Chainweasel
@Chainweasel@lemmy.world
- Comment on How come there aren't any moral geniuses? 9 hours ago:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable
- Comment on ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! 2 days ago:
I think Gamers Nexus also did a video on it recently.
- Comment on The best way to keep feeling young is to remove all of your mirrors. 1 week ago:
Looking young is very different from feeling young.
I could never look at myself in the mirror ever again and it wouldn’t make my knees feel any better. - Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree at all, But I feel like the only reason why the United States has any interest in controlling the Middle East is because of the oil.
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, they all used micro plastics for a long time, charcoal and coffee grounds are a fairly new advent in the last few years.
- Comment on We don't really work 9 to 5 but still call our job 9-to-5 4 weeks ago:
And that’s for the people lucky enough to be able to work 8 hours a day, I’m 5a-6p lol
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 5 weeks ago:
Use us as cheap labor to produce products intended to be sold overseas, just like China has been doing for the past 40 years or so.
Do you really think the people that made your iPhone will ever be able to afford an iPhone? - Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 5 weeks ago:
I meant they used to me, I understand their use for it.
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 5 weeks ago:
I have a 4K dumb TV with no Wi-Fi at all and I’ve never had any image issues.
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 5 weeks ago:
Exactly, what’s the use of a smart TV when I have a game console capable of streaming everything a “Smart TV” can AND playing games/browsing the Web?
9/10 times people use a fire stick or cable box to watch TV anyway, all I need is volume, input selection, and power. - Comment on Where in the world is laptop gaming the most popular? 5 weeks ago:
Right??
I only game on laptop because I can’t justify spending the money on a homebuilt rig at the moment. - Comment on Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been? 1 month ago:
Just a quick correction, but there are 5 generations to a century, a generation is 20 years.
- Comment on Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been? 1 month ago:
No,
The best non-archival grade digital storage media will last decades at best, including optical Media like CD/DVD formats.
We’re in what’s considered a “digital dark age” where most of our digital backups will not survive in their current form and endless copying will eventually corrupt the data. There are archival grade systems that can theoretically store data for hundreds of years, but obviously we haven’t had a chance to test that yet.
But I think the biggest issue is compatibility.
If I were to hand you a 5¼ floppy disc with data on it, what’s the likelihood you have the equipment on hand to read that data right now? It’s pretty slim but it’s possible. But they’re not making 5¼ drives anymore and we’re left with what’s on hand.
200 years in the future, if someone finds an archival grade DVD long after the standard has been replaced, it’s highly unlikely they’ll have the equipment or software to read it.
The second issue is electricity.
If something like a Carrington event level solar flare happens and knocks us back to the Stone age for a generation or so, we’ll be able to read our remaining knowledge from ink and paper just fine, but we won’t have a prayer of accessing the digital information.
You need to remember that digital storage is less than a century old, we’re just scratching the surface of this tech now and we haven’t even come close to revealing all of its secrets, things are going to continue changing rapidly for the foreseeable future and a consequence of that is leaving old tech behind. - Comment on Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition Is a Tornado of Bad Ideas 1 month ago:
That’s fair, in my defense it was 4:00 a.m. and I’d just walked into work lol.
- Comment on Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition Is a Tornado of Bad Ideas 1 month ago:
There’s already Tornado of Souls
- Comment on What's your take on Bluesky? 1 month ago:
It’s not X so 👍.
I rarely used Twitter before the Musk takeover, only to follow a handful of authors I like for updates about their books and a few people who did aerospace updates, unfortunately most of them jumped on the BlueSky train instead of the Mastodon bus, and I’m not going to have an X account so BlueSky it is. - Comment on Supernova Absorption for Nulification 1 month ago:
The main reason why a star collapses is because it’s taking more energy to fuse elements than it gets from the fusion, this happens around the time the star starts fusing iron. Absorbing more energy from the Star during that phase would actually exacerbate the problem. You would need to find a way to inject more energy into the core, but not so much that it would exceed the gravitational pressure and cause the star to rip itself apart. It would be like trying to balance a bowling ball on a pin during an earthquake until the fuel ran out. And the fuel would run out very fast.
It would take Godlike levels of technology and it’s still unlikely to work, even with that level of tech.
- Comment on "This generation is finished" --previous generation 1 month ago:
In most cases they really don’t. I try to keep that in mind and make my best effort as I push toward my 40s to remember that it’s not my world anymore and try to keep caught up on things.
It really bugs me seeing my dad, who used to stay on top of new tech and try to keep up with things, just give up and not even try to understand things anymore. Adults just don’t remember what it was like to be teenagers when they get into their 30s and 40s. - Comment on Now that ChatGPT is being trained using Reddit posts 2 months ago:
The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight.
- Comment on Command & Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection now available on Steam 2 months ago:
They all cashed out on MMOs, The Warcraft series completely died off when WoW went online.
- Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. 2 months ago:
9:15
- Comment on What makes fishing as a hobby so appealing that people will fish all hours of the day and in nasty weather? 2 months ago:
Exactly this.
I still go “fishing” a few times a month over the summer and I usually just put a pole in and read into I hear the bell on my pole.
I usually toss them straight back after I catch them. - Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 2 months ago:
One big argument I keep hearing is that it would be too expensive.
It’s honestly not that bad. The estimated cost is around $350 million. Now, that might sound like a lot but when you take into account that it’s about $1 per person it doesn’t seem so bad.
Now, if you consider the military budget of $480 Billion per year it seems even smaller.
It would take approximately 0.07% of the 2024 military budget to switch to metric. - Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 2 months ago:
Single player shooter’s aren’t bad or even unpopular right now. But I think people are beginning to realize that anything that has EA’s name attached to it is trash and just avoid it on principal.
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- Comment on A pizza flavored Hot Pocket is just a calzone... 2 months ago:
We call that a Pot Pie
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oh wow, realize people were down voting this so heavily, it seemed glaringly obvious to me that the title was tongue-in-cheek and wasn’t meant to be taken literally.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is one of those things that make me question anyone who still follows religion.
How exactly is it fair, just, or right to torture a soul for 1*10¹⁰⁰⁰⁰ years for mistakes they made over an ~80 year time span?Any God that acts like a vindictive child isn’t a god worthy of worship.
- Comment on Six months after the initial reddit surge (graphs) 4 months ago:
Those results might be slightly skewed by alternate accounts. When I first joined after during the Reddit Exodus I created this account on lemmy.world, but the instance suffered a LOT of downtime for the first month or so, so I created a few other accounts on lemmy.ml and sh.itjust.works so I could still browse while lemmy.world was down.
After the instance stabilized I pretty much stopped using the account, so I personally am 2 of the people who “left” by leaving the other accounts inactive. - Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 4 months ago:
I’m on Connect and it looks the same to me