Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 1 day ago:
Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.
From the article.
Not sure if the same thing but in Japan the Pre-purchase reservation lottery has already opened.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 1 day ago:
For the US only, lol
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 2 days ago:
Markets will still consider it a win if Trump does not else good in the next 4 years except for extend the “tax cuts and jobs” billionaire and corporate handouts. He seems to be failing at that and DOGE has only made it harder in for Congress (in a budgetary sense) for them to do it.
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 1 week ago:
Are you going to retire in the next four years? Or take all your cash out into gold, quit your job, and go into hiding for the next four years?
If neither apply to you, you can leave your money in your 401k. Selling index funds right now is ultimately up to you, but in the long term time in the market tends to beat timing the market.
What I’ve read in books is: Building up savings itself is more important than whether the returns are +10% or -10%, early in your career, since it will fluctuate but tends to average up.
And remember if your national index funds, bonds or whatever market and government backed investments lose half its value, you have bigger problems on your hand of the state of your country at that point which having cash on hand may or may not help anyway.
- Comment on They said the packaging would be discreet! 1 week ago:
That’s contraband in the state of Texas.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 1 week ago:
If you want the source of any future “technical glitches”, it’s this wilfully negligent act. Courts, take note.
- Comment on Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation 1 week ago:
Glad you are here!
There are instances of heavy-handed mod and admin actions here, but they are often held to account, generally on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com. Moderation disputes often end up discussed from a third party perspective on !fediverselore@lemmy.ca.
It is an echo chamber here too, but I have seen more often that opinions against the “narrative” getting -10 or lower but not censored. Some double down, are flamebaiting or downvote farming for unknown reasons, but there are times when you can see a genuine attempt at understanding and discussion from both parties. Over 7 years on Reddit (2016-2023), I can count how many times that happened on one hand, but on Lemmy it’s infrequent but it happens a lot more than that.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 1 week ago:
I think a lot of people are waiting for the first Civ7 expansion pack to be released, whenever that may be.
Civ 6 without R+F, GS feels like a completely different game. As an example, in vanilla you can expand anywhere right up to someone’s borders whereas with the expansion straying too far from your territory you could just lose it to influential pressure from neighbouring cities.
- Comment on The Great Tech Heist - How "Disruption" Became a Euphemism for Theft 1 week ago:
Any illegal and unethical stuff that goes on and gets found out is always a “glitch” too.
- Comment on Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected. 1 week ago:
You made an excellent cake, it looks just like what you were totally going for from the start:
the dog from undertale, a blob with four equidistant legs on the bottom, two ears and a pointy tail
- Comment on Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report 2 weeks ago:
I know that many under 30 would be much happier if no single person owned more than $1 billion in assets. Why don’t we try that?
- Comment on Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, video ads that let users earn rewards, in June 2025. 2 weeks ago:
Step 1: Discord CEO thinks about taking Discord public
Step 2: ADS 🤑🤑🤑
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- Comment on Big pharma fears best-selling drugs in crosshairs of US-EU tariff spat 2 weeks ago:
Start ignoring US’s restrictive IP and patent law, that will hurt American companies far more than any countertariff.
- Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
And a mix of available copies/qualities are better.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 4 weeks ago:
If you want to read the story of someone’s experience trying to block all the big tech companies from their life back in 2019. Their first week was trying to block Amazon.
- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 4 weeks ago:
- Hello
- Thank you
- Excuse me
- Sorry
- Do you speak [your native language]? [Native Language] please?
- Where is …
- Check in?
- The bill?
- How do I get to…?
- I am from… [your country’s name in the foreign language]
- Yes/No
- How do you say [word] in [foreign language]?
- The bathroom?
- the hospital?
- Help me!
- Emergency!
- Payphone? Portable charger? ATM?
- Taxi stand, Bus stop, Train Station?
- Restaurant/Eatery?
- Water, Food, [Your dietary restrictions]
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 5 weeks ago:
Certainly, maybe you can make a new AskLemmy post for that.
- Comment on Which two? 5 weeks ago:
It’s like a family restaurant’s kids menu colouring activity, except for bigots.
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 5 weeks ago:
They have slowed some appointments in House committees.
The Senate Democrats have stayed late to filibuster nominations
Democrats have an upcoming opportunity to refuse to pass a budget with the trillion dollar tax cuts that Musk and other billionaire are trying to somehow justify with every fibre of their being. This means that everyone in the House (including purple state Republicans) have to be in lock step, even 2-3 R-defectors will mean it doesn’t pass.
Democrats have been proposing amendments left and right, into the night… House members have suggested excluding people with wealth over $10M, $100M and $500M, all voted down Congresspeople are doing their job harder than they ever thought they would have to, but we should expect more.
- Comment on Will buying an e-ink reader with Android 11 be an issue in a couple of years? 5 weeks ago:
Look up the Android version usage statistics. I think I remember reading guidance about targeting 95-98% of users was a good benchmark.
Depends on what you use it for. I wouldn’t use banking apps, but just general internet usage, email, callimg, texting, mobile gaming and/or video watching I don’t see an issue with.
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 5 weeks ago:
Trump during the campaign has said a lot of things during the campaign. Some very concerning, some things appealing broadly. Some things he has said polar opposite things at consecutive campaign rallies. (You can still see it happening now with the “Ukraine started the Russian occupation” then “Russia started the Russian occupation”). Some promises he hasn’t done a thing to keep, such as make life affordable. I think a lot of people were holding on to that promise.
A lot of other things he didn’t promise at all, he is doing, supposedly to bury the lede. Did he ever talk about Denmark, Greenland or Panama in his 2024 campaign? We know he likes tariffs but I think the 51st state BS came about after his election.
- Comment on Instance A does not federate with Instance B. But B federates with A. What does it mean to a user? 1 month ago:
Instance A defederating B or vice versa is the same result. Any posts on the now inaccessible community wi
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 1 month ago:
Change one thing just because you can. Take a different way to work, whether it is walking (and leaving much earlier), or a different bus/train or car route.
Listen to your favourite songs… look at the birds around you. Borrow a book from the library and read it, one bit at a time. Make the choices in your life, deliberate and DIFFERENT. Break your routine. Feel human.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
I mean saying the government doesn’t use SQL, in tech-speak is about as dumb as saying the government doesn’t use numbers.
Government is full of what are known as relational databases as you are well aware, and though it stands to reason that they aren’t all using the same software to manage it, many can be accessed using a standard language of commands. It could be a Microsoft Access, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Derby, Microsoft SQL server, PostgresQL, SQLite, SAP HANA, so on and so forth.
And saying there can be multiple entries in a database for one item with respect to the Social Security Database is, to me, a silly distraction and spreading BS FUD to ignorant people.
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 1 month ago:
Heyyyyyy welcome to the “being threatened by the USA because Trump felt like it” club!
-EU + Denmark, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Panama.
- Comment on Speedometer, or Siegometer? 1 month ago:
120km/h Hitler is just raising your hand to answer or ask a question. 160km/h Hitler is just showing off how flexible he is.
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified | Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be. 1 month ago:
just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government is be.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No, only stupid reaction GIFs are allowed at my company. If an emotion doesn’t involve sending multiple megabytes of data to every member in the conversation, it’s not worth expressing.
Note: Standards are higher for secretarial and HR staff. At least 20% of the gifs must have Minions in them.
- Comment on In the Trump era, renewable energy isn’t green — it’s ‘dominant’ | Clean-energy executives are tailoring their pitches for the president and his political allies. 1 month ago:
Okay people, pack up the sub, this community is called “Dominant Energy” now.
