Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on I hope this clears things up 6 days ago:
Missed the last one Stick Stick
- Comment on A Memory From the 90s 1 week ago:
The worst was when it would get a kink and somehow no amount of twisting would get it back to a perfect spiral.
- Comment on "Top Movies" in Amazon Prime is full of series 1 week ago:
Vpn? Because pihole doesn’t stop them.
- Comment on "Top Movies" in Amazon Prime is full of series 1 week ago:
with absolutely no return on investment for them.
They show ads unless you pay for the super plus version of Prime. So by streaming they get ad revenue from the companies advertising even if you don’t watch the ads. The companies pay for the ads by increasing the price of what they sell- and they don’t sell only on Amazon but everywhere.
So when you buy a bag of chips at the local store, some of that money is going to Amazon because you had their streaming on.
- Comment on wat 1 week ago:
A shadow can move faster than light too.
- Comment on [title] 1 week ago:
When he says “fight or perish”, maybe he means fight for your right to party. Dog of course refers to I Wanna Be Your Dog by the Stooges. The ego perishes under the weight of uncontrollable love.
- Comment on Hands-On with the Retroid Pocket Classic; A Love Letter to the Game Boy Era 1 week ago:
The Thor is more like a mini Steam Deck replacement instead of a Gameboy replacement. So the limitations of boot times and standby time aren’t seen as a problem when the alternative is a laptop.
- Comment on Hands-On with the Retroid Pocket Classic; A Love Letter to the Game Boy Era 1 week ago:
There’s nothing to really tweak on Android because it is Android which hides most things from your control. I did everything I could. If you play every day and charge every day it’s fine. But if you treat it like a classic handheld you will be frustrated.
A real handheld like a Gameboy Advanced can be left in a drawer for a year and ready to go. That’s the experience that a Linux retro gives you. You don’t have to constantly think about charging. It’s instantly ready whenever you are.
- Comment on Hands-On with the Retroid Pocket Classic; A Love Letter to the Game Boy Era 1 week ago:
I have a Retroid but despite the hardware being fantastic, I wouldn’t recommend it because Android is a bad retro gaming experience.
Instead of turning on the device and instantly being in a game, you have to boot Android, which is ridiculously slow. If you don’t do a full shutdown after playing, you’ll find your Retroid’s battery dead the next time you pick it up because of Android’s idle battery drain.
Linux retro handheld’s like the Miyoo Mini work so much better. You turn it on and you are in your game in 10 seconds instead 45 just to get to the os and then need to load the emulator, load game and restore state. When you hit power on a Miyoo or equivalent Linux, your game state is saved and the device fully powers down so there is no idle power draw.
- Comment on Morphed 1 week ago:
Maybe the wolf is finally what it always wanted to be: fabulous.
- Comment on Dirty dishes reproduce naturally if you take your eyes off them 1 week ago:
You haven’t seen my wife cook. She’ll put the dirty spatula in the sink and get a clean one out of the drawer to scrape dirty dishes into the trash.
- Comment on Why cables have that strange cylindrical thing? 2 weeks ago:
Nah, they only stop RF interference, and at frequencies you won’t notice because few watch broadcast TV today.
Back in the 90’s, I had to add my own ferrite ring to the power supply cable for my 10mb Ethernet hub. Because I was getting interference on Channel 2 on my TV downstairs.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
competitor manufacturer
There’s Chinese ram that’s becoming good. But that doesn’t mean Americans will be allowed to buy it.
But really gamers are the worst about consumerism. Nvidia is the worst and gamers keep going back. Steve from Gamer’s Nexus had a funny chart in one of his videos a year or so ago. It was a flow chart about gamer spending on hardware showing all the advantages of AMD and Intel in gaming with a big arrow at the bottom that was labeled something like “And then you ignore everything and give all your money to Nvidia.”
- Comment on I was a husky boy and look how I turned out 2 weeks ago:
Kids used to be outside all day.
- Comment on I was a husky boy and look how I turned out 2 weeks ago:
Pebbles 1969. But it wasn’t the first: Frosted Flakes 1951, Sugar Smacks 1953, Captain Crunch 1963, Lucky Charms 1964.
Frozen TV dinners began in the 1950’s. People ate that shit for dinner. Margarine was more popular than butter.
A variety of fresh food wasn’t available to regular Americans until the 1980’s. Everything was canned or at best frozen.
- Comment on I was a husky boy and look how I turned out 2 weeks ago:
The 1950’s to 1970’s were not known for whole food. It was the era of Fruity Pebbles for breakfast, a Tastee cake with lunch, and a dinner made with Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup and other canned goods.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 2 weeks ago:
Someone with no books but watches Angela Collier is more educated than a person with a bookshelf of Danielle Steele.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 2 weeks ago:
I like books but its media in a different form. It could be great or it could be trash. The book itself says nothing. I’d consider someone who watches the YouTube channel Angela Collier as more educated than someone who has a bookshelf full of Danielle Steel novels.
- Comment on Lord Lucifer, hear my prayers 2 weeks ago:
Use of the word Lucifer to mean Satan predates Dante.
- Comment on Lord Lucifer, hear my prayers 2 weeks ago:
Amway was founded in 1959.
- Comment on 4 rules of firearm safety 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 4 rules of firearm safety 3 weeks ago:
Rule 0:
Don’t be seen with a firearm unless you are a white Republican.
- Comment on Someone made it a meme, it's got to be true. 3 weeks ago:
Is that Dr. Migleemo behind the poster?
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 3 weeks ago:
That’s really awesome. But your power setup is very unusual. Few have solar with full battery power storage.
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 3 weeks ago:
You are throwing away 3 watts/hr because you can afford it while ignoring the tiny environmental damage it causes.
- Comment on Literally exactly how it works, too. 3 weeks ago:
In physics, the word observation means an interaction. An observation in physics does not mean a human with an arbitrary level of intelligence.
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 3 weeks ago:
I bet you throw your trash onto the street too. “It’s just one plastic cup. One plastic cup doesn’t matter.”
- Comment on The half-assed implementations of battery charge limits... 3 weeks ago:
Practically no power isn’t 0. It’s up to 3watts. For comparison a Pixel 10 at 100% CPU is 6.5 watts.
- Comment on Literally exactly how it works, too. 3 weeks ago:
When the cat observes the experiment by not dying, it collapses from the cat’s point of view.
If an interaction occurs it collapses for all points of view. The geiger counter is the observer.
- Comment on Literally exactly how it works, too. 3 weeks ago:
So only scientists capable of observing create the entire universe from moment to moment? People who are extraordinarily stupid or just sleeping don’t independently exist?
