southsamurai
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- Comment on Can pets tell who's petting them without looking? 21 hours ago:
Of course, at least under normal circumstances.
Like humans or wild animals, a pet is going to have their full sensory array available. Even a blind and deaf animal can pick up vibrations as someone approaches then, feel changes in air movement, etc.
Since hands are different sizes, even if they were asleep at the moment of contact, it wouldn’t take long to figure out whose hand was on them. Obviously , that might be negated if the hands are similar enough, but I would suspect that even then the differences in how a person pets them would be useful.
You could likely create a situation to bypass everything and “fool” a pet, but that’s what you’d have to do.
- Comment on No contest 3 days ago:
Only reason I went with the speed boat was the claim to fame of the falcon being able to veritably rip through the Kessel run. Depending on the interpretation of the whole “12 parsecs” thing, that implies either high speed or superior maneuverability. Plus, in some of the combat scenes, the falcon is both fast enough and nimble enough to hang with ships that are zipping around with little effort.
- Comment on No contest 4 days ago:
I don’t think vintage van is apt.
I think I’d go more with the something like a juiced up truck, or maybe hummer.
However, you could make the more apt comparison by sticking with ships.
The falcon was a smugglers’ ship, so it would be more like one of those fast cigarette boats drug runners use (or used to at least) rather than a car at all.
- Comment on What adult dude in your life has the most Michael Landon-esque full head of hair? 1 week ago:
Not important to me. I dig the skullet I have, and the shape of my head works for me overall.
Plus, my beard is fucking epic :)
- Comment on Why do US airports have a lot more jet bridges than EU airports? 1 week ago:
I love that reference :)
- Comment on What adult dude in your life has the most Michael Landon-esque full head of hair? 1 week ago:
Used to be my grandfather.
The man had magnificent salt & pepper hair right up to his death, though the salt was well into taking over in his late seventies. Absolutely amazing hair. Alas, the genes for male pattern baldness hit me because that’s how it works.
- Comment on Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol? 1 week ago:
Pretty much, yeah, though it doesn’t have to be low, iirc. It can come from higher in the throat, and thus sound higher pitched as well.
- Comment on Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol? 1 week ago:
Isn’t that a version of fry?
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’ll be a while yet
- Comment on What unique thing bothers you about politics in general? 1 week ago:
Human stupidty and arrogance.
Even when I share the purported beliefs of someone, the vast majority of people are so fucking smug and insistent on being right, that discussing politics ain’t likely with me.
Then, you run into the fact that people tend to treat it like an identity and just mouth what they think they’re supposed to believe without ever actually thinking about it. It isn’t even just the people that are raised in one party/bloc/whatever and stick with it. Even the ones that change allegiance tend to treat it as some kind of granfaloon, but not the harmless kind. Shit, that’s that case with unaffiliated people too, it isn’t limited to party members.
Like, yeah, we all think we’re right, but when that turns into smug self aggrandizement, fuck that.
That’s the shit that bothers me about politics, that people can’t just fucking chill and vote their conscience, they gotta be right, and feel superior about it.
That may not seem to be the kind of thing you’re asking about, but it’s one of the sessions those abysmal laws happen.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 1 week ago:
So it goes
- Comment on had to replace my 10 year old cheap corded headphones 2 weeks ago:
Good rant.
That being said, ten years with a cheap pair of buds is kinda rare. The uber cheap ones sometimes won’t last one year, even with light use. I don’t think I’ve had many buds in that price range not fail inside of two or three. Wires wear out, the drivers get screwy, something.
But, as you’ve said, putting money into buds for the kind of use case you’re using them for doesn’t make sense.
The only cheap buds I’ve had last decently are Klim. The sound is definitely meh at best, but there is bass presence. They handle being shoved into pockets well though, and that tends to be harder on buds than regular use. I’m almost at the three year mark with the first pair and so far they’re holding up. The original tips were foam rather than rubber or silicone, so they’re long gone, but they came with extras, and the size is easy to find. Since tips are inherently going to degrade over time no matter what they’re made of, I don’t consider them a factor in the overall usability.
I do have a pair of sony buds that have held up okay, but they’re in the next price tier up, as in under 20 by a few cents.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 3 weeks ago:
It’s the astroturfing that’s objectionable.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 4 weeks ago:
Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.
Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.
Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.
Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.
On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 weeks ago:
You hear about the dwarf psychic that escaped prison?
He’s a small medium at large
- Comment on What OS does the Batcomputer use? 5 weeks ago:
Ahhhh, iirc, it’s one he built himself.
It’s actually come up in comics before, more than once if my mind isn’t playing tricks.
I don’t doubt that he would have at least taken lessons from open source type projects if Linux doesn’t directly exist in the comic universe.
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 1 month ago:
Baldur’s gate 3, tiny Tina’s wonderlands, ff7, annnnd I’m not sure. The fourth and fifth slots are harder.
I would say pacman, but even if you gave me the arcade game for free, I don’t think I could play it worth a damn now. Same with centipede (they were my favorites back in the day, but pacman I was good at).
The original Mario Kart could be in there. And I can’t pretend that need for speed carbon couldn’t compete for a spot either. I think I’d take Kart over Carbon though.
Yeah, fuck it, pacman and Mario kart. Those are the last two spots.
