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- Comment on What's in a name 1 day ago:
Corridor Digital mentioned them recently in one of their videos and had a 5-minute conversion on what the correct term was before finding that Wikipedia page.
I guess you can look at it from two sides (in two ways?)
- Comment on Being alive in 2026 be like 2 days ago:
I was in a company that was slowly downsizing.
I was in one of 6 rooms off a corridor, each room holding two desks (well, one room was storage). As people left, I was the only one left in those rooms, so I used to think of it as “my wing of the building”.
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 2 days ago:
“Future father” at age 22 is a strange achievement.
- Comment on justgermanthigs 1 week ago:
And why isn’t “raccoon” “wash-bear”?
- Comment on What brings you peace in your life? 1 week ago:
But there are distant trees on the horizon, so if this was, say, maybe a mile away to appear relatively small, those world have to be many more. That works only work on a flat earth.
Also, the moon and sun appear flattened when near the horizon due to atmospheric distortion.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Intensive Pickle Unit
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 1 week ago:
It has a GPU, but it’s helpful to know that I can look out for adaptors, thanks.
I like to be able to have a charger set up in more than one room than can be shared instead of moving chargers around all the time.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 1 week ago:
Yes, Lenovo!
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 1 week ago:
I just bought a more beefy laptop and it has a special charger cable because it’s 170W :(
- Comment on What type of computer setup would one need to run ai locally? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve run koboldcpp on a steam deck. You have to stick to small model files, of course, like maybe 4Gb, but you can get decent speed if you do.
- Comment on Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city. 3 weeks ago:
I wonder how Doc pronounced “gif”?
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 3 weeks ago:
I use Obsidian as a OneNote replacement because it’s built around markdown, which is just a a text file that includes structure and formatting.
I don’t use their subscription syncing service, just sync files to my own phone and server. Obsidian is great for organizing, but I can still read all the files as text.
- Comment on Nextcloud/OneDrive Files-only Replacement 4 weeks ago:
I found that the resilio mobile app would use up a lot of battery at night (sometimes about 10% an hour).
Syncthing was better for that, but would sometimes just stop updating on a phone. I would check and it would have not been syncing for weeks and be signed out of the web UI.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 4 weeks ago:
Oh right. In that case, click on the disambiguation link.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 4 weeks ago:
In this context: cheese.
- Comment on furry transfem 4 weeks ago:
Maybe like the way smaller and smaller circles (2d harmonics) make images in this video.
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 4 weeks ago:
Someone recently posted this, or a similar picture, and I was about to ask the same question until they mentioned that they’d translated it to English for posting.
Teletubbies do say things such as “eh oh!”, or “Lala ball”. I don’t know if that was subtitled, but The Clangers definitely was.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Why would you want it to be a server instead of an app just running on the phone, that can work offline?
- Comment on Sleep 5 weeks ago:
This one turns itself into the Firefox logo at about 2:35, before starting to snore.
- Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US. 5 weeks ago:
I used those to call back to the UK when I moved to the US, back around 2005.
When you entered the number you wanted to call, it would do a VOIP connection from the line you were on to that company to a line in the destination county. So it was an Internet call for the international part (which is how they did it cheaply).
I realized that because the cards I bought were from a company with “VOIP” in the name!
I had one of those Radio Shack tone dialler boxes so that I could pre-program the free US number and the card id number.
- Comment on smh 5 weeks ago:
My son’s homework is frequently in metric (a US school district). Many drinks (wine and sodas) and medicine doses are too. The US uses metric just as the UK still uses miles and pints.
- Comment on Soda pop 5 weeks ago:
K-Soda Demon Hunters.
- Comment on Fake moo 1 month ago:
“do you really think that there are that many cows in the world?”
Well, not now, there aren’t.
- Comment on Anybody have anything nice they'd like to share? 1 month ago:
One day you’ll pick up your son for the last time and neither of you will realize it.
I’m fact, he’ll want you to one more time and you’ll put your back out trying. Then you’ll both know.
- Comment on Ligma 1 month ago:
“Empathy” is the name of his clothing.
- Comment on My friends are by my side 1 month ago:
Oh. Well, I haven’t seen any changes like that. Yet. Still time, I guess.
And also seriously, I didn’t get any eye color change. I also had lens replacements a few years ago, but that didn’t involve a vitrectomy, so I still had floaters at that point.
When I went to a new opthalmologist recently, that asked about my eye health history. It took about 45 minutes!
- Comment on My friends are by my side 1 month ago:
I had a detached retina which involved (spoiler for those that don’t like to read about eyes)
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Having the fluid removed and replace with gas. My eye was out of action for months, going through all the stages of gradually refilling itself. I had to stay mostly lying down for a week. For a while I had an effect like looking over the surface of water. Later, a big bubble that distorted vision. Oh also, I was forbidden to go to high altitude because the pressure change could cause damage. But after all that, just a few occasional floaters. My other eye still had lots of “tethered” floaters that seem to still be attached like seaweed strands. So it can be done but you would go through a lot to get there. I’ve heard that people do get that done just for the floater problem.
- Comment on Alternatives to syncthing for syncing files with android 1 month ago:
I should add that I do use it for backups, it’s a great program, but I’ve only ever used it for one-way scheduled syncs.
- Comment on Alternatives to syncthing for syncing files with android 1 month ago:
I’ve sometimes found that it just stops syncing on one phone. And I did turn off battery management.
I need something that’s reliable.
I use resilio, but recently it used 20% battery in 6 hours overnight, when nothing needed syncing.
- Comment on Alternatives to syncthing for syncing files with android 1 month ago:
Is there any way for it to sync from desktop to Android immediately when a file changes on the PC?