TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@midwest.social
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Yeah, in my younger days I got up to ≈210km/h once. I can’t believe I was dumb enough to do that.
At 200km/h, you’re passing the cars around you as quickly as you usually pass stuff stationary by the side of the road. It’s insane.
The car felt planted and controlled, but still. One slightly wrong move and I would’ve been flying off an embankment or killing a fellow motorist.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 4 days ago:
Mentour Pilot did a video about the CFM RISE open fan engines a few months ago, they’re somewhere between a turboprop and a geared turbofan. Able to cruise at turbofan speeds, but much higher bypass ratios like turboprops. They’re not technically new, but they’re possible now due to material advances. Pretty cool concept.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 4 days ago:
Mentour Pilot did a great video on these open fan engines a few months ago. They’re somewhere between a turboprop and a turbofan. They’re better than traditional turboprops in that they’re able to handle higher cruise speeds like a turbofan, and they’re more efficient than turbofans due to a higher effective bypass ratio like a turboprop.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 5 days ago:
Qi2 standard really helps with that. It incorporates the magnetic alignment and higher speeds from Apple’s MagSafe. Magnetic alignment makes wireless charging much better. Still less efficient than wired charging, but much more efficient than Qi without magnetic alignment.
If your phone doesn’t have the magnetic ring baked in you can often find cases that provide it, or magnets you can add to the outside of a case. Though my phone does have the magnets baked in, I also have a Snap 4 Luxe and I 3D printed a case that fits around it, to minimize the distance between charger and phone. Works really well!
- Comment on I present my girlfriend's daughter. 1 week ago:
Can u get pregante?
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 1 week ago:
I just want a printer that doesn’t require you to upload your gcode to their cloud server before getting permission from them to print.
Even on Bambu’s locked-down firmware you can just toss the gcode on the SD card and print that way if you don’t want to deal with their cloud service. Or throw it on a flash drive and plug into the USB port.
My previous printer could ONLY function via SD card, so I’m kinda used to that anyway.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Bambu locking down their firmware and forcing everyone through their cloud service is shitty. But you can print without it still.
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 1 week ago:
But I don’t need this kind of use case as much anymore and have moved to Joplin
My first thought reading this was, “Why does moving to Joplin, MO have anything to do with note-taking?”
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 4 weeks ago:
The Jira thing has nothing to do with arrogance. That’s just a side note about how much I like working with Germans. 😅
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 4 weeks ago:
I genuinely can’t tell if they’re arrogant or if they’re knowledgeable and don’t bother to hide their expertise behind false modesty. But damn do German engineers write the best Jira tickets. So much detail, precise test steps, clarity about what changes they want made. Most engineers I get frustrated with because they don’t give us enough to work with, but German engineers almost give us too much.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
There was the iPhone 13 Mini. It’s adorably small. But it didn’t sell well so they stopped making the Mini line.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
How dare you put Kuni’s lines in Elon’s mouth!
- Comment on 25 arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material 4 weeks ago:
How can it be trained to produce something without human input.
It wasn’t trained to produce every specific image it produces. That would make it pointless. It “learns” concepts and then applies them.
No one trained AI on material of Donald Trump sucking on feet, but it can still generate it.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, infighting in the resistance is a foolish waste of time.
- Comment on NZ Birbs 5 weeks ago:
Where Pūteketeke?
- Gives piggyback rides
- Good co-parent
- Bulemia
- Comment on The right person for me deserves better. 5 weeks ago:
The right person for me deserves better.
I’m sure you’re joking, at least at some level. But if you’re like me, you probably also believe it at some level.
It turns out this is, in some ways, a good mindset. Always keep in mind that your partner deserves better, and you’re driven to be better for them. Not because you aren’t enough, but because you can be your best when you learn to navigate the give-and-take that long-term relationships require. You’ll fuck up, but if you’re willing to be kind, empathetic, and most importantly apologetic, and willing to get up and try again when you fall, you’re already far ahead of plenty of people.
But if you start thinking you deserve better than your partner, you’re gonna have a bad time.
We’re all insecure at our core, but that means so is everyone else. The right person for you also thinks you deserve better. Build them up, and they’ll build you up in return.
(Sorry, I know it’s a shitpost.)
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 5 weeks ago:
If you watch the more recent footage you can clearly see most of the plane slowly cartwheeling through the sky into the water. It was still mostly a plane.
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 5 weeks ago:
I was not prepared for boob wings this early in the day.
- Comment on cilanto 🌿 5 weeks ago:
I compare it to the smell of stinkbugs rather than soap.
- Comment on How do you express romantic interest in someone? 1 month ago:
Nah, Lost_My_Mind gives a much more typical representation.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 1 month ago:
In the Overton Window that is US politics, it is. But that’s because the damn window has been dragged so far to the right that facts themselves are “Liberal Marxism” now (oxymoronic as that label is).
- Comment on Those damn woke corners. 1 month ago:
He wouldn’t have died had he worn the “damn collar” as he called it. The HANS device likely would’ve saved his life, as I understand it, but he was too “old school” for driver safety. 🙄
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 1 month ago:
Yeah, I do wish they hadn’t killed the pressure button. But I tend to swipe anyway.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 1 month ago:
I jumped from the Voyage to the Paperwhite when they switched to USB-C and added a warmth slider for the screen. It’s really nice, especially with an origami case (even if that case isn’t as nice as the origami case for the Voyage).
- Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies 1 month ago:
Is that really part of Star Trek lore? Because…that’s terrifying if so.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
That means the perfect resolution for TVs is actually QHD.
And yet QHD would be comparatively awful for modern content. 720p scales nicely to QHD, but 1080p does not. I suspect that’s why 4K has been the winner on the TV front, it scales beautifully with both 1080p (4:1) and 720p (9:1) content.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
That graph is fascinating, thank you!
- Comment on They were taught how to use red by the Atlanteans. 1 month ago:
Yes, their father is Al Reddy Tutcher
- Comment on Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models 1 month ago:
It’s been a long day without you my friend…
- Comment on The Man Who Met Kit Duncan 1 month ago:
I am all Ken M on this blessed day.