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- Comment on fine dining 34 minutes ago:
This is a Shell station. Michelin would be for the tires.
(Joke: I know the origin of Michelin ratings.)
- Comment on No it won’t 5 days ago:
True. Part of me still wants a Nokia N90 just because it hinted at so much functionality when I first saw it.
- Comment on No it won’t 5 days ago:
I have seen AI gadgets in clickbait ads.
Cool-looking cubes with lots of controls and stuff, but with meaningless symbols and “words” for labels.
It reminds me how influenced I am by advertising, that I kind of want something that doesn’t exist or have a purpose, just because it looks gadgety.
- Comment on Well, it’s funny if you can read Egyptian signs! 6 days ago:
4th column top one is hover-cat, maybe?
- Comment on Asking the difficult questions 1 week ago:
I once heard that laser pointers are bad for cats’ mental health: the tantalizing red dot that they just cannot catch.
Best to let them see the dot “run away and escape” if they do chase one.
- Comment on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels 2 weeks ago:
Where is this found? I’ve stayed in maybe 10 hotels in California this year plus plenty in previous years (and a few in other states) and never seen this.
Is it maybe a thing in small rooms (I travel with family so never book anything with less than two beds).
- Comment on POV: 4 weeks ago:
“Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day” was the 10th! Is this some new holiday?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Two em-dashes and emojis. I’m just sayin.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
I found a setting to switch the key functions, but it still doesn’t help with the other differences. I just have to learn to mentally change gears when using a Mac.
Moving the cursor by words, for example, is ctrl-cursor on PC, but option-cursor on Mac. So switching Ctrl/Fn doesn’t help with that.
Not to mention tapping on the screen to select something does not go well on the Mac…
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
The immediate regret will be when they discover that Ctrl isn’t where they expect it to be, followed by the discovery that it doesn’t get used for copy and paste anyway.
- Comment on The history of soup 1 month ago:
Which came first, the chicken or the soup?
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 month ago:
+R.
If you’d asked me, I’d have said that I always bought -R, but I guess I was different person back then.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 month ago:
I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.
All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I’m amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.
- Comment on Yacht Trouble? 7 Common Problems & Fixes 1 month ago:
No, I think that those are those ring things with a hole in them.
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 1 month ago:
It’s cool to have ID’d one of them, regardless.
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 1 month ago:
Oh yes, 3 does look like that! But 4 looks like the moomin.
- Comment on I think lemmy should have sponsored posts 1 month ago:
Ideally labelled “[Megathread]” despite allowing no comments.
- Comment on See ya. 1 month ago:
Baal-zebub: Baal is “lord” or “master”, zebub means “fly”.
- Comment on International Shitpost Wednesday! 1 month ago:
You have to ask yourself:
Which came first, the chicken or the soup?
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 months ago:
Assuming a spherical owl…
- Comment on Briar - secure p2p group communications 2 months ago:
I tested some more and can’t get it to work any more. I found a post saying it worked in 1.5.2 so maybe something broke in newer versions.
- Comment on Briar - secure p2p group communications 2 months ago:
You need to enable Bluetooth as a method of connection in the app settings (and can turn off wifi and data there).
The phones can be in airplane mode but with Bluetooth turned back on (as you would to use earbuds).
I don’t recall pairing the phones, but there is a “connect via Bluetooth” option on each chat that might be doing that automatically.
You link accounts to each other by scanning qr codes.
It does have a group chat but I haven’t used it, so I don’t know if that works with Bluetooth alone.
I just tried testing this with an old phone of mine, but can’t get it to work right now (maybe because it has Graphene os?), but I have actually used it on flights in the past.
- Comment on Briar - secure p2p group communications 2 months ago:
I’ve used it to message someone while on a flight.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I have it add a backup suffix based on the date. It moves changed and deleted files to another directory adding the date to the filename.
It can also do hard-link copied so that you can have multiple full directory trees to avoid all that duplication.
No file deltas or compression, but it does mean that you can access the backups directly.
- Comment on Surviving the Night Shift: How to Master the Art of Store (Survival) Management in Games Like Five Nights At Freddy's 2 months ago:
I’m sorry if I offend, but… Is this the output of an LLM?
While it doesn’t have many of the tells, the overall tone and structure of it plus the “polished” feel give me that AI vibe.
- Comment on Security camera recommendations? 2 months ago:
I’m referring to Amcrest Pro cameras, btw. They are the ones that let you configure them to be independent of their cloud service, write to a NAS, etc.
- Comment on Security camera recommendations? 2 months ago:
I’m just testing out thingino, but it’s currently lacking features compared to amcrest.
There’s no option to only save video when events trigger, so it fills the card quickly.
And I can’t get the tinyCam app to access recorded files, so I have to use the web-based file browser.
But then Amcrest’s apps (both old and new) have do many faults and glitchy behavior.
- Comment on A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side 2 months ago:
“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”-ed.
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 2 months ago:
That doesn’t have a large black square head, though.
- Comment on Animal guessing game!!! 2 months ago:
It can, but only downwards.
