BarbecueCowboy

@BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LunaSea is no longer being published and all related cloud services (including notifications) will be shut down in the near future⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personal opinion, but for android at least, I always though nzb360 was dramatically better. May be a good alternative for anyone who will be missing LunaSea there.

  Too bad about iOS though, the options there have always been sparse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More than one company has gotten to the prototype stage. You don’t realize how much the form factor sucks until it’s real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's infinitely worse to be the oldest you'll ever be than the youngest you'll ever be.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus side, you won’t have to worry about it for long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turn off the breaker before you work on anything, if you aren’t 100% positive that you’ve got the right breaker, turn off the main breaker, if you still aren’t sure, just stop. Always do a pull test after joining two wires and apply electrical tape liberally. Be wary of aluminum wiring and even more so for knob and tube if you ever see it. You’ll eventually hit a point where you realize you can get creative with the materials you use and the way you do things, don’t do that. This is also about the time you’ll start to feel confident in your skills as an electrician, this is when you’re going to skip something basic and electrocute yourself, it will probably be minor and you’ll be sore for a week and feel 10 years older. Sometimes though it’s not minor, it’s an electrician meme, but we all have the “Remember kids, Electricity will kill you” sticker.

  If you remember all that, you’re probably good to install the basement outlet, you’ll probably have local building codes to adhere to, but they’re usually not a major burden to comply with. For your chime, do you know if you have a doorbell transformer at all (and are you sure it’s getting power if so) or where the wires on your doorbell go to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, proof, the universe is flat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't all rooms holodecks?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a fun thought experiment and I’m kind of surprised Discovery didn’t do something like this with holodeck tech in the “future” since the writers weren’t afraid to do other tech-taken-to-natural-conclusion like tiny phaser transporters (or whatever those were).

  They kinda did, they just didn’t go into detail. There were ships that were made entirely of holodeck at the new federation headquarters in discovery season 3ish, we just never got beyond being mentioned briefly and people going ‘Oh, thats cool’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't all rooms holodecks?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t go into depth at all, don’t believe we even have one with a name, but they talked about seeing federation ships made entirely of ‘holographic containment walls’ in Discovery Season 3. Pretty sure it was when they first arrived at federation headquarters in the future.

  There was also that ship in insurrection where it was just one giant holodeck, but still existing inside a regular ship. The concept just hasn’t made it into something that’s broadly popular in the mainstream trek fandom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is paying off for someone. That person just isn't me. (For now)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can afford new tires instead of just patching them endlessly?

  Look at the big spender over here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6/10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wonder what animals we’re missing out on in terms of dairy now. Like could White Rhino Yogurt be the best yogurt known to man?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have the money for it and really want to go hardcore into the scene, you might look into an FPGA like the Super-nt. They typically aren’t like all of those emulation boxes out there, compatible with real SNES cartridges and accessories but don’t have to worry about the issues with aging hardware and works mostly native with modern TVs/etc. It’s very expensive, but it’s also definitely very cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Full text is ‘Below are some types of visual media that some might consider old or outdated. Which, if any, have you used in the past year?’ and that is an item on the list, it’s not an incredibly detailed survey.

  I will say from the rest of the survey responses, the demographics they’ve selected seem to lean more technically competent and security focused than I’d expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Source: timeextension.com/…/14-percent-of-north-americans…

  References this site: consumerreports.org/…/holding-on-to-physical-medi…

  Actual data here: …consumerreports.org/…/Consumer_Reports_AES_May_2…

  Actual question references "Classic videogame systems that came out before 2000, like the NES or GameBoy " of which 14% responded yes out of a group of 2022 surveyed in North America (demographic details available in link).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I upgraded from a Pixel 6a to a Pixel 8, I was really surprised to find out that not only was my phone slightly smaller, it also had a slightly larger screen. I’m not super happy with google, but the things they focus on with the Pixel line has me pretty bought in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Has he closed the CDC yet? Is that for next week?