TheTechnician27
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 4 days ago:
It’s technically more money upfront, but you’re not just buying the printer itself: you’re also buying the starter ink/toner cartridges that come with the device. The starter toner gives you vastly more pages than the starter ink, and it basically never goes bad. According to Brother, the size of a starter toner cartridge is 1000 A4 pages. According to HP, their Deskjet and Envy starter cartridges print about 150 and 250 pages, respectively.
So that higher upfront cost doesn’t just go into a better, more efficient machine; it also goes into quadruple the starting pages. There are people who could seriously never print more than 1000 pages, whereas the starter for a Deskjet is so small that you practically ought to buy a spare cartridge for when it near-immediately runs out.
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 1 week ago:
No, pomegranates are actually very healthy. They’re rich in polyphenols (a class of antioxidant), fiber, and a variety of micronutrients, and they have a low glycemic index.
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 1 week ago:
“And just beat the devil out of it.”
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- Comment on oh cool 2 weeks ago:
Juno was mad, he knew he’d been had…
- Comment on Why isn't there a Megumin sub-"lemmy"... 😣 2 weeks ago:
Uhhh, yeah, I could see why Reddit might ban you for posting artwork by Sally Mann. I 100% take Mann at her word when she says that her work is strictly artistic. That to me is not even remotely in dispute.
What deeply concerns me now is the combination of you posting Mann’s artwork and posting sexualized illustrations of fictional children and remarking about licking your cousin’s underwear while she wears it. That’s a really disturbing pattern, and I mean with 100% sincerity that, even just for your own benefit, you should seriously consider seeking professional help.
Therapists are some of the kindest, most understanding types of people you’ll ever meet, and they can and would want to help you work through whatever you’re going through.
- Comment on Why isn't there a Megumin sub-"lemmy"... 😣 2 weeks ago:
Actually, I was curious why someone with a <1-day-old account here was coming in like “We need communities dedicated to Megumin 😣” and posting Asuka ass shots, which was an instant red flag they’d been abruptly banned from Reddit for doing some really gross shit but still needed their fix somewhere else. I forgot that Reddit doesn’t say what a user is banned for anymore, though, so I just clicked the first live link on the Wayback Machine to see if I was right. This process took a cumulative two-ish minutes.
Lo and behold, they were “joking” about “licking [their] cousin’s underwear while she’s wearing it”, which OP chalks up to having “different tastes”.
- Comment on Why isn't there a Megumin sub-"lemmy"... 😣 2 weeks ago:
“Why isn’t there an entire community dedicated to jerking off to softcore imagery of an anime character who’s canonically 14? 😣”
- Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet? 3 weeks ago:
Here’s what a 7.62x63 (“.30-06”) does to level III armor (think basic rifle protection, the kind that would actually stop the round that hit Kirk). This particular one is a large, very conspicuous plate of steel 8.5 mm thick and weighing 4 kg. You don’t just slot this in under your shirt and look inconspicuous.
And it would have to have been hard armor, i.e. a rigid plate. Soft armor 1) wouldn’t have stopped that round (that’d be more like a step down to level IIIA on the high end) and 2) would’ve embedded the round rather than ricocheting it.
- Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet? 3 weeks ago:
Firstly, the burden of proof says it’s their job to demonstrate that Kirk was wearing a bulletproof vest in the first place (let alone that the bullet struck him in it first), not yours to debunk it. We’ve really lost sight of how important this is in recent years.
- There’s zero evidence Kirk was wearing body armor whatsoever.
- I don’t think we’ve ever seen evidence of Kirk wearing body armor to debates elsewhere.
- A bullet would’ve left at minimum a noticeable mark on Kirk’s clothing.
- Neither journalists nor investigators mention anything about this even though there’s zero compelling reason for them not to and, for journalists, incentives to do so.
- The rounds were 7.62x63 mm fired from a bolt-action rifle.
- If that round strikes body armor, in order for it to stop (let alone ricochet rather than embed), the armor needs to be so thick that you cannot hide it under clothing. The armor would’ve been readily visible to everybody in attendance. Armor Kirk realistically could’ve been wearing would be a non-factor.
- Even if this magically happened, the improbably fucked-up physics required for a bullet to bounce from the torso into the cartoid artery seem vanishingly unlikely at best and implausible at worst.
While much of this just shows extreme unlikelihood, the thickness of the alleged body armor is impossible to reconcile with the round and the weapon it was fired from.
- Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet? 3 weeks ago:
He was not. This has already been categorically debunked over and over again by people who know literally the first thing about ballistics.
- Comment on Me and Boost 3 weeks ago:
“We’ve taken X into not just the second but the third dimension! XYZ is the new town square of the metaverse!” —Elon “illegal immigrant” Musk
- Comment on If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. 4 weeks ago:
The commonly accepted definition is summarized by the Vegan Society:
Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
They struggled to deliver their ambitious mainline Linux phone on time during Covid yes, but they eventually delivered.
And for the people who requrested refunds who waited months if not never received them? Despite them moving back their timeline literal years with repeated delays? I don’t care what challenges they faced; they knowingly took people’s money and refused to give it back to them when they couldn’t deliver. It’s their responsibility to be prepared for challenges. And in some extreme edge case where they couldn’t have been prepared, it’s their responsibility to be transparent about that to the people who gave them over a million dollars.
