Know_not_Scotty_does
@Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
- Comment on Modded Consoles saved my retro gaming experience... 8 hours ago:
What did you use on your 360? I am about to install project stellar on my og xbox and was looking for something similar for the 360.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You should check comment history before making accusations like that, otherwise you look uninformed.
- Comment on Protein bar 4 days ago:
60mph, no hands on the wheel, no eyes on the road, but they are right about the cheese.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 days ago:
The containerized strikes Ukraine has done from inside russia have been particularly scary. They basically setup manufacturing cells in country, built the drones, drove to the launch sites, and launched with no one noticing. The U.S. has minimal counters to those types of attacks assuming you don’t catch them in advance. There have been reports for years about drones entering sensitive restricted airspace and just kind of flying around until the operators decide to leave.
When you start getting into ballistic missile defence and the larger one way drones, you realize that a proper coastal defence or even hvt defence on the homefront is woefully inadequate. I won’t say we need to spend more on that stuff because to do it properly would be in the high trillions. I will say we should be able to develop and field that tech in reasonable numbers given our current military spending. Buuuuuuuut, the best way to avoid needing that is to not be a country that everyone hates…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 days ago:
The U.S. military really needs a wakeup call about drones but I think when that happens, its gonna be real bad news for wherever it came from or the scapegoat for it. To be clear, even in light of this, I don’t want to see people killed, on either side of this but the preparation that the U.S. military has for a drone war is woefully inadequate.
Look at the action taken against Iran, that’s a biiiiiiig deal too. Short of a nuke, there isn’t a much more exotic strike package than what was used against them.
- Comment on How many of you are using everdrive? 1 week ago:
Seconded. I have snes x6, gba mini, gbc, and 64x7. They all work great. Mine were picky about which SD card I used but once setup, they have been excellent.
Getting the save setup figured out on the n64 cart was a little weird especially adding in the Analogue 3d to the mix but once I figured out the cart sizes its been fine. I just save everything onto the everdrive now.
I 100% recommend them. The support from Krikizz is excellent to boot.
- Comment on Confirmed functional EverDrive SD cards 1 week ago:
I tried a couple of PNY cards without luck, post up if it does. Mine were the 64gb ones.
- Comment on Ska ftw 1 week ago:
None of these are stereotypical but I think I covered part of the range.
The Science of Selling Yourself Short, Less than Jake
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 1 week ago:
I loathe newly purchased towels, they always feel like they don’t dry well for a while. I typically wash/swap every 4 or so days. We also “strip” our towells with a deep clean like every couple months.
- Comment on Confirmed functional EverDrive SD cards 1 week ago:
General Kenobi!
- Comment on Confirmed functional EverDrive SD cards 1 week ago:
I’m a big fan. Great hardware and super fast support. Krikizz’s work getting the 64 running for the analogue 3d was very fast and very well communicated.
- Comment on Confirmed functional EverDrive SD cards 1 week ago:
Yeah, mine were super picky about which worked and which didn’t. Not sure why, they were all formatted properly. Just following up on my precious post.
- Comment on Confirmed functional EverDrive SD cards 1 week ago:
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- Comment on GBA Everdrive Pro 2 weeks ago:
That’s cool as hell, if I didn’t already have the base gba version I would jump on it.
- Comment on YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner 3 weeks ago:
Solvent does not remove rust.
You degrease the part, then manually remove the rust, then clean with the solvent just before welding. Acetone or alcohol are better cleaners for weld prep than brake cleaner. These solvents are volatile enough that most of the time, the part is dry and not-flammable by the time you get your gear on and are ready to weld.
The really damaging thing here is not the fire but if you use chlorinated brake cleaner when welding it created concentrated chlorine gas and will kill you.
