olivierestsage (u/olivierestsage)

olivierestsage commented on Rising young worker despair in the United States nber.org/papers/w34071... · Posted by u/johntfella

Henchman21 · a month ago

Well, the Boomers won’t move on. They refuse to acknowledge their age. They refuse to give up a single iota of power. Their rictus grip on the entirety of the world will damn us all.

olivierestsage · a month ago

Whether this is true or not, it's an emotional reality for the Millennial generation. The Boomer/Millennial rift is fundamental, and only getting worse. Everyone I know (barely an exaggeration) is financially struggling, but has Boomer parents who are wealthy. They don't help out dealing with debts or starting a family, even though they are easily able to do so from a financial perspective, and constantly imply that it's their children's fault that they're in the situations they're in.

olivierestsage commented on What to expect from Debian/Trixie michael-prokop.at/blog/20... · Posted by u/exiguus

olivierestsage · a month ago

Pumped for this. I was (and am) massively impressed with Debian 12. I've been an on-again off-again Linux user since around 2003, but this release was the one that finally got me to switch completely. The jank factor actually seems to be less than that of Windows and macOS at this point, which I never thought I'd say.

olivierestsage commented on US ice cream makers say they'll stop using artificial dyes by 2028 apnews.com/article/ice-cr... · Posted by u/geox

dtagames · 2 months ago

Thanks, but why does it need to take so long? More importantly, why would ice cream need fake color? What flavor would warrant that?

The story also links to three other big food manufacturers who are phasing out these dyes... over multi-year periods.

olivierestsage · 2 months ago

Cynic in me says: "wait as long as possible and hope that the next administration doesn't care." I think there was a similar event recently with Apple vowing to make a big investment in US factory infrastructure or something, but the projected date was 2028.

olivierestsage commented on The Rise of the Japanese Toilet nytimes.com/2025/05/29/bu... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy

unhappy_meaning · 3 months ago

In almost all of SE Asia, especially Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, all of the toilets come with a hand-held sprayer. They also had this in the Doha airport and I'm not sure how common this style is outside of SE Asia but I'm guessing it's common. Japanese style bidets are very common in Korean households as well and I'm sure its easily a billion dollar business.

It is nice but the functionality is quite difficult for a person who's not used to this whatsoever. After you're done sh*ing, you grab the handheld sprayer and turn it upside down and reach behind you toward your butt and try as best as you can to aim it into your anus to wash as best as you can. People who have been doing this their whole lives can probably aim with a precision of a Marine Corp Sniper but to us, we look at it as alien technology. It's is quite difficult to use for a first timer and there are factors that worry us.

If its not aimed correctly, where does the splash go? If you're lucky it stays in the toilet boil. However if your aim is off, you can completely miss your anus and either shoot to much under or over which will shoot the water outside of the toilet bowl.

Also when I was using the bathroom in the Doha airport, the handheld sprayer had a soap dispenser next to it. I was curious what it was for so I YouTube'd and searched for instructions on what the soap dispenser was for and (kind-of) to my surprise it was soap to lather and clean your anus with your other free hand. After you lather and clean, you basically rinse your hand with the hose as well.

olivierestsage · 3 months ago

This is a candidate for one of the all-time greatest HackerNews comments, IMO

olivierestsage commented on Pope Francis has died reuters.com/world/pope-fr... · Posted by u/phillipharris

lr4444lr · 4 months ago

I will never forget his sympathy for the motives of the terrorists who massacred staff at Charlie Hebdo:

“If my good friend Dr Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch,” Francis said while pretending to throw a punch in his direction.

He added: “It’s normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.”

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[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebd...

olivierestsage · 4 months ago

I'm not a Christian, but one of the main questions I have, reading this, is whether Francis would have had the same reaction if Catholics had been the ones doing the massacring after their faith was insulted. Something tells me that he wouldn't, and I think that's the most troubling part.

olivierestsage commented on 45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved cbc.ca/lite/story/1.75073... · Posted by u/colinprince

1oooqooq · 5 months ago

only mystery is why people pretend to like or understand the ending with the picture.

olivierestsage · 5 months ago

It's been a while since I've seen it, but isn't it just that he has been swallowed up by the house and now he's "at" the eternal party where he saw all the ghosts during that one scene?

olivierestsage commented on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia reviews.ofb.biz/safari/ar... · Posted by u/trbutler

rcarmo · 5 months ago

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased.

It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and moved on (taoofmac.com, my blog, was started when I wrote a few very popular switcher guides, and even though I kept using the same domain name I see myself as a UNIX guy, not "just" a Mac user).

For me, Spotlight is no longer (anywhere) near as useful to find files (and sometimes forgets app and shortcut names it found perfectly fine 5 minutes ago), and there is no longer any way to effectively prioritize the results I want (apps, not internet garbage).

Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_).

olivierestsage · 5 months ago

I can't believe I'm saying it, but I agree with you about GNOME being my forever desktop. I used to really make fun of GNOME during the 2->3 transition, which seemed so profoundly misguided, but now I love it. I don't know if they've massively improved it or if my perspective has just changed with time.

olivierestsage commented on Half-Life 2 RTX store.steampowered.com/ap... · Posted by u/NewHatMatt

olivierestsage · 5 months ago

I know it's a bit silly to criticize something offered for free -- I'm glad it's there for those who want it! -- but I really feel like something of the original aesthetic has been lost in translation here. The before-and-afters aren't always flattering to the new version; everything is glowing orange. Darker atmospheres have become brighter.