The fact that they did is a huge win for the mobile Linux ecosystem becoming a real contender just when we need it.
The Librem 5 is not a contender for shit. It’s so overpriced that it can only be successfully marketed to people who care so deeply about their privacy that they’re willing to use an inconvenient mobile OS, get completely boned on hardware specs, and deal with a company notorious for fucking over its customers.
NXP i.MX family debuted in 2013; Intel i7 family in 2008. Their phone uses a 2017 i.MX 8M Quad, the same year they crowdfunded their phone.
That CPU is based on the ARM Cortex-A53 and Cortex-M4, launched in 2012 and 2009, respectively.
2017 i7 computers are equally not from 2008…
When I say “2013”, I’m not talking about the debut year of i.MX. I’m talking about the fact that you can compare this phone side-by-side with a Galaxy S4 or S5. 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of eMMC storage, a 720 x 1440p IPS display, no NFC, USB 3.0, an 8/13 MP front/back camera (which they inexplicably call “Mpx”; good job, guys), 802.11n Wi-Fi, no waterproofing, and a shitty-ass i.MX 8M CPU. I still remember watching a trailer for the Librem 5’s continuing development, and as they were scrolling through a web browser, it was noticeably stuttering. This was years and years ago; I can’t even imagine it today.
It still today remains one of the best ARM processors with open source drivers without an integrated baseband. It means basically any flavour of Linux can install on the device, with a significant layer of protection from carrier conduited attacks. Other modules have similar tradeoffs between performance and interoperability/security.
I do not give even the slightest inkling of a shit try to confirm or deny this, so I’m just going to assume it’s 100% true, because it’s not relevant to the point that the spec is absolute trash and being sold for $800. If you are not absolutely married to privacy, this is not a sellable product in 2025.
Want better specs? We either need SoC companies to release more of their drivers open source, or more people to patiently reverse engineer closed source ones.
Actually, if I want better specs, I’m just going to go out and buy a phone that isn’t from Purism. It really sucks that it’s not open, private hardware, but Purism is such a scummy company that so wantonly fucks over their customers that I wouldn’t touch the Librem 5 even if I could justify spending $800 for that spec just for privacy’s sake.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 5 weeks ago:
Purism scams their customers left, right, and center and have for effectively their entire existence. They should not be trusted, and their phone specs are basically from 2013 sold for $800.
- Comment on Llama 5 weeks ago:
Killer whale.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to [deleted] | 0 comments
- Comment on Call me... 1 month ago:
Funnily enough, that Unidan copypasta is 100% correct. I don’t know why, for as long-winded as it is, though, he doesn’t use use more taxonomic names to make it precise: jackdaws are in genus Coloeus, and crows and ravens are in genus Corvus, both under family Corvidae. The apes are the primate superfamily Hominoidea, which Homo sapiens sits under. There, Unidan; that’s all you had to say.
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Call me... 1 month ago:
For those who might be confused, “daddy longlegs” colloquially refers to two totally separate things. Spiders are of the order Araneae under class Arachnida (they’re arachnids; go figure).
“Daddy longlegs” often refers to cellar spiders, the family Pholcidae within the spiders. However, “daddy longlegs” also refers to another order of arachnids altogether called Opiliones, also known as harvestmen. So if this doesn’t look like the daddy longlegs you know, that’s why; they’re not a “different type” of the cellar spider you’re familiar with.
- Comment on Good for plants 1 month ago:
I only give my plants real country music.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye
(At a glance, this article needs some touching up and hasn’t been meaningfully contributed to in some years.)
- Comment on sentence 1 month ago:
- Successful murder does more actual harm, and thus if you weigh not just intent but actual harm, you get a more severe punishment (think, for example, of felony murder, where the perpetrators don’t necessarily intend to kill anyone but someone does die as a result of them committing a felony).
- Treating murder more harshly than attempted murder gives someone attempting murder a practical incentive not to follow through.
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast 1 month ago:
- A bee is more closely related to a hermit crab than it is to a spider (arthropod subphylum Crustacea). A spider is more closely related to a horseshoe crab than it is to a bee (arthropod subphylum Chelicerata).
- A deer is more closely related to a killer whale (order Artiodactyla) than it is to a human (order Primates).
- Comment on In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast 1 month ago:
I did think of it and visualize this image in the shower, for what it’s worth. The gorgeous illustration™ and written explanation are there because 99% of people are sane and therefore have no idea what the fuck any of this means.
- Comment on In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast 1 month ago:
He’s probably the reason I have any interest in marine biology.
- Comment on In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast 1 month ago:
What do you mean? I remembered there were humans in this show. See, just look at the image! I didn’t think of the narrator and the pirate portrait and then give up.
- Comment on In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast 1 month ago:
Yup! You’ll be happy to know, though, that amphibians (class Amphibia), mammals (class Mammalia), birds (class Avia), and reptiles (class Reptilia) all have their own pigeonholes.
What you won’t be happy to know is that a lot of things that are called “shrimp” aren’t actually shrimp. Shrimp are specifically the decapod infraorder Caridea. Anything else – presented in order of decreasing relatedness – like prawns (decapod suborder Dendrobranchiata), amphipods (order Amphipoda), or mantis shrimp (order Stomatopoda) are not shrimp.
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 20 comments
