tiredofsametab
@tiredofsametab@fedia.io
Reddit -> Beehaw until I decided I didn't like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn't like are better now) -> kbin.social (died) -> kbin.run (died) -> fedia.
Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout countdown delivers possibly the only thing more pointless than a New Vegas or Fallout 3 remaster 3 days ago:
An enshittified company that, in my personal opinion also engages in some scammy practices (see various goods around FO76) being shitty? I'm shocked, I tell you.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 3 days ago:
Research has shown that many readers today greatly value quick overviews of any article, before the reader considers whether to dive into the article’s full text.
I'm in my mid 40s and this is true of me depending upon why I might be reading something. Sometimes, I want to do a deep dive; sometimes I just want to know roughly what
thingis.However, let me say: fuck AI summaries.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 3 days ago:
There were unpatched issues in the first one (it's been so long now I don't remember them all but there was one in a DLC where you're supposed to be able to give an item to a robot NPC but it was just broken in addition to several others).
Looking at the price and thinking of that, it was a "pass until decent sale" for me.
I do like the setting generally (at least based on the first one). It might be neat to have someone else take over the IP and go somewhere with it.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC 3 days ago:
Fuck Pitchford and Take2 -- sell the IP to someone who will do something cool and bring back Eddings.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I was thinking of giving piefed a shot. Any further reading on this?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I don't find emoji or even emoticons professional, but I'm also in my 40s so take that for whatever it's worth. I imagine younger people would feel less of a taboo around them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
So far as I know, there have been a couple of people arrested for trying to do things with actual underage girls' clothing. One I think had a vending machine set-up, another on the internet. Selling things like that on the internet also isn't unique to Japan. The vast majority of Japanese society has no patience for such things.
I've been in Japan for over a decade and never seen what you're talking about (and I have been to fetish events and shops).
Framing this as an accepted thing or even a common thing or even an extant thing is disingenuous at best.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 1 week ago:
Just arranging it the last time in person. Mail worked just fine to confirm or cancel a bit before since the same city. If you needed things more quickly, couriers was one way. There were also a lot third spaces and people met out and about more and more often. They might see each other every Sunday at the same church for instance.
Up until I was in uni, even payphones didn't matter most of the time since there's no guarantee both parties are going to be near one and no normal person had a pager. If you were going to a business that had a phone, you could look up their number and call them to put one of your buddies on the line or at least send a message (see the running gag on the Simpsons where Bart calls the bar to ask for someone).
We also just waited a bit and if they didn't show, we went on with our plans.
- Comment on Status code 418 is the "sir this is wendy's" meme for tech people. 1 week ago:
Which was clearly like 12 or so years ago, right? .... right? crumbles to dust
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 1 week ago:
We don't, really. I certainly grew up without them. It did both good and bad things. It did centralize and simplify some things, but that came at a cost of freedom for more power users. It was great for sorting out dependencies at a time games were still often bad at doing that cleanly on their own for less-technical people. I think it did good things for community, though, particularly for those of us who did not use any modern consoles that had various party/SNS-like features baked in.
- Comment on If the 2028 United States presidential election was held today, who would you vote for? 1 week ago:
Not the GoP. Not the green party, at least with Stein still around. Not the dems after all their nonsense. So... I don't know; we'll have to see who runs. The "good" news for anyone disliking my selections is that the (heavily-Gerrymandered) district means my vote will almost certainly mean fuck all anyway (assuming they don't come up with some bullshit to throw out overseas votes to begin with since I can't really do anything about that).
- Comment on Here I stand, at 50, wishing I could shit as well as my dogs. 2 weeks ago:
Hydrate better, eat better, and move more. I eat mostly brown rice as my main carb in my big meal and a big salad (mostly cabbage) as my other meal most days. I'm not far behind you in age and I want to poop less
- Comment on Stone tablet found with carved symbols that do not match any known language 2 weeks ago:
My money is on it being rather recent.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 weeks ago:
I met one really drunk Russian guy years ago, but the bar was so loud everyone basically had to yell so I can't really count it
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 weeks ago:
Sure. The post asked specifically about Americans and, perhaps by virtue of living in East Asia, I haven't run into that many loud Europeans lately.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 weeks ago:
Americans are mostly super loud. You can hear them from forever away like they're competing to be the loudest in any space. ~ someone originally from the US that had this pointed out to me.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 5 weeks ago:
Firefox mobile. Input the homepage URL into the address bar from this post. Went, scrolled the page a bit, and hit back. Came straight back here
- Comment on Pizza is a tomato pie. 5 weeks ago:
That's just a fancy way of saying a tomato smoothie on bread/pastry
- Comment on Facts to share at dinner #1: Shagreen 5 weeks ago:
I use wasabi grinding paper all the time!
- Comment on People that go commando have pee and poo on their pants 5 weeks ago:
I would be more worried about sweat, I think.
Then again, I don't even fart unless I'm sat on a toilet
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 5 weeks ago:
Some cultures considered sunset to be the end of the day and beginning of the next one. That seems good to me in a sense but very unwieldy for modern 24-hour time. The year also started when life began to return and planting could start.
- Comment on I Program on the Subway 5 weeks ago:
It sounds like a better use of that person's time might be doing requirements/design work on the subway. Probably less obnoxious to the people around as well.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 5 weeks ago:
I didn't qualify as a kid (which is interesting because one of the things I was considering was moving to Montreal for university which would probably have lead to a very different life than I have now), but the law changes allowed me to later claim citizenship (under the 2009 change, IIRC). There is (or at least was when I did) a fair amount of documentation to write and provide about all your relatives so be ready for that.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 5 weeks ago:
I'd argue that Japan has historically done pretty well at the first. I don't find the healthcare system here perfect, but I have many elderly in-laws who get great care. There's probably going to be a decline in quality and/or availability as the issues persist, though.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 5 weeks ago:
Get all my games working and, more importantly, my video editing software. I had the video editing software working, updated the OS, and it broke. This is not something that has happened to me under Windows, as much as I dislike it. I work two jobs and have home maintenance; I don't have time to sit and troubleshoot and manually tweak things. Solve that and I will be on linux full time.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 1 month ago:
I have two citizenships and permanent residency in a third country, so that seems unlikely. In the spirit of the question, though, immediately start drilling language and learning customs. If they have IT jobs, particularly in English, I'm already ready to work. I also have my own small farm so experience there as well. I've worked in many industries in my life, so I can jump into many things.
The kicker is probably the legal side and then finding housing which just requires doing whatever is needed. I assume I have whatever assets I had, my phone, etc.
- Comment on Do rich people in landlocked countries have yachts? 1 month ago:
Absolutely. They just take planes (and/or sometimes helicopters) to them.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 month ago:
We already do in colloquial Japanese.
- Comment on Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown 1 month ago:
I'm a US citizen and my wife is not. My grandparents are not long for this world. If one of them pass, I will be going to the US alone because I am terrified my wife, who speaks little English, will end up in some ICE camp. It's horrifying and heartbreaking.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 month ago:
Thanks for the advice; I'll check into that. It's probably 6 meters at most if I run the cable behind things. My keyboard and mouse might work but it might be tight depending upon which version of bluetooth their dongles run (I don't have bluetooth on the motherboard).