YeahIgotskills2
@YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 2 days ago:
Same.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 3 days ago:
As an observation, I spent a while in France and I noticed something different about them. They don’t put up with shit from their government. If a law is passed that many disagree with, they just don’t comply. They refused to accept, for example, vehicle clamping. The government passed it anyway, so they started handling out kits to escape them. People distributed them freely and would free any car they saw clamped. They tried to stop them smoking outside cafes. Zero compliance. Maybe it’s a hangover from The Revolution, but I found this attitude heartening.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 3 days ago:
This what I don’t get when folk online treat girls under 18 of any age as the same thing. A full grown person 30 something adult being with a 17 year old is exploitative, controlling and weird.
Being with an 8 year old is monstrous and, frankly, worthy of the death penalty.
I’m not excusing the first, but do people really see no difference? If you need a legal line in the sand to determine if it’s either totally fine or straight to the guillotine then maybe there’s something wrong with you.
- Comment on When you get older you lose the ability to do things quietly, such as fart, or let young people live their lives. 4 days ago:
I think the trope of ‘boomers’ etc is largely bullshit. I know plenty of old folks who are largely supportive of young people and are getting a rough deal from 20 somethings who assume they’re dicks because they don’t get really interact with them. The folks who first marched against racism and homophobia are well twilight years.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
I only use the platform to manage my dodgy IPTV subscription. Presumably they’ll be ditching Discord as well once they realise that they need to provide ID.
- Comment on If you receive a high medical bill, don't pay it immediately. Ask for an itemized bill first. 2 weeks ago:
And some 3rd world countries. Let that sink in.
- Comment on If I'm struggling with depression, I get ostracized as a "loser" that haven't accomplished anything but if I die in a tragic accident tonight, I'm a "young man with a bright future ahead" 3 weeks ago:
I think that’s one of the key things that makes folk generally feel happier when they’re older. I’m 48 and have never been so comfortable in my own skin, despite naturally being less physically healthy and attractive than in my teens.
I used to care so much about what peers thought, but now I’ve lived long enough to realise how few of the people I was worried about pleasing are still in my life and how unimportant they are as the journey of life plays out.
If I’d have known this in my teens I’d have been way happier. You just have to treat people well and, where it’s not reciprocated, forget about them and move on.
- Comment on Tradition is just bullying by dead people 4 weeks ago:
Saw this on Reddit years ago. Looks like posting it has become something of a tradition!
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 4 weeks ago:
I’m starting to agree. Was a bit quiet and weirdly obsessed with Linux when I first signed up, but now I really like it. I’ve decided to stay.
- Comment on Have you ever had a shave in a barber shop or spa? 5 weeks ago:
Had one on my sisters.wedding day. Made my face hurt. Probably not as nice as the one pictured.
- 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
When I was a kid being interested in computers was a sure-fire way to avoid getting laid.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
“God Speed, John Glen”
- Comment on Word. 1 month 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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? 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Thoughts and prayers, brother. That is heartbreaking.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 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.