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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First/notable 3D games where you could dive below water (and walk on land)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The first was probably Duke Nukem 3D, released January 29th, 1996:

  …fandom.com/…/Water_mechanics_in_Duke_Nukem_3D

  If you consider their hacky approach to 3D cheating (they didn’t support one part of a level to be above another, and implemented looking up/down by just distorting the image, so all corners were too pointy), then you’d have to wait a few months for Quake.

  The first actually 3D first person game was Quake, released June 22nd, 1996, and it let you swim:

  quake.fandom.com/wiki/Water_(Q1)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker is renaming a mounted drive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like you’re relying on media automounting to access the drive, but this is happening too late for Docker.

  I would suggest creating the empty folder and explicitly adding the Mount to /etc/fstab instead. This should mount early enough, and even if it doesn’t it needs an empty folder for the mount point anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home cooking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it might be boiled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Was it meant to make you happier? I’m not sure it worked.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never had to do that, because our computer didn’t have a hard drive. We booted DOS right from the floppy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who did this 😂😂😂⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an elder Millennial, and I remember when we got old enough to use the 386 machines at school. Before that we were using DOS.

  Our first home computer was bought second hand and didn’t even have a hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives, and also ran DOS. We’d have kids from the entire neighborhood visit to play games on it, because although it was second hand it was also very rare to have one.

  I was 12 when Windows 95 came out. All this stuff looks waay newer than that. I’d say this draws the line for old at the older part of Gen Z. Millennials aren’t even on the scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents sue over son's asthma death days after inhaler price soared without warning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget that there are more victims here. Poor Optum and Walgreens are feeling sad that people noticed that they’re shitbags. Giving them more money would make them feel better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does (human) organ trafficking exist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These people don’t care about ethics, but scamming the billionaire is probably bad for future business. I imagine word gets around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does (human) organ trafficking exist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People rich enough to pay for black market organs don’t need to worry about health insurance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does (human) organ trafficking exist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the reseller installs the organ for you. When you’re that rich everything you buy comes with white glove installation included.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does (human) organ trafficking exist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich people sometimes have bad organs and need transplants. They’re willing to pay a lot for a new one so they don’t have to wait in line with the plebs. Organ trafficking is how they achieve this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this post is just 42kib⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I distinctively remember GIFs loading bottom to top, left to right, which does not make sense with a rotation flag. Not sure why you’re pulling PNG into this, that’s an entirely different file format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this post is just 42kib⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t GIFs load from the bottom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rawdogging it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what the kids are referring to:

  ![Tweet: the dude next to me on the plane just absolutely rawdogged this entire flight… he got on a TEN HOUR FLIGHT to europe in jeans, no headphones, no book, no neck pillow, literally just a paper cup of coffee without a lid like sir are you ok

  …](lemmy.world/…/53b901b6-1a54-414c-b57a-786d648ac67…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse, they’re actively incentivizing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This one is different, though. Most of them are just OTA software updates, the physical ones aren’t as common. Although I think there was an issue with how they secured the top of the gas pedals on the Cybertruck earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pedestrians would probably learn more from the experience if they don’t die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s barely sold outside the US because other places (like the EU) also care about the safety of people outside the vehicle. That’s why European and Asian cars (except the models explicitly for the US market like the Tacoma) are designed for pedestrians to be deflected, while US cars are a moving brick wall which will squish them like a bug.

  Also, I suspect you’d need commercial plates and a special license to drive it most other places, due to the weight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was the Pinto really that bad, though, or did Mother Jones do them dirty?

  In the numbers above, the Pinto is hardly a standout deathtrap; I mean, by modern standards, sure, everything on that list is a horrible deathtrap, but the Pinto was safer than the Toyota Corolla or the Beetle or the Datsun 210, and none of those cars are as burdened with the oppressive fiery deathtrap narrative as the Pinto is. In fact, the Pinto’s overall deaths per million vehicles is better than the average!

  theautopian.com/its-long-past-time-to-stop-making…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price Per Square Inch for TVs by size⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not much point in optimizing completely for price per inch, but when I bought my TV in 2013 I plotted this, and discovered a pretty sharp hockey stick in the graph at 70" and above. So I got a 65" TV. If my graph had looked pretty straight like yours I’d probably just get the biggest that is practical for the space.