Routhinator
@Routhinator@startrek.website
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 9 hours ago:
Try the Droidify app. I find it better than the main FDroid app.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 16 hours ago:
Can we edit it?!
- Comment on Jell-OH MY GOD! 1 day ago:
Dessert goatse
- Comment on Signs that rhyme 5 days ago:
Looks like it was a combo of both, reading about it further. www.rd.com/…/americans-british-pronounce-zee/
Regional dialects at first, but then the dictionary declared it the official pronunciation and shortly after the song was produced, which would have spread the use from being regional and encouraged homogenization
- Comment on Exclusive: Rebecca Romijn On The ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Cast Learning Show Will End With Season 5 5 days ago:
And at least they aren’t being cut so fast that the last episode will come out as Riker playing on the holodeck just as the show was getting into the good stuff.
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 5 days ago:
whistles X-files tune
- Comment on Signs that rhyme 5 days ago:
Americans used to pronounce Z the same as the rest of the world until someone wrote the ABC song and decided it needed to rhyme with V, and then an entire generation grew up saying it wrong and it stuck. At least that is what I’ve heard in Canada.
It’s also why there is a Canadian version of Sesame street where the last verse doesnt rhyme because up until the late 90s our TV censors used to straight up nope things that would cause kids to be confused about how things should be pronounced.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 6 days ago:
Pan fried shawarma is something Im still trying to get used to. The Lebanese Shawarma places in Ottawa all stack the chicken on a stick rotisserie and it is cooked exactly like the lamb or beef kebabs, they then slice thin portions off of it just the same.
It wasnt until I moved out west that I ever saw Shawarma done any other way, and everything out here has been disappointing by comparison.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
…and yet people not only believe this crap but try to pass it off as science.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
I respect your opinion, but I lived through 90s computing and think dongles died the death they deserve and these phone manufacturers can go to hell for bringing them back or thinking that bluetooth audio is good enough.
Additionally most of the droids I have bought that have a jack are the perfect thickness in my mind. Weighted enough to stay in my hand and take a couple dozen drops without accident. Plus the headphone jack is used as an antenna and provides radio capabilities so I can listen to local news instead of whatever the tech industry wants to feed me. Which is a nice option.
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 3 weeks ago:
What’s for dinner tonight mom?
Unborn chicken.
- Comment on Make dinosaurs weirder 3 weeks ago:
Relevant. youtu.be/xaQJbozY_Is
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 4 weeks ago:
It is, but it requires GPlay to operate and maintain your sub.
I switched to Subtracks when I dumped Google.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 5 weeks ago:
I have to comtend with 70-80 year olds doing 30km in an 80 while swerving across the midline because they saw a bird across the street.
- Comment on So close! 1 month ago:
Many people have FODMAP sensitivities and confuse them for gluten.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 1 month ago:
Man I miss Webrings.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 1 month ago:
It really was a great thing. It happened natually too. Started as just a site I posted my writing to, a personal site in 1997, and friends wanted to add their stuff. By 1999 it was renamed from Routhy’s Den to the Den of Amateur Poetry, and then the domain was purchased and the site renamed to The Den of Amateur Writing.
I still remember the pre-PHP days. People would email their works to me and I would manually build an HTML page and update the site within 24 hours.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 1 month ago:
Yep, I fought against it for years but eventually my new user intake was lower than the rate at which the typical user would fizzle out and move on. We had users that were there for 20 years and regulars, but without fresh ideas and posts things would get stale. So I had to yield and start adhering. Around 2018-2019 things really took a dive in traffic and I could not afford ads as it was all completely out of pocket, so I started a new codebase and rewrote it over 4 years in my spare time. The site before it shut down had a top grade from all of Googles site scanners and I had thought “Perfect… now folks will trickle in again at the right rate.”. And then the delisting.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 1 month ago:
This is why I shut The Den of Amateur Writing down after 25 years of running and developing it. I had written the entire codebase for Googles SEO, rolled out the update so my users would see a bit more traffic trickle in, and then watched them delist all my URLs 3 months later when this change rolled out. I just gave up. It was taking way too much of my life fighting googles bullshit to provide a free community.
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 1 month ago:
Because I dont need to pay rent for my files and I don’t have to worry about AI and VCs trying invade my privacy.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 month ago:
Yeah, Im excited about the cards but getting a 1GB switch with a 10g uplink was expensive… 10g switches are… a lot.
- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 1 month ago:
I still have my original PS3. Had to replace the hardrive once.
Still have the Wii, which had a bad disk reader in the first 30 days. I had to send it to the repair shop in Toronto and they had it fixed and back to me within 48 hours for free.
My first XBox 360 lasted 2 days past it’s 1 year warranty date and died. Disk drive thought everything was a DVD. MS wanted $100 for repairs plus shipping. I bought a used 360 instead for $80. That one also died 1 year later, red ring. Next one I bought a replacement, one of the lower end models. Lasted 10 days past the 1 year warranty… Then thought everything was a DVD… This keeps going. By the time 2016 rolled around I had gone through 10 of those pieces of shit. I finally gave up on the games I liked on that system, and I’ve never bought a new MS system since. I honestly wonder what their true sales were if you deduped it by removing replacements from their tally.
I have my original PS2, PS3, PS4, GameCube, SNES, Wii, Switch.
There are quality gaming consoles out there, and then there’s whatever the fuck MS spews onto the market.
- Comment on When you see danger coming 1 month ago:
A tale of how a plastic eating bacteria moonlighted as a flesh eating one.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls the plug on Bing Search APIs 2 months ago:
Well, that will mess with DuckDuckGo, won’t it?
- Comment on Finally a map to show me 2 months ago:
C is for Canada.
- Comment on Oh god 2 months ago:
Well… it’s a door. At least my ass will be closed for business after that.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 2 months ago:
Trial at Bernies? OK WERE DOING TRIAL AT BERNIES! This is going to be legend-wait for it…
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 2 months ago:
The beauty is that you can shove Pi in it of course.
- Comment on Data hoarding is more important than ever 2 months ago:
I just hoarded this gif
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 months ago:
Thats because for some ungodly reason they use Apple Maps. Not sure why they dont integrat with an OpenStreetMaps like service. At least that way users can start contributing to fill the gaps