Atomic
@Atomic@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 2 days ago:
You have headphones and a car? Disgusting consumer behavior, you just NEED to have the latest technology don’t you. I ride a horse and use my voice to sing if I want to listen to music.
I don’t even have a phone because they are A: stupid, and B: sending letters in the mail work perfectly. My horse is 13 years old and I do most reshoeing. Never had a new horse.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 3 days ago:
Good ol alcohol 120%
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 3 days ago:
Are you manufacturing your own CDs and tapes, or are you buying them as a consumer?
Good job not being a consumer I guess.
- Comment on Just in time 1 week ago:
I hate to break it to you. But if you were born back then, you wouldn’t be a knight. You wouldn’t be an explorer. You’d be a peasant. Working your farm from birth to grave.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 weeks ago:
Electricity works by moving electrons from point a to point b.
There are different ways of acomplishing this. Easiest is to have an electrolyte between zinc and copper. Kids use a potato for their science class. Volta used cloth soaked in saltwater.
Which is also why call it “Volt” and “Voltage”
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 2 weeks ago:
From 5-13 I had a PS1 and PS2, fantastic games were made. But that one night in maybe 2010, I was maybe 14, had a new computer I’d saved up for and built, I looked at piratebay and saw “Fallout 3” lots of seeders, cool, let’s try it. Must be good if so many are seeding.
It was leagues above anything I’d ever played before. The graphics were stunning! The open world was breathtaking. I get to choose my own dialog!? I don’t think anything will ever manage to compare to the day I played Fallout 3 for the first time.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
I’m bias, but Sly Raccoon is such a great series. I thoroughly enjoyed it growing up. I see you have Sly2 in your image. I would suggest starting with the first game and move up from there.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 weeks ago:
Students. Students make them that way. It’s no coincidence that most older teachers feel like they’ve checked out.
I did substitute teaching for about two years. I got to see a lot of my old teachers, Some classes were wonderful, a true joy to teach. Others, not so much. I can understand why some people, as you say, mentally check out. It’s a coping mechanism. They were not all the same people I remember. Maybe part of growing older. Maybe part of years of difficult students sucking out all the joy of teaching they had in them
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen concentrate with energy drink flavour. I tried it. Tastes like generic energy drink.
Just mix it with water.
- Comment on Shh 4 weeks ago:
I just love how you think I’m presuming too much, only to in the very next sentence assume I think removing plastic straws being the end of the road and final solution.
And since I according to you, presume too much, did you want me to spend less energy on, literally, making straw-men (plural), like, scare-crows? Or did you mean that I should spend less energy on figuratively, straw-manning.
I would assume the latter but you are, literally, formulating the former. Either way. I’m not doing either of those things.
- Comment on Shh 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the good old, “It’s not the #1 problem so why bother doing anything”. It’s that wonderful kind of attitude that simply doesn’t get anything done, ever. Because there’s always a bigger problem.
The only ones focusing on one thing like plastic straws, are people like you. The rest of us moved on
- Comment on Shh 4 weeks ago:
I’m not ignoring anything. But if you want me to cover every single issue and aspect of various types of trash management, it’s gonna be a god damn university essay, I don’t even think lemmy would allow so many characters in a comment.
Peoples “unmindfulness” is responsible for every single piece of garbage you see around you. When I walk down the road and see a bag of crisps laying around. That’s because a person just tossed it. And no. I’m not ignoring corporate waste or pollution, criminal or otherwise. But that isn’t the topic right now.
This specific post was making fun of the straw bans vs other single use plastics that are seemingly fine. straws vs pipets used in labs. And what I said was that pipets are not being littered around every corner of the globe. But straws are. That’s why movements to ban such implements are ongoing. That’s why we have movements to ban single use plastics like straws and cutlery, while a plastic shampoo bottle is still “fair game” since they’re not typically just tossed in nature.
That doesn’t mean I’m just ignoring everything else. We also didn’t talk about how armed robberies are bad. But I can assure you, I’m not ignoring them, they’re just not the topic at hand.
- Comment on Shh 4 weeks ago:
And observations of landfills or unrecycled stockpiles doesn’t vary by location?
The idea was to try and remove plastic waste that people tend to just throw away without thinking much of it. Lab students don’t exactly take pipets with them and throw away in a ditch. But unfortunately, way too many people just throw away single use plastics like straws, cutlery, cups, “paper plates”, etc.
- Comment on Shh 5 weeks ago:
All you need to do is walk on the side of a busy road and look in the ditch to see what people just throw away.
It’s not a lot of shampoo bottles, but tons of plastic cups and accompanied straws.
- Comment on YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save a page into a single HTML file. 5 weeks ago:
Selecting “Save as” is not the same as “view while offline”.
“Save as” is just a legacy function that has been passed down to Save the HTML into a file. It’s not used to “save” pages or sites to view offline.
The ability properly Save a page to view offline is already included in most browsers. Even Edge has that functionality built into it.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 5 weeks ago:
That’s not even an answer. Kids do not comprehend the full extent of the world around them. That’s why you get silly kids movies with animals instead of people.
