Odelay42
@Odelay42@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ban on Chinese tech so broad, US-made cars would be blocked, Polestar says 3 weeks ago:
Corporations effectively run the government.
- Comment on Finally got this after two months of waiting! A bit uncomfortable and heats up easily, but it's still great to have a retro handheld of my own. 3 months ago:
To put it into perspective, the GBA so is 21 years old.
When the GBA so came out, the NES was 20 years old.
Sounds pretty retro to me 😎
- Comment on CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled 3 months ago:
Lazy people with tech salaries. I have a tech salary but I’m not lazy enough to enjoy spending 80 dollars on dinner for two that would cost 35 if I drove my damn self.
- Comment on CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled 3 months ago:
You can’t get anything from Uber eats for less than $30 in my city.
$10 wouldn’t even cover ONE of the service fees.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass is getting MAJOR changes, with a new tier without day one games, and a range of price increases 4 months ago:
It’s so much worse when you lay it all out like that, haha.
- Comment on The 8-Bit Guy: How Cathode Ray Tubes Work [18:32] 4 months ago:
Technology connections, and it’s not particularly close.
- Comment on The 8-Bit Guy: How Cathode Ray Tubes Work [18:32] 4 months ago:
Thanks for posting.
I’m glad he’s thought through a lot of his more inflammatory positions and seems to have evolved a more nuanced take on things.
- Comment on The 8-Bit Guy: How Cathode Ray Tubes Work [18:32] 4 months ago:
That link doesn’t work for me.
- Comment on The 8-Bit Guy: How Cathode Ray Tubes Work [18:32] 4 months ago:
I also used to watch this guy very regularly but stopped when I found out he’s a political gun nut who open carries his AR-15 specifically to anger people and make them uncomfortable.
There’s a video of him inside a store with a rifle ranting about some poor politician and their effort to prevent gun violence. Easy to find if you search for it.
- Comment on Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds 4 months ago:
Unfortunately it’s pocket change for them.
Meaningless wager that despite not paying off still probably taught them an enormous amount about reddit and its users.
- Comment on The Man Who Destroyed Google Search 6 months ago:
Can I use kagi as a default search for my browser?
I’m trying to use Firefox on desktop and mobile more.
- Comment on The Man Who Destroyed Google Search 6 months ago:
I’ve tried to use DDG for a few weeks now, and I find it gets worse the more specific I search.
For general things, it’s fine. But if I’m looking for an installation tutorial for a certain kind of plumbing hardware, it struggles to show me anything but brand and retail pages.
- Comment on I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game' 6 months ago:
Obviously “the” is a critical part of the trademark. Lawyers win that debate.
But why did the marketers win the “a… game” debate?
It could have been, “The Lord of the Rings: whatever whether Hobbit farm” and avoided all the weirdness.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 6 months ago:
My friend, I am also slightly nostalgic for the optimism and novelty of the flip phone days. I could text confidently with T9 inside a hoodie pocket during class. But my good friend there is no universe where I want to go back to T9 for the convenience and effectiveness of it. It is not quick compared to anything that came after.
- Comment on Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
Correct
- Comment on Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
By all accounts this includes most Democrats.
- Comment on Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen 9 months ago:
I’ve been doing this for a decade.
Highly recommend it. The only thing some people don’t like is using a keyboard and mouse on the couch, but there are endless solutions for that.
- Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 10 months ago:
How much do you think should it cost to use?
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 10 months ago:
The main story is the worst part of the game, so nothing of great value is lost.
- Comment on Daggerfall Unity 1.0.0 Released 10 months ago:
This is correct.
And it’s moddable and stable and fixed all the bugs form the original.
Super fun for those of us who grew up playing it, and a great way to experience a genuinely better and more accessible version of daggerfall for new players.
- Comment on It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google 10 months ago:
I’ve literally never heard of an apple product that was discontinued.
iPods and the Newton come to mind.
Not many examples though eh?
- Comment on It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google 10 months ago:
Both.
They shouldn’t have launched 4 chat apps and killed 3.
They shouldn’t launch products with no plan to support them.
They shouldn’t kill products that customers use.
- Comment on It’s All Bullshit: Performing productivity at Google 10 months ago:
There’s some good points in this article about how launching products irresponsibly has weakened Google’s overall portfolio and eroded customer trust.
But there’s a whole of of weird anti-worker vibes in here too. Overall I really don’t think the problem with trillion dollar mega corporations is that people don’t work enough dedicated hours.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
Thanks a lot! That’s super helpful.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
I’ve always wanted to do this.
What’s a good source to buy them?
What models do you recommend?
- Comment on Old Technology - A History of Technical Lettering 11 months ago:
This was a fun read. Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma 11 months ago:
Is “balls” a verb now?
Interesting development.
- Comment on Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say 11 months ago:
Extremely bad take, lol.
If the company isn’t financially sound without charging customers to no longer be customers, the business isn’t viable.
What an asinine attempt to justify predatory, anti-consumer behaviour from corporations.
- Comment on Amazon's strict return-to-office policy is pushing more employees into quitting 11 months ago:
I agree with a lot of what you’re saying, but unfortunately the stock price soared at amzn after layoffs. Same thing happened at my old company. Only thing the market sees is the bottom line.
Also, the people quitting are the ones with a strong enough resume to get hired elsewhere.
Quiet quitting is an excellent option if you don’t care what your next job is, but the fully remote options are all getting filled quickly, and simply waiting to get fired just means you’ll be job hunting later in a potentially worse market, and going back to the office anyway.
Better to move up and out than just wait to be fired, in my opinion.
- Comment on The surprisingly robust careers of Star Trek stars who became video game voice actors 11 months ago:
Patrick Stewart voiced King Richard in Lands of Lore: the Throne of Chaos on PC way back in 1993. One of my all time favorites.