Couldbealeotard
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- Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them? 2 weeks ago:
Lots of things will confuse tourists because “tourists” is a large collective of people and a fraction of those people don’t seek to understand the world around them. The only thing worth doing is adding a few common international languages on the “swim between the flags” signs (if it’s not already done).
Otherwise, what else can get the message across that isn’t communicated with flags, signage, and a literal team of fully equipped life savers set up in front of a busy section of beach?
- Comment on [Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server 2 weeks ago:
RAID5 and RAID6 can lose 1 and 2 drives respectively without data loss.
- Comment on World's Video Game Companies 2 weeks ago:
Where’s Microsoft on the list?
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 2 weeks ago:
The satellite Cassini passed through a less dense section of Saturns rings and was met only by dust particles, despite the rings being populated by objects between 10 meters and the size of mountains.
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 2 weeks ago:
Yes, Cassini
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 2 weeks ago:
It shouldn’t be too hard to engineer orbit decay as a feature to avoid space junk.
Consider that space junk is so sparce it’s not really much if a consideration for launches. It’s like the rings of Saturn: the likelihood of a collision is so remote that they didn’t even consider it when we had a satellite move through it.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 weeks ago:
Just start by dropping it down to 3 numbers and see how you go from there.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like they are a liability when you put it that way.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 month ago:
If we lose the meaning of the word NAS then we can effectively talk about it. And enough new people are coming in and being taught that a NAS is the thing that runs Plex that it’s sometimes impossible to have a conductive conversation.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 month ago:
For me it’s not about what else I can run on it. I want my services separated from my storage devices. If I throw everything into one physical machine it takes everything down if something goes wrong. It’s also harder to do upgrades without needing to replace entire machines
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 month ago:
And as usual everyone is saying NAS, but talking about servers with a built in NAS.
I’m not saying you can’t run your services on the same machine as your NAS, I’m just confused why every time there’s a conversation about NASs it’s always about what software it can run.
- Comment on Exclusive: Writer Confirms ‘Star Trek: Khan’ Is Being Treated As Canon, Talks Potential Future Audio Series 2 months ago:
Lucas would always say that the EU was canon. Not because he had supervised them, not because they were written well, but because being canon means the fans will feel they “need” to consume it.
No studio is going to outright say anything is non-canon because it’s a bad marketing technique.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 2 months ago:
The whole point of jellyfin/Plex is to provide a feature rich UI for your video files on your hard drive. This is walking back from that to the point that you may as well just use vlc and map network drives on windows. Heck, just carrying around a SSD full of videos is easier than this.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 2 months ago:
When we dream we often believe it to be reality, despite that in retrospect we can identify clear contradictions with logic in those dreams.
A Matrix-like simulation doesn’t have to be perfect. We are a bunch of dumb-dumbs who will suspend disbelief quite easily and dismiss those who claim to see a different truth as crazy.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 2 months ago:
Maybe in some cases. My robot stores it’s smart map on the cloud, which means of you cut off the internet it loses a lot of features.
- Comment on New BoM website has rolled out 2 months ago:
You shouldn’t scrape a web page when they have their own free API
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 3 months ago:
Aya Brea, from Parasite Eve
The perfect mix of unsuspecting hero, chosen one, and bad ass. The sequel also gives her an Ellen Riply in Aliens vibe as well. Shame about 3rd Birthday and the fact we will never get another one. For those who don’t know, the owner of the original IP didn’t want to renew the license for the games, which means the games can no longer use anything from the novel which includes all references to mitochondria and Eve. That’s why 3rd Birthday was seemingly a totally different game; they tried to make a sequel that couldn’t reference any of the main plot points of the previous games or novel.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 months ago:
What’s your process to rip from Spotify? Do you get full quality?
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 3 months ago:
Well, it was your negligence to have bald tyres, so it would be your fault of you had an accident because of that.
Again, I’m saying this is not a good analogy.
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 3 months ago:
I disagree that the responsibly of an accident falls on what other people wanted you to do. What if you had to take someone to hospital and the same accident occurred? Is it the fault of the person that needed to go to hospital? What if you need to rush out to help a family member in distress? Would it be their fault for being in distress?
I think it’s not a good analogy for responsibility. Sometimes car accidents happen and you can’t pin that on “it’s not my fault because I didn’t actually want to go to the place I’m driving”
- Comment on oh cool 3 months ago:
Boo.
Haters gonna hate Gaters gonna gate
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 3 months ago:
“we’ve discovered we can fill 80% of the customers field of view with ads before inducing seizures”
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 months ago:
Then how do you manage the type of people who just want control over as much a possible to stroke their own ego while doing a terrible job or pushing their own agenda?
Surely it’s better for unmoderated pages to prune themselves, leaving only ones with enough interest to survive.
- Comment on Why aren't there many controllers with the ability to physically swap out the ABXY layout between Xbox/PC and Nintendo layout? 5 months ago:
That’s right, circle was accept because drawing a circle in Japanese is their equivalent to a tick, x is cancel like a cross, I think the square was supposed to look like a piece of paper, I can’t remember what the triangle symbolised.
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 5 months ago:
Is this a real picture?! Wild!
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 5 months ago:
I think it’s proven fact that things often sell off of the art and IP, sometimes for those alone. If that wasn’t the case they wouldn’t fight so hard to protect it.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 5 months ago:
People are just discussing the pros and cons of technology in the Technology comm. Chill out.
- Comment on We all sleep alone soundly; Maybe the key to a happy marriage is separate beds 5 months ago:
It’s a reference to the popular TV show How I Met Your Mother
- Comment on We all sleep alone soundly; Maybe the key to a happy marriage is separate beds 5 months ago:
When I’m sad I just stop being sad and be awesome instead.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 5 months ago:
I thought he did it to cure herpes
