JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 18 hours ago:
Damn, that sucks. When does my Arch support end?
Nuance
Okay if you wanna get technical, some folks define support as meaning some sort of official paid support process, in which case there is none at all. But I feel like a funnier joke would be that Arch “support” lasts until there’s any sort of update to any package you have.
- Comment on Super mario world ghost house theme. 1 day ago:
NI!
- Comment on Super mario world ghost house theme. 1 day ago:
NO RULES!
- Comment on Super mario world ghost house theme. 1 day ago:
The sound of a balloon inflating.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 1 day ago:
We’ve got driverless cars and CRISPR gene editing. Those weren’t around 20 years ago. You don’t think those are major advancements?
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 days ago:
I feel like y’all are just being contrarian doomers. Listen, I get it. The ruling class of billionaires use technology for nefarious purposes to control us and extract every penny of money they possibly can by selling our attention spans in ever increasing ways. I’m not saying they don’t. I’m not saying we live in a utopia. I’m just saying that there have absolutely been a lot of technological improvements in the past 20 years.
Folks saying “actually PDAs had internet access in the '90s” are, fuck, not even missing the forest for the trees, they’re just covering their eyes and refusing to acknowledge that they’re surrounded by trees.
We’ve got driverless cars. Yes, they’re far from perfect, and I wouldn’t really say they’re adequate, but we do have honest to god driverless cars. Electric ones too! And they aren’t just a gimmick, they really do give gas cars a run for their money. 3d printers are a home commodity now much like traditional printers have been in the past. CRISPR lets us modify genes. The idea of watching a 4k video on the Internet in 2006 would’ve been crazy. AI has improved a lot, and I don’t even mean the modern generative AI like LLMs or Stable Diffusion, even prior to that machine learning was a huge thing.
Relevant XKCD.
That was released in 2014. You know what I can do now with my phone? I can take a picture of a bird and search to see what kind of bird it is. Reverse image search has been around for a while, but it used to just find things that were mostly pixel for pixel matches. Now it’s much more capable.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 days ago:
Again, I was a teenager. The TomTom was a gift. Sorry they didn’t give me a damn iPhone, I guess? 🙄
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 days ago:
Why are you being so condescending about this and making so many assumptions about me? I wasn’t a “late adopter.” I was a teenager. I didn’t have a smart phone. I didn’t have a “new car in 2010” nor a built in navigation system. I was using a standalone TomTom GPS in highschool in a 1996 Honda Accord. That was 20 years ago. Technology is significantly better now.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 days ago:
Saying technology hasn’t progressed in 10 years is a very different statement than technology hasn’t progressed in 20 years.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 days ago:
Dude, take the rose tinted goggles off for a second. I had a GPS navigation system for my car early on, around ~2010, maybe a little earlier, that thing was shit. It could hardly figure out where I was in the city. It would very often snap to the wrong road and I’d have to reboot it. Today, it’s simple. I just pull out my magical everything device and use an app. Technology has progressed A TON in 20 years.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 days ago:
My phone can literally be used as VR goggles and stream HD video pretty much anywhere in the country. But smart phones existed in 07 and PDAs existed in the 90s. Yeah, no difference between these things. lol.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 days ago:
You don’t think there’s any difference between today’s phones and the 2007 ones? Not in cell coverage either?
- Comment on ...is this retro? 3 days ago:
Yeah, my smart phone with Internet access basically everywhere begs to differ.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 3 days ago:
Jesus fucking Christ.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 days ago:
The AI push right now is crazy. Where I’m working all teams have to show how much they’re using AI and where. Rather than being measured on their success they’re being measured on how they’re doing it.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 days ago:
macOS Sequoia 15.6.1
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 days ago:
If I type
*blah*it shows it as something like blah, but I want it to not format until I send. It’s difficult for me to write in WYSIWYG editors. I want it to show*blah*. - Comment on YSK that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the best engineering school in the world. You can take free courses at MIT online. 5 days ago:
I took a class on Unix/Linux in college for Computer Science and cyber security absolutely is too.
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 5 days ago:
It’s really easy to forget, but yes, Steam was annoying back in the day. I hated it so much I bought Borderlands 1 from somewhere else in protest. My friends bought it through Steam. The patch dropped and they got it, I didn’t, and I couldn’t play anymore. It finally came later, though. This pushed me to give it a second chance. Now it’s amazing. Apart from some gripes about the UI of Steam itself, there’s not really much to complain about.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 5 days ago:
I’m on Mac and I dislike it too. No flashing cursor to let me know I’ve selected the chat window to type. The app insists on changing to a different view when I switch windows, making me lose it. The share screen ribbon always manages to be exactly where I need it to not be. Doesn’t allow any sort of Markdown-esque formatting in chat, only WYSIWYG.
- Comment on Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores 5 days ago:
That’s sort of a weird projection. It’s a chore. Obviously people would prefer to minimize time spent doing chores and maximize time spent doing fun things. It’s really not that complicated for most people. Not saying you can’t enjoy going to the store, but ultimately what you’re doing is still finding a way to make it less of a chore. Spoonful of sugar, and all that, ya know?
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 6 days ago:
There was talk about Google changing this, but I’m not sure if that was something that would only affect Pixel phones or all of Android as an ecosystem. Well, to be specific, the change is to not let people run unsigned APKs at all and you can only get them signed by giving your identification to Google.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 6 days ago:
This is why “side load” is annoying to me. It’s installing. It is not special or different. They aren’t “blocking side loading” they’re “restricting what you can install.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m not saying they’re realistic, just that it has some of the flood/farming mechanics the blog author wanted to see in a game.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is a great article! It’s really interesting.
I have two comments to make, and I hope nobody thinks this is me trying to disagree with the article or something, I don’t want it to come across as defensive. In explaining some of the challenges medieval cities go through and saying Banished is a pretty accurate game, I think this might just be a genre issue. I consider Banished a colony management game, not a city builder, and indeed, in colony management games your people’s health and safety are usually a much larger concern than in a city builder.
The second comment is that the writer suggests a game with flood mechanics and arable farm land. I don’t remember if it was out in March of 2020, but Timberland is out now. It’s a beaver based colony management game that includes a lot of fluid dynamics. It has flood mechanics like described. It’s unrealistic, of course, because they’re beavers. But also because flooding isn’t the end of the world if it gets into your buildings, I think it’s more of an inconvenience. Regardless, I think it’s a cool game to check out.
- Comment on Two-shay 1 week ago:
I’m not trying to “gay you” but you could easily be biromantic but heterosexual, ya know? As in romantically attracted to people of all genders but only sexually attracted to the opposite gender.
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
Somewhat same, but for me I’m just trying to cook more at home. Not necessarily save money. (Though it’s still nice.) Have you compared the costs? It could be that even if you throw out half it’s still cheaper, ya know? Or maybe closer to breaking even than you realize.
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
The point is that both are the same as “save money” when they should be giving more specific advice. Two pieces of good actionable advice have been given. “Just save money” is not a useful tip for “how to save money”
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
Choosing to stop eating out is a way to reduce your standard of living.
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
Also this is pretty stupid to say because it basically just means spend less money. Yeah, no shit.
