astrsk

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad these innovations wont make it down to the workers that stores hire from 11pm to 3am to clean the store parking lot across from me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just search “Sony Rootkit” and it should be more clear why Sony issuing a new kernel level anticheat is not met with warm regards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Government Response to the Stop Killing Games Petition⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That last statement seams a bit misguided. The without government regulation, cars wouldn’t have such long parts and repair support. Why shouldn’t video games and other products be treated the same?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The real personality test⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We think you might be experiencing an emergency. Please hang up and call <country of origin emergency services number>. Have a nice day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re doing any writing on it that’s beyond a quick text or search, you’d either use dictation or a connected MacBook’s keyboard, or a connected wireless keyboard. The pass-through is so clear and lag free that you can just look at the physical keyboard if you need to / can’t touch type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physical or Digital?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the system’s media for me.

  Cartridge-based? Physical for all 1st and 2nd party titles, digital for indie/3rd party unless I really enjoyed it or it had a worthwhile collectors edition. I’d say about an 80-20 split due to some games not releasing physical, and some that do but I also get digital for convenience.

  Disc based? Probably just digital these days. Exceptions for worthwhile collectors editions and special runs (indie games etc.) Roughly 10-90 split because PC/steam is in this list and despite owning a launch day disc model PS5, I just ordered my first physical copy of a game (Baulder’s Gate 3 collectors) and the other collectors edition I bought was God of War Ragnarok which came with everything except a game disc (steel game case, digital code… sigh).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2891: Log Cabin⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can, a physical copy will be much better. It’s one of the few books that doesn’t translate as week to e-reader/digital for [redacted] reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2891: Log Cabin⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I should reread House of Leaves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The moon photos they’re talking about are specifically the AI enhanced zoom moon photos of previous Samsung models that caught controversy because taking a picture of a marginally round object against a black background with their zoom enhancement would produce a moon photo even if it was in someone’s dark basement and the object was a dimly lit bottle cap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any 5000 mAh power bank with 30W?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And not to mention the discharge efficiency curve. For LiPo batteries you will see a sort of “coasting” when the battery is at about 3.7v if your load is sufficiently small. But when it’s at 4.0v it will seem to drain quicker.

  I have a 10000mAh battery powering a device that uses 10uA every 30 minutes for about 10 seconds. On one charge it should last about 1 year maybe a little more. The first 2 months it seemed like it lost a lot more juice than was expected but since then it settled in and is now ahead of its estimate. Which means it will speed back up as it goes down below 3.7v.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*ducks and runs*⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s ammo (specifically 2 rounds) in the endless war to hit <insert family member> with a covert flick of the finger from across the room!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2870: Love Songs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That song is -1,-1 on this plot (assuming Teenage Dream is 1,1 and You Oughta Know is 0,0)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comcast Discloses Hackers May Have Stolen Data on 35.9 Million Xfinity Customers⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh so that’s why they’re asking me to change my password just to check my bill. Because the language on the page was “we regularly perform security audits to help protect you, so please change you password now” and doesn’t mention the breach at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a email-provider where i can host my oen domain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am thinking about iCloud that offers 3 aliases, but actually I need 5. Does iCloud has a catchall-option?

  Yes they have a catch all option, setup took a minute for me using my domain setup in Cloudflare, Apple’s documents/guided setup made it a breeze and it’s been rock solid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign language is just radio communication but on another frequency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  RADAR: RA(dio) D(etection) A(nd) R(anging)

  It doesn’t rely on self transmission. It can but you can detect and range other sources without generating it yourself.