Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 9 hours ago:
This is… the same kind of thing the local Airsofters were building with an arduino and a few hats a decade ago. It’s not a functional weapon it’s just a hobby rocket with fins that admittedly looks real fun to shoot off…
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 9 hours ago:
I can contribute that the goal with the drones is to help contain small fires before they spread - they aren’t there to stop the fires, just slow them down until humans can get there with the serious equipment.
- Comment on Worm doll I sleep with 3 days ago:
Like a badge of honor.
- Comment on I want, nay *need*, to see your favourite pet photos 3 days ago:
Probably the best cat photo I’ve ever taken - unfortunately, it’s of course not a photo of my cat.
- Comment on More people should dance like they are trying to get something off their chest 4 days ago:
Like a big spider. Dance like you’re trying to get a big spider off your chest.
- Comment on Worm doll I sleep with 4 days ago:
No you dont.
- Comment on Dear Faith IV 2 weeks ago:
Noy really sure how it’s relevant here?
- Comment on Dear Faith IV 2 weeks ago:
I’m skeptical just because their email signature changes - I haven’t touched mine in years, so why does Prof. Kutaywa go from being first supervisor to just supervisor?
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 2 weeks ago:
Except that’s not how that works - creating a healthy used resale market drives demand for the Pixel phones. I may not be giving them my money directly, but it’s still of huge monetary benefit to Google if I purchase one of their phones used. I like grapheneOS, I really do, but it’s inseparability from Google hardware is a serious problem.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 2 weeks ago:
If only you didn’t have to give google money to be able to install it.
- Comment on Fr🤮nch 2 weeks ago:
… Illegal?
- Comment on We should be able to buy this today 3 weeks ago:
Both are correct, although the use of “lighted” as in the above is becoming archaic.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 weeks ago:
I won’t let it go to my head. I promise. Probably.
Anyways tho for an actual opinion:
This thread is a bit of a mess and I would caution taking anything being said (except by me, the absolute authority) without a large grain of salt - however mostly people aren’t contradicting each other, it’s just a hugely complex topic that quickly devolves into semantic-adjacent arguments about how we should be comparing battery chemistries (on market / in lab / cross-chemistry) and what degree we should be considering the “soft factors”; things like the number of recharge cycles, robustness of the cells to damage, cost of manufacturing and/or recycling the cells, etc.
Sodium batteries are a big deal, and as far as I’ve seen we’re finally at the point where they’re starting to become market viable, but they’re still a largely unproven technology. Arguing that battery tech hasn’t improved in the last decade is obviously wrong, but it’s also not wrong to say that there hasn’t been any dramatic improvement in the technology in the last decade. None of the many “miracle battery tech” that promises to have double-or-better the capacity of lithium chemistries has panned out, we’ve just been making slow gains across many chemistries and those cumulative 10% improvements to battery life year-over-year are finally starting to add up to where the average consumer can really notice them.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 weeks ago:
Start of my villain arc right here. Like unidan, but with more buttholes.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 weeks ago:
Did you mean to tag me?
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 3 weeks ago:
(You can edit post titles on lemmy, fwiw)
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 3 weeks ago:
In this one case EA is to blame, but I do know what you mean. I think it’s just that YouTube videos have had a large impact on the form media takes, and that’s trickled out towards other forms.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 3 weeks ago:
Red-dyed ones were all over the middle east when I was a kid, but I’ve never once seen them in the US sold this way. I think it just depended on what exporter your region mainly used.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 3 weeks ago:
While that’s a factor, it’s a very minor one - soft metals (lead and copper) are used as projectiles primarily because the bullet itself deforms to engage with the rifling when fired (softer materials also present far less wear on the rifling as a result - this is why shotguns, which are smoothbore and thus far less delicate, often use steel projectiles). The weight of the projectile is largely secondary to the mechanical properties of the material while it’s being fired.
- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 3 weeks ago:
Man, I haven’t seen this image in a decade and I can still spot it.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 3 weeks ago:
They upload the following protocol to everyone’s printer and call it a day:
- Comment on Microsoft 365's buggy Copilot 'Chat' has been summarizing confidential emails for a month — yet another AI privacy nightmare 3 weeks ago:
In this case there’s no evidence showing that it’s being spread widely - the bug reports are entirely about users being shown their own content. If you have something to dispute that I’m all ears.
- Comment on Nomenclature 3 weeks ago:
Are there really herpetologists saying “don’t say snek”?
- Comment on Goth Girls 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s the new LemmyNSFW (or aims to be) and same, the 18+ is impassible here too.
- Comment on Microsoft 365's buggy Copilot 'Chat' has been summarizing confidential emails for a month — yet another AI privacy nightmare 3 weeks ago:
For clarity, it’s only being summarized for the users that wrote it, it’s not leaking them to everyone. A comedically inept bug to allow though, holy shit.
- Comment on McBludda Please 😫 4 weeks ago:
Yeesh no that’s what they’re after, they’re spaming this drivel everywhere to promote their youtube channel.
- Comment on the wok agenda 4 weeks ago:
God, it really is.
- Comment on Lemmynsfw is down, possibly forever. The server is still serving images and videos though - if anyone wants to archive do it now! 4 weeks ago:
It was throwing a 521 so maybe? As far as I know it’s still just speculation, nobody’s been able to get ahold of the head admin that I’ve seen.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I’m not sure if you’re satirizing the initial poster or not :(
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 4 weeks ago:
… Because they tell a compelling story? How is that relevant?
