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- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 23 hours ago:
Just like how Hydrox are just knockoff Oreos!
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 1 day ago:
I mean, that’s a valid assessment of the yard as well if you’re looking at it from a comedy perspective.
- Comment on Day 416 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
Hey, hey, hey. Watch the penguin-bashing, bud.
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 1 day ago:
That talk about substitutes happened when it was initially handed over to said data miner, and anybody concerned should have switched back then. I did, moving to Lawnchair, and never looked back. Oodles of other options are doubtlessly available.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 1 day ago:
I had a client who wound up with one of those not realizing what it was, which caused him no end of problems until I ultimately figured it out confiscated it from him. He got a regular US inch one in exchange. I had to look it up at the time, too, because the notion of there being a Chinese knockoff inch that’s subtly inaccurate is one of those things that just seems so ridiculous on its face that it simply can’t be true, right? Except it totally is.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 1 day ago:
None of the above is true, or at least isn’t the answer for why today a “2x4” is missing an entire half an inch all the way around. The shrinkage due to drying is around 5% (the real answer is more complicated, and wood shrinks different amounts in different directions relative to the grain), which would only account for 1/10" of difference in the thickness of a 2x4. With some species of pine it’s as low as 2%.
No, the lumber industry has consistently shaved boards in order to fit more into rail cars for transport and make more money and spend less per plank on transportation costs. Various lumber consortiums determined via internal testing that the smaller board sizes are still “sufficient” for their intended purpose vis-a-vis structural integrity of stick framed residential buildings.
- Comment on Jonathan Tinpaw 2 days ago:
Twice.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 days ago:
I’ll take an 8k computer monitor though. In fact, send two. Kthnx.
- Comment on YSK that you can force Windows 10 to open your default browser instead of MS Edge with MSEdgeRedirect 4 days ago:
You can also just use Edge Blocker:
www.sordum.org/9312/edge-blocker-v2-0/
…And if you do any of those things (like ye gods forbid, press F1 in a File Explorer window) it simply won’t work. Depending on the object in question either nothing happens at all, or you get a sad easily dismissable dialog box complaining that Windows couldn’t open Edge.
You can also block the Edge webview component if e.g. you would like Steam not to work.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 5 days ago:
…And have them able to run on zero consumer devices if the bootloaders are locked, and the manufacturers refuse to sign their ROMs for them. (Hint: they will refuse to sign their ROMs for them.)
- Comment on 3D printing sites should require a printed model when uploading a design. 5 days ago:
And also weed out models that are clearly impossible to print.
FWIW I always make my headline image a printed instance of whatever it is. I figure nobody’s interested in anything else.
- Comment on I made Duality, a Game Boy Color game 6 days ago:
Neato. Kudos not only for doing this, but also documenting it so thoroughly!
- Comment on I saw what you did there 1 week ago:
harborfreight.com/momentary-power-foot-switch-571…
I have one of these on my big “real” table saw as well, because the location of its power switch is deeply inconvenient.
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 1 week ago:
Re: Lemmings.
How about Magpies?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
But there will be an actual NES version. Hot damn.
- Comment on Something about psychological warfare idk 1 week ago:
Psychology aside, when I was a wee waddler working my first retail job, my boss told me that the reason they priced items ending in 99 cents specifically at his store was because the change from a dollar left over was a shortcut to telling the cashier how many items had been rung up. “Rung up” itself being very apt in this case, because when he started his business back in the Lower Cretaceous period, they used mechanical cash registers that went ding and everything, but didn’t have fancy electronic readouts of the running total and items registered so far. If the customer handed you seven items you knew that the pennies end of the change if you rounded up to a dollar should be $XX.93, and you could use that to tell handily if you missed anything or double-rung something.
It seems that the prospect of “losing” a penny in the sense of making a $1 item 99 cents instead was probably a better proposition versus having cashiers let un-rung items walk out the door all the time.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 week ago:
But it’s still fun to shake the jar and watch 'em fight!
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 1 week ago:
And if you go anywhere with your shiny new flash, also carry a floppy disk around with you with the damn driver on it. Because you can’t trust anyone else’s computer to already have it installed.
- Comment on Upgrading from Bambu Lab A1 Mini 1 week ago:
Here’s another vote for the X-Max 3. Mine has been quite solid.
