ColeSloth
@ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Don't cry 2 days ago:
Bro; Kudos for choosing a year where it could have legit been Henry the 8ths milk.
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 3 days ago:
Don’t read so well, do ya?
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 3 days ago:
Yeah, but I still feel like the majority of people are stupid. That’s kind of how apple got such a huge market share to begin with. People just happily locked themselves in to a closed garden with shit for options.
- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 1 week ago:
No. If you’re lucky, you could take the phone apart and reconnect the ribbon connector that goes from the display to the board and it will be fixed. More likely the display is damaged and would need replaced. No chance a lighter will fix it.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 week ago:
The article pointedly says that non violent protests were more successful because a lot more people were involved than in the violent protests.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 week ago:
“This was partly the result of strength in numbers. Chenoweth argues that nonviolent campaigns are more likely to succeed because they can recruit many more participants from a much broader demographic, which can cause severe disruption that paralyses normal urban life and the functioning of society.”
In other words, violent protests work better, but they lack the amount of people.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 week ago:
Rocks?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s a skill that most people will need to use often in their lives if you live in the US, at least. Unless you live in a place like New York city and don’t ever plan on leaving, you’ll probably be better off knowing how to drive. There’s a dozen reasons why that are all pretty obvious to most people.
But if you’re only 19, never got a license before that, and are dating a guy that’s a fair amount older than you are, I’m guessing you just want other people making all of your decisions for you.
- Comment on just beat it 1 week ago:
Was doing this with my car fob for a while before I finally broke down and re-soldered the battery contact terminal to the board yesterday.
Also doing it to my cars blower fan for the AC. I have the replacement fan motor, but it hasn’t been annoying enough yet to mess with replacing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
When you’re living in it, you don’t know what the future will have. I like my information and tech, but growing up as a kid before all that was pretty sweet. You weren’t always after knowing or researching or finding out everything. You lived more in the moment.
There was also a freedom that will never return for anyone. Imagine going places and doing things that at best will only be a story people could tell. No pictures or videos that keep or prove anything forever digitally around. It’s something you subconsciously think about now all the time. It didn’t used to exist. Also the freedom of being a kid and wanting to go hang out wondering around with friends all day completely untethered or tracked. Just a “be home before the streetlights come on” and beyond that your parents have no idea where you are and can’t call you. Getting lost was an adventure.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 1 week ago:
Plan b: Can you still reach the bottle of shampoo?
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
The better software part is pretty debatable, but dex is cool for the people who use it.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 2 weeks ago:
Stfu
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 weeks ago:
Our law enforcement is a huge joke and the meh pay, high turnover rate, and low bar of entry attracts the type of people you wouldn’t want to be associated with to begin with.
But also, why are small framed 5’3 women allowed to be police?
Fact is, most cops can’t outrun or overpower a lot of criminals who chose to resist or flee. In actuality that’s a pretty tiny part of the job. The rest is tickets, reports, paperwork, arrests with no resistance, investigations, etc. you don’t have to be an athlete or even very physically fit to do any of that. Id rather deal with a fat cop that isn’t a dick more than a slim one who’s a dumbass.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I’m not paying an extra $500 for a stylus. Either way I think I’ll have at least another year out of this thing.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
I meant redmagic 10 pro plus. My bad.
As for the samsungs:
Because it’s priced higher than it should be, it has a slightly lower performance chip, a much lower capacity battery, and older battery tech that will degrade faster and charges slower. The best redmagic out specs the samsungs in every way but picture quality and does it for $500 less.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Id pick up a redmi 10+ pro if it had a pen and sacrifice away the SD card slot. Id at least have a huge battery and awesome cooling.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I still really like my micro SD card slot and pen on my note 20 ultra. Dunno what I’ll do when I have to replace it.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 2 weeks ago:
The restrictions on apk access over the past 10 years have already been an annoying pita. Many of the best power user apks have had to gut themselves over their original functionality, all while obtaining root access over your owned devices has become harder or next to impossible.
- Comment on I can't believe it's necessary to ask the question... 2 weeks ago:
Not anymore. The meat part got damned expensive. It used to be a hearty affordable meal that wasn’t hard to cook and tasted good for the amount of effort you had to put into it.
Kind of like how nobody makes hamburger helper anymore. It was popular back when a pond of hamburger was like a buck. Now that it’s $5 a pound no ones wastes it on the stuff.
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 2 weeks ago:
I was a little kid. In my neck of the woods 27 was nickelodeon. Lol
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 2 weeks ago:
Could be. I know this because we owned the filter that gave it to us when installed. Each cable company could have been doing something different, though.
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 2 weeks ago:
The filters were installed to unscramble the channels. Not the other way around. We had a filter for Cinemax that we’d put in line as it would get to our cable box in the house.
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 2 weeks ago:
All I needed was row three, 2nd from the left.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
What if they’re 25?
- Comment on Four NYPD officers converged on one woman on a bike because she smiled at them, then detained her because she wasn't carrying ID. 2 weeks ago:
If you’re using the roadway several states and cities require you to carry a government ID for the purpose of writing you tickets. Generally speaking, in those places if you can’t provide one you will be detained and taken to the police station until your identity can be verified. While their, your bike will almost surely be stolen.
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 2 weeks ago:
“probably won’t remember”?
Man. Fuck this kid. I’m not that old…
- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 3 weeks ago:
I dunno, man. I never knew anyone who had a yellow light PS3 and the only ones I read about were from people who had kept them in enclosed cabinets. I also watched a very in depth 2 hour documentary on the 360 rrod and it wasn’t due to ati.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 3 weeks ago:
Fat free water
- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 3 weeks ago:
Wiis and ps3’s weren’t crapping out, and the 360 failures weren’t due to ati. This meme is dumb. Dumb in the bad meme kinda way.