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Cake day: June 9th, 2024

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  • Gonna disagree here.

    Humans have always had “social media”, but it’s not been directed by a cadre of oligarchs until recently.

    I mean shit, humans have been sitting around the campfire telling stories to each other going all the fucking way back to forever. Sure, a campfire story isn’t a tweet, but for our monkey brains it’s essentially the same thing: how we interact with our social groups and learn what’s going on around us.

    The problem is that the campfire stories couldn’t be manipulated into making your cavemen neighbors hate the other half, because half of them were totally pro rabbit fur while you’re pro squirrel fur.

    You absolutely can do that and worse now, so while we’ve always had social media, we just simply never had anyone with enough control to make an entire society eat each other because of it’s influence.











  • So while not entirely related, I have a question.

    I’ve got a Windows 10 box hooked to my TV and you’re right, it’s great.

    Until you end up with fonts so small they’re unreadable, even with a 300% scaling on the 4k TV because it seems like every third random gaming piece of software just fucking ignore scaling.

    You ever find a working solution to that?

    My ass is old, and trying to do couch gaming from a PC means it’s a 50/50 chance I’m either squinting and giving myself a headache or having to walk over to the tv to read whatever stupid shit some game has decided to use 8pt font for.






  • It’s really simple: either you accept shrink, or you hire enough people with keys to handle your anti-theft shit.

    I don’t go to target anymore, CVS, or Walgreens if it’s at all avoidable because it’s going to take an hour to get in, buy a few things, and leave.

    They want to lock shit up, but then only have one employee covering the whole damn store that can unlock shit, meaning if you want some laundry detergent, it’s going to take you half an hour.

    Of course, the local grocery stores, Walmart, Amazon, and various other retailers don’t lock shit up, so yeah, I just go there and don’t have to deal with stupid bullshit pushed by morons who haven’t gone shopping in one of the stores they run.