WhiteOakBayou
@WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do so many people seem confused about what appeals to male gays? Do they not know how sexual orientation works? 12 hours ago:
Check out the work of Luca Guadagnino. Very male gaze on male gays. Daniel Craig included.
- Comment on Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal 1 day ago:
He’s a weak soyboy compared to the steam engine. John Henry is the better comparison.
- Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead 2 days ago:
Desktop environment
- Comment on BulletVPN Closes Down, Pulling The Rug on Lifetime Subscriptions 2 days ago:
I bought some big lifetime thing to astraweb, then the usenet indexer i had used for years shut down. 15 years later I log into astraweb and they have converted my purchase to a set data amount.
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 1 week ago:
I absolutely had them in mind. They were one of the better ones. Dial up is nostalgia trip was not on today’s bingo card but I’m gladdened by the reminder.
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 1 week ago:
10 10 3 2 1. Bobwehadababyitsaboy. I forgot about those ads. They were super bowl ad popular in my memory.
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 1 week ago:
It depends on where you live. I lived in a rural area so the nearest local isp was far enough away that it cost. The cds and floppies that constantly came in the mail didn’t charge though. There were a bunch of those free services and ad supported isps. I had dial up for a long time and watched the business model go from portal style sandbox like AOL to literal "all internet is free if you keep this ad open. " towards the end before I left for college.
- Comment on Browser extensions turn nearly 1 million browsers into website-scraping bots 1 week ago:
Dark Reader for edge is on here but the Firefox one isn’t listed so I’m good there i guess? Super sad i had to uninstall my cat fact extensions. It was nice to have instant access to cat facts in the menu bar.
- Comment on VERY simple web-based reliable file browser/hosting 1 week ago:
Have you thought of using an ftp server? That dir tree view used to be the default.
- Comment on The worst part of getting old is that you get less and less "first experiences" and are always comparing current with previous ones 1 week ago:
I think your attitude is a good one to have. Comparison is the thief of joy or whatever the saying is.
- Comment on POV you and your buddy are transcending the illusion of spacetime but a stranger walks over to ask for directions 2 weeks ago:
Lol, I see how it reads like wes Anderson I’ve never thought of it that way. I was definitely less clever and not as perfectly dressed. At the time it felt more like something from Richard Linklater.
- Comment on POV you and your buddy are transcending the illusion of spacetime but a stranger walks over to ask for directions 2 weeks ago:
I was riding a bus once, which was rare at the time as I usually took the street car, and i had taken some acid earlier and was coming back from a 4ish mile walk from the river to a flag store and at the bus stop this guy starts talking and showing me the slingshot he has. He’s telling me all about the different kinds of slingshot and some weird stuff too but the whole time be is shooting dried beans across the street. He’s like a sniper. He’s calling out letters on signs across the street and just nailing them without breaking conversational stride. The bus came and I got on and he didn’t. He wasn’t even waiting for a bus, he was just excited about the slingshot I guess.
After I got on the bus I sat in a double seat by myself and my friends took similar positions. A lady got on at the next stop and sat next to me. She was a French expat who, at the advice of her psychiatrist, was riding the bus and practicing having conversations with people. She told me all that immediately upon sitting down. Then we had a pretty normal conversation for what felt like forever but could only have been 15 minutes.
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, my experience jibes with that too. I wear sunscreen everyday and I feel like I’m pretty conscientious but I end up getting red by the end of the day often. The problem with it, i find, is that it’s time consuming to do one’s exposed skin properly or it involves another person. I’m either working or recreating outside so I know I miss applications due to impatience and inattention. I switched to pants, hats, and long sleeves for outdoor living the past decade or so and it’s a huge improvement. Just sweatier.
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 3 weeks ago:
Reapply q2 hours and every time you use a towel. I don’t think most sunscreen is advertising all day Protection.
- Comment on Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep 4 weeks ago:
How well keep syncs lists between users is the only reason I can’t pull my wife from it and migrate fully to joplin. That and the drop from list on checkbox behavior.
- Comment on The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins 4 weeks ago:
Great article. I’m on team Maccharelli
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 4 weeks ago:
I had an hp laptop with a locked bios and there was a red flathead screw near the ssd that unlocked it.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 4 weeks ago:
Clicked thinking it was legit. Good find OP!
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I went straight from rif to jerboa. I tried the other early apps but they were all very “cardy”
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 2 months ago:
Not to do it once but to do it for hour after hour whole tournament leaves a lot of room mistakes! That’s what separates the wheat from the chaff.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
All we can see is his haircut (he’s lined up fine), his glasses (nothing obvious) and his shirt (odd). I think it’s a jump to say a make over will do this man more good than not wearing a shirt that says “I want to have sex with the youngest woman I legally can.” Which comes off like minimum wage thinking, sort of how they’d pay you less if it were legal.
- Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 2 months ago:
Very cool. I’d like to be that remote one day.
- Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 2 months ago:
They may struggle to reach price parity for a set up where space and weight aren’t limiting if you’re getting a full 5 years or whatever out of your batteries. I never did with lead acid but maybe I’d take care of them better if they ran my house!
Do you mind sharing your reason for using a battery bank to power your house? Is it solar or a backup charged by the grid? - Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 2 months ago:
A lot. My use case is off grid camper living. We live in a camper about 4 months a year not counting weekend trips and vacations. Lead acid batteries have to be minded and hate being discharged below 50%. The lifepo4 batteries have a super low self discharge rate, don’t need any minding and can be discharged down to 15% or 10% before they start degrading. I would need 400 Ah of leadacid batteries to equal the 200 Ah I have now.
So weight and space savings, no maintenance, harder to damage. I definitely recommend. - Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 2 months ago:
I can’t answer the why but there was a warning sticker on my new lifepo4 batteries with similar limitations. So not chemistry dependent.
- Comment on The pipeline 2 months ago:
It’s nice that they microwave your food for you.
- Comment on The pipeline 2 months ago:
One step above nuggets if you’re lucky. Nuggets in Buffalo sauce at cheaper places.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 2 months ago:
Who is first picture? I know jd Vance, the pope and Pam.
- Comment on If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him? 2 months ago:
The question was if someone removed their makeup also not just shaved their head. For the question and answer to match the people in my response must be people who normally wear makeup.
- Comment on If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him? 2 months ago:
I don’t think I could with anyone except my wife and even that would take a minute.