Rhaedas
@Rhaedas@fedia.io
- Comment on Imagine looking at the first picture and thinking thats something to be proud of , lol, its mental illness 7 hours ago:
The engineering is incredible. Imagine if it had been applied to a better purpose.
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 7 hours ago:
Oddly, it was much like playing Dark Side of the Moon alongside The Wizard of Oz. Everything was in sync and made sense.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 days ago:
One of my random Linux boot-up sounds is the WinXP boot theme.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 days ago:
When GIMP's version 3 came out, it got a lot of great reviews. I can't tell you what's different or better, but in using it myself since then, it doesn't "feel" as daunting. Very subjective, but definitely try it out again; it might work for you this time around.
- Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this 2 days ago:
Markdown in the old WordPerfect 5.1 (reveal codes) was a great thing.
- Comment on What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense 4 days ago:
Some might say thumbs up works for that, but there's also an up or down arrow, which suggests a vote either way.
- Comment on A matter of patience 4 days ago:
The message was not to land there. Clipper is doing a bunch of flybys (to minimize the time in Jupiter's radiation belt and extend the life of the probe). We're good.
- Comment on Scars 6 days ago:
Learned this from a work injury. Even waiting a few hours before you get stitches to pull the gap closer together will leave a scar, albeit a small one. The body doesn't have time to wait on your slow ass; it's repairing right away (once the bleeding stops).
- Comment on A matter of patience 6 days ago:
It's still a few years away, but so excited for the Europa Clipper to get to Jupiter.
- Comment on Is history about to repeat itself? 6 days ago:
Forecasts were all over the place, and I actually saw this afternoon radar saying there was heavy snow, a forecast for the time saying it should be raining, and I saw nothing. North Raleigh area got the earlier bit of sleet/ice layer and then maybe an inch of snow, but that's about it.
The shield held. I haven't been out to see the road conditions, but they'll probably be worse the next two nights as we get some melt and then refreeze.
- Comment on Real and True 1 week ago:
Ha, I'm not on here. Wait, that's probably a bad thing.
How is #6 only GIS and not also normal for many gaming rigs?
- Comment on Evolutionary Planetary 1 week ago:
This is how the meme should be used.
- Comment on Hey there 4 eyes 1 week ago:
They saw things. Terrible, horrible things.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 1 week ago:
Where the peak is depends on how you measure it. Wavelength or frequency gives different curves. If measures as a perfect blackbody the peak is green (which is connected to why chlorophyll took off, even though it's less efficient for energy capture). But we get all visible light to some degree, so its color is white. Classification has a different meaning than what it looks like.
- Comment on New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people more beautiful?' to 'Which country is safer?' 1 week ago:
It's not necessarily garbage, but it sure isn't curated either. Throwing everything into the blender and hoping the mechanism will usually spit out good info is a scientific spinning of the roulette wheel. Sometimes the odds are pretty good. Sometimes they're horrible, and you should know better than to expect anything but.
But AI has become the shiniest hammer, and every damn thing is a nail now.
- Comment on Hey Microsoft, How's it going? 1 week ago:
Using Linux and everything else not Microsoft:
"I'm doing my part!"
- Comment on See for yourself just how massive Meta’s Hyperion data center is 1 week ago:
It's either saying it out loud, some inside joke that shouldn't have been made public, or they don't get the point of themes and morals of stories.
- Comment on Most internet traffic is now bots 1 week ago:
Never had the chance to finish the countdown.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
"Lockdown" in quotes, because it wasn't a full lockdown. They started, but then realized that the economy would really tank, so they loosened it up a bit and made some nice PR ("6 feet" and "15 days") to convince us that things were fine and under control.
- Comment on Fake moo 1 week ago:
The other number should be the one that's mind boggling. We see the number "million" so much and don't grasp its scale.
- Comment on Two-shay 1 week ago:
Never apologize for giving your opinion. If you do it badly, then do what you did and expand on it. I don't like olives either. Nasty things. :D But I get other people do, and probably don't like things I do. I can appreciate why people may like them, even prefer them over lots of things, I just don't myself. Can't change that. And the olives are always there if I ever get a craving for them, just not my thing.
- Comment on Two-shay 1 week ago:
Don't. Everyone has their preferences, which was the point.
- Comment on Two-shay 1 week ago:
Speaking as a straight guy, I can't blame her for not finding men attractive.
- Comment on UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake 2 weeks ago:
Blame Microsoft sure, but where this ignorance of LLMs' faults keeps coming from is baffling. Either the CTO and CIO and the rest of the IT departments are idiots, or someone is grabbing their bonuses while they can before things break.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
This is good parenting. You can't always be there to guide them or restrict them, nor should you want to be. You instead help them understand how to navigate the world themselves smartly. This is true for anything, not just what they see on the internet.
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 3 weeks ago:
The book that came with the C-64 was a good primer for first-time computer users, but I ended up needing more and bought the "Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide," which was far more useful, and then "Mapping the Commodore 64" and "Machine Language for Beginners."
Yes, I still have them. You never know... :D
- Comment on Your name better be Caleb 3 weeks ago:
Caleb is probably a wish that isn't even going to happen with those numbers; better be more concerned about Ryan.
- Comment on "Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession 3 weeks ago:
CEO proves that CEOs can be replaced by AI.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 3 weeks ago:
Punching a nazi in the crowded streets so much better than in the alley. Tell them we don't want them here, period.
"This is cyberterrorism." Letting those sites do their thing without cracking down on them... I agree.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 3 weeks ago:
That or the price of advancement has made things impossible to fix without swapping out entire components or just get a new one. Which has been taken advantage of by making things fail a lot sooner. So much easier to make it cheaper so it gets replaced, and it keeps the company in business and is more profitable.