Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 3 days ago:
Idk what pushback you’re talking about,
Y’know what, I didn’t look at usernames and assumed. That’s my bad. Sorry!
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 3 days ago:
Ohhhh you meant grocery delivery not restaurant delivery. I think that’s the source of a lot of the pushback on your comment. Grocery delivery can absolutely make a ton of sense, especially when it’s only a fee of like $10-20 on what could be 2 weeks worth of groceries (basically a 5-10% increase in person trip cost)
Personally I don’t do grocery delivery because often what I like and what I look for isn’t the same as what the shopper usually buys or looks for, and when they substitute it might not be something that makes sense. But I’ve been tempted before on particularly busy weeks or even just as a money saving strategy to avoid getting extra items that aren’t needed and/or for comparison shopping (I’m much, much more price sensitive when online shopping compared to in-person)
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 3 days ago:
Given the extremely high cost of eating out compared to buying some frozen shit/random stuff for quick lazy meals at the grocery store I don’t think that makes financial sense. On the other hand I’m not going to fault people for choosing to eat out/eat delivery because they like it and can afford it
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Everyone dunks on Apple for throttling older batteries but the fact is this was super pro-consumer move. It prevents the phone from randomly powering off because the SOC tries to pull a burst of energy that the battery is too tired to output, and resets following a battery replacement, plus nobody notices the throttling except under synthetic benchmarks where you actually have performance numbers to see the handful of percentage points of performance difference. AND after this kerfuffle they added a toggle switch where if you so prefer random instability on an aging battery over 2% slower turbo performance you can choose to have that.
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 1 week ago:
Comments and posts will still exist on other instances that lemm.ee federates to, but obviously your lemm.ee account will no longer be active
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 1 week ago:
As a parent of a special needs child we currently leash when attending large events (he is a flight risk) I would laugh so hard if someone asked me if he’s a rescue
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 1 week ago:
Realistically Tailscale seems to currently be running on a model of get all of the self hosters to love running it at home so then they advocate to run it at work where all of the pricey enterprises licenses make the real money.
I’ve actually seen some real world usecases where if I had more political push, I would’ve put Tailscale onto the running as a potential solution
Hopefully they have the right people in place to push back at the VC firms about maintaining their current strategy rather than scaring away all of their best advocates before they can truly get off the ground. Having worked at a company owned by a hedgefund, part of the trick is having the right people in place in the company who can block the worst decisions by the capital-hungry owners
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
For a Windows 11 machine 8GB is getting to be a limitation. Basically for right now its fine, but very soon 16GB will be the new minimum
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 2 weeks ago:
As someone who was very recently fired without warning my approach is very simple: I have limited loyalty to the companyI work for, but I have a duty to do right for my coworkers. There’s a good chance I’ll encounter someone I’ve worked with before in a future job, and maintaining good relationships with former colleagues can be good for future career prospects. In short, businesses generally cannot be trusted, but people often can be
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 2 weeks ago:
Two weeks is good practice especially as you move into more professional roles. Depending on the role additional notice might be preferred or even required since some roles in some businesses are critical enough to potentially impact business continuity if you leave unexpectedly
For a shitty retail job though? Give a few days notice so the schedule can be updated and leave it at that, barring other obligations
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 2 weeks ago:
Except most people just click a link on their desktop that goes to a thing they have a completely different name for anyways. If you don’t tell them anything (or just say it’s a new version of Windows) they likely won’t notice the actual differences, just complain about missing a specific icon for something without being able to correctly name what it is
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
we don’t have an education system, we’ve got a babysitting system.
To be fair, have you seen what childcare costs?! No sense subsidizing that through taxes when you can just make kids jump through BS hoops in an adversarial system as a form of childcare (and then not even run it the entire workday because fuck you)
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I suspect the question was phrased poorly. It should have simply said “who ate more pizza” not stated who ate more and request to explain how
- Comment on Don't Look Up 3 weeks ago:
I mean the island of Sark was invaded by a single dude in 1990 (apologies for the terrible linked source, its just one of the first search results that wasn’t a random reddit thread or other even less reputable source)
The local volunteer Constable, the only law enforcement on the island, being informed of the invasion thanks to the notices, decided to take the threat seriously. On the morning of the invasion, Constable Perrée began to plan the island’s defense, which was a two stage scheme. First, he went looking for Mr. Gardes. He found him sitting on a park bench in army fatigues preparing for the massacre that was about to befall this island. As the Constable approached the invading army (a.k.a. Gardes), he saw Gardes loading his automatic weapon.
