oatscoop
@oatscoop@midwest.social
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 1 week ago:
I have far fewer bucks to give about the “impact” of my boycotts than I have for my integrity.
I refuse to give my money to fascists if it’s avoidable.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 2 weeks ago:
I had a math teacher in highschool that allowed us make a “cheat sheet” during tests – it had to be hand written on an index card. I discovered that if I actually made a “cheat sheet” I rarely needed to look at it. It’s the same for hand-written lists when I’m shopping.
For a lot of people there’s something about actually writing information down the makes it “stick” better in memory.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 2 weeks ago:
I did something insane: I actually read the article.
The students interviewed used pen and paper because they lack the tempting distractions a laptop/tablet/phone has. One states they feel they “use their brain more” when using a pen and paper. They also mention using a computer to write the final version of an essay for submission, but do most of the work on pen and paper for the aforementioned reasons.
- Comment on Make America Great! 4 weeks ago:
Oh, fuck off.
- Comment on Good news. :) 4 weeks ago:
Illinois is down.
- Comment on Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around 4 weeks ago:
- giving files to a friend and not caring if you get the drive back
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
For what content?
- Comment on Make America Great! 4 weeks ago:
Native Americans are still people, and it’s a universal truth that people suck.
All the horrible things people do to each other are just easier at scale when you’re not stuck using stone-age technology.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
It’s funny, because that’s exactly what I did around the age of 13 to bypass my school’s firewall. I had everything on a USB drive, including Ghostzilla and PuTTY so I could browse through an SSH SOCKS tunnel. Mind you, my home computer was the SSH server – but these days it wouldn’t be hard to get a VPS in a less restrictive country:
“Hey [parent], can I borrow your credit card to set up a web server so my friends and I can play [game] together?”
It takes one kid in a group to set something like this up.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 1 month ago:
My daily driver laptop, home servers, media center, NAS, etc are all Linux.
My gaming computer isn’t – as much as I would like it to be. There are certain things (particularly VR) that don’t want to work in Linux.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
Weird … It looks like I can sign up for an account on dbzer0 even though I’m not actually an anarchist.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 1 month ago:
That is 100% the origin of the phrase.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 2 months ago:
Go to the “Filters” tab in the dashboard. At the bottom of the list click “Import” and paste the URL ( raw.githubusercontent.com/…/LegitimateURLShortene… ) in the box. Then click “Apply” to save it.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 4 months ago:
I miss the form factor of the HP mini – it’s just a shame the build quality matched the price and they fell apart in short order.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 5 months ago:
- Comment on America is fucked 5 months ago:
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 6 months ago:
They make a lot more than car navigation systems. Their recreational gear and avionics are top of the line.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 6 months ago:
Technology has never been the problem: there’s nothing wrong with genetic engineering, AI, etc. The can (and have) been used for good.
The problem has always been the “greed is good” sociopaths using it for evil.
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 6 months ago:
Noodles are composed mostly of starches and heat causes gelatinization, which gives noodles their texture and holds them together. Without heat water just causes them to break back down into wet flour.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 7 months ago:
In places where natural gas is cheap and electricity is expensive cost is a factor
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 11 months ago:
Hands you a random laptop.
“The thing doesn’t work.”
Refuses to elaborate and leave.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 11 months ago:
I bought an LG microwave a few months ago to replace a dead 10 year old Sharp. My favorite “features”:
- The sticker on the door stating that by using the microwave I agree to LG’s TOS.
- The single 4 minutes and 30 seconds of use I got out of it before the magnetron broke.
When I returned it they customer service person asked if I wanted it serviced under warranty – hilarious. Bought a Panasonic instead.
- Comment on The Conspiracy Unmasked 11 months ago:
Fully automated luxury gay space communism.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 11 months ago:
I just use my kindle as intended: using Calibre’s “email” button to load 100% legally obtained books via it’s _______@kindle.com address.
