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- Comment on Based on a true story 1 day ago:
Its still sometimes possible. Manufacturers will periodically run 0% interest loans specials for people who qualify. Tesla (don’t actually buy one) runs the deals all the time actually.
- Comment on Based on a true story 1 day ago:
What’d you buy?
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 2 days ago:
someone who promotes a product while hiding the fact that they’ve been paid
Streamers generally say “this is a sponsored stream”
So by your own definition streamers are generally not shills?
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 2 days ago:
My buddy is a little streamer (gets maybe a few dozen viewers) and he got early access to it as well. Although he doesn’t add any fake hype, he’s just a very good hype man.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 days ago:
I’m not a scientist, I’m just in IT haha
I figured there was a way to measure that small of weight but I didn’t know!
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 4 days ago:
So 1 inch of your wire would weigh ~0.0987 grams, so to measure down to 8.6350242338508 inches of wire your scale would need to weigh down to ~0.00000000000007 grams. Which is the weight of about a dozen atoms or so.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
That’s because they’re called “teams groups” not “teams for teams” ;)
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Honestly thats just a user problem, not a Teams one.
Just limit it to files and forms and stuff like that, and explain to users that the teams folders, SharePoint, and the files on their computer are all the same.
Source: IT manager
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Idk I like outlook. Its more feature rich and reliable than any other client Ive used. Especially since basically every company uses Echange for email.
- Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 1 week ago:
The only thing that’s been keeping me on OneNote is the handwriting stuff. I keep trying to move to Obsidian cause I like it but I take notes on my iPad constantly. As much or more than on my computer.
And I really like how OneNote will take my chicken scratch and use OCR to turn it into actual text.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 1 week ago:
Prusa is based in Prague, and according to some quick googling the average software developer in Prague makes 88k CZK (~3800 USD or ~3500 eur), so about 526 CZK/hr (~22/hr in both USD and EUR).
Which means they’ve potentially spent around 76.7 million CZK (~3.3 million USD, ~3 million EUR) into their slicer. Just for salaries.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 1 week ago:
This. The proprietary 3d printers arent the “enshitification” of 3d printers, they’re what’s finally going to make them go “mainstream”.
Tech people need to remember how deep into these hobbies we really are, especially compared to “normies”.
Its like with computers, people go “oh well you can get a better bang for your buck on your memory by not going with apple!”. Which sounds great and everything until you remember that people don’t know what memory is or what it does, let alone how to buy new memory, or how to disassemble a computer, or where the memory goes, or even why more memory can be good for you.
I compare it to fabric crafts because I don’t know shit about them. I know (well, think) fabric is sold in bolts and that’s about it. Hell I don’t even know how much a bolt is, and we haven’t even gotten to the different types of fabrics or ways to utilize them.
The vast majority of people don’t want a 3d printer hobby, they just want to 3d print stuff. And the Bambu printers are as close to that as I’ve seen so far.
- Comment on How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals? 1 week ago:
a few days after a bomb explodes, most of the radiation would have depleted.
I know this is a settled fact, and supported by the fact that Japan had rebuilt both cities in under 6 years. But I wanted hard facts on this. Which, as it turns out, is really hard to find. I see a lot of reports basically echo what you said but nobody seems to have actually really measured this.
The best sources I found was this document from the which claims that soil radiation fell from 4.31 micro Curries per cm3 in hour 3, to just 0.23 half a day later, and 3.1x10(-5) 45 days later.
This site from the Japanese government claims that 24hrs after detonation the radiation at ground zero was 1/1000th of what it was immediately after.
