HugeNerd
@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers.
- Comment on Playing therapist isn’t fun. 13 hours ago:
Boy men sound sick! They want companionship, connection, and emotional closeness? Animals!
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 1 day ago:
I’m more curious about why you don’t see a distinction. Can you show me the usage of “begs” to mean “raise” in any other situation?
Do you raise children? Do you raise concerns? Do you raise animals? Do the Amish raise barns?
Can you say “begs” in any of those situations?
Do you see a street beggar or raiser? Beggars can’t be choosers, why can they be raisers?
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 1 day ago:
Thanks to whoever wrote “raises the question” instead of the commonly used yet incorrect “begs the question”.
- Comment on well? 3 days ago:
We’re inside a dust cup?
- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 4 days ago:
Bombarbeetle Explosivo
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 5 days ago:
I’m curious about these old things around the house you keep functioning.
I’ll give an example of an old thing I want to keep running: a 1980s cassette deck.
Between the metalized plastic buttons, the belts, the wheels, the gears, the pressure rollers, there is nothing that can be 3D printed that even remotely approaches the finished look or function of the parts I’d need.
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 6 days ago:
Is it fun? I guess. I never saw the appeal.
“Wow, you mean I can spend more time and headaches to “create” my own parts instead of knowing a supplier’s offerings? And still end up with an inferior product that took all night to print? And it’s just simple CAD software like for the last 40 years but now it requires Windows 11 and 64G of RAM? Joy!”
“Sure! Why do you want to limit yourself to gears and enclosures from professional companies that have been doing it for 50 years?”
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 6 days ago:
3D printing was always 99% garbage, sorry.
- Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors 6 days ago:
I beg the Death Asteroid to rain down on us.
- Comment on You'd need to calculate the compound interest 6 days ago:
I don’t want to be happy. I want a house, clothes, and food. And a significant coffee and Scotch budget.
- Comment on Gallium 6 days ago:
The greasy wheel gets the grease, a social principle I’ve long ago understood.
- Comment on Gallium 6 days ago:
It’s certainly more understandable to lose your shit over a hot 25 year old woman than a 45 year old one.
- Comment on Gallium 6 days ago:
I won’t judge you.
- Comment on Gallium 6 days ago:
…huh?
- Comment on Gallium 6 days ago:
Oh stop it. It’s not the same anymore. Sex I haven’t had in over 30 years. I didn’t understand the fuss over something that has such a small payoff for such an enormous investment of resources.
Music? Look, I used to go out clubbing and dance til 3AM, and sometimes even head out to after parties, for the music. It was fun. Do you think sitting at my computer chair and listening to one song a day is the even near the same level of enjoyment?
Things just change as you get older. Can we stop pretending otherwise?
- Comment on Gallium 1 week ago:
I’m sure they do, but it’s not the same anymore.
- Comment on Gallium 1 week ago:
To me, sex is like music and parties: definitely for the youth.
- Comment on Gallium 1 week ago:
There’s some middle-age mommy fat in there too.
- Comment on Gallium 1 week ago:
Old people pretending sex is still so fun at that age it’s worth losing everything over will never not be funny to me.
- Comment on Gallium 1 week ago:
Woman. A woman. Women is plural.
- Comment on Is the cure to male loneliness shitposting? 1 week ago:
Anyone know where I can argue about steel vs ceramic burr grinders?
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 1 week ago:
Air Canada’s been shitty for a long time.
- Comment on Jell-OH MY GOD! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 week ago:
- Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
It’s called secession.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
I like that but you have to replace your phone every year anyway so…
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
Just picture a rectangular plunger plate with a hole in it that sits over the wafer inside the receptacle. Then when you plug in, the plunger is pushed back. Tiny springs push it back out.
I know just enough to know that something like this is more complex to engineer than you want… It’s awfully small, it needs to move freely even when crudded up, it needs to not impede plugging in, etc
Of course this won’t protect 100% from ingress, just reduce it.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
When you look at the amount of people and corporations behind a spec like USB… and no one thought of this? I wonder if there are IP67 USB-C connectors?
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
does have a tendency to get a little dirty though
Dollar store keyboard cleaner air cans are good for this. There really should have been a little spring-loaded flap on the connector, like later SPDIF has.
- Comment on Children never lie 1 week ago:
Oh no, I was going to live to 500. Guess I’ll finish off my Aberlour 16 tonight anyway.
