oatscoop
@oatscoop@midwest.social
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
… oh, the animal.
Nevermind.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get it: the bear just makes more sense. Despite their intimidating appearance most are gentle creatures. Their fur and mass can provide warmth, and if you’re injured they can easily carry you out of the woods.
If you pick “random man” you might get a twink and I feel like they’re more of a liability in a survival situation.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 2 weeks ago:
I’m with you on that. What makes the Steam Deck so appealing is it’s a handheld PC.
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 3 weeks ago:
As someone 10 minutes outside of a major city, my (slow, unreliable, expensive) options are:
- Cellular
- Satellite
- Fixed wireless
Americans are entirely at the whim of ISPs and what areas they determine are worth investing infrastructure in.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 3 weeks ago:
I’d suggest a cheap used or spare laptop/desktop with a beginner friendly distro like Linux Mint Cinnamon to learn on. Just use it for casual stuff – you’ll pick up what you need to learn as you go.
That way if something breaks or you don’t know how to do something while you’re learning you’re not “stuck”.
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 5 weeks ago:
You made me realize I haven’t fired up my Windows 11 machine in a while, so I went to check it – even re-enabling the copilot toggle … which weirdly did nothing. Then I remembered I had lobotomized all the AI and assistant “features” a while ago.
I’m a little disappointed: I wanted to ask Copilot “How do I purge you from my machine?”
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
If you had actually read the Wikipedia article:
In 1973, a federal district court in Arizona decided that the act was unconstitutional, and Arizona could not keep the party off the ballot in the 1972 general election (Blawis v. Bolin). In 1961, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the act did not bar the party from participating in New York’s unemployment insurance system (Communist Party v. Catherwood).
So yes, the law passed during the the McCarthy era … and was afterwards declared unconstitutional.
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I thought it was because I’m familiar with LDS teachings, culture, and the churches sordid (and recent) history.
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen a few open hardware projects for “dumb” MP3 players over the years. I found this article on the Tangara project and am tempted to build one.
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 5 weeks ago:
Mormons tend to be nice … to your face. As soon as you leave they’re likely to act like you’d expect followers of an extremely socially conservative, regressive, patriarchal religion would.
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 5 weeks ago:
AZ always struck me as “the retirement state for new agers and hippies”.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 1 month ago:
Blocking it would require a screwdriver and a razor blade to cut some traces on the cellular modem.
- Comment on Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine and printer enshittification 1 month ago:
the only good reason to own a printer is photo/art prints
… how do you read your emails without a printer?
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
Not really.
“We don’t have anything definitive and we can only speculate, which we’re not going to do.”
- Comment on Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. 2 months ago:
I fucking hate the death of keyboard shortcuts and not being able to reliably tab through fields. Particularly in UIs designed for data entry.
- Comment on Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. 2 months ago:
It’s the Yelp review, duh.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 2 months ago:
Meta lapdogs … on lemmy.
I’m pretty confident in saying the majority of users here don’t like meta either. ByteDance and Meta both privacy nightmares, it’s just a question of what fucked up thing they doing with the data.
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 2 months ago:
The narwhal bacons at midnight.
- Comment on So glad I'm ditching these fucking idiots 2 months ago:
I just wish their was a FOSS alternative to Rhino 3D, or they offered a license that didn’t cost $995 for a single user.
None of the cloud crap, and it can run on a potato … it’s just too damn expensive.
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 2 months ago:
If it weren’t so difficult and require so much effort, I’d rather poison their data.
Clicking the link causes the server to switch to page content designed to fuck with a LLM.
- Comment on 'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends 2 months ago:
Having seem some of the modern recreations of neanderthals I can’t exactly blame our ancestors. They look like people I’ve seen in bars.
On a cold night after a few handfuls of fermented berries … I probably would.
- Comment on 'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends 2 months ago:
Or genetic defects.
“Something about that person is extremely off-putting. I do believe I’m not going have sex with them.”
- Comment on Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all 2 months ago:
Even “good quality” stainless steel can easily rust, as anyone who’s owned quality kitchen knives will tell you. Some stainless alloys are more resistant than others – but exposed to the right conditions they all corrode.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 3 months ago:
If you get windows one step above “cheapest available” you get a moveable screen.
- Comment on Meta-Shit 3 months ago:
At least chocolate is water soluble.
- Comment on The White Buffalo 4 months ago:
The real story was showing that part of American history: the culture, events, people, etc. Forrest and Jenny were just plot devices to tie it all together.
- Comment on The White Buffalo 4 months ago:
- Forrest had a serious intellectual disability, and she almost certainly felt like she was taking advantage of him.
Everything that worked out for Forrest only did so because of unbelievably good luck.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 4 months ago:
I took their comment to mean “companies offering VPN services as a subscription for the purpose of privacy”.
It wouldn’t be hard to target those companies specifically while leaving every other “legitimate” (in their view) use cases for VPNs alone.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 4 months ago:
I deleted my reddit account and joined lemmy during the subreddit blackout, but there’s still a few authors I follow on reddit.
Most I’ve followed to other sites, and just recently one was suspended (for what sounds like a fuck up on reddit’s end) I can’t see the few remaining staying long term, and after that my reddit use will drop to zero.