MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 4 days ago:
Am I the only one who watched the video, and due to nostalgia upscaling my memory, could hardly tell any difference other than frame rate.
I should go look at the normal game 😅
- Comment on USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25 1 week ago:
I think it’s wild that the increase has to be legislated each time, why not just give the responsibility of increasing it each year to a government agency which needs to follow legislation to set it (based on XYZ metrics)? This is how it’s done in many other countries.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 2 weeks ago:
This and the worse right-click menu make me dread the day I have to switch at work :/
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 2 weeks ago:
(Below is my opinion, I respect you have yours, and I’m not having a go at you. I just want to take part in the discourse friendo!)
To me, if they wanted to store it in my area by encasing it now (or, any time in like the last 40 years), I wouldn’t mind either.
The issue that isn’t fear-mongering that people continually overlook because of all the knee-jerking people lamenting that it’s “unsafe”, is that we then have to maintain containment for thousands upon thousands of years.
That’s the issue, permanent storage, not all the temporary storage that is happening now.
Nuclear is not a great solution to immediately reducing emissions, in my opinion. Takes way too much capital and way too much time to get operational. Don’t close still operating plants, but damn, we need to be building the fastest shit possible, right now. Not something that takes a decade to build. We have solutions ready, governments just aren’t getting their act together and build it. Even if the business-case doesn’t make complete sense; we don’t have time.
Sand batteries, liquid air energy storage, lithium ion batteries, flow batteries, (plus a bunch of other contenders) they’re all immature technologies but they do work right now, anywhere, no terrain for pumped-hydro required. Sure they’re not very efficient, or have crap lifespan in the case of Li-ion, but solar plants literally aren’t being built in some places because prices go negative during the day, and plants are being curtailed.
We need to build storage, now, even if it’s not a silver bullet. And we can’t wait for expensive-as-fuck nuclear.
Someone should call me when we decide re-enriching spent nuclear fuel is fine and we can do nuclear waste recycling, actually getting our money’s worth. Or when thorium gets good.
My personal opinion conclusion:
- Nuclear waste is not immediately that concerning for safety, it’s the fact we’re signing up to store it for longer than recorded history.
- It’s expensive and takes to long to build
- The technology needed for the energy transition already exists
- Also agree, that turning off operating nuclear doesn’t make sense.
Thanks for reading, looking forward to hearing people’s thoughts.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s naive to think that the imperial core will stop with the needless wars simply because oil is no longer the hot commodity. There’s always perverse interests to use the military for power projection and resource control.
Under your current voting system, this will never change.
I for one, refuse to be shipped off in our generation’s tribute to America. Our government (Australia) is still the US’ vassal state.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the trick (maybe): “Don’t you know that WhatsApp is owned by Meta and collecting information on your chat metadata (who you chat to, when, your contacts, their contacts).”
Tell them to get Signal. If there’s any country on this planet where convincing people to use Signal is easier, it must be Germany. GMaps streetview was banned there until recently, everyone uses fake names on Facebook, if they even made one in the first place.
Surely they must be amenable to Signal
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
I just hopped to another launcher by total coincidence a couple of weeks ago. This is welcome news
- Comment on I have so many lists... 4 weeks ago:
This is fantastic
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
Loving spreadsheets isn’t something everyone with ASD loves, and I didn’t mean to imply that, just the hyper-fixated interest (8 hours) on a something which I personally happen to love.
- Comment on He's got a point 5 weeks ago:
I love spreadsheets (hey, we all have our weird interests) so at first thought this was an ASD meme.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility 5 weeks ago:
[x] Doubt
- Comment on My moon is in Silty Loam but my Sun sign is Clay. 1 month ago:
Not a programmer, but all this is is a representation of three columns of data in a table, plus a fourth for the label. Make a lookup table with 4 columns. Now make rows with the data in it, assigning the label for each.
This chart is just a nice way of representing 3 variables in 2D form. It’s just an XYZ graph in 2D.
- Comment on Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts 1 month ago:
100% Reddit astroturfing. It’s so unnatural
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
I’d argue that while we are much more diligent than other countries, and regulations are much stronger. The average person doesn’t pay nearly enough attention, and the fact the UV index isn’t required to be mentioned on weather reports, or as prominently or more prominently than the temperature, is a big oversight in my opinion.
I check the UV every time I go outside (other than when it’s died down over winter), just as you’d check the temperature, and I think it’s wild barely anyone else does.
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
The sun is still awful here, the ozone hole is still a thing.
But thanks world, at least I can go out for a solid 4.5 months of the year without worrying about the sun at all, and 6 of only needing to be somewhat careful. Not too shabby :)
- Comment on No tip 2 months ago:
Isn’t this straight up wage theft?
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
I’m sorry for my place of birth, and I’m sorry for liking the fact I don’t have to tip because of my place of birth, I guess?
This is just a strange internet interaction, but may I suggest not letting people you’re not a fan of them because of their nationality?
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
Tipping does still suck though, and the way it is in many states of the US, slow business literally means employees get paid less, which is pretty fucked.
Australia certainly isn’t perfect, and don’t let anyone tell you how great Medicare is here because it’s not what it uses to be and slowly but surely slipping into private health insurance hell due to its languishing, but heck, defensive much mate?
I am glad that I don’t have to deal with tipping. Tipping is trash and seemingly many Americans agree it’s trash.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
Taxes and fees should included in the price, in civilised countries anyway. That sounds like such a pain.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
The difference is that on slow nights, staff get paid less, which is fucked up.
The business needs to wear the cost, because they reap the rewards, which is the narrative capitalism supposedly is about.
Tipping sucks, I’m glad we don’t have it in Australia.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 3 months ago:
I had to use it on a work laptop briefly. It is still insane, when you run out of space it the apps then get put in this crappy overflow area.
You know what I used to be able to do? Make the taskbar 2, or even 3 lines. No more.
I’m staying on windows 10 for work as long as I can help it.
The “show more” menu on right click is absolute insanity. I right click files constantly, all day.
They’ve taken features away for seemingly no reason.
- Comment on Get to work, crackheads 3 months ago:
I mean, I agree people hating speed cameras is nonsense, just drive the speed limit! However, traffic calming is legit and makes the road a much safer place for pedestrians, and usually it’s by narrowing the road, not widening it.
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 3 months ago:
Is there a solid alternative that isn’t as prohibitively expensive as Proton? It’s like, stupid expensive, even for basic email service with very small storage
- Comment on These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories. 4 months ago:
Yeah, this is why in many countries, Australia included, part of parental leave is paid by the state (it’s at minimum wage), and the company isn’t required to pay anything extra (but must let you take leave).
Most employers however, are much more generous than this to attract talent.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value 4 months ago:
I never seriously used twitter (I probably have used it less than 10 hours total), but what really is stopping people from getting on mastodon? It’s the same thing, and is extremely easy to sign up for.
It’s right there, not that I have much of a desire to use it, but if people like twitter, is it just that not enough people are on it? Just the network effect?
- Comment on Legendary exit for a legendary creator 4 months ago:
I’m glad they reposted because I block all 196 communities.
- Comment on Can't remember the last time I wasn't tired 4 months ago:
I wish in English we said 19 o’clock out loud, and I’m not ashamed (even though I know it’ll never happen)
- Comment on Hits me right in the feels 4 months ago:
You do, they’re just extremely poorly applied and mostly undervalue weathly neighbourhoods and overvalue poor ones 👍
- Comment on Just a normal day 4 months ago:
I propose changing the O in jost to jast.
I reckon that’s closer to how we talk.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 4 months ago:
For killing someone? Causing someone’s death due to negligence is only worth a month of jail to you?