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skulblaka , 50 minutes ago

Signal also does jack all unless both parties are using Signal. In this case, might be fine. Need to talk to anyone else in your life? It's back to iMessage.

I love Signal and will probably never get rid of it but the use case for it has shrunk tremendously since they removed the ability to message non-signal users.

skulblaka , 2 days ago

Where is hbomberguy when the world needs him

skulblaka , 2 days ago

Only a true AdMech would consider his backup file to be an STC. I'm laughing, but also, respect. Praise the Omnissiah.

skulblaka , 2 days ago

95% of their customers are businesses, who no, they don't understand that. But their IT department does.

skulblaka , 7 days ago

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/21c5616c-5748-4bb4-a9fa-c337502649a6.webp

skulblaka , 5 days ago

Semi-related, are there Leftwingers that are righties unwilling to even say the name of?

Arguably Joe Biden, they've been calling him Brandon for years. But they make up stupid little nicknames for everyone.

skulblaka , 7 days ago

Gentlemen, you know what must be done. We ride at dawn.

skulblaka , 12 days ago

"Have a nive day"

Not nice, nive, as in I hope your day is full of knives

skulblaka , 16 days ago

This statement by itself restores a ton of my faith in you. I have no weight to throw around here and ultimately my opinion is more or less meaningless, but in my meaningless opinion, if an actual effort is made to improve on this then I'm happy to have you stay. A simple apology, explanation and promise is more than I've gotten out of 99% of all other moderators I've ever interacted with.

skulblaka , 16 days ago

Korpiklaaani's cover of Ievan Polkka goes absolutely insanely hard

Yes, that's the only thing I know about them

I've also recently discovered Brothers of Metal who despite having the most boring metal band name in history are a pretty good nordic/viking metal band, I'm a big fan of Powersnake by them in particular recently

skulblaka , 17 days ago

Dont care what games or executables i wont be able to run

Between Wine and Proton that's basically a non issue anymore, go ahead and make the switch. The era of windows exclusive software is pretty much over.

skulblaka , 23 days ago

That just means it's good satire

skulblaka , 23 days ago

As it seems to me, who hung around with a lot of drug users back in the day, as well as regular folks: most people who are interested in trying them can and will get their hands on it regardless of legality, sometimes easily. It's about as low risk of a crime as there is. Those who aren't interested, won't, again regardless of legality. There will be edge cases where somebody will go "Ah what the hell, it's legal now, why not" and toddle on over to their local dispensary for the first time but largely speaking anybody that wants to smoke weed or snort coke is probably already doing it.

Now what probably would change is the number of people on record using drugs, per capita, over the next few generations if it becomes normalized like alcohol has been. Which makes sense. But, counterpoint to that, in countries where they have legalized many drugs they still often have lower rates of severe addiction because they've generally also set up safety nets for those folks. Accessible medical care and available addiction treatment options will keep many drug users from hitting rock bottom, but we don't really have that in the US so many users will often go unassisted in any way for ages and lose jobs and homes because of it, only getting "help" when it becomes forced upon them by the state (which is frequently not in any way helpful).

Anyway, I'm rambling, but tl;dr it's definitely a multifaceted situation and blanket legalization probably isn't a great move without accompanying medical and social support, which needs to happen anyway regardless of any moves for drug legalization. Gotta walk before we can run, unfortunately.

skulblaka , 24 days ago

If anybody's gonna know what will kill you...

skulblaka , 25 days ago

Just collate them based on edit/deletion date... Each post will have a last-edited attribute that can be used for sorting. Even more so once the AI is bootstrapped enough to start recognizing the standard protest edit messages. At that point you hardly even need human oversight anymore, because the bot will be able to recognize "that's a fuck spez edit, ignore that; this post looks good; that's a Shreddit/PowerDelete edit, ignore that" and so on. Can even have it fetch the previous edit automatically when it comes across something like that, to a point where a comment removed by a PowerDelete tool is nothing more than a cover letter that states "there was once a real human-generated comment in this location".

skulblaka , 25 days ago

I have a feeling there is a very large number of people just waiting for the shoe to drop

skulblaka , 26 days ago

Absolutely yes, but also, choose your targets. Walmart ain't gonna miss it. The local bodega will.

skulblaka , 29 days ago

Of course. Backwards compatibility for Nintendo died with the original Wii. That's almost certainly never coming back.

skulblaka , 30 days ago

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/f47d5518-8352-4cf1-8377-89b539d758d7.jpeg

skulblaka , 29 days ago

It isn't a waste if people buy it. Putting M4s in the iPad lets them market it to rubes who think bigger number is better without reading the spec sheet or understanding their own requirements, and if they're already manufacturing M4s to put in other things, that's one less production line that needs to run. Sure, they could release an iPad Cheapass Edition with an M1 in it and sell it comfortably at a profit for like $80, but the market for those is likely to be small, they won't make nearly the overhead profit that the M4 iPad will, it requires an entire extra production line setup, and most importantly it isn't flashy enough for Apple. They don't want to release a product that feels cheap, even if it was specifically intended to be cheap. It's bad brand optics and they care about that a lot. Let China sell a bunch of bootleg tablets to people that want them, they're gonna do that anyway regardless if Apple gets in the train or not, and this way Apple isn't tarnishing their product lineup with a PoorPad^TM

skulblaka , 29 days ago

Now you have the time to actually write up a design document and let your half-baked idea become a fully cooked one before you drop a bunch of cash on it

skulblaka , 29 days ago

For legal reasons I am required to inform you that I am not a financial advisor. In fact, I am not real.

skulblaka , 29 days ago

Aesop fans in the wild? On MY Lemmy?

