acosmichippo
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world
- Comment on The 49MB Web Page 5 days ago:
100%. i like using the top of the screen to mark my place in reading. sometimes i need to scroll back up and these headers completely fuck up my reading experience.
but luckily Reader View exists, so i usually just use that.
- Comment on What if glassmorphism and neumorphism had a baby? I redesigned my city-building game's menu window. 6 days ago:
just my opinion but i think i find the translucency distracting. If it were me i’d go back to an opaque menu, but with a less gemotric pattern and slightly lighter color so the menu buttons are easier to see.
- Comment on Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount 1 week ago:
being aware of the show doesn’t mean you understand a vague reference to one specific episode.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 1 week ago:
google fiber was a special case where they were introducing much needed competition to the nearly monopolized ISP market.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 week ago:
You don’t need PTO to USE balcony solar. You need PTO to export balcony solar to the grid. All this legislation does is allow you to use balcony solar for yourself, NOT connect it to the grid. If you want connect it to the grid you still need PTO.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 week ago:
Your link doesn’t mention anything about “balcony solar”.
It doesn’t matter. If you want to export power to the grid from anything at all, you must go through this process. If you wanted to export power from a hamster on a wheel you must apply for PTO.
Because the whole point is to make solar easier and more affordable?
of course, but not at the cost of safety and grid reliability.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 week ago:
not true, you still need to apply to the utility to export to the grid.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 1 week ago:
you can unilaterally connect your solar panels to the grid. you have to work with the utility to turn them up, and they require permits and passed inspections.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
projectors are not at all a practical recommendation. unless you take very drastic measures to set up your room like a proper theater, the picture quality will be drastically worse than an average TV.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
you can say that about literally any TV brand, this doesn’t help.
- Comment on U.S. startup nails flight test of a drone built for hypersonic speeds 1 week ago:
Drone should be reserved for small and cheapish uavs.
why? drone is not a specific term either.
- Comment on 'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis 1 week ago:
could be cheaper than enterprise grade DIMMs.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
just typical /r/technology apple hating.
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 2 weeks ago:
i thought the same, but now working at a place using google/slack isn’t much better.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 3 weeks ago:
implement age verification on games with loot boxes. watch sales crash. stop implementing loot box funded games.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 3 weeks ago:
yeah at the very least it signaled their intentions.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 3 weeks ago:
If you are ever on a road trip and go by a Wawa gas station, stop and get their soft pretzels. buy as many as you can and freeze them for later.
The german grocery store Lidl also has decent soft pretzels.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 3 weeks ago:
xbone was the beginning of the end. when the enshittification kicked in before we had a word for it.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 3 weeks ago:
Technology could be part of it. For example, handwriting notes is proven to be better for information retention compared to typing.
- Comment on Everyone is stealing TV 4 weeks ago:
and D) I’m not going to give money to institutions like cable TV where a percentage of my money ends up with Fox News, or Paramount whose ownership is in bed with Trump, or Amazon and Bezos for obvious reasons. Go on down the line.
- Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors 4 weeks ago:
not hundreds of thousands. they are too expensive to be that common.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 4 weeks ago:
are you saying people who are not good at writing notes during a lecture would be good at typing notes during a lecture?
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 4 weeks ago:
also counterproductive, handwriting is better for retention.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 4 weeks ago:
that’s not the only issue, it’s also just a plainly worse design that will likely lead to lots of broken screws and bits.
- Comment on Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents 5 weeks ago:
don’t “reader” views in web browsers essentially accomplish the same thing?
- Comment on Trump FTC wants Apple News to promote more Fox News and Breitbart stories 5 weeks ago:
and here i thought busineeses had freedom of speech and the absolute right to control what appears on their platform.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 5 weeks ago:
Fundamentalist christians are typically zionist because the existence of the state of Israel is necessary for the second coming of christ. It’s entirely self serving.
But that doesn’t automatically mean they’re pro-Jew 100% of the time. They are still often antisemitic in other contexts.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 1 month ago:
for half a day yeah, minus clouds etc. they want to use orbits where they can catch 24 hours of sun.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 1 month ago:
am i crazy or don’t most articles already have perfectly good summaries? i dont even buy the premise here.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 1 month ago:
This is crazy. Articles already start with perfectly good summaries. look at your example:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
the very first paragraph is this:
World War II[b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Alliesand the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world’s countries participated, with many nations mobilising their resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of over 60 million people. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were put on trial for war crimes.
The minutia is there if you want, but it’s not necessary if all you need is the summary.