ruckblack
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- Comment on Proton is the latest entrant in the quirky “VPN for your TV” market 2 months ago:
I’m glad a lot of the major vpns have stopped advertising them with “watch Netflix from any country, anywhere!” Because you could only do that for a short time before they started blocking all VPN IPs, and it was just blatant false advertising.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I really enjoy the game, and I play 2 accounts.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 2 months ago:
Groan
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 2 months ago:
Yeah fair points. I will say this implosion of the social media I used to use has pushed me towards doing other things than scrolling on my phone lol, and that is a positive thing.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 2 months ago:
That’s fair I suppose.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 2 months ago:
I disagree, I just think some kind of engagement algorithm would be better. I haven’t used bluesky or threads so I can’t speak to them. I’m just saying that back in the day on twitter, I had no problem finding a bunch of very funny and clever posts, and posts were catered to me well. Through both me following people and I assume through the engagement algorithm. I’ve tried adding a bunch of hashtags, but I’m not finding a bunch of hilarious stuff to send to my friends like I did back then on twitter.
Bunch of spam too, because bots use the hashtags, so I’m often scrolling through a bunch of auto-posted stuff. Idk. Maybe I’m using it wrong. I just feel like your average person isn’t going to go through all that crap so they’ll cling to twitter until it dies.
And I’ve tried switching instances around, which is just confusing honestly, and didn’t really help with finding lots of content that I want to see. I used mastodon more when I was able to mirror people I know are funny on twitter to my mastodon feed lol. I want to like it, I just find I’m never tempted to go on it. Can’t figure it out.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 2 months ago:
Or just use neither, like I’ve ended up doing.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 2 months ago:
I’ve stopped recommending it. The discovery and trending post mechanisms are either garbage or non-existent, and it’s really hard to get a feed that’s remotely entertaining. Devs also seem ideologically opposed to adding any features like that. It’ll just give normal people who aren’t willing to deal with all this crap a bad taste in their mouth when it comes to the fediverse. I do recommend lemmy to people tho.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 2 months ago:
For me, the 20 free minutes would be spent setting everything up for this stupid hobby of mine anyway lmfao
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 2 months ago:
And it’s going to be glorious
- Comment on That explains it. 3 months ago:
Lmfaoooo the edit with a meme pandering to himself
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 3 months ago:
I mean, as a millennial, I mostly taught myself to type. I’m fast enough, but have bad technique and could be faster. I was only ever actually trained to type in grade school, and barely. Once in a while in computer class we would play an educational typing game.
My mom is much better at typing than I am, because she was trained to type in college. That’s not really a thing anymore.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks some Linux dual-boots in a recent Windows update 4 months ago:
I mean, maybe I’m just lucky, but I’ve been dual booting Linux and Windows for a little less than 10 years, and I’ve never had a Windows update interfere with GRUB. I’ve always thought the complaints were overblown.
- Comment on Real Facebook ad that doubles as a god-tier shitpost 5 months ago:
That’s what I use too, with feathers
- Comment on Now that scotus gave the president immunity Biden can legally assasinate all of the conservative justices 5 months ago:
It’s all extremely embarrassing.
- Comment on Now that scotus gave the president immunity Biden can legally assasinate all of the conservative justices 5 months ago:
Such cringe. The dude is barely conscious.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
From what I understand, “whispers” were what private messages were called on twitch. And it’s “then existing,” I don’t use twitch, but I guess it doesn’t exist anymore, that’s what they mean.
- Comment on We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time 8 months ago:
LMFAO oh yeah the reading is the problem, not the low-effort AI drivel. Dumbass take.
- Comment on We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time 8 months ago:
Oh my God why do I see this all the time on here. Nobody wants a massive copy/paste wall of text of whatever garbage chatGPT generated.
- Comment on India Banned TikTok, It Didn’t Go Well 8 months ago:
I miss Vine
- Comment on Teens, with mixed feelings about their own phones, say their parents need to log off 9 months ago:
90% of the time when I see someone swerving in traffic because they’re blatantly staring at their phone, it’s somebody 50+ years old
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
What’s the stupid catch, I’m not reading this drivel
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 10 months ago:
It’s incredible how many people leave their router with the default password
- Comment on Are dating apps fuelling addiction? Lawsuit against Tinder, Hinge and Match claims so 10 months ago:
I mean, they certainly don’t help with my affinity for drinking alone
- Comment on working at a hospital: should I remain in the room watching a patient until he takes a certain medication? 11 months ago:
Seems more like a question you should direct at your manager and coworkers, but you know you won’t like their answers, so you’re asking here where we lack context lol.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Has Sold More Than 22 Million Copies In Less Than A Year 11 months ago:
I really enjoyed it, but got bored when it started pushing you to explore the vast emptiness that was everything outside of Hogwarts. Would’ve been a far better game if they’d nixed that whole southern area entirely and spent more time developing the castle.
- Comment on Gentoo goes Binary! – Gentoo Linux 11 months ago:
I thought the whole point of using Gentoo was like for those 12 people globally who want to compile their entire system
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 1 year ago:
Still BG3, and probably will be for a long time. As well as tabletop DND now, since the game inspired me to finally give DMing for friends a shot.
- Comment on How do you like this, sexists? 1 year ago:
What’s with the title?
- Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems 1 year ago:
Same vein, devops/data engineering. Maybe I’ll give it another shot, I’d like to get off Google.