GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 2 days ago:
The lacy top makes it a lot less ambiguous. Also, the ties in OPs image look like spidey swinging towards you while the ones in your link really do not.
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 2 days ago:
This shirt looks old, but I’ve never seen it before. Reddit has let me down again. Thanks Lemmy!
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 3 days ago:
Love that “disruptive” is a valid term for companies like that.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 1 week ago:
Lol this is the typical takeaway. A better result would be to not engage in illegal practices and then it doesn’t matter if you put it in writing, but that’s not how you become a billionaire.
- Comment on Fossify File Manager: Open Source Replacement to Files by Google on Android 1 week ago:
Just checked it on F-droid. Last updated 13 months ago. This is a fork of another project whose creator walked back the FOSS stance of his projects. Forks were immediately produced, but no real work has been done. I’m using two of these apps, and have no real hope that they will be maintained in any meaningful way.
I’d explore these with caution, unless you’re looking for near-abandoned projects to adopt, in which case these may be worth your time to look into. What is there looks good, but without active maintenance it’s an encroaching storm of security risks.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how this works, but I checked your posting history and it didn’t show up there, either. I guess the great weakness of the fediverse is if the links are interrupted. Perhaps it was due to instance maintenance or something.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 week ago:
I’ve been cheated!
Could not find post in your instance.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 week ago:
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the info!
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 2 weeks ago:
I feel like you meant to reply to another comment. Were you referring to Moneymanager EX?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
I have a Win11 laptop for work, and they changed the Start menu. Now it’s recent apps and recommendations for your starting point, and you have to click an option to see installed apps. Every. Time. There is a setting with 3 options - more recently used apps, more recommendations, or an even split of both, but the option to go straight to installed apps is mysteriously missing…
I will never install Win11 directly onto my hardware. If I have to use it, it will go into a VM of one flavor or another.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 3 weeks ago:
If you haven’t seen her other posts, I’d jump on her profile and read it. There are 7 more of these out there!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 3 weeks ago:
As a Voyager user, the image load takes a looong time, but everything scrolls smoothly (except for the text jumping as images load).
- Comment on Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest 5 weeks ago:
Like he did in Brazil, right?
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 5 weeks ago:
This is fairly inaccurate, as well. Paid work was certainly lower, but prior to the Industrial Revolution merely putting clothes on your back was a fairly labor-intensive task. One estimate puts it at 10 spinners to supply one person on a loom, and this work was often done by women at home, and was generally paid work in the Middle Ages. A British census in the mid 1800s, which over-represents unpaid work in domestic services as laborers (I’ll let you decide if that counts as women being part of the economy or not), still had about 50% of women in the census as employed.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 5 weeks ago:
The definition of terrorism usually runs along the lines of, engaging in acts to cause fear for the purpose of achieving political goals. So, stalking someone isn’t terrorism, but sending pictures of a politician in various locations with crosshairs drawn on them saying you will follow through unless/if they do x would be.
Now, the question becomes, are these arsonists setting fire to Tesla vehicles and showrooms because they want Musk to stop his political antics or because Musk is a giant asshole? I honestly think you could get reasonable doubt on that, provided you actually had a fair trial and weren’t dropped in a deep, dark hole somewhere.
- Comment on AI driver: review of Mark Rober's LIDAR showcase 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes, that’s the more reasonable interpretation.
- Comment on AI driver: review of Mark Rober's LIDAR showcase 5 weeks ago:
There was a story of where a deer was hit by a Tesla in FSD and didn’t even slow down. If it can happen to a deer it can happen to a person, and LIDAR would be a lot less likely to in either case.
- Comment on Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, with Meta's market share rising to 84%; Vision Pro shipments fell 43% QoQ in Q4, but its enterprise sales grew. 5 weeks ago:
The Index is pretty old and expensive. I’d love to have it, but there are also third-party headsets that are Index-compatible that are quite impressive.
- Comment on Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation 1 month ago:
8600 from 4 dealerships in 3 days, or 12 dealership-days. So, about 700 per dealership per day on average. Theb1200 in one day is likely the max, which is typical for these kind of statements.
- Comment on Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation 1 month ago:
Yes, keep on reminding people how much better Canada is. And , unlike oil, this kind of better can’t be exported by invading.
- Comment on How can I host a small api/database accessable from a phone app as cheap/easily as possible? 1 month ago:
I’m not sure of the availability guarantees, but Oracle and other cloud services have free tiers for low CPU/RAM/storage needs. If the availability guarantees are there, this could be an option. It works fine for FoundryVTT and hasn’t cost me anything for the last couple years, and I don’t imagine your projected needs would outstrip Foundry’s.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 1 month ago:
Printers always go brr.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 1 month ago:
Took me three tries to figure out what was happening, then I was sad.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 1 month ago:
I don’t know how it’s done, but I know images can be inserted. On the plus side, posts, including titles, can be edited, so any failed image attempts can be removed. This post was already enjoyable, but I’m interested in seeing how much more enjoyable it could be.
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 2 months ago:
It’s surprising how well the Steam Deck plays new games and how much support has been added to older games for something with a form factor similar to the Switch and a price point that is lower than most computers or consoles with similar capabilities. It’s a big change to the cost/benefit calculation.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
Well, there were a lot of fundamental steps that had to be completed first, not least of which was a high pressure vessel. This all took a lot of materials science, advancement in seemingly unrelated fields, etc., etc. Not unlike fusion technology… The difference is we have 2000 years more advancement than they had when they invented the steam engine.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
It was about 1800 years between the first steam engine and a practical steam engine. I’m sorry that one or two generations is too long for you.
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 2 months ago:
Even solids are mostly nothing. This is why neutron stars are so dense - there is a lot less nothing between the neutrons, largely due to gravity.
Here’s another way to think about it. A gas is like a bunch of balls bouncing around a room, hitting the walls and occasionally each other. A solid is like a ball pit, but the balls are vibrating. There is still a lot of bouncing, but most of themstay together.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis 2 months ago:
There are two American rocket projects in the works that can carry a significant payload to the moon. One is using existing parts in a new configuration. It had one successful launch and cost $4B ($2.5B in launch costs alone). One is building a largely new system and improving existing elements and is estimated to have cost less than $2B so far, although it hasn’t reached the moon yet. That said, they have done 7 tests, at least 3 with a full configuration. How is that not better than the other option?
Also, you are acting like there are no fundamental advances happening in space engineering. Sure, the physics is pretty well-known, but the engineering problem of landing and reusing stages/rockets commercially has only been done since the Falcon series, so I think it’s safe to assume the technology and associated product lines is still maturing.
