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- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 5 days ago:
Did the AI submit a call to Life Alert!?
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 5 days ago:
Unfortunately it would still be able to pick up the signal but the Tuner wouldn’t be able to convert the newer digital format.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 5 days ago:
My Dad took 16 rechargeable AAs and ran a small circuit board to them with an adapter cable coming out. The zipper cases they made for GGs had a large cavity behind the storage area that was perfect for hiding them. I could play for an extra 16 hours with those things. Had to recharge them with a huge wall wort but it was the best gift my Dad ever made for me. I loved that damn system.
- Comment on He's on a mission 5 days ago:
You get 6 points a year. You’re at 5 now because last February you were snowed in for 5 days without power. You just have to make it until Dec 31st.
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 2 weeks ago:
My problem is that my battery case has stopped charging along with my phone. Phone only charges with high wattage chargers, and phone case only charges with low wattage ones. Still get like 3 days charge on the case, but now takes like 16 hours to fully charge. Also, taking the phone case off so much eventually opened the back of my S20fe. Fixed that with S7000.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I’m not a trained tech, but it isn’t hard to open up the heat pump and look at wires going in and looking at the thermostat and making sure they match. Although I admit someone ran stranded wire instead of solid core (one day I might try to fish a new wire). For now I just tinned the ends.
- Comment on Elon Musk: What was the mysterious bright light spotted in Irish skies? 2 weeks ago:
Thorn (þ) is a letter that represented the “th” sound in Old English and other languages. It originated from the Elder Fuþark symbol ᚦ and was used in Old Norse… - Wikipedia
So either a time traveler or perhaps someone located in Europe that doesn’t use th in common language. Further digging shows that only Iceland still uses this character commonly. So, Icelandic spectrum.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 2 weeks ago:
I replaced mine with a Sensi. 4 months with Nest, and it decided to confuse hot vs cold signals. Middle of August, it tried to “cool” my house at 3am, instead turning on the furnace, and just kept on going due to the temperature rising. For a week straight, I awoke to 90 degree temps in my house at 3:30 to 4am, and a nice heating bill. I had an hvac friend come over ad tell me in fact, yep, it’s sending signal to furnace, not ac. He checked the wiring, all good. He admitted he knew little of Nests, but said only an idiot would design a thermostat that could allow for a hot/cold signal switch without rewiring.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 weeks ago:
Celery is good for an additive for flavoring, but has near zero nutrition as it has such a low caloric amount. Chewing on celery burns more calories than intake.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 weeks ago:
4 to 5 tablespoons, yes please
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 weeks ago:
Taco seasoning and chili seasoning are very close to the same thing.
- Comment on Get Free IPTV Trial 3 weeks ago:
This is why I can’t stand IPTV services. Piracy at home? No big deal. Lots of community, mostly free, lots of good vibes. IPTV just steals for the cash grab, and likely will rob you blind on their way out.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 3 weeks ago:
He left a meeting to soak his feet in a toilet and didn’t believe in taking baths or showers. I wonder if his skin cells went towards science.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 3 weeks ago:
80? Shit, I have my phone set at 85…
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 3 weeks ago:
I will never forget when he was told years later in an interview that an Atari job Steve Jobs sent his way to code Breakout was for $700, and split it 50/50. Woz was told the real amount was $5k with a $5k bonus, and he got 350 for it. He cried. He thought they were best friends, and knew in that moment his friend wasn’t real. It amazes me he didn’t piss on Job’s grave.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 3 weeks ago:
Generations are 10 years now? Holy shit I’m Methusala. I’ve gone through four!
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 3 weeks ago:
Gonna need more. I’ve always heard good things about him and he seems to care less about wealth and greed and more about playing with tech.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Ok, so I’ve never heard of this before. How does this differ from packet radio?
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 4 weeks ago:
We homeschool our daughter. Saw a cool history through film course that taught with an example movie every week to grow interest… nothing in the itinerary said they’d play a video of Columbus by PragerU. They refused the refund, as it was 2 weeks in, and said it was used to foment conversation, but no other video was being offered or no questions were prepared to challenge the children. I worded my letter to call out the facts about Columbus vs the video, and the lack of accreditation of the source. I tried not to be the “lib”, but I very much got the gist that’s their opinion of me, and how they brushed me off. That fucking site is a plague on common sense, decency, and truth. Still fired up, and it was last month. We pulled her out of the course immediately after the video.
- Comment on ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all 5 weeks ago:
I won’t say who, but I used to work for a large telco. Seeing their charges, it was x plan with y equipment fee. I have had two other ISPs in the past 2 years, one of which was Comcast. I had x plan with no equipment fee (I just bought a cable modem, cause fuck leaving my router even slightly exposed). What fucking companies came up with these other bs fees? Or are we talking phones? Cause yeah, that’s all kinds of fee fuckery
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 5 weeks ago:
I saw my first Jaguar system there… and was immediately told I’d never have one because of its expense.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 5 weeks ago:
They picked the perfect guys for Chicago. I hope they brought their beers and their wings for… “DA BEARS!”
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 5 weeks ago:
I dunno, the Rodney King riots were pretty damn crazy.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 5 weeks ago:
I was a kid, so don’t remember everything as my Dad explained it, but it used a more powerful magnetron with a pulse system and used a fan to blow the heat. It also cooked hot pockets without leaving the outside cold and lava inside. Moreso than that, I don’t remember as it was a tech geek dad talking to a 12yr old teenager that only cared to listen to the first half. I was a shit, and I regret ignoring the trove of knowledge that man had.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool [34:39] 5 weeks ago:
The safety warning about CRTs is no joke. My dad used to work appliance repair in the 80s. These guys were all well trained in that shop. They had a shelf of tvs with dates on them. No tv was to even be looked at until at least 3 days from dropoff, then they discharged the capacitors. They hated the tvs most, because they ran test after test before plugging them back in. I miss the free crap Dad would drag in due to missed payments or abandoned electronics. We had a 24 in industrial microwave that I miss to this day. I could be lazy and microwave anything in that damn thing, regardless of metal content, and could defrost a small turkey.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 5 weeks ago:
Not much different than grabbing the neighbors and telling them to say a few statements as witnesses, false or true. A new spin on an old game.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 month ago:
It’s a short video. Didn’t Jonathan write that one, too?
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 month ago:
We sit at the feet of Warmbo, he shall bless us with his corn cream…
- Comment on You should know how to coil cables 1 month ago:
That one is only useful for pull ropes. That method somehow magically gives it like 4x the strength while being half the length. I had an arborist buddy show it to me and he explained they use it for moving trees before they start cutting near downed lines.
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 1 month ago:
OMV took me some time to learn and setup, but I love the thing. I wish it had a file manager with root access thoigh. Learned to do without though, and with Docker really no need.