davidgro

@davidgro@lemmy.world

• ⁨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!