skulblaka

joined 10 months ago
[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If Trump is any indication, no politician will ever need to be 'competent and coherent' ever again, constituents would vote in a literal corpse if it had a sign propped on it saying "gays bad"

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It is impossible to escape political propaganda in modern America. It's on your internet, it's on your radio, it's on your cable TV, it's on your streaming TV, it's on your super bowl ads, it's on your gas station pumps, it's on your news sources, it's on your social media. "Oh I don't pay attention to politics" is no longer a reasonable excuse because that is impossible, it's shoved down the throat of every citizen nonstop from every angle. The two candidates, in this case Trump and Biden, are such polar opposites of each other in every single possible regard that the only way someone can be undecided between the two is if their multiple personalities are arguing over it.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 13 points 9 months ago

In what ways? Genuinely curious, I've been using Firefox as my daily driver for most of a decade and haven't even looked at other browsers recently because it's never given me a problem or lacked a feature.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I remember hearing something a few years ago about some companies working on better tactile feedback on touch screen buttons, making them more "clicky" and feeling more like real physical buttons. Sounded complicated and I don't think anyone really did anything with it except for Samsung making the home button super clicky on my old Galaxy. I wonder if that will ever resurface, it seemed like a good compromise for folks who wanted real buttons.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 6 points 9 months ago

And you might want to interact with the product you're bashing before you talk so much shit about it. I own a 4 year old Z Flip I bought secondhand two years ago and I love it. I work in a mechanic shop and this phone has been dropped on concrete many times, had tools dropped on top of it, had chemicals spilled near or on it, been caught in the rain, and besides all that I open and close the fold a couple dozen times a day most every day. I put the cheapest Amazon phone case I could find on it and to date, I have developed a nearly invisible hairline crack in the very center of the fold that you can only even notice when the screen is off, and one tiny crack in the corner of the front screen that doesn't fold. Whole phone is mint otherwise. It's been incredibly durable over the two years I've had it, far above and beyond what I even expected when I bought it. And being able to fold out the screen for reading or watching videos, or gaming, or comfortable texting, is excellent.

Your point is taken in that yes a flat screen phone won't have a folding hinge that will eventually wear out. But my phone has lasted me two years, after being bought used two years after its release, and I expect an easy 3 more before I end up replacing it so long as I don't drop anything too heavy on it. I consider that a fine lifespan for a modern smartphone. I'll probably never go back to a slab phone unless I don't get a choice when the time comes for a new one.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

The currently existing design of wind turbines is incredibly stupid anyway, I have no idea how we landed on that design. It's one of the least effective designs possible for it's use case. We should be using spiral turbines.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 39 points 9 months ago

Honestly I disagree but I wouldn't mind seeing them coexist. But I say this because I've actually grown kind of fond of wojak so what the fuck do I know

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

Then you wouldn't be pressured into paying for Prime. A subscription is the gift that keeps giving forever. Amazon probably wouldn't give half a shit if nobody ordered an item ever again as long as everybody keeps paying for Prime.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Most of the EA games I buy (not all, but a significant majority) are sold for less, sometimes a lot less, than their final sale price, and I get tangible input on the design decisions before 1.0. I'm a big fan. I get to provide funding and feedback to a game I'm excited to see, get it for a good discount, get to see it grow up, and then when it blows up and everyone loves the game I'm considered a source of arcane ancient knowledge about it. It's fun.

Mostly I enjoy being able to go on a game forum and say "this sucks, we should consider changing A to B" and then logging in next week to find B implemented.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Almost all people who didn't vaccinate against covid are still alive and well you know

Ah, so we're just ignoring the 7 million deaths from covid then. (Source: the World Health Organization (WHO)

Covid killed more people than the fucking holocaust, so far, it isn't even finished yet. I don't understand how people don't realize this.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They've been doing that since the beginning. You need a "developer license" in order to publish an app. Back in the day it was like $50 a year I think, but I haven't done ios dev in about a decade so I don't know if that's changed.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Well, you see, I do get regular updates - about one every 3 months on average, and my 4 year old phone is still as fast as the day I bought it.

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