We don’t show kids fight club. And even if they saw it, they won’t understand what it’s about.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 5 weeks ago:
You’re talking about Disney movies. Intended for children. They’re not gonna go shoot someone in the head because they’re responsible for denied health insurance.
Why are you expecting kids movies to be an accurate intricate commentary of society in the first place?
It’s movies, for kids. Most people grow out of that. But some keep being obsessed with “superheroes”
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 month ago:
You’re an idiot… we’ve had patents since the 15:th century…
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 month ago:
Yes you generally do need to involve a business partner that has the means to produce the product in any meaningful capacity.
Or, if we go by what you want. They don’t even have to partner with you. They’ll just start making it themselves and push you out of the market because there’s absolutely nothing that would prevent them to.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 month ago:
Patent law is the foundation of which our entire civilisation rest upon. I can agree it can be flawed and/or exploited sometimes.
But only a useful idiot would want patents to not exist at all. It’s the only thing that protects your innovation from being stolen by those with means to outproduce you.
It’s literally there so when you invent a new product, others (wealthy companies) can’t just steal your design and flood the market with cheaper versions due to the fact that they can mass produce it.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 month ago:
Every country have criminals and guns. The difference is how available they are to the general public. And what type of guns.
Anyone in the US that isn’t a convicted felon can buy a handgun as soon as they turn 21. And there are very few laws on how you’re required to store them.
Compared to Europe where it’s incredibly rare for an average citizen to have access to a handgun.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
What exactly is your argument? Why would a computer only be able to run Windows?
Secure Boot doesn’t restrict anyone to only windows. Even if we play with the idea that it’s impossible to disable it. You can still install some Linux distributions.
Anything can support secure boot, the question is, are the keys included in the BIOS so it can run that particular OS without loading extra keys?
I don’t even understand what you’re trying to say… You don’t need keys in BIOS to install either Windows, or Linux. The only purpose for the BIOS key is for users to be able to just boot up their new computer that they bought factory new WITH their OS of choice without having to go through extra steps of verifying your OS license.
But you don’t NEED a key in BIOS. You can still buy a key separately to set up Windows. Same goes with paid versions of Linux distributions, such as Red Hat.
- Comment on YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel 1 month ago:
YSK, that’s not what it says or means…
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
Enterprises use a lot, and I do mean A LOT of custom software. Either developed in house or by others. They absolutely care.
What Microsoft does within their own OS, as the “S” version you’re talking about. That’s a non issue given you can just flash the drive and install whatever OS you want.
As for the concern that you’d somehow be unable to install another OS. Due to Secure Boot. I personally have never come across a computer that I’ve had full BIOS access to that didn’t allow disabling secure boot. Though some have been more cooperative than others. But maybe I’m just lucky.
But I’m also pretty sure there are linux distributions that support Secure Boot.
Secure Boot for what it’s intended to do, is a pretty good feature. Which is to stop unauthorized software from running before initiating your OS
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
It’s not going to happen.
Motherboard manufacturers are not going to start making Windows only BIOS.
Microsofts target audience isn’t the private user. It’s companies. The money they make selling their OS to private persons are table scraps compared to their enterprise licenses. Any such initiative would fuck over every single enterprise customer.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 2 months ago:
Well, no one has ever accused the Daniah of having a spine.
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 2 months ago:
I picked up the legendary edition trilogy and loved it.
My advise. Take your time. And don’t worry about your choices. They don’t matter. Just do what you feel is right and it will all work out.
Except for one thing. Whatever Jacob says. Do the opposite. His advise is always, at best, redundant, and at worst, catastrophic.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 months ago:
No don’t want to guess. I’d rather ask him directly instead of making assumptions.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 months ago:
You will find such language pretty much everywhere. And there are reasons for it. A good example are certain drugs that are technically not illegal. Because they have not been officially classified yet.
That used to be a thing here in Sweden some time ago, where they’d just change some little compound and could technically, legally sell it online until it was deemed otherwise. Because it’s now technically a new formula. Once it was classified, they just repeated the proceas.
MasterCard might not want to be seen as an enabler in the drug trade. So while it’s technically legal. They don’t want anything to do with it. And would like the option to take action.
And according to the articles. It’s not MasterCard pointing to that regulation, but the processors. As MasterCard notes. They’re not a bank, they’re not processing your payment. They just provide the technology to do so.
Furthermore. I’m quite amazed that people seem to think Valve is this really good company that we can all trust and take their word on. Valve says one thing. MasterCard says another. I wouldn’t take either one of them on just their word. Better to take a step back, and see how it develops so you don’t make yourself a useful idiot.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 months ago:
I’m sorry. Did you just say you want to vote Trump because you think they’re against censorship? The guy that threatens journalists, and politicians that report or say bad things about them. Do you not think that’s censorship?
I don’t even have a bone in this fight. I just want to understand the thought process.