zerofk

joined 1 year ago
[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

We would like to remind you that your peanut butter jar will never talk back to you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that your peanut butter jar does speak, we urge you to eat its contents immediately and dispose of the jar responsibly. Please recycle.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 days ago

The word “duh” comes to mind.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Isn’t that one of the new games? I mean it’s called “Return”! I remember when Wolfenstein was 2D sprites and paper thin walls.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 weeks ago

Counterpoint: Apple used (uses?) a lot of GPL code as well, but their “giving back” was so perfunctory that the community didn’t incorporate most of it.

Big companies will always find ways to skirt what is allowed in ways that benefits them alone.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Posted 38 seconds ago and already downvoted. You might have a downvoting bot following you.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

You’re getting downvoted, but I’m in the exact same position. Car made in 2021, no connectivity at all. I cannot start it remotely - why would you do that? Is it really more convenient than turning a key or pressing a button once seated? I guess people really do like it, I just find it hard to imagine.

Starting the climate control from a distance sounds comfortable, the first few moments of driving can be too hot or cold.

I don’t have a built-in GPS, but if there was one I don’t see a benefit of using my phone to control it.

Windows? What?

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 53 points 1 month ago

vehicle … cloud

Flying cars sure turned out differently than we imagined in sci-fi.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

McAfee has always been more of an advertising application than antivirus. A free version would constantly try to scare you into buying it. A paid version always reminds you that you could be paying more to clean your PC, including showing perfectly normal settings as “potentially unwanted“. Even if you pay for all the bells and whistles, you’ll need to click away constant reminders of how good a job it is doing at protecting you.

But, to be fair, the other big names do exactly the same.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Far from it. I think you vastly underestimate how many books have been published, and in what small quantities.

Estimates are around 15% of books is digitised, and less than a third of that is searchable. I’m guessing a small fraction of that is torrentable (yes that’s a word I just made up).

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago (9 children)

And all at the same time, with nothing the rest of the year.

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 154 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You can still visit - and scrape - the new Reddit without logging in, so the scraping is obviously just an excuse for what everyone saw coming from the start: the gradual complete shutdown of old Reddit.

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