piccolo
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- Comment on Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together 21 hours ago:
And how are they to determine whats a “vpn”? Just rent a server in another country and ssh tunnel to it, and there you go. Impossible to know your using a ‘vpn’.
- Comment on Does he think he is The King? 1 week ago:
“Im not racist. I have a black friend”
- Comment on Where do British Christmas traditions really come from? 2 weeks ago:
The Early Christians weren’t keen to imitate the idolatrous romans who were persecuting them at the time. It really is a long stretch.
They also didnt celebrate jesus birth at that time, instead of focusing on death (and rising). It wasnt until around Constantine when Christians started celebrating his birth.
- Comment on Where do British Christmas traditions really come from? 2 weeks ago:
Totally pure conciendence he choose march 25th as the day of conception. (Spring equinox) which meant jesus would be born around winter solstice. Despite the evidence in the bible would strongly disagree with a winter birth. There may not be direct influence, but previous traditions most certainly influenced Christian traditions.
- Comment on Where do British Christmas traditions really come from? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use, asserting "a lot has become lost in translation" 2 weeks ago:
Thats an entirely seperate issue. If we invested in clean enegry 40 years ago, then there would be far less impact.
- Comment on Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use, asserting "a lot has become lost in translation" 2 weeks ago:
Do you really think gen ai is going to replace artists? Its just another tool to use. If anything it lowers the level of entry. You dont need to be a master to produce quailty art. You dont need burn the midnight oil to produce new art with changes the director requested…
Its always the same argument when new technology arrives. Power looms replaced weavers. Did those jobs disappeared? No, it went on to created a booming textile industry. But it didnt stop the hand weavers trying to burn down the textile factories in defiance.
You will never win fighting against technology. You will only harm yourself by not embracing progression. If you wwnt something to fight, fight against the ones that own the automations.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 weeks ago:
Dp to hdmi is very reliable. The siginals are near identical, the adapter is just a level shifter. Not much can go wrong. Issues arise when talking about either cheaply made (out of spec) or active adapters.
it makes the product feel less refined/premium/sleek in my opinion
Maybe for Apple users.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 weeks ago:
There is no technical reason DP doesnt have ARC. Its more of the industry is strangled by the HDMI forum. So you’ll never find an AV receiver with DP… thus no reasons for vesa to waste bandwidth for a feature that the industry will never adopt.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 weeks ago:
I mean… if someone can’t figure out which end goes where. Theres gonna struggle with a standard hdmi cable. I guess they could custom print big text on the cable ends to make it clear which end goes where. They’ll certainly have the volume to make such customization.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 weeks ago:
They can just bundle them? What is the issue here?
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 weeks ago:
Except there is no reason to ever put hdmi on the hardware. Displayport is superior to hdmi in every way, and when you need to step down to peasant land… a simple passive DP to hdmi cable/adapter will do the job.
- Comment on steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? 5 weeks ago:
For linux support steam is king. Getting gog games working is a bit of an obstacle. Gog really needs to get a linux native client to remove the barrier of entry.
- Comment on The wonder of the sea 2 months ago:
Ants don’t have recessions, or gas chambers, or nuclear bombs, or greenhouse gas pollution, or strip mining, or seafloor dragging. That’s a human invention.
No… but they got colonial slavery down pat.
- Comment on mercy merci 2 months ago:
But what if the other bugs are my food??
- Comment on Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the science 2 months ago:
You know what also kills whales?
- Comment on Vert is the best self-hosted file converter out there, and it's not even close 2 months ago:
I dont want a jpeg, i just want a got dang hotdog!
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 2 months ago:
Morels are pretty good too. My grandma used to deep fry them.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 months ago:
Edison’s electricity was the same 110volts. But it it was 110v from generators to peoples homes and thus suffered greatly from resistance losses.
Telsa’s AC however used high voltages for distribution and step down to 110v at the final destination, so the resistance losses were much lower. Edison’s propaganda conveniently glosses over that fact.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 3 months ago:
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 months ago:
Genetic evidence clearly shows native americans origins are from Siberian people. While there are evidence Polynesians made contact with them before europeans, native americans were already well established for tens of thousands of years before then.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 5 months ago:
Enter capcasin. Mammals find it intolerable (except for one subset of a goofy bipedal species), but birds love that shit.
I know someone with a dog that loves jalapenos. So its not just us.
- Comment on ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity 5 months ago:
Medical history would be pretty important.
- Comment on Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia 5 months ago:
- Comment on [Blog] The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 5 months ago:
My biggest issues other than privacy concerns is the fact corpations can turn your devices into paperweights over night by just turning off their servers.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 5 months ago:
If your burning wood in 2025, youre most likely living in a rural area. Space isnt an issue.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 5 months ago:
Ive used wood heat most of my life. Its more of the wood quality thay effects that. Dry, cured maple or ash burns clean even at lower temperatures. Most of the impurities come from volatile compounds such as burning green wood, or wood with oily resins like pine. But sure, its less efficient, but its not that big of a difference.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 5 months ago:
If you buy the wood… perhaps. But if you know some people in the arborist business, you can have all the wood you could ever need for free. However, it is a lot of hard work to saw and split the wood yourself.
- Comment on Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here's where the smoke is worst 5 months ago:
Unless you are awake to refill it every hour or so… slow burning means consistent heat throughout the night.
- Comment on Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback 5 months ago:
The amount they collect is far more than the operating costs. But theres a hidden benefit… market visibility. Thats the true value that makes it worth valve’s high fees.
