adespoton
@adespoton@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 day ago:
And bars/pubs used to be fine with the regulars hanging out in the corner, only buying a pitcher of beer each per night.
- Comment on Help figuring out my pressure washer? 1 day ago:
Likely the nozzle then.
- Comment on Help figuring out my pressure washer? 1 day ago:
Is it plugged into a socket rated for 120VAC/20W? Is there a ground fault on that socket (a fault, not a GFCI sensor, although that’s also a consideration)?
Is it connected to a rigid hose (not one of those collapsible ones)?
Have you tried using it with the motor turned off? Do you get a steady stream of water with no air bubbles?
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 1 day ago:
I’ve been using that phrase with people I’m talking to in a different time zone for years.
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 1 day ago:
Sounds good to me.
I get to keep the same salary and just use AI to make my work easier, right?
Right?
- Comment on How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known? 2 days ago:
Third option: the thief wanted it for themselves and has no plan to sell.
- Comment on A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda 2 days ago:
This explains RT’s hard pivot.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 4 days ago:
You don’t fluff your pillows or make your bed or wash the linens? Bed stuff needs daily maintenance; hopefully flashing the firmware on your smart pillow wouldn’t be daily, but you want to keep the bed bugs away, Shirley?
- Comment on Iran reiterates it will not pursue nuclear weapons despite the expiration of nuclear deal 4 days ago:
Not really. MAD assumes you have people on both sides who don’t want to permanently destroy the land.
With the religious right in charge of both Israel and Iran, both sides are perfectly happy to destroy the entire world in pursuit of a better afterlife.
This is one of those reasons that the separation of church and state is so important.
- Comment on Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? 4 days ago:
When I went to university, some professors were just starting to distribute material in postscript; TeX was brand new technology. PDF had just been accepted as a standard. The world wide web was still mostly local to NCSA, and Gopher was the preferred method of distributing electronic academic material.
Today? There’s no reason not to use PDF or ePub. There’s less and less that should require a trip to the library unless you’re studying pre-turn of the century literature of some sort.
The likes of Elsevier and HarperCollins Education should not exist in 2025. But they do, and so here we are.
- Comment on Do this asap 4 days ago:
Yes; the bigger question is: has Friendlybirdseggs heard of capitalization or abbreviation?
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 4 days ago:
Because that’s when you have the time to do the maintenance.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 4 days ago:
Only if you have hardware that can handle it.
Don’t run Windows 11 on ARM.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 4 days ago:
But they put other people on those rockets, not themselves.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 4 days ago:
It shows how durable their product is… when stored in an enclosure designed to protect it. The SD card probably didn’t even experience an increase in air pressure.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 4 days ago:
Finally! Meta does something for the good of humanity!
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
YET?
- Comment on Do this asap 4 days ago:
Who’s Asap?
- Comment on Russian Skiers Banned from Olympics Sparks Anger in Russia 4 days ago:
Does it provoke anger at their government for putting them in this position though?
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 4 days ago:
Before the printing press was before organized timekeeping or most automated machines.
This meant there was plenty of space for introverts doing isolated manual labour that we now automate.
What did they do at the end of the day instead of visit at the pub? Probably collapse in exhaustion.
For those who had more power, there was always religious orders.
- Comment on Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? 4 days ago:
Back when this happened to me, I had three courses over three semesters that taught from the same $300 textbook.
By the time I got to the third course, they’d moved to a new edition.
So I went to the library and photocopied all the questions pages and the answer key. While I was there, I discovered the library also had the instructor’s manual, so I gave that a quick read too.
- Comment on Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? 4 days ago:
Oh, that’s not the only thing that’s changed; they’ve also randomly re-ordered the questions at the end of the chapters so that the old one COULDN’T possibly be used.
- Comment on Spyware maker NSO Group blocked from WhatsApp 6 days ago:
“We hereby enjoin you from doing the illegal thing you were doing, and decrease the fine we were going to give you for doing it.”
Interesting timing, as NSO is now owned by US investors.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s normal. And for some reason it makes me think of Caught in the Crowd by Kate Miller-Heidke.
- Comment on What is known about darkrooms? 1 week ago:
I think that about covers dark rooms? Although I’ve never used one for colour photography; I doubt many people have though, as that’s been mostly done by automation in full darkness since it became a thing.
- Comment on How can I find a post I saw about a local alternative to Perplexity? 1 week ago:
If you saw it in Lemmy, try using the search function with keyword perplexity?
I think I remember the article you mean; I think it was about local agentic search. No idea where that was though.
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 1 week ago:
People using that legacy hardware generally can’t run Windows 10, which just ended support this month. The patch is only for Windows 11, which won’t run on older hardware.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
It’s what comes with more users. As people you don’t know start writing in styles you’ve only seen parroting arguments you disagree with, the urge to shut things down increases.
Plus, there ends up being more stuff to read in the same amount of time, which leads to shallower reading to cover it all.
- Comment on Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily 1 week ago:
By mates, do they mean buddies or procreative partners?
- Comment on Dutch government intervenes at Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia 1 week ago:
The Chinese perspective was actually more informative; I had more questions than answers after the first article.