GooseFinger
@GooseFinger@lemmy.world
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
Their recent ToS update: “We bricked your TV until you ‘consent’ to waiving your right to sue us if we do something illegal. Also, we won’t tell you what you’re consenting to up front, instead we’ll make you spend hours reading through pages and pages of legal garbage to find where we buried this statement.”
They know that nobody would agree to this if they put it in big bold letters right above the “agree” button, so they bury it behind hours of tedious reading so that people cave in and just “consent.”
If you roofy someone’s drink and pester them until they “consent” to sex, you would get thrown and jail and probably shanked in the liver. If Roku bricks the TV that you purchased and won’t let it work again until you consent to something that you’re nearly guaranteed to miss or not understand by design, their profits go up because people can’t sue them.
This capitalism hellhole can’t burn down fast enough.
- Comment on Who would win? 8 months ago:
Paranoya.
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
You’re either missing something or you were committing a felony then. You can purchase guns in a state you don’t live in, but the gun needs to be sent to an in-state FFL who would make the transfer to you. This way you can’t sidestep your state laws by buying a gun in another state with laxer laws. Don’t take my word for it, here’s the ATF’s explanation.
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
That’s a myth - It’s a felony offense for gun stores to sell guns to non residents of the state they’re in.
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
Just to clarify, the FOID approval process is effectively performed in every state for any gun purchase. It’s not like the FOID background check carries more scrutiny or anything. If a Texan resident can buy guns in Texas, they could get a FOID card if they lived in Illinois.
And it’s federally illegal to sell guns to non-residents of the state the sale is made in, so Chicago residents can’t buy guns in neighboring states. Indiana and Wisconsin residents could bring guns into Chicago, but that alone is highly illegal too.
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
What exactly do you have in mind?
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
If they cared more about making our society safer, they’d pay teachers more, build more homes, quintuple minimum wage, make education cheaper or free, actually tax the rich, reign in corpos, reform the police, abolish for profit prisons, make healthcare affordable and accessible, remove money from politics, just to start.
But nah, virtue signaling is way easier and is clearly enough to get them re elected, so let’s ban 3D printers baby!
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
You can’t trust Amazon reviews either though.
- Sellers frequently farm good reviews by including cards in their packages that state "give us a 5 star review and get a full/partial refund!"
- Sellers update their listings with good reviews with different pictures, descriptions, etc. which effectively creates a different listing while carrying over a large review count.
- Amazon doesn’t allow reviews after 30 days (?) from purchase, so items poor durability will not have that reflected in their reviews
- Comment on 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free 10 months ago:
Why? Nuclear power is the most complex and expensive option of any clean energy source from what I know.
- Comment on Extruder clicking 11 months ago:
What’s that?
- Comment on Extruder clicking 11 months ago:
Your plastic is jammed. I think the clicking sound is from the extruder moving, but since the plastic is stuck, it compresses a mil or two before springing back and compressing again.
Your jam might be in the hot end. Heat it up really hot, pull the plastic out, and clear the nozzle with a fine metal pin. If that doesn’t fix it, you might need to replace the nozzle and reseat the bowden tube against the nozzle, making sure the end of the tube is cut very straight and perpendicular. Use an exacto knife or a really
Hope that helps! This happens to me too from time to time.
- Comment on Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger 1 year ago:
It’s really hard to say without being personally involved. Two years is a very comfortable amount of time to implement that specific change. The biggest hurdle is passing regulatory testing early enough to begin manufacturing in time to build a large enough stockpile before release. If they really pushed it and threw enough people at it, manufacturing could begin as little as 6 months after starting. But that’s a very risky timeline because about a million things will still go wrong all throughout the process, and “simple” design changes like this are never, ever simple.
I’m impressed if they began production one year after deciding to make the change. The EU directive might’ve been approved roughly a year ago, but Apple might’ve seen writing on the wall and started earlier too. Regardless of context, this is definitely not a >2-3 year process though.
- Comment on Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger 1 year ago:
Eh, I don’t know Apple’s intentions but this specific design change isn’t that complicated. The lightning port still uses the USB protocol so the firmware will be the same or very similar. The supporting electronics also wouldn’t change much, but at most they’d omit/add a few small passives and slightly reroute that part of the circuit to make things fit together. They’d also have to lock down a large production run of USB ports, but any manufacturer would accommodate a customer as large as Apple. They’d need to test fit it with the new phone chassis but that’s relatively simple as well. Regulatory certification would also be smooth sailing for a change this simple, since most of what’s changing is simply the form factor.
I figure it would take two years before customers would see this design change from the moment engineering was assigned it.
I’m an electrical engineer who works in production if that matters.
- Comment on Green Man Gaming will start sending the keys from 21st August 1 year ago:
How though? It’s showing $70 and $100 USD for me, which is what Steam charges
- Comment on YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead 1 year ago:
Man, if the only thing that’s preventing a country’s populace from murdering each other is restricted access to weapons, then that country is a failed society.