If anyone is interested in multi color support, though, it seems that the Qidi “Box” filament changer thingy will never be made compatible with the Max series, and will only work with the new/current Plus 4. There is at least one third party solution for this in the CoPrint ChromaSet thingy, but this engenders some pretty significant compromises and also locks you into using their nozzles, in addition to reducing the print volume significantly which kind of defeats the purpose of the X-Max 3.
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 1 week ago:
I think Windows 2000 was the high water mark. Compared to the NT based operating systems, the 9x versions were pretty rinky-dink in retrospect and not terribly reliable. 2000 was the best truly modern Windows that supported all the stuff we expect: NTFS, real user accounts, actual security, group policy management, the modern disk management utility that’s still in use today, the management console, native USB support (including 2.0 as of Service Pack 4), native ACPI hibernation support without reliance on janky vendor bullshit, etc.
Yeah, USB support. Everyone forgets that Windows 95 didn’t support USB at all out of the box and 98 barely accomplished it. 95 required the “OSR2 USB Supplement,” and 98 didn’t even support mass storage devices without third party drivers until the “SE” second edition. Those days really were that terrible.
XP was where the bloat really started setting in, but since XP was basically 2000 with extra shit duct taped to it you could still do all the same stuff with it vis-a-vis gaming and DirectX support, and by and large it could still use the same hardware drivers as XP even if vendors didn’t bother to officially support it.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 week ago:
Did you include the fuel port in the glovebox in case you need to install any Liquid Schwartz?
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 week ago:
They have brought a few expeditions back for replay a couple of times. However, another user here alerted me a while back to the presence of this:
cwmonkey.github.io/nms-expeditions/
On select platforms (PC and strangely also the Switch) you can replay the expeditions and get their rewards payouts any time you like.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 week ago:
Me too, pretty much, but I’m fine with that. Every couple of months we get a new content drop (for free!) and I go experience the new stuff, max out everything new there is to be maxed out, and then I can put it down and play something else. I appreciate that NMS doesn’t try to make itself my full time job or require such an asinine time investment that it forces you not to play anything else.
I think the only FOMO aspect built in to NMS at all is the expeditions, and even then you can replay them any time you want with a third party tool (on PC, anyway).
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 week ago:
But you just don’t understand. Sean Murray personally lied to me nine years ago!!! Boycotted forevar!!!
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 week ago:
It really says something that like the first mod that was ever published after release was the one that eliminates the damn hold-to-confirm mechanic that is on every. Single. Stupid. Interaction. (At least this became an official feature and you can natively disable it on most interaction prompts now.)
The fact that basically none of the inventory and crafting screens are consistent with each other is one of the main things that still bugs the hell out of me with NMS. Especially when you’re using refiners and so forth, because the dumb popup they give you that only shows you like four options at a time doesn’t even arrange the items within it in the same order as they are in your main inventory. They should have just stolen the paradigm from Minecraft and used it for everything.
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- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 2 weeks ago:
Counter offer: Be a huge nerd and hang out on Lemmy instead.
You’ll probably be scraped by AI bots anyway, but we have penguins and Star Trek memes. And knives.
- Comment on 50 mph man 2 weeks ago:
Related:
“When will [task] be done?”
When I told you it would be done.
“But why isn’t it done now?”
Because it’s not when I told you it would be done yet.
“Well, you need to hurry up and do it faster, because we need it right away.”
Great! But you standing here arguing with me about it is now actively preventing me from getting it done. It will be done when it’s done, which will now be about 20 minutes later than it would have been before you came over here and started shooting your mouth off about it.
If I had a dime for every time I’ve had this conversation with middle management in my various careers, I’d at least be able to afford a Taco Bell combo meal by now.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 2 weeks ago:
It’s a melee oriented Metroidvania. Think Ori And The Blind Forest but with more insects and inexplicable frilly faux-Victorian edifices, and less pokey combat. You could play it on a SNES pad if you wanted to. I got to 100% on it back when using a cheap wireless keyboard from my couch.
I don’t know about you, but Hollow Knight’s main contribution to my household is that my wife and I still call any filigree wrought ironwork benches we see “save points.”
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 weeks ago:
Especially since VBA can make calls to the Windows API directly and through that avenue do all kinds of funky things to your system.
