Ghostalmedia
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- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 day ago:
Re the locks - my general thought is that if you really want to get into my house, you’re going to get into my house. A rock or brick is very effective.
Locks just lower the potential for easy crimes of opportunity.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 days ago:
I ended up going down the matter, home assistant, HomeKit route so I have some options for local network control.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 days ago:
It’s better to just purchase a temperature probe with wifi. Those are handy as hell.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 days ago:
Connected HVAC can be pretty damn great depending on your house. It’s changed my energy usage a lot, and I like being able to adjust temps without walking downstairs in the middle of the night. Although having your thermostat lose cloud support ever 10-15 years is pretty shitty.
Connected doors are also great for handing out virtual keys and ensuring that stuff is shut and locked when you’re away.
- Comment on Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications 4 days ago:
I want a Home Screen widget that shows me the 5 hashtags that are currently trending on Bsky or masto.
- Comment on Milking dust 5 days ago:
I would argue under 60 = F is the norm. It’s even quite a common trope in movies / TV. Example:
- Comment on Milking dust 5 days ago:
Maybe where you went to school. I always had Fs at 59% and under… just like in Wikipedia’s article. en.wikipedia.org/…/Academic_grading_in_the_United…
I attended and worked in a couple schools in the states. I saw some alternatives like pass / fail and SBG, but whenever it was the A-F system, 60% was a D-
- Comment on Milking dust 5 days ago:
I’m looking forward to Jurassic Park 9: The Secrets of Dumbledore
- Comment on Milking dust 5 days ago:
6/10 is a D 5/10 is an F
- Comment on 1 (one) Nintendo Switch 2 unit has finally been sold 5 days ago:
Year or two? This is Nintendo. The OLED version will probably come out in 4 or 5 years.
- Comment on Lost dog 6 days ago:
Is that what that noise is? I thought it was a wood chipper filled with babies and cats.
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 1 week ago:
Speaking for animation, your browser probably already supports APNG. APNG is 21 years old and has decent adoption. But it’s officially part of the club.
That said, APNGs are fat as fuck and they’re a pretty old solution to animated graphics with an alpha channel. Don’t expect to see everyone making APNGs all of the sudden. There is a reason why people have kept it at a distance.
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 1 week ago:
Animated PNG has been trying to be an extension to the PNG spec for 20+ years.
- Comment on hmmmmm 1 week ago:
I mean, the company is literally named after this fucking thing from LOTR. These people are comic book level evil.
- Comment on [US Politics] How much can Mamdani even do as Mayor? Couldn't the NYC City Coucil just block every progressive thing he tries to do? 1 week ago:
Yeah man, reverting back to the old stabilized rent control policies and opening a city owned wholesale grocers, and making DoorDash pay minimum wage. Socialism as in Norway, not Stalin.
Stalin was the dude who purged all of his dissenters from his party, implemented mass deportations, and threw people in lawless gulags. Kind of like America’s current president.
- Comment on You were my only light 1 week ago:
I love lamp
- Comment on The doghot 1 week ago:
Call ia “Tyson Meat Processor’s sweat n’ spicy Jack Link’s wiener bun Doritos meet stick”
- Comment on The doghot 1 week ago:
Like a Doritos meat stick
- Comment on The doghot 1 week ago:
The edges are not rough. They are smooth and greasy.
- Comment on Subscribed to Asshole+ 2 weeks ago:
Mom: “we have Arnold Schwarzenegger at home”
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 2 weeks ago:
Their grants were cut by a Trump EO, and they’re suing to have them reinstated. They’re very much still around.
- Comment on Air Jordens 2 weeks ago:
I WOULD pay extra for that.
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 2 weeks ago:
Or the reason why the US has had Radio Free Europe for decades.
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 2 weeks ago:
Although, you could also argue that those taxes pay for informing and influencing citizens of foreign nations.
America’s media ecosystem is dominated by Fox, Sinclair, and other state party media players. There is a strategic benefit to having a media outlet that doesn’t run through the state media filter.
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget about that month of antique memes
- Comment on Wife received this txt from her mom with no context 3 weeks ago:
Are you sure Trump’s birthday parade didn’t have a giant skeletal foot?
A parade isn’t a parade without a skeletal foot.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 3 weeks ago:
lol. That stupid Orb thing is still around?
- Comment on Future aspirations 3 weeks ago:
Obviously a true story. Cats are famously easy to train. Also, the image has words on it that support this story.
- Comment on This is roller lad discrimination! 3 weeks ago:
Roller Lad was one of the silver age’s worst sidekicks.
- Comment on Is Matrix cooked? 3 weeks ago:
This. I know a lot of folks in the fediverse like Matrix, but the user experience feels like yet another platform that started with the platform architecture, and not the end user’s experience.
Then it gets adopted by a bunch of people who enjoy installing Hannah Montana Linux distros for fun, and no one else.
