Smokeless7048
@Smokeless7048@lemmy.world
- Comment on the world 3 days ago:
I always go back to Prometheus when talking about the “Idiot Ball” because it’s the gold standard. You’ve got these world-class scientists sent on a trillion-dollar mission who don’t even know what they’re doing there until they wake up from cryo, and then they immediately act like children playing in a backyard.
The second the sensors say the air is “breathable,” they’re ripping their helmets off like they’ve never heard of a space-virus or a spore. It’s insane. Then you’ve got the biologist, a literal professional, seeing a hissing, alien “space-cobra” in a clear threater posture and his first instinct is to try and pet it like a stray cat.
And don’t even get me started on the guy who literally mapped the cave with high-tech drones being the one who gets hopelessly lost in it. Or the “Prometheus School of Running Away from Things” where you run in a perfectly straight line under a falling, circular ship instead of just… stepping to the left? It’s like the script needed the plot to happen so badly that it just stripped every character of their survival instincts and professional training.
Compare that to competency porn shows, like the Martian, where they FEEL like the best of the best
- Comment on Start-up idea 4 weeks ago:
When I was doing my shopping, LG and Maytag were trading places for most reliable
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 month ago:
Found the pedo!
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 month ago:
So do we in Canada… But that doesn’t mean that they are enforced
- Comment on Help is needed 2 months ago:
crazy to see that here. Was just thinking… Find Guardian? Mind Guardian"
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 2 months ago:
I got an air cooler just because I had 3 die on 6 years, as the pump on each went.
Went back to noctua
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 months ago:
Came to share this
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 3 months ago:
I don’t see a “and they need to host it”
But allowing/enabling community servers would allow it to stay playable at minimum cost to the developers
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 months ago:
if i could install and run Home Assistant on this, i could see having a use for it… but that requires me to have complete control, and not samsungs BS
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 3 months ago:
Yea, but that wasn’t a great rest. I love Great Scott, but a lot of comments fairly call out his conclusion.
Most (all?)phones don’t charge at full speed to 100% charge, they fast charge when the battery is almoast empty, and charge slower the more full it gets.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 3 months ago:
I assume if they DON’T flip it, it gets passed yo the next guy with 4 people tied to the track.
33junctions down the road, and it’s the population of the earth tied down.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 4 months ago:
I really hope it was Lego Island.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 months ago:
Have a 75" display, the size is nice, but still a ways from a theater experience, would really need 95" plus.
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 4 months ago:
Yea, I use calibre to strip it, have my entire collection backed up
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 4 months ago:
Yea, love my kobo
Just bought a new 7" Libra, my only complaint is the colour screen is lower contrast than a pure black and white
- Comment on So, did a new printer drop? LOL 4 months ago:
The problem is they make a really good printer at a really good price… But with them locking down their printers, I won’t be buying another.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 4 months ago:
Unless your computer is from the 70s, it has a computer.
That said, “always connected, getting firmware updates” is a new thing.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 4 months ago:
Oh, for sure, it’s just for fun
My entire design goal is making it invisible for my wife, so things just work. As an example, I took our doorbell, and made it smart… Not a smart doorbell, but I have an esphome between the doorbell and the chime, so I can turn the chime off, or I can have our phonea get notified.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 4 months ago:
Home assistant is the way to go, all run locally on a homePC, I have ZigBee lights and switches automated
An example is my front deck lights turn on at sundown, at 10% brightness, at 11;00 pm they drop to 1%.
If motion is detected they brighten up for a bit.
On holidays they have appropriate RFB effects.
All of this is automated, none of it talks to the internet.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 4 months ago:
Yea, not hard to boot up a VM
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 4 months ago:
I’ll check that out. I thought that a .fla is the project file, and .swf would be the game.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 4 months ago:
Recently found an old .fla of a game I made in highschool, and I have no idea how to turn it into a playable file. Would love to recover it
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 5 months ago:
Yea, I use it for home assistant, it’s amazingly powerful… And so incredibly dumb
It will take my if and statements, and shrunk it to 1/3 the length, while being twice as to robust… While missing that one of the arguments is entirely in the wrong place.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 5 months ago:
All my homies love the Hu.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
They are not uncomfortable because you are used to them
Bet if you spent your life as a nudist, and someone asked you to wear jeans, you would find them super uncomfortable!
Long story short: wear a seat belt (not you, the theoretical “them”)
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 6 months ago:
Yea
Vibe coding is for us armatures, who want the occasional hello world
I use it for programing home assistant, since I just can’t get my head around the YAML.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 6 months ago:
Thanks buddy!
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 6 months ago:
Any chance you have a link,?
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 7 months ago:
The problem is that people like MC and visa would then ban you from sending money TO RaunchyCard.
So it just moves the problem back a step.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 8 months ago:
I know people complain about big phones, but as a 6’5" guy i LOVE my big screens, and i think i’d struggle with a 6.3" screen. I have a 22U i plan to use for another year or two, and would go larger if i could.