brianary

@brianary@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind that changes are coming even if you stay on Windows or Mac or Android or iOS. AI in particular is going to require everyone to relearn everything in non-deterministic ways, so you end up begging the system to do what you want in new creative ways. Also, the UI will be radically reworked over and over. There’s really no way to avoid learning new ways to do things on an invention that’s less than 50 years old.

  Yes, it’s work that we don’t usually have the energy for, especially now, but the best we can do is look for a community to support each other through it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, does it not work on your hardware, or are you using it frequently enough to be bothered by passwords?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using the Dvorak layout for typing and swiping on my phone for many years. It’s actually set to be multilingual, even: I can swipe either language or toggle to Azerty for French (I probably should switch to BÉPO, but I don’t think I have that option yet). I don’t tend to swap phones enough for that to be an issue, and I work remotely so I don’t have to use other workstations, so my use case is probably more suited to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s my Dvorak phone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OneDrive is the most aggressively stupid and evil file sync service I’ve ever used. Constantly upselling, actively re-enabling terrible defaults to maximize storage and bandwidth used, terrible at sync resolution when used with multiple systems, and punitive data loss when you try to disable excessive backups.

  It’s one of the main reasons I stopped using Windows at home outside a VM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insider trading, but make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is the date of the post omitted? When was “last night”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If Heavy Files Actually Felt Heavy? — Shiveesh Fotedar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often wondered if data could be reliably stored in lab-grown animal cells, specifically cancerous ones, that multiply based on usage into large data tumors. At the very least, it seems like an interesting sci-fi tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What happened to all the phone apps that made an effort to detect IMSI catchers, like SnoopSnitch, which appears to be abandoned (F-Droid reports some fishy anti-features?).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Transportability is a huge consideration. Pawpaws can’t be transported nationally, for example. The plants we eat have been bred for maximum marketability, which includes getting the produce from where it grows to where people need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I currently use it, and have largely mitigated issues in a similar way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft can’t seem to figure out sync, ever since Briefcase, if you involve multiple computers you invariably end up with more and more conflicting copies. It’s embarrassing.

  Office itself is insanely bloated is a world with Markdown, open data formats, and easy access to scripting. They used some pretty unethical tactics to make OOXML a “standard” to stop governments from switching to an actual standard: ODF-based Libre Office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Zen has “workspaces”, which I don’t get at all. Profiles seems like too much, containers works fine for me.

  Crazy all the useless nonsense Mozilla has room for, since they helped kill RSS by dropping browser UI support for it for “simplification”. It was the same rationale for removing live bookmarks and Shift+Enter to add .net to an address and Ctrl+Shift+Enter for .org.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit man, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about the OP, and the anti-straw rhetoric that it’s referencing. You seem to be looking for reasons to be angry, I’m out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus, you presume too much.

  Point to where I said not to do anything. My whole point was not to just stop at straws and find more ways to avoid plastic.

  Maybe spend less energy on literal strawmen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, all I’m saying is that straws probably aren’t the #1 source of discarded plastic, and it seems like focusing on one thing like that results in more performative than substantive change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t make any such “observations”, or even claim that it doesn’t vary by location. I’m just pointing out that your approach ignores a lot of much larger plastic masses. It’s ok for identifying some obvious opportunities, but I’d hesitate to call it definitive for the purposes of establishing the most impactful strategy.

  I’m not sure if people’s unmindfulness is responsible for a larger share of waste than indifference, but maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, not everyone can do it, but I have no reason to doubt that most can, but we’re really getting hung up on a single example here, people.

  How about deodorant? How many people use deodorant in a cardboard container instead of plastic?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s a reasonable expectation. I’ll just start a massive study to see if people use so many straws that it outweighs every other use of plastic in their life. You’ve totally got me there. Congrats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOdodo DODO DOdodo DODO Dodododo DODO DODOOOOO🎶🎵🎶⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  KFD, surely?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anecdotes aren’t a great way to measure this. Observations like this are variable by location, and ignores the much larger mass in landfills or unrecycled stockpiles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My hair is also excessively oily, and I wash it daily with bar shampoo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How much plastic is in a bottle of shampoo vs a straw, even averaged by day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shh⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The straw thing seems like such an inconsequential place to start over things like switching to bar soap and bar shampoo to avoid using so many plastic bottles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The liability is obviously not high enough if keeping and sharing this data works out positively. Even if the parties involved weren’t obviously evil, the risk to the people is too high for them to accept the risk with only trivial, speculative improvements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that’s a guy who likes curves!