ekky
@ekky@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Scary stuff and it wasn't that long ago 3 days ago:
“Big Handsome Men in you local area want to help you. Click now!”
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but going to a proper restaurant tends to cost a bit more than doing it yourself.
Like, making some roasted pork with steamed veggies, sauce, and potatoes takes some 10+40 minutes of preparation and about 10 minutes of cleanup, and it costs me about 25$ (and is, of course, not including any deals). That’s for 4 grownups, plus some leftovers for lunch next day.
Obviously food and restaurant prices differ wildly depending on where you live, but I’m not sure I could get a decent and healthy takeout/restaurant meal for less than 60$ for 4 people in my area (assuming that 4 kebabs can be considered “decent and healthy”).
That’d leave me with a hourly “food-wage” of roughly 35$ (or 75$ if we’d assume 100$ for takeout), which I think is acceptable. I’d not make more than that after taxes either way.
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 2 weeks ago:
And now we have those who’d rather work for recreation, and those who’d rather work as recreation. I can find better things to spend my money on than food.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Nice. The first computer I had all to myself had Vista, it thought me how to fix my own stuff after random crashes. I ditched Windows shortly after the end of support for windows 7, after having entirely skipped 8, and then witnessing Microsoft themselves skipping 9 for the shitshow that was 10.
- Comment on One of those days 3 months ago:
Might be. I’ve never seen it used that way, though, I know that some people prefer parentheses around the fraction to the right of integers.
That said, even Wolframalpha appears to disagree, which I find mildly funny if what you say is true.
- Comment on Could someone please explain/Tldr the Subnautica 2 controversy? I liked the first one, but I'm severely out of the loop. 6 months ago:
The Krafton leadership blessed the execs projects, which meant they were totally aware well in advance.
- Comment on Panama Proxima 6 months ago:
Imma use this as world map for my next Pen&Paper campaign.
- Comment on The good old days 6 months ago:
Me to my hairline: Stop right there, criminal scum!
- Comment on oops 7 months ago:
Plastic gotta be this age’s lead/quicksilver.
- Comment on >:( 7 months ago:
- Comment on Discord CTO says he’s “constantly bringing up enshittification” during meetings 8 months ago:
It’s still in beta and audio appears to not always work when streaming. Though, there’s recent activity on the related issues, so hopefully it gets out of beta before Discord alienates the regular user.
I tested it a few days ago and besides the audio problem it appears to work very well.
- Comment on If the entirety of the internet was a computer simulation how would prove it? 8 months ago:
Was about to point this out. I’d just go to one of my IRL friends and have him send me an E-Mail/PM/whatever while i watch him do it.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
By extension it’s unethical to operate any powered vehicle, and by extension it’s unethical to use any device requiring (combustible) fuel and/or electricity.
Electric planes exist, they’re just not very popular.
- Comment on Can l post on Mastodon social, floss social right from here ? If yes, then how ? 9 months ago:
Had a hunch that might’ve been you! At least it works one way, which I suppose was what you asked about. :)
Though, would be nice if I also could see my mastadon comments on lemmy. :/
- Comment on Can l post on Mastodon social, floss social right from here ? If yes, then how ? 9 months ago:
I still cannot see it from lemmy, even when using a webbrowser. :/
I can see that debaashish@mastadon.social has responded to my comment made from mastadon, could you please try to respond to it too?
For clarity, the comment made by ekky@sopuli.xyz (the one you just responded to) was just in case people could not see the comment made by ekky@mastadon.social
Also, the image of my lemmy comment doesn’t seem to show on mastadon.
- Comment on Can l post on Mastodon social, floss social right from here ? If yes, then how ? 9 months ago:
Hmmm, it appears that I can see you on Mastadon, but the comment I made on there doesn’t seem to federate back.
