the linguistic shift from "avatar" or "icon" to "pfp" is bad actually. bring back the implications of ritual significance. cowards.
reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to
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Its very annoying that we often use technology in contexts where the technology is by far the least convenient way of doing things.
@amethyst-sage-29 well the specific incident that prompted this was one in which we had to login online to get a student discount in a restaurant, which took forever and used up people's data etc. Rather than the old fashioned way of just looking at our student cards and taking some money off the bill..
Another example was a while ago when the windows of a room could only be shut by scanning a QR code and then setting them to shut; these were the type that are too high for people to just shut them but a few years ago (or even just in buildings that arent brand new) there was just be a pole that attaches to them. Our lecturer didnt have a scanner so we had to stop to see who had one.
There are other things too menus only existing via QR code is a common one.
This is not only kind of annoying but ultimately just hugely increasing our dependance on phones, you can't comfortably exist in society without a phone that connects to the internet anymore, having an option to do something online is fair - say someone forgets their student card or the pole breaks or something - but we dont need everything to be online especially with no alternative.
I really believe this trend is just the next step in corporate greed, a new way to keep users from accessing or repairing their own shit.
Anything that requires an app to use requires that app to actually function, to remain functioning, and other than checking your wifi, there's nothing most users can do about it if it stops working. You have to go to the company to ask them to fix the app -- or, very likely, to be told "your model is no longer compatible since the last app update, you'll need to buy the newer one."
Honestly the sheer audacity to tie window blinds to an app just offends me. Window blinds. Window blinds operate on a pulley system. They're really requiring users to use their stupid little app instead of literally one of the most basic machines in all of human history. Unbelievable.
Source: am an IT professional. I don't hate new technology but I damn sure hate the way it's being sold. "Requires app" is enough to make me pass entirely on a purchase for a different model. I don't want to be locked out of running my dishwasher because I forgot my phone at the office.
Serious “The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize.“ energy, though I’m guessing it’s one of Fox’s swords. (I assume he has at least some kind of weapon to go with his armor, at least? Maybe not.)
im sorry who the FUCK is eating their burgers right-side-up
do you people eat your burger right side up what is WRONG with you
I do. Though I usually build it upside down, so there’s some debate to be had about if it still has a right-side-up and whether right-side-up still means ‘flat bun on the bottom’
A lot.
IM FUCKING SCREAMING THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO COUNTER THE "BIG OIL" THING AND BIG GREEN SOUNDS SO FUCKING RIDICULOUS WHAT IS THIS
Him.
Happy Piccolo day
strike-knight asked:
Now to see who really behind all these drawings *takes off paper bag to reveal another paper bag* there is more aren't there.
xxtc-96xx answered:
what happens if someone sells the same nft in two different blockchains to two different buyers
Roughly the same number of people right-click and select "Save As..."
c'mon, don't waste your valuable hard drive space on that, that jpeg could have been porn, yknow? something that actually sparks joy. what a waste of a write cycle.
no, but i mean, abstractly, who gets to exert copyright, hypothetically.
The thing to understand about NFTs is that they’re variables. Like, the picture is just an identifier for the thing being bought, which is just the specific spot on the blockchain. Someone could presumably sell two different NFTs on two different blockchains that happen to have the same identifier without anything going wrong other than people getting mad at them, it’s just that with the current trend of NFTs being procedurally generated, this is neither beneficial nor unavoidable.
the only way id pay for tumblr plus is so u stop reblogging this post once and for all
The greatest gift you can give someone is a book you’ve already read so that, if they manage to read it, they immediately have somebody to discuss it with.
I call it the “gifting people my favorite things because I would like to benefit too, you better read this fucking book or so help me” strategy
“Once while I was in the army, I read "The Royal Game”, surely the best chess story ever written. It filled me with a wild desire to play chess and I began to approach various soldiers who appeared the chess type. No Luck! To each one I came with a wistful “Would you like to play a game of chess?” and from each one came a cold “No.”
Finally I had the idea that I should have had to start with. I came to a soldier and said, “Would you like to read a terrific story?” and handed him “ The Royal Game”.
I waited. An hour passed. And then he came to me and said “Would you like to play a game of chess?”
- Isaac Asimov’s Treasury of Humour
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