sbeak
@sbeak@sopuli.xyz
Hi, I’m sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.
- Comment on 3 hours ago:
on Linux, definitely Okular. If you use Windows, SumatraPDF is pretty good.
- Comment on Weird green shadow when playing Paper Mario TTYD with RetroArch + Dolphin 3 days ago:
nice that worked! The docs said to download the “Sys” folder from the git repo of dolphin, and that fixed all my graphical issues! Paper mode no longer makes a giant shadow! Interestingly, now I can use 60hz mode instead of 50hz
- Comment on Weird green shadow when playing Paper Mario TTYD with RetroArch + Dolphin 3 days ago:
I’ll check the wiki then, that’s a good idea. Makes sense that the cores are a bit behind on the standalone, since the developers have to port them to libretro and such.
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- Submitted 1 week ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 36 comments
- Comment on How long would it take for a ball rolling across the room to bounce off the wall and get back to you - but the room has a time traveling portal halfway through? 1 week ago:
what if the portal didn’t exist in 1969? The ball travels to 1969 and is unable to come back.
- Comment on How to get a new line in a post, but not two? 2 weeks ago:
Not sure about Android (but if you can swap out your keyboard entirely on Android, you probably can) but on iOS you can disable the double press to create a period! It’s in there with the keyboard settings next to the options to disable stuff like autocorrect
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 3 weeks ago:
It means that you can use more secure passwords rather than using easy to guess passwords. Using cloud based ones like Bitwarden means you have to trust the company hosting your passwords to not screw up and suffer from a data leak. I think Bitwarden is pretty trustworthy, but I might be wrong on that one.
Alternatively, you could selfhost (with something like Vaultwarden) or just use something local like KeePass. For the latter, you can choose to sync with SyncThing if you want.
I personally use KeePass, but don’t use SyncThing.
- Comment on What makes a fart dry vs wet? 3 weeks ago:
I always thought it was the sound. A dry pop vs a wet squelch
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 3 weeks ago:
Today I learned that POTUS stands for “President of the United States”, never knew that before.
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 3 weeks ago:
Interesting, I learned something new today :D
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, Samsung’s new Fold 7 does seem to be very thin (and surprisingly keeps the same battery capacity with the Fold 6), and Apple Silicon has always been very good.
But things like larger camera sensors, ridiculously large SiC batteries, superfast charging speeds (Samsung does have 45W, which is probably enough for most people, but Apple unfortunately does not have fast charging…), and high-value budget to midrange phones (e.g. Nothing’s latest ones are awesome with clean software, and of course all the Chinese ones like Redmi, Oppo, Poco, etc. that usually have bloaty software) the big brands don’t really have anything that competes with the other smaller brands.
One comment already pointed out that Samsung would rather use their own sensor and are probably developing their own 1" sensor (as well has better sensors for the ultrawide and telephotos). A whole bunch say that the big brands usually play the long game and see how the latest tech develops before implementing it in their own smartphones. Another says that Apple and Samsung produce way more phones than the smaller brands so they have to wait for the tech to scale. So Apple and Samsung certainly have legitimate reasons to wait.
A bit off-topic, but I think it’s kind of crazy that Huawei and Xiaomi were able to develop their own cars. Pretty wild.
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 4 weeks ago:
just installed it, and it works great :D
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
if their phones go poofy it would be very bad
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
and microsd card slots. Pushing people to pay more for storage upgrades…
- Comment on it's just science 4 weeks ago:
uh oh.
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got LibreTranslate installed so don’t need another translator, but Mozhi seems pretty cool though :D
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
fair enough. It’s not very nice big tech, but they were never that nice to begin with
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 4 weeks ago:
update: I’ve installed forgejo! Super easy once I figured out I had to create a new user. I’ve set up a second origin for my repos called “local”, since it will be a nice local backup for all my code.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
I find it interesting that, of all companies, HMD was the first to adopt it (aside from Apple)
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
But for instance, let’s say Samsung adopts SiC batteries. Battery life would be much better, so more people would buy Samsung phones over Apple and it would be one less advantage for going for the smaller brands vs Samsung. Plus, if you had two-day battery life, when the battery inevitably degrades, you’ll still have solid battery life.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on it's just science 4 weeks ago:
no, roads would be soft and nice!
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
I would argue that everyone wants more battery life and most people would appreciate better cameras too. Cool tech is useful tech. There’s a reason why other companies are adopting it
- Comment on it's just science 4 weeks ago:
Imagine if all roads were made of soft squishy stuff like rubber or carpet…one can only dream…
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, Apple Intelligence really was half-baked. Apple be Apple I guess
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
In a nutshell, most of the promised features of Apple Intelligence wasn’t released on launch (notably, still no smart Siri), at first only things like image playground and note summaries.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 4 weeks ago:
Ah so things like Apple Intelligence being a staggered release
