EncryptKeeper
@EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 13 hours ago:
The common standard for the height of the center of a fire hydrants outlet is about 18 inches from the ground. The radius from that center point to the bottom of the outlet is 2.5 inches which is where body of the coupler will be, plus some room for the 3-4” handles attached to either side of the coupler body to be able to turn to thread the coupler onto the outlet. So that’s about 11” of clearance to the ground you’d need plus a few extra inches of some extra room added for your hands/arms or the fact that over time hydrants can kinda “sink” into the ground diminishing the clearance further.
If your local fire department uses a 4 way hydrant valve to connect to the hydrant for uninterruptible in-line boosting like this one
Then that’s a bunch of extra clearance you’ll need.
And then there’s just the fact that the less snow there is, the easier it is for them to just clear away themselves.
8” isn’t an exact number as much as it is a ballpark for when snowfall around a hydrant goes from a minor pain in the ass to becoming a potential safety issue.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 14 hours ago:
Because if your house catches fire with you in it, you want the firemen to be inside your house putting the fire out with an established water supply, not outside pissing away time digging the hydrant out of the snow/ice.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 14 hours ago:
I like Mastodon but it can’t compete with X. The lack of discoverability is non-starter for many. Its greatest benefits are also its biggest barriers to mainstream appeal.
Bluesky says it’s decentralized, but at the end of the day it’s an American company.
They just aren’t the right tools for this particular job.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 14 hours ago:
I mean we know where they are, the problem is digging them out takes a bunch of time you don’t have.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 16 hours ago:
I’m assuming they want to compete with X/Twitter.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 18 hours ago:
This storm will be blanketing very populated areas with an amount of snow they don’t often see.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 20 hours ago:
If you’re in a location that will get a significant amount of snow, 8” or more, find the fire hydrant closest to your house clear an area around it to at least a couple feet.
- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 2 days ago:
You probably didn’t think of it because you’re not a lobotomized degenerate.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 2 days ago:
I’m not misremembering anything. I have the x900h exact TV in my living room right now. It cannot do native 4k/120hz, to this day. It can do Native 4k OR it can do 120hz but not both. If you enable 120hz, the horizontal resolution is cut in half to only 1080 pixels. This couldn’t be fixed with a drive update because it’s a consequence of Sony cheating out on the processor. It is physically not capable of it.
VRR was added in a firmware update, but again due to Sony’s poor choice in hardware components if you enable VRR it disables local dimming entirely. Being an LED panel, without local dimming the picture is significantly degraded. It’s a truly terrible TV for anything but casual Netflix watching.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 2 days ago:
No I know what you mean. I’m not talking about the “Trumotion” 120hz motion smoothing technology.
The first generation of Sony Bravia TVs that advertised native 4k/120hz, specifically to coincide with the release of the PS5, couldn’t actually do native 4k/120hz.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 2 days ago:
This is good news as far as I’m concerned. I was burned by a Bravia TV with a lack of promised support, and unfixable design flaws that make several prominent features unusable.
TCL on the other hand might have always been a budget brand, but their TVs are very well made considering their price point. They are much more competently made TVs and if they commit to making the Bravia series at its current price point, as opposed to just turning the Bravia line into budget TVs, I’m reasonably confident they can deliver.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 2 days ago:
Sony TVs are absolute garbage devices designed by actual morons, with the worst customer support in the industry.
Back when the PS5 came out, they advertised their Bravia TVs specifically for its support for the PS5 and its feature set. I spent something like $1,200 for a Bravia x900H which at the time was very highly reviewed. When the PS5 released shortly after, we had to wait months for Sony to actually release drivers to support the PS5 features promised like VRR and 4k/120hz, and when they finally did the monkeys paw finger curled. If you turn VRR on, it disables local dimming. This is important because those panels look like dogshit without local dimming. So right off the bat you have to choose between a smooth picture, and a good looking picture.
As for 4k/120, they cheaped out on the MediaTek processor so it can’t actually do native 4k/120. Turning it on halves the horizontal resolution to 1080, and then it crudely upscales it back up causing a now infamous blurry mess to the picture.