Screenshot as proof, and link to my comment: mastodon.social/@ekky/114401045155643538
- Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 1 year ago:
I’m a little confused by that statement. Where should locally installed (non-sudo) applications, such as virtual python envs who are accessed by multiple other not-necessarily-python apps or perhaps baloo, flatpak, etc, store their shared data? I’m rather convinced that giving all users write access to /usr/share is a terrible idea.
- Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 1 year ago:
That’s respectable! But yeah, the FHS is something that’s surprisingly hard to find in-depth information about if you don’t already know about it.
I think this page from systemd (or this page from the arch wiki, if you prefer formatting) has a decent description of not only the FHS, but also the more standard user/home structures.
- Comment on Developers: "Yes, the users love cluttered homes, just put everything there and ignore guidelines" 1 year ago:
- Comment on I hate when this happens 1 year ago:
Mmmmh, thunderflies.
I just LOVE when my new monitor has 5 dead bugs within half a year. Though, I don’t think I’ve ever found a hair.
- Comment on Good night, sleep tight... 1 year ago:
I somehow remember that it didn’t fit last I tried it, but playing around with the demo, it feels like it’s fills all the holes.
Thank you, I’ll try setting it up and see how it goes.
- Comment on Good night, sleep tight... 1 year ago:
Hmmm, seems much the same as catbox, except that you need a click more to get the image link but gives you more options in return.
What I’m really interested in would be a (preferably) self hosted solution which allows one to share either single images or albums with visible (but non-obscuring) labels, and where one can easily flip through images in an album. Also needs batch upload (can be by FTP, the method doesn’t matter much). I’ve tried Pixelfed half a year ago, and while I really wanted to like it, it didn’t really have proper albums and labels at the time.
Hosts like Postimages and Catbox are fine, I guess, much like Discord is “fine, I guess”, but I don’t want to spam the host by uploading an image 50 times for 50 different posts, and no way that I’m gonna check all previously uploaded images whether I’ve already uploaded the one I need.
- Comment on Good night, sleep tight... 1 year ago:
Thank you, and it absolutely is, but I’m lazy and haven’t yet found a proper solution for hosting images.
I sometimes host smaller images like the above on Catbox, but Imgur, Catbox, and other similar sites feel just as clunky and unfit as Discord. At least to me.
- Comment on Good night, sleep tight... 1 year ago:
Don’t forget to put all your clothes, bags, and other belongings in the freezer for a week when you come home.
I sheltered two people during the storm surge last year and I think they brought in bed bugs, though I didn’t wait long enough to properly confirm other than the itching and bite marks. In other words, the floor still has “bubble marks” from when the varnish started cooking during my week-long extermination craze.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 1 year ago:
I think i read that fighter pilots need to be able to identify a plane in one frame at 300 fps, and that the theoretical limit of the eye is 1000+ fps.
Though, whether the brain can manage to process the data at 1000+ fps is questionable.
- Comment on u can just do stuff 1 year ago:
Hurr hurr, I’m gonna plot f(x,y)=x^2+y^3 where y=x for x limit inf. Checkmate science!
- Comment on Anon wants more pizza 1 year ago:
Yeah, we’ve noticed you taking the joke and reference rather seriously.
- Comment on elucidating 🤌🏼 1 year ago:
“Knowledge is never useless”
Going on a tangent here: While I fully agree with the above, there is an amount of knowledge after which fact checking becomes bothersome, and some people just skip fact checking overall. One could argue that, while knowledge is never useless, unchecked knowledge might become bothersome or dangerous.
See flatearthers, scientology, etc. for extreme examples.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks some Linux dual-boots in a recent Windows update 1 year ago:
Huh, is Windows screwing over GRUB and Linux not a bi-monthly experience anymore? Sad that it happened, but glad that it’s become novelty enough to write about.
- Comment on Corn 🌽 1 year ago:
We get to choose the genes when genetically modifying, and it usually takes a few years (plus health metrics and research once complete).
Contrary, when selectively breeding we can breed for traits which we are not guaranteed to actually get, and it takes a few decades (plus health metrics and research once complete).
