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- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 1 week ago:
Petroleum jelly would work, but it’s not intended for consumption. If you do want petroleum products intended for consumption that will do exactly the same thing, get some mineral oil
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 2 weeks ago:
Ah ok, I must’ve bought the marketing haha. I remember their whole schtick with the 9 and 10 was the “brand new AI chips” for “better performance and privacy”
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 2 weeks ago:
If you’re looking to switch to graphene, you’re limited to the google pixel line, which isn’t a bad thing imo. Older models can be had for cheap, and they have good specs.
I’m on a pixel 6 right now and it’s served me well. I’d recommend buying a 7 and up though, as the 6 is nearing the end of its support (I think graphene will support it for a few more years but I’d double check that before buying one). But a standard pixel 7 can be had for ~$150usd so not a bad call. The pixel 9 and 10 have AI chips in them so if that’s a deal breaker for you, you’re limited to the 7 and 8 (both still good options). And if you do move to graphene it kinda nullifies the whole AI chip thing anyway.
The default media player on pixels are kinda ass, however. They work fine, but the UI is janky. But there are plenty of media player apps available both on the playstore and through alternatives like f-droid. You can also find cracked versions of most “premium” apps pretty easily online. So if you find a media player you like, but it has ads or some other garbage, you should be able to find a cracked version with little hassle.
And completely unrelated to switching phones, if you’re able to add a private DNS into your wifi settings like I can do on my pixel, you can add base.dns.mullvad.net to the private DNS box and it’ll take care of 99% of ads (can’t speak for youtube specifically) on your phone
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 2 weeks ago:
If you’re on android, revanced is pretty easy to get up and running, it takes the place of the YouTube app you already have installed so no worries about your limited storage space either
- Comment on On dasher! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 5 weeks ago:
Most of the time I’m sauteing an onion before I even know what I’m gonna make
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 1 month ago:
Binging limmys show will fix that for you
- Comment on 每次拉屎都尿尿但不是每次尿尿都拉屎。 1 month ago:
Jokes on you, I peed 10 minutes ago but now I have to poop
- Comment on If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour? 1 month ago:
Google says the potassium in bananas emit beta and gamma radiation. No idea what that means but there ya go
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 2 months ago:
Post that hog
- Comment on Interview With the Sandwich 2 months ago:
That isn’t a po’boy. I am triggered
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 2 months ago:
I mean sure but… did you read the piece linked? It backs up it’s claims. Not gonna sit here and act like I verified every single thing linked in the piece but I checked a good handful and it seems pretty straightforward. FUTO is pretty sketchy at the very least, and there’s good reason to consider them a fascist org
- Comment on What a welcoming party 3 months ago:
I watched the what we do in the shadows movie on mushrooms, wouldn’t recommend. I don’t like horror though so ymmv
- Comment on Girls 3 months ago:
I’m in school for respiratory therapy and we learned about laplaces law as it relates to alveoli in the lungs. What are the typical applications of laplaces law? Just wondering because I’m drawing a blank on other ways it could be/is used
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 3 months ago:
The elements of fascism could be construed as a childish/immature perception of reality, where the performance/aesthetics of maturity (particularly as perceived by chauvinistic men) is paramount. The examples listed in this post speak to uniformed (i.e childish) views on power, masculinity, and justice. These topics, among others, are sticking points of every flavor of fascism.
I’m not necessarily saying that this means the american population is immature, but our current fascist regime utilizes these tropes (among other elements of american culture) in their rhetoric, propaganda, and policy decisions to influence the population in pursuit of fascist ends.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 3 months ago:
We already have a word for that phenomena, it’s called fascism
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 4 months ago:
Is there a “torrenting for absolute tech illiterate morons” guide out there?
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 months ago:
Agree on the rugs but motorcycles are more of a “I hate people” thing. I’m an EMT that dailies a bike and tons of my coworkers ride too
- Comment on 451 error on Lemmy.zip media? ("Unavailable due to legal reasons") 5 months ago:
I’m having the same problem
- Comment on Uhm 5 months ago:
Are you a hyena OP?
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 5 months ago:
Most modern flat roofs (at least in my neck of the woods) aren’t actually flat. They’re at an incredibly shallow pitch. In residential applications (after underlayment) we use high density foam slats that get put together in a grid formation, each piece gets slightly narrower on one end until they can properly fit under a piece of bird stop around the fascia. Before the bird stop goes on, the foam is sealed with a waterproof self adhering material that comes in huge rolls. When properly installed, they can last 15-30 years. Just as long, if not longer, than any shingle roof. There’s also high density polyurethane foam flat roofs that can be sealed and are able to last up to 50 years. Many commercial operations use these methods as well as hot tar mopping, which can basically last forever. The one drawback to flat roofs is load bearing difficulties in places that snow. I don’t know much about that but seeing as flat roofs are everywhere in the north too, it must not be too difficult to work around.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good tile roof too, but there’s plenty of beautiful structures with flat roofs out there. And tile has considerable draw backs as well. Tile is incredibly heavy, they’re very fragile, they’re ludicrously expensive, and they’re expensive to maintain.
On the rain, no roofer is working in the rain, and tile roofs are vulnerable to rain during construction too. When it’s down to the plywood, you’re as likely to have rain troubles as any other roof. You can lay shingles and foam for flat roofs when you’re dried in too, but no one will if it’s more than a drizzle. Tile becomes an active danger in the rain because most tiles get really slippery in the rain
Replacing broken tiles is a bitch and a half, you have to carefully dance between tile joints and one slip of your foot (which is likely during repairs because tiles are slick and can become moldy/slimy when not maintained properly) you’re likely to break another tile, leading to more work and more chances of another broken tile. Even the process of removing a broken tile can break the tiles surrounding it
Tile in general is really finicky, high maintenance, and requires unique tools, methods, and skilled laborers that are capable of doing the work. That is by no means a bad thing but it’s really easy to get a flat roof that does the job perfectly fine. Tile, not so much
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 5 months ago:
Yeah but we automated the confidently incorrect idiot and every massive corporation is pushing the robo-idiot as a friend, confidant, tutor, assistant, and trustworthy source of accurate information. I’d rather have the confidently incorrect human than the lifeless simulacrum of one
- Comment on I could use some serious advice as to whether or not to do this 5 months ago:
What kinda coffee are you drinking?
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 5 months ago:
Don’t forget your protest lotion!
- Comment on xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres 5 months ago:
And you’re a fuckin nerd lmao
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 5 months ago:
Check out dankpods, he does (among other things) reviews of mp3 players. A lot of modern DAPs are catered toward audiophiles so expect to pay a premium if you want something new. He still uses and recommends old iPods. You can mod them to have expanded storage and better battery life if you feel like tinkering too
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 5 months ago:
If you want to support local business, you could dig through some crates at a record store. Most shops have metric shitloads of CDs on the cheap. Idk if lossless audio is a big deal to you but that’s a surefire way to get lossless files too
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 5 months ago:
Unless a “battery takes a shit” update comes out around the same time your battery takes a shit
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 5 months ago:
I replaced my battery in my pixel 6 late last year and I noticed my battery life took a shit recently. I thought I got a bad battery or something and was considering replacing it again
- Comment on crypto investment 5 months ago:
I probably could’ve bought a house if I’d held onto all the btc that I spent on the silk road lol