Welding produces a ton of nasty fumes and you should ALWAYS be wearing a welding rated respirator and using a fume extractor when welding, especially with flux core, galvanized, or stainless unless you want extra nasty cancer.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
How long until the forks get deprecated? Is that even a possibility? I don’t really know what goes into making this but I would imagine if it depends on some chunk of the mozilla source code, eventually it will be out of sync with the major releases or current browser standards. What does that mean for the TOR browser since its based on firefox right?
I ask that as someone moving from firefox to libre/waterfox.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was mostly addressing the immediate reason. The historical ones are way more complex as you mentioned. Now, you have to overcome suburban sprawl and hostile urban development where everything is spread out, requiring a car to use as a direct result of our past shitty choices/lobbying efforts.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 4 weeks ago:
Switching to something new usually inherently costs money. (Capital expense) If you are scraping by, you can’t afford another $500-$1000 a month car payment for a new car.
The option to convert an older already paid for internal combustion vehicle basically requires another $10k minimum, not including any regulatory stuff and that would be parts cost alone, no labor. Add to that regulatory/local registration issues with the diy route and you basically bake continued demand for fossil fuels into the system.
You can mitigate some of that by doing public transportation but you have to have a functional system AND an public that wants to use it.
This basically means that a large portion of the population who won’t/can’t buy new EVs. Is stuck using gas vehicles until you get lower cost used EVs. The problem there is that they are expensive to repair and NOT diy friendly. Add to that battery deg and lower reliability (in general see used teslas) and people are scared to buy used EVs.
Its a pricing problem that we have not gotten around yet. The subsidies helped but weren’t enough to get more people in. Couple that with a bad economic situation where people are holding onto their older stuff for longer and you basically get only progress on the higher income side while lower income brackets have to still use their gas vehicles which means the producers keep producing and supplying to a captive market.
- Comment on In place 4 weeks ago:
Very nice, what did you use for the counter?
- Comment on Ah, to have multiple console emulators in a single portable device 4 weeks ago:
Where did you order it?
- Comment on Chimes 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
I bought the Emby lifetime license about 2 years ago when the plex remote streaming stuff first started getting talked about. It coincided with my server refresh so it ended up working out. I have been really happy with Emby so far.
One thing to note is that music streaming on remote devices is WAY better on plex, Emby behaves more like a mapped network drive running over the internet to a local music player that then forgets your position on pause or when you move away from the remote app/device whereas Plex is actually functional as a modern music player. I keep a local copy of my music library on my phone anyways and okay through Gonemad so it is a non-issue for me but Emby should work better than it does in that case.
Plex also allows/provides “live” tv (with ads) which can be nice if you are into that, and there is the “free” streaming library too which Emby doesn’t offer. I’ll keep plex around for those features but non-of my stuff is/will be hosted on Plex.
- Comment on Day 498 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, you aren’t really supposed to layer packages they want to use something like distrobox or similar. I know some things basically have to be (I am fighting with openjdk) but that is where 99% of my issues on bazzite came from. I started just spinning up a vm to run all my random bullshit that required layering in and its been solid ever since.
- Comment on Console(s) to TV 1 month ago:
There is also a dongle for the SNES that works the same but requires usb power. It works well.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 1 month ago:
Oh look, another example of a product that worked fine without internet connectivity and was improved by adding extra bullshit you don’t actually need that then gets worse when those features can’t function properly because their server is offline.
We got a basic roomba 650 (the one that crashes into stuff and randomly cleans) like 10 years ago and it still works fine (well, as well as it ever worked which wasn’t great), you program the time and day of the week with physical buttons, and leave it alone.
- Comment on YSK: Your local library card often gives you free access to streaming services, digital magazines, audiobooks, and even online courses. 1 month ago:
You can often also checkout cd’s and dvd’s.
Completely unrelated but did you know you can rip your own dvd’s and cd’s to your computer as a backup in case the physical disc gets damaged? The process is quite simple.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 month ago:
Good question, I got an ad on my fucking banana the other day…
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- Comment on "BYOSB, bring your own seat belt" (Snakeybus) 1 month ago:
I love Snakeybus. It is a fantastic game to zone and chill to.
