shaggyb
@shaggyb@lemmy.world
- Comment on If I subtract a semitone (100 cents) from 1 Hz, what is its frequency in Hz after that? 17 hours ago:
Question is not answerable without knowing the tuning system and reference frequency for A4.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 2 days ago:
Banned in North America in 3… 2…
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
No. Please teach your child to groom himself safely. Particularly if he WANTS TO LEARN - that is a miracle in itself.
- Comment on Do you like the centralized wen of today? 6 days ago:
Absolutely fucking not.
It’s not an internet. It’s a top-down content filter with a paywall.
It’s not worth the price of admission and I’m paying for it twice already and then being asked to pay a third time to access most of it with advertising on top of it.
I’m unbypassable-android-app-restrictions away from cutting off from the whole goddamn thing.
- Comment on Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK 6 days ago:
It doesn’t.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
That’s fine.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 1 week ago:
He’ll die having gotten away with it. Death is a mercy for him at this point.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
For $700 I’m not interested in compromising my own convenience for theirs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Sure is.
Doesn’t change the issue.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I guess the “private stuff” they’d be doing with her parents home isn’t sex then.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You should really move out or stay at his place when you want to fuck. He doesn’t need to regress into your childhood.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t keep track of how that lawsuit turned out.
That said, it is labeled “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” on everything in the car.
Supervised as in you have to be ready to stop this kind of thing. That’s what the supervision is.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t have had time between pumping iron and getting head, myself.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
Driver failed to control their car and avoid a collision.
FTFY.
I’m sure the car did actually take the action. But there are TONS of unavoidable warnings and reminders to the driver to supervise and take control when FSD goes wrong.
Which you can do by such super-technical means as “hitting the brake” or “steering the other way” or “flipping the right stalk up”. Rocket science, I know.
Driver’s fault. Bad technology, yes. Worse driver.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
You hit the brake.
- Comment on JD Vance gets suspended from Bluesky 'just 12 minutes after first post': reports 3 weeks ago:
Nobody fucking cares.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 4 weeks ago:
YouTube might bite me
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 4 weeks ago:
You might be a tad zealous, but you’re not wrong.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 4 weeks ago:
I had a model I can’t remember which was an emergency replacement from my OnePlus 3T years ago, then two G Powers of… Some years, then my Pixel 5a and then 8, and now a Razr 2024.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 4 weeks ago:
All of which can be disabled.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 4 weeks ago:
I mean, you’re getting a lot of downvotes, but I’ve gone Motorola -> Motorola -> Motorola -> Pixel -> Pixel -> Motorola.
Both my Pixels died in less than a year. Each had battery life which, while it did improve over a few weeks as Pixel’s optimization stuff took hold, never reached an entire day. Both were unacceptably fragile. Both failed randomly, just out of warranty.
And the Motorola I’m using now has none of those problems, was cheaper, is faster, has a better battery, has a better screen, and in some ways is more customizable (fuck that unmovable search bar).
Like, really. Motorola is a sleeper brand. Not perfect, but damn good.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 4 weeks ago:
Being weary of open source is like being afraid to eat food that you watched somebody cook for you.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Reddit allows payola posts. Of course they are.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
Agreed. Name and shame. Whatever fucker came up with this deserves to be ostracised.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 month ago:
If you struggle with pronouns, apologize casually when the pronouns come up.
As a fellow old, the kids don’t seem to necessarily get it that my brain is wired pretty hard not to change pronouns, but they do seem to appreciate the effort and the discussion that it’s a challenge rather than just fucking it up with no explanation.
Otherwise, be mindful that they take a lot of shit for parts of themselves that are background attributes for the rest of us. They can get pretty tired of it. A friendly person who regards them as just people may be the best thing they can get from anyone.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 month ago:
We don’t understand villages, you don’t understand football. We’re just different.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 month ago:
Star Wars did for a while.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 1 month ago:
30-50% if its an actual physical item is pretty normal. If it’s something like a discount card or coupon book, profit approaches 90%.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 1 month ago:
If you think messages you post anywhere on the internet are private, you’re in for a bad time.
- Comment on TIL blocking users on Lemmy is nothing but a placebo 1 month ago:
40 here. Pretty much what I was thinking.
The way you behave in public is visible by the public, kids. No matter how you feel about it. If you don’t want it read, don’t post it.