WalrusDragonOnABike
@WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
- Comment on Why'd they stopped making tv shows as good as x-files? 10 months ago:
Are you a fan of ratchet and clank btw? Are 3rd person platformers the only good genre and are games since PS2 all trash?
- Comment on Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters 10 months ago:
But how much is 5 100TB HDDs?
- Comment on Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters 10 months ago:
If you're able to get enterprise ssds, you could get 16tb ssds... But no clue what minimum order sizes are like for that kind of thing. But of you wanted to use 16tb ssds instead of buying a house 100% down payment, that's an option probably.
- Comment on Why does the gaming community (among others) have to be so destructive and toxic? 10 months ago:
The SMW kaizo community has several prominent trans contributors and notable members (Shoujo and shovda being probably two of the more public ones, both participating in the relay race at SGDQ 2022, which also had at least two trans creators). I'd include Maddy among the notable member, but that's a relatively recent thing with her release of Super Sonic Saves the World World and Sure Shot (a level of which was in the SGDQ race and was co-created with another amazing member of the community). Unfortunately it wasn't always that way apparently (the SGDQ 2019 relay race did include someone who was later shunned by the community for platforming transphobes apparently).
Also, the kaizo community and Celeste community have a lot of overlap given they're both tough platforming games for lots of community-made content.
Its also just small enough that everyone can know most other people who are part of it.
- Comment on Why does the gaming community (among others) have to be so destructive and toxic? 10 months ago:
Celeste speedruns are fairly competitive from my understanding. I have not watched the top players, but in general the Celeste community seems pretty good from the little indirect interactions I've had with them. But it's solo play and leader boards, not real-time matches (although those probably exist too, but you still don't interact with the other players).
Curious if that direct combativeness is part of difference. Of course another important difference is the Celeste community is fairly unique given its trans game status. But I don't think that's necessary to build a good community: smw kaizo isn't inherently trans, but the community decided years ago that it wasn't going to tolerate transphobia, for example. But its extremely non-competitive imo.
- Comment on Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, claims Human Rights Watch. 10 months ago:
What percent of facebook users would document their content and report their removal to HRW? 1000 reporting to HRW because their comments got removed from facebook seems funny. I certainly wouldn't think to report technology@lemmy.world's mods to a human rights organization if they removed this comment or banned me for posting something pro-palestine on another community.
- Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles 10 months ago:
Watching detective conan in america sounds expensive.
- Comment on Homelessness rose sharply in the U.S. in 2023, data shows 10 months ago:
Or relatively high, depending on which period you're comparing it to (high compared to 50's, low compared to 90's).
- Comment on Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? 11 months ago:
NBies too.
- Comment on Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? 11 months ago:
I wear panties instead of men's underwear and have a dick and balls. Not uncomfortable at all. Just gotta find ones that fit right (I do have some that do cause such issues on occasion)). Wouldn't consider myself a man tho.
- Comment on Positive review 11 months ago:
No spoiler tags?
/j - Comment on xkcd #2865: The Wrong Stuff 11 months ago:
The Trojan horse wasn't made of Trojans, like the Spruce Goose wasn't made of Spruce. The name is misleading.
- Comment on Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inaugurated 11 months ago:
The ITER was basically supposed to have been built starting in the 80s from my understanding... Until cheap fossil fuels dried up all interest in funding fusion research. When it takes 40 years to fund a single project via international collaboration, 50 years is a short timescale.
Even with renewed recent interest, fusion still has less than half the funding it did during the energy crisis. Of course the predictions from that era were optimistic given they were no longer able to do experiments like these when they expected them to proliferate.
- Comment on Will there be power issues if I plug an unpowered USB hub into a powered on or vice versa 11 months ago:
Why would the first be a problem? The powered hub doesn't get the power from the power hungry device from the unpowered up, does it?
- Comment on Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal 11 months ago:
Or maybe the one that I had to reinstall every other month because it kept failing to boot (probably because I broke something because I had no clue what I was doing and trying to get stuff working).
- Comment on It would have to be a VERY lazy dog to allow a fox to jump over it anyway. 11 months ago:
But what about abcdefg hijklmnop qrs tuv wx yz?
- Comment on Eat garbage 11 months ago:
Not sure I can help with that question. I just know the answer isn't disingenuously adapting the language of equality to attack those oppressed by the system of race by acting like "black lives matters" is bad. Likewise, using "gender abolition" as an excuse to be a TERF by getting mad at trans people for fitting any stereotypes of their gender (while ignoring cis people doing the same thing) or telling trans people they're delusional. Even if long-term we want to eliminate race and gender, it doesn't mean we can ignore the relatively short-term impacts they've had historically and continue to have.
- Comment on Eat garbage 11 months ago:
Both. Just like race. Its subject to change based on changing concepts, but are regardless of which version of the social construct is used, race and gender are generally based vaguely on immutable things.
- Comment on Eat garbage 11 months ago:
Sex is also a social construct. Its separate from gender though.
- Comment on All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan 11 months ago:
I have a lot of half-siblings. One set of two, one set of 3 (I've only met the oldest), one only child, there's me and my two full siblings, and the donor's actual child. There's more out there. Another we matched with their child, but I don't think we even know their name. Been pretty cool meeting all of them and the donor. Its actually been a happy experience, but one certain people had no choice in making.
- Comment on All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan 11 months ago:
By biological father was an anonymous sperm donor before the technology to sequence a person's DNA for under 10 billion dollars was a thing. They did not give their DNA to ancestry. Their sister did, having no clue that her brother had donated. Yet ancestry has matched her to several nieces and nephews, outing her brother's history to his sister and the children who were never supposed to have access to that info. It's not just your own information.
Similarly, one of my half siblings suddenly found out that his dad wasn't his birth dad.
Anyways, he happens to be cool with the fact that he suddenly had contact with offspring who weren't supposed to know who he was.
But our DNA is interconnected. It doesn't just belong to one person.
- Comment on xkcd #2852: Parameterball 1 year ago:
All you need is a series of rackets, balls, nets, tables of various sizes, and a giant court that you can paint onto and you can do it was any rng generator.
- Comment on The good ol' Banana Peel skill 1 year ago:
The old school one.
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
oh, I never tried. There goes that option. Wonder if that was intention to prevent people from trying to use emoji passwords because they didn't trust windows to handle it.
- Comment on YouTube’s Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls of Ad Blockers 1 year ago:
Why would they run their old ad blocker after installing uBlock instead of uninstalling their old one?
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
Its worked on desktops for years and works right now. As someone else pointed out "win+." works as well. Or maybe its supposed to be the only way it works and mine is bugged? Idk.
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
Both work for me and I haven't messed with the keybindings for it.
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
For Windows 10/11, its win+; to open the emote window.
- Comment on Using voice analysis, AI diagnoses type 2 diabetes in 89% of women, 86% of men 1 year ago:
At 10 cents per polio vaccine, there are still places where administering them is non-negligible because it's not the cost of the test itself that's an issue. Granted, this probably isn't good enough to make a difference, but if you could get tested just with a cell phone with Internet access without needing to physically ship anything not need a medical professional at the site, it probably could make a big difference in some areas. Granted, those are places where getting medical treatment afterwards is probably hard but at least dealing with it via dietary choice, when that luxury is an option, may help.
- Comment on xkcd #2845: Extinction Mechanisms 1 year ago:
What if it goes through a series of splits into equal sized spheres as it is going through the atmosphere to minimize the SA:V ratio to what is necesary?