DahGangalang

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the exact development route I wanted them to take, but def pleased they’re doing something to improve existing services.

  Definitely better than the whole (ongoing?) Proton Wallet ordeal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let me ruin your good time, but my experience with Surf shark:

  Used surf shark for about 3 years around pandemic timeframe. Had no complaints (other than it drained my phone battery super fast - didn’t test empirically, but seemed somewhat worse than other VPN providers). I was unemployed for a while, so took the opportunity to cut expenses; tried to drop my surf shark subscription. It was a HUGE pain in the butt. I forget the process, but iirc, you had to use their help chat to get the number for cancellations, they kept me on hold for ~10 min, then had a long winded questionnaire (“were required to ask you these questions before proceeding”) asking why I was quitting, then made an offer for discounted months before letting me unsubscribe.

  Its my understanding regulations have changed such that that’s not allowed anymore and also that most VPN can elations are about that bad anyway, but still, wanted to share my experience. Lol, suppose so long as you never quit, you won’t have to deal with all that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, gonna have to soft disagree.

  Its got a lot of those same elements, but you have a character that is only at one spot at a time, and so that limits how elective you can be at the expansion part.

  That said, it is also not a typical RPG where you have just a character adventuring across the land. Really unique game in that its a bridge between those two broad genres.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its honestly a very small facet of the game, and more so used to bootstrap your company/Army’s finances until you gain lordship of towns and cities (and thus collect rents).

  But to try to explain how it comes together anyway:
  So towns specialize in producing a single type of raw resource (grain, ore, grapes, sheep, etc) and they sell those goods mainly to a single city. A city will have 2-4 towns “feeding” it resources, and so if a city has 3 towns that bring it grain, then you’d expect the grain price to be cheaper than in a city who’s towns produce ore.

  Next level, if you have two neighboring towns one producing ore and one with grain, chances are there will be a stable (and relatively low) grain price in both with reasonably high population (pop growth is primarily boosted by excess food). Imagine now an enemy army rolls up and burns all the grain towns and seiges the grain city (traders can’t enter a sieged city). After a week, this would lead to MUCH less grain in the ore city, thus prices spike.

  So you, an enterprising new player with a dozen men and some spare horses, load up with cheap grain from somewhere else on the map and make a run to the ore city, selling grain at an inflated price.

  Again, this general strat is good for bootstrapping the money to build a medium warband, but generally falls away as a viable source of income once you leave there early game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3172: Fifteen Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wondering what happened with this the other day (haven’t kept up with XKCD since highschool).

  It makes me happy that they’re both still here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something that has always bothered me about roadkill animals (esp deer which are particularly prevalent as roadkill in my area).

  Its my understanding that the hide can remain in good and usable condition for days to weeks after the animal’s death. It seems that this could be a decent source of blankets and other light-medium cold weather gear.

  I’d imagine it largely comes down to the skinning process. The internal organs of dead animals are supposed to get real gross real fast (and that’s in the best case scenario - if anything ruptured when they were hit, then the grossness increasing exponentially) and removing those is the first step towards skinning. Additionally, everything in harvesting the hide would need to be done by hand.

  But boy, if we could build one of those Boston dynamics bots to do it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It appears to be a widely circulated fan art, appearing on her page of the Fandom Wiki (though Tetsuya Nomura may be an official artist for FFX).

  Point is that its accredited to an artist, so it would seem the missing teeth was intentional?

• Probably n00b Question - Mead Brewing
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m out of practice with my physics so apologies if this is a n00b question, but:

  I’m unclear what (rho V) is and how you converted to that from mass (m). Further unclear what (rho A d) refers to.

  Can you explain / link to an explainer on this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Park removes episode mocking Charlie Kirk from Cable in respect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it South Park (as in Matt Stone and Trey Parker + studio) proper or was it Paramount and/or Comedy Central?

  Seems like a very likely move that the studios pulled it. It seems unlike Matt and Trey to pull an episode, even as drastic as the situation is (don’t know that anything comparable that could be attributed to them has happened in the shows history - open to being corrected if I’m wrong on that).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it would be a better look⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Prolly just a water drop.

  I’m also on board with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Malicious VPN is FreeVPN.One

  Maybe shouldn’t be trying to save people clicks, but I would have appreciated this in a top comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it (in my case, ChatGPT) has been great for helping me along with functions I’m only passingly familiar with / trying to use in new ways.

  One that I was really surprised with was that it gave me a surprisingly robust, sensible, and (seemingly) well tuned-to-my-case check list of things to inspect for a used car I intend to buy. I’m already mostly familiar with what I’m doing there, but it pointed to some things I might’ve overlooked / didn’t know were points of concern for the specific vehicle I’m looking at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I hate it when this happens!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was not expecting an actually educational response to my meme of a comment, but boy is it delightful to receive.

  Really appreciate the information!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I hate it when this happens!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that they used to consist of only the leg bits

  Now I’m more confused. Are you saying they used to be, like, leg sleeves? Oh, and that’s what you would need to tie them to your shirt…man that’s weird…but I guess it’d be easier to weave 2 cylinders without the crotch bits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I hate it when this happens!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s so much “wut” with this picture.

  Why would you carry an Axe over the should opposite the hand you’re holding it with?

  What is up with his pants. Dude looks like the has two dicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m just a newb, but it still looks like PNG is the goto to ensure lossless image storage.

  Everything else on that list that is “better” does/can do lossy compression. I’m not sure how to force apps to use lossless compression, so to me, all those lossy-capable formats are a drawback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the heads up.

  Saw it wasn’t on F-Droid and was going to ask for source page (to get through Obtanium), but looks like they’re allergic to android and derivates. Appreciate you pointing to references.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let people enjoy things 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy no paragraph breaks batman!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comcast is simplifying its Xfinity internet plans and dropping data caps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a former customer, I can’t help but wonder what their catch is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then start plotting buy/sell points for bitcoin and GME (don’t want to risk forgetting those over the next 15-25 years)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I like the Anime version of it enough, I’ll actually try Bb. I honestly never gave it a fair shot because of how controversial it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, wasn’t expecting a reasonable and emotionally grounded response as one of the top comments.

  Keep up the good work my dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about reusing the bag clip plus the twist and tuck method?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and at least they’re creator had a cool story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too. That’s comparable to my dad’s old 4 cylinder Toyota Pickup (mid-80’s, so similar era). Smaller engine and wayyyy less power so I would’ve expected the pickup to get worse than the Delorean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’d love to take that as a project vehicle.

  Batteries for home setup (on TOU plan, so it’d be nice to charge when rates are low and discharge when high).
  Then slap an combustion engine in there that just acts as a power plant for the electric motors. It’d probably be biting off more than I can chew, but it sounds like a hell of a learning opportunity and tickles my engineering/tinker brain’s fancy.

  Of course, after blowing something up, I’d probably focus on dissecting the drive train and using them motors for something else. I’m suddenly curious what the suspension set up is like. If they’ve got some crazy high tech mag-ride system, I’ll bet that could be repurposed for another vehicle (pending Tesla proprietary protocols for connecting to ECU).

  But now I’m rambling. The thoughts of what I could do with those parts though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New To Android? What Apps to Choose?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was using F-droid for the longest time as primary app store (where I could).

  This comment inspired me to swap to droidify though. A month-ish in and I’m super pleased with everything since I swapped.

  Just wanted to tag in with my own personal support for this recommendation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New To Android? What Apps to Choose?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which repo is ironfox in?