atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 1 day ago:
2 of them were Galaxy Notes and others were flagships as well. Quit being a douche.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 1 day ago:
I had four android phones from three different manufacturers die in less than a year, one of them wouldn’t put out any updates after a year either. I went back to iPhone and it lasted for four years.
I’m not voting with my wallet, I’m picking the device that causes the least amount of headache and just fucking works when I need it to. I have to have one of these to keep my job.
- Comment on Banana 3 days ago:
That’s only the Cavendish, there are other varieties of banana. I was recently in Hawai’i and got to try an Apple Banana that had been grown there.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 4 days ago:
I wasn’t saying it wasn’t, I was just disagreeing with the OP. Personally I find it pretty uncomfortable to be in a house I don’t know the layout of.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 4 days ago:
Yeah… no. It’s so you don’t have to ask me where the bathroom is later.
- Comment on Who haunts your home? 4 days ago:
This is cool but it shows where tribes are now, not where they were before removal.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 6 days ago:
Just for clarification the Wii, Wii U, 360, and PS3 all used the Cell Broadband Engine which is a PowerPC derivative. The original PowerPC was made by the AIM Alliance which stands for Apple, IBM, Motorola. Apple and Motorola had a long history of collaboration as all Apple machines had used Motorola processors up to that point.
- Comment on Want to avoid AI gen on Steam? This browser userscript might save your day 6 days ago:
I’d rather play an ugly game with crappy art made by a human. I genuinely don’t understand this “but it isn’t pretty” mentality.
- Comment on Fucking math... 1 week ago:
That’s because elevators use counter weights usually equal to the weight of the car and half the occupancy load so that it takes less energy to lift it and if it falls for any reason it won’t hit the bottom as long as the counter weights are still attached. The occupancy load is determined by the counter weighting system not the cable load capacity.
- Comment on Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays. 1 week ago:
Modern phones will still ping the Bluetooth low energy networks like Find My for Apple devices even when off or on airplane mode. That’s how things like AirTags work.
- Comment on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers 1 week ago:
That’s literally how think tanks work. Their paychecks come from Caltech not NASA. They answer to the board of governors not NASA.
- Comment on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers 1 week ago:
How? My point was that management decisions regarding JPL don’t come from NASA. Misremembering the institution doesn’t negate the point I was making.
- Comment on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers 1 week ago:
I misremembered, but my point still stands; the decision for layoffs, this being the third round in 18 months, didn’t come from the government it came from JPLs management which isn’t NASA.
- Comment on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers 1 week ago:
AFAIK JPL is part of the University of California, not NASA and I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first round of layoffs at JPL in the last few years.
- Comment on Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications. 2 weeks ago:
In the Adam West TV show Gordon just picked up the red phone.
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 2 weeks ago:
At one place I worked that was considered our two-factor auth….
- Comment on It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s not a real photograph. It says so in the photograph.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Wobble wobble 5 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 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Based on my parents, I’m pretty sure it’s genx keeping it alive.
- Comment on Ripperonis 5 weeks ago:
Cotard’s Syndrome is close to that.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Patch Due Out Today, PC Performance 'Our Top Priority,' Gearbox Says 5 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.