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- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 13 hours ago:
The number of assholes calling themselves feminists vastly outnumber the actual feminists.
- Comment on The cat turns him in 1 day ago:
I love me some multi-meme drifting
- Comment on Get that Musky Grindset going 1 day ago:
What happened?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 days ago:
I hate to break it to you but… millennials are old
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 3 days ago:
Sure, as long as it works. Software has a tendency to stop working on newer OS:es or become subject to security exploits though.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 4 days ago:
That sounds good on paper, but the chances that someone else will pick up the ball if they abandon it, even if it’s open source, are very slim. If you care about keeping it alive then paying them is a more effective strategy than hoping for random volunteer work by internet strangers.
You, on the other hand, have good chances of being able to learn new tools. So I think the need for this guarantee is exaggerated.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 4 days ago:
The IntelliJ products are not exactly “buy once” - if you want updated versions you need to keep paying periodically.
Not that I think that’s a bad thing necessarily - it doesn’t make sense to expect devs to continue working on something year after year when you’re not paying them for it.
- Comment on ghibli posting 5 days ago:
Come on. Public figures need to be able to deal with satire and mockery, and this isn’t even a deep cut. Besides, have you seen how Miyazaki treats his family? That man has no empathy or humanity to offer his peers either.
- Comment on ghibli posting 5 days ago:
Sounds to me like Miyazaki needs to lighten up.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
I use it many times a day for coding and solving technical issues. But I don’t recognize what the article talks about at all. There’s nothing affective about my conversations, other than the fact that using typical human responses (like “thank you”) seems to increase the chances of good responses. Which is not surprising since it matches the patterns that you want to evoke in the training data better.
- Comment on Great Advice 1 week ago:
The alot looks like it could easily eat 7 tacos and still be hungry
- Comment on Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook (from Germany) 1 week ago:
echo “Xft.dpi: 210” >> ~/.Xresources
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Sure, Teams is horrible - but at least it only affects people who use Teams. Whereas the abysmal UI and worthless templates in MS Word affects every person who has to read anything produced with MS Word too. It’s designed to make documents ugly and hard to read.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
I think about the productivity lost because people use Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint every day. Maybe even multiple times a day.
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 1 week ago:
Amen. There were actually three Teams clients at the same time (the Windows 11-bundled Teams “personal version”, Teams [for business] and Teams [the new version]). Not to mention they also have Skype for Business (which is actually Lync rebranded, which is Communicator rebranded) which is not interoperable at all with Teams even though it’s also an Office 365 app. And of course, Skype for Business is a completely different code base than Skype.
It’s a complete and utter shitshow and I can’t fathom why heads aren’t rolling at Microsoft. Makes me think of this email from Bill Gates back in the day. If he was CEO now he would be fuming.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 week ago:
I agree. That response made me lose any trust I had and I actually went to verify that I didn’t still have Zen browser installed from some earlier test run. He sounds like a script kiddie.
- Comment on OpenAI, in partnership with MIT, releases its first study on how ChatGPT use affects emotional well-being: Study Links Between ChatGPT Use and Loneliness. 2 weeks ago:
Yes based on my experience with the world (and really just common sense), the most likely causal link here is that being lonely causes you to both talk with ChatGPT more and to use affective language in your conversation.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 2 weeks ago:
It’s weird link to this issue with that title, since the problem is only referenced in the discussion. The actual backdoor issue is here.
- Comment on No title 2 weeks ago:
What’s the story with this guy?
- Comment on Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage 3 weeks ago:
Thanks! I didn’t know about these.
- Comment on Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage 3 weeks ago:
There’s nothing else like the Chromecast audio, and it’s a crying shame that Google discontinued them. I have four and rely on them every day. I sure hope they will fix this issue.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 3 weeks ago:
ThinkPad is a work tool. MacBook is a fashion statement.
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 4 weeks ago:
With a few exceptions, I haven’t bought from Amazon in more than a decade. I never buy from them unless I absolutely can’t find the thing I need anywhere else.
- Comment on Well, it finally happened: I MET SOMEONE! 4 weeks ago:
What’s her thing anyway? Catfishing?
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. I don’t think it’s that there is “no hardware level support for dx11/9” - hardware isn’t really drastically different depending on API. The problem is that they introduce an additional software-based emulation layer instead of natively implementing D3D 8/9/10/11.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster 5 weeks ago:
Intel has great hardware in the Intel Arc. The biggest problem is their shitty drivers.
- Comment on I thought he died before they invented baseball 5 weeks ago:
I mean it’s pretty clear from the texts that he was resurrected and lives on forever. Most Christians seem to agree that he now hangs around like a ghost and helps you do stuff like play baseball or get a promotion. The thing that rubs me the wrong way about this story is: why isn’t he helping every baseball player equally? Obviously some are winning and some aren’t, and presumably that’s because Jesus is helping some people more than others.
Everybody prays they will win the war, but Jesus is helping one side kill more people.
- Comment on Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away... 5 weeks ago:
He means that he doesn’t appreciate how things are going in the US in 2025.
- Comment on Translated from Frog to English: AHHHHHHHHHHHH 1 month ago:
Ring ding ding daa baa
Baa aramba baa bom baa barooumba
- Comment on Life goals 1 month ago:
Yes officer, this comment right here