jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on Average British house price hits record high of £375,000 2 minutes ago:
$476,453 US.
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 1 hour ago:
Worked under Windows, not an ISP problem.
These are the sorts of things you have to accept as a Linux user and figure out workarounds.
It happens all the time with job search sites and government sites. Happens to Safari users on Mac as well.
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 3 hours ago:
Or, you know, want to visit a website:
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 9 hours ago:
Windows beats Mac on price.
Windows beats Linux on compatability.Really all there is to it.
If you want to spend 3x the money, get a Mac.
If you’re comfortable dealing with software incompatibility, install Linux.
- Comment on 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good? 1 day ago:
We did an inspection before we bought.
They found a gas leak in the attic.
They also found that while radon mitigation equipment was installed, it was never connected to power.
The roof was 20 years old and only had a 20 year lifespan. No leaks… but… yeah.
- Comment on Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use? 2 days ago:
It’s been my experience that companies barely know how to get it to work for conferencing.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 3 days ago:
BRB - changing my entire 15 year reddit comment history to “Fuck Spez”. LOL.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 3 days ago:
Because “control” doesn’t mean much in the Senate unless you have 60 votes to break a filibuster.
- Comment on New Drake Diss just dropped 3 days ago:
Drip has a sudden new meaning…
- Comment on King Charles: 'That is quite red indeed’ - reaction to new portrait 4 days ago:
I could get that if it were just the background, like the official Obama portrait, but covering the uniform in red and leaving just his face and hands exposed seems to be making a statement.
Obama portrait for comparison:
- Comment on King Charles: 'That is quite red indeed’ - reaction to new portrait 5 days ago:
Since they don’t show the portrait to the viewer…
I’d love to ask the artist their intent. Did they mean to show him drenched in blood? Whose?
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 5 days ago:
Xbox “backwards compatibility” already works that way. It doesn’t run the code from the disc, it downloads a compatible digital version.
- Comment on US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China 5 days ago:
Surely nothing could go wrong…
go wrong…
go wrong…
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 1 week ago:
Open Office was a cesspool of disease, even before covid it was problematic:
passporthealthusa.com/…/2020-2-how-do-open-office…
Studies have found that that those who work in open offices are more likely to take short term sick leave or a sick day. Those employees might be using 62% more of their sick days due to the environment. Employees with this office layout are also more prone to headaches and respiratory problems due to weakened immune systems.
- Comment on Saving the internet's first search engine from the brink of being lost forever: Archie 1 week ago:
Archie and Gopher. Good times, man.
- Comment on xkcd #2931: Chasing 1 week ago:
NIAGRA FALLS!!!
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 2 weeks ago:
"frunk"ing frunk!
Seriously, did fhe same designer proofread fhis?
- Comment on my humps 2 weeks ago:
So you’re saying t-rex could have been just a big hippo? ;)
- Comment on Is this really the final laptop you will need this guy is claiming? it is completely customizable. 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t work for me since the next machine I buy needs to be waterproof. But good on them!
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 2 weeks ago:
Same here… disabled this AGES ago.
- Comment on Ohio company to sell a ‘flamethrower-wielding robot dog’ called the Thermonator 2 weeks ago:
What could possibly go wrong?
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 3 weeks ago:
Take EVs out of the equation and the ramifications of this tech (or Toyota’s) is huge, if true.
Imagine an electric wheelchair you only had to charge monthly, or that could run on one charge effectively forever.
- Comment on Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door 3 weeks ago:
Probably important to note that this is the UK Post Office and not, say, the United States Postal Service.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 3 weeks ago:
Surely nothing will go wrong.
- Comment on Let π = 5 4 weeks ago:
Well, a r=10 and h=10 doesn’t mean much without units. 10 what? Feet? Meters? Inches? CM?
Let’s take the OG numbers and assume feet, so 5,000 cubic feet. That’s not a useful volume measurement.
1 cubic foot of water = 7.48052 gallons
So 5,000 cubic feet of water = 37,402.6 gallons. That’s a viable volume measurement.
1 cubic meter = 1,000 liters.
5,000 cubic meters = 5,000,000 liters.
- Comment on Let π = 5 4 weeks ago:
Well, with those numbers, it’s easy math. :)
V=510^210
5,000. 5,000 what though?
Even with a proper π value, it still doesn’t make sense… 3,141.59265359
- Comment on The Sega Dreamcast 4 weeks ago:
People tend to lump in the Sega CD with the failed systems, but it was actually the most successful console add on ever, supporting over 200 games.
This was part of the problem with the 32X. Sega USA ran with the CD and turned it into a success when Sega Japan didn’t want it. When Japan was prepping for Saturn, US demanded the 32X and when Japan said “no”, US said “yeah, well, look at Sega CD, what do you know?” Sega USA arrogance willed the 32X into existance and, well, you know the rest.
Guitar Hero sold more, but how many games USE the guitar? 4? 5?
- Comment on The Sega Dreamcast 4 weeks ago:
The 32X was a disaster and it was bred from a conflict between Sega USA and Sega Japan.
In the US, the Sega CD had been a HIT. Japan wanted to drop it, US said “we’ll take it!” and it ended up being the #1 peripheral with more games for it than any other console add on ever. Over 200 games.
So when Sega Japan wanted to get the Saturn rolling, Sega US demanded a stop gap between the Genesis and Saturn. Japan resisted, and US went “Yeah, well look at Sega CD, what do you know?” and went with the 32X.
From the start, Japan wasn’t interested, did everything to ignore the product and effectively killed it.
In retaliation, US chose to launch Saturn several months too early. I think they knew going head to head with the Playstation was a death sentence, so they dropped it 5 months early to “select retailers”.
This had 2 problems:
- The games were janky and not ready. The first version of Virtua Fighter was so bad they had to later issue a re-mix version for free.
- The “non-select” retailers were pissed to be cut out of the early launch. So when the wide release happened in the fall, they leaned in more to support the Playstation than the Saturn.
- Comment on The Sega Dreamcast 4 weeks ago:
Sega was a victim of the Dreamcasts success. They lost money on every console sold, didn’t make it back on the software, and spent too much money on things like Shen Mue.
- Comment on The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary Tale 4 weeks ago:
The AI pin looks futuristic, like something out of science fiction, but this version is dystopian science fiction, not utopian science fiction. ;)
The translation ability alone would be worth it if it were faster. Right now, it’s too slow to be of use.