herrvogel

@herrvogel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  See, you highlighted why the German cuisine is not that great. There’s simply not much variety in what you just listed. The German cuisine is kinda shallow, focusing mostly around the same stuff. If you’re not that into cheese or meat, then that’s 75% of the German cuisine eliminated.

  One thing “food countries” have in common is that their cuisines have variety. Go to Spain or Turkey or China, and you’ll be drowning in mouth watering options no matter what kind of food you like. Hard to say the same for countries like Germany or the NL or Denmark or whatever. Yeah they can be very good at what they do, but they just don’t do a whole lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know exactly how Greek fire was made. You just don’t know that you know the exact recipe for the ultimate naval weapon. Yes, you in particular. Tell us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've probably met someone who has killed a person⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wondered what drives people to such confessions. Not a killing of course, but I once met a dude and like 20 minutes later he was telling me about the literal scams he pulls. Shit like stealing old people’s passwords and whatnot to buy things for himself online. Very unambiguously illegal stuff. There was no context either, no lead up to that conversation. He just pulled the subject to that out of nowhere and started spilling the beans. One minute we were talking about wearing thinner gloves inside thicker gloves to keep our hands extra warm, and the next minute he was telling me how he tricks old people into submitting their email credentials into fake forms that he makes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting too expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No idea who that is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting too expensive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure someone’s there have been people who sold some catalytic converters that fell of a truck somewhere to buy RAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because whitespace sensitivity makes it very easy to make a whole bunch of annoying mistakes when shuffling code around, or copying it from one source to another (from one editor in one application to another editor in another application). I find it supremely unpleasant to work with. Looking kinda a little bit slightly messed up should not be a critical syntax error that breaks the whole code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From what I've seen, public transit is either expensive and terrible or cheap and good.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except when the train is operated by Deutsche Bahn. Then you wish you were walking from Düsseldorf to Munich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't try to stop me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very different vegetables though. It’d be like comparing wine and beer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These things are very heavily optimized for the singular purpose of reading books. They can’t do much of anything else, but they do that one thing very well and very efficiently. They run a custom, lightweight Linux OS that’s very aggressive with its battery management. Coupled with an e-ink display, they sip power and can run for weeks on a single charge. That’s not something a simple android can provide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  3 zone a/c is also pretty nice. No more “it’s too <exact opposite of what the driver is feeling>” whining from the back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt it but it does look like it went through some heavy handed filter or even some upscaling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A roundabout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell of a way to total a car though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a corpo problem, not an EV problem. They could very easily make a perfectly fine EV that isn’t a motorized iPad, if they chose to. But they aren’t. The EV push just happened to coincide with the global ramping up of enshittification that had already begun for all cars regardless of their energy source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was said by one random, rather insignificant Microsoft employee who had no capacity to make such a claim. Not in a position to even have that kind of information on the company’s future plans.

  And even if they did have the capacity, if you actually go look at what really was said, it’s reasonably clear that they wanted to say latest version but fucked up the sentence. I hate defending Microsoft but that thing has become a meme at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good boah⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How am I supposed to explain that to my kids

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No excuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depression doesn’t make you do something so completely antisocial as displaying your shit stained ass wiping towel to your coworkers. There are deeper psychological issues there. That boy needs professional help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨N. 5⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Number 4 is when the force of your shit cannot be contained within the bowl and you have to spend some time cleaning around it when you’re done.

  Number 5 is when the force of your shit cannot ne contained within the bathroom and you have to pay for renovations when you’re done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not being able to play games? Not serious? What the hell are you talking about? Did you compare a 3090 to a bottom tier ATI Radeon card or something? My RX 6800 was a fucking champ that was able to run everything I threw at it without a single problem and with quite satisfactory performance at 1440p. It was most definitely a very competent GPU for gaming.

  ML and nvenc are extra features that not everyone needs or even wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Llama⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Clefairy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh. I would not take either. In fact I actually didn’t. I went to a showroom and got inside their EVs and PHEVs while looking for a car. My immediate reaction after sitting in the driver’s seat of their PHEV was “I don’t want to drive this”. Same thing with the pure EV. I’ll give you the wheel, but those A/C controls next to the “shifter” are touch surfaces instead of actual buttons, and they’re just as annoying and worthless as touchscreen controls. Which is sad because those cars have fantastic stats on paper and very competitive prices.

  Unfortunately most EVs on the market have fucking stupid interior designs. Very often you have to choose between affordable and well designed. Not very many that are both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BYD cars don’t have very many buttons either. See here. They’re tablets on wheels too. I quite dislike BYD interiors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, olives are different. Most of our fruit are descendants of wild fruit that are bland, tasteless, poorly textured at worst. Stuff that’d make you say “meh I don’t care for this”, not “I’d rather taste my own vomit”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s olives for me. Raw, fresh olives are absolutely disgusting. Insanely bitter. Straight up inedible until it’s essentially pickled, which is what we actually eat. Crazy that someone ate that shit off the branch and went “I can fix this” instead of just writing the entire tree off as junk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re pretty common and the functionality is often not even obscure. Plenty of ROMs out there are unable to make full use of the fancy cameras on some phones because of driver issues. That’s not an insignificant thing. I’ve seen NFC and e-sim being unavailable as well, which are also not very obscure features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was said by some random Microsoft employee who had no official capacity to say something like that, and the whole thing sounded like they meant to say “latest” anyway. It is and was a worthless statement that got way more attention than it deserved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True art is polarizing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t know what the fuck data-eating aliens are supposed to be, but I ain’t watching that shit to understand. I just hope Brent Spiner is ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe you’re talking about Sagrada Familia, not Barcelona Cathedral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Limiting the bandwidth use of individual devices is pretty easy, and basically standard procedure for public networks. Even cheap consumer routers that come with ISP subscriptions can do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The water thing is just a quirk of capacitive touchscreens. The same happens on the most expensive watches too, which is why there is usually a water mode that you can put the watch into. It sorta locks the touchscreen until you disable it using one of the physical buttons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tailscale funnel is made for this.