MrSpArkle

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MrSpArkle,

Your local race alignment shop.

MrSpArkle,

Google has killed plenty of things that work just fine. Being a bad product has nothing to do with cancellation, it is an organizational illness.

MrSpArkle,

I can easily accept a blind npc or pc, and also a wheelchair npc, but a wheelchair pc is a bit convoluted in a fantasy setting. Like this was literally a subplot in doctor strange. There is just too much power in player parties to not knock this out in the first few adventures.

Whether through healing or artifacts or levitation. Just makes no sense unless you want the tactical “guy in a chair” trope, or want to have navigation be a major part of each story.

MrSpArkle,

I feel that the whole point of the P90 is the small form factor and the full auto combined with a small fast projectile that is unlikely to over penetrate. Given the longer barrel and lack of full auto of the PS90 you might as well get a five seven for home defense if you want that Gucci factor.

MrSpArkle,

Didn’t we close down some jungle warfare schools?

MrSpArkle,

The genius of one of his recent acts is the trolling he did. He basically made a joke about how fuckable children are and a joke about trans people in the same act, just to see what the media ran with.

I didn’t appreciate how he used Daphne as a shield against criticism, but his unsaid point was salient to me.

MrSpArkle,

www.apple.com/mac-pro/

MrSpArkle,

Uh, why not just call the police? They’re here to protect us so we don’t need guns.

MrSpArkle,

So there weren’t people with guns intimidating voters by monitoring polls for “suspicious activity”?

cnbc.com/…/election-officials-facing-armed-militi…

MrSpArkle,

Absolutely.

MrSpArkle,

What if who cares?

When I used to build app packages internally I also built packages for our own python and ruby versions for our in-house software. The motto was: “system packages are for system software”. We weren’t writing system software, we were writing business software and shipping it, so why be dependent on what Redhat or Debian provided?

Universal packages are just an extension of this philosophy, and is why things like docker and app stores are such a success. Burdening the user with getting system dependencies right is worse than the DLL hell of the old windows days.

MrSpArkle,

Yeah, there is definitely a delineation between system and user, and like most things the line will be fuzzy.

But in that end-user software space, 300mb is a pittance to pay for a minor system package update not breaking their favorite application, or a user not being able to use software because their distro is one version behind on libfoo.

MrSpArkle,

You gotta have more empathy for the average person.

If the average person cared about binary size in terms of bloat, then being that smartphone apps are almost all statically linked, why are smartphones the most popular computer in the world?

To them bloat would feel more like apps you can’t delete, or say ads in a key gui component.

The bloat most people will care about in terms of Linux is facing down a software update prompt with 1000 packages and feeling anxiety over the last such dialog box destroying the use of their favorite apps.

I’m glad there are hundreds of successful distros, their complexities will serve well the hundreds of Linux desktop users.

MrSpArkle,

Apple got shit on when they went all in on USB on the Mac. People complained they couldn’t use their mice and keyboards anymore.

They shit on FireWire and thunderbolt and called them proprietary, even those were both industry standard ports. Same for DisplayPort.

They switched to USB-C exclusively and then people complained that they had to buy dongles.

In the modern era, they have had maybe 3 or 4 proprietary ports.

It doesn’t seem so ruthless to me.

MrSpArkle,

Did the EU force Apple to switch the iPad to USB-C? For that matter, didn’t Apple have like 20 or so engineers on the USB-C spec?

I don’t know how much more hate Apple can get, their mere existence enables an entire tech-journalism ecosystem dedicated to laying out their evils and predicting their demise. It’s good for the economy!

MrSpArkle,

Apple didn’t make enough off of Lightning for greed to be a factor. Hell the majority of Lightning cables sold were unlicensed knockoffs from Amazon and the grocery checkout aisle.

The reason Apple is so rich is that Apple isn’t really dominant in any of the markets they compete at this point(save for the tablet and watch, and that dominance is basically due to the incompetence of Microsoft(surface sucked and Android makers exited the market)) and Google(wearOS evaporated for like 3 years)).

Apple is rich because aside from a few high profile failures, they sell premium products that are competent in targeted categories, and their competitors sell a wide variety products of varying quality in every market category imaginable. What happens then is if Apple releases a new ithing, you can probably buy it and be good, so one Apple purchase leads to another, and they all sync, so might as well pay for iCloud, etc.

MrSpArkle,

Not exactly true. If you enable “Advanced Data Protection” not even apple can look at your data (with the exception of data which has to be interoperable like calendars and mail)

support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

MrSpArkle,

The media circus around columbine has certainly contributed to mass shootings. Every loser knows how to be remembered now.

White patients are more likely than Black patients to be given opioid medication for pain in US emergency departments (theconversation.com)

White people who visit hospital emergency departments with pain are 26% more likely than Black people to be given opioid pain medications such as morphine. This was a key finding from our recent study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. We also found that Black patients were 25% more likely than white...

MrSpArkle,

Yeah this one’s an unintentional blessing.

MrSpArkle,

Erring on the side of caution is preferable in this case.

MrSpArkle, (edited )

That part of their charter implies Islamic government is the ONLY way for peace in the region. Islam also has rules for those who don’t convert.

Edit: to be clear their laws for those who don’t convert are dogshit.

MrSpArkle,

I’m not pretending, their laws for non Muslims are shit.

