averagedrunk @ averagedrunk @lemmy.ml

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Order them well done, or if that's too much you can order light-well.

No hate from me but two is almost too many people for me. I love my SO, I just have a really hard time being around anyone for any length of time. Different strokes for different folks.

This is news to me. I was too cool for everything at the time and still enjoyed it.

Same. I played it on stadia and it was pretty stable. When I went to that other site to see what people were saying I was absolutely shocked at the amount of bugs and hate it was getting.

If you don't want kids to have participation trophies don't give them participation trophies. You didn't go out and buy yourself a trophy for everything, did you?

How many more times? If a regular TV costs $100 then they're making $20k plus marketing data. The PrivaTV would need nearly a $7000 markup for the same return.

Obviously these are made up numbers for illustration. I think that for big manufacturers it's not worth it for the return and amount of effort they would need to spend. Maybe a small manufacturer could do it. Maybe that would spur the big guys to buy them out and take it over once the hard work is done.

I think they know it, I just don't think they care. It's a niche market. On top of that, they'd have to convince the people in that market to trust them.

If they can get a 10-20% return on 10,000 Smart TVs, why waste the effort on properly developing and supporting 3 PrivaTVs (patent pending, exclusions apply, see your local drunk for details)?

I could be wrong, I just don't think the market is large enough that they'd be willing to throw manpower at it.

Sadly no one would find it because of SEO.

That's a classic. We did it for a while. We moved on to all out warfare.

We had a script that backed up the current desktop exactly the way it was then changed everything about it. It would change all system sounds to the original My Little Pony theme, change the background to a Friendship is Magic wallpaper, change the mouse pointer to a tiny pony with trailing sparkles, and remove edit rights to those files from the account using it. To get things back to normal you had to take ownership of the affected files.

One guy couldn't figure it out and disconnected his internal speaker because someone had set up some policy deep in the system where he lost sound settings. I don't know how that worked. Apparently neither did he.

Another guy worked remotely the next day so his computer just kept playing the song while he was gone.

The guy who created it didn't get a normal birthday cake. The boss got him a My Little Pony birthday cake that year.

What a lot of folks didn't realize and never asked about was that there was a reversal script in the user folder.

That's, just like, uh, your opinion, man.

That 100% sounds like ChatGPT to me.

Everything in the 90s was Xtreme. He's 52 which means he was in his 20s that decade. He got way into the X-Games, ate nothing but warheads extreme candies and Taco Bell extreme nachos, drank the 7-11 Xtreme Gulp, and watched the Extreme Ghostbusters.

Back in the day I sailed the seven seas with the best of em. It started with Napster. Then Netflix and Hulu had most of the things I wanted and I stopped. Now I have a dozen subscription services that come free as credit card perks, cell phone perks, internet service perks, or whatever. I don't even know what all I have for free. So I don't pirate because I have loads of perks. But the day that stops I'll likely be back unless I'm too old and my mind is too far gone to figure it out.

I've pirated two movies in the last several years. Neither were available from any service at all. They're just gone from the civilized world.

With all that being said, I'll still pay for Shudder. It's got content I want and they always have a sale when it's time for me to re-up. Maybe instead of pirating I'll only watch bad horror forever. There are way worse things for me to live out my life.

Just tell them it's time to go, do the Mario. Then they'll definitely care.

Exactly my feelings. I understand, at a basic level, how both cars and computers work. I fix motorcycles as a hobby. I work in system reliability as a profession. I don't have the inclination to tinker on cars or computers in my spare time. I want to turn it on, press the pedal, and vroom vroom off into the night.

I think it'll be a long time before that's true for the layperson. I also think that it'll be an even longer time before that's true for the hobbiest. But I do agree it's coming and that it's crap. I think it'll be like game consoles (or like Mac is now) where you pick your flavor, buy your system, and it'll take a team of dedicated crackers to get us access to our own stuff.

People do not give a swimming fuck about which OS they're using

Yep. I was an outlier and used to care. Now as long as it does what I want I really can't give a shit. Due to the fact that it doesn't come standard on many machines it's an extra annoyance to set up. And you'd better do your homework to make sure what you bought is supported.

I have a whole life and a bunch of hobbies that are more interesting to me than religiously following which hardware might work, constantly tweaking flags, and running things in wine. It's a fine hobby for those that love it but I don't anymore. And most people never do.

Everyone should just do the best they can.

That's the key to most of everyday life. Just do your best.

Depends on what you mean by best. The Butcher Shop in , Texas had the absolute best bacon cheeseburger I've ever had. I make a beer can burger that's full of taco fixins and queso that I personally think is amazing. The burgers at Whataburger before they changed ownership were so good that I put my health on the line to eat far too many. Dyer's had the absolute perfect burger of the moment for me but the next several times I went it just didn't hit the same.

Best can change from day to day. I hope the next burger you eat is the best you ever have. And then I hope the rest of them you have for the rest of your life are even better than that.

I've known a few Scousers. They seem hilariously crazy in some ways. Always quick to laugh, always up for anything.