SoleInvictus

@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the Baby Yoda Show was its last dying gasp for me. I see the same pattern in most industries: something is profitable, so lean hard into it until the bubble bursts. It’s great for short-term profits but bad for long term and worse overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The night water⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Aged water, thank you. Aging just makes some things better. Whiskey? Better with age. Cheese? Better with age. Prosciutto, beef, wine, pound cake, and pickles? All better with age.

  You know who doesn’t think things get better with age? Anyone in the Epstein files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not sure if I'm the stupidest smart person I know, or the smartest stupid person.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Prep the burn unit, they’re going to need an escharotomy after that third degree burn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Critical thinking is indeed dead for much of the population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louis Vuitton⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it now. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louis Vuitton⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read that article twice and I still don’t get it. What am I missing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux has come SO far. I first tried it about a decade ago, wrecked my install, and came crawling back to Windows. A few months back, I installed Ubuntu (tease all you want, peanut gallery, it’s better than Windows) on my laptop and it’s so much better. It just works great, I have my system customized to how I want it to work, and the poor CPU fan is no longer blasting even when the system is idle. My battery life also gained almost an hour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The blind or vision impaired would appreciate this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Only potatoes and salt, plus multivitamins to make up for the massive nutritional defecit, for 5 days. I was already experimenting with an elimination diet due to food allergies and a friend mentioned this week long potato diet to help reduce food cravings. Potatoes were a safe food so I thought I’d give it a try.

  It was awful. Day 4’s dinner was an entire pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried this with potatoes. It’s miserable and I broke after four days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the unseen worlds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent like twenty minutes looking. I’m stumped!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, even though it sounds adorable, that’s a myth. There’s nothing about bees or bumblebees that would make their flight theoretically problematic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can make supercapacitors out of cement, water and carbon black⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Failed electrical engineering major here - it turned out I was built to be a scientist, not an engineer, but it took a year of EE classes to figure that out.

  Regarding energy storage, capacitors aren’t much different than batteries, but they can charge/discharge faster, have lower energy density (units of stored energy per units mass), and self-discharge faster, hence why they aren’t used in place of batteries. For something where weight and volume aren’t an issue and with no need for long-term storage, like a solar-equipped house, a huge cap would be a great option. I’m trying to figure out how to build one of what’s described it the article now.

  The rate at which a capacitor discharges varies just like a battery, proportional to the resistance of the circuit. The reason most folks associate capacitors with “shorted terminals go boom” is the maximum rate of discharge on a capacitor is much higher than a battery, plus some capacitors operate at a much higher voltage than is practical for a battery, increasing the likelihood of generating a small arc. Shorting the terminals with a conductor makes a low resistance circuit so it just dumps its charge, whereas a battery would max out at a much lower rate, typically making a toasty wire versus a vaporized or melted wire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can make supercapacitors out of cement, water and carbon black⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Speak for yourself, I might make one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit, I didn’t know about ESPhome. There goes my free time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo faces legal action over ability to brick Switch 2s whenever they want⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I got a Switch so my partner and I could play games with their sister. It collects dust as it turns out my partner has no interest in learning to play games and I can play modded Switch games with better graphics on my PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you nailed it. There are definite upsides to the Apple OS, especially for less tech savvy users, but they gouge the hell out of the denizens of their walled garden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the biggest concerns about Windows are about functionality. It works perfectly well and even has some neat features. I’m using Linux and I miss the sys + v for clipboard history. The biggest gripe themes I see are the loss of privacy coupled with increasing sales pressure for everything Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get/make your own archive link by going to archive.ph and entering the article’s URL.

  Here’s the link for this one: archive.ph/wUAQn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never easier to kidnap people in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now they’re on to me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never easier to kidnap people in the USA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And your helpers and you must be white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazing Grace⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a shit post at all. Don’t take it down, but it’s not shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was poly for about a decade. There’s a lot of solid advice in this thread. The only point I want to hammer home is the amount of drama inherent to human relationships increases significantly. It doesn’t just double: going from a two to three person relationship it quadruples.

  Nothing disastrous or even bad happened due to being poly. I don’t regret it at all and would consider it again in the future. When I met my current partner and they said they wanted to be monogamous, though, I was happy to take a break.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think anybody hates real-time combat. That feels like a strawman.

  I do, but just because I have a disability that makes more button presses painful and turn-based tends to have fewer per hour. I also know others who dislike real-time because they’re bad at it. I agree with your sentiment completely, though. Liking real-time isn’t exclusive of also enjoying turn-based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not op, but I love tea; however, if the restaurants I frequent started replacing their drinks with a new lineup that ultimately all boiled down to variations on Darjeeling, I’d eventually find myself tired of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I've been turned into an AI train announcer - and no one told me'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to do voice work and this is depressingly common. I’d get requests to “do some simple readings for a research project” or similar vaguely phrased nonsense. I always refused, fuck that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want these walls back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It must be a regional thing as we’re probably about the same age. Growing up in CA, I frequently saw portions of walls made of these, especially in businesses and universities. One house by me had a cool turret staircase with alternating wall sections made of these glass bricks. There wasn’t much privacy at night, although you could only make out vague shapes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is what it is⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use chrome once or twice a year, when I need to figure out if a website problem is my browser or the site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s a few years away from being ready. Plus the dumb shits need to backpedal on this “cameras for everything!” idiocy.

  I’m surprised the taxis aren’t being driven remotely while Musk lies about their amazing AI or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would require their self driving algorithm to actually detect an accident. I doubt it’s capable of doing so consistently.