smokebuddy [he/him]

I had no idea lemmy.today was that sparsely used. I appreciate their hands-off approach and the reliability is pretty solid. Just wanted to say I like what they’re doing here.

When I saw the commercial for this movie all I could think of was that King of the Hill episode where Peggy tries selling houses by staging cheesy family plays about the house

This has been news in Canada for about a year, story after story about people getting sucked in and losing tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. When it’s not Musk it’s Justin Trudeau, same M.O.

You’d think if these people read the news outlets they share their stories with that they would have seen one of the articles already because they’re so common. But then again people still take Sunwing package vacations then complain to the news when it’s subpar so idk.

Edit to add I blame big tech more than the scam victims, they have no protections in place and are profiting off the scammers immorally as well. They should have to manually review these things or at least be responsive to user reports and they’re doing neither. I actually know someone who got banned from Meta products for reporting too many scam ads.

Article also says it needs an app on your phone running to function, could they not have just developed an app that lets you use your phone camera to take a picture of your dook (meaning the device is useless)?

2011 AMD Graphics MacBook Pro all over again

they started taking orders from presales in Canada and they went through the entire list, I’m not sure if any have been delivered here yet though

keep sliding

When I comment that Twitter is trash and I’d never use it, the response I often get is ‘it’s actually pretty good after you block all the trolls and bots and corporate accounts and politicians and blue checks’… 🙄

iirc when you sign up for threads it links your Facebook/Insta account and there’s no way to delete your threads account without deleting the whole thing, so their numbers are likely inflated

their recent video was both the #1 thumbnail on chromecast after my youtube video ended and on the trending section of newpipe today. i’ve never interacted with their content I personally find it unwatchable, but guy is getting a hard push clearly

Probably the most entertaining part of Mortal Engines was a scene from the museum of history where they revealed the Minions to be some kind of revered ancient deity

Either that, or just straight up obsolescence like what happened with some bionic vision aids

Just stops working one day, or eventually an exploit will drop that will never end up patched because the company folded. or due to planned force-upgrade

The classic little brother defence flipped as prosecution. It was the controller all along.

saying the quiet part out loud out of desperation

toddler needs the thinkpad fixed, the cat is a GOAT legend no longer with us

little buddy loves banging out libre writer classics on a T420 but the under trackpad/nub buttons have become non functional due to spills and sneezes, even using an external mouse on it now is a bit hit or miss. laptop has had forever the infamous palmrest crack and still runs, so, maybe?

surely a top case replacement would solve it… maybe even a good spray of contact cleaner would, I’ll give that a go actually