empireOfLove2
@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
A Reddit Refugee
current college student, permanent pirate
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
That depends entirely on how profitable it is and how much they can get authors onboard.
A. Anything can be profitable when the cost to generation will be counted in singles of dollars instead of multiple thousands for a good narrator. They don’t even have to sell many to turn a profit too.
B. You think authors are going to have a choice? Lmfao. It’s the publishers that hold any real power and they will jump all over everyone’s IP with AI slop to make an extra three cents.
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 2 days ago:
Adapter or caddy is fine. Can get them on most shopping sites for cheap.
IIRC from my old office PC slinging days, a lot of those cases with 5-1/4 bays usually had slots for mounting screws that would allow you to mount a 3.5 drive flush to one sideusijg 2 screws. Then you get a 1-3/4" 6-32 screw stand off, thread it into the drive, and use that to mount it to the other side of the 5-1/4 bay.
Did that a lot to really old reused cases where there were a ton of 5-1/4 bays but only one 3.5 bay.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 week ago:
What was your input situation before?
Dreamcast outputs at 480i/p which looks about that size on a 1080 display. I think your TV is running in just-scan display mode which is just displaying what it gets pixel for pixel. I’m guessing whatever you used for input before made the TV auto scale itself, but now it’s not on HDMI.
Change the TV to fill and live with it.
- Comment on What's your favorite poker hand in Balatro? 1 week ago:
all in on two pair
Stack the jeans
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
Bit of projection there, Mr. Suck.
- Comment on 'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds 1 week ago:
Only 1200 a month?
God I wish.
- Comment on FCC urges courts to ignore 5th Circuit ruling that agency can’t issue fines 1 week ago:
Well, you shouldn’t. The FCC wants its fine powers back so it can put any anti-Trump media completely out of business, or at least force them to toe the party line.
- Comment on Bed slinger vs coreXY 3D printer 2 weeks ago:
I have found that I can actually get more reliable quality out of bedslingers just because the frame tends to be more rigid.
However they are definitely slower. And if you are printing certain tall, narrow models, the bed movement can cause print failure from the motion knocking it off the build plate.
- Comment on Use same SD Card between devices? 2 weeks ago:
A quick poke at the retroid pocket’s product page says it’s underlying OS is Android 14. Android defaults external storage formatting to fat32 or exFAT, both of which Raspbian or most Linux distros can support (with an extra package in exFAT’s case). You should have no problems with each device reading the cards, but I’m not sure what emulators each uses.
- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 3 weeks ago:
Feel like I’ve seen this one before
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 3 weeks ago:
You can’t hardly even buy computer monitors without them anymore either. Every one of the higher end Samsung or LG monitors is starting to include “smart” bullshit.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 4 weeks ago:
Might be 6’3 if he was stretched out on one of those Medieval torture racks.
- Comment on Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post. 4 weeks ago:
You can just check the modlog of your local instance and search for your own username. Most of the time the ban action will federate (but again, sometimes not, never really sure why). If nothing shows up locally check the modlog of the remote instance you’re trying to post to.
- Comment on Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post. 4 weeks ago:
The other chance that you got no comments on your post for is that you are banned from the remote instance/community, or federation is broken (still happens intermittently).
Lemmy will still allow you to post from your home instance since you are not banned there, but your content will simply get black-holed by the remote instance if you’re banned there. Sometimes you have to check the remote instance directly to see if your post was federated or not.
- Comment on ooo.ooo 5 weeks ago:
Pants pulled up high enough to cover the line of the adult diaper tapes.
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 1 month ago:
you’re in it right now
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 month ago:
Numbers like that should have been why you kept going in mech E.
Once you get past the educational stage, every one of those calculations becomes “OK now round to the closest whole number that gives you the larger factor of safety and move on”
- Comment on How do I clean this mess? 1 month ago:
PLA basically doesn’t dissolve in any (readily available consumer-grade) solvents. Your best bet is going to be to take the entire unit as far apart as you can until it is metal only components, heat it with a heatgun to make the PLA soft/melt, and brush it all off with a brass cleaning brush.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 1 month ago:
Also fuck you if your wifi drivers aren’t built in to windows.
- Comment on Gmail Is Now Using AI to Sort 'More Relevant' Results, But You Can Turn It Off 1 month ago:
That’s a really good question, you’d have to ask Google about that one.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 month ago:
Honestly that’s a complaint I have about nearly every pencil, not just the zebra. They’re almost always hard and smudgy because the pencil has been sitting out either in a warehouse or on an office supply shelf for like 5 years.
I’d rather bring my own hi-poly brick eraser, or even better, a hi-poly retractable eraser that is a lot easier to control and keep a fresh, smudge-free surface on. - Comment on Gmail Is Now Using AI to Sort 'More Relevant' Results, But You Can Turn It Off 1 month ago:
If Email is ever sorted in any order other than purely Chronological, it is a deadly affront to humanity. Even the “sponsored” two emails at the top of Gmail is an insult.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 month ago:
#8 all the way.
If I had to do sketch design drafting with a pen or wooden pencil in college and not a 0.5 mechanical, I would have probably become a school shooter.
- Comment on Help 1 month ago:
I think it might be the way her fingers are holding that box
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 month ago:
So Plex just killed itself? Got it. Lmao bye Felicia
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 1 month ago:
The point is not that it is being used, the point is that corporations must protect their trademarks or else they may lose the exclusive rights to them. Intel also still uses the “Core” branding on their modern CPU’s so it wouldn’t be a stretch for them to try and continue legally protecting “Core 2 Duo” under the guise of retaining the “Core” part of their trademarks.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 1 month ago:
I have a Garmin Instinct and I can definitely recommend their hardware, but their mobile app to link for notifications and health stats is flaming hot garbage.
- Comment on Get your new PebbleOS watch 1 month ago:
And why are both watches a “2” variant?
Because this is the next generation of the original Pebble watches.
Core 2 Duo
I’ll actually be surprised if this makes it to launch without Intel perhaps making a few legal calls and prompting a device name change. - Comment on Disposing of failed HDDs 1 month ago:
Bigger hammer and a concrete surface. Three good whacks to the thin sheet metal casing (opposite the drive motor/PCB) should shatter the platters inside.
Realistically if they’re already failed, nobody is going through the effort to send these disks through any kind of speciality recovery for a random john q public anyway.
- Comment on When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job? 1 month ago:
Any normal computer can become a “server”, its all based on the software.
Most enterprise server hardware is expensive because its designed around demanding workloads where uptime and redundancy is important. For a goober wanting to start a Minecraft and Jellyfin server, any old PC will work.
For home labbers office PC’s is the best way to do it. I have two machines right now that are repurposed office machines. They usually work well as office machines generally focus on having a decent CPU and plenty of memory without wasting money on a high end GPU, and can be had used for very cheap (or even free if you make friends that work in IT). And unless you’re running a lot of game servers or want a 4k streaming box, even a mediocre PC from 2012 is powerful enough to do a lot of stuff on.
