bdonvr
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club
Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you're reading this.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 19 hours ago:
They generally don’t no.
They get commission from the stores (because quite likely they wouldn’t have made the sale if the option wasn’t available), and also late fees
- Comment on bisexual 2 days ago:
Bisexual with hangups.
- Comment on bisexual 2 days ago:
But you cease to be bi afterwards, you were just experimenting.
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 6 days ago:
I mean they’re clearly not. Codes are one time use and forever bound to you, these can be sold/traded.
I’m not saying they’re good. Just that there is an advantage (and disadvantages)
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 6 days ago:
Yeah, they’re not tied to accounts or consoles. Any console with the card in will be able to play the game. You can trade or sell them.
Codes and boxes are just digital purchases with plastic waste attached and no further benefit.
They’re shittier than real physical games, but they still do have that one advantage over digital games, just with the drawback that you still have a physical cartridge you have to switch out and carry around. It’s a mixed bag.
- Comment on New report suggests third-party Switch 2 game sales are "below estimates" 6 days ago:
I mean - they’re better than the codes they used to slap in boxes. At least you can lend these or sell them (for the lifespan of the console, or whatever server it uses…)
- Comment on In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource 1 week ago:
Oh dear God
They mixed The Powder Toy and Factorio
My free time, I can feel it dying.
I should run now before addiction takes hold.
- Comment on Announcing: Piefed.zip - our new Piefed instance! 1 week ago:
I’m curious what performance and resource usage is like. Building a social media service in Python seems unusual.
- Comment on Radio transmissions 1 week ago:
Yep. Very non-human or earth like at all in anatomy.
- Comment on EBay used to be a wild place 1 week ago:
Probably? Animal carcasses are sold for food constantly. Why not art?
- Comment on I 3d printed a custom sized keyboard using open source software and hardware designs. 1 week ago:
My keyboard has no letters on it, so the layout doesn’t matter. I made myself learn to not look at it.
The switch changes what the keyboard is telling the computer I’m pressing. The computer itself is set to QWERTY.
- Comment on I 3d printed a custom sized keyboard using open source software and hardware designs. 1 week ago:
I know I’m late but my keyboard has a physical switch I can use to change layouts.
I really can’t type on QWERTY anymore but if I’m too lazy to change/remap the game to work with Colemak I’ll just flip it to QWERTY to play.
Though if the game has chat you want to use you don’t have much choice but to remap the controls.
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 2 weeks ago:
Just link it like this:
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 2 weeks ago:
The whole update being design focused is kinda disappointing. But the Liquid Glass UI does look kinda intriguing. I’m glad to get back a little of the old Skeuomorphism of old.
Though I don’t have any Apple stuff at the moment
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 2 weeks ago:
It was a nice theme IMO
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 2 weeks ago:
The Israeli genocide force.
But that part of the image was a joke
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Well maybe consider looking into what South Korean customs are like.
Entering any country to “meet a boyfriend/girlfriend” will set off alarm bells. Mostly that they’re worried you will stay illegally with them permanently.
Don’t pack too much. Have return tickets already (very important to show you intend to leave), be able to show you still have a life/ties to your home country.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
It’s a fair worry.
As the admin of thelemmy.club though I will say my aim is absolutely not growth for it’s own sake. If the site starts to get larger than I want I will stop allowing signups. I welcome new users, but I’m not trying to be a big instance either.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 3 weeks ago:
Probably. It would need to be updated with new laws and rules though.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 3 weeks ago:
Right. Well it should be good for 2025, so it depends on how much/if any changes there are in the next year.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 3 weeks ago:
businessinsider.com/trump-house-republican-kill-i…
Will it continue to be?
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 3 weeks ago:
Unless it’s maintained it won’t be of much use. It needs to be kept up to date with tax laws, and it relies entirely on the IRS accepting the generated returns. It seems it may function for now, though.
Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 3 weeks ago:
Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 3 weeks ago:
Direct File interprets the United States’ Internal Revenue Code (26 USC) as plain language questions, the answers to which should be known to taxpayers without need of external instructions or publications. Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 3 weeks ago:
Servers, not users. Though each server would have users.
Although I don’t think they’re bots like the post is implying. OP just spends a lot of time annoying them.
- Comment on Guess I'm on the right track 😌 3 weeks ago:
Generally it’s because they have their hatred of .ml as the driving force of half their free time. It’s weird and off-putting.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
The historical backlog isn’t going anywhere. It will still be viewable on other instances.
For example here’s an old thread from a community on vlemmy.net, an instance that disappeared more than a year ago.
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like this could be functional?
Taxpayers’ answers are then translated into standard tax forms and transmitted to the IRS’s Modernized e-File (MeF) API, which is available for authorized public use.
It would need to be kept updated with changing laws but could we see forks turn into a FOSS tax prep software?
- Comment on Video apps like Hulu “cannot be used on Nintendo Switch 2,” says support page 3 weeks ago:
Switch definitely had Hulu.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 4 weeks ago:
Is there any way to test for this?
