davidgro
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- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 1 day 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 days 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? 2 days 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 2 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 week ago:“People” is one specific person. Sxan or something. 
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 1 week 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 week 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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 weeks 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. 
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 weeks ago:Tag. 
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 3 weeks ago:Do you really think Meta would ignore the opportunity to both be the default option And have justification to read users’ messages? 
- Comment on Which is your song, chat? 4 weeks ago:Obviously “Cry, bark, groan”. 
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 4 weeks ago:That’s effectively just the bottom track, where an uncountable number of people (literally) will die as soon as the train reaches position (0. 
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 5 weeks ago:No. A typical “supermarket” (grocery + clothes, housewares, etc.) does not, nor do smaller stores that are mostly just grocery. Walmart is an exception. Costco has people who could be called greeters, but they are just checking that you, or someone you are with, has a paid membership. Some stores have security guards at the entrances, but that’s a different thing. 
- Comment on [JS] This stunning X-ray advance could help detect cancer earlier: colorized X-rays promise sharper vision into both materials and medicine. 5 weeks ago:Where are the example output pictures? 
- Comment on Doot doot 5 weeks ago:Oof ouch my bones [are hurting me]! 
- Comment on Impossible Islands 1 month ago:What is an impossible island? There aren’t any example posts yet? 
- Comment on CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production 1 month ago:Sodium itself Is nearly double the density of Lithium. I don’t know how much that affects the whole pack, but it’s gotta be something. 
- Comment on CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production 1 month ago:It’s not though. Range is determined by how much battery is in a car, I could build a car with 500km worth of Ni-MH but it would be mostly battery. Does the same car with 500km worth of lithium batteries have more or less trunk space than 500km of these batteries? I have no idea. I do know the sodium batteries will weigh a bit more, because the article actually gives Wh/kg - and that makes sense since sodium the metal is denser than lithium, but the headline is meaningless. 
- Comment on CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production 1 month ago:I really hate how all these headlines give battery capacity as a distance, as though that was a meaningful measure or allowed comparing different technologies. 
- Comment on Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers? 1 month ago:But in this case it’s first-party, and they still had to make an exception 
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 1 month ago:That’s a good point, I didn’t know much about the Cannes film festival, but after looking it up I agree with you. My comment would only apply if it sees a public release. 
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 1 month ago:My guess is the audience simply won’t care and the movie will do reasonably average, depending on the script. Sure here on a niche forum like Lemmy we care about the incredible energy waste, the artists being exploited, etc, and that “AI art” only looks good from a distance with all the little details being screwed up at a close examination. (When it’s not a lovecraftian horror right on the surface - see “bloopers” in that video in the article) But the general public? To them “AI” is: Haha, funny Ghibli filter. 
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 month ago:If you have ever done a handstand then you have lifted over your head the weight that the entire mass of the earth has in your own gravitational field. 
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 1 month ago:I’d say that the original statement not including “sometimes” does in fact make it the ‘not a fact’ type of factoid!