Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 6 days ago:
Tempered glass is still sharp but it breaks into tiny pieces so it can’t cut deeply.
- Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off? 6 days ago:
Aliens.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 1 week ago:
PNW weirdo here. I like things to be green and alive, I like my skin unburned, and I like being able to poke around tide pools on a lonely beach. Clouds and rain help all of that.
It’s currently sunny and about 77°F, which is about as warm as I want it unless I’m going swimming. Late summer when it approaches 100° is miserable, but for now the bright weather is fine and good for the plants.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 month ago:
“Roguelike” has also become very watered down. I see “roguelite” used less often, though it’s more accurate, but there isn’t a good alternative term right now. Turn-based-dungeon-crawler-with-permadeath is historically accurate but there’s a tendency to lump action games like Rogue Legacy and Enter the Gungeon in that needs to be accounted for.
(And no I haven’t played Rogue but I did play a bunch of NetHack)
- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 1 month ago:
No they’re just feeling morally superior for no good reason.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 month ago:
Move mouse and click faster is a big deal when it’s the only way you can interact with the world. And it’s just a mouse right now, but what about robotic hands? A thought-controlled wheelchair? A tiny bit of agency? Technology is iterative and built on failure, and you want to tell the people trapped in non-functional bodies that it will never get any better?
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 month ago:
You’re presupposing that surgical implants can’t be more responsive, intuitive, speedy, or sophisticated than an external device. The eye trackers are very useful but objectively pretty limited. Non-invasive EEG is weak and distorted because there is skull and more brain in the way, so “resolution” is limited.
If better outcomes are possible by putting electrodes as close to the signal source as can be, why not explore that option?
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 month ago:
My city is just too hilly. Cycling around is one thing, and they just put in new bike lanes (they’re not good ones, but still), but doing that with a grocery run or 60lbs of cat food and litter? No thank you.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 month ago:
Or by dorks who are thoroughly exhausted of the Console Wars and know it’s a joke but don’t think it’s funny. (It’s a dead horse with $5 armor)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Women also look at porn you dork.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
We’re in the middle of a long theocratic coup, cut us some slack.
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 2 months ago:
Culinary wastelands? Cajun/Creole cuisine is some of the best this country offers. Barbecue. Fried chicken. Come on now.
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 2 months ago:
Parks. Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, the Everglades, that sort of thing. Some truly spectacular nature.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 3 months ago:
Why would I willingly give up my ability to help myself? Roadside assistance is great, but relying on it being available is foolhardy. If you only ever drive in the city you live and work in, sure I guess. I don’t trips of 40+ miles are that unusual though.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 3 months ago:
The hope of all emergency features is that you never use them. I’ve never been in a collision but I’m also not stripping out air bags to cut weight.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 3 months ago:
Those would be far more expensive to produce, needing specific skilled craftsmen. Not that glass production is easy, but compared to hand-carved wood and stone the labor hours alone is a staggering difference.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 3 months ago:
Couldn’t pay me to live that far from an ocean. Or good internet.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 3 months ago:
Plus, it’s Wyoming. Famously the least densely populated state. That comes with some associated costs.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 3 months ago:
Well I do, so.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 3 months ago:
Gaming is the primary driver behind my PC choices by a humongous margin. I’m not really concerned about imvasive anti-cheat software, I don’t want to tinker with settings, I want to turn on my computer and play video games. That means I use Windows.
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 4 months ago:
TF2 was a better experience before it went free-to-play. I want a barrier that keeps the horses of clueless children out.
- Comment on Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game 4 months ago:
Morrowind is still dope.
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 5 months ago:
Not just Nintendo, it’s a Japanese thing. (Not to suggest it’s unique to them, just look at Disney.)
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 5 months ago:
I’ve been using Firefox exclusively for close to twenty years now and non-compatible websites are extremely rare. I’m sure there are industry-specific shortcomings but for general usage it’s always been acceptable at worst. And its market share is close to 7%.
- Comment on Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash 6 months ago:
No computer at all? Gonna have to track down something with a carburetor and hope it still runs. The newest you’re gonna find is a 1991 Oldsmobile.
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 7 months ago:
Ironic, considering Transformers was literally made to sell Japanese toys.
- Comment on Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting 7 months ago:
I worked at GameStop when Farmville was big. Regularly had older women come in and spend $40 to $100 dollars on Farmville cards. A couple of these women came in every week, outspending almost every “traditional” gamer I knew.
- Comment on The only thing that matters 7 months ago:
Washington State ferries are dropping like flies, and the condition of many of our bridges is shocking. We aren’t even maintaining.
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 7 months ago:
That’s how Musk names everything. He loves the letter X, he named the Tesla models “S”, “3”, “X”, and “Y”, the Cybertruck, his five most recent children including “Techno Mechanicus”… He’s absolutely unfit to be in charge of anything.
- Comment on Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff 7 months ago:
Back in the Old Days of the internet we used stuff like message boards and “webrings” which was a bunch of sites linking to each other (if you like my stuff, check out my friends!), everything was word-of-mouth. It intersected pretty strongly with real world nerd shit, connecting at conventions or colleges. I don’t think the normie internet could exist like that, it was just hobbyists and hikikomori types.