pelotron
@pelotron@midwest.social
- Comment on It's time to let go 3 weeks ago:
Suddenly I want to make that other hot toddy
- Comment on Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to “inject a sense of crisis” 4 weeks ago:
Wtf crisis is Samsung facing
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
Yea, I had quite the wtf moment one time when I stripped a Torx screw.
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
“when the Phillips gets stripped”
Boys I think this indicates a problem
- Comment on acceptable screws 1 month ago:
Agreed, Phillips needs to get Thanos’d.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 2 months ago:
TLDW?
- Comment on Republican senator renews push to make daylight savings permanent 2 months ago:
Lol
- Comment on Our [Stack Exchange's] partnership with Google and commitment to socially responsible AI 2 months ago:
Mm, yes. Exciting.
- Comment on Chivalry 2's new update adds unofficial server support and skill-based team balancing 2 months ago:
KILL ALL THE MASONS
- Comment on The average American shower 3 months ago:
I love the smell of chemistry sets in the morning
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 sequel taps Fable, Control and Dishonored expansion writer 3 months ago:
I’m playing it now for the first time. I’m sad that it couldn’t have released in the condition it’s in now because this game deserves to be remembered as a masterpiece.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 3 months ago:
When Google Reader shut down, Feedly had an “import from Google” feature on their sign up page. Been using it for free ever since.
- Comment on Boss moved resin printer into my office and it reeks 4 months ago:
u mind if I pipe my car exhaust to your office for a while, it’s making mine smell bad
- Comment on puzzling 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Why'd they stopped making tv shows as good as x-files? 4 months ago:
I love your OA caveat. So true.
- Comment on Why'd they stopped making tv shows as good as x-files? 4 months ago:
OMG, Dark! I pride myself on being the one that found and introduced this show to all my friends, who now all agree that it is the best time travel story ever told.
Now the question is, captions or dubs? Most people who watched it are hardline Captionists, but my wife hates reading dialogue so we watched with dubs. I think they did a great job with them.
- Comment on Why'd they stopped making tv shows as good as x-files? 4 months ago:
Oh please don’t let this keep you from watching this show. This show has at least two of the best end-of-season reveals of all time (first and last season).
- Comment on And I will die on this hill. 4 months ago:
Jacob Collier as another serious answer.
- Comment on "Fun" competition 5 months ago:
How do I get involved in this?
- Comment on Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them 5 months ago:
Great idea, Marv.
- Comment on We live in a society 5 months ago:
Based low caffeine tolerance
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts 5 months ago:
Bro I’m the cyclist in this thought experiment
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts 5 months ago:
People are going to be pissed when they find out cyclists lose in collisions against any vehicle, not just prototype electric trucks.
- Comment on The CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord will testify before the US Senate on child safety 5 months ago:
Cringe. But yes, let’s please continue migrating responsibility for child safety from parents to the government and megacorps.
- Comment on Telegram is a breeding ground for extremists, scammers, and terrorists. It’s time for moderation to get serious. 6 months ago:
Criminals also use things like public restrooms. Maybe we should gate those behind background checks.
- Comment on YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users 6 months ago:
Come on man, I’ve been on the internet since the beginning. Back in the day I paid $10 to join the Something Awful forums. We used to host our own game servers, back when games would let you. We rented our own Ventrilo server for over a decade.
There are ways to pay for things besides making the user experience godawful.
- Comment on YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users 6 months ago:
The insinuation that website users somehow have a responsibility to watch ads so that the website’s 3rd party content creators can make money reads like a case of Stockholm Syndrome. YouTube are the ones paying the creators, not me, and can change the terms by which they calculate creator payments at any time. If YT decides that now, ads viewed during the hours of 7pm to 10pm result in higher creator payments, where is my role in that? Am I now obligated to prefer viewing ads during that time?
Plenty of content is uploaded to YT by people who don’t and never will get creator payments. Do I have to watch those ads?
My contract with YT is that I control what data is downloaded by and presented on my PC, not them. That Silicon Valley has decided that everything is free, but with ads, is unfortunate. If they’re unable to fund their business or their content if I use an ad blocker, then it seems to me like they’re pretty fucking bad at business.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Huh, billionaire boss says unions are bad. Weird. You know, if this were true it should be trivial for a bean counter to hold up a piece of paper with all the math on it saying, “here are the company costs vs income before and after union asks are met.” Of course they would have to enumerate all the executive salaries and money reserved for stock buybacks, etc so everyone can have a real idea of where all the money is going.
- Comment on Ford pauses work on $3.5 billion battery plant in Michigan. 7 months ago:
Wow, a capital strike.
- Comment on Day in the Life: Senior Dev Edition 8 months ago:
Feeling this. When I first started I wondered why some of the senior devs worked an hour+ later on most days. Now I know - sometimes it’s the only way to get anything done.