nexguy
@nexguy@lemmy.world
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- Comment on xkcd #3121: Kite Incident 1 week ago:
As a kid I once flew a kite with almost 1,500 feet of kite string. A quarter mile or so. It sagged quite a lot but we estimated it was about 350-400ft up or so in a field. Then a crop duster showed up.
I put the string between my legs while a fiend held the spool and ran as fast as I could to bring down the kite.
We were also about 1 mile past the end of a air force runway.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
Weird to compare a brutal dictatorship which violates human rights on the regular vs a democracy which violates human rights a little less.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 2 weeks ago:
I think the fastest way for Linux to spread is for there to be a cheap gross dirty disgusting commercial version pushed at bestbuy/walmart…etc where people can become familiar enough with it to switch to other distros and out still feel familiar.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
USB-C2(1)_new_final
- Comment on holee shiet 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t filling the air with dark and absorbing gasses warm the planet?
- Comment on holee shiet 3 weeks ago:
By more importantly, what color should the curtains be?
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 4 weeks ago:
Subscribe to see how the countdown finishes!
- Comment on Viewers like you 4 weeks ago:
“Woke” is a term bigots and racists took over to use to hate on “tolerance” without saying they hate “tolerance”. Take it back.
- Comment on (☞゚ヮ゚)☞ 1 month ago:
That’s the question. Where is the line between racism and artifact protection?
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 1 month ago:
I do not believe they limit it themselves, they just follow setting set by others. You can choose to block all traffic from certain counties of you want. Or not.
- Comment on Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square! 1 month ago:
“the same number of violent deaths as on any random weekend in the United States.”
Use critical thinking here. Even if this is the number, it is equating the violent deaths at a single location to the total number of violent deaths in the entire United States over a weekend. This one little tidbit lets you know of the angle of the article and the misinformation it tries to hide in plain sight.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 2 months ago:
Not even a little
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 2 months ago:
Not at all
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 2 months ago:
Wife’s streak is at 1,618 days across multiple categories. Almost 4.5 years. I imagine it’s like smoking at this point.
- Comment on (・∀・) 2 months ago:
Grandmother’s semen?
- Comment on YSK how to unclog a toilet 2 months ago:
It’s not the toilets that clog, it’s the pipes beyond. Thick toilet paper and tampons and tree roots breaking into pipes…etc are the culprits.
- Comment on AMERICAN POPE LETS GO 2 months ago:
farting? …no it’s fishing isn’t it.
- Comment on Unfortunately happens too often I think 3 months ago:
A cat has to go for a lap sit several times a day.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 months ago:
Companies censor ideas all the time. McDonald’s employees don’t tell their customers how ugly they are… it’s against company policy. Youtube is a company that can implement whatever company policies they like and if you don’t like it you can go somewhere else.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 4 months ago:
Ah so after install and throwaway account is set up, you can’t log in to the computer if your internet is down or turned off?
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 4 months ago:
Question: what is the downside of making a throwaway ms account upon install and never touching that account again?
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally removed Copilot in the latest Windows 11 update. 4 months ago:
What if you just don’t use copilot? I have 11 and I just simply haven’t touched that button in the two years I’ve had it. So it seems you can like it and use it or not like it and not use it.
- Comment on Sun God 5 months ago:
Mercury’s apparent size in the sky when close to us is about twice the size as when mercury is in the other side of the sun from us. So mercury would appear about 75% the size it is in this photo of it were next to the sun (so about the same distance away as the sun is).
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 5 months ago:
I like my sky wizards to be of authentic skin color thank you very much.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 5 months ago:
Stack Overflow and Google were once the “AI” of the previous generation. “These kids can’t code, they just copy what others have done”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I don’t think 99% of people who have joined bluesky have any clue what federation is or means. They do know what “not twitter” is however.
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 5 months ago:
I agree and it wasn’t a reply, just a thought that it could technically flip back and forth…ridiculously. which is very sad. It will always be gulf of Mexico and denali to me.
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 5 months ago:
So then in 4 years if a dem gets elected everything gets changed back… then a few years later if a rep gets elected…flipflop forever?
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 8 months ago:
All that matters is the cesspool that isn’t going to make Musk any money
- Comment on Bombs Awat 8 months ago:
Just make sure the strap between the legs is tight enough.