Blackmist

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Blackmist,

I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next ones are stupid and lazy; they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the mental clarity and strength of nerve necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage.

– Kurt von Hammerstein

LinkedIn is Facebook for that last type.

Blackmist,

In fairness we’ve been around a lot longer, but it is impressive how one little island nation has managed to fuck so much shit up from afar.

Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend?

Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I...

Blackmist,

How are you killing your battery after two years?

Even my cheapshit Honor 9 lasted six before it started getting random shutoffs.

Blackmist,

That moment where you finally convince your boss it’s not worth fixing, and then you instantly think of a way to easily solve it.

Blackmist,

Moved to Firefox a while ago, specifically because of Manifest V3.

The only issue I’ve found so far is that you can’t log in to PSN on it. Just locks the browser completely and you need to kill it in task manager. Apparently it’s to do with password saving.

Blackmist,

Good luck with that. All browsing on iOS is Safari, so likely all the FF extensions would need to be remade from scratch.

Blackmist,

Apparently it’s to do with cloud password saving.

Blackmist,

I guess it also helps when you already own all the land to put them on.

Blackmist,

Always jarring when you open a folder dialog, and an unresizeable chunk of Windows 3.1 suddenly appears.

I know it’s still in the ODBC settings, probably other places too.

Blackmist,

Drivers are definitely out. Some games are really iffy. Especially from the Win 9x era, where they’d do stupid things like look for a 9 in the version string of Windows, or get the amount of RAM as a 32 bit signed int, so refuses to install if you have 4GB RAM or more.

We had a lot of dodgy old DOS programs that were fine under Win98, but XP broke them.

Blackmist,

Or they leave a link to the solution.

The link is dead.

Blackmist,

I feel seen.

Use your legs for a bit and they won’t get as cold.

Blackmist,

I don’t understand why they sell GPUs for up to $2000, and they still come with the same crappy fans we had on $150 cards.

Want watercooling? Have fun invalidating your warranty.

Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....

Blackmist,

How dare you besmirch Shadow Raid Legends VPN like that!

Blackmist,

The Wadsworth Constant was a thing even from the earliest days of Youtube.

Blackmist,

I can only assume they’re some sort of front for a cartel because I’ve never met anyone that actually plays it.

Blackmist,

The intent is to provide workers with a sense of pride and accomplishment for paying different bills.

As for cost, we selected initial values based upon data from the Open Beta and other adjustments made to milestone rewards before launch. Among other things, we’re looking at average per-worker dollar earn rates on a daily basis, and we’ll be making constant adjustments to ensure that workers have challenges that are compelling, rewarding, and of course attainable via hard work.

We appreciate the candid feedback, and the passion the community has put forth around the current topics here on Lemmy, our forums and across numerous social media outlets.

Our team will continue to make changes and monitor community feedback and update everyone as soon and as often as we can.

Blackmist,

How quickly we forget Laserdisc and Video CDs.

Oh and UMD, but I don’t think “I want to watch a movie in poor quality on a tiny screen on a device that’ll probably run out of battery before the movie finishes” was a market anybody was really interested in.

Blackmist, (edited )

I remember ripping a CD to one with an optical cable. It split by tracks and everything.

I felt like Johnny Mnemonic.

Blackmist,

If you hum The Final Countdown while it’s loading, it’ll let you play original Vice City instead!

Blackmist,

I like Colm Meany, but every picture I’ve ever seen of him looks like somebody has Photoshopped his face to be slightly smaller, like the old Woll Smoth memes.

Blackmist,

I’m heading back to it.

The streaming was sort of OK, and now it’s wank. Spread across dozens of services, that don’t have enough content to justify their existence. No UI linking them all together means you have no idea if something is available or not without checking justwatch.com

If music was like this, I’d pirate that too.

Blackmist,

Was.

Blackmist,

It would hardly be the first time.

I’d settle for “not actively supporting it” at this point.

Blackmist,

Google and Facebook in shambles.

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