DavidGA
@DavidGA@lemmy.world
Mastodon @davidga@mastodon.xyz
- Comment on Do you leave your consoles on? 4 weeks ago:
You know, when I quit Reddit I hoped I’d see less of this kind of hostile, insulting comment.
- Comment on To be rejected by a desk... 1 month ago:
Why is there a chair back behind him when he is clearly standing up?
- Comment on Hideaki Itsuno Departs Capcom After 30 Years in Gaming | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
Did you get ChatGPT to write this?
- Comment on Anyone else feel like their blood is kind of vibrating? 3 months ago:
The sensor noise would be distributed evenly, and not clustered around the rod like bees.
- Comment on Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform 6 months ago:
It is shocking that they waited this long.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 7 months ago:
Lemmy is a federation of servers. “Lemmy” is not one political group with one viewpoint. If you’re looking for different viewpoints, try different groups, or different servers.
In another comment you said this about the comments you read:
they’re made in bad faith
I don’t think this is true. I think that what you think is “bad faith” is actually “people who disagree with me”. So far, most users of Lemmy appear to trend politically left by American standards, but that’s only because American standards are so absurdly skewed to the right that it appears to stand out. By American standards, “truth” is left-wing.
Ask yourself what you’re actually looking for.
- Comment on We should count in base four 7 months ago:
Why not use “triple” for three, which actually does mean three.
- Comment on 8 bit era but with 3.5" floppy drive? 9 months ago:
3.5” disks were standard on the Acorn Electron, and optional upgrades for the BBC Micro and BBC Master.
- Comment on Any handheld consoles with parental controls? Mainly looking for timed sessions 11 months ago:
iPhones and iPads are not technically consoles but they do have very robust parental controls.
- Comment on Thoughts on fixing production mistakes in remasters? 1 year ago:
Both DVD and blu-ray support branching paths the user can select, so I guess, why not both? Let the viewer pick.
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
DoorDash “tips” are done before your food arrives, not after, and you can’t change them after you order.
They’re not tips, they’re bribes.
- Comment on Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain 1 year ago:
Am owner of 3-year-old model X. Can confirm. Build quality is shit, and service experience is worse. Will never buy another Tesla.
- Comment on 55 Years Later, Star Trek Finally Fixed Its Weirdest Canon Quirk 1 year ago:
Don’t post these kind of shit clickbait headlines.
I have 10 reasons why not, and number 3 will shock you.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x06 "Parth Ferengi's Heart Place" 1 year ago:
Of all the things I thought Star Trek would never reference, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was pretty high up there.
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 1 year ago:
What the hell are you watching that has a bitrate of >100Mb? Because unless you have a 16K television I suspect the answer is nothing.
- Comment on SpaceX Might Have Lost 200+ Starlink Satellites In Just 2 Months Shows Data 1 year ago:
Sure! I’d be happy to.
The satellites operate in an extremely low orbit. At the end of their life they are manually de-orbited. If they fail, they will naturally de-orbit themselves in just a few years. They contribute to “space junk” in no way.
The precise position of all the Starlink satellites is known, and space is much bigger than you appear to be imagining, so the network will in no way impede lauching rockets.
There is no need to simply make stuff up about Starlink. There are plenty of reasons to hate Elon without inventing things.
- Comment on SpaceX Might Have Lost 200+ Starlink Satellites In Just 2 Months Shows Data 1 year ago:
This is a complete non story. They have a design life of only a few years. They have already been replaced in orbit with upgraded ones.
Total clickbait.
- Comment on Britain is much more liberal-minded than it was 40 years ago, study finds 1 year ago:
Not surprising, but nice to see.
- Comment on iPhone 15 pre-orders up 10-12% on iPhone 14. 1 year ago:
…says “analyst” that doesn’t know how many pre-orders Apple has taken.
- Comment on The difference 1 year ago:
Because famously you can get Doom to run on things with a screwdriver.
- Comment on Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space. 1 year ago:
This is a common misconception, and it’s funny that people still believe it all these years later.
While it’s true that Windows 95 relied on MS-DOS for bootstrapping and provided a DOS-like interface for running legacy applications, it wasn’t “just a shell” on top of DOS. Windows 95 introduced a 32-bit multitasking environment, a completely new user interface, and a separate set of APIs for software development (Win32). It had its own kernel that provided services like memory management and hardware abstraction, separate from DOS.
The integration with DOS was mainly for backward compatibility, allowing users to run older software. But once you were in the Windows 95 environment, DOS was essentially sidelined, and Windows 95’s own features and architecture took over.
- Comment on The Guardian have quietly added a paywall 1 year ago:
Damn, just give them some money. Journalism is important.
- Comment on The Guardian have quietly added a paywall 1 year ago:
A headline with “quietly” in it is guaranteed to be clickbait.
“Quietly” means “They told everyone but we want you to be more outraged.”