SirSamuel
@SirSamuel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 1 week ago:
Ooh neat! Thank you, very well described for a layman such as myself
- Comment on Afghan diplomat caught at Mumbai airport with 25kg gold smuggled from Dubai 1 week ago:
If my math is correct that’s over 1.5 million USD at current market rates
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 1 week ago:
Oh I have a question! Do all frequencies on the EM spectrum emit photons? Like, when gamma rays or X rays or microwaves hit something are photons bouncing off/being absorbed and we just can’t see them?
- Comment on May the 4th power your warp cores 1 week ago:
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 2 weeks ago:
Hard disagree. I’m using g board, from Alphabet, which is about as concerned with privacy as a nudist exhibitionist with a shame kink. That is to say, privacy as a concept exists yes, but only to be perverted.
The only comfort is that I’m not the only one with random capitalization in my texts
- Comment on Refrigerator leaking black liquid? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Humane AI Pin: much-hyped gadget rocked by bad reviews 4 weeks ago:
All right, I’ll take a shot at it. What the hell, it works on Star Trek.
- Comment on Investigation launched after Boeing engine cover falls off during takeoff 5 weeks ago:
While I appreciate the spotlight on Boeing there’s definitely ongoing maintenance challenges happening at the major airlines as well. And the root cause of these issues is the same as Boeing, corporate greed and short-sighted focus on quarterly gains.
A lot more people will die before these systemic issues are rectified
- Comment on Investigation launched after Boeing engine cover falls off during takeoff 5 weeks ago:
Yes but it’s not new off the line, and this is clearly a maintenance issue. This plane by now would have gone through at least two C checks.
- Comment on Don't forget! 5 weeks ago:
Nah, just cash. That’s why the bills are so cartoony now
- Comment on Solar Panels Spread Across America's Heartland as Farmers Chase Stable Returns 2 months ago:
I have wondered for quite some time why local farmers in my area aren’t pasturing sheep on solar panel land. I’m glad to see it’s happening somewhere at least
- Comment on Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text 2 months ago:
Jokes on you, i don’t own a house, can’t have a pet in my apartment, and my knees are already bad.
I love this timeline
- Comment on Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text 2 months ago:
Thank you! This was actually my first attempt at free form poetry, it just kind of flowed out of me. It only took till middle age for inspiration to strike lol
- Comment on Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text 2 months ago:
We are commodities We exist to be bought and sold By the ruling class I have been bought and sold Many many times But only my thoughts And identity And words And face So that’s okay I’ll just scroll other stolen thoughts On a phone built by an eight year old Who was bought And sold A world away
- Comment on Rooster Teeth Shut Down By Warner Bros. Discovery 2 months ago:
Does this mean Tales From the Stinky Dragon is shutting down too? While it’s not the best DnD actual play, it’s still pretty great. And i still hold out hope that Gustavo brings back Black Box Down some day
- Comment on More than 400,000 songbirds killed by organised crime in Cyprus 2 months ago:
organized crime
Look I know some people don’t like cats, but I think it’s a little extreme to say they’re criminals. I also highly doubt they organize in any appreciable way.
They do kill a lot of birds tho
- Comment on These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump 2 months ago:
NGL hating in heat pumps is like hating on EVs because they need charged longer than it takes to fill up a tank of gas. Yes the use case is not exactly 1:1 to the existing system, but it’s an improvement for energy use and emissions overall. (Not saying you’re hating on heat pumps, just a general observation)
- Comment on These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump 2 months ago:
By 2040, these states—California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Rhode Island—are aiming for 90 percent of those shipments to be heat pumps.
The coalition’s announcement comes just months after the federal government doubled down on its own commitment to heat pumps, announcing $169 million in funding for the domestic production of the systems.
These are the states, and the article doesn’t seem to go into detail on what the actual programs are in each state. However, i only skimmed the article
- Comment on Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US 2 months ago:
Yarr, it surely be
- Comment on Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US 3 months ago:
I understood some of those words lol
I was toying with the idea of a home made server using an existing case and a mini atx, but then i ran across a 16TB NAS HDD for like $240 at microcenter and just decided to go the simple route, picked up a two bay Synology case and the rest is history
- Comment on Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US 3 months ago:
First off, I’m by no means even close to an expert. More of a spurt, in fact.
I tried Plex but wanted to give remote access at varying levels, which, to my understanding, requires paying for a subscription to Plex Premium or some such. Basically I wanted to be able to see my sexy home videos from anywhere, let my parents see my wedding videos and their granddaughter’s dance recital, and let my niece see her dance recital only (to painfully stretch a metaphor).
Jellyfin has it’s limits. It’s easier for my needs in part because my family has Roku, and there is a built-in app for Jellyfin on Roku devices. I have a Samsung TV and haven’t taught myself how to sideload Jellyfin into my TV. The app works great tho, so I can watch things on my phone or laptop with ease while on vacation. I probably spent a few hours teaching myself about port forwarding, VPNs, and such. I bought a Synology NAS, which simplified things quite a bit.
Anyway, I’m not at all familiar with Apple products. Nothing wrong with them, mind, I just never liked the walled garden ethos
- Comment on Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US 3 months ago:
It’s not a waste, it’s an investment lol
- Comment on Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US 3 months ago:
Oddly enough, the price hikes earlier last year were enough to move me to spend four times as much as an annual subscription for a NAS and 16TB of storage. I made digital backups of my media and set up my parents and sister’s family with Jellyfin accounts to access my media as needed. Now they can watch videos of our wedding and my niece’s dance recital from the comfort of their living rooms. All without worrying about arbitrary changes to TOS. And I’m learning about all kinds of horrible children’s shows. OTOH my niece and nephew are learning about cool things like Batman: The Animated Series and Tiny Toons.
I’ve only run into a couple small issues when it came to backing up my media, but I’ll get them sorted.
- Comment on Just a little morning pick-me-up... 3 months ago:
I’m an Ohio native and learned about it in a thread a few days ago. I mean, I thought our school pizza was bad
- Comment on Just a little morning pick-me-up... 3 months ago:
This is the worst abomination I’ve seen since “Ohio-Valley” style pizza
- Comment on Grieving Louisiana father faces $18,000 bill to access state records of son’s case 3 months ago:
I see you worked with the Circumlocution Office too. It was a miserable experience
- Comment on Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’ 3 months ago:
It is indeed a Point of Sale, albeit a shitty one
- Comment on Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight 4 months ago:
Time to buy some Boeing stock, cause the US govt won’t let their defense dept darling fail
- Comment on Hello 4 months ago:
Ah, i see you’re playing Baldur’s Gate 3 as well
- Comment on Gastronomical Masterpiece 4 months ago:
Gottem!