magic_smoke
@magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 5 hours ago:
Get a CRT, or buy a new TV and just don’t connect it to the internet.
The difference between a disconnected smart TV and a dumb one is basically zilch.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 1 week ago:
The problem with having both is that the electronic one is always the primary one, and the one people will use daily.
Yeah that’s the design flaw. Thats literally what im saying they shouldn’t do. You can make a mechanical-first door with an internal solenoid thats capable of popping the door.
The main and only handles on the doors should be mechanical, with door popper buttons for all four doors on the driver-side arm rest (where window controls go)
What purpose do electric door handles serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?
This allows the driver to open doors for passengers, while also making the main way in and out NOT dependent on electronics.
Unnecessary luxury? Sure, but so are cars in a lot of the world. Its cheap to implement and not inherently a danger when done right.
Your issue isn’t electronically controlled door poppers. Its cars being made by silicone valley, y-combinator sucking, tech-bro douchebags.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 1 week ago:
I think having an electric popper on top of an mechanical door latch (actual door handles are standard mechanic, but there’s solenoid that can actuate them independently) is okay if you can find an actual usecase.
I mean sure still stupid but at least it isn’t dangerous.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 3 weeks ago:
There where just as many cheesy UI’s done without flash back in the day. Its because web development became more of a commodity as more people got into it. Everything’s been done and the cheapest thing to do is to slap together something using the framework of the month.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 3 weeks ago:
All of that is possible with modern JS and WebGL?
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 3 weeks ago:
This is technically possible, but it’d be best implemented as animation software that compiles a file/archive that’s usable by a standard browser based client that renders things locally using a canvas element.
They didn’t give you the entire kit because that wasn’t the W3C’s job, it was to give you the tools necessary to build the kit.
- Comment on Sniffing out danger: Electronic nose capable of detecting explosives, narcotics, dangerous chemicals and more. 4 weeks ago:
They call him: “Stinky Mike”
- Comment on Sniffing out danger: Electronic nose capable of detecting explosives, narcotics, dangerous chemicals and more. 4 weeks ago:
Next time you go to the doctors, they hand you a screw-top specimin container and gesture towards the bathroom for you to fart in it so they can send it off to the lab for analysis.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 1 month ago:
Eh, my early g9 civic is nice, though I think they ruined it only like coupla years later with cell radios.
- Comment on Despite cutting the gags, Borderlands 4's PC specs say it still needs 100GB of SSD space 1 month ago:
Yes, it depends the game.
There are 20gb games that require much faster medium than retail WoW which is like 80gigs, despite the engines lineage tracing back to when it would’ve been stored on rust made by Maxtor.
- Comment on Which stage are you at? 1 month ago:
Honestly could a just stuck Debian at the end XP
- Comment on bet you can think of more 1 month ago:
I agree in theory, but honestly I’d rather must fucking avoid them.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 month ago:
Likewise, if you set an iPhone to use Advanced Data Protection.
You can pretend your iPhone isn’t owned by a corporation that just swore fealty to the current regime, but until its running a custom ROM it isn’t fucking yours.
Only phone that comes your own from factory I’d maybe the pinephone. Otherwise, get a pixel, rip out the factory OS install, and throw Graphen OS on it.
Both Android AND iOS have taken code from Graphene and used it to secure their codebases. Its probably one of, if not the most secure OS available to the average person today.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 months ago:
Its always going to be relevant, even only when emulated, simply because of how many code bases are stuck on x86/x86-64.
Open sourcing it and all of its extensions solves the licensing problems of not only itself, but Arm, while providing a battle tested architecture with decades of maturity.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 months ago:
Imagine if x86-64 got blown open because of it? Might literally be the best thing to happen to computing in like 40 years.
Really fuckin’ doubt it’ll happen, but a girl can dream XP
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 months ago:
Actually the bastard won’t tell you what specific tire. Just that one of them has low air pressure.
Kind of a dick move since there’s no way the computer can’t tell which tire it is when they’re four separate sensors.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 months ago:
My Honda civic 2012’s head unit firmware isn’t that bad.
It tells your input source, volume, if your trunk is open, if your tires are fucked, and includes a hookup for a backup camera that only made it into other models, making it ezpz to retrofit.
Could be a lot worse.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 2 months ago:
Fuck that buy xmr.
Not because you should invest, but because you’ll need a way to pay for mullvad and diy E.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 months ago:
As someone who used to use arch for years, I can’t stand its users who go around acting like running it is some herculean task that takes serious knowledge.
In reality its not much more than a misbehaved pet that requires constant attention and a blog post to be read every month or so. Not because its hard, but because its updates are just kinda slapped together and tossed out in the name of speed.
One of the biggest indicators of this is the AUR. For what it was worth, the Gentoo crowd it replaced at least knew how to compile a program.
Maybe learn to use git, tar, and make like literally anyone else on any other fucking distro.
- Comment on I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden 2 months ago:
Same with the blahaj.zone room for 196. Got so icked I just nuked the account.
Still paranoid some of that shit is still cached somewhere on my phone.
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 2 months ago:
Smartphone where almost a solved problem til LG stopped making the V20 and made the next one with a sealed battery.
Combine the hardware features of an LG V20 and grapheme is, and you might have a phone actually fucking worth using. I want my DAC and 16 screw disassembly back, fuckers.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 3 months ago:
Already done! Actually one of the more popular things to do with a hacked Wii back in the day.
- Comment on Gen A(lpha) or Gen AI? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Eyes in the Sky: A Comprehensive Survey of Ukrainian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) 3 months ago:
That takes more than firmware, and I don’t know how much thats worth it compared to just using existing fpv hardware.
- Comment on Eyes in the Sky: A Comprehensive Survey of Ukrainian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) 3 months ago:
Huh TIL. Usually DJI locks you in pretty hard.
Either way the maviv certainly ain’t working off of analog.
- Comment on Eyes in the Sky: A Comprehensive Survey of Ukrainian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) 3 months ago:
DJI Mavic/fpv
Analog Video
That’s not how that works, anyone who’s actually touched a flight controller have any insight on this stuff?
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 3 months ago:
It might feel wrong to call their last proper sit down at a couch/desk singeplayer experience a “classic”, but its older than Half-Life one was when it came out.
- Comment on The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might 3 months ago:
Its like skyrim, with wait… Yeah I think that’s just skyrim.
- Comment on And NO lube!?! 3 months ago:
I refuse to believe circle jerks aren’t several times more common than slumber party dildo sharing.
- Comment on And NO lube!?! 3 months ago:
Do straight dudes think this happens? Or just the ones who still have to attend homeroom five days a week?
