QuarterSwede
@QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
- Comment on I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range. 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range. 2 weeks ago:
These are what you’re looking for. They’re also temp selectable so you can dial it to 3000K (what my entire house is as well). They’re super dimmable and flicker free. These are the only bulbs that worked for problematic coach light fixtures for me. No more flicker even in cold weather.
- Comment on “Fly Me to the Moon” is a stupid song. You want to know what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars? Extremely unpleasant. 1 month ago:
We need more silly in this world, don’t we?
- Comment on Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for 1 month ago:
Lamb: “F&ck me, you’ve gone full Stockholm … Scrabble?”
- Comment on “Fly Me to the Moon” is a stupid song. You want to know what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars? Extremely unpleasant. 1 month ago:
Made me chuckle this morning. Of course the writer, Bart Howard, wasn’t being literal. I bet what’s really eating at you is how much money they’ve made on this song for nonsensical lyrics.
Great tune. 😜
- Comment on Production quality often has in inverse relationship to information quality in youtube videos 1 month ago:
On the flip side a lot of super informational videos do a poor job at conveying that information. That’s arguably as bad.
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy 1 month ago:
Absolutely nailed it.
- Comment on Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1 2 months ago:
The article is straight up BS. You can still run unsigned apps. The approval is just in a different place now.
- Comment on Castlevania Anniversary Collection free on Epic Games through 2024-11-21 2 months ago:
Now you tell me! Lol.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 months ago:
It’s always been trash …
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 months ago:
The big chains got worse since there is basically a cheese monopoly in the US and its products have gotten cheaper to produce and worse quality. The expensive pizza places are still great because they typically don’t source their cheese from them. Can’t remember where I read that.
Ex. Pizza Hit in the 80s was incredible pizza. It’s meh now.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 months ago:
That’s why they’re so pervasive, they work on the majority of people (that’s not us).
- Comment on Castlevania Anniversary Collection free on Epic Games through 2024-11-21 2 months ago:
You have to share your email address with Konami for marketing purposes but they do disclose this in an obvious way.
- Comment on Fingerprints on ancient terracotta figurines show men, women and children worked on figurines 2 months ago:
That is so cool!
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 2 months ago:
So Lada quality. Got it.
- Comment on Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating? 2 months ago:
GaN is newer technology and more expensive to manufacture. It can power laptops like anything else just in a much smaller package. I have a 65W GaN charger that charges my work laptop while on the go just as quickly as the official brick I leave in the office. You just need to pair it with a USB-PD rated cable that will handle the wattage your laptop requires. In my case, I ended up getting a 240W USB-C JSAUX cable. It’s stiff but does the job.
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 2 months ago:
I’ve been fired before. It honestly isn’t that bad unless you have absolutely shit financial practices.
- Comment on If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it. 2 months ago:
In many industries hiring for attitude over aptitude is the key to true success. Just wished that was what most did.
- Comment on Macross Game blasting onto Arcade Archives | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
That article is just plain hard to read with all the bold text.
- Comment on Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated due to 'repeated material breaches of Arm's license agreement' 2 months ago:
This definitely smells of Qualcomm being cheap. It’s got to be so bad that Arm has finally had enough. Wild.
- Comment on New Final Fantasy Cubic Memory Collectibles Bring Classic Game Screens to Life | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
About $22 currently plus shipping.
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 3 months ago:
Somebody’s been watching Picard.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 3 months ago:
If you haven’t read the hackaday comments I highly recommend you do. Some really great behind the scenes experiences people are posting. Super cool.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 3 months ago:
I was sold on laser the minute I had to print something after a month of not needing to and it just popped out before I could get to it (thanks for AirPrint/wifi printing). My old inkjet would’ve been dried up and had to be cleaned taking like 10 minutes and wasting paper. Yeah, laser is the only way to go.
We just print photos from Walgreens or Shutterfly if we need quality color photos. Super cheap and I don’t have to maintain the equipment. Although about the only photo printing we do these days is large for the wall on glass or canvas.
Our favorite photos are also displayed on our living room AppleTV’s screensaver. We just favorite them in the Photos app and they automatically show up. My parents are used to seeing our favorite photos from vacations when house sitting before we’ve even told them what attraction we’re doing. Best feature ever.
- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 3 months ago:
NES: Kickle Cubicle. Absolutely fun stage based action puzzler. Try it, it’s totally pick up and play.
- Comment on How to tell my actual internet speed usage? 3 months ago:
This is what got me. There are 5 of us in our household and all of us have devices. 500/500 is what I went with even though I could have 1Gb/1Gb. Most of the time 500/500 is faster than the servers we’re on. I don’t do a ton of download images or anything and we’ve never had an issue streaming 4K/gaming all at once so on it we sit. I just don’t see the point of moving to 1Gb. I’ll probably have to be forced onto it in the future. My service has 2.5Gb in places and is looking to go 10Gb at some point. That’s just completely unnecessary currently and would be a waste of money for most.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Great book.
- Comment on [rant] I want computers to become personal again 3 months ago:
Agreed, we’re living in the a computer/phone is an appliance age. This is also why there is a movement that doesn’t like electric vehicles. They’re just too accessible and they don’t like that. Same mentality here. The only main difference is of course there is librehardware out there AND software. Just about the entirety of Linux ecosystem is this. If one wants to tinker and make them personal all one has to do is build a home lab. Plenty of maintenance on one of those and it’s probably not affecting one’s day to day life.
- Comment on [Recommendation] Renowned Explorers: International Society 4 months ago:
Looks really fun. I added it to my wishlist. Thanks for the rec!
- Comment on Ladies and Gentlemen, the sate of AI. 4 months ago:
That’s a good summary. Google Gemini is no better. Type in a question and it starts off great but then devolves into other brands, other steps to do something that isn’t related to the thing you asked. It’s just terrible and someone will sue them over it next year. Just wait.