jballs
@jballs@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Just finished listening to the audiobook of The Martain and got me to thinking. 28 minutes ago:
I feel like if the Project Hail Mary crisis happened today, the response would be more like what happened in Don’t Look Up.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 6 days ago:
My stove won’t preheat, I guess because it’s a safety issue. Apparently you can set a remote start capability ahead of time that gets reset if you open the over door. But I’ve never tried it, since that seems like a lot.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 6 days ago:
I got new appliances a couple weeks ago and they’re all “smart”. Turns out a smart microwave just sends you a phone notification when it’s done. By default.
As someone with multiple people living in the house, I can confidently say this is the dumbest “smart” feature ever. Promptly disabled.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 1 week ago:
Still mad that they fucked up KSP2. I realize it was a different studio, but I’m not happy about it.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 week ago:
Which kind of blows my mind. Coal miners should love EVs. There was a story in the news a few years ago about how nice it was for the miners to help someone in an EV, as if they should be mortal enemies.
Non-EV cars don’t run on coal, they run on gasoline. EVs on the other hand can run on coal, natural gas, solar, wind, you name it - and still are more energy efficient than cars burning gasoline. In a sane world, coal miners would be throwing their support behind electric vehicles. The utility companies seem to understand this, but seems like the support hasn’t made its way up the supply chain.
- Comment on lik lik lik 2 weeks ago:
Wtf is a yiff? You know what, never mind.
- Comment on Dear Leader 2 weeks ago:
Same in the US.
- Comment on Too wordy a shitpost? 2 weeks ago:
Murphy’s Cat is my favorite
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 2 weeks ago:
Huh weird. I’ve got an account on .world and if I use that with Sync, posts don’t show get marked as read for me. Wonder what I’m doing wrong.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 2 weeks ago:
Really? Do posts show as read for you? Maybe Lemmy.world is still running an old version of Lemmy. Once sh.itjust.works patched to a new version 8 or 9 months ago, Sync became completely unusable for me.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
$$$
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
Not gonna lie, it brought a smile to my face when you were sitting in your house on a cool spring day, reading a somewhat plausible but lengthy story about a captivating subject. Then you got a slight suspicion that this story almost seemed too good. Too perfect for the situation. How could this random person on the Internet have such a great story about being a snake charmer, a stunt pilot, or whatever. Then it hits you just like when back in nineteen ninety eight the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been on sh.itjust.works for the last couple of years. The admins are cool as hell. Highly recommend.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
I know right?!
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
my neighbors are trekkies and Linux, as a fan of windows and star wars
Made this a couple weeks ago for you
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
Glad to be of assistance, homie
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
Lol one of the comments was:
first day on lemmy, and this is the shit i see right off the bat. I found my reddit replacement.
I felt exactly the same way
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
Lack of sports content is a bit of a rough spot for Lemmy. This is one of the few places where Linux memes get substantially more engagement than a super bowl thread.
Side note, the superb owl community here is pretty great.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
Lol same here. Jesus that whole site is atrocious now.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
Someone else suggested saying when all the 3rd party API supported apps stopped working - but there’s only so much room on a meme text box, ya know?
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 weeks ago:
I remember 2 years ago trying out Lemmy and getting a few laughs about beans and trying not to poop. I thought “this is ok, but I don’t think this will ever replace Reddit in my day to day.”
But I stuck with it and have come to love and appreciate Lemmy. The number of users has continued to grow and I feel like there’s enough content here now that I never feel bored. Plus I feel like even small posts and comments get attention and we’re not just screaming into the void.
So happy cake day to all who did the same thing!
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- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to hell for laughing at that
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 3 weeks ago:
Damn that’s interesting. I like how they walked through step by step how theu got the exploit to work. This is what actual real hacking is like, but much less glamorous than what you seen in the movies.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 3 weeks ago:
I remember thinking this was too notch graphics in 1992.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 3 weeks ago:
You’re the Internet?
- Comment on We don't have 4 weeks ago:
Lol had to look this up because it’s complicated.
flo.health/pregnancy/…/how-long-is-pregnancy
“Ovulation [when an egg is released from your ovaries ready for fertilization] typically takes place around two weeks after the first day of your last period, and this is when a baby would be conceived. But because you won’t know that you’re pregnant until you’ve missed your next period, approximately two weeks later, you’ll already be four weeks pregnant when you get your positive test result. At that point, you’ll have approximately 36 more weeks to go,” Dr. Celestine says.
So pregnancies typically last 10 months, but we say 9 months since you don’t even know you’re pregnant until you’re 4 weeks pregnant. But anti-abortion laws still count that 4 weeks.
- Comment on We don't have 4 weeks ago:
But doesn’t the 9 months of pregnancy technically start on the first day since a woman’s last period? That’s what makes anti-abortion laws even more absurd, because you can be 8 weeks pregnant if you only had sex 5 weeks ago.
- Comment on Living a lie 4 weeks ago:
It’s always a shock to me when I interact with someone providing customer service that is t using a customer service voice.
I was checking into a hotel (a large chain too) a while back and the person checking me in was having some trouble. She goes “sorry, this system is just retarded some times.”
I actually laughed out loud because it caught me so off guard.
