Vinny_93
@Vinny_93@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's not a bubble! 17 hours ago:
Calling it a multi billion dollar project is factually correct but quite the understatement
- Comment on Audio enthusiast seeking safety advice 20 hours ago:
It’s not. If you mean an extension cord with built-in ground and surge protection, that is.
If your amp had a ground in its power plug, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. If there is a surge in the actual power to the outlet, the surge protector might catch it. But since this is about surges inside the device itself, it means you should no longer actually touch the amp because you might get a shock. You can imagine that the higher the amperage flowing through the amplifier, the more dangerous this is.
- Comment on Audio enthusiast seeking safety advice 20 hours ago:
I have only a very basic knowledge of electricity and an even smaller knowledge of amps but I have heard about certain amps that would be susceptible to immense power surges which would short out some circuits and that power needs to go somewhere. If it’s not grounded properly it might release its current into the air where it’ll find you, or maybe catch fire.
The specifics of this and why or how this happens should be findable online.
Most likely it’ll also have something to do with the higher voltage direct current being transformed into a lower voltage alternating current. But why and how you’d need to be properly grounded for that is beyond me.
- Comment on Audio enthusiast seeking safety advice 21 hours ago:
The dangers are limited unless you hit an edge case which you’ll want to avoid. In other words, you’d have to be really unlucky. Surges can happen with audio equipment easily though.
The principle of grounding is actually simple enough: when something goes wrong with the current, for instance if it can’t move through the wires it should move through, it’ll try to escape. Grounding makes sure that it moves through a dedicated wire to somewhere it can no longer do harm. Cars, for instance, use their frame as a ground, which will conduct the current into the tires and into the ground (ie Earth) if necessary.
This is probably 25% accurate so I’ll invite any electrician to correct me but I am fairly confident this will do as a basic answer.
You hook up the GND contacts to anything that is not connected to anything electrical, preferably something non-conductive at the end of it, you’ll be fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ah, oil, the Black Gold. Also consider the other resource, the gold gold.
- Comment on A boot meme for Gen X to complement to the earlier one for the Millennials 3 weeks ago:
Boots are made for Walken
- Comment on A boot meme for Gen X to complement to the earlier one for the Millennials 3 weeks ago:
I figured that was what it was about but I have no idea who that is
- Comment on A boot meme for Gen X to complement to the earlier one for the Millennials 3 weeks ago:
As a Millenial, I do get this one but no clue about the other one. I did see it but no clue what it’s supposed to be.
- Comment on Delicious rocks 4 weeks ago:
They’re minerals, Marie!
- Comment on The USA and Europe are now enemies 5 weeks ago:
Yes, there’s room for discussion, so there’s no blind support for Israel. I’m not saying there is no support for Israel. Western Europe is walking the line between appeasement politics and reality. They all know that condemning Israel would create tensions with the US.
But if you look at citizens, pro-Palestine (so not necessarily pro-Hamas) protests are centered around ending human suffering, without actually taking a side in who has a claim to the land there.
The Netherlands is not participating in the Eurovision Song Festival, which might seem like inconsequential, but it’s a pretty big statement. Winners of the contest are returning the awards now that Israel is not banned from participating.
Plus the ICJ is located in the Hague, which isn’t recognized by the USA, but also show some moderate doubts towards what Israel is doing.
The entire situation in Israel is complicated with its roots going far beyond the temporal conscience of people. There’s no clear answer other than that nothing warrants bombing hospitals and blocking humanitarian aid.
- Comment on The USA and Europe are now enemies 5 weeks ago:
The USA never really had allies after WWII. They did a lot to stop Germany from taking over the continent, but after that the USA was basically a playground bully, an enforcer, that believes it’s the boss and as long as everyone does what they want, they can be friends.
Now that they start doing things that don’t align with what the ideals of the European Union or Europe in general, suddenly we start seeing that ‘allies’ is a very relative term.
The USA just wants to be number 1. Now that they have started destroying their own economy, suddenly the EU, Canada, China, all of them seem like threats.
Basically the USA is just a market to Europe, and they provide the media we watch in the shape of TV shows and the like. They provide the arms we need to ‘keep peace’ where necessary. If shit is going to hit the fan (more than it did in Ukraine, maybe also tensions in Gaza since Europe doesn’t blindly support Israel), it’s not a given that the USA and Europe will be on the same side, but my point is it was never really a given.
