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esaym commented on Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES relaxing.run/blag/posts/t... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

> if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't).

Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or blockbuster. If Mom had several errands to run, I may rtfm a dozen times before I finally got home with the game.

esaym · a day ago

I would read the manual too on the ride home. But I think that was only for new games? I seem to remember that rentals didn't come with manuals. The best memory was my grandma picking me up to spend the summer at her house. We stopped by wal-mart and I grabbed the first release of Gran Turismo for psx. It came with a fairly giant manual. Had a three hour drive to her house. I read it over and over!

esaym commented on Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud 0l.de/blog/2025/11/xiaomi... · Posted by u/stv0g

piskov · 4 days ago

On a tangent note: don’t use ultrasonic humidifiers. Unless distilled water is used, they create a shit-ton of pm2.5 particles.

Use evaporative humidifiers (just disks with myriads of small notches for water to cling on and a fan): https://us.smartmiglobal.com/pages/smartmi-evaporative-humid...

esaym · 4 days ago

> Use evaporative humidifiers

You don't have to buy one either. A suspended wet towel with a fan blowing on it will work very well. If you want to get fancy, have the last inch or two of the towel sitting in a tray of water.

esaym commented on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/fleahunter

siliconc0w · 17 days ago

The second I suspect the advice I'm getting is designed to steer me toward an advertiser rather than the best answer - I'm out.

esaym · 17 days ago

You'll be back.

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esaym · 2 months ago

I'm going to buy this just to take a picture of my Kodak mining rig...

esaym commented on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models twitter.com/StephenGutows... · Posted by u/PKop

lifeisstillgood · 2 months ago

I think most “techies” know in their gut what causes this and where it’s heading - I remember doing PC repair post first dot com crash (first bankruptcy) and the amount of shit shovelled onto consumer PCs (every device manufacturer had its own weird set of drivers, drivers installers, app), every piece of software put something in there, let alone what MSFT started you out with. All of it trying to be “user friendly” whilst achieve it the opposite

We are going to see this play out in every device (car, fridge, TV) that is not locked down by the OEM (apple gets a lot of kudos and knocks for this)

Cars are going to be the front line of this war- it’s not a “right to repair” it’s “a right to have good defaults” and “no upselling opportunities” (I think of it as there are no commercial businesses anymore - just utilities who give clearly defined service that have clear APIs and endpoints.

Sadly I think the world will head towards a point where I will make a fortune selling Augmented vision glasses that remove the adverts reality …

esaym · 2 months ago

I think the end customer shares some of the blame for the current state of things. Cars have gotten worse and worse reliability wise since 2010. Yet sales only continue to increase. People don't own cars any more, they simply see them as a $500 a month payment and once they get too annoyed with it, they just go and get a different one. I don't know about other manufacturers, but with everything GMC, all dealer repair shops are independent. GM does not make any money off of those, therefore they are only interested in giving you another car and another payment plan. How many times of you heard someone trash talking a specific model? "That car was a POS! I took it back to the dealer and got a different one" Yea you sure showed them....

esaym commented on Claude Sonnet 4.5 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete

Aflynn50 · 3 months ago

When I see how much the latest models are capable of it makes me feel depressed.

As well as potentially ruining my career in the next few years, its turning all the minutiae and specifics of writing clean code, that I've worked hard to learn over the past years, into irrelivent details. All the specifics I thought were so important are just implementation details of the prompt.

Maybe I've got a fairly backwards view of it, but I don't like the feeling that all that time and learning has gone to waste, and that my skillset of automating things is becoming itself more and more automated.

esaym · 3 months ago

You are not alone

esaym commented on MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data bbbprograms.org/media/new... · Posted by u/_p2zi

esaym · 3 months ago

Shut it down!

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BoppreH · 4 months ago

I see frequent mentions of AI wasting water. Is this one such setup, perhaps with the CDU using the facility's water supply for evaporative cooling?

esaym · 4 months ago

Yes see: https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07-25/texas-is-sti...

esaym commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera

tombert · 4 months ago

Today I learned that Sears founded Prodigy!

Amazing how far that company has fallen; they were sort of a force to be reckoned with in the 70's and 80's with Craftsman and Allstate and Discover and Kenmore and a bunch of other things, and now they're basically dead as far as I can tell.

esaym · 4 months ago

There were quite a few small ISP's in the 1990's. Even Bill Gothard[0] had one.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/19990208003742/http://characterl...