DScratch
@DScratch@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals 1 week ago:
It’s only $99/ year!
Though you can only read it on registered devices.
- Comment on Elon Musk destroys astronomy 1 week ago:
I’ll be very quiet. Promise.
- Comment on Elon Musk destroys astronomy 1 week ago:
And then let people move there to get away from Elon.
- Comment on Sorry, grandma 4 weeks ago:
Yes, the fights are very well done. The protagonist mecha, the Eva’s, operate under some strict rules that mean every fight is a close one. The enemy, the Angels, adapt to each loss and force the protagonists to play catch up.
God wants us dead. Humanity has already been nearly wiped out, only a fragment is holding on. The Angels are a cleanup crew, all they have to do is simply touch their goal and the remnants of mankind are instantly destroyed.
Against that backdrop you have a story told by a man who is clearly suffering deeply. Hideaki Anno’s depression is on full display through the themes of loss and grief and abandonment. But those themes are strongly countered by those of friendship, purpose and being part of a greater whole.
It is beautiful and grotesque. Hollow and hopeful. Goofy and deadly serious.
It may not be your cup of tea, but it is a masterpiece.
- Comment on You Should Show Grave of the Fireflies to Your Kids 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen it referred to as “The greatest film I’ll never watch again.”
- Comment on What are some good flight simulator games? 5 weeks ago:
It sounds like you want something a little more arcadey than realistic.
If I were you (and multiplayer sounded like a good time) I would legit consider something in the Battlefield series.
Arma 3 has a bunch of land sea and air vehicles and a lively modding community creating missions for you to play solo or multiplayer.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
I jumped ship to PopOS a few months back.
There are some issues, like Bluetooth not starting without some terminal commands, I think I have to wipe or otherwise mess around with my 1TB NTFS storage drive to mount it and stuff like that.
But all the games I’ve tried to play work fine.
CPU: 3700x GPU: 4090
- Comment on Can you spot the g differences? 1 month ago:
That’s a perfectly cromulent 9
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 1 month ago:
I slept on my DOTA2 invite and only years later dumped 3k hours into it.
I won’t make that mistake again, given the chance.
- Comment on Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap | As of now, Intel's market value is a fraction of Nvidia's worth and less than half of AMD's 1 month ago:
It’s true, but Intel fucked around for years and now they’re finding out. I’m happy to watch them stew for a year or so before getting back on their feet.
- Comment on Time Crisis GunCon PlayStation Controller 2 months ago:
I had this game down to 2 continues as a kid.
The boss with the wolverine claws and the orange-haired boss would be the places.
So good! And the GCon was a beast.
- Comment on Reject reality 2 months ago:
Mastodon - Show yourself
“Start a line.
Stars align.
Stars can fall and get you into trouble.”
==== Is actually===
“Stars align
Stars align
Stars will fall and get you into trouble”
- Comment on Mozilla buys Anonym, betting privacy is compatible with ads 3 months ago:
If my options are:
- An ad company that at least makes some effort to protect privacy
Or
- Ad companies that seem almost cartoonishly evil
I’d like to give #1 a shot, plz.
- Comment on Players Have Defeated An Entire Enemy Faction In Helldivers 2 5 months ago:
In b4 Super Earth now sees the Helldivers as a threat, and tries to Order 66 them. Flipping the map inside out as now players need to fight their way inwards towards Earth.
- Comment on How long until I can 3D print a 2D printer? 6 months ago:
If we shoot for a much more primitive printer, we’re pretty close.
Something that uses a pen or quill to draw on an unmoving sheet of paper. Kind of like how CNC routers are set up. The gantry moves along the full length and width of the paper.
After that, you can print everything outside the electronics and the quill. Right?
- Comment on Israeli state TV proudly broadcasting prisoner abuse 7 months ago:
“What was on Oct 7th will not return.”
Pretty sure this is how you fast-track yourself into another one, chief.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 7 months ago:
What are they odds that they kept it in a backup?
