’t notice until my twenties.
- Comment on When they get the bill too 4 weeks ago:
Looks like an Onion photo.
- Comment on challenge 4 weeks ago:
I can imagine the genie thinking “Bwahaha I tricked you!” and then getting increasingly frustrated that I never fix a door hinge again even though I didn’t notice the trick wording.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 5 weeks ago:
I used to work with a guy who worked at Valve prototyping stuff like the steam controller. He was a boomer so he complained about how people were always playing games in the break room and what not. Said he hated that job, his reasons might as well have been a wishlist for my future career. If he wasn’t so damn helpful I would probably hate him to this day.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 5 weeks ago:
When I was 14, I got in a flame war with another kid in the pokemon forum. I dropped a “What do you know? You’re probably 12!” He replied “Yeah, I’m 12. This is a pokemon forum. What are you doing here?”
I felt so thoroughly burned that I stayed out of internet arguments as much as possible from that point forward. A real valuable lesson early on. Thanks, GameFAQs!
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 5 weeks ago:
I think we all know that if an engineer went to upper management and said “I can charge these batteries faster, but it degrades the battery life by 20% over a year.” they would have said “Do it! We won’t mention that last part.”
- Comment on You should start doing this today 5 weeks ago:
I regret not causing at scene at the last few jobs I left. I even gave two weeks notice? Lame. Wish I was more like my idol.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 weeks ago:
It’s funny, I literally downloaded that one last night.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 5 weeks ago:
I enjoyed Blue Prince, I’m exactly who it was made for, but it was definitely much worse than people would lead you to believe.
The game makers had no respect for players’ time. You solve one of the large, run-independent puzzles and it all clicks, then it could take you several hours to playtime to luck into the conditions to actually test your solution. Everything takes longer than it should. It’s obvious that I’m going to toggle security settings every time I’m in the Security Room, why do you make me go through this slow as hell PC every time? It’s not for realism because no PC back then had such fantastical functionality, so why not make the PCs load screens faster? How does the slowness enhance the experience? Why not just put buttons on the wall you can toggle for the security settings, at least? There were times where I figured something out, and rather than spend ten hours trying to actually do the thing, I just looked up that part of a walkthrough to get the next info.
Really interesting game, but I did some napkin math and I wasted 25 avoidable hours during my playthrough (long unskippable loads and such) that could have been spend completing an entire different game.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 5 weeks ago:
I go in between the buttons to cut them into 1 button tall max slices.
- Comment on Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade 1 month ago:
Good timing. The straw the broke the camel’s back before switching to Linux two months ago was watching my PC reboot after “update and shutdown” and saying “I shouldn’t have to deal with this!”
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 1 month ago:
I was going to say, this is one job that actually makes sense to automate. I don’t know any QA testers personally, but I’ve heard plenty of accounts of them absolutely hating their jobs and getting laid off after the time crunch anyway.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 1 month ago:
And that one time I tried to check behind a waterfall there was nothing there. :(
- Comment on How do i get my nails to stop stinking faster 1 month ago:
They did say bad, I suppose.
- Comment on Slow ass apocalypse 1 month ago:
The “ass apocalypse” was caused by that unnaturally large butt plug in the picture.
- Comment on Relatable. 1 month ago:
I’ve found I usually don’t like the ones with the most fans, for whatever reason. Specifically I don’t tend to like ones in high school settings or ones where the author just really enjoys murdering characters in gruesome ways. That really limits my options.
- Comment on Relatable. 1 month ago:
I heard One Pace fixes the pacing, I just haven’t had the drive to start it over.
