Considering how much Google has entrenched itself into the Internet (see manifest v3 fiasco), I would argue that creating a new browser is a fork of the web

Respectful enough to call it GNU/Linux, but not support it... lmao

Pre-smartphones, my parents were always yelling at my brothers and I to stop texting at the dinner table.

Post-smartphones, it's now vice-versa and unless we remind them to put their phones on silent beforehand, their phones inevitably erupt in alarms at full volume reminding them to call Marianne back or whatever

I mean, is systemd giving YOU problems? If not, don’t switch just because other people complain about it

They’ve been doing this for decades… AI, machine learning, statistics… the media thinks these words are perfectly interchangeable but AI gets the most clicks

Happily playing modern games and developing shaders on my AMD GPU. 5120x1440 120 Hz issue free

I wish people would get their shit together and realize they’ve fallen victim to marketing

Two delays and three price changes later, this game will be fantastic when it comes out in 2027

It amazes me how many people still don't realize his asshole schtick is just him playing a character

Arch

• Being 64-bit doesn't make you special, my Nintendo 64 is 27 yrs old and it's 64-bit

• Being bleeding edge doesn't make you special, all I have to do is sit on a nail and now I'm bleeding edge too

• Rolling releases don't make you special, anyone can have those if they take a shit on a steep slope

/s (was hoping we'd be able to leave this behind on reddit, but alas, people's sense of humor...)

The Office. Last couple seasons were garbo

cue downvotes from the “still watches The Office on loop” crowd

I used to work in medical imaging and weirdly pedantic people would say this all the time about digital photography. They say that even just the act of Debayering makes it artificial

For those missing the joke: slot jackpots usually have odds of winning of like 1:1000, so every thousandth person should win...

... if you don't understand probability. Games on a slot machine are mutually exclusive, so those odds apply to one independent game, not all games played as a whole

Lots of people ITT complaining that Lemmy is blanket anti-business, meanwhile I’m just surprised that something involving Nintendo isn’t being downvoted into oblivion

This place is getting more diverse, I like it

Netflix is doing great

uses picture from the worst major studio movie of 2023

This is actually related to real marksmanship technique -- you don't literally want to pull the trigger with your trigger finger, you actually want to squeeze your whole hand, which indirectly results in pulling the trigger but with your hand applying tension in all directions instead of just backwards, reducing overall movement of the weapon during your shot

Only gonna make things more difficult for good actors while doing absolutely nothing to bad actors

A demo video that's 50% package installation output, 50% early-2000s mouse cursor changer. And I watched every second of it

Torrenting requires way more resources than people realize. It's easy to look at your torrents' download speeds and think "oh, that's less than a normal download, like from Steam, so it must not take nearly as many resources" -- it's not all about bandwidth. The amount of encryption and hashing involved in torrenting is fairly CPU heavy (every ~4 MB piece has to be hashed and verified), especially if your CPU doesn't have onboard encryption hardware (think mobile devices). The sheer number of connections involved even in just one torrent can also bog down a network like you wouldn't believe -- anyone who runs a home seedbox can attest.

"I moved the company here because Joe Rogan said it was a cool place but innovation isn't magically happening as fast as I thought it would. Bummer."

Kids: press switch to front-facing camera button anyways

I guess I'm too young to know why Pink Floyd is morally questionable?

The government has already stepped in several times. If you’re in the mood to get mad, read up on the results of these interventions. Basically, Boeing was almost forced to deal with actual oversight, but was able to convince the government at the last minute that they could handle the oversight themselves internally (thanks to the wonderful process of lobbying of course)

The original creators can sure try, but since Lemmy is ACTUALLY open source, the community can just fork the source, call it "the-good-lemmy" or whatever, and devote our time & resources to it instead of using the bullshit version

Wow you just shined a ton of light on a problem my company had. We wanted to implement a medical imaging system from one of their subsidiaries, and it took an average of 3 months for the salesperson to respond to EACH of our emails

Work.

Early in my career, I made the mistake of revealing to my employers that I'm competent at my job. More and more work flowed onto my plate and before long, I was assigned tasks that were supposed to go to seniors. So, the seniors received almost double my salary while they enjoyed more open schedules since I was doing my work + some of theirs.

It's simply not worth it to go above and beyond at work, unless it's your own business.

Author is a doofus, but there is one context in which I sorta agree with this sentiment.

It drives me up the wall when, according to my browser, a page is done loading, so I go to click on something and bam, a subscription/cookie/whatever popup appears and steals my click in the millisecond between when I decided to click and when my finger reacted.

- posted from a non-Apple device (which was also made with over seas suffering)

When using a VPN, your own router should not be involved in port forwarding. Proton must support port forwarding with p2p traffic, the specific VPN software you use must be setup to use Proton’s port forwarding, and your qbittorrent must be properly configured to use the correct port

A modern day restaurant

Mean, mean sides

Today's Tow Sawyer

Mean, mean fries

Real Headline: "Billionaire who Previously Led Massive Failure Wants AI to take 90% of Movie Production Jobs so that he can Have More Money to Spend on Massive Failures"

Same, except with soldering materials and circuit components since there's no more Radio Shack or anything. I don't solder super often, just to fix things in my hobby, so ordering from someone like McMaster Carr doesn't really make sense. Amazon has been super clutch in this case

Nothing says "fuck you guys, in particular" like laying off the chef that cooked lunches for us in the office, even through COVID, and using the money to hire a an offshore Indian team (whom we were now unofficially responsible for managing, obviously)

Learning professional skills? In college? My guy, that's not what it's about. Especially at universities, it's not about learning professional skills as much as it is networking and earning a piece of paper that proves you can commit to something.

E.g. my university was still teaching the 1998 version of C++ in the late 2010's. First job I had out of school used C++ 17. Was I fucked? No, because the languages I learned were far less important than how I learned to learn them.

Hop on a plane between a major city and Las Vegas a couple days before DEFCON and I'm sure someone will know

I'll have to wait until the PC version comes out in 2033, but see ya then!

Whenever Riker meets eyes with a female humanoid alien earlyish in an episode, you know exactly what the B plot is gonna be

The worst offenders are usually obese people with bad gaits where they pound the ground with their heels every step

Everyone else is gonna be like "if you don't have at least 3 backups of something blahblah" but you know, not everyone has the finances for that, so advice from a cheapskate computer nerd: when going through critical transfers/reformats/deletions like you were doing, ALWAYS try actually recovering stuff from the backup before you cross the point of no return. E.g. if the backup is a .zip, extract a few individual files from it and open them in their respective programs.

Everyone keeps pointing the fingers at ad blockers, but it's general enshitification. A website which does nothing more than display some thumbnails, some text comments, and a video should not work as poorly as YouTube does. And yet, they are so many layers of recommendation engines deep that blackbox AIs have more control over the website than actual humans, and more CPU cycles are spent guessing what I want to watch than loading what I am currently watching. I have the most expensive consumer GPU that AMD makes and I still regularly see graphical glitches on YouTube

replacing them with individual personalized echo chambers

Which really wouldn't be that bad if instances were more clear about how they operate. Like, on the user signup page, there should be a big ol checkbox saying "I UNDERSTAND THAT ANYTHING THATS NOT A POSITIVE POST ABOUT COMMUNISM WILL GET ME BANNED" or whatever