lobut
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- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 2 days ago:
Yeah, I cancelled my subscription last year and I thought I’d missed out because it was on Amazon. When I searched other sites I actually saved money in a few cases. Also, turns out I buy less now as well which is an overall win.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
No excuses now
I believe this.
At the same time, they’ll get what’s coming to them. They bought a shitty cybertruck that will break down and has shitty resell value.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 1 week ago:
I get why people like Valve so much (I like some of their services too) but there’s too much deification. It’s like “oh mighty Gabe!”. I get some of it was tongue-in-cheek a bit initially but it seems so many people take it seriously.
They’re a company that provides some services I like but the gambling shit is bad especially when you see people on YT talking about how they were lured in when they young and how much money was lost and how many streamers were running scam companies. It’s not good.
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- Comment on You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised 1 week ago:
Yeah I use MFA on anything that matters.
It means my authenticator is just riddled with items but it is what it is.
- Comment on Duval holding cue card for Brando who can't remember his lines. 1 week ago:
RIP Duval
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 1 week ago:
If you read the comments, they’re less conspiratorial than it seems you’re lead to believe. Many have tested this out and others have said it seems like it depends on the autobot.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
I really wanted to build an AI PC but just got busy and kept telling myself that since prices always drop that I’m just wasting my money.
Boy am I upset lately.
- Comment on Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data 2 weeks ago:
The thing I’ve heard about Google is that there isn’t as high of a career path for people that want to maintain software and keep it running well. If you can create a new app or service and it gets X downloads then you can ask for more money and a lot of SWEs will game that. So, far better to add to the graveyard than anything else.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 weeks ago:
I recommend watching this video from Jennifer Lee: youtu.be/U6MhV5Rn63M
It talks about the history of Chinese food in America it’s great. Echoes some of the flavours you’ve experienced with some fun context.
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure your specific instance is justified and in doing so, you don’t need a random internet stranger like myself to tell you it’s okay.
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 weeks ago:
A lot of these people are likely tech folks. A lot of tech folks get high paying jobs. They used that pay to buy property.
A lot of these guys are landlords and are trying to convince people that the rent they charge is fair, market rate, and a favour because they’re taking on “risk” while you pay for their mortgage.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
I like my frame because it faces a set of windows and with all my other tvs … I would have to close the blinds to see the tv in the day time.
However, the software is straight garbage. I didn’t even know about the favourite thing … every time I change source it would spend like a minute or two trying to figure out if it could connect to it for no reason.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 4 weeks ago:
The same songs and sound effects to some stupid reaction video.
Dear God. My friend sent me a video about some Japanese person with some cooking method or something that he recommended I should make try. The video he sent me was annoying as fuck. It was a couple screaming at each other: “OMG IS THAT THE NEW JAPANESE ____ METHOD?” “YES I THINK I’VE HEARD OF THAT” interspersed with the actual narration-free video. Had to stop it after 4-6 seconds.
I asked my friend how he could even stand watching it the video and he said his brain filters it out. I don’t know why it just repulsed me so much.
There’s also many videos with some person just playing another’s person’s video and they just point a finger upward to the actual playing video with some useless look on their face and the nodding.
I think this is the nature of these TikTok videos but I’m not really on TikTok much, I just get them sent to me every once in a while.
- Comment on Lobster feast 4 weeks ago:
I have a friend that’s Hindu and he told me his “friends” put ground beef into the lamb mince as a “prank”. He didn’t easily forgive them either. I don’t think that’s on this level, but I feel as though you should be able to feel out your friends enough to pull a prank. If you can’t really tell, then you shouldn’t mess with them.
That being said, six years is a REALLY long time 🤣
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 4 weeks ago:
If you’re upset with my feedback, adjust your expectations.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 4 weeks ago:
💩 take
- Comment on 5/7 with rice 4 weeks ago:
I saw a video where people have been freezing their rice … which is something I need to start doing because I just wind up eating way too much rice for meals.
- Comment on White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue" 5 weeks ago:
It’s not fake news, it’s real.
Oh wait, you found it wasn’t?
Then it’s a joke, who would have thought it was real? Jeez
/s
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 5 weeks ago:
That is a very fair statement.
- Comment on Huh? 1 month ago:
What you’re describing makes me kinda miss being a regular at a pub.
Post-COVID and moving to Canada … I find that I stay at home all the time nowadays. The bars I go to here are more establishments and have less of the home feel I used to get in Europe.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
lol I was gonna make that joke (I am British too)
I do think it’s overstated about how bad British food is, at least nowadays but at the same time, we’re self-deprecating so lines up.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
“I like to laugh”
I mean, I’ve never seen someone have a giggle and then frown and say: “that fucking sucked”
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 2 months ago:
Shows you the type of people that are on Lemmy.
“stop defending corporations”
It’s like we hate the corporation too but they’re correct in this instance.
- Comment on ChatGPT down again 2 months ago:
Some people say you can buy the tokens instead of a monthly subscription. They’re not as openly offered as they get more cash from monthly obviously.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 months ago:
Also, these will break down more often and not be easy to repair
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 3 months ago:
Expedition 33 has great graphics fidelity but it has amazing art direction too. When people said all Unreal games just feel the same … I like the art style they chose to give it their own feel.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 months ago:
Me too. I bought the first quest before Facebook acquired it. Now that Facebook/Meta own quest and stuff … I’ve been staying away from VR for now.
I’ll definitely be doing my best to get one as soon as it’s available. Everything about it sounds hype.
- Comment on "The hope is to have a fresh 'Star Trek' movie, though [Paramount] has moved on from the idea of bringing back Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and the rest of the ensemble from the J.J. Abrams reboot." 3 months ago:
I really liked Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto and enjoyed the first two movies. The first one far more than the second though.
The second had what I felt were unnecessary linked to their prequels and it’s also what the worst parts of Craig’s Bond and Solo were as well.
I don’t think they embodied the spirit of Star Trek though, but I was hoping they could have worked those out.
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 3 months ago:
I’m scared to hell of fixing it, but you’re probably right. It’s better to lose my phone to repairs than lose my data to a random individual!