umbraroze
@umbraroze@slrpnk.net
- Comment on In these uncertain times, it's more important than ever to be discerning and to make sure to get your info from a reliable source. 1 week ago:
I’m old enough to have eaten burgers out of styro boxes, and IMHO it’s not one of the things I get nostalgic over. They held heat a little bit longer than cardboard/paper, but that’s basically the only advantage.
The places here that offer kebab/fries and sausage/grilled whatever to go still use larger styro trays here, and they’re less convenient and sturdy than the styro burgerware was. I’m actually hoping someone comes up with an alternative.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 1 week ago:
It baffles me people don’t call it a “clickity-clunk” genre.
Foreign terms always make things sound fancier than they actually are!
- Comment on I'm trains 1 week ago:
I sank quite a bit of time and money on Train Sim World on Xbox. Now looking at stuff on PC, will probably get SimRail or something
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 week ago:
Large bottles are sold as “2 liter soda”…that’s it.
I’m from Finland. It never stops being weird when Americans talk about 2 liter sodas. First, it being in liters, and second, 2 liter sodas are huuuuge. (Large bottles are usually 1.5 liters here.)
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 1 week ago:
By the way, speaking of changed colours of planets: if you haven’t been keeping up with the latest news in space imagery and want a real mindbender, check out what has recently happened to Neptune. You may have been thinking, ooooh, what an enthralling blue planet! - bzzzzzt, turns out it’s a pretty bland and boring gas giant, the colours were exaggerated on purpose because otherwise you can’t see shit.
- Comment on Quiver, ladies, quiver 2 weeks ago:
My girly thought process is actually quite similar:
- Comment on Any day now 2 weeks ago:
In YouTube, Berm Peak channel folks bought an e-bike from a bankrupt app company, and went on to replace the control unit (plus sensors and the panel). Doable but not painless. Folks in the comments pointed out that a lot of the control units are reprogrammable, though - swap the SIM card and send new settings over SMS.
- Comment on SlopOS 11 2 weeks ago:
I literally had to write a clock app on my own because Windows clock is pretty bad.
I was thinking that they’ll just replace the clock with Copilot eventually.
Windows 11: “It’s 11 pm sharp. I know that because I looked at the RTC.”
Windows 12: “It’s 11 pm sharp. That’s a phrase people like to say, apparently.”
…Don’t give Microsoft any ideas.
- Comment on It is a multi-purpose tool 2 weeks ago:
Maybe, just maybe, I use a lighter to light half a dozen candles, so I can get to the right headspace to play Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader?
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 3 weeks ago:
Another fun reptile fact!
Tortoises are mostly herbivorous. However, many species of tortoises will not stop munching on leaves where snails are sitting. They are happy to eat snails for the protein. And also to demonstrate the snails that turtles are significantly faster!
(Also I wish I had one particular video at hand, of Galapagos tortoises eating pumpkins)
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 4 weeks ago:
[insert that meme of a cat peeking behind a snow bank going “wtf they’re doing over there” or something]
Last time I was blown away by graphics was when I started up my brand new Xbox 360 and played Bioshock and was like “whoooa, reflections, water effects, whoooa”. Everything since has been a mild gradual improvement.
In fact, I expect this stuff to be mild improvements you can barely notice unless you’re specifically looking for it. Don’t make it big and don’t stir drama, Nvidia.
And just about the last thing you want to tell people is “you know what, we’re doing a giant leap here, you’ll better buy new hardware now.” …In this fucking economy.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 month ago:
Episode 230: Google
“…over there, you can see a YouTubeAI datacenter on fire. It’s not supposed to be like that.” - Roz, probably - Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 month ago:
My feeling on Xbox since Xbox One days has been pretty much “this is an awesome platform, you’re sitting on a gold mine Microsoft, what the fuck are you doing?”
The last bit of brilliance they did utilise properly was GamePass, and of course they cocked that up by getting greedy.
