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- Comment on It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times 4 hours ago:
This actually happened to me once when I was a kid playing SimCity (I don’t remember if it was 2000 or 3000); The machine, a new but possessed Windows 98 machine, blue screened and ejected the 52x drive without spinning down the CD. So when the tray came out the disc flew across the room like a Lilliputian UFO.
- Comment on Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo 1 week ago:
The Lost World (the second movie) is also based on a book by Michael Crichton [pronounced cry-ton], but it diverges from the book even more than the first movie.
It’s worth a read, as is Disclosure by the same author (pretty much all of his books are good).
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 1 week ago:
No, it’s not a real photograph. It says so in the photograph.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 1 week ago:
It’s super cool that we can still see it even though the photograph isn’t real.
- Comment on Watch first, then wipe: Some China’s restrooms put toilet paper behind paywall 1 week ago:
Septic tanks are a bit more specific, you appear to be referring to a pit latrine which most commonly will have a cesspit.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 1 week ago:
As would I. There is an existing line from Kansas City to Tulsa to OKC that has been talked about being opened for passengers for a couple decades.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
The fucking MythBusters did an episode on that like 20 years ago.
- Comment on US Republicans warn Australia of ‘punitive measures’ over recognition of Palestinian state 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure about the more classic devices but a lot of game controllers and phones these days use linear motors or similar piezoelectric devices for vibration. For instance Apple’s “Taptic Engine”.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 2 weeks ago:
Mastodon isn’t different than any other software, anybody with a half-way experienced IT department could spin up an instance. This sounds like it’s more for small organizations and individuals.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 2 weeks ago:
Based on my parents, I’m pretty sure it’s genx keeping it alive.
- Comment on Ripperonis 2 weeks ago:
Cotard’s Syndrome is close to that.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Patch Due Out Today, PC Performance 'Our Top Priority,' Gearbox Says 2 weeks ago:
I think they do think that though. Companies seem to have realized they can make more money with less sales by pricing the lowest bidding consumer group out of the market.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 weeks ago:
Instagram has existed for 14 years and 11 months. I think you might be pushing it on the not 15 years.
But more importantly though, Windows XP was supported for 18 years…
So it’s not like it can’t be done.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough, though modern cameras are much smaller:
Dimensions of a recent Sony mirrorless camera, shown without lens.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 weeks ago:
The line between smartphone and dumbphone has always been very blurry.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen a few devices go by recently trying to capture that use case. Some have looked promising but I still have a Zune.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 weeks ago:
There is nothing about those that can’t run on KaiOS, which comes with Google maps and runs on most dumb phones on the market today.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 weeks ago:
I highly recommend just getting a real camera. The pictures I took with my camera 11 years ago are still better quality than an iPhone can manage today. Modern cameras are far far better.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 weeks ago:
Sony still makes an Android equivalent.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 weeks ago:
I really hate when people are like “just stop” like everyone has impeccable self control and executive function.
- Comment on If fossil fuels aren't vegan that would mean almost nobody is actually vegan. 3 weeks ago:
Hmmm… but taking your argument to the opposite end; the normal consumption of a cucumber may not typically harm animals but I think there is an argument to be had that the normal consumption, and production, of fossil fuels typically does.
- Comment on Important Notice of Security Incident 3 weeks ago:
This is the same reason I haven’t switched. My parents use it to watch the local OTA channels and I have zero intention of supporting a site to site VPN on their home network and multiple mobile devices.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 5 weeks ago:
They are cherry pits though, not beans.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 weeks ago:
Idk about the person you are replying to but I have spent 15 years trying to get out of the state that I am in. It’s really hard to move out of low cost of living areas to higher ones without a job and a lot of planning.
- Comment on Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome! 5 weeks ago:
I just mean don’t rely on backups that you haven’t proven you can restore from. Practice doing a restore when you are happy with your solution to make sure it works.
The only thing worse than losing all your data because you did’t back it up is losing all your data because you didn’t make sure your backup was restorable.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 weeks ago:
When people were first using it they were coming from DOS or old machines. Many were using a mouse for the first time. It wasn’t simpler to them.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 5 weeks ago:
Office would have a learning curve too if you hadn’t been using it since you were a child.
