Boozilla

joined 2 years ago
[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

For whatever it's worth: in my 20s I went for the obvious/easy/high-paying career and have made enough money to retire early. But I deeply regret working for soulless corporations doing pointless bullshit tasks for 35+ years.

I've recently started reading an introductory philosophy book and I love it.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yup. The rapid respawn stinks of lazy level designs. Respawning can be OK when done right.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

I'm surprised old has lasted this long.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did RFK Jr find us already?

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

I've never understood the massive success of this game franchise. I understand the appeal and that many people find it fun, but it's just never been all that great, IMO. There are so many much better titles out there. I'm guessing it's early success plus huge advertising budget and/or paid-for reviews.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

They are intentionally making websites frustrating so we'll use their stupid proprietary apps instead.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

In the USA: complicated tax returns that require tax software and/or professional help. It's a rent-seeking scam.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that I am NOT celebrating CK's death and to make sure you all understand this story is really about me and how I claimed the moral high ground before anyone else even thought of doing it.

I'm really surprised I haven't been called for an interview. Surely the Nobel folks will be ringing my phone very, very soon.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He's the kind of evil dipshit who would have legislated to pay people as close to zero-per-hour as possible, hired people at that hourly slavery rate, and then bitch that they weren't dedicated workers.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yup. They were already committing violence on the people. They're just ramping up the rhetoric as usual.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I can't predict the future, and there will be some short-term fallout (potentially very bad fallout) from this. These young men will hold a grudge for sure, but I think it's much harder to say how long of a lasting imprint this will make on them.

Many of them will grow up and realize "maybe I need to work on my mental health and general qualifications as a human being and stop thinking we can bully women into being barefoot pregnant tradwives". The differences between what young men and what young women want out of life right now is truly astonishing. Check the polling data.

Part of this phenomenon stems from the unfortunate biological fact that young men don't truly mature until about the age of 35. At that point, many of them (not all of them) have grown up and obtained some maturity and perspective. They finally realize that the world doesn't revolve around me and my shortcomings and grievances. If they want to become better men, they work at providing some actual value and to at least occasionally serve others unselfishly in a non-transactional manner. Thinking you're entitled to sex and children just because "that's what real men get" is a road to rejection and solitude. Some will figure this out. Some never do.

As for CK's legacy.... lies and bullshit travel orders of magnitude faster than the truth, but the truth tends to win the marathons.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

No, it's more like telling an addict to stop using.

 

This is not an anti-Kindle rant. I have purchased (rented?) several Kindle titles myself.

However, YSK that you are only licensing access to the book from Amazon, you don't own it like a physical book.

There have been cases where Amazon deletes a title from all devices. (Ironically, one version of "1984" was one such title).

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html

There have also been cases where a customer violated Amazon's terms of service and lost access to all of their Kindle e-books. Amazon has all the power in this relationship. They can and do change the rules on us lowly peasants from time to time.

Here are the terms of use:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201014950

Note, there are indeed ways to download your books and import them into something like Calibre (and remove the DRM from the books). If you do some web searches (and/or search YouTube) you can probably figure it out.

 

I feel like an idiot for not knowing about these.

Every 2-3 months I have to snake out our shower drain with a 25' snake. Giant PITA.

After some web searches, I stumbled across these hair trap devices. They come in both external and internal configurations. Many different types to choose from.

I purchased an internal one, installed it, and am going to give it a try. In theory I can just pop it out and clean it instead of snaking the pipes. Folks tell me they work well. If this one doesn't work I'll try another type. They are fairly inexpensive.

 

We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.

But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.

 

Not asking for tech support here, just wondering if in theory it would be possible to create a plug-in or even a complete browser that blocks ads in a way that's impossible to detect. One model that comes to mind is a quarantined / containerized non-blocking virtual browser which queries the web server directly, then the UX filters the content from that container and presents it to the user ad-free. As far as the web server can tell, the containerized browser is just vanilla Chromium.

 

Some of the satire on there was gold. Had a wonderful lampoon vibe.

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What a pointless fluff piece. It's the Motley Fool, so no surprise there. And I love how Huffman sounds like a 5th grader giving a book report. "All good companies should go public when they can."

How can anyone take these clowns seriously. I look forward to watching their IPO fail spectacularly, if it ever even happens.

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Star Wars’ Sam Witwer on growing up in Glenview

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