davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on True Wireless Power is FINALLY here (building a TRULY wire-free desk setup) 4 hours ago:
It’s not - this dude doesn’t zap himself even once.
It’s a good video though, showing how he integrated everything.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 4 days ago:
It’s worse than that, it’s physics, Jim!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Assuming no FTL and centered at Earth (or the sun) that puts the max distance roughly a little past the low estimate for where the Oort cloud begins.
(Wolfram Alpha says 14 light days is 2424 AU and the cloud has inner edge estimates from 2000 to 5000 AU
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 6 days ago:
I’ll have to try that vsync thing when I get a new PC (laptop)
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 6 days ago:
Super Hexagon
It’s about as simple as a ‘modern’ game can be (I read there was even a port of it to Commodore 64.) but it’s a finely tuned machine. When you lose - and you will, a lot - it feels like mostly your own fault and not the game’s.
The difficulty levels very accurately start at Hard for the easiest one. There are 6 total levels, the next 5 difficulties are Harder, Hardest, Hardester, Hardestest, and Hardestestest.
With much time and luck I can beat the first level (unlocking the 4th). On a lost save I had unlocked the 5th level by completing the 2nd, and have only ever seen the 6th in videos from other people. I would have to beat the 3rd to see it myself, and that’s not happening.
The criteria to beat a level is “last for 60 seconds”.
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 1 week ago:
Surge!
- Comment on Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass produce wood that’s stronger than steel 3 weeks ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says 3 weeks ago:
Seems perfectly reasonable to me - this isn’t about the model itself (which the article says is even available though Azure) but the app that sends and receives its data from the Chinese servers.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Huh.
Today I learned (from the comments) that there are places where stores haven’t been doing this for decades.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 4 weeks ago:
Where I live it does that so often that many people from the area are known to just go outside and walk in it with no extra protection or shielding. Crazy in my opinion.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 4 weeks ago:
I rather thought that was one of the main selling points of the Proton services.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t any other provider just give up the senders’ details immediately?
- Comment on Are there rollerblading performances like ice skating performances? 5 weeks ago:
Slalom gets pretty close in some ways. It’s amazing to watch what someone highly skilled can do, even when just practicing.
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 1 month ago:
Everyone is mentioning email. I also use the World Wide Web.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 1 month ago:
Lens flairs, but in IR they look different.
- Comment on Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances 1 month ago:
There’s not much Krebs in it
- Comment on The fastest bicycle in history is the stationary bike on the ISS. 1 month ago:
In a way, so is everything else.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 1 month ago:
No I didn’t, but you made me curious so I just looked it up.
It’s not a sound I remember hearing anywhere, but I certainly could have and not known what it was at the time so ignored it.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 month ago:
As far as I know it’s not commonly used anywhere, and is mostly used for effect.
I think it used to be more common in my parents’ generation.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 month ago:
English.
The word that’s throwing you off is probably wont
wont
(archaic or humorous) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice. - Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 1 month ago:
Australia.
- Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code. 1 month ago:
What is this “blue” you mention? That’s not green Or amber!
Seriously though, errors in native code back then would either freeze the system or just spontaneously reboot, either way no time to display a reason. (Although the BASIC interpreter would at least try to say what happened with errors in BASIC code.)
- Comment on Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets 2 months ago:
Wooo!
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 2 months ago:
True. Maybe ‘9 of 10 participants’.
- Comment on Dr Strange saw 4 billion possible futures and none of them had Thor lopping off Thanos' head on his first shot 2 months ago:
The women are unlikely to think so.
It’s like the reverse of the well known statistic that nine out of ten people approve of gang rape.
- Comment on You Need to Use Signal's Nickname Feature 2 months ago:
" He… He’s a special ops trainer.
What was his name?Yeah. Jack Trainer.
So he’s a trainer named Jack Trainer?That’s how I have everybody in my phone. See, “Janice Mom.”
“Larry Doorknob.” “Stacy Butt Stuff.” "
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I do think it’s interesting that the original case was a person being refused service by companies instead of the other way around.
- Comment on Do I need to choose a language when posting on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
This is one of the things that could have been a nice feature, but the devs never fixed it.
It should let you set a default, and options in the list should include ‘detect from browser settings’, and ‘most recently selected’. (Default should be that one probably, but on the very first post it should detect it automatically.)
If they had done that, and encouraged the same in apps and other clients, then filtering by language would actually work and not exclude the vast majority of posts.
- Comment on When picking location for reincarnation USA is a really popular choice but don't pick it, it's a total bait and switch. 2 months ago:
Empirically it would seem that India is the most popular choice, followed very closely by China.
Amusingly, I think those are two of the places with a high percentage of belief in reincarnation.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter? 2 months ago:
There are hundreds (at least!) versions of the bible, and that’s just in English. Would have to make sure it’s exactly the same one.