RedEyeFlightControl
@RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world
- Comment on FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days 1 day ago:
It was active for about 3 months, until she broke the screen. I replaced her device and put the phone on the shelf. I replaced the screen and digitizer a year later when I needed a spare handset and they told me “it had never been on network” and was ineligible for being unlocked. Which is bullshit because the phone was bought and paid for at the time I purchased it in a box at the store with a prepaid card. As far as I’m concerned, straight talk still owes me 200$. Even if the phone was NEVER activated, I still own it outright, making it mine to do with what I please.
- Comment on FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days 2 days ago:
Not always true, I bought a tracfone for my kid and the phone was paid in full at the time of purchase. It’s still carrier locked 5 years later because they say “it wasn’t in service for x amount of time and therefore isn’t eligible”. I even reported this to the FCC, opened a case, and they did fuckall and closed the report.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Like we get a say
- Comment on Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform 3 months ago:
My understanding is that Google “rates” its leaders by the number and types of projects they develop. Ergo there are a lot of people working on disparate items that often overlap, because it’s “their” project. Once the project completes, they get their credit, stop caring, and move on to the next. It is said this is why google creates then kills so much. It’s by design, essentially. The products they keep are the ones that make the most ad revenue.
- Comment on Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal 4 months ago:
It was more like “We need to closec the api in order to protect our profits from the use of your data”
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 4 months ago:
He was exceptionally good at blowing things up! I loved the shit out of that show.
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 4 months ago:
No he wasn’t. MacGyver didn’t like guns. This trope actually carried through to SG1.
Luckily, MacGyver did like explosives.
Regardless, this bill is stupid no matter how you look at it. Speaking as a 3d printer related business in NY. I will fight this lunacy.
- Comment on TayTay having a lil bonfire before takeoff <3 4 months ago:
Just leaving Taco Bell, where do you want me to pick you up?
- Comment on Anti-racism be like 4 months ago:
BRING ME BUTTER AND SOME MILK
- Comment on Why is the current temperature sometimes lower than today's low temperature? For example right now it 13F with a predicated low today of 16F! 5 months ago:
It’s a prediction. Predictions aren’t always 100% accurate.
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook's total pay drops to $63 million for 2023. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Toilet without borders 6 months ago:
I see you have yet to meet tree-dwelling animals.
- Comment on Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program | Ars Technica 6 months ago:
The local fiber provider skipped my street altogether because spectrum has a contract with the apartments, and they don’t think it’s worth running fiber to compete. I wish this was a joke. The providers are literally NOT competing at all.
- Comment on They're so much cooler than me 6 months ago:
FSM real
- Comment on Hell yeah 6 months ago:
Watch out for cornerfolk
- Comment on Google says bumpy Pixel 8 screens are nothing to worry about — Display ‘bumps’ are components pushing into the OLED panel 6 months ago:
Don’t worry about those bumps in your hood. It’s just engine parts pushing into the sheet metal.
But I want a perfect hood
WE SAID DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT
- Comment on Some people are really good at concentrating their attention. (when writing software, playing games, reading etc). It's a superpower. What are other attention superpowers? 7 months ago:
My coping mechanism to deal with untreated ADHD was to develop my working memory, so I have very good memory. It is like a superpower IMO. I remember lots of things like they were yesterday, that many others have simply forgotten.
Because of ADHD I can get in “the zone” and focus solely on something for hours, lost in time. I vape a lot of weed to quiet my mind down to a reasonable level.
- Comment on What is happening in that corner? (and only that corner!) 7 months ago:
Check your bed bearings. I had this happen when one of my bearings started to let go. I also found a deformation in the bearing channel, so I switched that unit to MGN12 rails and the issue went away.
- Comment on Extreme sleepover 7 months ago:
You never heard of his alter ego, Terry Cruz?
- Comment on Crypto Bros Report Burning Eyes and Skin at Bored Ape Bacchanal 7 months ago:
Those are absolutely UVC sterilizing lamps. Recreational blacklights put off almost no visible light. These are very clearly UVC emitters. I have both kinds here in the lab. Blacklights for fun. UVC in a sealed box for sterilizing equipment… it is DANGEROUS SHIT.
- Comment on Biden signs U.S.' first AI executive order to create safeguards 7 months ago:
Agreed, non emergency EOs are a terrible way to legislate.
- Comment on It'll feel like a jream 8 months ago:
NGL I love the storage with the pockets.
- Comment on 'Steve Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson says Apple will be the company 'most hurt' if economic tensions between US and China escalate 8 months ago:
Apple will be the company ‘most hurt’ if economic tensions between US and China escalate
- Comment on Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider 8 months ago:
DO IT
- Comment on Netflix to open branded retail stores for some reason 8 months ago:
This is why my subscription went up? Time to cancel.
- Comment on What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world 8 months ago:
YES, thank you
- Comment on An NYPD security robot will be patrolling the Times Square subway station 9 months ago:
This was my first thought, too. This thing is gonna get hit by a train.
- Comment on A speech jammer would be cool on some of our politicians 🤭 9 months ago:
I mean, some of them act like they’re having their speech jammed regularly already…
- Comment on Lemmy feels so much more welcoming than R*ddit... And it's weird 9 months ago:
Do you mean “no-talent assclown” or the regular kind?
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 9 months ago:
I switched a while back for the same reason, in a completely different scenario. Google is playing themselves.