captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 29 minutes ago:
There are a lot of circuits in the US that power multiple duplex outlets around a room. You could plug in a solar panel into one outlet and a load into another and they would be connected by a length of Romex in the walls.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 39 minutes ago:
In the United States that would be UL Certification.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 17 hours ago:
Eyewitness testimony.
- Comment on Put the shoes on 21 hours ago:
Man invented shoes first, because he was walking through the hot sand and the sharp rocks and the pointy briars, so he invented shoes to protect his feet from the ground. Then he invented pants, because he felt silly standing around naked in his shoes.
I think that was a Gallagher bit?
- Comment on My glasses 1 day ago:
So given Dr. Glaucomflecken is an opthalmologist, I’m at least 37.3% sure he meant her eyeglass prescription in diopters. Isn’t that right, Johnathan?
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 day ago:
It can be. If you look on a lot of the websites for video games they grant licenses to stream the game’s audio assets in the context of streaming gameplay.
- Comment on Retvrn To Tradition 1 day ago:
Oh shit, I didn’t think of that. You think there are any F-14s left?
- Comment on Senators Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets 4 days ago:
Debating letter vs spirit of law is a symptom of a shittily written law.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 5 days ago:
Well remember when turn-by-turn GPS driver guidance was new, and it would say “Turn right now” and people didn’t interpret that as “make a right turn at the next intersection” they interpreted it as “hard a’starboard!” and drove into buildings and lakes? There’s gonna be a lot of that.
People are going to get sold regular cab headliners for their extended cab pickups because the computer said it would fit. That’s gonna happen a lot.
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 5 days ago:
What did the natives call the region in their language?
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 6 days ago:
The specialized rendering processors of the NES and SNES and Sega Genesis could push pixels without all the distractions a CPU has, in away they were the first GPUs (although modern GPUs do a much more generalized job).
…What?
The NES had a 6502, the SNES had what amounts to a 16-bit version of the 6502, the Genesis had two CPUs, a Zilog Z80 and a Motorola 68000. I will grant you, their video chips were a bit more specialized for playing games, with sprite generators and such, lacking text or bitmap modes. Consoles mostly dominated arcade action, PC games were often slower paced but in many ways technically superior. True 3D graphics happened on PC earlier, hardware 3D acceleration happened on PC earlier, it wasn’t until the Xbox One/PS4 era that game consoles pretty much became entry level worsened gaming PCs.
Consoles were cheaper, specialized computers made specifically for games, PCs were far more expensive but significantly more powerful. No console in 1995 would run Descent or Mechwarrior 2.
That stopped being the case some time around the Xbox 360 era; By then, it was fairly common to see console ports of PC games or vice versa; console versions might lack multiplayer or have reduced graphics or something, the PC has pretty much always been the home of nerdier shit like flight simulators, but by the PS3 and PS4 era consoles basically became entry level gaming PCs. Console prices increased to the point that, for the cost of a PS5 Pro, you could put together a reasonable gaming PC…then ChatGPT ate all the world’s semiconductors and the child rapist in chief bombed Iran apparently on a whim and that brings us to the present moment.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 6 days ago:
Oh man I miss old flash-based escape the room games. Remember the Crimson Room?
- Comment on Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now. 6 days ago:
The difference: We pretend to care about girls. We don’t pretend to care about boys.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
That’s something I’ve noticed in the US as well; gas stations are all over creation, easily visible, they have giant signs along interstates. I’m familiar with several long stretches of major highways and interstates, I could not take you to a charging station off the top of my head, nor do I think I could find one by highway signage like I can a gas station. I’m sure they exist but they haven’t called my attention to themselves.
- Comment on Honk 1 week ago:
I was actually aiming for “auk” but it was late and my linux brain took over.
- Comment on Honk 1 week ago:
awk
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 week ago:
Point of order: That was Microsoft rather than Google.
- Comment on U WOT M8?? 1 week ago:
must be chewsday, eh bruv?
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 week ago:
Are you replying to me?
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 1 week ago:
Are they shipping Graphene for the 10 now?
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 1 week ago:
yeah they backtracked. They had something TO backtrack.
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 1 week ago:
Most of the Chinese brands are doing that; I’ve seen 3D printing youtubers talk about Bambu, Creality and Elegoo leaning on them for good reviews as if they’re employed on their marketing team rather than independent journalists.
I’ve heard a lot of stuff about their platform hosting stolen models.
Bambu tipped their hand a little over a year ago, they have every intention to lock down their platform, requiring their filament, their software and likely their cloud platform to run.
And I’ll pit my Prusa MK4S against your Bambu A1 in print quality any time.
- Comment on 3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job. 1 week ago:
Look for a used Prusa.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 2 weeks ago:
New tit ion battery generates fifteen times the power and shits butter pecan ice cream. And, like every other battery chemistry there’s ever been a news article for, isn’t real and will never enter production.
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 2 weeks ago:
The “not male, but outwardly pro male” angle tells me it’s fake.
- Comment on war with Iran has been delayed 2 weeks ago:
The poop deck wasn’t used to poop from. That was done at the head. Because on a sailing ship, most if not all of the time the front of the ship is downwind.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 2 weeks ago:
When I lived in Daytona Beach you could count on the 3PM rainstorm.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 2 weeks ago:
But no one does.
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 2 weeks ago:
Nothing I’m conscious of, though a lot of the names of races or peoples end in an oh or ah sound. Zora, Rito, Gerudo, Shiekah,
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 2 weeks ago:
So, there’s a fun fact about that related to the Zelda series. You know how the Hylian language kind of sneaks out in enemy names? Like, Stal- is a prefix meaning skeletal, -fos is a suffix meaning warrior, so a stalfos is a skeletal warrior? And a lizalfos is a lizard warrior? A stalchild is a skeletal child. -orm or -arm means worm creature, like Moldorm.
Well, in the games prior to the N64, geld- meant desert or sand. The geldarm is a sand worm creature, the geldman is a sand man like enemy from Link to the Past. Then in Ocarina of Time there’s a race of women from the desert called Gerudo. Hmm.