actionjbone
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- Comment on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder: What it means for you 3 days ago:
This speaks ill of CD Projekt, honestly.
Unloading a profitable game marketplace? A one-time payout instead of consistent returns?
This sounds like a move to please shareholders. Shareholders only care about short-term.
It’s hard to trust CS Projekt as a game company.
- Comment on Anyone heard of barrel plugs with magnet adapters? 3 days ago:
Hah, OK, got me there 🤣
- Comment on Anyone heard of barrel plugs with magnet adapters? 4 days ago:
Are electric barrel connectors ever used for data transfer? I’ve only seen them used for power, but I’m curious if it’s possible.
- Comment on Rear LCD Projection? 4 days ago:
They are neither LCD nor CRT. They are projection screens.
There is no liquid-crystal display, and there is no cathode ray tube.
- Comment on Anyone heard of barrel plugs with magnet adapters? 4 days ago:
Any type of connector can be magnetic like that. But like the other guys said, it’s a question of quality - lots of these third party connectors are pretty shit.
Also, it adds resistance to the connection. A quality magnetic connector should have minimal resistance period but a crappy connector? Who knows.
More resistance = more heat + potentially insufficient power transfer.
- Comment on Rear LCD Projection? 4 days ago:
The best answer any of us can give you is “try it and see.” Sounds like you have strong preferences of what you want from a screen, so we won’t really be able to tell you if you’ll like it.
Also, since it’s a projection TV, it’s not a liquid-crystal display (LCD). :)
- Comment on Reddit to lemmy reposter 4 days ago:
Please let us have this forum without subjecting us to content from that other site.
- Comment on "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" is impossible, because time changes whenever we try to do the same thing. 1 week ago:
If you die on the hill, you’ll never know whether the next time is different.
- Comment on "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" is impossible, because time changes whenever we try to do the same thing. 1 week ago:
Oh, I see what you did there. In order to make sure you believe your answer is correct, you added additional details that weren’t part of the original statement.
Cool.
- Comment on "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" is impossible, because time changes whenever we try to do the same thing. 1 week ago:
Perhaps we cannot actually do the same thing twice in exactly the same way.
But we can perceive that we are doing it a second time in exactly the same way, without perceiving the differences.
So, in practice, it can be replicated within the frame of our flesh-brained awareness.
- Comment on What are some cool infections? 1 week ago:
Ringworm is, in fact, a fungus. Not an actual worm.
- Comment on What are some cool infections? 1 week ago:
Lots of worms can live in a non-life-threatening wound for long periods of time. Some can’t reproduce in a wound because they require a gastrointestinal tract.
So it could be a single, small worm that prevents the wound from healing, is only painful enough to be inconvenient, and can’t easily be removed without cutting off a large chunk of flesh.
- Comment on Why we’re taking legal action against SerpApi’s unlawful scraping 1 week ago:
“Because we’re hypocrites who don’t like when folks do to us what we do to other people.”
- Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ 1 week ago:
How can it be scraping up Google search results when Google is no longer providing search results?
- Comment on A story-rich open-world FPS with Max Payne and Cyberpunk 2077 vibes? All right, you have my attention, No Law 3 weeks ago:
“ex-military veteran?”
So, he was once a military veteran, but is no longer a military veteran?
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
None can escape reality-fall.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
For better and for worse, the fediverse is on the internet.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
“sigaret?”
- Comment on China’s chip industry will surprise the world 5 weeks ago:
Narrator: The world was not the least bit surprised.
- Comment on Day 497 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, Black Flag’s seafaring was fun. It was enjoyable to guide your ship around, explore the random tiny unnamed islets, dive into the ocean and hear the crew laugh about the captain jumping overboard.
Yes, collecting every last thing was a grind. But it was a fun grind. It felt like I was choosing to do all that, even though the game was psychologically goading me into it.
(Insert philosophical discussion about free will related to a video game about genetic memory and following predicted behavior.)
- Comment on Day 497 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
AC3 is the only AC game I never got to 100%. It just… wasn’t fun.
In every other AC game, even the parts that weren’t as enjoyable didn’t feel like such a grind.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 5 weeks ago:
It can’t be checkmate if the wind has blown over all the pieces.
- Comment on What OS does the Batcomputer use? 5 weeks ago:
No, he’d probably use something made by a reputable company.
- Comment on What OS does the Batcomputer use? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe at the office, but for real security in the batcave? He’d be on Waynux
- Comment on Reuse old security system 5 weeks ago:
I know enough about electrics that I might be able to help, but I’m not a security system expert.
A lot of these old wired systems are basically continuity detectors. If someone breaks a window or opens a door, continuity breaks, and therefore an alarm sounds. It’s like flipping a switch from on to off. And the IR stuff is just ordinary motion detection, the technology is still really common today.
You might be able to do a variety of stuff with that, depending on exactly what’s installed and how technically adept you are.
If you can find the service or installation manual for your old panel, you can find out how it was wired up. Sometimes the patch panels are pretty basic, and you might be able to wire the connections into any number of things. Maybe a new alarm panel - or maybe a Raspberry Pi you can program to do different things when windows and doors open or closed. For example, when continuity breaks on your front door, you can tell the system to turn on your indoor lights.
So yes, there’s a lot you can potentially do with it all. It all depends on how much work you want to put into it, and whether you can figure out how it’s all connected.
- Comment on If one were given the option to order a Stupid Cat or a Smart Cat, the vast majority would pick the Stupid Cat despite Stupid being bad. 5 weeks ago:
I have one Brilliant Schemer and one Beautiful Idiot, and I wouldn’t trade either of them ♥️
- Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, these days I play everything with a controller - because I’d rather sit on the couch than in a desk chair.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 5 weeks ago:
The atmosphere is just air. Air doesn’t have mass or weight, that’s why it floats.
- Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers? 5 weeks ago:
You might like the Max Payne series.
Third-person action shooters with bullet time.
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 5 weeks ago:
Doesn’t basically every political philosopher hate the governments built off their philosophies?