lengau
@lengau@midwest.social
- Comment on Covfefe 22 hours ago:
That’s some weak coffee…
- Comment on GORILLA GORILLA 2 weeks ago:
The grizzly bear is Ursos arctos horribilis, which translates as “horrible bear bear.”
- Comment on A useful map for travelers 3 weeks ago:
I’m waiting for a Jay Foreman Every Station song.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t that make you an arborohomo? To be a globohomo you need to fuck a light bulb
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
Somewhat relevant to your example, recipes should have numbers in digits too. (But then again recipes are basically an engineering text.)
- Comment on Uninstalled Copilot? Microsoft will let you reprogram your keyboard’s Copilot key 1 month ago:
So you know the built-in keyboard shortcut on Windows that opens LinkedIn? (IIRC it’s Ctrl+Alt+Win+Shift+L)
That’s because Microsoft sold keyboards for a while with “Office keys,” so you could hit Office+W for Word, Office+X for Excel, etc. All that key would do is send all those modifiers. There are plenty of unused modifier key codes they could use instead, but they did this.
I’m guessing this key works the same.
- Comment on Uninstalled Copilot? Microsoft will let you reprogram your keyboard’s Copilot key 1 month ago:
All I care to know is what code it sends to the machine so I can submit a merge to Plasma to default that key to opening krunner.
- Comment on Fruit Loops! 1 month ago:
ProNutro, Weetbix, Maltabella, Jungle Oats, Otees.
Five cereals that Proud Boys have probably never heard of.
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 1 month ago:
Why would you make jalepeños even worse?
- Comment on What? 1 month ago:
“Birds fly south for the winter” was the second example I remember of my classmates having only learned things with northern hemisphere bias after moving to the northern hemisphere.
The first was my classmates not grasping that while it was spring here, it was autumn back home.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Art isn’t open source, right?
- Comment on Custard 1 month ago:
This is why we should be ranching echidnas.
- Comment on A cocktail here and there 1 month ago:
Can confirm. I once ate in my lab and accidentally ate a capacitor I absent-mindedly thought was a piece of broccoli.
- Comment on never 1 month ago:
- Comment on The Science of Storytelling 2 months ago:
Plague Inc was one of the things that kept me sane during lockdown.
- Comment on Jack and Coke 2 months ago:
Significant improvement there.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
Hooked on a feeling in my ass
- Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs 2 months ago:
For me in particular I’m a software developer who works on developer tools, so I have a lot of tests running in VMs so I can test on different operating systems. I just finished running a test suite that used up over 50 gigs of RAM
- Comment on "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!" 2 months ago:
In astrophysics it’s even easier.
Hydrogen, other.
- Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs 2 months ago:
My Linux machine has 64 GiB of RAM, which is like 128 GiB of Mac RAM. It’s still not enough
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 2 months ago:
It really depends what one’s doing, also. For many things, including many games, 30fps is fine for me. But I need at least 60fps for mousing. Beyond that though I don’t notice the mouse getting smoother above 60fps, but some games I do have a better experience at 120fps. And I’m absolutely sold on 500+ fps for simulating paper.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 2 months ago:
If someone’s saying that about 30fps they should just set their refresh rate to 30 and move their mouse.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
I mean… It probably is. It’s accessing the copyrighted content outside of the terms of the license provided by the copyright owner.
But that shows more how broken the copyright system is than anything when piracy has such a low bar.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Fundamentally what YouTube is doing is an unprofitable model. Google bought them when they were in their “we can solve internet unprofitability with scale and more efficient data centres!” phase, but that has never really gone as planned for YouTube.
For a while I was very hopeful that YouTube Premium would solve that, but as they started removing features and making it an overall worse experience it became no longer worth the money. I don’t have an answer to this. If I did I could probably make a lot of money on that answer. What I do know, however, is that Google’s answer isn’t the right one.
- Comment on Guess I'll km/s 2 months ago:
I don’t have time to get out a million little differently sized utensils because I need 2 cups of this, ¼ cup of that, ½ a teaspoon of the third thing etc. when I can put the bowl on a kitchen scale and use the tare function.
- Comment on Too easy! 2 months ago:
That distinction requires a definition of monkeys that specifically carves out apes as “not monkeys” despite being otherwise classified under old world monkeys. By sensible definitions, apes are monkeys.
- Comment on Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store 2 months ago:
I believe this is related to that, yeah.
I wonder how quickly Apple would come up with new bullshit if apps started providing an interstitial page with a breakdown.
Membership (goes to creator): $4.75 Patreon fee: $0.25 Fee for using iOS (goes to Apple): $1.50 --- Total: $6.50
- Comment on Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store 2 months ago:
Which is kinda ridiculous since Apple’s practices are what Google does but worse.
- Comment on ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says 3 months ago:
They’re Americans. What do you think?
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
KDE Connect or Nextcloud. My phone has USB 2, but I can easily top 1 Gbit/s over wifi.
