sawdustprophet
@sawdustprophet@midwest.social
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 3 days ago:
In most restaurants I saw there was no wall in between.
This was my experience as well. I can still see it today in some older restaurants that haven’t been renovated in years, where there’s an area of the dining room with a much higher ceiling.
- Comment on Hear me out, a Fediverse client that mimics Nintendo's Miiverse 1 month ago:
what is the Miiverse?
It was a sort of social space Nintendo ran on the 3DS and Wii U. Kind of combination chat room and message board with a space where Miis (Nintendo avatars) could “hang out”. It could also be used to send messages though games, like you could leave a message as a sort of note in Mario Maker or Splatoon. I thought it was kind of cool, tbh.
not sure if I’m too old, too young or too poor
It was shut down in…no. 2017 was not 7 years ago. No.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 2 months ago:
In many US rural areas, home internet connections have a monthly cap
And suburban, and urban. I’ve never lived anywhere that didn’t have a cap.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 2 months ago:
I still have the T-Mobile G1 phone plan.
Man that was a great phone.
My plan isn’t quite that old, but it’s getting up there. They recently increased my price by a few dollars per line. Then they tried to get me to move to a current plan, which turned out to be 20% higher price for less return. I had to try not to burst out laughing at the poor guy’s face.
I’ve been with TMo for more than 20 years–they’re the only carrier I’ve ever used–but if my price goes up again I’m jumping ship.
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 2 months ago:
OK but did it really flop or where they expecting it to sell a morbillion units weekly?
Sources say that Ubisoft was expecting The Lost Crown to sell similarly to the biggest Metroidvania’s in the market, with millions of units sold in a relatively short space of time. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown has sold approximately one million units at the time of writing.
- Comment on We need to build an Yggsrasil 2 months ago:
We can’t even take care of that, how could we care for an Yggdrasil?
“Mom I want an Yggdrasil”
“We have Yggdrasil at home”
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 2 months ago:
When I read the shelter in place order from my governor, its definition of “essential businesses” was so broad it would have been shorter to list businesses not covered.
- Comment on A declaration of war 3 months ago:
I like the edges and corners of a cake/brownie
- Comment on Social Engineering 4 months ago:
Class: Bavarian Fire Chief
- Comment on Squirrel with a Gun - Announcement Trailer 7 months ago:
I think this is about it coming out of Early Access?
The developer published this trailer on March 15. Looks like they’ve made a channel for the game specifically and republished it there.
- Comment on Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon 7 months ago:
What’s France?
“Wester Germany”
- Comment on I lost mine 8 months ago:
But doesn’t the ifixit kit have a sim extractor bit?
Yes, it does.
- Comment on Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for? 10 months ago:
Honestly any parts you buy today probably won’t be much good in 30 years.
At least not when AGP comes to town.
- Comment on Can someone explain why authors do this? 10 months ago:
T did S with P and then A (23 F) got into with G
- Comment on Call me for all your home design needs. 10 months ago:
garburator
This will be a fun new addition to my vocabulary.
- Comment on Doing the important work 11 months ago:
It’s actually called Johns Hopkins?
Named for Johns Hopkins, who got his first name from his mother’s maiden name.
- Comment on a story in two parts 11 months ago:
I’ve used the official Mastodon app, and Tusky. Both work well, but I haven’t really done a deep dive into features.
- Comment on RIPE, Regional Internet Registry, hacked because an admin account's password was ripeadmin 11 months ago:
That’s why I only use “*******” for mine. With the number, it’s more secure.
I guess it works because I can’t see the password.
- Comment on Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing 11 months ago:
Has science gone too far?
Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not.
- Comment on Walter Koenig was bitterly disappointed about his role in Star Trek VI 11 months ago:
What a weird thing to say. I’ve always heard it described as one of the best TOS films and I always found the ending quite an emotional and fitting send-off to the TOS crew.
His feelings might be related to his plan for the sixth film involving the TOS crew being forcibly retired and then slaughtered.
- Comment on Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. 1 year ago:
How old is this tweet though
The account has this tweet pinned, posted April 2022.
- Comment on State flags 1 year ago:
Hey Minnesota diesnt have toes anymore
Technically, the new flag doesn’t come into use for another 5 months or so, assuming the legislature doesn’t stop it.
It does look pretty slick, though.
- Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles 1 year ago:
I’m sure they meant segue here
Correct. The amusing part being that “Segway” was intentionally chosen as a play on the actual word “segue”. Hence the phrase “linguistic backport”.
- Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles 1 year ago:
commercial segways
I’m amused at the linguistic backport that just occurred here.
- Comment on Ps1 Walter White 1 year ago:
“Jesse, we need to render”
- Comment on Super Shitter? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Best of both worlds 1 year ago:
Just buy a TV and don’t connect the wi-fi for the smart capability
Some of these TVs will find an unsecured network within range to connect to, so they can still bombard you with ads.
And (in my experience) they’re still slow as hell. I press “power on” and have to go pour a drink or something while I wait for it to boot up, as if I’m warming up a radio in the 1930s.
- Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock? 1 year ago:
Yes but, how did people know that time went sunwise before the sun?
Back before the solar system was fully formed, it was called “gaswise”.