Carighan

Carighan , 9 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5cf70f2a-aa13-42ef-9db0-caead1c754ff.jpeg

This was Chili. I lost her recently due to cancer, but for 12 years she was the cutest little loaf. (she was tiny, even though the picture doesn’t show that very well)

Carighan , 9 months ago

So happy! 😮

Carighan , 9 months ago

I had this the past ~3 days, but now it’s gone as of yesterday evening.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Yeah stuff like this really needs to be percentual and fined to the CEOs and the board, not the company as an entity.

Oh, Microsoft valued at 200 bil for shareholders? Well sorry C’s and boardies, you gotta scrunge up 2 bil each now, personally. Those are fines they’d at least notice.

(edit)
Come to think of it, the fined-personally-to-the-decisionmaker might really be the big thing here on its own. The company did this shit under you, CEO. It was your corporate policy and hiring practices that allowed this to happen, even if you did not press the button. You pay up. You take the blame, not the people under you just following orders.

Carighan , 9 months ago

They do? 😶

I find usage in posted content to be generally very low, although I agree that if used in a supportive manner they help a lot to differentiate various ways a sentence can be interpreted.

Carighan , 9 months ago

I’ll be honest, I do believe that CEOs should be personally held repsonsible for the shit their companies pull, in general. And after-the-fact, too. If you led a company and later it gets fined for something it did while you were CEO, that’s on you. Say 50% of fines have to be paid by the C-suites personally.

But independent of that, in a report such as this, it of course makes little sense because the title wants to strongly suggest they create more carbon emissions as consumers (say via owning yachts and shit) than the poorest 66%. And that’s a very false equivalence. Now you could argue they’re responsible for more carbon emissions, and I would maybe agree with that, yes. They make the decisions that enable this carbon usage, and they could, if they wanted to, cut large swathes of it albeit probably not lasting.

But yeah, agreed, pretty shit headline.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Usually people assume organic is the opposite of GMOs and stuff, but it’s also nonsense because they’d never drink water straight from a puddle, but want the shit on their crops to be as untreated as possible. Or well, sold to them that way, of course it’s not, it’s just fertilizer #2 instead of the - more efficient and hence indirectly better for the environment - fertilizer #1.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Isn’t it more planet reponsible then to order from Amazon where, if I order say 6 items, they’ll come from the same warehouse in the same delivery (at least ove here!) instead of in 6 deliveries from 6 different vendors who also all had to get individual deliveries of their stock first?

Carighan , 9 months ago

Honestly 90 semi trucks are a tiny problem. So once we’re down to pop acts, we solved climate issues already. Long solved.

Carighan , 9 months ago

That sounds almost like a parody of Amazon. 🤣

Carighan , 9 months ago

No, the upvote arrow is the upvote.

Carighan , 9 months ago

I wouldn’t trust shit either of these two companies argues.

This is probably technically correct, but in some really constructed way. And the reply by the Google lawyers will again be technically correct, but again be utter horseshit in some legal manner.

Suffice to say, people spend a lot on mobile apps. A lot.

Carighan , 9 months ago

The primary cultures that don’t use deodorant and smell like a wet ox, in order:

• Magic the Gathering tournament players.
• Board game café customers.
• Gamescom attendants.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Hrm, for me it’s actually the opposite, although I only see the light mode while driving. But for that in particular, roads and ways are much much easier to make out.

Carighan , 9 months ago

No, got it after that - previous - update. Might be a slow rollout thing.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Yeah I noticed the past two days already that it answers with an LLM, and that of course gets stuff wrong quite frequently.

Carighan , 9 months ago

No i don’t, because my phone doesn’t have an OLED screen. Easy fix.

Carighan , 9 months ago

People who aren’t using SMS now (Europe) will continue to not use RCS either.

We’re all already on RCS in Europe. And you know what? Nobody cares. Or truly knows. Nobody opens their Messages, iMessage, whateveritbemessage.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Why not have separate apps so users can opt to install one or the other?

Carighan , 9 months ago

Is the Google version of RCS not compatible with someone else’s RCS, then?

As in, I take it nobody else wants to run a server because it costs money, right? But suppose I did, and I had an RCS app to run with it. Would someone using my app be able to send a message to an Android user using Google Messages?

Carighan , 9 months ago

I don’t understand. I don’t do that. But I have Whatsapp, telegram, signal and discord installed, and those are all quite separate apps.

The point being, why would I want my Whatsapp install to come integrated with a whole discord client? I can already just install both, which is much easier and keeps things separate.

Carighan , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

If OP explodes from a violent exothermic reaction between oats and eggs, that’s on you!

Carighan , 9 months ago

And yeah sure, server costs and all. OTOH, subtitle files are tiny, so there’s only so much money you can ask for it realistically.

Carighan , 9 months ago

With eReaders I’d not upgrade before either:

1. They genuinely break.
2. You need a function your current one does not have.

I’m rocking a Kindle Paperwhite 11 now, but only because my previous Voyage broke sadly. :( Loved that thing with the pressure-sensitive rim.

Carighan , 9 months ago

It’s the GOP. They alternatively hate the concept of a state when it’s not them in power, and want a religious-military caliphate-style government when it is them in power.

The concept of witness tampering is just taking non-believers out back and shooting them, it’s just another point on the daily docket.

Carighan , 9 months ago

As crazy as it sounds I can sort-of see the point I suppose.

If you’re trying to cut 15 billion, then paying 0,00045% of that to figure out how to do it doesn’t really feel like such a big waste, even if in absolute numbers it’s still a huge amount.

