JimVanDeventer
@JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Petrichor 2 days ago:
I lost my smell to COVID in that first year, before the vaccine. Recently and for the first time since, I smelled petrichor and I could have cried.
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 4 days ago:
It’s snowing 😭
- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 weeks ago:
I am using and loving Solve by Pomegranate Apps. Multiple workspaces and advanced functions available a swipe away. It doesn’t seem to be available anymore, and it looked like the company was hitting hard times when they dumped things like Trump quotes and other shit apps into the store. So, apprehensive to recommend because of weirdness but best calculator ever.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month ago:
Or force them to admit they are selling it for real without all the license mumbo jumbo. They have always known what “buy now” buttons were meant to lead you to believe. And — in my humble opinion — you aren’t wrong for believing that; they are.
- Comment on A quick 600 DPI scan of my favourite non-chelonian ninja. 3 months ago:
- Comment on W Earth 3 months ago:
But it isn’t a mystery at all. The moon is moving away from us. For billions of years the moon’s apparent size was larger than the sun. For billions of years later it will appear smaller. It’s simply a lucky coincidence we live in this moment in time, in that regard.
- Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility 4 months ago:
Or is it more of an age-gated thing
Depends how old you consider old, maybe? Computers back in the day were pretty universally light text on a dark background. VIC-20 was an exception but then even Commodore backpedaled on that with the 64. But you might have had a different experience and are only remembering things like Mac OS or Amiga, or Windows, and maybe that has influenced your preference. 🤷♀️ To each their own, anyway.
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
Look on the bright side: a vote for Biden is really just a vote for Kamala Harris with extra steps.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 4 months ago:
The most dangerous phrase is “we’ve always done it this way”.
- Comment on brave little bird 7 months ago:
I was watching some crows chase around an eagle the other day. The pathetic squee noises it made like it’s saying “I toldja I was sorry I ate your babies” has me wondering why we have all fallen for this whole eagles are a symbol of power gobbledegook.
- Comment on To put life into perspective 7 months ago:
I’m in Andromeda?
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 7 months ago:
One way in the back should say “bees knees”.
- Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 7 months ago:
The Trekz Titanium (maybe that is the correct spelling) won me over and I want all my headphones to be like that, forever. Sadly, not all boners (as we call them in the biz) are made the same, and my newer Open Run Pro (or whatever) are disappointing boners by comparison.
- Comment on once in a lifetime 7 months ago:
The clouds may have even made it look more dramatic.
- Comment on [Eric Berger] Seeing this eclipse is probably the highest-reward, lowest-effort thing one can do in life 7 months ago:
During totality you can.
- Comment on degree in bamf 8 months ago:
Taking credit for the work of people who are barely even credited in the first place is… a way of responding. If only she had disappeared behind the curtain for a moment, re-emerging with everyone there with big hair and guitars and eye shadow and screamed “we are McCarty and the Et Als!!!”
Oh well; next time.
- Comment on Venus by Tuesday 10 months ago:
I am in love with the elegance of this idea that would not work even a little bit. Occam, eat your heart out.
- Comment on greenland for the win 10 months ago:
We had iceberg ice in Newfoundland. Picked up a chunk from the beach, rinsed it off, shattered it with a sewing needle, and drank Chaga Rum.
- Comment on Always look on the bright side of life 10 months ago:
Not… slavery?
- Comment on Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business 10 months ago:
He won’t be doing nothing; he’ll be doing tons of cocaine. He actually has enough money now to attach 3 or 4 more functioning noses to his face.
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 11 months ago:
we don’t think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away—in fact, it makes it worse.
Happy Opposite Day, everyone! 🥳
- Comment on Buster's pissed off now 11 months ago:
- Comment on Wretched souls 11 months ago:
But… I like potato salad.
*feels forehead
Nooooooooooooo!
- Comment on 108-Gigapixel 3D Microscope Scan of Vermeer Masterpiece is Largest Ever 11 months ago:
Anybody know if I can download this with Dezoomify or something?
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 11 months ago:
- Comment on Jragon 1 year ago:
How I wish for the day English decides to upend everything and go phonetic with a truncated alphabet and word modernization.
Also, drop the whole uppercase and lowercase nonsense. Just pick one!
- Comment on A lot of YAML 1 year ago:
A bit underwhelming.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
How did YouTube become the monopoly it is? Seems they were always riding Vimeo’s coattails and have been rewarded handsomely for it.
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