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 7 months ago:
Solving the problem forever!
- Comment on There's more people who wake up at the same second than people who fall asleep at the same second. 7 months ago:
Plus anyone who does in their sleep.
- Comment on I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy? 8 months ago:
This is the Martingale system, it will 100% work if you have infinite money and can bet infinite amounts.
- Comment on Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House 9 months ago:
You’re probably right, right now. But I am put in mind of ya boi Ben Franklin when asked “What use is [a prototype hot air balloon]” He replied “What is the use of a newborn child?”
Early plastic 3d printers were clunky and of poor quality, but now entire industries have spawned around them and they have revolutionised at-home prototyping.
Right now, this is a gimmick. But the potential, if nurtured is pretty serious, imo.
- Comment on Iowa Demolishes Its First 3D Printed House 9 months ago:
It’s easier to ship material than finished chunks. You can print all the shapes you need from one batch of material instead of having to fabricate and ship the correct modules.
- Comment on Toyota trials hydrogen-powered vehicle on public roads in Australia 10 months ago:
The animals and people killed by vehicles. The environmental impact those animal deaths can have.
- Comment on Toyota trials hydrogen-powered vehicle on public roads in Australia 10 months ago:
And the death. Don’t forget the animal and human cost of everyone having a car.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Require a Criminal Background Check to Buy a 3D Printer 11 months ago:
Owning a ghost gun is a crime, right?
Nearly 500 were recovered last year. ny1.com/…/nypd-unit-combatting-the-growing-proble…
- Comment on [VERGE] GM now has its own API for software developers to make cool apps for its cars 11 months ago:
They better have even stricter guidelines than Apple. I don’t need some script kiddie running god knows what while I’m blasting down a freeway.
- Comment on Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? 1 year ago:
I’d be willing to pay to stop hearing about twitter at this stage.
- Comment on How do you explain your reasons for jumping ship? 1 year ago:
And you don’t think you can effectively grow in that position.
- Comment on My Worst Tech Interview Experience 1 year ago:
However, I will share my worst interview experience.
It was for a company that was working on an app to move stock from one car dealership to another. Dealers would sell cars to each other, essentially.
I show up 15 mins early, as is tradition. I check in and wait until the scheduled time. Then 5 mins past, then 10 mins past. At this point I’ve written off this company and call my partner asking if I should just bail out or not. She says even bad interviews are good practice and I should stay the course even if I think this one is a lost cause.
Her wisdom is sound, so I stick around. About 15 mins after the agreed time I am finally asked to meet with the manager. He guides me through what is to this day, the drabbest, driest office I have ever been in. The only colour in the place is a bunting of world flags around the tops of the walls. I get to meet 2 lovely people who both seemed very capable and competent. We have a great time going through some team-fit and technical questions. Then I get to the code challenge. I am provided with a laptop and it is fucking GROSS. Like imagine a keyboard you haven’t cleaned in 5 years kind of gross. The ask was pretty straight forward, download images and display them in a list, the classic ‘keep-shit-off-the-main-thread’ challenge. I’m working away while the EM is paying me no mind whatsoever. He is working away on his computer while I’m doing this. About halfway through I tell him; “I don’t think I’ll have enough time to complete the project”. I’m trying to display a proactive mindset and I expected we’d then talk about paring the project down to an MVP. All classic interview gotchas. His response though was: “Deal with it.” I knew I wasn’t taking any offer they made me when they left me 15 mins late, but God fucking damn did I not expect that level of disrespect. Anyhow, I hauled ass out of there and called up the recruiter who organised it and told him straight up I would rather be unemployed than take a position there, with details as to why. Hoping to save any unfortunate candidate a similar experience.
I still feel bad for the 2 engineers I spoke to, they seemed really cool and undeserving of working under a stone-cold prick of a manager.
- Comment on My Worst Tech Interview Experience 1 year ago:
It’s got that LOLRANDOM vibe that I detest. Arc4Random was King.