The first “showing up” stage now complete, Mr. Perrée executed the second stage of the plan. He complimented Mr. Gardes on his choice of gun and convinced Gardes to remove the magazine and let him see the instrument of the island’s assured defeat, so the constable could better admire it. When Gardes acquiesced, the Constable took the gun and punched him in the nose. The invasion was over. The gun used in the attempted coup now sits in the Sark Museum next to old ships and a dedicated exhibit to one of the island’s two original telephone calls.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 3 weeks ago:
Sir, !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works is leaking out and beginning to spread
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 weeks ago:
Seeing the person chewing out folks for calling for a fork is pretty funny in hindsight. They aren’t wrong, but now they’re the recorded naysayer in a pivotal moment for a major open source project. It’s like anyone who said Open Office shouldn’t be forked when Open Office was purchased by Oracle. Now Open Office is abandonware with only functionally useless commits and multiple unpatched security issues and Libre Office has completely replaced it
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 weeks ago:
I dropped my music library into Jellyfin just as an extra. I’ve built up quite a collection over the years of CDs and always rip and tag them as I acquire new CDs, so while the collection is a little messy it’s sizable and mostly correctly tagged
Jellyfin’s music playback has been buggy but getting better with updates. At the current rate of improvement it’ll probably be really good in a 2-4 years, but right now it’s kinda meh. It exists but it’s buggy enough that I don’t use it much
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 weeks ago:
You forgot the step of “presidential candidate quotes the Facebook post in a presidential debate”
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 weeks ago:
It specifically mentions email addresses (used for account creation I assume) and what content is being watched, which a VPN wouldn’t do anything for.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
It’s really wild how research is continuing to find strong implications that we are not individual microorganisms but multiorganisms that act as one
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
All thoughts are deposited on a random storage medium and format. So you might receive a 3.5" cassette formatted with ZFS or a flashdrive that must be read by laser refraction (like a DVD)
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
I was thinking “but no municipality can ever find the budget to maintain or appropriately service the new lines that are constructed”
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
This is actually canon to HG Wells’ The Invisible Man
- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 4 weeks ago:
Can I just say I’ve never seen this cute photo of him with the little kid. Seems almost intentional that the photo every news source used he isn’t in such a pure moment
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
The Arstechnica article in the OP is about 2 months newer than Cloudflare’s tool
- Comment on Software for Homeserver router combo 4 weeks ago:
If you really want to get fancy you could use something like the frrrouting package to make any Linux based operating system your router, but that’s almost entirely configured through a cisco-like command interface
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 4 weeks ago:
Why am I stuck thinking of the turrets from Portal 2?
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 4 weeks ago:
I saw a gadget once where they used a motion sensor to sense when the washer and dryer were done.
I have a baby monitor for my kids (1 way audio because I wanted to limit the privacy risk and I suspect more than that can lead to some bad habits) and it clearly filters for sounds at roughly the frequency of kids voices because you can’t consistently say something over it and hear it on the other side, but my kid can go up to it and dictate a 500 word essay that summarizes down to “there’s a bug on the window” and we’ll hear every breath and word
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 4 weeks ago:
I heavily curate what can and can’t notify me, and specifically choose the least annoying notification sound for anything I give notification sounds to. Anyone who doesn’t scares me
- Comment on That's it. That's the joke. 4 weeks ago:
I hate upvoting this comment so much. My wife had some complications with pregnancy that doctors kept just choosing to ignore and sometimes flat out made negative comments about her weight. But when we try to find out “hey, this weight sticks around even when eating crazy healthy and walking 4 miles a day, what gives?” she still just gets blown off and told to eat less cake