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- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 2 days ago:
Yeah. They went from counting pixels by rows to columns. A 16:9 widescreen 1080 display is 1920×1080, and most manufacturers are happy to call 1920 “2K”.
- Comment on Condiment udders 5 days ago:
I’ve never seen these used for condiments, but I used to see these being used all the time on soap dispensers in workshops.
- Comment on The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started 1 week ago:
The YAVNXLT unit offers “elegant and productive for optimum serenity”, but the WZNGLPO says it can “bringing security for the family, business and happiness”.
- Comment on Fight me 1 week ago:
🤓 ACKSHUALLY
It’s not possible for a heat pump - or anything - to even be 100% efficient, let alone 400%. Efficiency is measure of how much of the input energy gets converted to useful output energy, and since heat pumps don’t actually create heat the useful output is the compressor’s ability to pump refrigerant about. The Coefficient of Performance - the ratio between energy put in and useful work done - is 400% for a heat pump (give or take).
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
When you’re not home it becomes part of the alarm system. When you are home it can turn on the lights or heating (or extractor fan in the bathroom) and you can aggregate it with other sensors to measure occupancy to turn those things off again. If you use Home Assistant (or something like it) you can use it to go anything that can be inferred from a door being used.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Don’t listen to him. Sure it may take a few hours a day over the course of a month or so to get right, but with the time you’ll save from all that automation you’ll break even in a few hundred years - and they it’s all gravy!
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 weeks ago:
You’ll pay through the nose, but look at digital signage panels. They are bristling with I/O, configurable to the nth degree, wonderfully over-engineered and utterly free from bloat.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 weeks ago:
A phone would be a bit much, but an ereader with a solar charger loaded up with Wikipedia and a chunk of Project Gutenberg would probably last with a bit of care.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 weeks ago:
That’s a joke-turned-plot element from one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide books. The protagonist, a human everyman stranded with a primitive culture on a distant world realises he has no idea how electricity, steam engines, medicine, etc works but he becomes a respected member of their community by making sandwiches.
- Comment on Dawg... 3 weeks ago:
So to be clear: there is no correlation between weed use and hotdog use, other than that they’re both in decline. This means that they created this graph showing two unrelated datasets for no reason other than that they could. Or, maybe, because they wanted to use the cursed image of a spliff in a hotdog bun.
- Comment on At 1% 3 weeks ago:
IF the phone can output enough power with it’s OTG port AND has the correct drivers for that cheap-ass looking USB framebuffer graphics thing AND that’s an active HDMI to VGA adapter rather than some shitty vendor-specific implementation based on some unholy bastardisation AND the phone supports external displays… then I still don’t think it’d work, tbh (but it won’t (it might though (it won’t))).
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
It’s called “eliminating competition”.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 3 weeks ago:
Every military in the world uses UTC so I’m gonna say that.
Otherwise, I’d go for UTC-1 because… well, look at it. There’s no way they could lose because there’s nothing there to lose. Nuke away, boyos, it’s all ocean.
- Comment on Why aren't those into bondage and S/M called "leatherosexuals"? 3 weeks ago:
Anyone else remember the B3ta newsletter? I mean, it’s still going, but still. Anyway, they ran a competition for a long time to get the work “bumsexual” printed in a newspaper. Not sure if anyone succeeded.
- Comment on Invest 🫘⤴️ 4 weeks ago:
I should eat nothing but breakfast food from now on.
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 4 weeks ago:
While this shit is permitted I don’t want to hear any Americans criticise another county’s cuisine.
- Comment on where to move for cheap VPS? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, me too. Two VPSs (one Helsinki, the other Nuremberg) each with a couple of IPs. Been running perfectly for years aside from when I fuck them up.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: DEGAUSS
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- Comment on Stolen from WallStreetBets 5 weeks ago:
Imagine having a multi-monitor setup like that and using the built-in d🤢sk st🤮nds.
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- Comment on Natural selection at work 5 weeks ago:
Some female humans also have pseudo penises and they’re dishwasher safe so checkmate nature.
- Comment on I get the rest of them, but what's a jobs sandwich? 5 weeks ago:
Choad chowder. Ramrod regiment. Anaconda assembly. Meatstick meeting. Phallic phalanx.
- Comment on Cable placement a little weird, but the ergonomics are excellent. 5 weeks ago:
Not quite fully vertical, but I got a Microsoft Sculpt Mouse ten years ago and it was an overnight improvement. I fear the day it finally gives up the ghost.
- Comment on You donkey 1 month ago:
Well, three days have passed and I didn’t think for a second I’d be into THAT of all things but, well, here we are. Thanks - appreciated.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 1 month ago:
The squat toilet is for pooping what the urinal is for wee. If you have really baggy trousers you don’t even need to undo your belt.
- Comment on Remember beans? 1 month ago:
Understandable mistake, but wrong. Here’s a documentary about Bilbo Baggins that might help.
- Comment on Remember beans? 1 month ago:
It’s beans. Remember beans?
- Comment on You donkey 1 month ago:
I didn’t know what Dimmu Borgir is but since were talking about food I have now convinced myself it’s a Middle Eastern take on the cheeseburger and I will not be told otherwise.
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 1 month ago:
“We’ve emailed a code to ••••••@••••••••m - you’ll need to enter it to continue.”
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 1 month ago:
Yeah, but it’s, like, super patchy and you keep having to redoing the captive portal bit.
- Comment on Aged like milk 1 month ago:
May we all inherit the world that we strive to create.