It's more likely than you think

skulblaka , 30 days ago

Plenty of room in the back

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Also a market there. Especially among programmers. You might be onto something.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Haven't seen a new car that can play tapes in nearly 20 years. Got bad news, boss.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Ask an AI for pictures of Texans and see how many cowboy hats it gives back to you.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

I don't know what "right" key wording you want if not the exact model and part number.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Right. There have been folks getting paid for (and enjoying) being the center of attention since culture has existed. The entire concept of cinema comes from this. I wouldn't call Rowan Atkinson or Penn & Teller "attention whores or people who only want free shit" but they are the "influencers" of their time.

The dynamic has shifted, but I don't see it as some inherently bad thing, this just reads as a "kids bad!" kind of statement.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Basically, yeah, but if every single LBP level wanted to nickel and dime you out of five bucks.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Older flash bulbs weren't really made for long uptime. If you were using your flashlight for under a minute looking for something it was fine but any longer than that and it would start getting really hot. Once manufacturers caught on that everyone was using apps for it (and potentially damaging their phone in the process due to heat) we got better bulbs and baked in controls for it.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Nuclear suffers from the airplane fallacy where when something goes wrong it tends to go really wrong and a lot of people die at once and it makes the news. But fact is, many orders of magnitude more people have died from fossil fuel plants, mining, byproducts, and combustion. They just die slower, in smaller groups, so it doesn't get reported on as easily.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

but the point I'm trying to make is that there is more than enough content here, if you look for it.

If you're looking for Linux memes, American politics, or tumblr crossposts, absolutely. Lemmy has you covered in spades. But I miss some of my more niche communities. I miss memes and discussions about Deep Rock Galactic and Guilty Gear. I miss discussing Elden Ring pvp. I miss the Warhammer 40k nerds. I miss /r/JustRolledIntoTheShop. In the meantime I've been making do (ineffectively) with Discord groups but it's not a good replacement.

I'm not going back to reddit, especially now after recent news, but even you have to admit some types of content are lacking. For certain subjects, we've got it handled. For many, many others, we just don't have the mass of users required to build that community. And in some ways that's good. Not having Lemmy become the seething mass of infinite strangers that Reddit was helps keep us more personal, more manageable. I recognize names here sometimes that I'm happy to see, that rarely ever happened on reddit. But I've had radio silence on some of my favorite hobbies and communities for about a year now and it kind of sucks. It sucks to the point that I'm frequently tempted to return to reddit just to check up on some communities, but I'm always turned away by their most recent user-hostility.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

He sounds like the Technology Connections of fruit

skulblaka , 1 month ago

It's clearly a man pissing his name into the snow (in simplified Chinese)

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Mine has a habit of correcting "people" into "puerile", a word I've never used except for complaining in this context.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Zefrank makes exactly the sort of content that's required to get bored kids interested in a science. He is doing us a public service.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

It's a fun thing to talk about but everyone seems to forget that historically, that didn't actually end that well.

Eat the rich, yes, but you need to have a plan first for what comes after.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

That word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Hell yeah, one of my top life goals is to get sacked by goths

skulblaka , 1 month ago

You are being blackmailed. This is no different than having the boys show up at your front door demanding protection money. Pay us and nobody (read: us) will break your legs. Pay us and nobody will steal your data.

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Unfortunately that's more likely a strike against them than in their favor

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Yeah they won't speed up shit, that requires investment in infrastructure. They'll just slow down all existing lanes by 40%, blame it on something unrelated, and then charge you 2.5x as much as you used to pay to get your original speeds back.

skulblaka , 2 months ago

I'll believe a corporation is a person when I see Texas fuckin' execute one.

skulblaka , 2 months ago

Terry Pratchett's Discworld approaches magic as a fundamental force akin to gravity or nuclear force. It even has a unit of measurement (the Thaum, further broken down into millithaums, etc)

There are a whole host of reasons you should read Discworld but this just adds another.

skulblaka , 2 months ago

.... I don't, actually, I've been using ClassicShell basically since the day Win10 came out and it's always worked perfectly. Don't think I've even updated it actually.

skulblaka , 2 months ago

Extremely doubtful, I've seen what we're used to paying for wages. Every company you've ever interacted with has a foreign team that they're paying $2 a day for, whether that be for tech support, customer support, materials gathering/construction, or shipping.

skulblaka , 2 months ago

(Not OP) Point taken, but in that case the solution should also be obvious. Just use a different one that does provide that. If the product sucks, hit the bricks. DDG and Kagi are looking for market share, they'd love to have you.