relativestranger
@relativestranger@feddit.nl
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 day ago:
the only grocery around me that had one took it out when they quit selling coffee that way, a few months into covid.
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 1 day ago:
“hey cortana, slo-mo!”
- Comment on 5 days ago:
i have a trial to cancel soon. betcha it’s still faster and easier to ask ddg ‘how to cancel prime’ than it is to find it solely via clicks on azn’s own site.
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 6 days ago:
‘greeters’ are also part of security or ‘loss prevention’, even the old guy who can’t stand-up during his shift and needs to sit on a stool at his post.
- Comment on We're all going home early today 1 week ago:
a bag of popcorn set to 30 minutes instead of 3 might be all it takes and is an ‘innocent’ mistake anyone could make.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 1 week ago:
we would all be ‘shareholders’ of public services for public good.
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 1 week ago:
the ‘veni’ usually comes last, tho.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 2 weeks ago:
i have only ever had basic phones, dating back to my first nokia ~ 25 years ago. i don’t have the need or desire to have an android or iphone. one time. just once, ever–i enabled cellular data on my phone so i could look something up–the current weather forecast (in the kai weather ‘app’) because it started to look like i might get stranded out in a bad storm and i forgot to check the forecast before i left.
- Comment on Fall of Western civilization 4 weeks 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." 4 weeks 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 4 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 4 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. 1 month ago:
trump. musk. putin.
- Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Did you have one of these? 1 month ago:
the two originate from the same company, iirc.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 1 month 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 2 months ago:
half the internet is 45 years old this year.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 2 months ago:
garbage in, garbage out.
- Comment on Republican calls out Trump on GPU sales to China 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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.