SnailMagnitude

@SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US border officials seize 4,000-year-old Bronze Age weapons looted from Iran⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad they trademarked history to be honest.

  Of course artifacts need a vacation from time to time but they always come back home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice to see this pop up as Apple announce their 5yr plan to flood the world’s landfills & scrap yards with 8gb fused ram Neo’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey, I Shrunk The Vids [Mr. Universe Edition] v1.0.5⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, I just tend to run one liners or little shell scripts but nice to see more of this stuff appearing.

  Worth considering the backend too imo, as I imagine I’m not the only one here trying to leverage the most out of potatoes with not a lot of storage.

  On my little n100 boxen for example having a building ffmpeg for the cpu/igpu to use hardware decoding gives ~5x the encode speed for a slightly larger filesize for hevc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An identification key⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaiu it was them that passed it to humans just prior to the deluge.

  Thankfully Noah invented wine to balance things out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’ve found online banking, medical and travel services rather hard to resist.

  Those new mobile phone things the kids are using also have biometrics and internets and look pretty handy to have around.