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- Comment on [Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything? 6 hours ago:
That one guy at Rockstar, feeling incredibly validated right now:
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 15 hours ago:
Watch Lower Decks. Not because it is itself part of that 10% – it’s the best new Trek there is! – but because it talks more about it. Technobabble, giant Spock, lizards, it’s all there. Even random toy tie-in schlock:
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 day ago:
How to migrate your watch history, apparently: florianjensen.com/…/how-to-migrate-from-plex-to-j…
- Comment on Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
What business do people like that have trying to write one, then?!
I don’t mean to gatekeep, but… fuck it, I do mean to gatekeep: people should have a basic level of competence – or at least a shred of intellectual curiosity in becoming competent – to write software!
- Comment on Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
Who the wants to use a mobile app for dev work anyway, AI or not?
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 2 days ago:
LOL, nah. If we decrease the users, they’ll increase the ads to try to compensate for declining revenue. They believe they have all the power and don’t give a fuck what we think.
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 4 days ago:
IMO there’s no point in using real hardware to play old DOS games unless you want something really niche or picky, like using a specific sound card with particular MIDI voices.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 4 days ago:
Are there any cancers that were found to be "caused by smoking before 2003?
Of those, are there any that have subsequently also been found to be “caused by” vaping (such as the tobacco-related ones)?
If so, then it means vaping is indeed a cause (as opposed to the singular cause) of those cancers even though they were around before vaping was invented.
That’s why this meme is bad.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 4 days ago:
No, the post is claiming that because Tylenol was discovered after autism, it can’t be a cause of it. That’s flawed logic: it’s true that autism must also have some other cause, but it’s very possible in principle for things to have multiple causes, so the timeline argument proves nothing.
That’s not to say that Dipshit McBrainworm’s claim has any sort of merit whatsoever, mind you. It’s just that this argument is defective.
- Comment on Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology 4 days ago:
Main difference is that, in fiction, the “imbuing” doesn’t require a billion-dollar fab.
I mean, there are a few intrepid techno-wizards trying to don’t themselves, but it’s a far cry from what Big Magic can manage.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 5 days ago:
Because they are trolls whose purpose is to actively harm everybody else. They do not deserve our tolerance.
- Comment on “Filling a Gap in the Market: Genetic Modification of a Carrot with a Flared Base” 6 days ago:
This could’ve won an IgNobel if it were real.
- Comment on Trump says ‘bad things’ will happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram air base 6 days ago:
You fucking dipshit nonce, you’re the one who ordered it abandoned in the first place!
(Addressing Trump, not OP, obviously.)
- Comment on Coincidence 6 days ago:
Well, yeah. On the moon, he was an alien.
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 6 days ago:
The study that won the nutrition prize was clearly just an excuse to go on a protracted vacation to a “seaside resort in Togo.”
- Comment on The internet doesnt really spark any joy. Sure the stuff can be funny but mostly just feels me with dread that for this cat meme I have to watch others suffer. 1 week ago:
Well, yeah. But that’s a consequence of [*gestures broadly at current events"] IRL, not the Internet.
- Comment on Trump signs proclamation imposing $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications 1 week ago:
Charging $100k/year wouldn’t be the change I’d make personally but would probably help with the excesses (I’d personally just abolish it, or mandate a minimum wage of 200k/y, or only allow it for unionised locations).
The thing I worry about with this change is that employers would still exploit the workers and pay them like $40k even if they have to hand $100k to the government for that privilege.
In other words, you’ve explained exactly why the kleptocrats prefer charging the $100k fee instead of setting a minimum wage: it accomplishes the racism and graft without the nasty side effect of empowering workers.
- Comment on Kinky 1 week ago:
Not sure about the “almost every” part since the vast majority of animals are invertebrates, but otherwise yes.
- Comment on Kinky 1 week ago:
Yes they are!
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 week ago:
I hesitate to actually make a recommendation other than “not Bambu” because I haven’t done a ton of research myself.
- Prusa is possibly the best option in terms of ease of use and ethics, but I’m too cheap to stomach their prices (YMMV).
- Sovol proudly advertises the fact that their stuff is based on Voron open source designs, so that’s good.
- DIYing a Voron is what I might suggest if you weren’t so new (and what might be my next printer).
- Creality, Elegoo and Anycubic are sort of the leaders among generic Chinese brands that implement open source designs but don’t really champion it or give back, but also don’t try to screw the community. IMO they’re good options if you’re more price conscious, like I am.
- I have literally never heard of Qidi until reading your comme
I personally own a Creality Ender 3 V3 SE (that I got on open-box discount from Microcenter for <$150, BTW) which used to be considered the best entry-level printer but now seems to be getting less recommended as newer competitors come out? I’m not sure what I’m missing out on, TBH, other than obvious higher-end performance features that would move a printer out of that market segment. Any ease-of-use features it lacks can be fixed by hooking a Raspberry Pi running Octoprint to it, but I don’t mind enough to bother. (I also own an old Monoprice Select Mini, but that’s not relevant in 2025 and I only mention it to say that the Ender wasn’t my first printer.)
