[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 10 months ago

I wish I could make YouTube "experience suboptimal revenue" in retaliation, but sadly I can't block more than 100% of ads.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I can't think of an application where a nail is better. Sure, sometimes a nail will do and there's no need to use a screw, but that doesn't make the nail better, just cheaper.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

Screws genuinely are better fasteners than nails, though...

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Because that's what intelligence is. There's a very funny video floating around of a squirrel repeatedly trying to bury an acorn in a dog's fur and completely failing to understand why it's not working. Now sure, a squirrel is not the smartest animal in the world, but it does have some intelligence, and yet there it is just mindlessly reproducing a pattern in the wrong context. Maybe you're thinking that humans aren't like that, that we make decisions by actually thinking through our actions and their consequences instead of just repeating learned patterns. I put it to you that if that were the case, we wouldn't still be dealing with the same problems that have been plaguing us for millennia.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have an HP LaserJet 6L from like 1997. I recently managed to get it working reliably after decades of struggle and frustration that drove me to tears on occasion. So yes, as far as I can tell they've always been this bad.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Rejuvenating. It's the circle of life. The old have to die so that new life can spring from their corpses.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, and the person you replied to gave an example of one. What's the problem?

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because a lot of people do use Photoshop for painting, and Adobe does recognize that and implement some painting tools into Photoshop.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I have rss feeds that’ll let me know if any of the coins I own spike for some reason.

Ooh, that sounds handy! Mind if I ask where those feeds are coming from?

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 year ago

Note the pattern: a willingness to ignore the details of what could go wrong, YOLO it and just test it out, and the assumption that if nothing goes wrong when you do that, it means that everything is fine and nothing else could possibly go wrong.

Did anyone else reading this bit immediately think of that other rich idiot that died in his ridiculous submarine?

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Technically yes, but in practice any gains are going to be counteracted if not outweighed by the electromagnetic noise from the fan's motor. To avoid that interference and see any real improvement in your signal strength, you'd have to either use a fan with a shielded motor (the last such model went out of production in 1953, so good luck finding one) or a fan driven by an alternative power source such as a water wheel.

[-] Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

As if I needed any more reasons to avoid their craptacular browser like the plague that it is.

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