Hawke
@Hawke@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 10 hours ago:
Especially since he listens to whatever someone said to him most recently.
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 1 day ago:
What the actual hell is all that?
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
And why would “investigation is still ongoing” stop them from releasing it? My opinion: either a convenient excuse, or yet another self-own from the Democratic Party.
They chose not to release it, despite being under no true obligation.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
Well, assuming “They were sealed until Jan 2024” is true, then from that point forward they could have been released but weren’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
At the very minimum you are confidently incorrect about how universal those terms are.
British English uses “road surface” where US English uses “pavement”.
British English uses “pavement” where US English uses “sidewalk”
You can also find “metaling” as a general term for hard road surfaces.
Even “concrete” can be short for “asphalt concrete” or “bituminous asphalt concrete”, i.e. yet another name for that same thing.
I can’t find anywhere that uses “rigid pavement” as a term to mean specifically concrete based on Portland cement. To me it sounds like a general term which would cover both concrete and asphalt [concrete]. But I’ll trust that you didn’t just make it up.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
The OP said “with a shot at [presidency].
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
which trump ended …a year later.
There’s no excuse.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
That gives a year, not a valid reason.
- Comment on We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns 2 weeks ago:
Umm, good?
- Comment on Anthony Albanese names his top 10 Australian songs of all time – and there’s one big surprise 4 weeks ago:
Saving the clicks: there are no big surprises.
There is nothing surprising about Albanese’s choices
The author is “surprised-but-not-really” that an old white Australian dude doesn’t listen to indigenous music.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 month ago:
Because either way you’re taking a risk.
Security flaws and aging hardware are two obvious problems.
I’d very much question why you’d use windows 10 over something better supported— maybe not Linux but at least Windows Server OS.
- Comment on How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave? 1 month ago:
Thank you for sharing, that was an excellent video.
Also appreciate the edit; it’s amazing how much of a difference those little words make.
Biggest objection to that angle for me is “well I never eat microwave popcorn” makes it too easy to dismiss the problem.
I’d still bet that “groundwater contamination” (or “drinking water contamination” from manufacturing is the single largest source for almost anyone, but it looks like microwave popcorn is shockingly high when it comes to food and food packaging.
- Comment on How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave? 1 month ago:
their packaging is a major source of PFA buildups in our bodies
[citation needed]
There’s no way that more than a few people eat enough microwave popcorn for that to be true.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 1 month ago:
I use bgstats.
- Comment on Having to manage cables is a very 80s thing that we still have to do in 2025. 2 months ago:
And it still works and looks great today!
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 2 months ago:
That I cut a bit of slack for, because prior to the minicomputer let alone the microcomputer, the CPU would likely have been a large component like the whole system is for a desktop PC.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 2 months ago:
This. I know I did, although nothing else is quite as good as google used to be.
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 2 months ago:
Only office is basically the same interface again, all cloning MS-office 2007-2010.
Bleach.
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 2 months ago:
Because it’s a common phrase and because one can accept that people have a name for their deity even if you believe that deity doesn’t really exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
you subscribe to a belief wholeheartedly, even a crazy one, to the point where youd rather die than question it.
That’s what I said too, which is to say that the point is not the killing but the unquestioning nature of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s not the point of the phrase — the statement refers to the true believers drinking poison unquestioningly, without entertaining the thought that it will kill them.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 months ago:
There are, but “long haul routes” are definitely better for a train.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 2 months ago:
What an incredibly infuriating waste of effort that would be so much better spent on trains, driverless or otherwise.
- Comment on Fly-tippers’ vehicles to be crushed in bid to save England from ‘avalanche of rubbish’ 2 months ago:
For those outside the UK, “fly-tipping” means the much more clearly phrased “illegal dumping”.
It is not similar to cow-tipping at all.
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 3 months ago:
I’d say it’s both, yeah.
User demand partly drives what the employer provides, and some people really like those k-cups.
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 3 months ago:
They use k cups so being inconsiderate is a given.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 3 months ago:
If they sound different they’re not lossless. (Or they’re different masters)
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 3 months ago:
I’m with you on the “FOSS office alternatives are shit”, but unfortunately MS office is also shit. Google is the closest I have found to a good office suite but even that is becoming a bit chaotic and awkward. LyX is a promising word processor but also pretty awkward to use in its own way. I’ve got nothing, there.
As far as gaming, this sound less kind than intended but you deserve any shit you get for saying Linux gaming is bad these days. Apart from a few AAA games with anti-cheat where the devs just don’t want to, basically every game just works without any extra effort. Even obscure indie games. I can’t think of the last game I wanted to play that didn’t run on Linux, and often it is better under proton than Windows or native.
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 3 months ago:
Nobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do.
This is clearly false. There was a definite point at which it was decided to call Burma Myanmar, or at a more local level Peking to Beijing.
- Comment on Dont copy 3 months ago:
The drive had a sensor that detected the notch status and either allowed (or not) the write ability.
Basically the same as SD cards today, it’s just assumed that the drive will respect that switch.
Older 5.25-inch floppies you would cut a notch in a specific place, and you could use tape to cover it and make it writable again.
VHS and audio cassettes work the same way too.