Last few years have been extremely rough. The only lucky thing about this is that instead of full Xbox exclusivity Microsoft was pushing Xbox/Windows cross functionality. …Yeah, I’ve been pivoting to PC, but Steam/GOG instead.
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 1 month ago:
I was about to ask “I’m mildly concerned, are American Evangelicals okay?” but then I remembered there has never been a time when they have been okay, so I don’t know why am I even asking.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 1 month ago:
A significant chunk of American pop culture of the past decades is based on the premise that The Government is Hiding Something.
Trump’s going to throw a big wrench in that by releasing fucking everything. Except a few things. A few great secrets.
I swear American pop culture in the coming century or so is just going to be The Government is Hiding The Epstein Files, over and over and over.
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 1 month ago:
I just went grocery shopping and oh wow looks like onions are nice and cheap and domestic.
Early this week I was cutting onions (figuratively), I feel better now that I’m cutting onions (literally). Made some tacos. Things are good.
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 2 months ago:
I hope the locals were like “I didn’t know which car to boo for, so I booed to all of them”
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 months ago:
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 months ago:
Oh thank goodness, I saw the link in the photo is to Roosh V forum, and I was like, hell no, I’m not going there
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 months ago:
I’ve said this before, but “AI vegan” is a pretty odd term. It’d imply that using AI is somehow a default, entrenched, normalised thing. That not using AI is going against the status quo.
This makes as much sense as calling Linux users “Windows vegans”. Go on. Go say that to some Linux user’s face, I’m waiting.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 months ago:
There’s like a boatload of really classic Xbox 360/One era games that I’d love to play on PC.
Problem is they were made by Ubisoft or EA. Repurchasing them is already dubious from the get-go, but chances are the versions in Steam, if they’re still there at all, are old neglected buggy builds. And things are not much rosier on the Uplay or Origin! They may have gotten a patch or two, but old shit’s janky. These need the GOG treatment.
I did get the Mass Effect trilogy rerelease for a pittance. Also found out I somehow had Dragon Age Origins already. These should keep me occupied for a while, as (to paraphrase a certain video game villain) at this very moment, EA burns.
- Comment on So disappointing 2 months ago:
“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the radness of the rave…”
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 2 months ago:
Long ago, in Finland, the election night live coverage was on YLE TV1 and there was some other show on TV2. Since they both had the same Teletext pages and the same subtitle pages, someone posted online some choice screenshots.
(Don’t remember much, besides one with the main reporter guy, with the subtitles going like “goddamn it”.)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’m in Finland. I sometimes say stuff like “oh it’s -30°C today. It’s getting just a little bit nippy.”
A friend of mine in California is like “Jesus Christ what are you talking about” and yes, he can convert that
- Comment on I liek tudles 2 months ago:
Ancient shellmaster! Awww.
- Comment on I'm there! 3 months ago:
I would totally go to a camp that involved turtle weighing. Any activity involving turtles, really! They’re so shelly aww
- Comment on Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘ 3 months ago:
Well, there aren’t any real scientific definitions but there sure are legal and regulatory definitions.
(I haven’t checked the local requirements but there’s micro voltage, low voltage and high voltage. Micro voltage is basically anything below 12v - for anything above that you need to be a certified electrician. Doubly so if you go to triple digits)
- Comment on Al hg g y8vivoycoxt7 ez6ez6rxrx;;; lol 3 months ago:
What do publishers do? Editing, layout, other parts of design (e.g. covers), most importantly printing, marketing and distribution.
Oh you mean what do scientific publishers do? Um… that’s a good one, huh… they just kinda take the money and leave everyone else to do the actual work?
- Comment on Grim Statistics 3 months ago:
The Church of Alpha the Utterly Indifferent, from “The Songs of Distant Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke?
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 3 months ago:
Having really hard time converting Kindle books lately, especially since last time I tried this, the deDRM plugin couldn’t handle the newest Kindle for PC versions. Is there an easy way that doesn’t involve getting a physical Kindle device? Does the Android thing work?
