Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Aimee Lou Wood Says Her 'SNL' Portrayal Was 'Mean and Unfunny' 1 day ago:
Unpaywalled Link?
- Comment on Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 1 day ago:
I want to dig out old forum posts where Lucas fans told everyone that Lucas wasn’t lying that there would never be an original release because the original prints were destroyed in the process of making his special editions.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 2 days ago:
My suggestion of a PO box had nothing to do with you personally.
It was simply a refutation of your claim that it was illegal to not have a permanent residence.
Erdős, one of the most famous mathematicians of all time didn’t have a permanent home. He travelled and stayed in the homes of other mathematicians and scientists.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 2 days ago:
I don’t know about Chile but in the US you only need a PO box. I suspect Chile is the same because there’s probably a middle upper class that travels in mobile home/boats in retirement like in the US.
Requiring a way for society to communicate with an individual isn’t slavery.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 2 days ago:
They run Linux but you don’t need to know anything. They work out of the box. Guides are for upgrading to different user interfaces. You do need to learn how to make a copy of anl micro SD card because the ones that ship with the devices are extremely low quality and will quickly fail. I use the one from Raspberry Pi. It’s for installing pi OS but it does anything. www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Installing a different OS on a hand held is only picking a different image file like Knulli or GarlicOS when copying onto an SD card.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 2 days ago:
I was actually referring to the freedom to be a vagabond
I’m not sure how that relates to slavery. Freedom to be a vagabond still requires income from work.
- Comment on Interesting logic 2 days ago:
It wasn’t a refutation. It was added information.
- Comment on Interesting logic 2 days ago:
It’s really stupid to believe aliens visited earth given the size of the universe.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 2 days ago:
Not owning a house is slavery? What country today or ever in history had guaranteed home ownership?
Ideally, land should not be owned. Land is kept from pure ownership in progressive states through property taxes. You are in effect only renting the land from the state but keep the right to not be removed and the right to sell it.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 2 days ago:
Is there any country now or ever where you didn’t have to work until you died (on average) with a lottery (birth, talent, luck) that lets you be free by living off the work of everyone else?
Getting to choose your work has always been the only fredom.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 3 days ago:
I have/had ( bought for friends or myself) Anbernic 35xx, 35xx SP, rg cube x, 351 mp.
There are so many variations that it’s really personal preference. Like are you doing 16:9 games or 4:3? I wanted something for old arcades like pacman and space invaders so I got the cube. That screen ratio also happens to work well for Gameboy
Yeah Miyoo only makes a vertical and a flip. Retro game corps says the flip has some quality control problems.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 3 days ago:
I have an RP3+ but after using it a while, Android is too much of a hassle.
Miyoo Mini or Anbery equivalents running Linux are so much easier. There’s no setup- just put your roms in a folder and go. I spent hours on the Retroid just trying to to get launchers looking nice and emulators configured.
But the critical feature Android will never have is fast boot. When you hit the power on the Miyoo it saves the game state and completely powers down. It doesn’t go to sleep like Android where the bat is dead a day later. The Miyoo will have power weeks later. And because it boots in 10 seconds right into the middle of the game exactly when you hit power off, it’s not a problem to wait for a full boot.
- Comment on Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back 4 days ago:
To be fair, they were fine when adapting the books. It’s when there was no source material for the ending and they had to do their own writing that they failed.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 5 days ago:
- Comment on logs are for quitters 5 days ago:
Those are fission. Fusion bombs don’t fuse uranium. They use a fission bomb to fuse Lithium.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 5 days ago:
Using the rule of thumb, anything heavier than iron requires energy input to fuse. So you lose energy fusing uranium.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 5 days ago:
Uranium generates that energy by fission. The hydrogen in sugar could generate huge amounts of energy if fused.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Did the OP edit his post because your reply doesn’t match what he wrote at all?
- Comment on photosynthesis 1 week ago:
It could be decipherable but the jpeg prevents it.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Oh sure, it was crazy. But the sentiment behind it was good. It’s like how Howard Dean got dunked on for his scream.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
It’s weird how MS’s putting developers first became a joke. Back in the 80’s, companies like HP and IBM had open warehouses with coders at desks lined up like factory workers. MS was the first big company to give a private office to every programmer.
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 1 week ago:
Yes rarely means not never but are you going to risk your life on something that rarely works?
but to provoke your own reaction
Which means like the study showed, you should make the decision and then do it first. Because their reflex being faster will rarely make up for the lost time of you consciously deciding to shoot first.
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 1 week ago:
Fire quicker than your opponent is the essence of the duel. There’s no way to “fire early” because they are watching for you to reach for your gun.
Although I always found the genre contrived. If they were an actual threat, you’d shoot them in their sleep.
- Comment on Since militaries are authoritarian, even in democratic countries; What would a military of a stateless/anarchist society look like? 2 weeks ago:
I would expect it to look like Israel vs Palestine.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 2 weeks ago:
Only after Musk stops stalking the public. Tesla tracks everywhere you drive. X tracks every website you visit using cookies.
If Musk can know where you are at any moment with a phone call to Tesla, the public should be able to know public plane records.
- Comment on Anon watches It 2 weeks ago:
What’s the vector, Victor
- Comment on John McTiernan, director of ‘Die Hard’: ‘My movies were quite patriotic, but being in prison changed my attitude’ 2 weeks ago:
“McTiernan was sentenced for having lied to the FBI during its case against Anthony Pellicano, who was known as the private investigator of the stars.”
Lying gets you sentenced to prison?
- Comment on He's just eccentric 2 weeks ago:
Oh sure it can be a problem. My issue is with the endless videos that do nothing but categorize and diagnose.
It’s like what if there were endless videos about, “10 signs you are bad at math.”
- Comment on He's just eccentric 2 weeks ago:
I think classifying yourself can limit your growth potential. Just because you are autistic today doesn’t mean you have to stay that way. You can change yourself, if you want. If not, that’s fine too.
- Comment on He's just eccentric 2 weeks ago:
If you’re well organized your autistic, if not, you are ADHD. If you fall in the middle, you are both.
I know I’m old man shouting at clouds but it seems like social media is completely focused on classifying. It seems silly. It’s like Meyers Briggs personality tests.
