zergtoshi
@zergtoshi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
Me too, even if I could have more bang for my buck elsewhere.
Give it a decent camera, battery life and good security as well as privacy and take my money already! - Comment on Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason! 1 week ago:
I don’t know, but in difference to Hacker’s Keyboard it still receives updates.
What’s for sure better (for my use case) is the broad range of layout customization. - Comment on Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason! 1 week ago:
It took me years to find it and now that I did, I want to spread the word.
…I wasn’t looking non-stop for sure, but I can for sure say that I was running Android for years without that gem. - Comment on Guess what you cannot turn off for some stupid reason! 1 week ago:
It’s a totally different animal (and works best with some customization), but I can guarantee that it’s AI free: f-droid.org/packages/juloo.keyboard2
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 3 weeks ago:
I leaned on …hubpages.com/…/Drag-Force-and-the-Terminal-Veloc…
and specifically:
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I estimated the area of a body in vertical position as 1/4 of a body in horizontal position.
With C going from 1 to 0.7 and A going from whatever to 1/4 of that, this results in a terminal velocity increase of over factor 2. - Comment on Anon escapes from work 3 weeks ago:
That highly depends on the position of a human trying to reach terminal velocity in earth’s lower atmosphere.
Your number is about right for a human body in horizontal position with spread arms and legs.
Diving headfirst with flattened arms and legs can lead to a terminal velocity of more than double of the above scenario. That requires a lot more fall distance. - Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
My favourite DMA game was Blood Money.
Good old times!
Thanks for bringing that memory up! - Comment on Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt 3 months ago:
If the cheese aged for enough time, it’s getting practically lactose in the process.
- Comment on It really works! 4 months ago:
While ionized particles stick to other things, they do not really stick together - at least if they are the same type of particles or rather carry the same type of charge, respectively.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Conservative is a misnomer used for propaganda purposes.
After all conservative aren’t really in the game of conserving. - Comment on Hardware recommendations 6 months ago:
Yes, it’s small, runs at a few watts and is silent.
The Celeron J4105 and Pentium J5005 CPUs in the Wyse 5070 are very close to each other both regarding energy and computing power.
Have a look here: cpu-monkey.com/…/compare_cpu-intel_celeron_j4105-…
I would take either.
You’ll have a hard time finding another silent box with such a small footprint that’s able to take 2 gumstick drives - even if one of them needs some tinkering - and 32 GB RAM. - Comment on Hardware recommendations 6 months ago:
You could try to get a used Dell Wyse 5070.
If you pick the right dual ranked RAM modules (e.g. Patriot PSD416G26662S), you can have a max. of 2x16 GB.
There’s a slot for SATA SSDs onboard and with the right adapter (PCIe A/E key -> M key) you can plug an NVME SSD in the WiFi PCIe slot, which gives plenty room for storage and even allow for a disk mirror setup.
All that is very well within your budget and quite a beast that once was meant to be just a thin client. - Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 9 months ago:
Sure. If you want full control, you need to run your own server.
Matrix crosses my mind.
But using that is a different animal than installing an app from a store.
As far as security when communicating conveniently on mobile phone goes, Signal does a pretty good job. But you’re right that it’s important to realize what’s possible and what’s not possible. - Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 9 months ago:
And you seriously think most people would look at and act on such an icon instead of just ignoring it?
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 9 months ago:
Yeah, the never-ending weighting between convenience and security.
But are you going to tell me that those people don’t have Whatsapp, Threema, Telegram or any other IM installed and just use plain SMS instead? - Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 9 months ago:
Handling SMS and handling secure/encrypted messages could’ve made people think they communicate securely while relying on text messages instead.
Not handling SMS fixes this source of confusion and I applaud their decision. - Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 9 months ago:
The deal is that they run their program in a very transparent and wherever possible verifiable way.
More details here: lemmy.world/comment/14775870 - Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 9 months ago:
If they encrypt meta data like they say they do (signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/), it should be very hard to use meta data the way you explained.
Whether they do can be looked up here (github.com/signalapp) by those who know what to look for.
As Signal uses reproducible builds (signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/), itcan be verified that the builds are made from the public source code.
They make offering a secure and trustable app a lot better (by being verifyable) than other messengers. - Comment on Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all? 9 months ago:
…and failed to save anything at all.
- Comment on Anyone else suddenly itching to blast Nazis in Wolfenstein for no reason at all? 9 months ago:
You expect Nazis and their sympathizers to have a brain and form coherent sentences, huh?
I fear, there are at least some who do and those are even more dangerous than the typical braindead Nazi. - Comment on If I strapped a weight to a tortoise, could I train it go relatively fast? 9 months ago:
If you have more torque and the same rpm, you get more horsepower as result.
- Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company 10 months ago:
Sadly reminds me of Wall-E in some way.
- Comment on Can't unsee 10 months ago:
Donlon Trusk?
- Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds 11 months ago:
So in your opinion the thousands of dead children and other civilians in Gaza are ‘terrorists rapists child molesters’ who don’t deserve human rights?
I’m baffled how you can understand that the Russian/Putin’s attack on Ukraine is wrong, but fail to see the parallel between that and what Israel does and what Netanyahu is responsible for.
- Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds 11 months ago:
Looks like in your world there’s only black and white and you can’t seem to fathom that self-defense needs to have limits. Am I right?
- Comment on US logic for protecting the political and economic elite has no bounds 11 months ago:
So it’s antisemitism to criticize political actions, which lead to genocide, rape, and piles of ded children, huh?
TIL… - Comment on Pro-tip for this capitalistic hellscape 11 months ago:
You might have a different understanding of billionaire bacon than the person you replied to.
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 11 months ago:
Language.
- Comment on sampling bias 11 months ago:
At least 0.2% lied.