I think the Ender V3 SE is a fine choice if you’re just getting started, unless you want to spend a bunch more money (either to get capabilities like large print volume, a heated chamber for exotic filaments, or multi-color, or to pay a premium to support a brand that gives back to the community).
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 1 week ago:
I guess that’s what Gibson meant about the future not being evenly distributed. As also a millennial (and an older one, at that) I got all my porn from the Internet when I was that age, albeit having to wait for individual images to load at 56kbps at first.
You can imagine how excited I was for my household to get DSL, LOL!
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 week ago:
3dprintingindustry.com/…/bambu-lab-controversy-de…
TL;DR: they’re infecting it with (even more) proprietary garbage, which is a slap in the face to a community built on the ethos of the RepRap project. Everything in hobbyist 3D printing – the software, the firmware, and the hardware – is built on open-source designs, and Bambu’s attitude is to take all that and then not give back.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 week ago:
The main problem is that people want relatively cheap stuff, and that cheap stuff is made with cheap parts that don’t last as long.
That’s a problem, but these days the new problem is that even the expensive stuff is often still cheaply made and just dressed up with “premium” features and styling (that’s also cheap to implement, but artificially withheld from the lower-end models to punish people who pay less).
You can absolutely still get reliable appliances that are cheap to repair.
If you look hard enough, yes, but the other issue is that the shit I described above sells for the same price as quality but costs less to make, which means the glorified trash is more profitable. Even when companies care about their long-term reputation and don’t succumb to that pressure to enshittify, they’ll be out-competed by those that do and eventually go bankrupt or get bought out by private equity and forced to do it anyway. The market is littered with examples of companies that had great reputations for “buy it for life” products, until all of a sudden they didn’t anymore.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 week ago:
3D printers are not exempt form marketing
Case in point: Bambu and Autodesk sponsoring every Youtube maker. (Fuck both Bambu and Autodesk, BTW.)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It doesn’t shut the Fediverse; it just means each user needs to run their own instance so that the “user” doing the speech and the “publisher” liable for it are one in the same.
- Comment on PSA: In case you were experiencing problems with feddit.org, this is because a post from feddit reached the front page of Hacker News. 1 week ago:
As for your other point, there is no good universal Lemmy linking thing for posts.
In another comment I mentioned that there’s this lemmyverse link thing. From the way you phrased that I’m not sure if you don’t know about it to do and just don’t think it’s good, but I think it’s about halfway to being useful.
What it needs to get the rest of the way is to:
- default to some kind of load-balanced or at least round-robin instance selection instead of defaulting to the original instance of the link given, and
- be built into the Lemmy UI(s) so that it’s easy to grab a lemmyverse.link URL to share.
- Comment on PSA: In case you were experiencing problems with feddit.org, this is because a post from feddit reached the front page of Hacker News. 1 week ago:
IMO what we need is a different sort of caching, where users from outside the Fediverse (i.e. who aren’t logged in to the server whose URL they’re trying to load and thus probably don’t actually have a strong preference about which instance they actually view it from) get redirected to other instances to help spread out the load.
There’s no particular reason why the entirety of Hacker News and Reddit needs to be piling in to view this thing that was posted to !linux@lemmy.ml just because a feddit.org user happened to have been the one who wrote it (and possibly shared it).
Posts and comments already have a chain icon for the URL of the view of them on the user’s current server and a fediverse graph icon for the URL of them on the poster’s home server, but maybe there needs to be a third icon for the lemmyverse link url or something like that.
- Comment on PSA: In case you were experiencing problems with feddit.org, this is because a post from feddit reached the front page of Hacker News. 1 week ago:
That’s not a “post from feddit.org,” that’s a “post by a feddit.org user on a lemmy.ml community.” It may be DDOSing feddit.org because that server’s view of it is the link that happened to get posted there, but there’s no reason folks outside Lemmy couldn’t view it on the server it’s actually posted on, or some other third node like lemmy.world or whatever.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 1 week ago:
I own six 20+ year old cars. Don’t talk shit about stuff you have no clue about.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 1 week ago:
The value proposition is that an EV is a Hell of a lot cheaper and simpler to maintain in the long run (I say as the owner of a mid-1990s small pickup truck, among other vehicles). Your emphasis on towing capacity and purchase price is subjective preference, not objective superiority.
For my subjective preference in particular, it may well be the first modern EV (“modern” meaning not some NiMH fleet sales only compliance car from the '90s) that I can actually stand to own, because “everything you’d expect from a ‘normal’ vehicle” includes spyware that makes it a deal-breaker for me. Having it stripped down is a feature that makes it worth more to me, not less!
