[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

Why do Americans call this the Big Dipper? What even is a dipper?

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 12 points 4 weeks ago

This was my first exposure to Linux. I had no internet at the time so I left it on my computer for a couple of weeks and played with the settings and Snake, then reinstalled Windows so I could play my games again.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

I honestly think I’d rather shit myself while farting than piss myself. If you shit yourself you can hide it and clean up. If you piss yourself everyone can see.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

Homeless people should just sleep in their houses.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

I use it out of laziness. Despite all the shit they still have great customer service. About a year ago I ordered a £150 multi-tool and they accidentally sent me a £200 reciprocating saw. Due to a complicated living situation at the time it would have taken me about 6 months to send the wrong tool back so they just said I could keep it and refunded me so I could buy the other tool again.

The other thing I like is that I’ll just see a price and buy it easily. I’ve often shopped around and found something cheaper but then the whole purchasing process is terrible. They add on a bunch of extra costs, then make me create an account, then add on more costs. By the end I could’ve paid less and got it quicker from Amazon. Not always the case but it happens often enough that I will just go to Amazon half the time.

But I guess the main reason is that I hate being forced to create accounts and so many shops require that for no good reason.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don’t know much about the tech behind either, but when I’m using VNC it feels like I’m just remote controlling the mouse and keyboard on another machine via a series of streaming jpegs and when it’s full screen I either have to scale the display so all the elements on the screen are too small or too big, or have scroll bars.

With RDP it’s so smooth it’s like I’m on the other machine. RDP doesn’t just remote control the screen on the other computer, it creates a new desktop session formatted for the remote computer. Someone else can even use the other computer while you log in as a different user. I don’t know if VNC can do this but RDP can even forward local drives and devices to the remote computer, you could plug a USB into your laptop and have it connect to the machine you’re RDPing into. It’s so seamless that I often forget I’m using a different machine when I have it in full screen.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 11 points 5 months ago

Every superpower is currently in a race to mine the natural resources. A lots gonna happen in the next ten years and I doubt much of it will be good for the average African.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 13 points 5 months ago

Stuart Little.

This guy was there.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 11 points 7 months ago

Including Tux, they look like they’re from the 90s (probably because they are). I’m glad we don’t see much of the branding mascots anymore, even Tux isn’t really heard of now.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 13 points 11 months ago

I was interested until I read the word “blockchain” in the first paragraph.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago

I already go to ChatGPT more than Google. If you pay for it then the latest version can access the internet and if it doesn’t know the answer to something it’ll search the internet for you. Sometimes I come across a large clickbait page and I just give ChatGPT the link and tell it to get the information from it for me.

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

AI. For some reason I’m looking at taking a degree on it next year like I’ll still be interested then.

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