lobut

@ lobut @lemmy.ca

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1d ago

BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient
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lobut @lemmy.ca 1d ago
How uninspiring are these "features" like charging for heated seats and using a "frunk" it really is pathetic.

1d ago

Social media ban for kids under consideration in online harms bill: Carney

Great recommendation! Added to my reading list!

Yeah, I know everyone is concerned about the government overreach and for good reason but it's not an "empty" issue. Hell, I think social media has done a number on me as well. I'm afraid of what it would do to me if I was younger to be honest.

2d ago

Games you've given honest tries for and just don't find fun

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2d ago

Yeah for Balatro, some cards you can unlock will just simply make runs easier. Balatro can also probably be more luck-based than Slay the Spire. Your "luck" gets better with more experience because you can get used to the bosses and anticipate obviously and then you can change your deck to adapt. It's a balance between your economy and then maxing out the "blue" (fixed upgrades) and "red" (additions plus multipliers) .. for the red on the higher difficulties you have to be "luckier" earlier to beat the bosses.

For Slay the Spire, I'm honestly not sure what I'm doing? I always start to feel as though I'm doing well and I move to the next ascension and I lose immediately 🤣 I don't think I've past 4. Maybe I should read a guide :D

2d ago

Games you've given honest tries for and just don't find fun

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2d ago

For Balatro, depending on the difficulty ... some draws are just unwinnable. You just gotta try again. You will pick up patterns or ways of winning eventually. But if it's not for you, there's no need to push yourself.

What's funny is that I just can't seem to beat Slay the Spire. I should try getting back into it 😂

2d ago

I gotcha, boss

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lobut @lemmy.ca 2d ago

Most people have the weird “she is a porn actress so she had it coming” thing, i just think that violence is never okay, no matter who the victim is.

Jeez, like everyone watches porn ... they really feel like they're not human don't they? people can be terrible

3d ago

Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant

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lobut @lemmy.ca 3d ago

Our DR process is a slow POS ... takes far too long to back up and redeploy and set up again.

I was the one that designed it. I pray I'll never have to use it.

3d ago

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say

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lobut @lemmy.ca 3d ago

I don't want to pull on any strings that are too painful or nothing but ... did you tell your mom that you vaccinated your kids? if you did, how did she handle it?

4d ago

Trump: ‘Cuba is going to fall pretty soon, but we’re focused on Iran right now’

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lobut @lemmy.ca 4d ago

There are protests, strikes, election defense programs, community organization, signal mobilization, and more.

I have to watch other sources to see that this is happening, it's fucking disgusting man. If the media was run on "outrage" as it seems to be ... it's weird how so much of this isn't being reported.

4d ago

I searched `CachyOS vs Fedora` on YouTube and all I found was AI Slop 🙄

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lobut @lemmy.ca 4d ago

I was listening to some Warren Buffett and Richard Feynman videos and it turns out they were AI. I was like, oh I hadn't heard this lecture before ...

I really hate it. There's a rage bait one that I tried to report that claimed these influencers would climb Everest and die because they were too busy taking selfies and stuff. Like full on 20 minute episodes. People were saying how there's no record of any of these people in the comments and it annoys me.

I'm going to only watch videos where I can see the person now but I've seen videos of people using a damned good AI filter on top. An Indian guy put on a blonde white girl overlay and it was really good.

5d ago

Netanyahu's son 'highly vulnerable target' while living in Miami as he dodges IDF reserve

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lobut @lemmy.ca 5d ago

I think the point of the draft "thought experiment" they were proposing was to stop people from starting these wars and conflicts if they had a personal stake in it.

There's this NPR episode I heard where they said that the codes to the nuke should be in someone's heart and that person carries a suitcase with a knife. To get the nuke, the president should plunge the knife into that man to do it. It's absolutely horrific and bloody but to kill many from afar you should at least be able to do one up close. I think that the person that recommended it said he'd be the first volunteer and would love that job. He'd make best friends with the president and get to know their kids, just to make the decision absolutely impossible.

I'd like to think that's what they were getting at? Your response to the thought experiment seemed confusing at first but I think what you're getting is that they'd just send the kids to safe areas of the war, rather than anything real anyways, right? which makes sense ... politicians would weasel to get their own skin out. I'm not 100% sure why that'd lead to a draft? Do you mean in retribution they'd take it out on others and protect their own?

Anywho, from another Canadian. ✌️

5d ago

Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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lobut @lemmy.ca 5d ago

I use iFixit's guides all the time, so I would hope that their score isn't affected by it. I've seen them as being fairly good at their role.

6d ago

James Talarico wins Democratic primary for US Senate in Texas

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lobut @lemmy.ca 6d ago

Thank you!

It's one thing to be angry at what's happening but the mood they put in is so bleak (intentionally or not) and they just want everyone to not do anything about it.

6d ago

The bathroom terrorizers! 😱

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lobut @lemmy.ca 6d ago

I hate to break it to you… but your friend is a transphobe

You think so? I usually try to avoid using those terms for more overt displays?

I won't deny that the cognitive dissonance is jarring though. I think there's a few schools of thought here. I can either cut them out of my life or I can slow burn them over time. I've known this guy for a long time and he respect me to a degree ... so I'd rather be that friend that pulls him back to what I see as normal.

6d ago

Every time...

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lobut @lemmy.ca 6d ago

Reminds me of Mamdami! Keep fighting!

6d ago

Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties

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lobut @lemmy.ca 6d ago

These people need to be put underneath the school.

Yes, I sound "barbaric" and we're a society of laws and all that, but it seems we're obviously not. This information was just sat on, fucking disgusting people.

6d ago

The bathroom terrorizers! 😱

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lobut @lemmy.ca 6d ago

I had a friend that was SO concerned about who was using what bathroom. He's not a transphobe and has a transgender friend.

He just got really worked up about it and kept questioning me about it. Which makes me always respond with: "I'm a progressive". He was like, "why do I get hate if I just say there's two genders", I said "it's 'cause you're wrong, ignoring the definition of gender, you know there are intersex people right?" ... and we get stuck into this loop where he doesn't really understand what I'm saying and gets into why he deserves any hate for saying there's only two genders. No talk about sex vs gender or anything else makes any movement forward. Even if you think there's only two genders, I don't know why it's such a big deal to them.