- Comment on Struggling 1 week ago:
I thought this was funny lol
- Comment on Is there a good way to buy chrome lettering in the same font as the brand's original lettering on the back of the car? 1 week ago:
Most car badges aren’t actually plated anyways, they could save themselves a whole lot of trouble and just get some chrome spray paint and make it shiny still
- Comment on Is it safe to travel with your phone right now? 1 week ago:
Oh yeah my bad, I read “lockdown” and “shutdown” lol
- Comment on Is it safe to travel with your phone right now? 1 week ago:
Your biometrics work the first time you log in after a restart? That seems insecure to me.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 1 week ago:
If the United States goes down it’ll also trigger a global economic disaster as well.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
PSVR2 works on PC now :)
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
I’ve used pretty much all of the headsets on the market. I still haven’t tried a Big screen VR headset though :(
For popular headsets I’d rank them kinda like this
- Valve Index - it’s just really old and really expensive now, don’t buy one unless you get a hell of a deal on it used
- Quest 2 - Still very very good, screens are getting a little dated now
- PSVR2 - its a little janky on PC but it works fine and the OLEDs are sublime
- Pixmax Crystal - Money not a problem this is the best headset I’ve tried. The FOV is crazy, displays are beautiful, and tracking is damn near perfect. Its just like $2300 for the whole lot
- Quest 3 - Overall the best headset on the market. Its $570 (just get the pro strap, trust me) and gets you so close to the big boys in screen quality, plus it’s wireless, plus it has crazy good passthrough (I use it a lot, most people don’t), and streams PC games perfectly.
PSVR2 has really really really good looking displays, but it has some other downsides which really bring it down in the rankings. I’d stay away from it unless you get a deal on a used one, then it would absolutely be worth it.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
- the walking dead games
- Walkabout VR (putt-putt game)
- Dungeons of Eternity (quest exclusive)
- Any flight/racing sim (this is actually the biggest selling point I can make. Seriously if you like flight/racing sims, please get one. It’ll change your life)
- No Man’s Sky (one of my demo games)
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
I’m not the person who originally replied but locomotion is significantly more comfortable than teleports. The teleporting makes me dizzy and messes with my sense of balance and orientation.
I also don’t get motion sick in any non-vr setting either.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
It was made as a tech demo to show off next gen VR hardware and tracking. Why would they port it?
- Comment on Enshittification 1 week ago:
Honestly you still kinda can, just instead of going into the store, go to Rtings and just find the TV that is the size you want, has the features you want, and is currently the highest rated on the site.
They have incredible reviews that go into very minuscule detail which, if you aren’t a TV person, will mostly mean nothing to you. But look at the scores at the top of the review, and read the little blurb to make sure there aren’t any deal breakers for you. And then just order it from whichever big box store in your town has the best deal.
- Comment on Enshittification 1 week ago:
also in the world of consumer facing software, nobody wants a big upfront payment
I think this is a much bigger thing than people realize. Like it’s all great to say “I would pay much more for a one time payment”, but when it actually comes down to it most people won’t.
Look at something like Plex, they offer both a subscription as well as a one time purchase. But in 2023 (the newest data I could find) the subscriptions make up 84% of Plex’s entire revenue stream. And the plex lifetime subscription really isn’t that bad either, it’s only $120 and it’s supposed to go up to only (I know how y’all feel about it being “only”, I don’t care) $250 at the end of April. It’s really not that expensive for a lifetime cost.
- Comment on Help 1 week ago:
My best friend met his now wife because one of our (IRL) friends met her while playing Roblox…
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 1 week ago:
And you gotta use the Frank’s ones for casserole. Its in the constitution or something
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 1 week ago:
It is fucking delicious. And easy as shit to make too. It’s got like 4 ingredients and takes 30 mins start to finish. My family used to eat this a lot when i was growing up because we were poor and busy and this is cheap and easy. But its one of the “poor people” foods im most nostalgic about
Ingredients
- 1 can of cream of mushroom
- 1/2 milk
- 4 cups green beans (they don’t have to be fresh, canned or frozen can work too)
- French Onions
Cooking
- Mix everything into a pan (except the onions) and cook at 350f for 25 mins
- Sprinkle French Onions on top
- Cook for another 5 minutes
If you want to get really fancy you can sprinkle some shredded cheese on top after it cooks (I like Parmesan (but only the saw dust stuff in the tube), or sharp cheddar). It also makes great leftovers because it microwaves really well, and can be frozen and thawed with no issue.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 1 week ago:
I mean I’ve cooked entire meals in the engine bay of a car before 🤷
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