GrundlButter
@GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 4 days ago:
I kind of did the opposite. I assumed the change would be negligible or in the customer’s benefit based on Valve’s track record. I hope this never changes.
- Comment on Tesla loses EV market dominance, falls below 50% in US [unit sales in 2024Q2] 2 months ago:
Oh, billionaires and their submarines. I wish Elon wanted to tour the Titanic.
- Comment on South Korean politician links rising male suicides to women 2 months ago:
The politician also states that it is due to becoming a female dominant society. Your statement still stands that inter gender relations are a factor in male suicides, but man, it’s crazy that they’ve just taken a few steps towards gender equality and are already crying for help.
“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
- Comment on Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder, Europol warns 2 months ago:
Kinda drives home another point too. Breaking someone else’s encryption is something you do to enemies. If you’re trying to break my encryption communication or installing a backdoor, you’re an enemy, simple as that.
My eternal thanks to FOSS, and open encryption standards.
- Comment on Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat 2 months ago:
As you said, friction would introduce more wear and maintenance. This gentleman’s idea is to attach a windmill to drive the rotary induction wheel, which would essentially be “free” heat energy, and an interesting hobby contraption. Entertainment and a sense of accomplishment is probably his main goal.
Its not a brand new idea, just a different application of the principle. Induction generators already exist, and they can indeed be used with windmills, but to generate AC current versus heat energy.
More power to this fun and crazy inventor. Maybe he can find practical and reproducible use for this effect. If not, he’s gonna have the most unique water heater ever invented. With this he could make a fully mechanical hot water heater that burns no fuel and uses no electricity. He would just have to make a mechanism to disengage a clutch at the top temperature.
- Comment on iFixit says new Arm Surface hardware “puts repair front and center” 3 months ago:
You gotta give them props for this go around on everything else, the LPCAMM spec may have been ratified too late in the board design and prototyping phase. That or they reaaally didn’t wanna give up the extreme RAM bandwidth they achieved here.
Surface devices in the past have also been very Linux unfriendly, necessitating entire online communities dedicated to even attempting to iron out the bugs. So despite the recent announcement for the processor support in the Linux kernel, I’d say temper your expectations for a Microsoft device.
But if they do deliver a mostly modular, mostly repairable, mostly Linux capable Surface series, and stable x86 emulation in Windows, I will standardize on this equipment in any future IT fleet. There will always be needs for specialty hardware depending on the person, but a snappy all rounder for the rank and file is my biggest desire up front, because RISC will win in the long run, but it has to get adoption started somehow.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 4 months ago:
Not quite as many as Madoff, but some notable folks and investors.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 4 months ago:
Those are fair points, but I can’t help but chuckle that they were brought to justice because they stole from millionaires and other billionaires to make their ill gotten gains. Probably woulda got away with it if they just stole from the poor and middle class.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 4 months ago:
You don’t get to make $100 billion dollars and feign ignorance about how you got it and the damage you caused to obtain it.
Don’t you? I can’t think of any instance of justice truly being served to billionaires, can you?
- Comment on Must have been a whistle blower... 4 months ago:
Shouldn’t snitch, Mitch.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 4 months ago:
I would love to see Valve allow refunds. This was not an agreed upon stipulation at the time of purchase. If they pull the game from you now so soon after purchase, is it not grounds for a refund? Give Sony the choice to backtrack or lose money.
- Comment on Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days 5 months ago:
You’re right. One interesting option right now is the mustang Mach E, dealers are dropping prices and Ford is giving 0% for 72mo. I just bought a California route 1 for 46k at 0%, and I wasn’t planning on electrifying at current prices until that came up.
- Comment on land shrimp 5 months ago:
That or the cicada po boy. Exoskeleton off, a good breading, some remoulade sauce and a fresh roll sounds pretty good if their texture is shrimp like.
- Comment on land shrimp 5 months ago:
Texture seems important too, and the thought of a sap eating bug that has a similar texture to shrimp… Doesn’t sound all that bad. I’m honestly half tempted to try to test it when they emerge.
Seems like there’s a fungus that’s known to eat their ass, but as long as they’re free of that it seems fair game.
- Comment on land shrimp 5 months ago:
So like, do you have to de-shell them or do you just eat them exoskeleton and all? Given that their diet is fresh sap and xylem water, they seem like pretty clean little bugs to eat. I’d try it.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 6 months ago:
Yeah, only domestic companies and our government is allowed to spy on us with impunity.
