thawed_caveman

thawed_caveman , 3 months ago to Memes in A retro problem

hearing this makes me want to visit my local e-waste facility

thawed_caveman , 3 months ago to Memes in A retro problem

yeah some games

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b5f1127e-d355-42a4-a395-78db61382a31.png

thawed_caveman , 3 months ago to Memes in A retro problem

I've recently plugged and unplugged a lot of monitors, and the way DP keeps itself attached it with those little claws, and you have to push a button to release it. But when there's 4 monitors plugged into the same GPU, you can't access those buttons. The struggle was real.

In comparison the DVI connector just needed a screwdriver

thawed_caveman , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons

This is a thing that annoys me and it's not just Microsoft doing this: there's never a "No" button, it's always "Not now" or "Maybe later". As if i'm going to reconsider. As if it's an honest offer worth thinking about and not a pop-up.

thawed_caveman , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Mildly Infuriating in This website that threatens anyone who right clicks

All of this is cuckoo. I don't know what it is about the audiophile market that makes it full of stuff like this. Them calling it "proprietary", being vage about "minerals and fluids" involved and assuring us that their techniques "took years to develop", is red flag language that i've heard over and over again.

Also this article is written like crap.

thawed_caveman , 3 months ago to 196 in Best headline ever rule

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9ce79380-c4d2-4c5a-bebd-4d4667962c06.jpeg

thawed_caveman , 4 months ago to Technology in Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models

Well no, because the old sub will continue to exist and will therefore always be where everyone goes until Reddit itself dies. I really doubt admins would let me delete the sub.

thawed_caveman , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models

I feel like AI companies have been scraping Reddit for their datasets already since the beginning and without permission. In fact, unless there's been a regulation change that i'm not aware of, i'm not sure why they would have Reddit "sign away" the data when they can just scrape it.

Also dubious if the current form of AI has a future. They seem like they should revolutionize every sector when you look at their capacities, but in practice their applications might be more limited than we thought?

Anyway, if Reddit does go public i will be deleting my account within the hour. The only reason i haven't yet is that i've been a moderator of the same subreddit for eight years and it's the only thing that's been consistent in my life in that time, i'm kind of attached. The reason i will is i didn't sign up to create value for shareholders, i signed up to create value for a community.

thawed_caveman , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.

Ok but what's your argument against autosave? You haven't made one?

thawed_caveman , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.

I would have sworn that autosave was enabled by default in absolutely every software that has anything to save since like the 2000s, you're throwing me on a loop here.

As far as text editors actually, i feel like they may be constantly saving, particularly if they're cloud-based. But i've been using LibreOffice for a while so i wouldn't know. (and yes i did have to enable autosave)

thawed_caveman , 4 months ago to 196 in Tr(rule)am

Oh, so all those times i was stuck inside a tramway were just bad dreams i had.

You're off the rails (intentional). I just said that i have personal experience with tramways as public transit, and i get responded with a dubious generality and a passive-agressive meme from fifteen years ago. And for some reason a whataboutism with subways??

thawed_caveman , 4 months ago to 196 in Tr(rule)am

I've lived in cities with trams for the past 10 years and i think buses are less cool but more practical. Installing the rails is expensive and disruptive, they take a lot of room on the street (with the stop included), and if a tram gets stuck the next one can't go around, it just sits there and waits.

thawed_caveman , 4 months ago to 196 in coffee rule

Some school of thought with the word "nihilism" in it

thawed_caveman , 5 months ago to 196 in Tea. Rule Grey. Hot.

What does a single cell say when you step on its toes?

spoiler

Mi-toes-sis

thawed_caveman , 6 months ago to 196 in Kink rule

Surely "speed of sound" must be an exaggeration, i don't see the object reaching mach 1 and then stopping within such a short distance.

Plus they happened to be in a hospital, so chances of survival are maximized.