toddestan

@toddestan@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Encarta count as owning an encyclopedia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With the N64, it helps if you can hook it up to a TV from around that era too. Games like Goldeneye look terrible on a modern LCD. I had that experience myself - “Man, I know I’m used to modern games now, but I don’t remember these games looking this shitty”. Then I dragged out my old CRT and hooked it up, and instantly it was “Now this is how I remember these games looking like”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At best, I’ve seen a small discount and whatever is traded in is junked to keep it off the second-hand market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While we’re at it, let’s also vent about cars and trucks with loud modified exhausts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rock n’ Roll Racing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally, Google shows the appropriate name based upon where you are located. So for everyone outside of 'murica, it’s still the Gulf of Mexico.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I would say that cell phones are fine. It’s when they turned into smartphones where I would draw the line. I just get the feeling that we’d be a lot better off if mobile phone tech never advanced much further than the mid-2000’s flip phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What websites still feel like the old internet?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Along the same lines,

  slackware.org today:

  www.slackware.org

  slackware.org in 2001:

  web.archive.org/web/…/www.slackware.org/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Jansport that’s about that old from the college days. It’s held up pretty well I must say. No idea about newer ones.

  When I was in college, I would have thought it crazy to be using a backpack older than I was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Biden wanted to could he have people kill Trump since he is in office and SCOTUS said it was ok?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s assuming if Biden was to issue such an order as things stand right now.

  If Biden really wanted to abuse his newfound powers of immunity, his very first official act would be making sure the supreme court won’t be standing in his way for any subsequent official acts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jazz hands⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. If you were to attempt something like this, you’d be better off with something like a chunk of granite than plutonium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What they are doing is comparing your answer and seeing if it is consistent with how it has been answered previously. They realize that not everyone is going to give the exact same answer, so as long as you answer it in a way that enough other people have answered it, it should let you in.

  I’ll usually go with the minimum number of clicks that I think will get me through, since I’m lazy and it’ll also at times slow down how fast you can click which is annoying.

  I’ll also answer them wrong if I think it’s a mistake that enough other people will make. “Yes… that RV over there is a bus…”