YeahIgotskills2
@YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 19 minutes ago:
Maybe on some other planet, where success is deemed as failure and they all have USB ports for genitals.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 1 day ago:
Yep, an Atari ST man myself, but I had the STFM and then the STE, so TOS was in ROM. Wonderful machines. Still going to this day.
- Comment on YSK: House flies always launch backwards, no exceptions. Creep behind them and they'll jump into your crushing hand. 2 days ago:
I never kill flies. I just feel bad. I do, however, trap them in a glass beaker and release them outside. It’s super-easy, you just go slow. Once they settle, slowly lower the glass over them. Then slide a bit of card between the glass and the surface and transport them outside.
Honestly, I have no idea why I do this. Maybe I subconsciously hope these small acts will balance my karma and somehow negate my illegal IPTV subscription.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 days ago:
Those distros even have a GUI? Amiga Workbench on 720k all the way! 😁
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 4 days ago:
Don’t get me wrong - I spent many a lunchtime in the library and the computer lab. Loved it. But by 17 I had to repress it and get into drinking and music (which, honestly wasn’t hard), just to get accepted and meet girls.
The taboo of IT stayed with me, so I never openly discussed my interest in it.
Happily, online life has been normalised and teens and adults game all the time without it being seen as odd.
Ironically, despite being into 16-bit games in my teens I never really allowed myself to get into gaming in the preceding years.
I regret that now as I reckon I missed out on a golden age of gaming that I would have enjoyed had I just been born a decade or so later and been less upright about what people think.
- Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires. 4 days ago:
When I was a kid being interested in computers was a sure-fire way to avoid getting laid.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
All my childhood faves have either been removed or hideously ‘improved’ beyond recognition. Hell, even 10 years ago the soda I liked here in the UK was way better (now it’s all Aspartame and AcuflameK).
Just last week I noticed that they’ve changed my goto crisp (Squares) by making them thinner, changing the whole experience.
It’s oddly jarring when they fuck with something they were hard selling you as a perfection for decades.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 6 days ago:
Well said. There’s also something about a certain type of atheist who confidently voices their refusal to believe in anything unless empirical evidence, that I personally find mildly irritating.
I appreciate critical thinking and I’m quite skeptical myself, but it’s that confident certainty that nothing that hasn’t been proven scientifically is real that slightly irks me.
It’s a mindset that seems to conveniently omit the possibility of future scientific discoveries and ‘unknown science’, and comes off in some as a somewhat smug, arrogant outlook that, somewhat ironically, can often be found in the blindly religious.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 6 days ago:
“God Speed, John Glen”
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
My favourite feature is the insanely counter-intuitive indenting and bullet points.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 3 weeks ago:
You don’t really jailbreak them as such to get functionality. You just enable dev options and APKs from unknown sources. You can SSH onto them if you really want to go command line and dig around in the OS, but it’s not necessary.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 3 weeks ago:
Can you do that on a firestick?
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 3 weeks ago:
My boss uses a VPN and some other clandestine methods to subscribe via India, so he pays the equivalent of about £3 per month for premium.
I gave it a try, but could never quite manage. You need to fully turn off location services, use an India registered Gmail and pay via a credit card if some kind. I think you also need a registered address, but he just used one for a random hotel in Bangladesh.
- Comment on Actual theft 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing a fairly stereotypical cute gamer girl/nerd wet dream. The kind that gets a certain type of man autistically erect. Source: my colleagues in IT
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 1 month ago:
Sadly no, just fiber to the cabinet, then cooper to the house. When I called the provider to tell them I was switching to Starlink they said there were ‘curently no plans’ for fiber to the premises in my area, so I suspect it’ll be a few years away at the very least.
Annoyed to be paying money to that dick, but it’s literally 10x faster at 420mb, which is what I’m getting now.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 1 month ago:
Elon’s a straight up Bond villain. I feel guilty for owning a Starlink, but it’s the only high speed internet in my area. Ridiculous that this pricks behaviour means that I now have to justify using his services.
- Comment on How do you even satisfy Bill fucking Clinton? 1 month ago:
In a trashy book from the 50s called Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger includes a short section about the thenNancy Davis during her early acting days at MGM.
He claims she had a reputation for being very friendly with studio executives, and that she was “popular” among them. Anger frames it as part of the Hollywood casting-couch culture of the era.
Probably BS, but who knows.
- Comment on Everyone has died and it is by sleeping 1 month ago:
But sleep is amazing. To me it’s a partially interactive movie where you disassociate and live out different lives with other characters who are an amalgamation of different people in weird semi-familiar settings in the past and present. It’s wild.
- Comment on The humanity 2 months ago:
Thoughts and prayers, brother. That is heartbreaking.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
I just find these reductive generalisations a bit silly and divisive. As if anyone born between arbitrary years x and y is part of some sort of united collective that can reasonably critique everyone born between years v and w.
- Comment on Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them 2 months ago:
We did this ‘baby led weening’ stuff and, for a while, the sprogs would reach for the broccoli and the veggies. However, as soon as they were exposed to chicken dippers by the grand parents, all bets were off. We, of course, try to present them with balanced meals and sometimes they’ll grudgingly eat some of their veggies, but it feels like a loosing battle.
- Comment on Would dinosaur meat taste more like frog or chicken? 2 months ago:
It really does. I had fried frog legs in Malaysia. Just like tiny chicken wings.
- Comment on Traditions are just a society having OCD 2 months ago:
True. Of course, there are plenty of good traditions. Birthday cakes. Halloween. Christmas. Sometimes OCD can be useful.
- Comment on Best stay away from that guy 2 months ago:
I think ‘that guy’ is phenomenally successful due to the weird and wildly superficial dating world tech has created.
I’m quite fortunate as I met my wife before the apps had taken over. Other than being reasonably tall and having a pulse, I am far from being that handsome dude.
But I did ok as I was brought up around women and have always used humour as a crutch since I was a kid, which I found women were responsive to when I grew up.
I doubt I’d have survive the online dating world with my beer belly and average face.
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 2 months ago:
I watched this with my son last night. Quite enjoyed it. I find the cadences of the narrator’s voice oddly soothing, although ironically it sounds very like an AI voice.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I wouldn’t use my Amiga, ST, ZX Spectrum or Mega drive on anything other than my CRT. They were designed for that pixel blur and playing on a modern TV is just not the same. I hadn’t realised the difference it made until i tried it and now I can never go back to using an LCD for any of my 80s/90s devices.
However, beyond that somewhat niche use, CRTs are otherwise entirely pointless and basically a worse display experience in every concievable way when your source is anything produced after the advent of HDMI/Display Port.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 months ago:
I have gout, which runs in my family (but I doubt the 90s pints helped). Therefore I was eating Ibuprofen like skittles for way too long to take the pain away. I finally relented and got on the meds after the diet and exercise didn’t fix it. Now I never take ibuprofen, and it makes me worry about how much damage I did to my organs and stomach lining while I was using it.