Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it’s about other things, too. Like Jenny’s character’s arc had nothing to do with that part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's nothing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

  Cause: No one knows.

  Treatment: Tell the patient to stop worrying about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like for instance, when epic came out with their exclusive access titles being a part of their business plan, valve could have responded with their own exclusive access system and had a good chance of killing off epic and others in the process. Instead they just ignored it and people like me continued using them and didn’t even consider epic even when their anticompetitive actions switched to ones that would have benefitted me (free games), because I could see the shithole they wanted to bring gaming to if their platform achieved dominance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there’s plenty of other reasons to not steal a tesla. It being a mobile surveillance device being one of them. Also, if I was going to steal a car, I’d pick one with better build quality and one that doesn’t have a different fire exit than the normal way to exit that I’d probably be going for if my car was suddenly on fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That “or else” is pretty great, though. Using linux after windows might feel like getting into a healthy relationship after being in an abusive and controlling relationship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be cool if it rolled into a functional telescope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nature⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Might have been very horny but also very self aware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, a skill cheater!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The President of the United States of America⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you realize that they are just using whatever words they think will get what they really want, they become much easier to understand.

  Also be aware that they aren’t very creative and tend to just accuse others of the same horrible shit they are doing that they know could get them into a lot of trouble (or aspects of those that they support that makes them uncertain they should be supporting them).

  Also, since so many others are dumb, many either believe the first accusation they hear or don’t believe it but then think when it turns out that the accusers were actually doing that, that it’s just more political lies coming from the other side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lol, wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that one has been out for a while. It has two screens on an awkward helmet thing, one screen for each eye. The 3d effects are kinda cool but it’s all red lines. The idea is probably about 15-20 years ahead of the technology to make it good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the OS itself will be fine since the kernel and all that will be loaded to memory. But if you install games on that USB stick, they might be painful to run/load (depending on the game, some do disk reads while you’re playing, some do it all before the level).

  If you have a free partition to install it on, try using it to install a game or two while using the live boot. Or hell, you could even just install the OS there and then nuke the partition if you decide against it. It wasn’t a long process iirc (with Fedora), most of my time was spent learning about what the implications of each choice were. If you’re just experimenting, those choices don’t matter as much (just don’t format your existing partitions).

  Though they’ve also got USB external drives (HDD and SSD) that perform better than USB sticks. Some external SSDs probably still way outperform internal HDDs, even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Homelander said it would be funny. And that he would kill him if he didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a pro license for win10 specifically because I learned that it gave better control over updates via group policy.

  Now I use Fedora, which implemented updates in a way that doesn’t imply “ok, this is all I’m doing until it finishes”, and it never interrupts what I’m doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could you do this to me?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, you can usually contract MS support and tell them you just upgraded your hardware and they can re-enable your key. That thing was meant to stop people from sharing keys and limit how many PCs they have running that key at once, not to force a new key for upgrades. Assuming they still even do that, as it’s been a while since I needed to.

  But on the other hand, it sounds like you already found an even better solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as the cost is lower than mining it from the ground, I think other gaps can be overcome, especially where batteries already have their own logistic waste path. Though I guess it also depends on scale required to get that cost. If it’s something that can be set up at any waste facility, sourcing might be close to “free”, as in it might just require a redirection of what’s currently done. I don’t think it even needs to be cheaper than mined lithium, since there’s other costs associated with that, like environmental.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about spelling nazis spinning in a grave attached to a magnet and coil setup…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What if we add some nutrinos? And then reverse the polarity? And maybe some antimatter?

  Wait, was dilithium just the media Star Trek used to go from reacting matter with antimatter, producing heat, causing the dilithium steam to expand, spinning a magnet inside a coil somewhere behind one of those access panels? Was antimatter just fancy futuristic coal powering the Enterprise’s steam engine!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That depends on how you define “viable”. And “generate”.

  Peltier devices generate a voltage from a heat differential passing through a bi-metalic matrix. It’s not a huge voltage, so the definition of “viable” comes in there, but it can be used to power low power things and works well for heater accessories. I first saw its use for wood stove fans that get powered just by sitting on the stove. I’ve also seen them power USB chargers for pellet stoves.

  And then there’s batteries that generate a voltage from submerging two types of metal in acid. And more modern battery designs might be doing it a bit differently but still no spinning magnets and coils. Obviously they are viable for powering many things, but usually themselves are powered from another source rather than using fresh acid for each charge, so the “generate” bit comes into question.

  I think there’s some others. Like fiction can be used to generate a static voltage and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some tesla coils that use friction to generate their voltage. If you continuously generate that voltage, you could make a circuit out of it rather than shock high school kids or make their hair stand up, though I don’t know what kind of amperage you could generate like that (that 5 figure voltage isn’t fatal because of a lack of amps).

