loudandskittish

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by loudandskittish 4y ago
Wow!! I've only been waiting for this for 15 years!
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by loudandskittish 4y ago
Brian Eno once said: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cheri
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by loudandskittish 4y ago
But the thing is, a year ago, Twitch actually did a good job suggesting people with only six viewers. *Now* for some reason, they're pushing people in hot tubs who already have thousands of viewers. That's what I'm complainin
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by loudandskittish 4y ago
> Instagram actively hides pics from my step kids, nephew and niece to show me "reels" from people I don't follow. I find it all that for all the data these companies have, they don't seem to be using it well...or sto
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by loudandskittish 4y ago
Is it just me or do the "up-scaled" versions look more like a child's MS-Paint drawing?
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
I used to think that...until my second no-fault eviction in two years...
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
> But what about people with special needs? eg. people with mental health problems or medical conditions requiring expensive therapy? Unless you think we should let those people fend for themselves, you'll still need welfare progra
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
No, it shows that a lot of people left Montreal when the major financial and media institutions moved their HQs to Toronto after Bill 101 was passed in 1977.
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
Problem is, you could end up spending $3.8 billion on pizza.
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
RAM, processing power and HD space.
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
I've yet to see a single reason why I would want Windows 11.
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
Yes, on top of the fact that just about every portrayal of 'The Metaverse' has been a dystopian nightmare.
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
Thank you! I followed the link on my phone and WTF is this bullshit? There's a popover that tells me to either download the app or "Return to /r/popular" ...despite not having come from there in the first place. No
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
But online collectible card games have existed for well over a decade without any need for NFTs, including the ability to trade and sell your rare cards. What does having an NFT add?
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
I'm wondering how long this will remain efficient, though. I'm now at the point where I just flat out refuse to click on any video with a clickbait title, or any video that is exactly 10 minutes long (give or take a few seconds).
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
...as long as you don't tell them you were delivering food at the time...
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
What I don't understand is why people care so much...
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by loudandskittish 5y ago
I'd rather be "Mark."
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by loudandskittish 6y ago
I worked for a call centre in Canada that had all the same rules.
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by loudandskittish 6y ago
"The average 30-year mortgage rate in 2020 was 3.11%. The same $2500/month payment with 20% down buys a $730,892 house." Except what's happening I live is that now the $423,870 house costs $730,829. As well, for someone
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by loudandskittish 6y ago
> You can't build a bubble on boring, moored ideas, you need hype. ...except for houses
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by loudandskittish 6y ago
Is there any viable way to bring back forums? I worry I'm going full "boomer," but damn do I miss the 90's internet.
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by loudandskittish 6y ago
I spent many years thinking they were invented as scary video game baddies...was pretty horrified when I found out they're actually real.
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by loudandskittish 7y ago
Unrelated, but is there a reason I now suddenly have to click "Show Thread" every time someone links to a Twitter thread now?
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by loudandskittish 7y ago
I bet it runs smoother and uses less resources than anything written in Electron...
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by loudandskittish 7y ago
I really don't get what's up with that...2012 or so, Netflix was suggesting movies I'd never heard of that I ended up loving. Now when I log in, it just demands I watch Family Guy (ugh) ...and starts auto-playing it, of cours
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by loudandskittish 7y ago
I've recently tried to get back into tracking and I've found OpenMPT to be one of the worst modern trackers. Yes, it adds lots of modern features but its very poorly documented, there are barely any tutorials and what few do exist
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by loudandskittish 7y ago
...is this advice people actually need?
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by loudandskittish 7y ago
Here's an article by someone using a similar system where I think how it's actually used in practice is described pretty well: https://ryanholiday.net/how-and-why-to-keep-a-commonplace-bo...
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by loudandskittish 7y ago
May I ask what unimplemented features you're referring to? I think one of the biggest issues the older crowd has with Electron apps is not only that they eat up 500MBs of RAM, but also that they only have a tiny subset of the features

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