- Comment on Your old android phone is begging to be a cheap home server! 1 month ago:
One problem
Batteries.
I’ve used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.
For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that’s no big deal, but how many of those are left now?
No thanks to the potential fire, I’ll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that’s an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I’m talking really old tablets at this point)
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 month ago:
My thing is that if I’m outside relaxing, I want the birds and bugs and wind. If I can’t have those, headphones aren’t an acceptable replacement, so I’ll fuck off back inside.
If I’m outside as in going about town, I don’t want my hearing compromised. It’s a fate safety issue. Even bone conduction gear is a distraction that I’m not okay with. Like, it isn’t even about being hit by a car or whatever, it could be something as simple as a shopping cart that’s loose banging into me. My crippled ass would be in the floor.
My brain is enough stimulation for me. If I’m out in the world, my brain is going to be going a mile a minute scoping everything out. Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve been in a given location.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 month ago:
I prefer car hole too, but don’t tell me wife.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 month ago:
That’s true, but I would argue that the player owned definition of it came so quickly on the heels of the typo that both could count as valid, with the caveat that the first usage being a typo would have to be considered a mistake, rather than the coining of the slang term itself.
Which is stretching things a bit, but still fun to think about.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 month ago:
It’s pronounced pwned, as all right thinking people know
- Comment on Do air purifiers really reduce dust much? 1 month ago:
Air purifier? That’s a less than ideal term since it gets applied to stuff like ionizers that are of dubious efficacy.
But a straight up filter, hell yeah they work. Just check the filter on your furnace/heater sometime. Same with any AC unit.
If you have something that has a filter, it will reduce dust, period. Without a filter, you aren’t going to reduce dust worth a damn, if at all.
But you also need to make sure it’s turning the air over often enough. I haven’t looked the info up in ages, but if you want a decent reduction in particulates, the device has to move air fairly significantly it it isn’t going to about to much.
Like, my house is right around a hundred years old. Four humans, and various animals over the years. Shit is dusty what with the dead skin, particles from things like carpet, pollen, dander, etc. Enough stuff gets produced that even with the regular furnace/ac filter, and a handful of one-room filters spread throughout the house (which tends to be better than one big one imo) we still get dust buildup on everything. But if we don’t run the filters, you can both visibly and nasally tell the difference.
A newer house isn’t going to have as much, so you can likely get away with less air turnover, short term, and need to dust less. But you’ll never be totally dust free just because you can’t move enough air to prevent at least a little settling.
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 1 month ago:
Gods, the first time heard Elba get suggested as a possible Bond, I flipped out. Then it eventually reached a point where it was definitely not going to happen, and it made me really not want to see any more Bond movies at all. There’s some actors born to play a role, and if they don’t, it’s kinda horrible. Like, if Pierce Brosnan had never had a chance to be Bond, it would have been a miscarriage of cinematic justice, no matter how the movie actually turned out (I enjoyed his turn personally).
The fact that it’s essentially impossible to have Elba do even a single bond film now ruins the franchise for me
- Comment on Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device? 2 months ago:
You can try looking into a sleep position trainer. It isn’t what you’re asking about, but it has had good results in reducing or eliminating the paralysis episodes, so it’s a similar outcome.
The problem with what you’re specifically asking about is that nobody has gone into production afaik. There’s patents for things like they, but they’re either junk (and obviously so), or would be way too complicated to set up and use reliably. Sleep paralysis isn’t usually responsive to just shaking by itself.
But you could try something similar to the alarms made for deaf people, if you have a consistent timing with your episodes. Or do something like strap a massager to your hand where you can cut it on and hope that the vibration breaks through. People have made that work, though it isn’t consistent afaik.
- Comment on Took me a moment 2 months ago:
Much appreciated!
- Comment on Took me a moment 2 months ago:
I almost get this one, but I’m not sure why LOGe would be In
Just don’t speak enough maths lol
- Comment on North Korea's Kim decorates troops who fought for Russia against Ukraine 4 months ago:
Yeah, he’s still an asshole, but at least he paid respect in a humble way
- Comment on Is it okay to eat after brushing in the night 4 months ago:
Eh, short term it’s no big deal. Teeth are durable as hell and won’t get fucked up by anything that minor if it’s a rare thing. But, the more you do it, the more damage accumulates over time. A few times a year over decades? Never gonna notice it.
A few times a month, and it’ll be a decade or two before it would be a problem.
A few times a week, and you’d better have dental coverage and/or good income, because you’re looking at a few years before it starts showing up as carries. Less if circumstances are bad, or you didn’t start out with very good teeth.
There’s also the fact that keeping in the habit of brushing after eating stays a habit better if you don’t deviate from it without an important reason. In my mind, if you’re awake enough to eat, you’re awake enough to brush afterward. If you aren’t awake enough to brush, then you probably shouldn’t be eating either. Fucks with digestion and metabolism. It’s better to just stay on track and skip the snack, if you dig me.
But nah, if it’s a rare thing, you’ll take more damage from a soda than a single night skipping brushing after a midnight nosh. It’s all about the acids.
Now, if you can’t be bothered to at least swish out with some water, I’d say you’ve got worse things to worry about because you can do that on your way back to bed, swallow it and take zero extra effort beyond the mouthful of water. If your energy is that low, or there’s some other impediment involved, focus on that.
