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- Comment on Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball 9 hours ago:
They also used the classic they knew what they were doing shortcut.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 day ago:
The whole explanation about screen size is telling.
The entire point of Windows being named Windows is that apps can run inside these resizable rectangles nicknamed windows.
Yet the rectangular taskbar is apparently impossible to handle…
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 2 days ago:
It’s free?
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 5 days ago:
The background play is removed on cell phones. It used to be possible, but they removed it, only so they could charge money for enabling it again. I doubt they removed it from desktop.
- Comment on Commodore 64 Ultimate Review: 21st Century Computing from a 1982 perspective 5 days ago:
I wish someone could do a modern computer that would be as easy to setup and start developing on and for.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 5 days ago:
Not on free YouTube you don’t.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 week ago:
I think it’s interesting, that they can steal all this stuff and yet be unable to figure out how to sell it.
All the money, all the data, all the energy, all the computer power, all the political control. And yet, they can’t manage to sell a single dollar worth of their product.
Of course it’ll be shittified by commericals in and out of the content, and of course that will lead to paid models, but it’s not going to be very profitable, because nobody _really _needs bad intelligence. “Oh, it costs something? No thanks then, we already have intelligence at home.”
Yes yes, the users are the product, yes, but who then is buying that user data? Commercials and stuff yeah yeah, but at what point does any of this manifest itself as a single fucking sales transaction where a real person pays a company for a real product? Fucking never.
The whole thing is worthless.
- Comment on The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 1 week ago:
It’s impossible to earn that much money, but at some point it’s also impossible to hold or spend. Banks can only take so much safely, so it needs to be placed in companies and investments that require some management and all the consequences and responsibility of running those. Spending it is problematic because it will disrupt whatever market it is injected to, potentially harming a lot of people.
The only real solution is to avoid billionaires in the first place by taxing corporations much much harder.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 weeks ago:
Football is called football because it’s played on foot, unlike polo and other horse sports.
- Comment on fawlty towers? 2 weeks ago:
The picture is from 1970. John Cleese is 30 or 31 years old in that picture…
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 3 weeks ago:
Who the hell goes to his page anyway?
- Comment on Typing on a keyboard is kind of like sign language 3 weeks ago:
It’s difficult to read if you can only watch the person typing.
Sort of like lip reading
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A brain itself doesn’t feel physical pain. That requires a nervous system and pain receptors of which the brain has none. Brain surgery is done with only local anesthesia for the skin and scalp.
We also know that braindead people don’t suddenly start creating brain waves even if the body gets mechanical resparation and pulse. It’s quite literally “off”. So, I guess the creation of a dead brain won’t feel anything or start thinking about anything by itself.
The question is what inputs they give these artificial brains. It’ll think that, and that will be it’s “sensory” input. Whether that can cause some emergent brain waves that could be interpreted as emotion or other stuff is impossible to say. I doubt it.
- Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 4 weeks ago:
It’s really a question of whether you have electric heating or a furnace or district heating.
It’s not common to have more than one heat exchanger for hot water if you have a furnace or district heating.
Electrical is much easier. You can just place them anywhere and they don’t cost as much to install. However, electricity is usually more expensive than district heating.
- Comment on I wonder 4 weeks ago:
Are they still around? I heard they ran away. They ran so far away.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 5 weeks ago:
I’m fine, thank you for your concern.
It is by all means a humourous shitpost. The last line in my post is a pun on the rap song 99 problems, which should be the give away.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 5 weeks ago:
Pretty nice until the day inevitably comes where one of the RFID chips malfunctions and the fridge keeps insisting that you throw out something that isn’t there and you can’t reset the inventory without downloading an update from some company that doesn’t exist anymore using a profile that your ex has the password for.
Then you’ll wonder why you didn’t use to have these sorts of issues, and your kids will ask how you updated the fridge in your childhood. As an adult you are expected to know this stuff. With your authority being undermined like that they’ll stop listening to anything you say and start smoking crack after school. Now you have a malfunctioning fridge and junkie children. Thanks a lot, dad.
- Comment on Protip: Don't lose count 1 month ago:
While you’re busy using both hands to disarm the one handed gun, your opponent has plenty of time to throw pocket sand.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 month ago:
I know it as Greek Breakfast.
It can be enjoyed anywhere or any time, but it’s best served on a balcony in underwear. Greece happens to be a good place to get it in the morning all year round.
- Comment on Germany 1 month ago:
They were part of WW2.
- Comment on The 1980s summed up in a single photo. 1 month ago:
Stolen ashtrays setc. was almost free marketing distribution.
- Comment on Sad 1 month ago:
If the couple in bed wanted to talk, they could just call each other.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
That was also the period when the introduction of tire pressure sensors created brand new issue that people never had before.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
However you probably don’t miss the manual choke valve, double clutching, hand winded starter crank, or even window cranks.
There was really no golden period of car controls. It went fluidly from one kind of shit to another kind of shit.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 1 month ago:
I’m not really scared of AI becoming more intelligent. I’m more concerned about stupid people giving control to stupid AI. It’s plenty capable of fucking things up as it is provided it is given access to do so.
- Comment on do it cowards 1 month ago:
It needs the most advanced AI and direct access to LinkedIn to reach maximum efficiency. No prompting required and all cookies allowed. I want all 1049 partners to get an instantaneous feed from my butthole.
- Comment on Great business idea, tbh 2 months ago:
Japanese working culture is different.
- Comment on At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died. 2 months ago:
It would be interesting to have such a statistic. Perhaps there was such a day more recently than we think.
Today’s not that day though. www.worldometers.info
- Comment on you have been defeated, you do not pass go, you do not collect your $200 2 months ago:
Yeah, nothing beats a clean rectum.