brygphilomena
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- Comment on What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love 1 day ago:
As a dude, I wasn’t matching while I was swiping often. I’d swipe in the morning and then see what came up through the day.
They may have changed their apps in the… 10 or so years since I used them. But the premise is the same, the more you swipe right on the better the odds of matching someone that swipes right on you. Even if you don’t swipe right on everyone, be extremely generous on your swipes.
- Comment on What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love 1 day ago:
On essentially all of them, they went to a swipe right to like and a swipe left for no.
Except when actually trying to make a match, it’s more advantageous to literally swipe right on everyone to maximize matches and then unmatch if you match with someone you aren’t interested in.
But if you are swiping left, you will match with significantly fewer and potentially none. It becomes demoralizing. And it takes much longer to make a decision if you are looking at everyone including those that don’t match with you so you go through fewer people to potentially match with.
Wait until you match with someone to look at their pictures and their profile, and only then, decide whether to stay matched or unmatch.
I had quite a few short relationships from tinder and bumble. But some of those wouldn’t have happened if I were more picky at the swiping stage.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 day ago:
I have a set of Sony studio monitor headphones. I can hear more nuance and parts of the music I simply can’t hear in any of my ear buds or noise canceling headphones. They aren’t wireless, so I don’t really use them that often though.
It doesn’t matter the cable, the amp, shitty 128kbps mp3 or vinyl. I can’t hear much, much better with the drivers in them.
I’d say 90% of anything that matters is the driver. But past a certain midrange point, there just isn’t really much or any improvement.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
Ah, no. Sorry. Midwest, USA.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
I’d imagine they are using ceph or similar.
You have disk level protection for servers. Server level protection for racks. Rack level protection for locations. Location level protection for datacenters. Probably datacenter level protections for geographic regions.
It’s fucking wild when you get to that scale.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
It’s about half of mine, with about 30 drives. Whatcha running?
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
Is there a Lemmy community for trading surplus hardware yet?
I have a pile of HDDs and servers that I no longer use. I’ve transitioned almost all mine to 20tb+. I might have 8 or 10 4tb REDs laying around. They’re old, probably have thousands of power on hours in the smart data though.
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 week ago:
Driving by the one in California was always a trip. You could see the lines of sunlight being reflected from the mirrors in the air; it was so bright.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Do you know there is zero black ice before you hit the road? Do you know the condition of their tires? Did they have winter tires or summer tires? Are they good drivers or inexperienced?
Lots of reasons different cars would want to go slow. So long as they stay to the right, whatever.
- Comment on YSK grab a cup of coffee and read this article if you want to truly understand what's happening in Minnesota 2 weeks ago:
I think property damage and sabotage of equipment is valid.
However, with how their propaganda is, they equip property damage with violence.
And I think we, as a country, need to realign our views on that. Property damage is not violence. Violence is harm to an individual. To a person. Not economic damage, but actual physical health damage.
They will respond with violence to property damage. And that needs to be fought.
So if their cars have tires slashed, windshields broken, it’s not violence.
If they are blocked on the street and can’t drive down it. It’s not violence.
Tear gas and “less-than-lethals” are violence.
They have been violent to us, the people. Exclusively.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 3 weeks ago:
Between my buddies, whenever we are looking at each other’s guns we’ll pick it up. Check that it’s unloaded, hand it to the other person and they will also check it again that it’s empty.
We don’t care if we literally watched each other clear it right before handing it to us. We always do it.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
Ive considered conceal carry.
People would say my .38 special with 6 rounds isn’t enough. If six rounds ain’t enough to create an opening for me to run like a little bitch, shits really hit the fan and more bullets isn’t gonna solve it.
I just want to run away.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
This stupid regime wants to spur domestic manufacturing. What better way to help than to cut us off?
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 1 month ago:
The kind that has the condenser and evap coils.
The area closest to the coils is coldest. The doors often open and close and the air nearest them when closed has to get cold again.
