herrvogel
@herrvogel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Solar powered personal umbrella with battery? 3 days ago:
You’re not gonna be lining a flexible handheld device with the kind of solar panels that can achieve such efficiencies even under ideal conditions. If you want an actual parasol rather than an unwieldy, rigid, parasol shaped bed for a bunch of solar panels, this is a job for the more alternative solar cell types that are cheaper and less efficient, but can be made thinner and lighter, and can be stuck on something like that. Unfortunately those generally have piss poor efficiency and they degrade to near uselessness very quickly.
- Comment on Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box 4 days ago:
Does this mess with DRM stuff? Or do they keep working because it’s the same hardware?
- Comment on Have you ever been invited to a search party? 5 days ago:
I was. We walked around aimlessly in the forest, occasionally yelling out the missing girl’s name. Then it turned out to be a drill and the girl was fine. We were yelled at for being shit searchers, and were told that she’d be dead if it was real. I thought it was an extremely unreasonable thing to do, because we were just a bunch of teenagers on a camping trip and nobody had ever told us how to do a proper grid search so how the fuck were we supposed to know how to do it? It was a surreal experience.
Anyway we were mostly dressed in what we wore into our sleeping bags because we were pulled out of our tents in the middle of the night.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 2 weeks ago:
The only reason I accept to not let these people pass is if it forces you do something unsafe, like throwing yourself over to the next lane and slamming on the brakes to match speed with the other cars. Otherwise just give them the lane and let them be a reckless ass somewhere else away from you. Safer that way. It’s not your job to enforce traffic rules.
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 2 weeks ago:
Pro tip: you can probably uninstall Gemini via ADB. Android won’t let you uninstall it using your phone’s UI, but since it’s just another package you can probably use the old ADB tricks to wipe it from your phone. Use your favorite search engine to figure out how, it’s not exactly a secret.
- Comment on Cow eggs 2 weeks ago:
These are the tampons they stick into female bulls.
- Comment on 🧊🧊👶 3 weeks ago:
In 2023, the on-time arrival percentage of ICE trains was 60something%. That’s not exactly a number that screams reliability. I don’t remember the exact number DB had to pay out for delay compensations that year but it was an embarrassing sum. Just today 2 separate people in my group chat were saying unsavory things about DB’s mother because of 30+ minute delays on two separate ICE trains.
German trains being on time is a myth.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 weeks ago:
It is and it isn’t. Again, the whole thing is super vague. Machine vision or pattern seeking algorithms do not try to imitate any human behavior, but they fall under AI.
Let me put it this way: Things that try to imitate human behavior or intelligence are AI, but not all AI is about trying to imitate human behavior or intelligence.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 3 weeks ago:
LLMs are one of the approximately one metric crap ton of different technologies that fall under the rather broad umbrella of the field of study that is called AI. The definition for what is and isn’t AI can be pretty vague, but I would argue that LLMs are definitely AI because they exist with the express purpose of imitating human behavior.
- Comment on mothing phone 4 weeks ago:
I have a nothing phone. The glyphs were a neat gimmick the first few weeks I had the thing, but now I only use them as a softer flashlight. They just don’t really add much value to the thing.
Still like the thing very much though, overall.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 5 weeks ago:
Or they do switch but for like 1 day and then go back to messaging you on WhatsApp. I tried switching to signal at least a couple times, even convinced a couple groups to move, but not a single chat lasted more than a couple weeks. Eventually they all went back to WhatsApp. Every single one. It’s extremely difficult to get people to care.
- Comment on Protip: 5 weeks ago:
I once saw a girl very abruptly stop walking on a rather busy street, throw herself down on a nearby bench in a hurry, take out her stuff from her tote bag and just start knitting with an oddly peaceful expression on her face as if nothing happened. I was left wondering what the fuck I just witnessed. Happened in the span of like 4 seconds.
Yes she was barefoot.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
Which part broke exactly? Because I can confirm the one on my tablet, which I installed a long time ago, still works. Haven’t installed it on my current phone which I got not too long ago, so I’m wondering if it’s gonna be a problem.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 5 weeks ago:
I still use rif. You can get the app as an apk, and patch it to replace the original API key with your own using something like vanced. I already had my key from before the debacle, not sure how you get one these days. Anyway, it did give me some trouble while logging in, but eventually it worked.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 5 weeks ago:
It was a fine game that was tanked by the massive inconsistency of its quality as you progressed. The game starts out absolutely fantastic, but the quality takes a very sharp and sudden fall after a few hours, and then it just sorta ends not long after. It was a very weird experience. Definitely felt like something went very wrong during development and they had to make big changes.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 1 month ago:
I have removed my car’s muffler and modified it to be even louder.
I skip rope in my apartment in the middle of the night.
I walk right towards the front of a queue pretending to only have a quick question to ask and then I get my job done while I’m there.
I do use my indicator lights, but only 0.46 seconds before I actually turn.
I flush used cooking oil down the toilet.
I yell at the screen throughout the entire movie at the cinema.
I feed people’s pets without asking.
I accelerate when approaching a pedestrian crossing.
I empty a full can of axe body spray onto myself before using crowded public transportation.
I stop showering 6 days prior to attending cultural events.
I do not wipe down the devices at the gym after using them.
I think the last Star Wars trilogy was the best of the three.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 1 month ago:
There is a trick to bypassing the Israeli defenses. Just make sure what you’re doing will be giving the unhinged leader of the genocidal regime a casus belli to launch a war of conquest that they can sell as a defensive war, and suddenly you’ll find you can do anything.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 month ago:
But it’s an Apple keyboard.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Is Doing So Well It’s Giving $27 Million to Its Staff 1 month ago:
It’s the painting and detailing that can be quite expensive and time consuming. You obviously don’t have to paint your minis, but that’s the entire point for a lot of people.
- Comment on It is like LLMs are massively overhyped and can't even do half the things its advertised... 2 months ago:
The Fifth Element depicted a straight up utopia where gift wrapped Milla Jovoviches fall from the sky. I do not need any more than that.
- Comment on Metamorfuckthis 2 months ago:
Sorry Boss, can’t come in. The half-eaten apple lodged into my exoskeleton has become infected.
- Comment on And sir cumference, the sphere 2 months ago:
What are you doing in England?
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 2 months ago:
Those were all human names first. Places named after people, not the other way around.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 2 months ago:
Daedric lord of soul crushing corporate vocabulary.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 2 months ago:
Killer pastry though.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 2 months ago:
Good butter straight from a dairy farm is super dangerous though. You can suddenly find yourself standing in your kitchen, no memory of the last 45 minutes, the fridge door open, a greasy knife in your hand, breadcrumbs all over the floor, and half the butter gone. Gotta be careful with that stuff.
- Comment on Resistance is futile 2 months ago:
Connecting to the network does not have to mean connecting to the internet. Basically every consumer grade router out there is capable of restricting a device to the local network only. It could reach other devices on the network and the other devices would be able to reach it, but it would still be cut off from the internet.
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 2 months ago:
If by “literally anyone” you mean any catholic man, then sure.
- Comment on Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine, when he hears breathing under the latrine he's using [Day 116] 3 months ago:
Is that the guy who was stabbed in the anus by a toilet child climbing up the poop chute?
- Comment on Car sun visor with built-in navigation 3 months ago:
Don’t count on it. On really hot days the interior of a car sitting under the sun can reach petg’s glass transition temp. I’ve had petg prints, also attached to the visor as it happens, soften up and deform in my car.