Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor 1 day ago:
I didn’t realise that the Department of Obvious was still being funded.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
If she loves it, why does she want to do less of it?
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 5 days ago:
I’m pretty open. I’ve been using the internet this way for about 25 years and to date it’s never been a problem. I’ve got clothes with my handle across the shoulders, etc. so it’s not a secret who I am. I try not to be too specific about some stuff that I don’t feel are mine to talk about, or that might be professionally problematic (I don’t really talk about my current employment anyway - I’m not ashamed of it, it’s just not very interesting and doesn’t particularly define me so it’s not very relevant).
In various online communities over the years I’ve been one of the biggest fish so I’m occasionally recognised which varies between flattering and a little uncomfortable (usually in terms of " You clearly want something so what is it you want me to do/not do or wish I had done/hadn’t done?” but with socially awkward pleasantries). This has resulted in someone trying to use an FAQ I wrote to argue against me, not realising - meaning I effectively had to dust off the old “don’t you know who I am‽” type of response (albeit minus the diva overtones).
In the past the odd person has been a bit stalky and then been surprised when this information doesn’t intimidate me (I recall a particularly memorable one being “I know what you look like” to which my response was a photo of me with a shocked face). I do care what other people think but disapproval doesn’t bother me all that much. I try to be true to myself so when confronted there’s nothing to use against me - there’s no cognitive dissonance (so if I was an arsehole, no, I meant to be, it wasn’t an accident, it’s what I felt was an honest response to the situation).
- Comment on I'm disappointed to the max 6 days ago:
I can only tell the difference when I see the two together!
- Comment on I'm disappointed to the max 6 days ago:
That’s a bluetit..?
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 1 week ago:
Game development as a service.
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 week ago:
Smartphones with WiFi came waaaaay later!
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 week ago:
I’ve no idea what market penetration was like on a different continent twenty years ago 😂
Many Nokia phones ran Symbian S60 (I specify because there was a number of Symbian OSes. I’ve never quite pinned down why). Not just Nokia, but in their day Nokia were THE phone company.
I went from a Nokia N90 to an iPhone. The iPhone had fewer features at the time (the app store came later, it couldn’t record video - let alone edit it, etc.). The thing was that the features it did have were so much more user friendly. It was night and day.
Smartphones are surprisingly old although I doubt more than a tiny handful of their users actually knew what they were capable of back in the day. I had my N-Gage setup with a web browser, MSN Messenger client (the IM service of choice in the UK at the time), Xvid video player, Ogg Vorbis audio, office software, and quite a few games too (both Java and native). My N90 could use all the same software when I moved to it a few years later.
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 1 week ago:
Smartphones are much older than that. Symbian Series 60 had a substantial install base long before the iPhone. The N-Gage was a smart phone, for example, so we’re not just talking high end stuff.
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 2 weeks ago:
Smart phones didn’t start with those features.
…he said, oldly.
- Comment on Cycling is changing at speed – but is Britain keeping pace? 2 weeks ago:
Given that we seem to be doing bugger all to reduce the arrogance of drivers, I bloody well doubt it. The notion of having to share anything, let alone not being the only stakeholders when it comes to infrastructure seems to be beyond the pale for a great many people in Britain.
- Comment on My PSP Scrapbook: Part Retrospective, Part Collage 2 weeks ago:
I should get some new batteries for mine.
For me the PSP is a story of squandered potential. There were some great games but so few seemed to really embrace the potential of the format.
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
I was just being silly.
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
Where does Microsoft Write enter the equation?
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
I wish Markdown had better support for tables.
- Comment on Attitudes 2 weeks ago:
I don’t hate my job but it is something I do exclusively to make money. It has no role in self actualisation for me.
- Comment on Almost 30 years later, Fallout 1's depth of choice, chance, and consequence is still an RPG gold standard 2 weeks ago:
It’s absolutely not unplayable now. It’s not the slickest but it’s no worse than plenty of other modern indies.
- Comment on Almost 30 years later, Fallout 1's depth of choice, chance, and consequence is still an RPG gold standard 2 weeks ago:
When I played through last I modded out the whole temple of trials. Such a waste of time.
- Comment on Attitudes 2 weeks ago:
“Then you will be disappointed.”
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
Ew ew ew.
No one is asking for AI, you weirdos!
- Comment on This is what my coworker pictures every time I say lemmy. 2 weeks ago:
Not Lenny!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
Whilst that’s perfectly sensible, our household has at least two cheese slicers in case one is in the dishwasher. They’re very common in Swedish households!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
Whilst my knife is unlikely to be sharp enough, I don’t have the hand skills to shave a 0.6mm wafer of cheddar off a block even with the best knife. My fine motor skills are excellent and I’m a professional miniature sculptor and have particular preferences on which specific scalpel blades I like to work with! My point being that I have significantly above average skills and that’s not sufficient.
If you happen to have the tools and skill to shave cheese that way, fantastic, well done you, but that’s an extremely uncommon set of circumstances. As you say, most people’s knives aren’t up to the task. Meanwhile even a child can use a cheese slicer to get a decent slice off a block.
…and yes, I did go and grab some calipers to check because I’m tired of this insane discussion. If you feel they’re a useless kitchen gizmo, cool, but lots of us love our cheese slicers because they’re tremendously useful and accessible.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
Are you saying you think a cheese slicer does 3mm slices and therefore knife cuts are comparable?
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
Nope. The tools work very differently.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
Hands off my knorks!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I’ve eaten both, side by side, because it’s a really interesting difference.
If you’ve decided that your reckoning is better than my experience then we’re done here.
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 3 weeks ago:
The texture and flavour of a hard cheese cut with a cheese slicer is different from when one cuts with a knife. I like both but on a sandwich the cheese slicer wins every time.
- Comment on New Tomb Raider Games Recast Lara Croft With A Gaming Veteran 3 weeks ago:
How are we defining “nowadays”?
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 40k 3 weeks ago:
Could have done with a bit less of a focus on space marines.
