Adderbox76

@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use Syncthing. No cloud, just keeps any folders I choose on any devices synced with one another. Never had a problem, and while the files yes accessible on the internet technically, they’re not stored anywhere except the devices that have access to them. Works like a charm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually move to Lineage once my two year warranty is up, just in case.

  I know that by law hardware manufacturers can’t deny hardware warranty based on your software (at least where I’m from…I worked in for one of the big three telco’s up here in Canada)

  But I’d rather not have that argument with the manufacturer, so I wait for it to run out. If my phone has a rom available I run that until the hardware dies and then I upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In the absence of being able to switch to Graphene (Don’t own a pixel), I’ve done everything I can to replace Google Apps with FOSS alternatives, and disabled Google Assistant on my device entirely.

  I know none of that will stop a determined Google eventually fucking with me, but at least I’m trying.

  I’m so damned tired of the modern corporate world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Transracial doesn’t exist because “Race” in the context that they want to use it doesn’t exist.

  Genetically there’s only one “race”; that’s the human race. If they want to identify as a different culture, it’s purely a cosmetic cultural thing, not biological or genetic. Whereas as being Transgender is biological. Therefore, you can safely tell people like Rachel Dolezal to fuck off and go back to fifth period science class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Arc Browser Is Dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most regular people just use what came with their computer, unfortunately.

  So this is a case of a company that made a browser to appeal to techies that didn’t see widespread adoption, is pivoting to a new browser that is focused on the central conceit of a product that most techies decry…

  Read the room, Arc. Read the room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not acceptable. In fact I can’t think of a single one except burnt that is still actively kicking around.

  Who told you it was acceptable, if you don’t mind me asking. And if it was your english teacher, please ask them how they managed to get here from all the way back in Shakespeare’s time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Past 30, age is less about biology and more sociology.

  I’m a 49 year old male. But I’m divorced, no kids. Still living a bachelor life quite happily while most guys close to my age are married with the kids and coaching soccer on weekends in a minivan. As a result, my friend group almost exclusively skews younger because those are the people who are in the same stage of life as I am (regardless of biological age).

  The same works for relationships. Past a certain point it doesn’t matter how old you are, as long as your sociological age is compatible. (Ie. Your way of life)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah…that’s the “love” part. It would be false advertising if they took Jeremy away but still insisted it contained love.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen, the Waukegan Township homeless problem isn’t going to solve itself, you know…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I apologize if this sounds flippant, but it’s FICTION.

  Literally ANYTHING works if its written well enough…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are corporate IT policies the way they are?

  I thought about this the other day when asking my IT department why they won’t let me carry a USB stick between home and work to be able to work from home and instead lock down the USB access and instruct me to use Google Drive instead…

  I decided that most corporations only cosplay their IT security inasmuch as it only matters up to and not beyond the point of economic convenience.

  If any of these companies truly cared about security, they would at the very least be using a hardened fork of Chrome with Google Services stripped out. They’d be self-hosting their own servers connected only via a VPN or some sort.

  But that shit takes money and staff to maintain it. So they’ll give everything to third parties to manage instead and then send out pop-quiz emails about phishing every couple of weeks followed by sternly worded emails when a person fails it.

  (Sorry…off my anti-depressants until pay day, so I have a lot of micro rants that have built up…haha)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person know markdown?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.

  Non-professional: “My computer is making a weird buzzing noise”

  Professional: “What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person know markdown?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ##What

  ###You talkin’ about

  ####Willis?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person know markdown?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold

  I wouldn’t guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the “normie” world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they’re not just pressing the icon in the gui.

  Hell, most of them look at me like I’m a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the most part, yes. By design. Conveying something in a movie is more challenging in that it has less time to do it than a book has less time to do it. So it HAS to be, to some degree, more blunt and on-the-nose than a book can take its time being.

  You can write five pages of internal description discussing what your main character thinks about the world around them. But you can’t show that in a movie and so you have to figure out how to get the gist of it across in a few lines of dialogue and some emoting.

  It’s why show don’t tell is a rule. You have to simplify a movie in comparison to a book or else your audience will be sitting through a ten hour film.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The very first thing written by a something called “proofreading services.com” is functionally wrong. That’s a helluva start.

  “exact” and “very accurate” are not the same thing. Not by a long shot.

  “Very accurate” still leaves room for innacuracies while “Exact” does not. So why exactly would I trust a service whose very first sentence is an error?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For that matter, why is it called “getting corn-holed” instead of “getting maize-holed”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I be the guy that’s known around town for pointing out that in the given context, it’s actually “fewer users”

  And yeah yeah, I know about evolution of language and common usage, and all that crap. But it really does just boil down to the fact that fewer sounds more elegant when the object is plural. ie: “There are usually fewer unexpected costs associated with new home ownership”, vs “There is usually less unexpected cost associated with new home ownership” (Both are correct in their given context)

  It’s about how language rolls off the tongue. If we lose that we might as well grunt at each other draw pictographs with our own feces.

