Trainguyrom
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- Comment on Horror 4 days ago:
Sounds like you’re vaguely describing a ground effect vehicle, basically a plane which coasts along the water. They’re more efficient than actually flying due to exploiting the ground effect on the lift surfaces, but ultimately it’s closer to a plane than a boat
- Comment on Late 1900s 2 weeks ago:
My local classic rock station classifies “classic rock” as released >25 years ago. They play Green Day fairly regularly now
- Comment on You're* 2 weeks ago:
I believe getting fucked is in fact the intention
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 2 weeks ago:
The sad thing is Roku’s UI was pretty dang good before they added a row of ads at the top, a half screen ad on the left and replaced the background with an ad every 2 weeks, waiting a full minute for it to load the latest nonsense the highest bidder paid them to shove in my face. The ads absolutely ruin a good platform.
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 2 weeks ago:
That’s literally what the representative from the charity said they did in the linked article
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 2 weeks ago:
My last go-around with Linux gaming was pre-steam deck. I think it ended around 2018ish? So it’s been long enough I should probably give Linux a real try again sometime
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 2 weeks ago:
However, Linux still lacks some popular applications, such as Microsoft Office and Slack, though alternatives are available.
Lol nice bait. Real talk though, just toss shortcuts to word.office.com, excel.office.com and outlook.office.com on the desktop and nobody will be any wiser
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Generally the best option is for all property taxes for education to go into one pot to by divided up fairly across all school districts in the state, that way wealthy areas don’t end up with over funded schools while rural areas and poor areas get poorly funded schools
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
It’s more like a tax, you choose to purchase land from the city, and in exchange you must pay the city annually for the privilege of owning the land, and if you don’t for long enough the city might seize the land from you. Could even call it a property tax…
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
You’re right! I finished Sourcery like 6 months ago and have read a bunch of other books since then so my memory was kinda foggy. But that’s exactly it, the magic exists and can be powerful but it’s simply more trouble than it’s worth
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
I think you might have responded to the wrong comment?
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 4 weeks ago:
This is the one thing I really appreciated about the Discworld books on a recent re-read. The wizards are hilariously incapable of doing anything useful. Terry Pratchett doesn’t give a super clear series of rules for the magic system but it’s abundantly clear that the wizards are incapable of actually useful magic, and mostly just get too tired up in internal power struggles to ever do anything. And in the book Sourcery, the first sourcerer (one who can create new spells) to grace the disc takes over the world, realizes running the entire world is too stressful and tedious then creates his own pocket dimension to play with magic in instead (I’m oversimplifiing here, skipping over a bunch of interpersonal stuff related to a sentient wizard’s staff run by a dead guy who tricked Death among other details but that’s the general gist)
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
Honestly asking: what other way would anyone suggest to bring back outsourced manufacturing jobs?
The bigger question is “do Americans actually want these jobs?” According to the JOLTS surveys for the last several quarters there’s about 100,000 open manufacturing jobs that are not getting filled, in a labor market sized about 500,000. Simply put, it’s abundantly clear that people don’t want the manufacturong jobs that do exist
I also saw this from the inside when I worked my last job with a company that does contract cleaning services for industrial facilities. Nobody wants to work industrial sanitation, and they end up primarily hiring immigrants and ex-convicts as they’re the only people desperate enough to take these industrial sanitation jobs. And it’s not for lack of pay or benefits, the fact is the nature of the work sucks!
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
He’s started adding exemptions. He just added one for the automotive industry following discussions with the big three auto makers. What if the tariffs were a grift all along? I’ll
This is exactly what they were the last time around. They poked so many holes in that tarrif policy it was a seive
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 4 weeks ago:
That’s more than I can afford to be donating right now
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 4 weeks ago:
First time my 3 year old saw The Lego Movie he got very upset at the part where they were falling at the end of the Wild West scene
- Comment on Can you actually suffocate to death from holding your breath? 4 weeks ago:
When my child started holding her breath when tantruming the doctor made sure to tell us not to worry and that if they manage to hold their breath until they pass out they’ll start breathing as soon as they go unconscious. Kids are wild
- Comment on I wish they'd stop calling themselves Conservatives 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 4 weeks ago:
Both WordPress and Ghost support federation to some degree, so that would also enable interaction via the Fediverse!
