Hawke
@Hawke@lemmy.world
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 2 days ago:
It most certainly does not. Source: have a tree, a lawn, and no interest in spending time raking leaves.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 2 days ago:
Hah, I forgot that there are actually lots of suburban places that have no sidewalks. I was more talking about how no one walks and everyone drives, but it seems everyone interpreted that to mean specifically the driving lanes.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 2 days ago:
You think anybody is walking on the street in the US?
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 5 days ago:
But “level isn’t what you need. If the floor and ceiling aren’t level, it’ll look wrong.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
It was that in combination with the “engine-generators” yes. Made it unclear.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
What’s with the math in the middle of your comment?
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
You can but it bothers me that it exists, shitting on everything.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Well, this changes things ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
So … if I tag !boobs@lemmynsfw.com I should be able to see it?
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
tends to be extremely hostile to any sort of monitization
This is a good thing, seeing as how monetization has ruined other things, the web newspapers in particular.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Authoritarian communists, especially those not native to such a state.
Currently it’s mainly the folks who believe China in particular can do no wrong. Historically it refers to supporters of the USSR in Britain
Specifically, it was used to distinguish [CPGB] party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.
More recently it’s applied online especially to people who are knee-jerk anti-capitalist or anti-US, “if the US/‘west’/capitalism is wrong then anyone who opposes them must be right”
More generally, a tankie is someone who tends to support “militant opposition to capitalism”, and a more modern online variation, which means “something like ‘a self-proclaimed communist who indulges in conspiracy theories and whose rhetoric is largely performative.’”
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Lemmynsfw does pretty well. It’s a shame that the main instances don’t federate with the porn instances, but it does nicely prevent either from overwhelming the other.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
I hate it because it shows up everywhere and adds nothing of value while displaying busy formatted text. If it lately shows even less meaningful content, that barely seems possible.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
I’d rather not. Not sure if you can view the mod log for other people’s accounts, but if so it’s easy to spot from mine.
I’ll say that I have some sympathy because dealing with internet randos is painful soul-sucking work and it’s easy to default to the ban-hammer, but…
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Like: decentralization and a renaissance of the old- school dream of what the Internet should be.
Dislike: media bias fact checker bot spamming every damn post. Power tripping mods.
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 4 weeks ago:
Predecessor to Excel.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 4 weeks ago:
I dunno, Wii seemed to manage it just fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
… and if they were hanging around a polling place that might be a problem.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 4 weeks ago:
BioForge was particularly impressive for the time, with mixed pre-rendered graphics.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 4 weeks ago:
No, he’s right. The power glove was garbage from the get-go. Really cool cyberpunk thing on paper but … hell, we still aren’t there today!
- Comment on Final Fantasy VII fan translation restores every lost instance of Cloud saying "let's mosey" 4 weeks ago:
TL;DR the phrase was translated in an inconsistent way that made it jarring when it was kind of supposed to be a catchphrase.
This mod makes it consistent so it’s only strange instead of strange and off-putting.
- Comment on That hurts a little 1 month ago:
It’s vector.
Raster is a grid of dots, vector is lines from point to point.
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated 2 months ago:
Sound is in there too. The one that annoys me is the printer settings being under “Bluetooth” instead of “printers”.
- Comment on Why don't cell phones have BIOS? 2 months ago:
A BIOS does not inherently have to have a configuration utility.
This right here.
My first PC (a 386 circa 1989) did not have a config utility. It had a bootable floppy disk that could configure the BIOS settings. I think all it could change was the system time and the CHS values of the hard drive(s).
- Comment on What do marijuana, the death penalty and fracking have in common? Harris shifted positions on them 2 months ago:
Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
People are supposed to change their minds as they learn things. It’s part of growing as a person.
But congratulations on finding a topic that everyone can upvote.
- Comment on Why do I need to update my graphics drivers? 3 months ago:
Every update moves me closer to switching Os entirely.
Dooo eeeet.
- Comment on There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks. 3 months ago:
It’s a bit harder to do this digitally though since the glyphs aren’t just marks on paper.
- Comment on Why are weather apps so bad at telling you the current weather? 3 months ago:
Which are the two? NOAA and what else?
- Comment on YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age. 4 months ago:
Because like it or not, it’s not the doctors job to do whatever you want no questions asked. It’s to evaluate need, desire, and risks and advise and act accordingly.
The doctor who would perform an unnecessary procedure without doing that is just as bad as the one who refuses. Maybe worse.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 4 months ago:
Better title: “Photographers complain when their use of AI is identified as such”