  I asked an AI out of curiosity and, while I won’t paste the response (feel free to ask one yourself), it gave a list of 20 methods, though I’d say this thread on its own covers about 9 of them, since some are different specific ways of doing similar ones (eg there were 4 based on moving something relative to a magnetic field).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some tabs are for ongoing things that I keep coming back to, though I don’t have as many of those these days. Like back in the day, I’d have a facebook tab, a few reddit tabs, etc.

  Other tabs are for things that I’m not done with in general but was done with for that moment because something else came up or I just wanted to do something else and the task wasn’t urgent enough to stick with it.

  Sometimes I get back to it, finish the task, and close the tab. Sometimes I’ll later see the tab and just close it because I decide I am done with it forever (or done enough that I can find it again if I want to go back to it).

  I like it better than not keeping my tabs. Though I did disable the inactive tabs thing on mobile firefox because those were too out of sight and just piled up (along with the ambiguous behaviour where sometimes backing up closes newly opened tabs, sometimes it doesn’t, or I don’t back up all the way). Mobile tabs feel a bit more like bookmarks, which are more likely to just disappear entirely from my mind. Visual tabs serve as reminders of the thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say, yes, you are literally consuming your food to take anything of value that your body can extract from it, often at the cost of everything for the thing you’re eating (but definitely at the cost of the parts you eat). Like I’m a bit baffled as to how you can consider it not a form of theft. Hell, I’d even argue it is the purest form of theft there is and quite likely the original theft that only scavengers, photosynthesizers, and other life forms that survive on non-biological sources of energy aren’t thieves in that manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just 💚 them and think they're neat.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bees (and relatives) do it too. If you need to deal with a wasp nest or something like that, do it at night and their defense will be much less enthusiastic.

  When I last dealt with some, knocking down the (small) nests would have a guard harass me until I moved about 10m away from the nest during the day. At night, it would just buzz me a bit before settling back down to rest without me even moving.

  Note that I’m not saying it’s safe to harass a nest/hive at night, just safer than doing it during the day. The ones I dealt with were small enough that I only ever saw a single guard plus one worker, and even during the day, sometimes I’d just fight the one guard instead of running, since it’s hard for a single wasp to sting you if you can track it decently and manage any fear. Trying to deal with a large nest could still be fatal at night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve got a logitech mouse but didn’t want logitech’s software on my machine, so I just used the mouse by plugging it in. Which worked, but I had no way of knowing the battery level until the mouse itself started blinking low power.

  When I installed fedora, I was confused a bit because it had a system tray icon saying the battery was charging. I was thinking it thought it was a laptop until I realize it had just picked up the battery information from my mouse. A feature I had written off under windows just worked without me even considering it or needing to install software that was partly about using my hardware and partially about advertising more ways to get my money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering all of the comments saying that a big part of this is people not wanting to buy new computers and choosing linux because it will run on their old machine, I’d like to add insult to injury and say I built a new PC before Oct and windows was never even a consideration.

  And despite it being my first Linux install I planned to play games on, everything went smoothly and I’d even say the “setting up the PC to my preference instead of the defaults” step was better because there wasn’t a “figure out how to disable the shit ms really wants you to run for them” substep, or a “figure out what new shit ms added that I’ll want to disable” discovery mode that, with win 10, lasted most of the time I was using it and included “figure out if a recent update reset settings to annoying defaults”.

  I bet this is why people are so vocal about switching to linux whenever there’s another complaint about ms. It went way better than expected, like I was about to do something that would cause ongoing pain and frustration to get away from something even worse, but there’s been nothing at all that has made me miss windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that site just an ads disguised as articles site now? Like it’s not just news about the sale, it’s actively trying to sell win 11 (and not doing a great job with its list of “I thought it already did that”, “underwhelming feature”, “no, I still don’t fucking want onedrive; I no longer trust you with my own files on my computer, let alone saving everything on yours”.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are literally monopolies on whatever they concern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah too late lol, ended up grabbing a 990 pro 2tb for $200 CAD. Looking around online, there seems to be a bunch of retailers at that price, though mostly the brick and mortar ones. I kinda thought they might be slower to react to quickly moving prices than the more specialist places (I got it from Staples).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I gave him a dollar so he’d go away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, we’re currently in the midst of what many people already consider to be an AI bubble, so investing in new DRAM factories might be considered too risky, since the bubble might have popped before it even gets production going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad I opted to start at 64GB ram on the PC I built about a year ago. Compared to the other parts like CPU and GPU, it felt relatively cheap to bump it up from 32GB.

  Wondering if I should pull the trigger on more storage though… Don’t really need it right now but eventually I’ll probably need some.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be wild if DB Cooper followed up by watching for who would come out as a suspect and then planted the evidence on their relative’s property after they died.