GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 2 hours ago:
Thanks for the info!
- Comment on Best ‘simple’ budgeting app 6 hours 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? 2 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Like he did in Brazil, right?
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 2 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..." 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, that’s the more reasonable interpretation.
- Comment on AI driver: review of Mark Rober's LIDAR showcase 2 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. 2 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Printers always go brr.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 weeks ago:
Took me three tries to figure out what was happening, then I was sad.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 2 months ago:
This really does fall under two umbrella cautions. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and how are they making money? Suspicion was warranted from day one, especially if it was owned by PayPal.
Now, there are a lot of smart people on the internet who could have tracked all those messages and figured it out, like ultimately happened. I just wish they’d done it sooner.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 5 months ago:
I believe we can make a self-driving car with only optical sensors that performs as well as a human someday. I don’t think today is that day, or that we shouldn’t aim for self-driving to be far better than human drivers.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 5 months ago:
Land of the free and all that. Free from paid healthcare, a decent public education, a strong voice in government, an impartial justice system, employee rights… With all this freedom, it’s hard to imagine wanting to be anywhere else.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 5 months ago:
It has been know for at least a decade, I think, that the GSM chip could still contact cell towers while the phone was powered off. I’m sure its successor hasn’t lost that capability.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 5 months ago:
It worked for chickens…
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 5 months ago:
…fresh cloned bodies…
- Comment on Megaflopolis 5 months ago:
Keep on farming. Content has to come from somewhere!
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 5 months ago:
I’m not sure what your point is. It is completely orthogonal to mine. In the same vein, no, you aren’t responsible for other people’s choices, and yes, rabid dogs (or people who act like them) are unlikely to listen to reason. Neither of those are good reasons to start fights, and that statement neither says that all fights are avoidable or that one mustn’t defend oneself.