spongebue

@spongebue@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You take that back!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And if it is done right it can add a dimension of flavor. Carrot and onion develop a bit of sweetness when cooked a while. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it’s not exactly what you’re looking for in a bowl of chicken noodle. Celery, being disgusting when raw, doesn’t do that and helps break that pattern up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean the leaves, AKA cilantro? Do you have that gene?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok Boomer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to guess that those highways between metro areas, especially where speeds like that are even feasible (highest speed limit in the US is 85) are so remote and sparsely traveled that that’s not where the deaths are happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I make those smears with the poop knife

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I have a poop counter so I can keep track

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  feasebal

  Well, that’s a new one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First it was GPUs because crypto, then this. Wonder what useless thing the tech bros will cover up with in a few years!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT down again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no!

  Anyway…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A phone you can crumple up like a receipt before you put it in your pocket

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will not be long before we see ads claiming no ai was used in their product⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a very interesting solution, especially when it doesn’t have a problem to accompany it, which is most of the time. Often companies are forcing it because others are using it and God forbid they miss out on the fad revolution!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I guess I should have been clear that’s part of what I was thinking (although to be honest I’m mostly a schmuck who pays for a few streaming services and uses that)

  What exactly would be the main choking point? Horsepower of the Pi to take that stored file and stream it to the client?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I missed the part where Beth is at all interested in this plan, especially with its intent. That’s kinda important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about a Raspberry Pi? I’ve got one (Raspberry Pi 400) running my Home Automation setup with a couple USB 3.0 ports. Was thinking there’s gotta be some add-ons for Home Assistant to put some external storage to good use.

  Don’t need anything too fancy. Just looking for some on-site backup and maybe some media storage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, a majority of voters, not a majority of us, but as another commenter said if you sat this one out you basically helped the winner and I’m absolutely going to blame you for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re absolutely right! You should celebrate your vast knowledge with a bottle of Coca Cola® as give figured out how to outsmart big tech, hard as good companies like Facebook try to serve you with relevant advertisements to help you improve your life (like how Maybelline can help your complexion issues) try, you’ve definitely outsmarted me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China has been China-ing for a while, we get it. America’s actions are relatively fresh, and a majority of us DID choose him. While I’ll immediately reassure people that I didn’t vote for him, the fact that I have to separate myself from what’s going on comes from a sense of shame over that.

  That said, if I met a Russian I wouldn’t necessarily hold the invasion of Ukraine against them… But I might have to ask if they really support that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to tell me what AI can’t do when I’m facetiously drawing attention to something that AI can’t do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s kind of my point… If these things are so smart that they’ll take over the world, but they can’t limit themselves to certain terms of service, are they really all they’re cracked up to be for their intended use?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So why can’t this awesome AI be stopped from being used in ways that violate the TOS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I kinda get it. I hate ads but understand that’s the “price” I pay for content. It’s also gotten invasive to the point that the Internet has gotten unusable without an adblocker, so I do that too (if there were less I’d at least try to do my part)

  That said… You do know that the skip button was put in by YouTube? Do you really never press it? Or click the microscopic x to close an ad that’s in your way? Do you also go through the trouble of actually reading all of your junk mail?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands on with North Korea’s Illegal Phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the video was very well done. Implying that it was misleading when you haven’t even seen it was a pretty shitty thing to do. The least you could have done is tell us what horrible things he did in other videos. But I’m not going to change my mind about this video because some hotshot gave some vague criticisms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you familiar with that thing where you eat popcorn and you get a tough little piece lodged way back in the depths of your mouth right by the base of your tongue?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understood the feeling OP mentioned and my tonsils were removed decades ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't all the "illegals" or just some put a tracker on them that goes back to their spouse or something? That way we can go to whereever the place their held at a protest the shit out of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your endgame here? That 1) some guy will be able to get a sizeable crowd of strangers to show up on their behalf AND 2) it will be enough that ICE will release that one person?

  There have been individuals drawing protestors already. Hasn’t done shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Candles are the percent gift. Of the receiver doesn't like them they can set them on fire and remove the problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I don’t like them it’s probably because it’s scented and makes my allergies go nuts 😟

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wordle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m missing half the point of the Fediverse, but we have !wordle@lemmy.world already. What do we need this new one for? Especially when this is in .world’s new communities community

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe user replaceable phone batteries are making a comeback, but with the way my phone is pretty much sealed up I wouldn’t trust myself to not break it. I’d also be leery of a third-party replacement lithium battery of unknown quality (let’s be honest, that’s what you’ll probably end up with) charging right next to my head while I sleep. Saying that as someone whose friend had a lithium battery fire with her laptop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The elders of the Internet know who I am?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep my car charged to 80% to help with battery degradation, and here’s why:

  • Most days, I don’t use more than 30% of my battery capacity (roughly 75 miles/120km). Even that’s high. I don’t care if that means I go from 100%->70% or 80%-50% when I’ll charge back up again overnight

  • It’s not a permanent setting! If I do go on a longer trip, I’ll bring it back up to 100% and not sweat it!

  From what I’ve heard, charging beyond 80% increases the degradation rate, meaning time spent at that level is an important part of the equation. If I keep my phone plugged in overnight and at my desk, I have a lot of time at full charge that I’m not really using, but if I know I’m flying that day or running errands all day I can pop it up to 100% and it will be a non-degraded 100%

  I’ve had my S20 far longer than my car and never did limit its charge. It’s fine for me, but the battery is sure showing its age.