Godnroc

@Godnroc@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you buy their TV bar unit, apparently you can pair the two to cover longer tables. The people in the back are covered by the table unit and the front is covered by the bar.

  I know this from reading knowledge base articles because no organization I’ve ever been apart of ever wanted to spend the money on a good system that covered everything properly, so I have never had the chance to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but it is breaking wind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should know how to coil cables⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This technique is often referred to as “over, under” as apposed to the more common “over, over” because it prevents damage or cable memory from twisting in one direction. Frequently used in the audio/video industry.

  The biggest downside is that if you pass the end of the cable through the middle of the bundle you will create a knot every other loop. These can quickly be unknotted by gathering the knots together in line and passing an end back through. Also makes a decent magic trick.

  A cable tie, hook-and-loop fastener, or a piece of rope or tie-line with a clove hitch in the middle is essential to secure cables while in transit or storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m speculating, but it wouldn’t change a thing. You would still need to request domain addresses from a server somewhere, but traffic between your device and server would be encrypted in transit. The DNS server would also be verifiable to prevent imitators.

  So, the request would go to the PiHole and if it was not being filtered the PiHole would make the request of whatever upstream server is configured same as before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Useless display in refrigerators finally revealed as corporate ploy to install billboard in consumer’s kitchens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voices of the Void⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been watching videos of this game for a bit and it is one of the better designed spooky games I’ve seen. The constant, random happenings keep it interesting; the simple loop of capturing signals and sending them of keeps things moving.

  I tried watching some big youtubers play it, but found that I enjoyed this guy with like 300 subscribers more. Sindrick on YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to “make” someone have seizures?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My knowledge is limited, but I recall hearing that more seizures are caused by smells than flashing lights. Based off that single fact, perhaps the thing that was triggering you isn’t present anymore. Be that person, perfume, or otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spongebob saying “We did it Patrick! We saved the children!” while a city burns in the background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sorry guys i slept in⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: there are only 14 calendar variations in the Gregorian calendar system. Stand-up Maths by Matt Parker

  So, Big Calendar has literally been selling you the same 14 things year after year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Tinpaw⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but social media is happy to use him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use this science wisely.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine this in the style of the narrator at the beginning of a Twilight Zone episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Printed my avatar⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You beautiful fucking genius! I’ve been looking at trying to get a Lemmy patch embroidered, but it was going to be like $200 for the first and it got cheaper the more I bought. Instead of doing that I can just print one out on my brothers printer instead!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pieus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can usually tell news site's bias based on how complimentary the picture they attached is⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an old trick relating to this; if you want someone to look foolish use a picture with their mouth wide open. If you want then to look dignified, use a picture with their mouth closed or smiling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you learn truths from fiction? Can you feel sad at a happy memory? Can you long for a person who wronged you? Can a good point he made by a bad person? Why does the source matter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tag yourself⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, no, corporate just realized that could get four times as much viewership of their ads if they replace a human with four robots. Sure, it may be more costly overall, but their advertisement partners have seen significant increases in analytics and they really like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I run AdGuard as an addon to Home Assistant. If you want to stick to AdGuard you can go to Settings > Client Settings and set a per-client filtering rule. There is a tab in the client settings that can be used to filter specific services with a click. Setting an IP reservation for your child’s device in the DHCP settings of Unifi or your router will help ensure the IP address stays consistent.

  For the PiHole option, you don’t actually have to let the PiHole handle DHCP. You just need to tell your DHCP server what DNS server to use. For example, my router is .1 and my Raspberry PI is .2. The DHCP server, my router, tells all devices .1 is the gateway and .2 is the DNS server. You may also need to set these settings on the individual devices to prevent them from ignoring your DNS settings, but that can be done from the network settings. Avast had some safe networking “feature” that would force my DNS settings to be ignored, same with my Android phone.