Those are just the problems that affect everyone due to design flaws and false advertising. But on a more luck-of-the-draw level, when I bought mine brand new, it had significant backlight bleed. I was upgrading from a $150 Costco LCD and I swear to you the picture on the Sony was actually worse. 25% of the screen was permanently tinted blue the bleed was so bad. No problem I thought, I just bought the thing brand new, these things happen with LED panels from time to time, I’ll call Sony and RMA the thing. But after a week of arguing with Sony’s outsourced support, they refused to honor the warranty. According to them backlight bleed is expected and no matter how bad it is, they don’t cover it under warranty. So whether or not your Sony TV is even functional as a TV is simply luck of the draw.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 2 days ago:
Their early “4k/120s” weren’t even actually 4k/120. Enabling 120hz refresh rates on early Bravias would cut horizontal resolution in half, and then crudely attempt to upscale it.
- Comment on Why are people still romanticizing No Man’s Sky’s “redemption” arc? 2 days ago:
I agree, and a big part of that is that everything they’ve added over the years just feels bolted-on.
I tried to give it a shot a little while back and tried to do one of the things that was initially promised you could do, be a trader. Pretty standard space game fare. Only to find out it’s a pretty pointless and broken experience because the way you do interstellar trade in that game is by putting goods in your pockets and walking through portals that exist in every single space station. You never even get in your ship lol.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Which part of the roadmap is what you wanted?
- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 3 days ago:
The OP’s scenario is doing this while parked. While you’re driving it wouldn’t matter so much because there are only so many words somebody can hear when you pass them at 24-45mph
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 6 days ago:
Because the opposite is true. AI uses spinning rust far, far more than it does solid state storage.
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 6 days ago:
YSK you can suck me twice
- Comment on My website was down; because I didn't pay the server bill 1 week ago:
A simple low traffic website doesn’t even need anything close to symmetric fiber. Your run-of-the-mill shitty cable internet usually gives you 15-30mbps. Thats more than enough unless your site is really popping off.
- Comment on Hytale is OUT NOW in early access! 1 week ago:
From what I’ve gleaned from the history of this project, the original creator of the game sold the IP to a publisher in order to secure money and resources for further development, where they promptly started interfering with development to the point that it was delayed and ultimately cancelled.
The creator bought the rights back from them and released it into Early Access so that they can fund its development.
I personally have nothing against early access games after playing other EA games like Factorio, Rimworld, and Satisfactory that were known for being incredible experiences long before they launched into 1.0.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
No if you down the local copies back then delete them from OneDrive, OneDrive will delete the local copies you restored to your computer.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 1 week ago:
Oh no it’s far worse than that. Essentially what happens is One Drive takes over your entire home holder, and then makes the copy in OneDrive the original. People try to disable OneDrive and then delete the copies in the cloud, only to find out OneDrive will then delete the local copies from your computer.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 week ago:
This will not take off until their native apps release and support self hosted rooms.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 week ago:
It is a skill much like maintaining a car yourself, or your own lawn/garden.
It’s pretty easy to get started, and there are certain ways of doing things that keep it pretty simple forever, at the cost of some flexibility.
But no matter how you do it, there will be a non-zero amount of work involved indefinitely. Just like you need your cars oil changed, your garden mulched and weeded, or your server patched and cleaned up once in awhile.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 2 weeks ago:
Actually Edge prior to this was a fine browser. Like a lightweight chrome.
- Comment on Is there a self hosted mTLS manager? 2 weeks ago:
mTLS is the more common name these days.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t the typical conception of self being centered around the head be due to the fact that that’s where all of our memories are stored, bodily signals are sent to instructions to the body are sent from, where emotions are processed, and cognition is generated?
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 2 weeks ago:
I just checked and they were definitely on the passport application in the 2000’s.
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 2 weeks ago:
No, they’re legitimate questions on the form you have to fill out for a passport in the United States.
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 2 weeks ago:
It is not. Those wuestions have been on the DS-11 since before 2021.