And the air is often moved over the coils by a fan. If you block the air flow, then that area gets really cold and will freeze.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [34:38] 1 month ago:
Haha yea. I’m very tempted to just be lazy and replace my thermostat with one that can control the humidifier too. I just might need to run new thermostat wire and I don’t think mine will pull easily.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) I made my whole-home humidifier slightly less terrifying [34:38] 1 month ago:
I’ve the same humidifier. I’m seriously considering doing the same upgrade.
- Comment on In a way, a gift card is kind of the opposite of a credit card 1 month ago:
Or in California. For the USians, you can probably call and complain that you live in CA and have them reissue it.
In CA, they also have to pay out in cash if it’s less than $10 and you request it.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 1 month ago:
It’s why I live so much commercial stuff and things like bacnet.
Everything basically is just basic I/O with either analog or digital signal wires. Well documented. But it typically requires lots of actual wires running back to a controller.
I hate how consumer stuff is all different connections in so many different ways and they don’t care if they deprecate a feature or something. What works today can be fucked up because they have unilateral control to change how their shit works in “updates.”
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 1 month ago:
Gas is much, much cheaper. Like, insanely cheaper. Many homes were built long before it was normal to have 200 amp service.
It’s only in relatively recent years where heat pumps are becoming more common. And resistive heat uses a lot of electricity.
Gas has had decades and decades to be made safe. We have odorants so people can smell it, meters and sensors to monitor for abnormal usage and leaks, and it needs to be contained to cause an explosion.
Leaks outside suck, but aren’t really that dangerous because they can dissipate and be blown away by wind.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 2 months ago:
That’s where they got that Picasso!
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 months ago:
Oh, definitely.
Fuck carry weight. Fuck inventory management.
Unless there is a serious, compelling reason and they game is about that, let me turn off micromanage shit. I want to explore the world and dungeons and not worry about whether all the loot I can pick up is worth it or to decide each and every single item whether I want it or what I need to toss to pick it up.
- Comment on Damn robot vacuum designs 2 months ago:
The thing vacuums under there, why would the dock need to be bigger than the robot?
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- Comment on Does anyone have experience with Mumble? 3 months ago:
I still think it’s better than discord. And alliance auth tied in super easy.
Besides, I think it’s better that it’s usually hosted on an individual corp/alliance level.
Shut should do one thing. And do it well.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 3 months ago:
Totally fair.
I do admit the phones look cool and have some very nice features. But they’ve been on my “never buy” list for a long time for all their products, phones included.
I think not being able to uninstall Facebook was one of the breaking points when I last trialed their phone.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 3 months ago:
It’s been a while since I used Samsung. My work phone is a Samsung flip of some sort that gets powered on once a month.
However, it’s not just their phones that have me turned off. Their TVs built in OS is shit and they just had a whole lot of bad press for their fridges that will start showing ads. Not to mention how their appliances tend to have the shortest lifespan of comparably prices appliances.
Good hardware, but consistently anti consumer software.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 3 months ago:
Samsung is on my shit list. Their spammy, ad riddled UI is infuriating.
I don’t trust them. They lock their phones down and don’t let you remove their bloatware or block their ads/notifications.
Fuck them. Never buy Samsung.
- Comment on White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents 3 months ago:
I saw this before I saw anything from the accounts.
- Comment on He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him 4 months ago:
“a career criminal with a rap sheet dating back to 1980s”
What a shitty way for ICE to refer to someone WRONGFULLY CONVICTED AND IMPROSONED since the 1980s.
He isn’t a career criminal. He isn’t a career anything. He had the opportunity to have a career stolen from him.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 4 months ago:
No. We weren’t. This discussion was about phones and the software we are being allowed to install on them.
The law does nothing to restrict us in that capacity. The restrictions are imposed by the manufacturer of the phone.
You made the fallacious false equivalency of comparing that with guns and laws.