whaleross

joined 2 years ago
[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

YouTube keeps showing me offers to give me two months premium for free, but when I click it they offer only one.

I'm pretty sure this is illegal in the EU but I can't be bothered so I stick with the ad blocker and reset the cookies every once in a while.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

There is no authority delegating responsibilities of writing tutorials for Linux. It is the responsibility of nobody and everybody. If you can't find one for your problem, write it yourself when you have figured it out.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 49 points 22 hours ago

For every change there is an angry Linux user. Even when it is easily disabled and never a problem again.

On the flip side - how often do you install new programs so this becomes an annoyance in the first place?

I install something new maybe once a month or less for desktop use. I have not even noticed this blip.

Somewhat more often in and for terminal use.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The clearing where we bury the unbelievers and let the forest thrive on the nutrients released from their rotting carcasses.

Well, that's what we do here at least.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What to do when they keep barking at the neighbours?

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

How much work are the in-laws?

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I'm thinking it's like ads. Some people see them, read them, click the links. Others recognize by glance and filter them out without bothering to process.

Social media, and internet in general, has always been a wild mix of top notch content and bottom of the barrel garbage sharing screen estate.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey OP, you were released today with performance gains!

Ha, gotchem. The drive by compliment strikes again.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The time when people were doing strange and funny websites by cut and paste design on Geocities and Angelfire, new music was found on MySpace, vinyl rips of rare obscurities were posted on blogs you follow in Reader and expanding your music catalogue was amazing on SoulSeek.

I'm quite happy that movie distribution have evolved beyond blocky 1-2CD DivX;-) though.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I trim my adult dogs nails when I hear them clatter. Sometimes twice in a month, sometimes not because he wears them down pretty well all by himself.

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think LLMs and generative AIs are a really interesting technology with many potential applications in the future and even today.

But it is ridiculous how tech bros and marketing are pushing and overselling the capabilities of a technology that is yet in its early childhood. Infancy is already past as it knows basic motor functions.

And it is m funny when these companies publish their ambitious attempts and hilarious failures like this article right here. It reminds me of a more funny and diverse and geeky internet when nerds got money from investors to do whatever with a domain name. Maybe it is still there, behind the wall of marketing execs.

 

I know all my dogs friends names but less than half of their owners names and now it is too late to ask.

 

May his tomorrow be without... No, wait!

 

I bet Buddhist monks living in celibacy need some relief too

 

Remembered this singalong from that other recent post about light of the world.

 
 
 

Now I'm hangry and I want a pizza.

Fuck that guy.

 

So apparently Zalando is problematic, see https://lemmy.ml/post/29285005.

I liked it because they have plenty of brands and despite they made it more difficult some years ago, it was still possible to filter somewhat by environmental and ethical gradings.

Alternatives?

 
 

When despite the isolation and difficulties and people being terribly ill and dying, there was this feeling of something good might come out of this great reset of society?

That feels very distant now.

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