abfarid
@abfarid@startrek.website
- Comment on Please choose one 1 day ago:
Techbically, there’s a bundle that includes the game for $50.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 day ago:
I honestly don’t see this changing any time soon because there are biological incentives behind both stereotypes. And, anecdotally, my gf (40+) will pout if in some context I refer to her as a woman, and be like “noooo, I’m a girl… :(”. Semi-jokingly, of course, but only semi.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 day ago:
Stereotypically, women always strive to look as young as possible, so calling one a girl can be seen as a compliment. While men, stereotypically strive to appear mature, hence calling one a boy can be considered an insult.
- Comment on I am just silly 2 days ago:
I remember this joke usually involving eggs. But I suppose that has to be changed, for reasons.
- Comment on Tired of dating apps? 1 week ago:
Uses Too Many Big Words
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- Comment on Tired of dating apps? 1 week ago:
How can one be chronologically disappointed? Did you mean “chronically”?
- Comment on Struggling 1 week ago:
It was obviously sarcasm with that 100ths precision rating.
- Comment on Type C 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
I’m not criticizing the screens, they are ok and I loved my Pebble Time Steel until the battery swelled and popped off the screen. I’m just saying that calling these e-paper is a deceptive marketing strategy.
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
From the Verge article:
The first watch that Migicovsky and Core plan to ship is called the Core 2 Duo (not to be confused with the old Intel processor), which Migicovsky says will cost $149 and will ship in July. […] It has the exact same black-and-white e-paper display as the old Pebble 2 (technically a transflective LCD, if you’re curious)
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
As I mentioned earlier, whether a screen type is considered e-paper is subjective. And in my opinion, reflective LCD isn’t a type of e-paper. You may disagree, but it’s not “categorically” wrong.
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
Quote is from Wikipedia. You can see it’s the case for both models here:
Besides, I own a Pebble Time watch and can tell you it doesn’t perform like a typical e-paper. It has the bad viewing angles of LCD and screen goes blank when power is lost.
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
The watch featured a 32-millimetre (1.26 in) 144 × 168 pixel black and white memory LCD using an ultra low-power “transflective LCD”
The problem is that e-paper is a category of displays, abnd some companies label reflective LCDs as “e-paper”. Which is subjective (and I personally heavily disagree with that categorization, cause then LCD clocks and Gameboys have “e-paper” displays, too).
But in the comment I responded to it was said Pebble has “eink” display, which is categorically wrong, as that is a very specific proprietary technology, which is e-paper in traditional sense, like the ones in Kindles.
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
IIRC, it has a reflective LCD, not epaper display.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, good to know.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 4 weeks ago:
Technically, sideloading is possible already, but you need a developer account, you’re limited to 3 sideloaded apps at a time, and you have to renew them every week.
So the more difficult way already exists.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t make my comment not true.
And I don’t filter or block anything or anyone. Rawdogging Lemmy, the way God intended.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy, this is the 7th day in a row you’ve shown “Tesla sales down in Europe” news in Top.
- Comment on Big Spooon 4 weeks ago:
Rookie mistake. You get muscular BY carrying a backpack woman. Careful about going bald though.
- Comment on Big Spooon 5 weeks ago:
The backpack.
- Comment on .tar.xz 1 month ago:
Because modern media formats are already compressed by default and have very little redundancy in them.
- Comment on .tar.xz 1 month ago:
No way media compressed 5x.
- Comment on Hotel chain ditches Google search for DuckDuckGo — ‘subjected to fraud attempts daily’ 2 months ago:
DuckDuckGo has a browser? Or did they mean “search engine”?
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 2 months ago:
It still might be, don’t give up hope!
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 2 months ago:
Dang, that labtop is so old it has a dialup modem built-in.
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 3 months ago:
Me: - Even Bernie?! Garak: - Especially Bernie.
- Comment on If Nintendo went belly up today the retro community would have a field day 4 months ago:
Pff, millions? How about 3 billions!
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 4 months ago:
They are the OP.
- Comment on They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution 4 months ago:
Some hypercars actually have a flat undercarriage to maximize aerodynamics. Also not all HotWheels are depicting real cars, so they might not have realistic underbody. This could be one of those 2 cases.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 4 months ago:
Technically, it’s not about the display technology, but instead about the signal/tuner. More specifically if it’s analog or digital. Some modern TVs still have analog or hybrid tuners for backwards compatibility and regions that still use analog, so they can display static. For instance, in Ukraine we finished the switch to digital TV only a couple of years ago. If your TV had no digital tuner (as was the case for many) you had to buy a DAC box. Retirees/pensioners got them for free, sponsored by the government.