stoy
@stoy@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Why don't urban/suburban streets and roads use a center storm channel? 4 days ago:
That would drastically increase the frequency of aquaplaning, the convention is to drain the water from the road surface, not collect it on the road.
Central draining would also cause more floods as the drain would need to be cleaned more often, as any clog would immediately result in a flood covering the entire road surface.
- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 5 days ago:
What are vehicle tabs?
- Comment on Panic sweeps across California over proposed billionaire tax - Tech moguls and moderate Democrats are mobilizing their wealth and networks to try to block it 1 week ago:
Are you Icelandic?
- Comment on Have you eat a purple potato? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I have eaten Blue Congo potatoes, and they are kinda funny, they react with different foodstuffs, I seem to recall acids making the normally purple potato bright red where the acid touches it.
- Comment on The agenda 1 week ago:
The iPhone 7 Pro Max comes in variants with 2TB storage
- Comment on what are the recruiters recruiting me for😰 1 week ago:
Bangmaid?
- Comment on AI Is Changing Work—Our Unemployment Insurance System Must Change With It 1 week ago:
We are only five years into this general AI shit, right now managers are making stupid decisions due to false promises by AI CEOs.
General AI isn’t used as a tool for workers, it is used as a replacement for workers.
After the inevitable AI crash, general AI will hopefully find the place it should occupy, namely a dynamic manual, not a slop generator.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2026 Has Begun 1 week ago:
I just saw that you can get the remastered collection of Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert for 4 EUR, brilliant!
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2026 Has Begun 1 week ago:
There is even a sequel, Party Hard 2, not a super fan personally, I find the original better.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2026 Has Begun 1 week ago:
Dishonored 1 full collection for 2 EUR?
DAMN!
I might buy it for some friends and maybe even a few give aways…
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
Hey, thanks for telling me, I know about tankies, as well as the instances they run, though I don’t check every user to see where they come from.
I’ll tag him accordingly.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, take him to the garage, put him in the boot of a diplomatic car, drive to the airport
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I had no idea about this…
The colonial tax seems especially evil.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
It appears that I am out of the loop on this…
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
Eh, the EU makes a big deal of freedom, and has stood up to the US in the past, but here there are actual laws and regulations to follow, and if we stop extraditing US citizens to the US, the US would stop extraditing our citizens to us.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you on Assange, he became too involved in publishing scoops and bringing in large headlines that he got his head too far up his own arse.
I always wondered about why he stayed in the embassy and wasn’t smuggled out from it in a diplomatic car and flown to Ecuador.
It wouldn’t be the first time someone was smuggled out from a country using an embassy.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
I consider him a true American patriot.
Nothing is more patriotic than wanting your country to do better.
Implementing drag net surveillance was a terrible decision, and exposing it was truly heroic.
Sadly, Snowden is now in the clutches of Russia who can and does use him as their pawn.
It is easy to say that this is where the EU should have stepped up and given him sanctuary, but that would have been less than ideal for him.
- Europe and the US have close ties with police and law enforcement, while no EU nation would hand their own citizens over to the US, they would absolutely hand over a US citizen to the US if requested.
- During the war on terror, Europe was complicit in plenty of illegal renditions of their own citizens to the CIA, they were then sent to illegal black sites and tortured, plenty of these persons have since been proven innocent.
Given the high profile of Snowden’s leak, the US still want’s him back, and back then even more so, had Snowden gone to the EU, he most likely would have been extradited, kidnapped or even assassinated.
By staying in Russia that was a far lower risk to him.
- Comment on How not to advertise 101! 2 weeks ago:
I think I finally realized why I hate the ads on YT more than ads elsewhere.
They suddenly breaks into the video without warning
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, he was bron in Taiwan, just 20 or so years after the ROC retreated from mainland China.
He then lived in the city of Tainan and later in Thailand.
Then, also consider what he may have ment by “when car came along”, I would read it less litteral and more like “when mass car ownership came along”.
One or two cars in the area per day won’t prevent anyone from playing in the streets, but when that increases to hundreds per day, that changes things.
- Comment on Is coding possible on smart phones ? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Former Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 4 weeks ago:
Have they made a live action TV series of Horizon Zero Dawn?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If you are rich enough, you don’t buy a house, you buy a plot of land, you then contract an architect to help you plan the house to your liking, after that you get a contractor who helps you build the house.
Only poor people buy houses second hand!
…unless they are REALLY fancy, then only rich people buy the houses.
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 5 weeks ago:
Alright, just a heads up with the specs you posted, you may be rather disappointed with the performance of the VM.
Do you have any budget for computer hardware?
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 5 weeks ago:
That is what you will run on it, yes, what are you looking to do with it?
- Comment on Is this machine good enough to install QEMU considering that it runs on windows 10 ? 5 weeks ago:
Back in the early 2000s I acquired a copy of VMWare Workstation 5, I ran VMs on an HP dv6000 with a Turion CPU and a gig of RAM.
With XP it was fine, I even ran a Windows 2003 server VM with a domain controller on it.
Those days are two decades gone, you will need a minimum of 16GB on a normal computer, and I’d recommend 32GB to give yourself headroom for VMs these days.
It sucks, absolutely, but it is the current reality.
What do you want to do with the VM?
- Comment on What does non-gui mean ? 5 weeks ago:
GUI - Graphical User Interface
“Non-gui” mean that the software does not have a GUI, this means that the softare uses text mode instead.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 5 weeks ago:
Grief if not a competition.
For fuck sake…
- Comment on Personal trainer wins £150k payout after driving from Germany for a meeting – only for her boss not to show 5 weeks ago:
What a shitty manager and company.
She deserves far better
- Comment on Monke 1 month ago:
Not really…
- Comment on Monke 1 month ago:
Why cut the response?