rbos

@rbos@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wear leather boots, ankle high. The shoe store fixes em when the bottom wears out. Had em 11 years and they’re still fairly pristine. Just gotta oil em every winter. Probably should do that more often.

  It was $600 and $50 or so every couple years. Figure I’ve gotten it amortized down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss boibgboing. Never been able to get into it since they paywalled commenting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I really begin to love the natural look of phals if you just let them be [Orchids]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We did pick it up from a fancier florist, so it wasn’t a $10 supermarket special. That probably doesn’t change your point, though, god knows what its parentage is.

  We give it the sunniest spot in the house already (south-facing window, with morning light up til about 1pm because winter), and it’s filtered through a double-pane insulated window, and it’s winter during the doldrums of the year, so it’s probably the lowest light it’ll get through the year.

  The temperature thing is a good point. Maybe I just crack the window a bit so it gets some cold? It drops to about 5C right now.

  I’ll get some pictures if I think about it when I’m home later. =p It has been throwing off a bunch of roots and the leaves are pretty healthy-looking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I really begin to love the natural look of phals if you just let them be [Orchids]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got one of those that never blooms, but it’s a beautiful bit of green. I assume there’s some pH or nutrient reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘You’ has a similar ambiguity, being a plural word originally, but most people muddle through that.

  I do think we should bring back thee/thy/thou as singular, but whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh nooooooo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Spiderbro does an important job eating the more annoying bugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately i think this is a case of ‘nice doggy’. Trump needs constant sucking up or he goes apeshit. Words are cheap, and we need time to adapt and replace the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Keychron doesn’t appear to be US based so that’s good… are they UK? Sources disagree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a cool little leather wallet that held 2 3.5" disks. Felt like a pro every time i flipped it open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It wouldn’t surprise me if such a critical part was cast as a single metal crystal. The stresses on that rotor mist be unbelievable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t want to microdose poop to boost your immune system? Lame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gundam Chestnut⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it would have been possible to keep it out. :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I try to notice it but often fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was ‘he’ nobody would have questioned it, which kinds gives me pause for thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get out of my head⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. I think just a vertical flip of the image would do it. Otherwise anatomically difficult to pull off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you're cooking and it does its thing. ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they were rare, they would be unbelievably expensive. We’re so lucky they are cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt is very salty. Sugar is not that sweet.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Differences between salt are mostly textural. Trace minerals can change the flavour, and people do sell flavour infusions and mixes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venezuela Condemns US 'Piracy' as Trump White House Signals It Will Seize More Oil Vessels⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Letters of marque have to be issued by their legislature, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨home gardening⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’d imagine treated wood wouldn’t be great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨home gardening⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this significantly damage the wood?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And will last vastly longer, without the hassle of replacement and without having to deal with intermediate decay stages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US demands access to tourists' social media histories⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’d worry that they’d ask for my social media and get confused and angry.

  Haven’t been to the USA since 2016, unlikely to ever go again. :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today In Computing History⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  She clearly did, the skull is on the bottom shelf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can you tell from this photo alone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Batman figurine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨☪️⛎♑️☦️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would ordinarily say it’s a toque, not a beanie, but on him, it’s a beanie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the taste of childhood, really. I still get cravings for the worst fake cheese on the whitest of bleached bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I also agree, but … it’s an attitude that gets you in trouble fast and it only works once. Throwing hardware at a problem never works for very long, and hardly ever gets you the order of magnitude increases that reevaluated algorithms and data structures will get you. No amount of hardware gets you past an O(n^2) for long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sesame Seeds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the English word is pretty much ‘halava’. There’s no equivalent word so we just use that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, btw what really got me into it was the Scrapyard mod set. Splitsie has a series on YouTube about it, and also some very good tutorials.