philluminati

@philluminati@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d have paid more for basic services like insurance as you couldn’t compare the market. You’d have to trust that clever guy in the pub since you couldn’t Google anything. You’d get lost driving to a new place and have to ask for directions, of course getting the village idiot.

  I desperately hate how my I’m addicted to my phone and I’m praying that when the next generation of Garmin watches come out it will be able to talk to ChatGPT and make phone calls from it, so I could ditch my iPhone forever!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th????⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A leap year is every 4 years, but not every 400 years. If you could only vote on Feb 29 you’d have gone 8 years without a vote between 1996 and 2004.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work in Amesbury very near this site and I can tell you this completely unnecessary.

  Sure fix the potholes but 2bn for 2 miles of duel carriage way that ultimately won’t speed up journeys between London and the shitholes on the A303 (eg. Salisbury) just aren’t worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a message earlier today saying my subscription would now include ads. I immediately cancelled the subscription out of principle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can go to Google and log in to free email. I can create word documents and spreadsheet in google docs. I can learn AI with Google projects. I can create unlimited private repos on GitHub, play lots of games on steam for free. I can download Winamp from oldversions.com for free. I can get a Linux distro for nothing off servers. I can use a freevpn, watch YouTube for free.

  Literally handing over game servers to an authorised community to run or supporting games forever actually is possible in the modern day.