vithigar
@vithigar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 2 days ago:
I stand corrected
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 2 days ago:
The same priority operations can be done in any order without affecting the result, that’s why they can be same priority and don’t need an explicit order.
6 × 4 ÷ 2 × 3 ÷ 9 evaluates the same regardless of order. Can you provide a counter example?
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 5 days ago:
Spent a moment thinking about this and I think there’s an implied definition for what “on earth” means that we intuitively accept but don’t ever really need to state.
If your projected free-fall trajectory both forward and backward in time intersects with the surface of the earth then you are “on earth”.
Standing on the ground? Intersects twice. Thrown rock? Intersects twice. Person in an airplane? Intersects twice. ISS? No intersection. Incoming impact meteor? One intersection.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Lethbridge, Alberta
They were looking for an excuse to do this anyway.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 3 weeks ago:
I’ve actually found the lane keeping in my Mitsubishi to be basically flawless when operating. Potholes and the like don’t seem to give it any issues at all.
It does lose track of the lanes and periodically disable if the lines are faded or absent for more than a few meters, but at least then it just switches to normal steering and doesn’t swerve me into traffic or anything.
- Comment on Anyone? 3 weeks ago:
Was ingrown on both sides, and grew back the same each time.
- Comment on Anyone? 3 weeks ago:
Ah, yeah. I was told that was a possibility when I had it done. Sucks that it happened to you.
- Comment on Anyone? 3 weeks ago:
Completely gone. Was badly ingrown and after a doctor removed it three times and it grew back ingrown again every time they just destroyed the root completely.
- Comment on Anyone? 3 weeks ago:
You joke, but I’m missing a nail on one of my big toes and it’s so much more comfortable and less hassle that I kind of wish all my toenails were gone.
…not so sure about fingernails though. They’re pretty useful for picking things up or praying things open.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
Jellyfin has some security issues that, depending on who you ask, are either critical vulnerabilities that make it completely unsafe to expose to the Internet or largely unconcerning for regular users.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
I had exactly the same experience, at about the same time. Had been hearing good things about Plex so decided to try it out. Immediately noped out when it required me to create an account with them. Similar to you I looked around and found it to be a relatively new change.
Frankly baffling to me that anyone with the wherewithal to self-host was okay with it.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 5 weeks ago:
A persistent assumption about advanced interstellar travel is that engine efficiency is monumentally better to the point that the “tyrrany of the rocket equation” is no longer a factor, and extra mass can be carried without absolutely exploding your fuel requirements into absurdity.
If adding 10kg of payload didn’t mean also potentially many times more mass of propellant we’d be sending up more robust spacecraft, no question.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 month ago:
By odd coincidence you just named the most recent two games that I purchased.
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 2 months ago:
PDF to JPEG
Don’t most pdf viewers have an export to image option?
AVC to MP4
Do you actually have files with an .avc extension? AVC is a codec that can be used in many different container formats, including MP4. Where did these files come from?
OPUS to MP3
I actually agree that most audio conversion tools are needlessly awkward. Audacity will convert these just fine, though doesn’t really do bulk conversion. Foobar2000 will do it in bulk if you’re on windows.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 months ago:
I don’t really like Discord, but it has both message pinning, threaded conversation, as well as a full blown discussion forum option for community channels. Your complaints seem to be more about the moderation of that specific community than Discord itself.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 2 months ago:
This was my exact experience as well. I’ll never know how Plex compares to Jellyfin because I immediately noped out when I ran into the account creation.
Frankly baffling to me that anyone with the wherewithal to self host thought that was okay.
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 2 months ago:
Your laptop uses an iGPU. The “i” stands for integrated, as it’s built into the same package as the CPU.
The alternative, a dGPU, is a discrete part, separate from other components.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 2 months ago:
They’d need to charge amounts that families can afford for that to work.
- Comment on which softwares can I self host without public IP? 3 months ago:
OP doesn’t seem to have responded, so no, but that’s not the fault of the question.
- Comment on which softwares can I self host without public IP? 3 months ago:
Because of the XY problem. The problem OP is stating may not actually be the source of the issues OP is experiencing.
Finding out what OP is trying to do will better inform a solution and may make the stated problem irrelevant.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 3 months ago:
I read thorough it for the details.
It was net negative power, requiring 2MW of power to maintain fusion. The major achievement of this particular experiment was doing so without the fusion reaction damaging the containing assembly.
- Comment on Are mood problems a “turn off” for people even when they’re hard to manage? 3 months ago:
People find sunsets pretty. That doesn’t mean they’re heliosexual. Finding a thing aesthetically pleasing is distinct from being sexually or romantically attracted.
- Comment on As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders 3 months ago:
Ads on a service I directly paid for was the line for me as well. I have no tolerance for that nonsense and it boggles my mind that anyone else does either.
If even a tenth of the subscriber base for any of these services cancelled because of ads they’d be gone so fast you’d get whiplash, and yet most people just put up with it.
- Comment on Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them 6 months ago:
My partner was subscribed to Crave for ages. A little while back she was in the middle of a rewatch of Sons of Anarchy when the app started to act up and wouldn’t work, so I grabbed a copy and put it on Jellyfin.
She was floored by his much immediately better the video quality was and cancelled Crave the next day. Shocked at how much worse the experience was with the paid service was compared to free.
- Comment on WILD 6 months ago:
Why do you think that?
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 6 months ago:
It is absolutely not true of all AI images. I’d be surprised if it’s even true about most AI images.
- Comment on AMD rakes in cash with best quarterly revenue ever amid datacenter business rise, but gaming business craters 6 months ago:
Regardless of whether the gaming market itself is growing or not you can sell compare to Nvidia to see how AMD is doing within that environment. If no one was buying any GPUs Nvidia would also be showing a dip, but they’re not.
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 7 months ago:
Hopefully!
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 7 months ago:
Both of those things were far too recent to have an impact on the Q3 numbers this article is referencing.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 7 months ago:
Yeah, there are some disappointing limitations for sure, but it definitely is interesting, and does at least feel more like a human player than the normal CPU opponents.
…if a somewhat schizophrenic one.