MrSpArkle,

They aren’t tolerant of other religions, the fact they even have rules for non Muslims is telling.

MrSpArkle,

The GameCube one was dope for parties.

2,000 children killed in Gaza, aid group says, as doctors warn fuel shortage is a death sentence | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

Inside Gaza, cut off from the world by a near total blockade, Israeli airstrikes have decimated entire neighborhoods, leveling homes, schools and mosques. CNN drone footage from Monday showed the level of destruction across parts of the strip, with whole streets flattened in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City and a row of...

MrSpArkle,

Hamas wanted dead Palestinians as an outcome of their actions. So it is partially their fault.

MrSpArkle,

No, of course the children are not to blame. Why even ask that? I thought you were asking if Hamas was to blame, as that’s what the context of OP was, and the children were obviously blameless.

MrSpArkle,

10% of the preparation is going to be ambushes and booby traps. 90% of the preparation is recruitment drives.

MrSpArkle,

Hamas thought about it because it’s part of their objectives. They want this reaction from Israel. They are not fools. I don’t think many children are in Hamas, so I don’t get your point.

MrSpArkle,

Do it sooner than later. My mega memory had a save game that was corrupted, and also the restore function is finicky now.

Bonus: once you dump the save, you can inject it into virtual console and then port the Pokémon to Pokémon violet.

MrSpArkle,

If it goes from virtual console to Pokemon Bank it’s almost certain it would go into Pokemon Home.

MrSpArkle,

The types of benchmarking needed to measure an individual athletes potential to ensure they aren’t sandbagging would be too costly to implement at anything but the highest levels of athletics.

It is an incredibly complex solution to a non problem.

Let trans athletes compete with cis athletes.

There simply aren’t enough trans athletes for this to be a problem worth considering at a systemic level. At an individual level, if someone lacks the level of self awareness to enter an event where they consistently beat cis women(like if they were an accomplished cis athlete just a few months into transition), then there can be an individual ruling on that person.

Don’t fall for the conservative trap, their hyperbole is engineered (in part) to produce untenable “solutions” from progressives.

MrSpArkle,

This is a such a terrible take that you are either unhinged from reality or a right-wing troll.

MrSpArkle,

I’ve met a lot of hardcore people way up in the tech hierarchy that rock MacBooks. Like people who maintain popular languages, people who make kernel contributions, people who design CPUs and accelerators.

There are many knowledgeable people who willingly make the choice, understanding the tradeoffs and accepting them. Some people don’t want to be fucking with Arch or Kali for hours, or auditing their smartphone’s firmware, for the same reason most combat veterans don’t walk around wearing a bullet proof vest and a rifle.

Will you meet some hardcore hackers who won’t upgrade the kernel until after they audit the changelog of both the kernel AND the compiler they’re using? Sure. You’ll also meet some people who live in a bunker. They have their valid motives for doing so, and people have valid motives for not doing so.

MrSpArkle, (edited )

The CBS article highlights condemnations and criminal investigations by the IDF into the crimes of IDF soldiers. Have any Hamas officials condemned or investigated the crimes committed by Hamas militants?

MrSpArkle,

Even taking your cynical view, is it not telling that Israel at leasts cares about the optics?

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

MrSpArkle,

You can’t make this stuff up

Except that You literally made it up though? You embellished the part about poor families and cheap phones, here’s the actual quote:

I am concerned [that] iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.

MrSpArkle,

Why would anyone want to stop using iMessage? It’s honestly quite good and the app integrations are great. Honestly the only iPhone users I know who don’t use iMessage are due to network effects (families in foreign countries where Whatsapp dominates).

MrSpArkle,

Samsung’s record on RCS isn’t great. Their Samsung Messages app didn’t work across networks for most of last year. Like RCS only worked on t-mobile, but only for t-mobile branded phones, and for some time they couldn’t send to AT&T. Not sure if Google Messages was much better during that time period.

MrSpArkle,

I’d read it the way it was written. Apple has less expensive phones for people who want them, and honestly most poor families just get their phones through their carrier at a monthly rate, so your assertion isn’t really a necessary tactic.

MrSpArkle,

They currently offer 4 different families of iPhone for sale. The cheapest one is the SE for $429.

MrSpArkle,

If they were really fighting it that hard they could’ve stalled till 2025 when the EU law actually takes effect.

MrSpArkle,

Any smartwatch that has the utility of an Apple Watch will also have the battery issues of an Apple Watch.

MrSpArkle,

Those other brands will not have feature parity with the Apple Watch. I agree that charging the watch every light is not an issue.

MrSpArkle,

Saying it’s not an endorsement is playing semantic games. Join-lemmy.org is a site that promotes Lemmy, and having this instance there is encouraging new users to hop onboard an instance that encourages people to discuss how best to rape children.

MrSpArkle,

I mean yeah but stating so uncritically is what is so tiring.

MrSpArkle,

Don’t forget boeing. Who is failing at simple ISS docking missions and killing people by dodging modern safety standards with the 737 Max.

MrSpArkle,

Yeah these infotainment systems are trash. I think the Subaru one is made by Denso. Like, Denso makes spark plugs and shit, stay in your line Denso! Thank fuck for Carplay/Android Auto.

MrSpArkle,

The Joe Rogan subreddit has basically turned on him since Covid, and the comments are usually a good source of critique and counter arguments against him and his guests.

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