BartyDeCanter
@BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 day ago:
Oh I agree, I’m not saying that PDF is some sort of document format perfection. But it is a fully open one with a spec that fits in 250 pages, as opposed to docx’s 7500(!!) page spec with undocumented binary blobs mixed in.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
I see you too are a person of culture.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
Are fine, but not 100% compatible with all Office files and very heavyweight for viewing a document.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
What if I don’t want to spend several hundred dollars per year to use a proprietary program that doesn’t run on my computer just to look at some documents?
- Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 5 days ago:
If you take the tree of life showing the evolutionary branch, you won’t be able to pick off a branch that includes all of the things you would think of as “fish” but excludes all of the things you think of as “not fish”.
The reason for that is that all land animals with a four limb body plan, including reptiles, mammals, and
birdsdinosaurs evolved from a family of fish called tetrapods. But there are still tetrapods in the ocean that you would think of as “fish”, and I don’t mean whales.Hank Green has a much more entertaining and complete discussion at youtu.be/-C3lR3pczjo
- Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 5 days ago:
And almost all of these are fishes.
- Comment on A gourmet meal 2 weeks ago:
Uh, I’m pretty sure that is a jacemat.
- Comment on Cold weather stud finder 2 weeks ago:
Damnit, now I have another toy to add to my “need” list.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 weeks ago:
I would also add that the presidents party almost always loses votes in the midterms. This is particularly true for republicans since 2016 because a lot of trump’s supporters only care about him and won’t bother to fill out a ballot without him on it.
- Comment on What did you accomplish during the twice monthly outage? 4 weeks ago:
Worked on my house and contemplated finding a new server.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 5 weeks ago:
I remember my copy had Buddy Holly by Weezer, and I think something called Good Times. What was the third?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Take your pick: oil, trumps feeling were hurt by the Peace Prize committee, oil, trump trying to shore up support, oil, trump seeing just how much he can get away with, trumps ego, and maybe oil.
- Comment on Hold on a second... 5 weeks ago:
Where did you get “he must be a woman” out of that?
- Comment on xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here 1 month ago:
Anyone else reading this in 2037?
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 month ago:
Oh! Planet Money just did a really good episode on this exact topic.
It’s complicated and I recommend a full listen to the episode, but the big two reasons are:
- The cost of building out all the new infrastructure is partially paid for by the data centers, but the majority is paid by all customers.
- The demand for electricity is growing much faster than supply can be built.
Those two, combined with the deregulation in most markets, has meant that the price for everyone is going up.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 month ago:
Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?
- Comment on 3D Printing’s Biggest Scam Is Even Worse Than We Thought! (PLA-CF) 1 month ago:
It has all of the typical YT influencer bullshit. “Wait 'till then end”, slightly faster than normal speech, reaction memes, overly long descriptions of things in order to pad in more time for ads, flat out ads in the middle, etc.
My old person trait is that I’d rather spend five minutes reading an article than 15 minutes watching a video.
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 1 month ago:
They’ve gotten cheap, in fact, that the panels are sometimes less expensive than the labor and mounting hardware.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 1 month ago:
I’m curious, what AI features do you use and why? I can’t even figure out what one is supposed to do.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 month ago:
Yeah, no. Most members of most militaries haven’t directly killed anyone, even during wartime.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 1 month ago:
My ex-brother-in-law killed a family of four while DUI. The cops really screwed up the investigation so he was able to get the charges down to a minor moving violation. He never saw the inside of a jail.
When I was in high school a friend of a friend that I knew and had hung out with at a couple of times was a serial killer/rapist. He was one of the last people executed by that state.
- Comment on Piano man 2 months ago:
What?!? Someone played with the English language in order to make lyrics rhyme and scan? How terrible!! glances at Shakespeare
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
I love 1&2, but haven’t played any of the others. I’ve played some of The Dark Mod and it also has that same feeling.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Ive started a replay of BATTLETECH (2016), this time with all of the DLC. I need something turn based for now and this really scratches that itch. I love how good the gameplay is and the gritty graphics fit the setting so well.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 months ago:
The mount point changing like that means that it disconnected and then reconnected. That really makes it sound like the drive isn’t getting quite enough power, which causes a brown out, which Linux detects as the drive getting unplugged and coming back, which is why it gets a new dev entry.
A look through the usb logs by using something like usbrip would confirm that.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 months ago:
Interesting. When you say that they show up as a different drive completely, do you mean that their UUIDs change, or that they get mounted at a different point?
Anyway, random disconnection sounds like a hardware issue, maybe a USB brownout, as much as anything else. What’s your connection setup, distro and kernel version?
- Comment on Looking for an Itch Recommendation? 2 months ago:
My partner, who is a non-gamer loves WytchWood, which is a rather slow paced crafting and wander around the woods game in a fairy tale setting.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 months ago:
Eh? I’ve never had a problem with reading NTFS drives in linux, including USB sticks and SATA/USB adapters. Are you just wanting to read them or use them as read/write? Write is a bit more tricky, requiring ntfs-3g, but most reasonable distros come with that nowadays.
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 2 months ago:
Mint. It’s a great, simple, well supported first distro. And last distro, TBH. I know plenty of people like to distro hop as a hobby, but if you just want to use your machine pick a well supported basic distro and stick with it. Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora are all good options, but Mint is really aimed at newcomers.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 2 months ago:
Except, you know, for everyone that has an iRobot device that is going to lose connectivity soon.