bryndos
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- Comment on Banana 1 day ago:
They automatically come with a sense of scale.
- Comment on life purpose 3 days ago:
My first job was all small rooms of 4-6 desks. Rigid desks, with stuff like drawers where you could keep stuff. Enough space for a few desktop computers, crt monitors, in trays, out trays, reference books and files and still space to work.
Way better than the open plan that came along and the desks gradually shrank down to a small square on a single large shared table who'se thin badly supported top is vibrating from everyone else typing.
I'm sure a 70s typing pool type situation would have been worse - but personally my situation has regressed a lot closer to that now. WFH is more productive just because i have enough space for the way i work.
I'd love a cubicle office - never actually worked in one - but I doubt it be as good as the small room setup was .
- Comment on American public transit 4 days ago:
Yes, they just have to "run it at a loss". Instead of trying to drive up the fares trying to reach "profitable" levels.
A lot of the savings should come from reduced road deterioration and lower road maintenance costs.
- Comment on N++ — 10th anniversary update 6 days ago:
yeah one of the first games I played without a dvd on xbox 360 that was probably 20 years ago.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 6 days ago:
Even bob marley was a small axe.
- Comment on If chickens are modern dinosaurs some dinosaurs probably tasted like chicken. 1 week ago:
Pop a poppler in your mouth when you come to Fishy Joe's. What they're made of is a mystery. Where they come from no one knows. You can pick 'em, you can lick em, you can chew 'em, you can stick 'em; if you promise not to sue us, you can shove one up your nose.
- Comment on Words used in a different context 1 week ago:
peacum butter
- Comment on LineageOS 23 1 week ago:
I buy the phone for the os these days.
It does mean getting a used phone from back a few years.I think newer phones seem to make it harder maybe even impossible to unlock the bootloader.
I use a sony xa2 (2018) and it's only possible because sony still has a service to issue unlock codes for it. I think if sony turns that service off, then no more lineage os unless you already unlocked it. - Comment on Picture framing is the NASCAR of carpentry. 2 weeks ago:
A thing that is mostly cosmetic and not structurally sound?
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Good for you - but that's not everyone's experience.
So don't put your experience on others either.I'm sure it works the other way round, just as often.
But that last time when my sister was literally filling out an RMA form for a perfectly functional disk drive because her brand new laptop wouldn't play a DVD. That was the last straw for me and windows. (except at work of course until/ unless I can get a better job).Windows, 20 minutes of being advertised at like the internet before pop-up blockers, being pushed to windows store to buy the film again from them, trying a few different media players from the store, various googling - i cant even remember if i was able to install vlc before giving up and going debian - fuck that, unusable, and she couldn't do it either, so that was at least two of us in the well-below-average slice of the distribution of windows users.
Linux mint live iso booted about 5-10 mins to burn it and boot, play dvd (I dont even think i had to install vlc). Plus a bit of time to figure out how to get the boot menu. So maybe she was above average in debian users?
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Guess what, just like you dgaf about all the windows issues i have that you don't; i also dgaf about all the linux issues that you have that i don't.
It should be a mater of choice, but it isn't. I don't get a choice about windows for 7.5 hours a day because too many humans are fucking cunts - plus a lot of anti-competitive business practices and grooming lncompetence in corpo procurement . I don't really blame ms for that i blame people who keep paying them to make their shit worse, and the procurement rules that they come up with to bend themselves over that barrel.
- Comment on ParanoidAndroid was the perfect name for a privacy focused android custom rom 2 weeks ago:
"geniune people personalities" is probably also a good name for modern chatbots.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 2 weeks ago:
There was some guy on telly did a test.
Half the group had to eat oranges.
The other half had to drink orange juice.
Then swapped them over the next day.
I can't remember the exact setup but i think it was like 'eat/drink as much as you want, stop when you feel full'.Everyone was able to consume far, far more calories in juice form and probably far more sugar than they needed.
I think like even eating enough oranges for 1x300ml glass was hard for many people to do in fruit form.
Basically, the rest of the orange filled them up and that's what we're better evolved for: slower digestion of a more varied mush and lots of fibre and stuff like that.The juice is far too easy for us to eat way more than needed.
- Comment on it's time 2 weeks ago:
Meh, I seem to be an animal that keeps working 9-5, barely sees the sun for 2 months, and burns shit tonnes of fossil fuels to make up for the heat and light.
- Comment on PRAISE HIM 2 weeks ago:
He is alpha to the core.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 2 weeks ago:
Every time I'm walking with someone and come across a sofa out on the street I force them to . . .
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sit down on it for a moment with me.
Just in case they played ICO.Also F for agro
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probably the most tragic death scene i ever played
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 weeks ago:
Most of them are stealthy enough to stowl away on a boat though.
- Comment on beans 🫘 2 weeks ago:
mmmm, primordial bean soup.
I'm still eating it though even if it is my (step) nXgrandmother.
- Comment on If you live in a city, you'll probably end up memorizing the meanings of arbitrary numbers. 2 weeks ago:
Wait 'til you find out about nouns.
The arbitrary fuckers can be character strings as well as numbers.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 2 weeks ago:
haha yeah, i i was actually so pissed that i "walked into a tree" last night.
Still a wee bit merry. pebpat - Comment on Hi do yall this my hair is red 2 weeks ago:
strawberry blonde
- Comment on Winner winner! 2 weeks ago:
fawnography
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 2 weeks ago:
Oh right , i forget; this is not "no disingenuous questions". Hard to tell sometimes.
You want a decent webpage AND attention / clicks?
Your problem is not the coding of the webpage. pebkac.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 2 weeks ago:
Every TZ has a similar amount of tactical nuclear penguins.
The only way to win is not to play.=> the moon.
- Comment on Ethical artificial intelligence ? 2 weeks ago:
1.type your prompt or whatever you want to achieve into "no stupid questions"
2. wait
3. winI can't guarantee that the "intelligence" is either artificial or Welsh or whatever , but you might as well hope.
- Comment on PHP is the English of programming languages 2 weeks ago:
dude ffs! fuk gramor!
- Comment on PHP is the English of programming languages 3 weeks ago:
I'm curious to know how you know that you suck at it?
There are so many different formal rules, informal rules, dialects, accents , slangs and cultures and subcultures and so on across the world both among native and non-native speakers that I don't believe anyone can communicate flawlessly or even effectively in all of them.
I think the only way to assess competency would be to estimate the rate of misunderstanding in communication. Probably weighted in proportion to importance for survival. I'd guess that this is likely to be the case for most languages as they spread outside of any close-knit culture.
I think being widely used on the Internet makes any language suck; face-to-face is one of the best ways for speakers to understand the effectiveness of communication- and to learn and adapt to what works for that audience. Without that feedback loop, communication and improvement is probably much harder.
Human language just isn't like computer languages as there is no underlying instruction set, no compiler, and no objective standard or measure of what does or doesn't work.
TLDR; I think everyone sucks at English, but lots of people 'get by' which is 'good enough'.
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 3 weeks ago:
I think their username is like anglosaxaphone or saxadick or somePing like dat. You'd know it because the posts are basically unreadable.
- Comment on New phonetic alphabet just dropped 3 weeks ago:
Fiona.
But where's that fella with all the thorns and eths in pheir comments.