davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Necessity of Supernodes 3 days ago:
I don’t see a published date, but the newest reference listed appears to be 2004.
Seems to me like in the 20+ years since, DHTs were fixed to be more useful. (The one it describes sounds like Freenet instead of say tracker-free BitTorrent.)
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 4 days ago:
Yes.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 1 week ago:
Would still need a capacitor or something or it would flicker at 120Hz (in the US) but that’s not much more.
Also those 4 would flicker more than the rest of the string.
- Comment on We need a tag like /s but for non-rhetorical questions 2 weeks ago:
There’s [serious] - it started on Reddit (I think) but doesn’t need to stay there.
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s because the studios/cable/etc tried to charge extra for 3D content compared to 2D. Ensured that demand for 3D was insufficient to make more content available for it.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I got into the dailies immediately in both games, just part of playing for me.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 weeks ago:
For me it’s Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. It would be super easy to whale out and spend a bunch of money to get the characters and weapons I want, but I (almost 100%) limit myself to the basically fixed monthly costs.
- Comment on Someone has created a Gmail clone where you can browse Jeffrey Epstein's emails 3 weeks ago:
These emails were released before the vote on ‘the rest of it’.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
As soon as the first account they made stops working, they would drop the fediverse entirely And loudly complain how terrible it is. I think this would actively reduce adoption.
- Comment on We have one at home 3 weeks ago:
Similarly: The one with the bear
- Comment on We have one at home 3 weeks ago:
I was going to go for “Ouya trying to fool with this post?”
- Comment on It's your fault my laptop knows where I am 3 weeks ago:
I actually had to do that with my phone’s hotspot name because I used to play Pokemon Go on a tablet which was Wi-Fi tethered to the phone. Before I renamed it to opt out, the game would randomly jump me to wherever the network had last been scanned any time the tablet’s GPS got too flaky.
- Comment on Could you swim in a spent nuclear fuel pool? 3 weeks ago:
This short is missing the best line, which is at the end of the full video.
- Comment on When synthetic dyes became available, people treated them a bit like we treated blue LEDs 10 years ago 4 weeks ago:
They are still used where not needed and Way too bright usually. I have more than once used precisely placed electrical tape to reduce them down to a pinhole or slit.
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 4 weeks ago:
When I saw the headline I was thinking it’s hardly new, being from 2012, but they covered and explained that well. I’m glad progress is accelerating.
- Comment on What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place? 4 weeks ago:
And soon after, every other spot. (But still not as hot as the first spot)
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 1 month ago:
Oh! I’ve had no real problems with my LG.
The made ice occasionally gets stuck and has to be knocked loose, but that’s no big deal - not like the Samsung freezing the whole mechanism into a huge block that prevents accessing it to clear it out.
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 1 month ago:
Aww. Modern tech is too ‘smart’ for its own good.
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 1 month ago:
If it’s on when you unplug it, does it go back on when plugged in? If so then turn off its own timer and just use a regular appliance timer.
- Comment on Piping mouse 1 month ago:
The first sentence had me thinking this was a ‘Gen-Z doesn’t know PCs’ thing.
It got so much better.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 1 month ago:
I haven’t tried it, but yeah, I assume multiple cameras and either composite or just letting you switch between them.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 1 month ago:
Yeah, me too. But I’m not good at it.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 1 month ago:
One thing I heard of that would be handy is cameras in the fridge so while out shopping you can check if you already have stuff or how much is left (depending on the container)
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 1 month ago:
Since it’s a Samsung ice dispenser, that’s a recurring charge. (Service calls.)
(Seriously though, I’ll never buy another Samsung appliance after my experience with that fridge’s ice dispenser)
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
“People” is one specific person. Sxan or something.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 month ago:
I mostly agree, but there’s a few holes in that chart:
My favorite vegetables are salt and ice.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 month ago:
… Is it not?
Being a grain (or even specifically a “Cereal grain”) doesn’t exclude it, see corn.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 1 month ago:
I guess I assumed ‘sprout’ meant directly out of the ground instead of a “Brussels tree”.
I don’t recognize a few of the other ones.
- Comment on Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border? 1 month ago:
At some point wasn’t it actual stone walls around cities, with guards at the gates checking people?
- Comment on Flashbacks scenes in Movies/TV should be depicted as being more blurry than present scenes, since most people can't actually remember a past event that accurately. 2 months ago:
… But memories don’t in any way feel like the present moment? That’s universal, right?
Dreams either for that matter, but I somehow fail to care or even notice most of the time while dreaming.
