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.