jballs
@jballs@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The Ring is a lot cuter than I remember 1 hour ago:
I saw The Ring in the theater and people legit freaked the fuck out when she came out of the screen. One person straight up got up and ran out.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 week ago:
It depends on the version of Lemmy that your instance is running. My account is on sh.itjust.works which upgraded Lemmy versions a few months ago. Apparently it changed a parameter name that keeps track if a post has been read or not.
So on Sync, you can click on posts, but they never show as read. It’s super annoying, so I went back to Voyager.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 week ago:
I used to use RiF and loved Sync for Lemmy too. I just wish the developer would fix the bug for posts showing unread! It’s completely stopped me from using the app for something like 6 months now.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 week ago:
There are a few minor cultural differences to be aware of. But as long as you avoid saying anything negative about Star Trek or Linux, you should be just fine.
- Comment on Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. 2 weeks ago:
Also how did they let that excuse get past the technical teams who should be implementing this? They added Star Link to the data center that supports the White House and then have traffic run through hard wires. This does absolutely nothing to improve spots with bad WiFi.
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 3 weeks ago:
Damn power hungry admins always keeping the sweet sweet bot ladies for themselves.
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 3 weeks ago:
Still haven’t gotten one. Guess the bots don’t like me.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
I love Brandon Sanderson, but his world building and complex magic systems aren’t for most people. I’ve tried to get my wife to read his stuff for years and she just has never gotten into it.
The reason Harry Potter was so commercially successful is because the vast majority of the public doesn’t want to learn about allomantic properties of 16 different metals and how they have internal/external, physical/mental, enhancement/temporal and pushing/pulling effects.
They don’t want to learn about adhesion, gravitation, division, abrasion, progression, illumination, transformation, cohesion, and tension surges - and how bonding a spren through oathes increases your ability to surgebind. Their eyes glaze over when talking about the cognitive and physical realms.
Most people just want to hear "yeah some people are magic and can wave wands, say some magic words and poof magic happens. That’s why it’s one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.
But yeah, I’ve just learned to accept that while I love some Sanderson magic systems, it’s not ever gonna be for everyone. And that’s ok.
- Comment on Celebrating my 1000th comment. Here is a shitpost. 4 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I’ve been in Lemmy for almost 2 years since the API migration, and I don’t know if I’ve ever encountered a tankie, despite seeing hundreds of memes about them.
I’m guessing my instance just doesn’t federate with the same weird shit y’all are seeing?
- Comment on AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs 5 weeks ago:
“LONG LIVE THE REAL KING," said the video showing an AI-generated Musk getting his feet sucked by Trump
What reckless journalism. It would be much more accurate to say “an allegedly AI-generated Musk getting his feet sucked by Trump”.
I’ve seen no concrete proof that the video is not authentic. It’s with in the realm of possibility that Elon has two left feet.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 1 month ago:
Oddly enough, on my first development project I was paired with a “senior dev” who turned out just to be a guy in his 60s who had never actually coded before, so… just a senior.
I ended up doing 100% of the coding, but the guy managed to keep his job for a few months.
- Comment on A balanced diet is important 1 month ago:
At least he had the good sense to hit the ENTER key before he passed.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
I think the thing that’s catching you up the most is that you’re assuming Elon has the slightest clue what he’s talking about about. In your mind, you’ve read the words “the social security database” from his post and have made assumptions about what that means.
I’ve worked with databases for 20+ years, several of those being years working on federal government systems. Each agency has dozens or possibly hundreds of databases all used for different purposes. Saying “the social security database” is so fucking general that it’s basically nonsensical. It’d be like saying “Ford’s car database”.
Elon clearly heard someone technical talking about something, them misinterpreted it for his own purposes to justify what he is doing by destroying our government institutions. His follow up of saying the government doesn’t use SQL just reinforces that point.
Trying to logically backtrack into what he actually meant - and what the primary keys should be - is just sane washing an insane statement.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Give me the…couch
Found JD Vance’s Lemmy account
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 1 month ago:
Honestly, if my PM never pestered me about the status of my tickets, I would never close them. Some of us need the pestering!
- Comment on Envy is a strong sentiment [Trump / Musk] 1 month ago:
Lol why is this marked NSFW?
- Comment on my version is better 1 month ago:
And asked me if I needed a ride!
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 1 month ago:
A large difference, but they also somehow end up in the same place at the end.
- Comment on Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month 1 month ago:
I had a management class years ago in college where the professor made the argument that in order to be ethical, every single action a business makes must be done to increase profits for its shareholders.
Charitable donation? Only if it increases public perception in a way to be justified the cost.
Pay your employees well? Only if paying them less would cause you to lose them to your competitors.
The list goes on. It’s a very depressing way to look at the world. But as time goes by, I’ve realized just how accurate that professor was. Companies don’t give a shit about you and will turn on you the second it makes their quarterly numbers look better.
- Comment on Reddit Refugees 1 month ago:
Now that you mention it, offering someone an egg went from “wtf?” to “hell yeah, free egg!” real quick.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 1 month ago:
I don’t understand why they’d make this a separate app and not a configurable setting in Messages.
- Comment on The deed is done. 1 month ago:
What am I missing?
- Comment on The deed is done. 1 month ago:
I am legitimately angry to only be learning this now
- Comment on Uncanny sandwich 1 month ago:
Took the words right out of my mouth
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 2 months ago:
ABC News reported that Trump’s second-inauguration haul is on track to shatter the previous $107m record, as pledged contributions have already exceeded a $150m fundraising goal. Barack Obama’s inauguration raised $53m in 2009 and $42m in 2013, and Joe Biden’s raised $63m in 2021.
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 2 months ago:
Lol you weren’t joking. This dude is cracking himself up.https://youtu.be/3eNDNCe4rRw
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 2 months ago:
I dunno. 1.75 oz of tuna on my waffle is far too much tuna on my waffle.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Kaiser isn’t a typical insurance company though. They’re an HMO. Which means they tell you what doctor you can go to. Think you need to see a specialist? Too bad, the general practitioner doesn’t think it’s necessary.
So they deny a lot of claims by preventing you from going to the right doctor in the first place.
- Comment on LOL 4 months ago:
Haha I’m right there with you. It’s like someone going "Hey, remember when you used to do heroin and hate yourself? I know you’ve gone to rehab and cleaned yourself up, but wanna try this new Heroin-Lite?
