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- Submitted 1 month ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on The song "Home on the Range" is essentially a limerick. Therefore, any limerick any be put to the tune of "Home on the Range". 4 months ago:
‘Theeeere once was a girl from Nantucket’ … well, sort of works.
- Comment on Linux Mint 22 Beta Released with Cinnamon 6.2, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - 9to5Linux 4 months ago:
Tried Live 22 version out … everything worked well -except- the Display setting I’ve used for my (Samsung) monitor for years … was missing. No idea how -that- gets fixed. (No, xrandr didn’t fix it.) Had to quit before my eyes burned out.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 6 months ago:
" We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." — von Goethe
- Comment on Replacing CD Collection 8 months ago:
Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes. Started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.
- Comment on The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy 8 months ago:
Sure, why not? It’s not like we have any other pressing issues to address. Let’s keep pouring 100s of billions into the right pockets and press on.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
The year of the four linux desktops, I hope! (I have 3, but two need to go to the landfill).
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
After the thousands of years of human history I’ve read about, getting rid of competitors seems to have been the primary concern of most of the ruling classes all over the world. Way back to Ur.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
But I’m not in the field. My reasoning for posting this: I see news about PFAs a lot, this was fresh to me and I was glad to hear the news that chemists are at work on the problem (many communities in WA have contaminated water). And simply-enough for ‘newbs’ to learn from. I don’t find a ‘technology for experts’ ‘community’ on Lemmy.
Livescience is far from the best source, but I checked that they had a link to the study (Science) in it.
- Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading themwww.livescience.com ↗Submitted 8 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 39 comments
- Comment on Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards 8 months ago:
Singapore has too many rich Chinese already.
- Comment on Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches 8 months ago:
If we try the rolling power-outage trick, we’d better make damned sure we get it right the first time. Because they’ve been well-trained to mimick us.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
Wow. I remember when I got upset when companies started stuffing cookies into my computer. ‘For my benefit.’
Now the only browser I’m willing to use wants to put Deputy Dan into my machine to keep me safe in the carnival of the future.
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 8 months ago:
assuming the profit of AI is sufficiently taxed for the wealth to redistribute
AH - hah-hah-hah-hah !!!
Oh well, at least some of us will still be good for cleaning up messes and other physical things. And remember, like they used to say, hard work never killed anybody.
- Comment on You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI 8 months ago:
Ya know … I’ll just give that a close hard look. Thanks!
- Comment on You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI 9 months ago:
After leaving Macs (and Logic) switched to LInux over 10 years ago, and haven’t made music since (hardware in boxes). Concur that Linux is a dog’s dinner for music.
I recently heard that newer PipeWire has improved things a quite a lot. Haven’t tried it yet … not sure I remember how to play any instruments any more.
- Comment on What would happen if you moved at the speed of light? 9 months ago:
You already knew the answer to ‘What would happen if you moved at the speed of light’ was was “To actually reach the speed of light you’d be massless.” No shit. The question was already massless.
- Comment on What would happen if you moved at the speed of light? 9 months ago:
If you’re zooming past the Earth at the speed of light zooming straight at the Moon, you’ve got about 1 second to enjoy that before you make a very, VERY large crater.
If you change course and head straight at a frozen tardigrade, it will make a VERY large crater in you.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 9 months ago:
Looks like I’ll need to switch to one of those browsers that only take and show characters I can type on a keyboard. Like F and U.
- Comment on Ubuntu 24.04 will use Thunderbird Snap instead of DEB 9 months ago:
Well, could’ve been clearer, my experiences apply to snaps and flatpaks. Huger and slower. Name your poison ;->
- Comment on Ubuntu 24.04 will use Thunderbird Snap instead of DEB 9 months ago:
I’ve tried a few big apps in flatpak form, and usually they’re much bigger, and noticeably (many seconds) slower to start up. (Haven’t tried one with less than 4 cores, so can only imagine they being much slower.)
- Comment on What would happen if you moved at the speed of light? 9 months ago:
‘Speed of light’ compared to what? is what you need to worry about. Most things in the universe won’t be moving at the speed of light compared to you, and when you run into them, you won’t last for long.
- Comment on How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity 9 months ago:
The how part.
- Submitted 9 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 89 comments
- Comment on What temperature is too cold for electronics? 10 months ago:
Sounds about right … -some- of the older ICs are pretty rugged. OTOH, things I wonder about on the below-freezing side (colder things shrink) … include ROMs? Larger capacitors? Modern high-density RAM? FPGA? And then there’s water condensation (rust?) water freezing? (might even damage traces on PC boards)… (Wonder if there’s an archive of chip datesheets online?)
- Submitted 10 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Submitted 11 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 137 comments
- Comment on 23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing 11 months ago:
Desperate strategy they’re hoping will fool some of the people some of the time.
- Comment on INSIDE those OLD pinball machines 11 months ago:
With all those noises moving parts inside, playing an OLD machine felt like tickling a hippo.
- Comment on INSIDE those OLD pinball machines 11 months ago:
Ur so right! Diffy-Q has its uses, but was too advanced for us to grok. Yet. Non-linear? Hella faster! Nature went with analog long ago. No analog, no music!