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- Comment on Exclusive Update On The ‘Star Trek: Year One’ Series Pitch And Status Of The ‘Strange New Worlds’ Sets 3 days ago:
When I was younger and TNG was coming out, I thought “oh wow this is so cool, every 20 years we go another 100 years into the future of Star Trek!” And here we are almost 40 years later, still rehashing the same characters from the same eras over and over. The only breath of fresh air is the last bit of Discovery and Starfleet Academy. Give me a flagship show set in the 26th century or a show about the Temporal Cold War. Something new!
- Comment on end times are here 5 days ago:
Madoff only went to prison because he stole from rich people. Stealing from regular people is basic business practice
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Don’t yuck people’s yums
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 6 days ago:
They sponsor some really neat sailboats
- Comment on especially to the hallucinations 1 week ago:
Firmly grasp it
- Comment on nothing really matters 1 week ago:
Haven’t sorted laundry in like 20 years at least. If I get a brand new pair of jeans or something like that I’ll separate it for a load or two but that’s it.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 week ago:
How soon until Asahi will run on it
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 1 week ago:
It mostly introduces you to old men with a wide array of beliefs in conspiracies
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 1 week ago:
I had video out via MHL back in like 2013 and a usable desktop environment on an HTC M7 or something like that. Haven’t had a phone that could do anything similar since, and it’s kind of wild with how much more powerful phones are these days that desktop modes aren’t more common. I would love to not have to carry a laptop around when my phone is more than powerful enough for what I do for work.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
Because this isn’t about parenting or children, it’s about a creeping surveillance state
- Comment on Atmospheric Slapping Tournament 2 weeks ago:
Oh yes, “trees of the same species” is the key piece of missing information in the meme
- Comment on Atmospheric Slapping Tournament 2 weeks ago:
Has no one ever been in a forest before? Trees 100% grow all up into each other all the time. They compete for sunlight and try to choke each other out by design. These pictures honestly don’t look real
- Comment on Saved you a click: a 1911 2 weeks ago:
In Luke, Jesus tells his followers to sell off some of their clothes to buy weapons so this is not totally out of the realm of possibility
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 3 weeks ago:
I’d just point out that now might be a good time to add a whole-house surge arrester and/or get a bunch of new surge arresting power strips for your hardware. They have a useful life measured in joules dissipated so replace them if they’re old too or your cheap RAM (among other things) may let out the magic smoke one day.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 4 weeks ago:
High speed rail… mmmmm…
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 4 weeks ago:
I do civil engineering work, mostly related to soils etc. I have a computer for work but that’s about as far as it gets for me professionally.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 4 weeks ago:
Engineer here, but my technical expertise is about as far away from computing and technology as you can get and still be an engineer.
I was a kid in the 90s and the first album I bought was Metallica’s black album. I spent over $18 in like 1999 so with inflation that’s like $300 or something now. Then the drummer of what was then my favorite band says hey, if you’re downloading our music on Napster, then we don’t want you as a fan. That hit teenage me pretty hard and basically radicalized me to find “alternative methods” for every piece of digital media I could, if that’s how the people I looked up to were going to treat me for not having as much money as them. Everything I host now started at that inflection point, from picking up Linux as a hobby to learning about networking and security. Turned out to be a pretty good path to follow though seeing how Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify et. al. turned out in the end.
I still download and share all of Metallica’s discography out of spite, but haven’t listened to them since.
- Comment on Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial 4 weeks ago:
Cool, can’t wait for nothing to happen afterwards
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
Make matrix as easy to use and understand and make sure all their friends are there first
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 5 weeks ago:
Then it’s fake in a way that The Old Man and the Sea is fake in that it’s a story that reflects on what it’s like to be human
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 5 weeks ago:
I had a corporate job where I never interacted with customers and I was salaried and my boss would still keep Teams up on his computer all the time and come and check in on my cubicle if I wasn’t showing available on Teams exactly at 7:30 in the morning. I got lectured once for showing up at 7:35. Not late to any meetings, not late on “deliverables”, etc. Just not “professional” enough for him. I have no doubt believing this post.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 1 month ago:
Is “remain ‘impartial’ to political agendas” a dogwhistle for “tolerates Nazis” or have I just become too cynical
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 1 month ago:
Not OP but I bought a 45" LG UltraGear gaming “monitor” a while back that’s basically just a TV, no smart anything etc. Right now the only ones I see after a quick search are curved though, mine is flat.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
Without a way of knowing which satellite passing overhead was the ISS, in the narrow windows each day where you could see them well enough to correctly point a Yagi at one, you’d quickly run out of battery before making a relevant contact. Also the people on the ISS rarely listen or respond, the most used ham equipment on the ISS is basically a glorified repeater so you’d also have to get above the pileup of all the satellite chasers just trying to log contacts.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
JS8Call and FT8 are digital modes that don’t require talking. Plenty of other things to do as well
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
Fun story, he was killed with a bomb which caused the car he was in to fly so far into the air that he’s often referred to as Spain’s first astronaut.