Alto
@Alto@kbin.social
I have a math degree and still can't do basic addition
- Comment on Either way, I'm getting super drunk. 6 months ago:
In a pretty short span of time no less.
I've definitely had 16 drinks in a day before, just spread out over, yknow, most that day.
- Comment on Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon 6 months ago:
Car bad, train good
I fucking hate stroads
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
If we're going old school, go old school. Oldest kid rides in the bed.
- Comment on What is the longest discontinuous marriage? 6 months ago:
Ah yep, you're right that's the one I was thinking of. Both are pretty interesting, forget how young this country is sometimes.
- Comment on What is the longest discontinuous marriage? 6 months ago:
So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.
Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020. - Comment on What is the longest discontinuous marriage? 6 months ago:
Not at all an answer to your question, but a very semi-related tangent.
The last receipt of a US Civil War pension passed away relatively recently. She was a young woman who would regularly help out a local older man, a civil war vet with no kids or family otherwise. Towards the end of his days, he married her so she'd get the benefits of his pension, as things were really really tough.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
Russia could've, y'know, just not done and illegal invasion of Ukraine.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
While true, the general cultural preference for larger vehicles will inherently carryover to when people are deciding what EV to buy.
- Comment on When did the show "Suits" suddenly get popular? 6 months ago:
It's a feedback loop. A fairly small jump can get you trending, which makes people watch it, which makes it even more visible, rinse and repeat.
- Comment on Peter Thiel was trapped inside a student debating hall by pro-Palestine protesters accusing him of genocide 6 months ago:
Anyone who’s name is an anagram for The Reptile invalidates your entire premise…
You don't know even know my real name, I'm the fucking Lizard King
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 6 months ago:
There's plenty of tech from my younger days that was fun then that I wouldn't find fun now. An original iPod is not one of those.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 6 months ago:
Sure, if you use it for an hour a day, you're not gonna notice it much. And I'm not disagreeing that a lot of the software sorely needs to be improved. The people who are going to notice aren't you. They're the ones using their devices all day for work or similar.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 6 months ago:
Hoping they have success, but to say that their laptop chips are truly mainstream, at least in the same sense that Apple gives, is a bit generous I feel.
Obviously the X series has a decent shot at changing that, which I really hope it does.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 6 months ago:
I like keeping tabs on it, as they're really the only ones pushing mainstream high end ARM chips at the moment.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 6 months ago:
The primary benefit for the average consumer tends to be longer battery life due to the same task using less power, in theory anyway.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
If we had the same size, I could be wearing my grandfather's steeltoes that are probably a solid 40 years old. People really underestimate how long good footwear lasts when you take care of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I'm assuming it's unnecessary and out of place sarcasm
- Comment on "Also, try our new deep dish special." 6 months ago:
That smile ad is still one the weirdest campaign ads I've ever seen
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 6 months ago:
Hey we're actually ahead of the EU in something!
- Comment on The more air conditions in an area the hotter becomes around it. In turn increasing the demand for AC. Talk about infinite money glitch. 6 months ago:
Already happens in a very round a bout tangential way. At least in America, most homes have far more heating capacity than they will ever actually use.
- Comment on Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated? 6 months ago:
But then I don't get to justify my 3d printer purchase with custom enclosures with their jobs engraved on them
- Comment on Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated? 6 months ago:
The issue with the combination of rabbit holes I'm going down is all the damn pis Im gonn end up being lol
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
I had basically the opposite experience. Probably 90% of my homework assignments required some sort of janky website to function.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
In general life? Sure. Students? Absolutely not, at least not once you get to college. Sure you can get away with only using school computer labs, but trying to do homework without a computer is borderline impossible these days. Most online homework sites either outright don't work on mobile or are such a pain in the ass that they may as well not.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
I think I generally agree with all that. One good side effect is I think this will be the push that gets Linux a bit more mainstream. It's pretty easy to sideload Linux onto most Chromebooks, so I think a good chunk of kids that like tinkering with stuff are going to try it out, more so than the past. ChromeOS is a lot more restrictive than windows, so there's a bigger incentive to get around it.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
As much as I don't want to give LTT credit, I think Linus has a point with Chromebooks. Google is playing the long game with them. Students almost exclusively use them these days, and anecdotally, most of them are getting chromebooks and the like for college now that they're getting to that age. That's at least been the case for almost every family member I've had that's started college in the last 5 years.
It's only going to continue as the average Chromebook legitimately is becoming more powerful, and Steam compatibility is improving. You're going to see a whole lot of people who see no need for a PC/mac.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge 6 months ago:
The fact that anyone who thought buying one of these was a good idea has enough money to do so is proof that we don't live in a meritocracy
- Comment on OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022 | Ars Technica 6 months ago:
It's almost as if a bad thing can get worse!
- Comment on Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M 7 months ago:
He's not being charged with the not paying his bills part, he's being charged with the committing fraud to be able to get that much server time part.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Turns out people that want to block access to information are generally shit people.
Who would've thunk?