dubyakay
@dubyakay@lemmy.ca
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 1 day ago:
Like half of the things American.
- Comment on 98 degrees upstairs, ac stopped working at 8am. 1 day ago:
No one calls out decimals in Celsius. Unless you are measuring your kids fever. 38.1 vs 38.5 vs 38.9 you know that it’s time to ready the metamizole if it keeps creeping up like that
0°C is the frost point of water. If you know it will dip below that during the night, you can prepare your plants, driveway, kids (I’m sorry my love summer is over), pets, clothes, etc the day prior.
-40° is -40° though, doesn’t matter if it’s F or C. The best part of both scales.
- Comment on The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun 2 days ago:
Yeah, it was a very wasteful system. As in wasting both my time and that of tax payers.
I didn’t care that I was technically entitled for unemployment money. After the first three locations that I’ve gotten offered, including sitting through a job seminar that quasi-turned into a car-wash operator course, where I was surrounded by folks that were really eager to take that job offer, I’ve declined further appointments at the youth job centre and sought out IT employers by myself.
- Comment on The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun 3 days ago:
Maybe this is too communist for some people, but it would be nice if some government body just matched me with a job that matched my skillset and education
I actually used government services, while unemployed, back in the early 2000s, but they were very miss. All they seemed to be focusing on was you hitting a quota of seeking out employers that they have listed for you, regardless of what you claimed to be as your profession or qualifications. Just so you can stay on the dole.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Now kiss.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 6 days ago:
Arch users rarely compile their own kernels, silly.
I use Arch btw.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 1 week ago:
Laser Squad, playing couch hot-seat is what sent me down this path.
I really liked Jagged Alliance 2, Afterlight and especially X-COM: Apocalypse. Apocalypse had such radical departures from the first two Ufo titles, which did not make it very well liked among enthusiasts, in particular the real-time battle mode. But the game had such fun mechanics and steep difficulty curve, I really enjoyed the challenge of it, as opposed to getting another Enemy Unknown clone that was TFTD.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 1 week ago:
Unless you think farts are funnier. Then it’s Jerusalem Artichokes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’d like to point out that this:
see, for instance, the deliberate slowing-down-with-updates scandal from a few years ago.
this never happened. What you may be referring to is Batterygate where they would intentionally throttle older devices based on their age and presumed battery degradation in order to give the devices a longer life span. The articles also mention that since iOS 11 / iPhone 11 the phones have better battery management and monitoring.
My 11 Pro that I have bought in 2020 April is still working as well as on the day of purchase. This is after one battery swap in 2024 April, when battery degraded below 80% capacity and the system announced that performance would be throttled. It is expected that the 11 Pro lineup will retain new updates until at least 2026 September.
Now here’s the thing: these newer iPhone Pro models age so well, with just a battery swap every ~3-4 years, I wouldn’t be surprised if some movement in the EU will step up to force legislation on extending support for them. But still, six years of support is pretty good compared to most other vendors.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 2 weeks ago:
Right. But I meant if SteamOS or Bazzite had that feature already for the ROG Ally, why reinstall an objectively worse OS when it also gains that feature?
I may be misunderstanding something.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 2 weeks ago:
But what for? Nothing makes it better, even if you would get this equivalent feature.
- Comment on Man in trump merch at Metalfest Open Air in Plzeň, Czechia 2 weeks ago:
Just say you are from New Hampshire with a cockney accent.
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough. That’s what I get for shit posting (as in skimming through threads on the loo)
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 3 weeks ago:
OP’s picture is in Canada though.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Is Doing So Well It’s Giving $27 Million to Its Staff 5 weeks ago:
Is it customer hostile? I thought it was just licencing-hostile, fucking over others with their IPS left and right.
I don’t know much about them.
- Comment on ‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24 5 weeks ago:
Super Mario Bros. (1993) was a cult classic.
The 2023 movie is forgettable garbage.
The Sonic movies are fun though. Knuckles TV as well.
- Comment on Star Citizen Loses 'Integral Staff' Responsible for Server Meshing 5 weeks ago:
No one will care, and the non-critical echochamber will keep truckin’ on for the wrong reason.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 5 weeks ago:
Which operating system is that?
- Comment on Survey for curiosity: How many readers are in a library network that holds video games? 1 month ago:
Mine does. Some games are non stop booked. Others, mostly the sports games titles, are always available on the shelves.
- Comment on Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding 1 month ago:
I’ve actually subscribed to premium. YouTube + YT Music.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 month ago:
They should probably fear the Spanish first. Or the French. Or the Portuguese. Depending on area.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 2 months ago:
I haven’t had any issues with heroic launcher.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
I’m using Kate now, but from my experience NPP has a lot more features built in for which I actually have to write some scripts to use with Kate. NPP has really strong encoding encoding and schema manipulation features and a robust plugin system.
If NPP had a native linux build, I’d go back to it in a heartbeat.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
If the 2-in-1 is holding you back, it worked for me with Linux Mint, touch and gyro rotation included. Touch works out of the box.
It did require me setting up iio-sensor-proxy with xrandr for the gyro sensor so it adjusts the screen when spinning the laptop around in tablet mode though. But the guide was pretty straight forward.
- Comment on Dune Awakening shares new screenshots and confirms the ever-present threat of the Sardaukar | Massively Overpowered 2 months ago:
It also has rocks.
And caves.
And caves with water probably.
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
Peek-A-Boo In My Ass
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 months ago:
How is swipe writing supposed to work? I’ve never seen it in action by someone IRL, and whenever I’ve tried it myself, it seemed to be way too much hassle vs just typing shit and using predicts to auto complete.
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 2 months ago:
“I’m a normal user of sidewalks.”
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
I’m using multi monitors with mixed resolutions and a very old nvidia card (gtx 670).
The only problem I have is that if I put them to sleep, while autorandr or whatever gets me the resolutions and layout back, the app windows move around like crazy because they all wake up at different times, likely due to a mix of HDMI + DVI + DisplayPort connections.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 2 months ago:
How good is it? Does everything work like on the deck?