mrgoosmoos
@mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
no, only having sex with women is gay now, didn’t you hear
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 1 day ago:
don’t forget to not buy new. buy a used device whenever possible, unless you specifically want to support a particular company
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 5 days ago:
you’re limiting your interpretation of rape to a single definition. there are multiple, and this certainly fits as one
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash 6 days ago:
nah mate isn’t this like a “near miss” situation ?
/s
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
makes completion rates go down though, and adds an awful lot of zeroes (hours played)
net negative on the numbers, chief
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 week ago:
yep
I don’t have much against small scale capitalism - the kind your neighbour likes because his brother works hard to run a business
but mega corp infinite growth — fuuuuuuck that shit, that’s a cancer
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
lmao I love when the it’s just a dumb little thing like that
you did make me realize that that may not be quite so obvious anymore, though, with how they constantly change menus and setting names around. how many other things that we’ve learned over years & years of using Windows are just different in future versions, or not possible any more. and how many of those things were ever obvious settings in the first place, rather than ‘common knowledge’ learned from years of familiarity
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
just MS things. changing things for no apparent reason to make it worse to use and also remove existing features that people actually liked
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
wait, did they do away with the primary monitor designation?
isn’t that like the only thing that makes a “primary monitor” special - the taskbar? why can’t you just set another monitor as primary?
I don’t use win11, if it’s not obvious, lol
- Comment on Can I use your shower? 1 week ago:
I’ve used that shampoo before.
good stuff.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
one thing that makes me feel better about tasks like this is that I try to double them up with general cleanup
I made a mess of my garage fiddling with all the lathe stuff, but when I cleaned that up, I also did two other outstanding cleanup tasks in there, so it’s a net positive.
well, except for the wallet
new chuck works great, though. now if only I had a carriage and crosslide setup so I didn’t have to turn parts by hand like on a wood lathe, then I could get more accurate parts…
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
I wanted to kill a rat in my garden, so I borrowed my parents’ air rifle. but the scope was too tiny to be any use at night, so I bought an air rifle with a bigger scope. but that rifle sucked and an internal part broke, so I bought a proper one. but I still have the crappy one and want to tinker with it, so I printed some replacement parts. but I want to make proper replacement parts that will withstand impact abuse, so I need to turn them on a lathe. but my lathe is just a wood lathe, so I designed and printed a four jaw chuck. but it’s not any good for parts requiring more than one setup, so I bought a cheap real 3 jaw chuck. but it didn’t come with the adapter plate to mount to my spindle, so I tried to buy one. but there doesn’t seem to be any suitable adapter plate for sale that will fit both my chuck and my spindle (there’s one that is close, but would require machining to make it fit - machining that I can’t do without a lathe), so I decided I’ll just drill mount holes through my existing faceplate. but that faceplate isn’t true with the shaft, so if I want to mount my chuck on it and have it be useful then I need to turn it true. but I don’t have carbide tools for metal lathing, so I needed to buy some. and I need to locate the holes that I need to drill to mount the chuck, so I drew up and am printing an template. and that’s where I’m at right now, waiting for that to finish printing, so I can center punch the bolt holes.
so that I can mount a chuck, to turn a replacement part for an air rifle that isn’t even ‘the good one’, to shoot a rat that is digging in my garden and making holes in my yard that’ll twist my ankle eventually
hobbies huh.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 1 week ago:
yeah that’s the checkbox that doesn’t exist for me in the copilot section that also doesn’t exist for me
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 1 week ago:
I just got the notification today when opening Office programs that copilot was there
all the help threads about how to turn it off have out of date info. seems like you can no longer disable it in Excel/Word/PowerPoint
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 1 week ago:
hmm. I wonder if that was what was happening to me
it hasn’t happened since my ex moved out, so there’s less traffic…
but I think it actually stopped before that.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 1 week ago:
how does flaking out present itself?
I had an issue for a long time where the pihole seemed to be bricking the network, and combined with the Eero mesh it was a pain to bring back online each time due to order of operations restarting devices and enabling/disabling DNS on the router
- Comment on Great guy 1 week ago:
Right? I bet they don’t even have a niece, I bet it was actually them that this happened to
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 1 week ago:
and if YOU want to burn, get in a Tesla
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 2 weeks ago:
there is no decision to be made, the default state is lid closed, and anything otherwise is incorrecct
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 2 weeks ago:
the number of people who fall into this category through their use of stock LED headlights is non-zero
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
disclaimer: I have not tried a dipper
but I do use spoons and even butter knives for honey, and it works fine. well, even. and I’m somebody who likes efficiency and effectiveness in most things. I can’t see why I would want one of these, even after reading all the comments about the pros.
it just doesn’t seem any better for me. I don’t need to carry the honey more than a foot from the jar. I don’t need to be able to dose out the honey from the utensil, because I measure it out when taking it from the jar. I do need to be able to close the honey jar so it seals.
I have half a dozen local honey products in my cupboard rn fwiw
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if there’s like a specific German name for it, but the term that I do know is just “honey dipper”
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
and you certainly appear to not understand the meaning of “most” and how it was used in that sentence lol
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
southern Ontario Canadians don’t sound much different. the more east you go, the more Letterkenny you get. and then you get the Quebecois, which are unique in oh so many ways. and then you start getting to the true east coast stuff as you go farther and farther, and that’s not going to be confused for american
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
that’s the exception that put “most” in the title
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 2 weeks ago:
if it doesn’t work, just press harder. directly on the screen. might need something solid to register the press, those buttons can get gunked up over time and especially in the winter are hard to press. In fact, you might need to hit it to kind of break it free. the tire iron in your trunk is perfect for this. just make sure that you hit the screen dead center so you hit the switch accurately
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 2 weeks ago:
considering how prevalent gas stations are, taking half away still leaves you with quite a few options
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 2 weeks ago:
yeah I don’t buy gas at those places. if I pull up and there’s an annoying ad on screen, I just get back in my car and keep driving (after I give the location a one star review and note the ads)
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 2 weeks ago:
I just bought a 2012 as my ‘new’ vehicle because I don’t want to deal with any stupid tech issues like that
hell, I don’t even like standard traction control - if I press the accelerator, I want the wheels to get power. I’ve been stuck slowly crossing in the middle of an intersection too many times because ESC ‘helped out’ and cut power to the wheels. no mf just spin them until they get to the hard surface below the snowslush
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 2 weeks ago:
auto high beams do not work every time.
I am routinely blinded by them when people drive through my neighborhood at night and I’m walking my dog, or when I’m biking to the store. and this is in a neighborhood with street lights where high beams are completely and utterly not required in the first place at 40 km/h.