That being said, fuck HPCs!

Carighan , 9 months ago

Agreed, if you eat milk with mushrooms, you probably need to talk to somebody.

Carighan , 9 months ago

I find it difficult to get all the updates I need on a particular instance, and except for a few very large instances, most others appear quite quiet and like the Internet ten years ago.

About this particular problem, I see no reason to not join the largest instance in any case. Sheer discoverability of content is massively improved from sitting in the biggest pool, as I still have to subscribe to the communities I want to see.

Fediverse isn’t truly decentralized; instances operate under the will of server owners, who can ban and remove content as they please.

It’s the Fediverse, not the Decentriverse.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Of course, but for the user, there’s signifcant upsides to doing that unless the underlying system can essentially make the barriers between instances invisible.

Now of course this is a Lemmy-specific thing. Reddit benefitted massively from stumbling into amazing commuities and discussions, and hence sitting in the largest pool is quite useful.

Carighan , 9 months ago

I love how this headline, too, doesn’t tell us what it’s about. But fair enough, it’s a good way to poke fun at the clickbait problem.

And frankly, the shitty part is that by now clickbait headlines/titles have become utterly ubiquitous. To the point where most users will no longer even notice, because they’ve become 100% of headlines.

Carighan , 9 months ago

That’s probably because the definition is a personal one. In the very literal sense of the word, a headline baiting you into clicking onto it needlessly is clickbait. It baited you into clicking.

And while the author is free to use a very narrow definition, it’s entirely reasonable - and has as far as I can tell become the norm - to define it as any headline where the article only says something that would have trivially fit into the headline to begin with.

So for example, this very article could be better titled “Clickbait has made video game headlines exhausting to read”, and without being longer it would convey the crucial part of information - why is it exhausting?! - without someone having to first open and scan the article. Which, if the article were well-written, they’d still want to do, assuming the subject matter is of interest to them.
And that’s the thing: clickbait precludes being allowed this choice. By not telling you the crucial piece of information, you are forced to open the article (generating ad impressions!) to find out whether you want to read it or not, often wasting time diagonally scanning said article.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Well calling Starfield impressive but also immediately-boring would be a massive understatement.

It almost feels like a benchmark. With all the gameplay depth and immersion that goes along with running one. It’s not bad at what it does, quite the opposite in fact. It’s stellar. But there’s just so little to it, despite the massive world fulll of blips and bits. It’s Skyrim driven to an insane extreme: Even wider, even grander, even more impressive. And even more shallow. Much more shallow.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Yeah I was confused by that, too.

Isn’t this like the Steam “awards” were beyond maybe some laughing about how silly the whole procedure is, nobody cares?

Carighan , 9 months ago

I really want to see his response

Muta talks to him during his video, I think. Response is basically “I had no clue” mixed with some vague excuses, including some that clearly contradict what was said before.

And then does the “But I don’t know how to fix this, so if you have any idea…”, as if, you know, donating the fucking money is such a difficult thing to do. And like Muta says, they don’t even detail their operating expenses, so any accountant could have a field day with that.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Yeah, unless it’s a specific fundraiser (as in, “We match all external donations up to X”), there’s no reason not to donate directly, in particular for cases where it’s easy enough to find a charity to directly support that isn’t someone’s personal tax deduction scheme.

Carighan , 9 months ago

The accusation is not that the money has not been donated now, however. It is that the money has been sitting around since 2014, while happily paying themselves “expenses” from it.

It’s just a mix of an externally paid expenses account + a tax writeoff for the years 2014-2022, so even iff the money has now been donated, that doesn’t excuse the previous 8 years and in fact, you can’t shirk legal responsibility that way.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Yeah he had no qualms with 12k-30k annually being taken out for “expenses”.

Carighan , 9 months ago

I never even heard of them, but fuck. Damn. ☹️

Carighan , 9 months ago

I’ll be honest, I am quite surprised they had 180 workers left there after the continuous stream of tepid stuff they’ve put out over time.

Still, sucks for the people working there, becuase I bet a lot of them at least started really driven and motivated before corporate ground their will down.

Carighan , 9 months ago

But if course they offer protection as they prevent virtually all cases where someone would get a gun in the first place.

That’s the reason the US has so many gun related terror attacks: guns are ubiquitous, which means any problem can readily escalate to a gun attack. Getting a gun in most other countries requires a significant amount of commitment that most of these cases wouldn’t ever have developed in the first place.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Sure, but you trade a lot of only slightly less bad shootings for very rare if bad shootings.

Carighan , 9 months ago

“fired” is a bit of a strong word for stuffing his ass so full of money it spewing out was what ejected him from the building.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Also the memey “xxxx the year of Linux”. Because that’s been going on for 40+ years now. 😅 You use it, or you don’t. Your OS is a tool, not a belief system.

Carighan , 9 months ago

little things like this that would have only gotten updates for one version of windows to another, for ui changes or sumsuch, now get updates frequently, and since they’re ‘store’ updates now, you have even less control over them. it’s rather annoying.

This is actually not a Windows but a general modern development issue. Things need to change. Change! CHAAAAANGE! Value! Effort! Work! Endlessly! GROWTH!

Look at how many apps update every 1-3 days. It’s crazy.

Carighan , 9 months ago

So… they’re inventing level codes you can re-enter to start from there.

I’m massively impressed by Sony, clearly revolutionary technology right there.

Carighan , 9 months ago

Yeah that’s the thing, battery sizes already have standards. We need to force the industry to use them though instead of the wild west diarrhea that is current LIon and LiPo batteries.