[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 28 points 3 months ago

I just miss when you could search for things on search engines and find what you were looking for. I miss when putting operators, quotes, and parentheses actually changed the search results.

I miss when AI wasn’t shoved into EVERYTHING. I miss when the internet was usable to be honest.

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago

I’m a literal wizard. I spend hours writing in an esoteric language known only by those who study it in order to bend the world to my will and make things happen as I wish it.

The structure of my magic spells determine what the outcomes will be, and things can get really strange if you mess up the syntax.

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago

I actually like it lol. I guess I’m in the super minority.

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’ve had illness that broke my swallowing. Soylent is relatively good tasting, has the nutrients you need, and goes down fast and easy. It isn’t pleasant to live on, but I did it for almost two months and it was way better than only eating soggy bread. I definitely recommend Soylent.

Edit: there’s also (I’m sorry I don’t remember the brand) a really good cinnabon breakfast shake that tastes good and helps break up the monotony of a meal replacement shake only diet.

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 45 points 7 months ago

I used to work at Microcenter for awhile. The best time to buy was always back to school. Holiday deals start at the beginning of November and are the exact same as Black Friday minus a few small door buster deals and maybe a special on a few models of pc. During back to school, pretty much everything is heavily discounted.

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 34 points 7 months ago

Nothing is new here.

This isn’t that different from when I was a kid twenty years ago. Only instead of phones (though we all had phones back then too, even if they weren’t smart), it was game consoles, or Pokémon cards, or beanie babies or whatever.

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 31 points 7 months ago

They didn’t. Epic sued Apple in 2021. They lost. They’ve already filed for appeal. They are targeting Apple and Google for the same infraction. It’s not about the App Store, it’s mostly about the 30% commission both companies take on app sales AND in app purchases.

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago

Epic games decided they don’t want to pay 30% of every transaction to Google or Apple. They sued Apple already and lost. They’ve filed an appeal, so we will hear more on that soon ish. I’m not an epic fan at all, but 30% of all sales is ridiculous. Epic themselves take 12% on the epic store. Valve, Apple, Google—none of these companies should get a third of the sale price for everything sold through an app downloaded from there store. Not just the price of the app, but all app revenue. Every in app purchase. All of it.

The $25 registration fee is just for the account. That’s negligible considering Apple charges $100 a year. It’s the commission these companies take that epic is suing over.

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 91 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I remember reading the original of these without the tagline up top. The guys name was Abs Delfuego (I’m not making this up, you can google him). He posted by omegaweapon on Reddit. He had a neighbor with a disabled son, and Abs made an arcade machine for him.

His wife had died a couple years prior, and he started a business making arcade cabinets and occasionally maki no custom machines for charities. After he lost his wife he just kinda started not caring about being polite. If anybody got uppity with him, he’d cancel the contract. Just flat out, here’s your money, I’m done.

There were a lot of unhappy bosses calling gabs to apologize. Also a lot of people threatening to sue. I wonder what happened to him.

Edit: Apparently I can’t read, and this wasn’t Abs. I could swear I read something similar from Abs, but as the first line calls the person Caleb, I was mistaken.

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submitted 9 months ago by DeadlineX@lemm.ee to c/avelon@lemm.ee

I know how to block entire communities, but there are users I see consistently posting vitriol and insults I’d like to avoid. I tried looking in the users profile and the menu on a comment. What am I missing?

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 33 points 9 months ago

Lawmakers and judges should not be allowed to make decisions on something they know nothing about. This is a huge problem with people not even wanting to educate themselves, and then deciding how the rest of us get to interact with the internet.

That being said, Firefox is only popular with tech folk. They have just over a 3% market share. I’m a developer and I don’t know anyone but myself that uses it. My mother would think I was talking about a cartoon if I brought it up. A lot of lemmings use it, but o would not call it a popular example.

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I’d rather read the docs than just about anything. I love good documentation. I wanna know how and why things work.

The problem is that basically nobody has good docs. They are almost all either incomplete or unreadable.

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submitted 11 months ago by DeadlineX@lemm.ee to c/memmy@lemmy.ml

When I click the eyeball, it gets rid of the read posts but then puts me in the same distance down the page that now has posts I haven’t seen above my current location in the feed. Not a big deal, as I can tap the top of the screen for the standard iOS pop to the top dealio, but this would be awesome to have in the future!

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago

It’s also sensationalist bs. The actual charges were for performing an abortion without being a doctor and for concealing the death.

It was her daughter that she gave abortion pills to, and then helped dispose of the fetus. The daughter was 29 weeks pregnant and the law (since 2010 btw) is abortions can only be performed up to 20 weeks. The daughter also only got the charge for hiding the body.

But yeah 29 weeks is well past viability. At that point it’s more like inducing still birth. Nobody pleaded guilty to abortion. We need to fight for our rights, but we also need to do it while educated.

All of these rage bait titles are getting ridiculous.

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