  Of course, the downside to all of this is that any different device, different IP, device from a friend, or mobile data could bypass these restrictions. You may soon be in an arms race with your child and chances are they can get more clever that you can in a shorter time frame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whaooo Wah Hey Ha!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Folk music?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Almost out of shampoo, better add it to my shopping list."⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Toss it over the curtain so that it clatters to a weird spot that is hard to miss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When they announced the change to licensing from annoying to awful, the company I was with at the time immediately started looking for alternatives. I imagine that the announcement will be spoken about as the downfall of the company in future video essays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course they will! First you make a copy, then you delete the copy. Contractual terms satisfied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to one-up you here and suggest learning to learn. Some people can learn through long form video, some through reading, and some need to take notes and review them later.

  For example, I hate all the extra fluff that goes into a written work and frequently need to delete sections until only the minimum information is there. Like deleting the first several paragraphs before a recipe actually gives you the ingredients and instructions!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not a lawyer. (IANAL)

  You have a lot of legal right you may or may not choose to exercise. For example, if you have the right to own firearms they don’t issue you a firearm just because you haven’t purchased one yet.

  If I recall it right, there wasn’t always the concept of a public defender who could represent someone even if they couldn’t afford a lawyer. You had to already have a lawyer in order to even use that right. This was eventually changed and resulted in the creation of public defenders.

  From what I have heard, public defenders are really overworked and spread thin, so you may want to have a lawyer setup to represent you if you ever get into trouble with the law. I have also heard it’s good to know several lawyers as the one who can help you draft a will is different than the one to help you purchase real estate and the one to keep you out of jail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a second opinion on a project idea (Pi5 car headunit)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the idea and it’s something I thought about doing too, so I’m super interested in this thread.

  For me, I thought it would be interesting to remove the existing stereo and mount everything it the double-DIN hole left behind. That would give you access to power, ignition, and speaker wires easily. You would need to do some rewiring between cars, but it would be the most practical spot.

  From working on some fleet vehicles before, I’ve seen interesting systems where all of the accessories were on their own battery that only charged when the car was running or off an external charging cord that could be connected if it was going to sit for a while.

  The benefit of a separate power system was that the equipment didn’t need to boot up every time you started the car. Maybe the display and anything else could be powered only when running, but if the main computer was always powered that would save time. It could also get a signal from a battery maintainer that the accessory battery is low and perform a graceful shutdown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The other day I asked my phone for a measurement conversion while cooking only to be greeted by the new Gemini nonsense. Don’t touch my shit!

  Then I was driving and tried to play a specific song, but the Assistant couldn’t get further than dumping me into YouTube Music and hiding my navigation.

  So anyways, I just uninstalled Assistant and after failing to find something else I came to Lemmy and saw this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would racism in the USA still exist if humans had automated robots in the 1800s?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, racism is not, unfortunately, either a recent invention or an exclusive ideology either. As an example, the stereotype of a drunk Irishman is a racist stereotype that was also common in America’s history. If you can define a group of people, chances are there is a stereotype about them.

  The one that sticks in my head is “gypped” for getting screwed over is based on gypsies and is the equivalent of saying “jewed” for some other people. Either one is a racist stereotype, but I didn’t realize the first wasn’t just a common term until it was pointed out to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking gross. Maybe it’s the 250+ audiobooks I have influencing me, but the very best ones I’ve listened to transcend just turning words into sound. Sound effects, music, tone, emotion, accents, sarcasm, and god damn BLOOPERS all improve the experience beyond just hearing what is written down.

  I’m against it, fuck that literal noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  4GW per hour, 24 hours a day would be 96GWh per day.

  One statistic I found said that it takes 2.97 acres to make 1GWh of power over a year. Converting that to GWh per day per acre gives me 0.000922.

  Dividing the 96GWh by 0.000922 gives me ~104,121.48 acres or ~402 sq. miles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me_irl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like your natural resistance to cars is increasing steadily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe it's just a human thing.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Represent those you want to support with the best examples and those you want to oppose with the worst examples. Ignore that every group is made of people and people come in many distinct, unique varieties because it doesn’t fit your narrative.