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skulblaka , 7 days ago

I mean, presumably if I'm standing outside my car with a key, I just unlock the door and open it. Can't do that with a dead tesla.

skulblaka , 7 days ago

I think Selaco beat him to the punch there. I am by no means a game designer but it's seriously impressive what they did with the gzdoom engine. I have a hard time imaging anything that could top it within the same engine.

skulblaka , 12 days ago

Swang that thang brother, be proud of the progress. It's not about the meat, it's about the spirit that drives it.

skulblaka , 13 days ago

I do this for tomatoanus skits as well, those are usually pretty off the wall. My man has an entire storyline saga going on in his ad read sections.

skulblaka , 13 days ago

Oh, sick, new Bringus post? I'll be in my bunk.

skulblaka , 13 days ago

Chucks and Vans are definitely not good shoes. They are stylish shoes, but the shoe itself is a piece of cloth over a piece of cardboard. No wonder you have bad feet, bro, you've been walking on trash.

I bought a pair of steel toe boots with good insole and arch support for about $85 three years ago and those things are still going strong. Comfy and durable. If you've got big feet or want nicer boots than me, that can range up to about $150, anything higher than that is designer bullshit. Don't fall for a brand name.

skulblaka , 13 days ago

Blame the fact that it's so difficult to immigrate legally yet an overwhelming number of businesses rely on cheap immigrant labor. This is a feature, not a bug, because they can pay the illegal immigrants less and abuse them without fear of reprisal because if the employer gets any attitude about it, they call ICE and have the worker deported and replaced with the next struggling desperate immigrant.

There is no illegal worker in the US that would rather be an illegal worker than a legal carded one. The system is stacked against them because it saves businesses money to do so.

skulblaka , 13 days ago

Yes, because naturally no other country in the world enjoys a similar level of prosperity without creating an underclass that they abuse for their profit.

We don't need to print more money, we have more than enough money. We just need to recirculate the money we do have. There is plenty of money in the USA for most citizens to live a comfortable life without exploitation, but 80% of that money is buried in the pockets of corporations and 15% of the remaining 20% is buried in the pockets of billionaires.

skulblaka , 13 days ago

Right, so Finland, France, Germany, Norway, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, Korea, Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy all don't exist. Got it.

skulblaka , 18 days ago

We're about to have a great big shattering of the internet and I'm all for it. Collating the pieces will be a pain in the ass for a couple years but some handful of nerds out there blessed by the spirit of Ritchie will create a tool for it, and what's left of our world will be a better place for it.

skulblaka , 18 days ago

Unfortunately it is such a repository of information that it's nearly unavoidable anymore. It's a reference tool. Need to fix your car? YouTube knows how. Need to write a piece of code with a tool you're unfamiliar with? A random Indian man has posted a YouTube video explaining how. Need to find a hidden item in a video game? YouTube. There are many and varied reasons I'd pull up a YouTube video outside of the intended purpose of "watching YouTube" for entertainment. Many of these things can, technically, be conveyed through different media but often poorly and with a much lower rate of understanding. The sheer volume of knowledge and culture lost if Google ever takes down YouTube's servers will be akin to the burning of the Library of Alexandria and that is not a joke. I don't want to "watch YouTube" anymore for the most part but it is inescapable to me for several purposes as a reference material.

skulblaka , 18 days ago

And if this attitude spreads, which arguably it should, the service will simply be shut down. Unfortunately I think this may end up being a great loss for humanity as a whole if that happens. Elsewhere in this thread I compared it to the Library of Alexandria for its sheer content of 20-odd years worth of nearly all of humanity's culture, news, and technical information.

I don't know what to do with this. The dragon must be slain but the hoard must be preserved, and I'm not sure how we accomplish that. The contents of YouTube should be backed up and made available to a public data store outside of Google's grasp, ideally as a public utility probably maintained by tax money, and youtube can remain as a front-end to that service. But actually getting that done in the modern day seems..... we'll say, slim. For one thing the total youtube data package is about a fucktillion gigabytes and the only people able to host it are the ones who already have it. For another, Google will argue in court that videos uploaded to their service are their property, and they'll win that argument.

So we can start again anew, but we must mourn what we lose, because it may be significant. Like it or not, YouTube is a significant percentage of the recorded data output of the human race. Just pray, once we kill the beast, that you never have to replace any parts on a car model year 2004-2018 - because you won't find good repair manuals anywhere and all the good tutorials are buried in the belly of YouTube.

skulblaka , 18 days ago

Every person I know who has flown in the last six months has inquired about the manufacturer of their plane before boarding

skulblaka , 19 days ago

Trans floridians please evacuate the storm, the rest of em can stay there

skulblaka , 20 days 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 , 23 days ago

Where is hbomberguy when the world needs him

skulblaka , 23 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 , 23 days ago

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

skulblaka , 27 days ago

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

skulblaka , 26 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 , 28 days ago

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

skulblaka , 1 month ago

"Have a nive day"

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

skulblaka , 1 month 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 , 1 month 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 , 1 month 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 , 1 month ago

That just means it's good satire

skulblaka , 1 month 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 , 1 month ago

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

skulblaka , 1 month 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 , 1 month ago

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

skulblaka , 1 month ago

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

skulblaka , 1 month ago

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

skulblaka , 1 month ago

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

skulblaka , 1 month 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 , 1 month 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 , 1 month ago

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

skulblaka , 1 month ago

Aesop fans in the wild? On MY Lemmy?

It's more likely than you think

skulblaka , 1 month 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