The Velour Fog

I regret wasting all those years trying to fight back all the bots I flagged on that hot garbage platform.

But I’m grateful that I gained skills on how to identify an LLM bot from a mile away.

Now that they’re starting to creep in Lemmy, I’m prepared.

The trash took itself out.

Looking at their comment history, I don’t think this is a bot. Just looks like someone with a tenuous grasp on English.

We had a fridge that was manufactured in 1998 that lasted until November of last year when it failed irreparably. We replaced it, and 13 months later, 2 days before thanksgiving, our new fridge failed. It was like pulling teeth to get the warranty servicer to get it repaired.

Repairman finally figured out what was wrong with it yesterday, replaced the seized up defroster and it’s running again.

That’s still so ridiculous for an appliance to break that early in its lifetime.

Reported for ad spam. GTFO

O rly?

Reported for advertiser spam.

Looks like this account got sold, too. Two years, damn.

Oh shit I’m cooked

I read it and I’m still not convinced. I’ve lived with these MAGA types for decades. I’d been forced to be around Fox News and right wing pundit rhetoric for decades. The media they consume are not reporting any of Trump’s or his wider administrations shortfalls. Even on the very, very rare occasions that they do, the MAGAs smugly declare that Fox News is owned by Chinese communists and stop watching for like a week (one of my relatives actually said/did this immediately after Jan 6).

And from what I’ve gathered from the breathless Facebook posts of these people within the last week, everything involving Epstein and Trump is a hoax. New York City is reaching Portland-levels of imaginary death and destruction because of the new mayor. And the dismissal of the case against James Comey and Letitia James was unconstitutional, somehow.

I’m not trying to be pessimistic or cynical. I’m just going off what has happened in the past and what I’m seeing them saying and doing right now. Some of these people are too far gone to accept that they might have made many, many wrong decisions, and they will continue to blame Democrats for their self-inflicted suffering.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read headlines like this.

I’ll believe it when my MAGA relatives turn their backs on Fox News and Trump. Until then, this is weapons grade hopium.

Dee’s a bird!

It is apparently good at making animated media however its format is incompatible with many software media viewers.

It’s the bane of my existence when trying to save an image, but I am also exploring its uses in making animated backgrounds for graphical chat interfaces.

Balls to that. You can pry my old devices from my cold dead hands.

I got laptops from 2008 and 2013, still work just fine 😁

7 year old device gang (Galaxy S9+)

Metadata on this one shows June 2020 (I’ve had it since at least 2015 tho)

I was not aware. I’ll give that a try, thanks

Not in the shriveled hearts and tiny minds of his base, unfortunately. And Republicans are scared shitless of them.

There are two things that are keeping me attached to Windows - my PC not supporting Win11, and Photoshop. My god, if anyone can get a copy of Photoshop to work with Linux, I will say goodbye to Microsoft immediately.

(Yes, I’ve tried GIMP, Krita, et al. They didn’t click for me. This is what 24 years of working with Photoshop does to a mf)

We need to cut Black Friday out altogether. All it is is a big fat reward to capitalism and big corps.

Hit them where it hurts - their profits.