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- Comment on Why do we put our hands on our heads when something makes us also want to yell "NO!" 2 hours ago:
I don’t know, but I like having the name for this be surrender cobra:
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 2 days ago:
Something like that going to relevant communities and only posting more popular things might work. I don’t want to see every Adam Schefter post in c/NFL, for example. I guess to some extent we could rely on the sorting algorithms to keep the communities from getting flooded, but it still could start drowning out the experience.
OP, maybe somebody at fanaticus.social would be interested in hosting these? It seems like their goal is to become Lemmy’s sports home.
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 2 weeks ago:
It’s what happened with music eventually, but so far I have not seen that with mainstream video releases, only some independent things
- Comment on After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb 2 weeks ago:
If there are no more discs to rip how will people get the movies and shows in the first place?
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t bought any of the new consoles; the only thing I’ve seen come out that’s interested me but I can’t play on the previous generation is Microsoft Flight Simulator. Maybe someday I’ll get a Series X for that, but I think I’d enjoy the experience on PC better anyway (really curious to try it in VR with my Quest) so I think I’d rather spend the money on building a new gaming PC that can handle that.
I’m not consciously cutting off any generation, I just haven’t had the time for as much gaming now and I haven’t had the budget to pursue the latest and greatest, especially if I probably won’t have time to play it anyways.
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- Comment on TV Time points to Apple's 'significant power' over developers after being removed from App Store | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Feels like this also needs to be about people abusing DMCA complaints
- Comment on Fig. 1: Got your nose. 2 months ago:
They look very unhappy about it!
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 months ago:
I didn’t know he tried for a third term but I’m also not surprised from what I know of him
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 months ago:
And just an addendum for non-Americans who also aren’t likely/don’t have time to click the links, FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) was elected to 4 terms but died 82 days into his 4th term. He was succeeded by the vice president, Harry S. Truman.
Prior to FDR all presidents had voluntarily limited themselves to 2 terms following the precedent of the first president, George Washington. FDR’s running for a 3rd term was controversial at the time; in 1940 the U.S. had not yet joined the Second World War and intervening was still controversial, although opposition dwindled with the fall of France. Interestingly, FDR seeking a 4th term was much less controversial with the U.S. in the thick of the war in 1944. The constitution was amended a few years later to make sure it didn’t happen again, though.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 2 months ago:
Yup, I spent years begging my family to stop sending family photos from gatherings through text messages, to no avail. I eventually switched to iPhone and see that it’s fine if we’re all on iMessage, but many of my aunts/uncles/cousins are on Android so if they’re in the picture then it gets sent as MMS and we get terrible images again.
- Comment on Microsoft FrontPage 2 months ago:
It did help me learn to write my own code once I saw what was happening, though
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 2 months ago:
The U.S. lagged adoption of SMS compared to Europe (relatively high prices for texting in the early days while relatively low prices for calling in the same era) but now SMS/RCS/iMessage are the dominant mobile messaging method in the U.S. There’s much lower adoption of third-party services like WhatsApp compared to the rest of the world because basically everyone has those services already on their phone, they don’t have to sign up for a service that not everyone might use, and it’s basically free on every phone in the U.S. now.
- Comment on aerodynamics 2 months ago:
That looks like a TJ generation. I’ve also seen these with the JK (usually compared with a cow). I’d be curious to see the JL/JT, though, because they did a very clever job of rounding it off while making it look like it’s still flat.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 months ago:
I’d need to see what comparable x86 processors and graphics are to the M4, but yeah, this seems like it could be one of the first Macs in a while to be really competitive on price. It doesn’t happen often but it does happen. Fifteen years ago, a couple years after Macintosh went to Intel, I bought a Mac Pro. I had a hard time comparing prices at first, but once I finally realized I needed to be looking at workstations instead of desktops the Mac Pro actually came out to be about $300 less than identically spec’d workstations from Dell and HP. That was about the price of a full retail license on Windows Vista Ultimate (or later Windows 7 Ultimate). With Boot Camp and feeling like I could find Windows on sale for less it actually seemed to make the most sense with the added benefit of access to both Windows and OS X. It was frankly the best Windows machine I’ve ever used. No bloat, and all the drivers worked.