Just frustrating to watch how short sighted this whole tiktok scare thing has been. It brought the data privacy problem to the forefront, and every effort was made to completely disregard privacy as a whole and focus on the China aspect instead.
- Comment on AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’ 8 months ago:
I threw a number that you couldn’t argue was anything other than theoretical, but go off I guess haha. And I gave you a scenario where the decimal places could be argued are so inconsequential and could be considered exactly average, and yet you completely disregard the point because I guess it’s inconvenient to you lol.
I’ll have to agree, that I guess since I can understand at least an elementary school level math joke and a play on words, Carlin is for me. And since it’s going right over your head, you may be more entertained by Cocomelon or something.
- Comment on AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’ 8 months ago:
I’m absolutely loving the irony of someone calling George Carlins comedy anti intellectual, using a math joke as evidence, and completely missing the joke. 🤯
The joke isnt about people being perceptibly below average, or it’s not just about that, it’s a fucking math joke. That’s how averages work, not medians. In a scenario where the average IQ were 200, and half the world was 199.999, and the other half was 200.001, half the people would be dumber than average.
- Comment on Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 8 months ago:
That’s a good suggestion, though we also do minor home improvement projects, gardening, and I do minor woodworking and CNC milling. A Ford Maverick or Toyota Tacoma is in my future haha. Hoping to see more hybrid light trucks on the market.
- Comment on Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 8 months ago:
Haha, that’s the plan for me. Light truck with just enough capacity to tow a Polaris.
- Comment on Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 8 months ago:
'13, sold in 2021, hence the inflated value haha.
I make it sound worse than it was. It was as sound as can be drivetrain wise, and every upgrade was carefully picked with a long term lifespan and serviceable parts, like a heim joint control arm set. I loved that thing, it just had cosmetic stories to tell.
I’m glad you found your vibe too. Social phobias have me antsy in a room with more than 20 people, NYC would break me in no time. But more power to you, live the life you love.
- Comment on Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 8 months ago:
I bought a Wrangler new for $27k, hit two trees with it while offroading, lost its spare key, and sold it without working heat 8 years later for 18k. 10/10, would do that again.
Though honestly, I probably wouldnt buy one again either. My wife and I want a light truck for house projects and her short commute, an EV for travel and my commute, and then I’d love a Polaris or something for fun. A Jeep ain’t any of those
- Comment on Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 8 months ago:
They have some models that have ok-ish gas mileage for an SUV. Then there’s the Wrangler. It starts with abysmal gas mileage, and then you upgrade it, and every upgrade adds weight or reduces on road efficiency. It’s really an offroad motorsports vehicle that somehow happens to be road legal.
- Comment on Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 8 months ago:
Yeah, you right haha. Ever since the JK I think it’s been theoretically possible, with effort, and you’ll have water ingress issues permanently.
- Comment on Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 8 months ago:
Jeeps, man. If you’re looking for a comfortable, reliable, fuel efficient vehicle, you’d go elsewhere. But if you want the front windshield to fold down, and for it to perform better off-road than on-road, they got a box on wheels that’s perfect for you.
- Comment on Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 8 months ago:
You have described the experience of Jeep ownership. The heart wants what it wants.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk 8 months ago:
Nothing quite like big government Republicans passing ineffective laws, while trying to claim they are the small government party. This only affects the big sites, the American sites, and the legally aligned sites. But hey, if they want more adults and children exposed to the shadier sides of the internet, so be it.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 8 months ago:
There was nothing moderate about his campaign. His primary focus during his campaign was to jump on the culture war bandwagon of restricting the liberties of trans kids, and inputting the “will of the parents” into the schools. Not all parents of course, just the ones that align with him politically.
And boy did he deliver on those promises. Laws allowing teachers to discriminate against children, book banning rhetoric, and much more including delaying and halting the already passed legislation on recreational marijuana and fueling the abortion issue.
He’s as much of a shit bag as Desantis and Trump, he’s just more careful about it.
- Comment on A lesson in Input Validation 8 months ago:
- Comment on A lesson in Input Validation 8 months ago:
We’re not really that unique. We’re not consciously or likely even unconsciously referencing that thread or others like it. We’re just coming to the same witty conclusions those before us did.
Even your comment comes up every time there’s a similar thread or experience. Mine too.
Happy New Year, btw.