DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
I don’t read DMs.
- Comment on Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose 1 week ago:
My mom’s Pyrex and cast iron skillets. That’s what I cook with.
I haven’t bought new cookware of any kind in over thirty years.
You can find cast iron skillets at a thrift store. Old, good Pyrex, probably not, though, you’d be lucky to, anyway.
- Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year. 2 weeks ago:
I suppose for a large house, $500/mo. is what one would pay for maid service.
I don’t believe one robot can effectively clean piss from the corner behind the toilet, AND do laundry, AND clean windows, AND dust, AND clean a shower head, AND clean a refrigerator, etc., etc.
Imagine a robot collecting everything out of a fridge onto a counter, removing the glass shelves, cleaning them, cleaning the inside of the fridge, and then putting everything back without breaking anything, and doing it in 30 minutes. Not happening. Even if it were done completely by remote control, I don’t think it could do it.
These things are not anywhere close to a replacement for a human, but they’ll keep pushing it.
- Comment on Meta says 4 states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial 2 weeks ago:
I suppose they revealed this because they expect people will consider it unreasonable?
Not me. I don’t have one bit of empathy for that company. I hope the entire thing burns to the ground, and everyone who chooses to work there loses their job. Fuck that entire organization.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft will make even more of its games exclusive to Xbox — as multiplatform strategy totally fails. What's going on? 3 weeks ago:
Xbox in its death throes.
- Comment on Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes 1 month ago:
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, but I’m happy to see this.
- Comment on After 10 years of work, modders have remade classic RPG Ultima Underworld in Unity with 3D models, new sound effects, and controller support 2 months ago:
I spent many late hours after work playing this game, the PC I had at the time could not run it. I saved up and bought a new 486 so I could run this game and Descent.
I don’t remember it at all, but everything in the video looks familiar.
- Comment on Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp 2 months ago:
Finally! It’s much easier to find what you’re looking for when the description actually, you know, describes.
- Comment on Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors 2 months ago:
- Comment on Solid-state nuclear battery claims 100-year power for ultra-low energy devices 3 months ago:
NRD claims the battery can deliver power outputs ranging from 5 nanowatts to 500 nanowatts.
- Comment on Meta Smart Glasses Can Now Track All the Food You Put Into Your Mouth 3 months ago:
Even with the privacy issue aside, the glasses are a shitty product. What they do, they do poorly.
- Comment on Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right 3 months ago:
Damn, we’re so easy to manipulate.
Do you and yours a big favor and stay away from that shit like it’s heroin.
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There might be a solution in popular culture:
- Comment on Microsoft keeps insisting that it's deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11 4 months ago:
They can be “committed” and still fail. Happens all the time.
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 4 months ago:
It’s only a matter of time, and money.
And while Niantic hasn’t suggested any plans to provide its VPS data to authorities, it’s not hard to see how a tool that can accurately pinpoint a location based on landmarks in a photograph could look enticing to law enforcement.
- Comment on Starfield is a game people were "just not ready" for and it'll still come good at some point, reckons Fallout 4 composer 4 months ago:
I think I have about 170 hours in the game, there abouts. I haven’t played it in over two years, and I doubt I ever will again. Mostly what I remember about it is big, empty landscapes, and a handful of dungeons with exactly the same enemies in the same spot every time. The “cities” were tiny, and the side quests were boring. Oh! There’s a girl who loves books, but no ability to give her the books you can collect–I don’t know how they missed that. The game blows and sucks at the same time.
In contrast, FO4 is running in the background as I type this, and I have over 6700 hours in it. How did they fuck up Starfield so completely?
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 4 months ago:
Is it right every time?
- Comment on Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy 4 months ago:
Yep, that’s the plan.
It should be obvious by now that governments don’t give one fuck about protecting kids. Not one single fuck.
- Comment on Nudify Apps Widely Available in Apple and Google App Stores 5 months ago:
I suppose porn is always the first profitable use for a new tech.
- Comment on The sorry state of saving (mostly a rant) 6 months ago:
I mean it is harder to save at arbitrary points because the amount of information you have to save and restore can be a lot more.
So, instead of being instantaneous, it takes two seconds? Or five? That’s no good excuse.
I can play for three hours in Fallout 4, forgetting to save the entire time, then remembering to hit F5, and it takes literally two seconds to save. It’s just a database text file sitting in RAM that needs to be written to the drive. And, most people are playing off SSDs, so even a huge text file with hundreds of thousands of entries would write in a second.
No, this isn’t about physical limitations of the hardware, or how much time it takes.
- Comment on RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding 6 months ago:
I long for the days when one could download RAM.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 6 months ago:
JFC, it’s a fucking mouse. Do they need to ruin everything, like fucking EVERYTHING?!
- Comment on Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth 6 months ago:
Last but not least, the OS was changed from Windows Server to Ubuntu 24.04.2, a simple switch that resulted in better I/O performance on its own.
Oh boy, here we go.
- Comment on Crews Walk Out on Nashville Tunnel, Claiming Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns 8 months ago:
Nashville should have consulted with Shelbyville before starting.
- Comment on HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use 8 months ago:
I predict failure.
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 9 months ago:
They lied. It should say “lied”, not tricked. It wasn’t a parlor trick, it wasn’t a magic trick, no one was entertained. The company flat out lied and stole from their customers. Call it was it is.
- Comment on Bethesda planning a Starfield space gameplay revamp to make it more rewarding 11 months ago:
Good luck. Seriously, I’d love to have that game enjoyable. How did they get Fallout 4 so right, and Starfield so wrong? If they can fix it, I’ll try it again. Otherwise, I’ll stick to FO4, I’m getting close to 6600 hours in FO4.
- Comment on New scrubbing robot could contribute to automation of household chores 1 year ago:
This is stupid.
- Comment on Tesla ‘Robotaxi’ trademark refused for being too generic 1 year ago:
Will the things use LIDAR? Tesla is so far behind on self-driving tech in their cars, I think they need to finally admit their cheap camera-only method doesn’t work.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 year ago:
Never use Perplexity, got it.
I’m old, I don’t browse the web on my phone, anyway.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 year ago:
Ads after you buy a ladder: “Yes, you’ve had one ladder, but what about a second ladder?”