  /end of rant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss the prevalence of manual transmissions. Every one of my old first beater cars were manuals. But it seems that they’ve been phased out for the most part and it sucks. Driving Automatics isn’t really driving (I’ll die on that hill).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  100% agree. I was just pointing out that the whole situation is not as black and white as people on both sides want it to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that’s sarcasm? But yes, I legitimately feel that our system, where the only person who has any “theoretical” power to make unilateral decisions without parliament is some old guy who is content to just stay out of it, is better.

  Imagine an America where they could tell Trump. “Okay, you’re king. Here…we’ll even put you on our money. Now go live overseas and fuck off”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because, and not to sound flippant, that’s just the easiest and most natural way to do it without a lot of extra paperwork.

  See technically, a "president* is meant as a drop in replacement for a monarch. A republic doesn’t get rid if its king, they just replace one who was born into it with one they chose and one they pretend to have a bit more control over.

  Canada’s equivalent to Trump isn’t Carney, technically it’s King Charles. And the U.S equivalent to Prime Minister would be who’ve leads the majority party in congress.

  Could we go through the constitutional rigamarole to change that? Sure. But why bother when he’s content to stay out of things.

  Essentially, a parliamentary democracy means that our “Trump” is a deadbeat dad who lives in another country.

  I’ll happily keep that buffer in place versus whatever the fuck the U.S had gotten themselves into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Republics give you Trump…

  What I mean is this:

  A Prime Minister is not a president. They are simply the leader of whichever party has he most seats in parliament and its therefore the “face” of the government in many days.

  Most importantly this means that there is no such thing as “executive orders” because there us no “executive” branch, per we. Meaning even if we (Canada) had fucked up and elected Trump-lite, Pollieve, his ability to do the same shit Trump or doing would be severely limited in that everything goes through parliamentary vote without exception (for the most part).

  A ruling party has something called the Emergencies Act, as that can, to a limited degree, allow them to enact a few things without parliamentary vote, but its use is generally highly controversial and is still very controlled by judicial review.

  Long story short (too late, I know) is that the tsunami of bullshit that Orange Hitler is doing is because he’s using executive orders enact things and then fighting congress in court when they push back rather than getting congressional approval BEFORE enacting it.

  Something that is far more limited in a governmental system where that much power HASN’T been given to one person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh believe me. I would be too. We’d buy ourselves a hell of a lot of time. I’m just pointing out that the solution is never black and white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite the replies, the real answer is that it’s not as simple as “stopping drilling”.

  The fossil fuel industry isn’t just oil and fuel…it’s quite literally everything.

  • The vulkanized rubber in the tires of your electric vehicle…yep…petroleum based.

  • The hard plastic that forms the interior panels, and the side walls, the steering wheel and literally everything else made of plastic on the planet? You guessed it…petroleum based.

  • The lubricants that keep the chains chaining, the gears gearing, the whirligigs whirling and the moving parts moving…once again…petroleum based.

  • Much of the cosmetics industry, as well as chapsticks, lotions, sunscreens, etc… Yep…all have at least some petroleum based ingredients.

  Are you starting to get it?

  Hippies can complain all they want, and I ABSOLUTELY agree that we need to be moving away from the petroleum industry faster. But it’s not a matter of switching to electric cars because EVERY part of modern life is from the roads we drive on to the keyboard I’m typing this one, is in some way or another making use of a petroleum based product.

  We have a long hard road before that’s not the case anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, there really is no such thing as a “Sovereign Citizen” except in their own brain.

  They believe that there is some hidden loophole that only “smart” people understand that allows them to reap the benefits of being a part of a society without having to be subject to any of its rules; and that that cheat code is accessed via some combination of paperwork that the government keeps hidden from the public.

  Essentially, to them, the social contract (ie. citizens voluntary give up certain rights like the right to speed through red lights, the right to murder, etc… and subject themselves to laws of the state in exchange for that state providing them with roads, infrastructure, stability, prosperity and the right certain inalienable freedoms) is just for suckers who don’t know the correct forms to fill out.

  It’s absolute mind-numbing stupidity of the highest order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada’s conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly enough I wouldn’t even call it a collapse.

  Conservatives walked away with far more seats than they did in 2021.

  Yes…it’s a collapse from what they were projected to win before JT stepped down. But more than anything it’s shown that it isn’t necessarily the Cons that we have a problem with, it’s the “Trump-Style” Conservatism that Poppinfresh tried to inject into the narrative. Rhetoric, slogans, hateful dogma, gaslighting the voters to think that everything is broken and that “they’re” the only ones who can fix it, etc…

  It’s not a surprise that as soon as JT stepped down voters said “Oh thank god” because they could finally stop holding their nose and not have to vote for the one guy that they hated slightly less than Trudeau.

  If Conservatives don’t oust him as leader after it’s plain as day that HE is the hated one, not them, then they’re stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For the same reason that two boring white dudes can star in two different movies in the same year about the White House being taken over by terrorists

  Because similar isn’t the same. As long as they can argue that specifics are different enough, that’s all that matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when is that allowed!? /s

  I’m fine with that. My bigger question was simply why am I seeing it in sports news instead of entertainment news all of a sudden? It’s not a sport. it’s a variety show sponsored by the makers of steroids.