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 3 months ago:
I know what community I’m on but this really has me wondering how far back people have to go to find overlaps in their family trees. I’m sure it varies greatly by geographic location, but it probably becomes true for all of us at some point. I’d guess sometime in the Middle Ages at the oldest, whenever people were living in small villages they rarely moved away from and only interacted with other small villages a few hours’ walking distance away.
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 3 months ago:
I’ve read that in Iceland basically everyone is related if you go back far enough and people often look up what degree of cousin they are so they can see if it meets a level they’re comfortable with or feel like they’re too closely related to risk producing offspring.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 3 months ago:
Eh, sometimes getting kids started like this can spark their interest.
- Comment on Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone? 3 months ago:
I wasn’t thinking about it in this way, but that makes sense. When I was a teenager I was going to a dermatologist for acne treatment. When I started college for whatever reason I wound up with appointments on Mondays a few times. This was probably around 2005 and while computerized calendars were a thing, mobile calendars were not widespread except with PDAs like Palm Pilot and I wasn’t using them, nor did I use a paper calendar to organize my schedule. In retrospect this was a bad idea with my then-undiagnosed ADHD. Anyway, the doctor’s office had this helpful automated phone reminder system that would call you the day before your appointment so if you needed to cancel/reschedule you could do it enough in advance that there wasn’t a penalty for late cancellation. The only problem was it didn’t take into account the weekends, so if your appointment was on a Monday it would call you on Sunday and if you canceled no one from the office would know until Monday morning and you’d get hit with a late cancellation fee. I think I actually did that 3 times and they sent me a letter saying they were dropping me as a patient. I felt that was unfair because their system should’ve been smart enough to call on Friday, but also I wasn’t really doing the prescribed acne treatments much at that point and I think I was getting old enough it kind of went away on its own around then anyways, so I didn’t mind not paying for the visits and medicine anymore. I’m still annoyed as an adult in my 40s, though, because I think that practice is supposed to have some of the better doctors in the area for skin cancer and I’m not sure if they’d still remember and not let me come if I ever needed treatment or screening for that.
- Comment on Browse FreshRSS like YouTube: "Youlag Theme for FreshRSS" 3 months ago:
Does PeerTube offer RSS feeds?
- Comment on Former LA Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt Reveals Plans to Purchase TikTok 3 months ago:
Ah yes, the man whose ownership of the Dodgers became a messy part of his divorce as his ex-wife tried to claim shared ownership. It turned into what the L.A. Times called the most expensive divorce in California history.
- Comment on Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out 3 months ago:
How does that work for discovery, though?
- Comment on Telescope with world’s largest digital camera will be a ‘game-changer’ for astronomy 3 months ago:
I wish it said more about the camera sensor; guess I’ll have to look that up separately
- Comment on Microsoft CEO earns $30.6 million more despite laying off over 2,000 employees in 2024 — salary package represents a 63% raise from the previous year 3 months ago:
So, $15k per person terminated?
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 3 months ago:
5.25" disks seem like they would’ve been outdated when they were installed in 1998, although I suppose the system design probably started much earlier.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 3 months ago:
I don’t think PCVR works on Linux yet. The gaming support on Linux being driven largely by Valve is removing a lot of the reasons for consumers to use Windows, though. I wonder how long before big corporations push back on this Microsoft spyware, though.
- Comment on Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours 3 months ago:
I think like federated TikTok/Vine
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 months ago:
I’m no expert in this but the passkeys really on some sort of public key, cryptographic pair. Your device will only send your encrypted cryptographic secret when it gets the correct encrypted cryptographic secret from the destination. This makes it much harder to steal credentials with a fake website or other service.
- Comment on The Butterfly Man 3 months ago:
OP: *posts about wanting to marry a stranger on twitter*
OP: *finds and follows said stranger on twitter*
Stranger: *reads through his new follower’s twitter timeline, responds to marriage comments *
OP:
surprised pikachu - Comment on Funky Little Rodents 3 months ago:
I saw a video from a dairy farmer once explaining how his automated milking machines worked. The cows bring themselves to the machines, and as an inducement they get the tastiest feed while they’re milked. The cows wear RFID collars so the machines know which cow is which. This serves for a lot of purposes (like identifying when a cow has a teat that isn’t producing so they don’t try to milk that one) but the one that made me laugh was blocking some cows that keep trying to come back because they want the good feed. The system’s like, “no, you were here five minutes ago, you don’t need to be milked again!”
