TexasDrunk
@TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 18 hours ago:
Learned skill. I spend a lot of time drunk and Android tends to do a pretty good job of guessing what I’m swiping.
I also tend to reread what I wrote when I’m drunk. I actually generally do a worse job sober because I won’t double check my work.
And it was signage displays for the dumb TVs I was thinking of, and Sharp TVs used to have unsecured wireless networks that you couldn’t really turn off, so they’d make a mesh with other smart TVs. I believe I’ve heard the same thing about Samsung as well.
Now it’s time to go jog myself sick.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 23 hours ago:
Sceptre is cheapo stuff. And at least one brand of smart TV is wardriving to find networks behind your back (again, drunk, I can’t remember which right now) and creating mesh networks with other TVs of the same type.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 23 hours ago:
Sceptre has some dumb TVs. You can also still get the display TVs that companies use. I’m drunk so I forget what they’re called.
- Comment on As a gay I can confirm 1 day ago:
Hollow and semi hollow body electric guitars do as well.
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 4 days ago:
TL;DR: yep
I use steam remote play. I’ve got a mini pc in my garage, another in my living room, and a third in my bedroom. There’s CAT 6 between my office and bedroom but the rest is wireless.
I spent more than I had to because I wanted all of them to be able to play less intense games like Hollow Knight and some emulation locally so if I have family and friends over we can have 3 games going at a time.
It’s one of the few PC tinkering projects I’ve taken on outside of work in the last several years because I’ve grown to mostly hate it. But this was super satisfying because I ended up with something that I could enjoy alone and with family.
I beat Shadow of the Erdtree on the one in the living room so it can’t be too terrible. I probably wouldn’t advise it for anyone wanting to play competitively but for casual gamers, couch co-op, RPGs, or friendly online games I can highly recommend this kind of setup.
- Comment on Forbidden magic 1 week ago:
Seconded. This is an excerpt from a comment I made the other day about it:
If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don’t exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.
Entities from other realities are listening and waiting for our computers to summon them.
- Comment on Forbidden magic 1 week ago:
I’m making this comment from a magical device that sends bottled lightning though rocks inscribed with very exact runes in order to display information from people all over the world.
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 week ago:
I’m that friend, except I’ll preface it with “You know I like a lot of garbage movies, but…”
- Comment on Nuclear Demonology 1 week ago:
it’s late December 1938
Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize
What a lady, what a night.
- Comment on Mushrooms 1 week ago:
Most of my friends are also on a spectrum.
- Comment on Mushrooms 1 week ago:
White Amanitas are lethal, never touch those, but with Muscaria you could have some fun.
These are my favorites because of their common name. Destroying Angel.
Fun fact: the survival rate without treatment is about half, but that goes up to ~90% if you get treated quickly. However, it can still destroy your liver. The toxin is thermostable so cooking doesn’t break it down. It is excreted in urine so a lot of the treatment consists of pumping you full of fluids and making you pee a lot. There is no actual antidote to the toxin.
- Comment on Hot Dinner 🍆 🍑 🥵 2 weeks ago:
Do you really think someone would just put something on the Internet that isn’t true? Is that even legal?
- Comment on Parasitic Isopods 2 weeks ago:
After the first three he doesn’t write them as pastiches of other authors and I think they get better.
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
It’s that in black. That Colt is going to feel much better, though.
Northeast Texas. I’ve got a buddy up there with some land and we have to go clear them out a couple of times a year. They tear up everything. He lost a dog to them a few years ago and now we go out there like clockwork instead of waiting for them to get closer to the house.
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
I have a Hi-Point .45 pistol and that pretty accurately describes it (the weight is fine but the balance is weird and makes it feel terrible).
I use it as a close range backup when I’m hog hunting. I’ve only had to use it once and it worked just fine. It literally saved me from being at least maimed and possibly dead but I still hate it. And I’ll keep using it until it stops working, which may be the apocalypse.
- Comment on Parasitic Isopods 2 weeks ago:
If you enjoyed this fun fact, start reading The Laundry Files by Charles Stross. Once you get to book 4 come back here and thank me. Tongue eating isopods from beyond the stars play a role there, and appear briefly later in one of his New Management books, although I don’t have the page handy so I’m not sure which one.
Their nastier cousins make an appearance later in the Laundry Files, but I’ll leave what they do a mystery.
If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don’t exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.
- Comment on Anon trades and barters 2 weeks ago:
I was jokingly pretending to be one of those people you banned.
- Comment on Anon trades and barters 2 weeks ago:
I know you can’t see this because you blocked me, but in my defense I never posed as anything other than what I am.
- Comment on Support local bands 2 weeks ago:
I hope you showered shortly after. I hear it’s contagious.
- Comment on Support local bands 2 weeks ago:
I get drunk and fight drummers and I support this message.
- Comment on It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it? 2 weeks ago:
The reason there were so many movies based on Stephen King works for so long is both because he has a large catalogue and because up until the last couple of years if you met certain criteria you could license a bunch of his stuff for $1. He had a whole program set up for it that only ended because the woman who was in charge of it since the very beginning finally retired.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 2 weeks ago:
You’ve never been proud of me at all!
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
Hey, I’m sorry I missed you while I was in town. I love your face anyway and now I’m out here in H-town making bad decisions.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never had a bad con experience, luckily enough. I love Billy Zane, but I’m afraid if I ever meet him I’ll just ramble about Winter Dragon.
Now I have things to do. I’ll catch you either later this evening or tomorrow.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
Frakes was supposed to be here but he has family stuff or something going on. I’m excited about LeVar Burton but I’m afraid I’m going to sit on the floor crying and singing the Reading Rainbow song.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
It’s only unpopular because you’re doing it to get them to vote for me. They all know I’m no good.
On an unrelated note, what are you doing up so late? I’m only up because I’m about to head to SA. My buddy has an extra Saturday ticket to Space Con and I’m going to drunkenly and shamelessly flirt with Kate Mulgrew since I don’t think Eugene Cordero or George Takei will be there.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely fucking not. I’m way more drunk than bigFab. I’m already handing out pamphlets that say “Vote TheFartographer for a fart in every pot and gas in every ass”. I don’t know what it means either, but I definitely voted for you.
- Comment on Waterboy 3 weeks ago:
No Colonel Sanders, you’re wrong! Mama’s right!
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
Sugar or HFCS? I’m actually asking because I don’t know, not to be snotty.
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago: