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- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 4 days ago:
I can only get a bent staple into the USB-C port on mine, which makes me nervous but does the job. Will have to see if a pick works.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 4 days ago:
Anne Rice wrote an interesting book in the Vampire series on this, Memnoch the Devil, where the narrative is that Satan created a place for the souls to go that God otherwise would have extinguished in his cold hatred for much of humanity. Satan, who loved humans more than any other angel, rebelled against God’s harsh treatment of them, and was cast down as a result.
- Comment on exam cheating 4 days ago:
Yep I work in a law school and AI is actually being adopted very quickly, we have courses on it. But no one intelligent is offloading their thinking to it, because exams are serious business.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 5 days ago:
BRETTS_NISSAN has just sent you an unsolicited dick pic
- Comment on sushi delivery 5 days ago:
Had a persian friend who would make tahdig all during Covid and I definitely ate more than I needed to.
And we have places here that serve fried sushi rolls, they are good, but no fried stuff after 40.
- Comment on My collection is growing 6 days ago:
Between the size of the drill and the constant adjusting of torque I really prefer hand tools here. You can feel when the screws and cams are in place.
- Comment on My collection is growing 6 days ago:
No no no. Throw that away, first thing you do. Have a driver set with every size Allen key, you insert bit into a screwdriver handle and it ratchets. No more bloody knuckles, or pulling it out every turn because your key hits another part. Makes furniture go together so much faster.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
And 100% of Reddit management thinks that’s great
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 1 week ago:
The biggest mistake I made in my home was installing $3k in Nest gear, right before they were purchased by Google and the forthcoming Homekit support was abandoned. I cannot wait to get my Ubiquiti camera drops wired so I can stop paying the whopping $20/mo for cloud storage that was $8/mo when I started.
Tl;dr: Fuck Google
- Comment on Babadook enjoys some wine 1 week ago:
Also if you’re hosting a party just assume it’ll happen because people have multiple parties and/or going out to the club to get laid, they aren’t going to come drink wine and then go home and get into costume…
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 1 week ago:
I think back then, they had a product that was ahead of its time, and just needed time for us to adapt to.*
Now, they have a solution in search of a problem, and they don’t know what the good use cases are, so they’re just slapping it on like randomly and aggressively.
- I hate the way we did though, and hope AI destroys the current corporate internet.
- Comment on a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction 1 week ago:
Handles like 25x as much traffic
- Comment on card game shop 1 week ago:
Yep. I developed eczema and soap/chemicals are not my friend, I will forgo deodorant in the winter and use it lightly during the summer - you’d be surprised how little you really need - but I am checking with people about it regularly. I had a friend tell me I smelled like “outside” which made me realize the crystal deodorant wasn’t working right.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 1 week ago:
Suicidal fantasy a a coping mechanism is not that uncommon, and you can definitely move on to healthier coping mechanisms, I did this until age 40 when I met the right therapist who helped me move on.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 1 week ago:
Mac user for over 30 years, no problem - they make it easier and easier to say goodbye, which it’s now time for, thanks to Apple adding on to Trump’s mansion with a huge donation after the gold award earlier this year.
Steve Jobs wasn’t sure Tim was right for the creative side of the Mac, but he knew the business side would keep humming. And now here we are, Apple the IBM of 90 years ago, so happy to help out the fascists.
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
Well. Artificial flavoring is typically identifying 1 or 2 compounds that occur within a fruit, whereas the fruit has dozens of these compounds. Imagine what artificial apple flavoring is to green apples - that’s what Runts is to the Gros banana.
You can still get the Gros in some places but it’s not grown at scale, has to be isolated.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
I’ve worked in manufacturing, definitely supported some 98 machines in recent memory. But even in industrial settings they’re segmented on a vlan with absolutely no connectivity beyond what’s needed, behind heavy duty firewalls.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 weeks ago:
Corporate users will find it unacceptable to use an OS without regular security updates. Individual users will do whatever they want as per usual. Unfortunately without the security updates, the average Windows 10 user is going to be less and less secure over time, although MS will undoubtedly patch major things.
- Comment on Manic Stew 2 weeks ago:
Dissociation Twizzlers which is definitely on the list of drag names now
- Comment on Fucking math... 2 weeks ago:
Yes and no, other day I was trying to figure out 17% of a number like 65, and I’m like “Oh it’s just 65% of 17!” Which really wasn’t helpful.
It works with small numbers on one side tho.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 2 weeks ago:
This was a reverse tragedy.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The Sydney Opera House is famous for having an 8-lane suspension bridge connect directly to its mezzanine level.
- Comment on Discuss 3 weeks ago:
A bar of Hershey’s, you can really taste the butyric acid that forms during their unique process. In a Reece’s cup, the high sugar content of the filling (it’s not really even peanut butter) overpowers it. I actually like Reece’s but Hershey’s is a last resort chocolate.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 3 weeks ago:
Tesla doesn’t do any of that, nor crash testing
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 3 weeks ago:
The powerbrokers have gotten into fashion trends, they absolutely do shit like this.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 3 weeks ago:
What if we turned off all the poor people’s power nation-wide, would that be enough?
- Comment on Caw caw 3 weeks ago:
If you let your toenails go past a point, they’re just going to stay that way, your toe adapts to the shape and it’s never going to look like a young person’s toe. Hell my 2nd toenail is shaped like a tent for some goddamn reason. On both feet. Whatever. The days of foot fetishists coming at me are over 😂
- Comment on A roundabout 3 weeks ago:
My state is installing them everywhere despite people not knowing how to drive (only state in the union without compulsory driver’s ed). So it’s very common to enter a roundabout and have another car go the wrong way, because they wanted to go left.
I just sit with my horn depressed until they back up. Sometimes it takes a while.
- Comment on A roundabout 3 weeks ago:
Eh, put that bumper back on, bit of clay bar, it’s as good as new.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 3 weeks ago:
“Got the flu? Pissing out your ass? Take some fucking DayQuil™ you lazy whore, get back to work.”