relativestranger
@relativestranger@feddit.nl
- Comment on Fall of Western civilization 1 week ago:
we used to have mac tonight at a piano, muzak, black ceiling tiles and club lighting. now it’s the same remodeled mckitchen as everywhere else, stuffing delivery orders into bags and letting the in-person experience go to shit.
- Comment on "Wait, was that shampoo? Yeah.. Welp, I guess we're washing our body with shampoo today." 1 week ago:
… only if you pay extra for a little happy time.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
openoffice is an apache project, created when oracle gave them the code and rights to the openoffice project. ibm later donated symphony to them. anyone familiar with apache knows they do things their own way, and usually slowly.
libreoffice originated from a fork when openoffice’s status under oracle was in doubt. it progresses faster than apache, as most developers also switched.
onlyoffice is an entirely different application. decent enough, but with its own quirks. it can also be slow on lower-spec systems due to the heavy reliance on js. originally a latvian-russian project, it was reorganized (via new corporate entities in uk and sg) to hide the russian ties for ‘reasons’.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
sounds like a ‘service problem’ someone once spoke about…
acquire your ms office ‘elsewhere’ and never link it to a ms account. same with windows. no msa, no ‘cloud’ to save to.
and there is a service problem here.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
trump. musk. putin.
- Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting 5 weeks ago:
the intel alder lake-n and twin lake-n have some chips with very low tdp… basically just the “e cores” from a desktop cpu, drawing as little as 6w tdp. nice chips if you don’t need the raw compute power of the desktop’s performance cores. they make for nice little servers and laptops for ‘normal’ users.
- Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting 5 weeks ago:
i like my laptop ‘server’. low power chip that never throttles up to its max 15w tdp, runs cool with display off and lid closed, needs no kb and mouse attached, and the battery is just a bonus ups. it sits out of the way on a shelf like a book.
- Comment on Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles 5 weeks ago:
they priced the new one too high, so now they’re raising the old one up so people (especially newcomers to the platform) will think it’s not so bad?
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 5 weeks ago:
don’t forget to pick up the original, which is also free. i put in way more hours into it than i care to admit when it was a new game.
- Comment on Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Did you have one of these? 5 weeks ago:
the two originate from the same company, iirc.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 5 weeks ago:
this worked. was already logged in. loaded that link in a different tab, went back to the other and refreshed. saw the cart had something, loaded it and was able to check out.
- Comment on Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act 1 month ago:
half the internet is 45 years old this year.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 1 month ago:
garbage in, garbage out.
- Comment on Republican calls out Trump on GPU sales to China 1 month ago:
Following the decision, Nvidia estimated the decision would cost the GPU giant nearly $10.5 billion in the first half of its 2026 fiscal year. AMD reported the export ban would cost the firm $1.5 billion in lost revenues in 2025.
and they wouldn’t be able to find customers elsewhere for their in-demand products to mitigate some or even all of that “lost” revenue?
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 1 month ago:
it wasn’t a terrible idea, just the implementations of it–in the efforts to extract maximum profits.
- Comment on Did you have one of these? 1 month ago:
i have one with tape and radio. it has rca line in and out, so it’s only use the last couple decades has been to hook up to a pc for tape to digital conversions.
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 2 months ago:
sub for a month with a prepaid gift card (so no potential issues cancelling). binge for a week, run out of stuff to watch, the rest of the sub goes unused and wasted. been down that road once every year or two here.