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 4 weeks ago:
Everyone I know who has a deck absolutely loves it
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 4 weeks ago:
Looks like Image
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 4 weeks ago:
Firefox also has SSO integration with M365! Last I tested it it was less clean than Microsoft’s but it does exist and work the last time I used it
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 4 weeks ago:
How would lemmy.ml being federated with lemmy.world affect how a user on sopuli.xyz sees content posted by a lemmy.ml account?
- Comment on Meow 5 weeks ago:
Both of my cats came from my in-laws farm and it’s been funny with the older of the two as she needed to learn from another cat how being friendly gets you pets and scritches, meanwhile the younger one who basically came inside as soon as she was on hard food hasn’t had that difficulty
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
I’ve noticed it definitely varies depending on how you access it. The web version is flawless as long as the software has the resources it needs to run (my server is slightly very over-provisioned and gets crazy IO delay pretty frequently from running too much on too little).
The official Android and IOS apps are pretty good but do glitch and hitch from time to time, but apps on other platforms are less perfect. Also the third party Streamyfin and Swiftfin apps both seem to work a bit better than the official one but have their own quirks to be aware of.
The Roku app only just got consistently usable around 3-6 months ago, and still prefers to crash without displaying an error when fed media it can’t direct play, and for some reason some user profiles just don’t work on it. I don’t have anything else to try other apps on but that’s my experience so far
I haven’t really used Plex so I don’t know how clean of an experience it provides, but Jellyfin is very usable and honestly at this point most of the problems I have are specific to my media or my setup and not so much problems with the software itself
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve learned from trans friends that we share some experiences of gender, because I generally don’t fit the traditional masculine model despite being a cis male. I remember being interested in “girly” things as a kid and being frustrated that I wasn’t “supposed” to play with the toys that I wanted to I could see where in another life, with the right people saying the right things at the right times that could lead me to believe that I’m trans when I don’t actually seem to be
- Comment on lol 1 month ago:
I can’t remember off the top of my head what the specific series of events was with regards to the almost-losses by SVB going bust.
But one interesting thing that came out of that is banks immediately had the requirements for how much cash they were required to keep liquid increased significantly. The bank I worked at at the time immediately shifted into hard costsaving mode, and ultimately I lost my job with pretty short notice.
Banks have rules for how much of deposits they can invest vs keeping available to withdraw, as well as requirements for how much they must hold in assets compared to the value of their deposits. There’s also strict cybersecurity and workforce training requirements as well for banks, all enforced as requirements to receive FDIC insurance
- Comment on A balanced diet is important 1 month ago:
The sad thing is I work at a small office with a half dozen nerdy dudes in their late 20s/early 30s and that is literally how all of them eat.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if it varies by monitor but I’ve encountered plenty of monitors professionally where I could not tell the difference between the VGA or HDMI input, but I can absolutely tell when a user had one of the cheap adapters in the mix and generally make a point of trying to get those adapters out of production as much as possible because not only do they noticably fuck with the signal (most users don’t care but I can see it at least) but they also tend to fail and create unnecessary service calls
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
VGA and DVI honestly were both killed off way too soon. Both will perfectly drive a 1080p 60fps display and honestly the only reason to use HDMI or Displayport with such a display is if that matches your graphics output
The biggest shame is that DVI didn’t take off with its dual monitor features or USB features. Seriously there was a DVI Dual Link with USB spec so you could legitimately use a single cable with screws to prevent accidental disconnects to connect your computer to all of your office peripherals, but instead we had to wait for Thunderbolt to recreate those features but worse and more likely to drop out
