Vlhacs

joined 2 years ago
[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I try to remember to always under promise expectations. Even after all these years I keep forgetting that a simple change is never really that simple and has lots of overhead.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I might be in the minority, but shitpost memes like "I'll draw a shitty picture every day until x happens" or "I'll do this based on Y upvotes", and the "here's a random hotdog/Gatorade bottle everyday". I know I can probably just block these kinds of posts, I just never got the appeal of it.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago

It knew it struck gold and actually sent the script to Michael Bay

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Bings version of chatgpt once said Vegito was the result of Goku and Vegeta performing the Fusion dance. That's when I knew it wasn't perfect. I tried to correct it and it said it didn't want to talk about it anymore. Talk about a diva.

Also one time, I asked it to generate a reddit AITA story where they were obviously the asshole. It started typing out "AITA for telling my sister to stop being a drama queen after her miscarriage..." before it stopped midway and, again, said it didn't want to continue this conversation any longer.

Very cool tech, but it's definitely not the end all, be all.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

Depends on what the understanding is when we exchange money for a digital good. If we agreed that I can own it forever but you then pull the rug out from under us, then there's an argument to be made.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Yea, I eventually just resorted to playing the offline modes. It's much more fun than the rat race that is myteam

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's probably the closest thing to reddit right now (even down to the shitposting memes unfortunately) but I wouldn't say it has the same feel quite yet. I still find the distributed nature confusing (am I in the lemmy.world's technology community, or lemmy.ml's? How do I get to beehaws instance?) and navigating between instances is a chore. I realize though that situation is very fluid and if users can get over the hump and start investing into their communities and lemmy as a technology it can get better.

Also I rely on mobile apps to navigate the majority of the time. There are some decent ones out there now, like Connect for Android. But it definitely is still buggy, and is not as fluid as my experience with Relay for reddit. But again, nothing that can't be fixed.

Some of my favorite subreddits still hasn't shown up yet as communities in any of the major lemmy instances, and I honestly feel it's going to take a very long time for that to happen for some of the more niche ones. The user base I honestly believe will never reach even close to reddit's numbers.

So in a nutshell, good promise, closest thing to reddit, but still has a long way to go.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

NBA 2K games. Terrible loot system that never gives you good stuff until it enters endgame near the end of the year. Then they turn off the servers a few months later and force you to buy next year's game that has the same graphics and a slightly tweaked playing mechanics.

But I honestly personally spent quite literally hundreds of hours on that series. Mainly cause I'm a huge NBA fan and I love building out custom teams and there's not much competition in realistic basketball simulators at the moment.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago

It's just annoying how everything has to follow the "meta" and if you do dare to try something else and you don't perform above expectations you'll get shit on. I just want to play the game the way I enjoy it sometimes.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Im guessing it's this: https://www.dexerto.com/tech/raspberry-pis-latest-hire-is-an-ex-cop-who-built-surveillance-devices-2009036/

Their PR and social media managers are pretty shit honestly. But I can't say for the other founders, or if this applies to the the Raspberry Pi foundation itself.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago

Definitely recommend using one. Don't have a preference for any particular one, I use Google's for simplicity sake. But unless you have a complicated system that allows you to have different passwords for every online service (or maybe if you have a great memory) it's simply more secure to use a password manager. Most sites have emails as logins, and if you reuse the same email/password combination you're just asking for trouble for when one day one of those sites get hacked, your password is sold, and someone spams your combo across all popular services and somehow ends up in your bank.

[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago

One other thing polls didn't really capture was voter enthusiasm or maybe not enough people was paying attention to it. Just because you answered Hilary when asked who would you vote for, it didn't mean you went out on Election day to vote. A combination of lack of enthusiasm for Hilary, coupled with news constantly reporting that it will be a landslide kept many Democrat voters home.

I believe that's why there's such a huge push for "get out the vote" campaigns in 2020 by the Democrats. Generally, the more people voting means better chances for a Democrat win, given general (non-electoral) election results.

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