- Comment on A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd 1 month ago:
I read the part on the website and I like the setup. I am correct in thinking this is a US based community?
- Comment on EA Announces No F1 26 Next Year, F1 25 Will Get a Major Expansion Instead 2 months ago:
Really don’t quite get why these sports games need a ‘new’ version each year anyway. All they really used to change were driver line-ups and some minute details about how cars handled on controllers. If you were to play with a wheel you’d not have noticed much difference since F1 2018 but they’ll expect you to buy it again and again.
Just sell the game at 70, yearly content updates at 20 and stop pretending you’re actually doing anything about issues in the game.
- Comment on Brushing teeth before going to the dentist has the same motivator as shaving pubes before going to the gynecologist: If someone's going to be looking inside there, you want it to look nice. 2 months ago:
I go to the dermatologist every six months and they have to look at my entire body every time, I take extra care to be clean and smell neutral or faintly nice. Unless that one time I had to go by bike bugy that was outside my control. I feel pretty self conscious at those times.
Same goes for the dentist, I take extra care weeks in advance when I know an appointment is coming up. If you have stuff in between your teeth a brush won’t reach, one quick brush before the appointment has as much effect as taking a breath mint.
- Comment on they/them 2 months ago:
Sheinrich Themmler
- Comment on they/them 2 months ago:
This works a lot better with Heinrich Himmlers name because that actually starts with traditional pronouns
- Comment on Think about the shareholder value of this one 2 months ago:
You could also use the infant’s blood to revitalize a shareholder
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Could it be that web services are divided into regions
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 2 months ago:
The French and acronyms. You got NATO, but the French translate it so they call it OTAN. Directly translated, they also just say the ‘States United’.
Anyone’s guess who did word order first to find out why French is a silly language.
- Comment on Just an FYI 3 months ago:
It’s also one of those sentences that changes meaning depending on which word you accentuate.
- Comment on At 1% 3 months ago:
What did dude think was coming out of the VGA port? Tiny photographs? It’s all electricity through wires, of course it’ll send some electricity into a phone
- Comment on effective advertising to boost your business 3 months ago:
If they mount stuff as askew as they did with that plaque I might look a bit further for a contractor
- Comment on I'm looking for a particular community in Lemmy. It's kind of like ask Lemmy, But with really bad responses. It's more of a joke community. I've seen it in the past but can't find it 3 months ago:
Hey I’m not advocating the usage of it, I’m just answering a question.
I think some of the communities are just good fun, I’m not judging any of the characters who visit the instance. But I agree that some of the communities and some of its patrons have a not so open minded view of the world and prefer to speak in a language of hate rather than a language of love. I stand against that. But I do stand against broad censorship in the grand scheme of things. I prefer a world when people can say anything they like as long as they take the time to look at issues from several angles that do not correspond with their own. Right wing, left wing, it doesn’t really matter as long as we all take the time to really appreciate where someone else is coming from.
As long as their opinion is sufficiently substantiated.
And I do concur with you that hate speech towards any groups of people in general is not a part of that discord.
- Comment on I'm looking for a particular community in Lemmy. It's kind of like ask Lemmy, But with really bad responses. It's more of a joke community. I've seen it in the past but can't find it 3 months ago:
It’s on free instance Hilarious Chaos. I think it’s called Shitty ask lemmy
- Comment on Do you recognize this guy playing video games? 3 months ago:
That’s Christian Bale
- Comment on P600 Mobile for Jellyfin Encoding 3 months ago:
I’ve got a P400 desktop and it handles everything it should. The matrix of another commenter is an important document to keep handy.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 3 months ago:
Literally the only way they will learn. I really don’t understand how we as a society have accepted ads as a necessary evil. We all hate them, but we all also make them work. It’s horrible.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 4 months ago:
I haven’t looked at the performance reviews per system yet but I recall the complaints for Borderlands 3 mainly came from people trying to run it on an old i5 with a 1060 or similar. You need a high end system, that much is clear. Or you need to get comfortable with 30 fps.
I’m not saying Randy is right to strike that tone, but you can’t deny there is a point to saying that some games are meant to be played on powerful systems and won’t accept anything less.
- Comment on This game is fantastic. 4 months ago:
It was also on sale on PC, I’ve been getting lost in it. It’s amazing. It makes me wonder if I should be playing Alan Wake as well. I once got Alan Wake II with my GPU but I sold it
- Comment on What is this thing?! Oh... 4 months ago:
Yeah the quality isn’t ace