davidgro

@davidgro@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Booting from a vinyl record⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The version that finally worked must have been Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moder games with Abuse-like controls scheme?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The title made me think you were looking for stuff like QWOP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is from November, and is about the ‘student accounts’ thing which doesn’t at all help the central issue of being forced to make an account to distribute your app

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pro choice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … That’s the joke. (That he doesn’t)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pro choice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, he Doesn’t think you can double a sphere by cutting it into 5 pieces and reassembling them, so there’s that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So clearly, Lasagna is a fruit cake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are genuinely asking:

  Because documentation should be accurate and comprehensive. LLMs can do neither.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is it?

  I know that Python is a programming language. I know what notebooks are generally, but I don’t know if there’s a more specific meaning for the two words together.

  The community sidebar is also empty, at least in my client.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuinely surprised that nothing old-school made the list: NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, A2600, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Hadn’t heard that one. (Or the sentiment)

  On a side note, these days I feel like something affecting someone personally means it’s more likely to move them left - see leopards and faces.

  (Unless it’s a tax or regulation, perhaps that’s what Phil was thinking of)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To most Americans (including myself before reading into it due to Lemmy) Liberal is simply a synonym of ‘left-wing’ and has no distinction at all from that and other terms like ‘leftist’, ‘progressive’, etc. All of these terms mean exactly “not conservative” - mostly in a social sense.

  My (weak) understanding is that outside the US, Liberal is a (mostly) economic position - specifically one supportive of capitalism, which both major parties in the US are. (With slight policy differences.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will never buy a phone directly through a carrier instead of the OEM. They are offering me some nice discounts right now, but I have no interest in a phone where I can’t unlock the bootloader. (Or the carrier lock!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Necessity of Supernodes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These emails were released before the vote on ‘the rest of it’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly: The one with the bear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aww. Modern tech is too ‘smart’ for its own good.