Hule
@Hule@lemmy.world
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 3 days ago:
There was a setting (or plugin?) to use a random skin on startup.
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 1 week ago:
My first console was an Atari 2600 clone in 1994!
Eastern block vibes
- Comment on A photography depicting the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza - 2565 BCE. 3 weeks ago:
Asterix and Cleopatra confirmed!!
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 3 weeks ago:
Confirming for Romanian:
- house = casă
- home = acasă
- i’m home = sunt acasă
- i’m at school = sunt la şcoală
Home is probably special :)
- Comment on bring it back 3 weeks ago:
From now on…
- Comment on Brb 4 weeks ago:
I use Seek by iNaturalist. It’s working well.
- Comment on UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones 4 weeks ago:
I guess their parents could arrange for them to meet sometimes.
Wait, that’s too much work.
- Comment on turtles 4 weeks ago:
Actually… not bathtub, more like trough.
Still upside down. But imagine you had to carry a trough on your back. Which way would you turn it?
- Comment on How to Escape From the Iron Age? 4 weeks ago:
In Europe, even a single family home is now built using tons of steel. They build with brick, but the foundation, corner pillars, beams on top of walls are all concrete.
A few decades ago, reinforced concrete beams were only used in large buildings and infrastructure.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 4 weeks ago:
1.2 GB hard drives, too.
I had to think twice, it didn’t sound right…
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
Strong counterargument there!
- Comment on Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s open as it’s human readable…
- Comment on Progress! 4 weeks ago:
I once had a dream like that, maybe 20 years ago. When I woke up, I was like:
“Oh, this is my old room. But how…? It was just a dream! Now I get to live it.”
It was a wonderful feeling. People would be hooked on it if it would be reproducible.
I also have memories of what happened in there, but I’m fully aware that my brain could be projecting.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, thank You!
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
That’s just cold.
- Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM 5 weeks ago:
❌️ meg ✅️ gig
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 5 weeks ago:
History repeating itself…
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
Elaphant’s foot pizza should be a thing!
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
Off topic:
I have learned that hens were laying eggs, chicken were the offspring.
Is this a british-american thing or just a common mistake?
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 5 weeks ago:
1Kmm
(kilomillimeter)
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy IS social media. Right?
…Right?..
insert Padmeme
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 1 month ago:
Jules Verne wrote about this in one of his novels. The mysterious island, iirc.
- Comment on An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields 1 month ago:
Wikipedia article about tulip mania.
TIL
- Comment on They're on a date. 1 month ago:
And they are not Beatles.
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 2 months ago:
Mehby
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 2 months ago:
This one comes to mind
- Comment on What is on your "things to 3d print" list? 2 months ago:
I’m hoping to use this one.
- Comment on Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. 2 months ago:
I’m inside, living where I was born. Still not welcome…
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 2 months ago:
I thought we were talking about manual override to pull the window down…
- 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 2 months ago:
You 'murican?