Opisek
@Opisek@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tesco trials giant trolley scales in Gateshead 15 hours ago:
I recently had my first experience dealing with an American style self checkout in Germany. That is, one of those self checkouts with the scales that you have to move your items between.
Absolute moronic. At every other store the self checkout doesn’t implicitly accuse me of being a thief. Oopsie daisy, guess I’m never going to that store again. It has too much sensory overload anyway.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 days ago:
The only ones I’ve driven will not shift when you kick the gas pedal down, precisely to let you accelerate faster.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 days ago:
Just curious, what kind of terrain did you encounter that seem to cause such issues with wrongly shifting gears?
- Comment on You guys have to end it 2 days ago:
Eh, automatic cars will let you go into “manual” mode in which you tell it when to switch the gears. Mildly useful for steep hills to stop it from switching back and forth in some rare scenarios.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 days ago:
Not sure if I got the update yet, but I’m banning my printer from accessing the internet right now.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 days ago:
You can still build it yourself.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 1 week ago:
Damn, wood. Or wood-looking material at least.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 weeks ago:
You’re right, I wasn’t thinking about the android app when writing this.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 weeks ago:
Ale we talking about the same thing?
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, works nice as long as you have a server to host it on.
The only annoyance is that it’s not very space efficient and you have to rebuild your database like twice a year to bring the size back down. It might be not that bad depending on what you do. I create above thousand new lines of notes with a lot of pictures every day and I’m at around 2GB after rebuilding the database. I expect it to go up to like 6GB biyearly, but, again, clicking on the rebuild button deals with that.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 weeks ago:
Have you seen the community-made self hosted sync plugin?
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 2 weeks ago:
There in fact are FOSS alternatives like Joplin. Personally, I actually switched from Joplin to Obsidian due to a larger community (and therefore community-driven plugins) and overall a more polished UX. That being said, I have the security of switching back if Obsidian ever becomes evil or unusable.
Another aspect is that the entire source code is technically viewable (partially obfuscated) since it’s a web app. Having written plugins for Obsidian, you’re very much interacting with the source code itself. Feels like open source with extra steps and I wish one day they will finally make the switch to true FOSS.
- Comment on Nope 2 weeks ago:
Holding a brand new species with bare hands. Yeah no, I’m out. That thing will end up sweating poison when threatened or whatever.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 2 weeks ago:
It looks so flimsy. The size of the keyboard compared to the screen feels like it would be nearly impossible to type on it with the thumbs comfortably and without the phone falling out of your hand.
- Comment on AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds 3 weeks ago:
No better time to get into self hosting!
- Comment on Looks legit, but can it actually be a real thing? 3 weeks ago:
Well its intended function is not to generate nonconsensual nudes, but to detect the presence of weapons.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 4 weeks ago:
/r/programming
There’s your culprit
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 4 weeks ago:
How exactly does NAT prevent that? On good hardware it adds insignificant latency.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 4 weeks ago:
But to be fair, as people we would not ask “how many Rs does strawberry have”, but “with how many Rs do you spell strawberry” or “do you spell strawberry with 1 R or 2 Rs”
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 1 month ago:
I’d like people to actually read the article before commenting. They are renaming their laptops. They’ll continue producing what would’ve been XPS.
- Comment on True love 2 months ago:
My phone is on black and white when I saw this picture. At first I thought it’s a large German shepherd.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 months ago:
Killing your customers similarly tends to have detrimental effects on businesses.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 3 months ago:
I fail to see how that’s Google Maps’ fault. This is the city’s fault for not blocking the bridge. Would people have complained if a paper map didn’t update all the collapsed bridges daily?
- Comment on I ain't going... 4 months ago:
That! Sometimes the static subtitles are way too long and take away from the fun of watching the movie. It’s an art to find the balance between constantly changing and too static.
- Comment on Open source Theme Hospital engine 'CorsixTH' v0.68.0 out now 4 months ago:
CorsixTH has been around for ages, but nice seeing it still get some love.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 5 months ago:
Some are quite sharp. Won’t they cause a fission? Should I just munch on the banana instead?
- Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 5 months ago:
Wearing a seatbelt in a moving vehicle does not magically prevent all deaths upon an accident. Do you recommend we should stop wearing seatbelts?
If there are measures in place that reduce the danger of something happening, it’s not wise to remove them just because it’s not 100% effective.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 5 months ago:
What about your teeth?
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 5 months ago:
All I see is *******
- Comment on Lingering damage 5 months ago:
My insomnia will be like a long loading game that has two or three repeating tips for each loading screen.