ArcaneSlime
@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml
Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
- Comment on Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score 1 day ago:
Yes, and I know that because I too am highly regarded.
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 2 days ago:
Not for the same reasons, but “also no, sorry. Still going with Gulf of Mexico.”
I can meet you halfway and pronounce Mexico correctly, but that is beyond my abilities and I’m not ashamed to admit it lol.
- Comment on The right person for me deserves better. 1 week ago:
I tried the library, but unfortunately my local is populated with people whom it would either be illegal and/or undesirable to date, it’s mostly kids, olds (like, grandma/grandpa old. I’m an old but not that old, I’m looking for something in a decade-size 30s), or unfortunately houseless people (and while that in and of itself isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker, it often comes with things that are in my experience, can’t be dating addicts anymore for my own health, it is what it is.)
Bookstores maybe, and I’ve seen people in the store that I totally would love to get to know (who knows how it’d go y’know but I’m down for some coffee or something to determine compatibility beyond attraction yadda yadda), however it is my understanding that it is never appropriate to approach a woman in public and talk to her while she’s just trying to go about her business shopping, or god forbid working, anywhere.
- Comment on The right person for me deserves better. 1 week ago:
Does she have any friends for my door?
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 1 week ago:
Meshtastic and a solid network?
Printing the case for my first node (arriving tomorrow) now, we’ll see!
- Comment on The right person for me deserves better. 1 week ago:
Lmao me. Best part is even if I went out, the person I’m looking for is sitting in their room reading a book and wont be out where I am.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
“2020 search”
Bruh someone’s grandma needs help, we need to fix this computer, it looks like it’s about to get stuck on zombo.com.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
YES full support! I have and am sending this from my smartphone but I’ll stop going to your store before I download your stupid fucking app for a free mcflurry or whatever the fuck pisspoor excuse you have for installing malware on my devices.
- Comment on Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse 1 week ago:
Point of order, an effigy by definition would be a dummy/representation of the thing that you then symbolically destroy.
As in, you make an effigy of Mussolini out of cloth and stuffing and burn it in a protest before lining him against a wall, killing him, and defiling his corpse. The corpse itself is not an effigy unless you then use that and make it look like Hitler, and then burn the Mussolini-Hitler corpse as an effigy of Hitler, which tbh would have some layers to it and seems like an innovation in effigy technology…
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 week ago:
Meshtastic phoneless devices with BB keyboards, let’s goooooo!
- Comment on The death of capital letters: why gen Z loves lowercase 1 week ago:
Lowercase is more than just a The Guardian y’know, and that’s important to remember.
- Comment on A balanced diet is important 2 weeks ago:
Look, if he was dying, he wouldn’t bother to write ‘aarrggh’. He’d just say it!
- Comment on ENHANCE 2 weeks ago:
Are they variable or constant zoom? They could be L
PVO contacts - Comment on Seems like solid advice 2 weeks ago:
Isotopyl* lol
- Comment on If you're falling apart at only 27 you're in real trouble 3 weeks ago:
Tbf my mom started running 13.1s at 45, get gud.
Not that I’ve run one ever, to be clear. Fuck all that pass me the bourbon.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 weeks ago:
I’m still waiting for them to finish loading in.
- Comment on .tar.xz 4 weeks ago:
Guess I used winrar back then, 'cause no.
- Comment on .tar.xz 4 weeks ago:
…shit honestly I used winsomething until 7z, but you got me I can’t remember if it was -zip or -rar, damn similar names +20yr!
But in either case, “the rest.”
- Comment on .tar.xz 4 weeks ago:
I used winrar until I found out about 7 zip around 2003-4ish, but I still used 7z on windows back then tbf. Just using 7z and VLC on windows simply because they’re better doesn’t mean you have to be Stallman.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 4 weeks ago:
Not with a bang, but with a wimper.
- Comment on Your Exercise Bike Knows a Lot About You—and It Doesn't Keep Every Secret 4 weeks ago:
Don’t like that one bit.
- Comment on Your Exercise Bike Knows a Lot About You—and It Doesn't Keep Every Secret 4 weeks ago:
…how does it know? Do they have smellophones now?
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
I’ve always theorized that it should be possible to have multiple wake words with different functions, some invisible to the user.
It has to be “always listening” for the wake word to function at all, so it clearly is doing that, what’s to stop them from having another wake word like “bomb” which it then starts recording and sends to the NSA for instance, or even “clip the last 30 seconds” like an xbox could be feasible. Or even have corporations pay to get on the “list” of secret trigger words, like Toyota pays and it hears “Toyota” or “new car” and starts serving ads for 2026 Celicas (I wish lol). It doesn’t even have to send much data back for that, just “ohp, said word, check box to join “toyota” ad group.”
I’m not saying they do that, but like, it sounds totally easily possible and I can’t be the first person that had this idea, why wouldn’t they?
- Comment on Solidigm pulls out of consumer SSD market with discontinuation of drives 1 month ago:
Hell to be fair I don’t trust most of the brands I do recognize either lol.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 1 month ago:
Can’t forget the third of September! Yes, that’s a day I’ll always remember, yes I will, ‘cause that was the day my daddy died.
Come to think of it, do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changin’ the minds of pretenders while chasing the clouds away.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 1 month ago:
Sure, it could, but should it? No of course not, a safe “utopian” society through force is dystopian and still unsafe (just now the danger is sanctioned, don’t run afoul of Lord AI) in reality.
I’ll take the possibility of getting shot by some dickhead over AI overlords watching my every move any day of the week.
- Comment on Born for the job 1 month ago:
Nominative determinism at work.
- Comment on I never realized this 1 month ago:
Sorry, but unfortunately I got interested and followed your link:
There is a popular legend that “hooker” as a slang term for a prostitute is derived from his last name[26] because of parties and a lack of military discipline at his headquarters near the Murder Bay district of Washington, DC. Some versions of the legend claim that the band of prostitutes that followed his division was derisively referred to as “General Hooker’s Army” or “Hooker’s Brigade”.[27] However, the term “hooker” was used in print as early as 1845, years before Hooker was a public figure,[28] and is likely derived from the concentration of prostitutes around the shipyards and ferry terminal of the Corlear’s Hook area of Manhattan in the early to middle 19th century, who came to be referred to as “hookers”.
- Comment on Old fashioned 1 month ago:
Tbf CDs are of the worst of the physical media, yet one of the best due to the ease with which one can back them up.
Most of my CDs, DVDs, and tapes were entirely unavailable with any (conventional, anyway, or I’d have known) means of piracy (real obscure shit), or were purchased before limewire and ipods existed (of course I’m old). But vinyl has a certain charm to it, there’s absolutely no replacing physical books or comics, cart consoles are better than emulators if you have both, and sometimes just popping in a tape and being off to the races is better than hunting through netflix, yes we’re watching Rodan again.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
other than it had some cow involvement somewhere
Nope! Goat milk is common, so is human (though not commonly sold). My answer would be “mammal tit juice” but the UK seems to have summed it up nicely above with “mammory secretions” as well.