toddestan
@toddestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I have to agree. Vista was a dud, but there were a number of legitimate improvements made over Windows XP. Windows 11 is just a worse Windows 10. Other than maybe tabs in the Explorer, I can’t think of anything they’ve made better and a whole lot they made worse.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 6 days ago:
Even assuming you start with room temperature water, it’d be several hours before you start feeling the effects of hypothermia. Given the water starts off warm, it’s only a bathtub of water so body heat will keep it above room temperature, and you’re (probably) in a small room that’ll help hold in the heat, I’d say you’d more than likely be okay assuming you don’t sleep more than 8-10 hours. If you pass out in the tub for something like 16-24 hours then I’d be more worried.
In some ways, I’d be more concerned about what would happen in the drain plug wasn’t completely watertight and the water drained away, particularly if you weren’t naked and were wearing clothing that holds in water like cotton.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 6 days ago:
More like they become reusable. A lot of places that refurbish donated computers for people who need them are perpetually short on drives since so much of the hardware they get have the drives pulled.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen the line drawn a few different places, but generally Gen Z starts at around 1996-1998 or so. In any case, the oldest Gen Z have been drinking age for a while.
- Comment on Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining? 1 month ago:
It’s the latter for all of the Bluetooth audio protocols that I’ve worked with.
- Comment on Looks legit. What do you all think? 1 month ago:
The van itself doesn’t make sense. It’s a weird mashup of Ford and Chevy styling and details, with a bit of Dodge thrown in for good measure. It’s actually pretty plausible and very realistic looking but that’s not a Chevy van (nor is it a Ford or a Dodge with a badge transplant). Some thing with all the cars in the background. They are all very plausible but I can’t actually ID any of them.
Either someone has been busy with Photoshop, or the AI stuff is getting scary good.
- Comment on Looks legit. What do you all think? 1 month ago:
Smells like AI slop to me…
- Comment on Word. 1 month ago:
The problem is everyone expects Calc to be Excel, including full compatibility with reading and writing of Excel’s file formats. As Excel is a constantly moving target, following that path means you’ll forever be a second-rate Excel that’ll never quite be fully compatible.
I find Calc to be a fine spreadsheet program myself, though I’m hardly a power user. If you want to use Excel, then just go use Excel.
- Comment on Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB 2 months ago:
Earlier this year I needed a SSD for a PC I was going to use as a router. The smallest drive Microcenter had was 256 GB, which was massive overkill. It was also priced at $19, so I was like whatever and bought it.
With the massive increases in price for flash memory, maybe we’ll start seeing smaller drives again.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
That’s exactly how it works, well other than me having the dates off as the Boomers weren’t even born when Social Security was enacted by FDR. When Social Security was enacted, retirees started receiving benefits even if they never paid into the system, which was paid for by the current workers who were paying into the system. It’s been like that ever since. Social Security is also not a pension.
You are correct that for most people would be better off investing their Social Security taxes into a hedge fund but workers don’t really have a choice in the matter.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
That’s not how Social Security works. The money the Boomers paid into the system went to paying benefits for the previous generations. The benefits the Boomers (at least the ones that have retired) are getting now is being paid by the workers in the younger generations. While it’s true the program has run a surplus, if the young taxpayers stopped paying into the system that surplus wouldn’t last very long.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
Not that I disagree, but 90 would be silent generation.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 2 months ago:
If I really wanted something like that, I’d just buy a dumb fridge and rig up a camera inside of it.
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 3 months ago:
There’s always Don’t Starve which definitely fits the mood, though I’ve always found that game insanely difficult.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
If you use the book’s pace of 4 MPH, which is actually what many people would consider a brisk walk, would take 75-100 hours, or around 3-4 days. That’s a long time to stay up without sleeping, let alone being physically active the entire time. I’d guess someone who is reasonably fit might be able to do half of that before collapsing. Perhaps someone who was using drugs or doping might be able to do it.
- Comment on Just got this flyer in the mail today. 4 months ago:
Summer is ending up here in the Northern hemisphere, so I’m going with this being in New Zealand, so it’s about $4600 US.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 5 months ago:
To me, Fahrenheit is a lot like inches and feet for carpentry. As in it’s fine for things like describing the weather and setting my house’s thermostat. It mostly falls apart for must other things, though it’s still okay for cooking and baking. From a scientific perspective, any temperature scale that isn’t zero at absolute zero is nonsense, so it’s pretty much Kelvin or bust.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 5 months ago:
I’d assume that if we are ever communicating with aliens and trying to figure out each other’s way of expressing numbers and doing math, dimensionless constants like pi, Euler’s number (e), the fine structure constant, etc. will be important first steps. As you say, our units of measure are purely human inventions. But the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter is the same no matter what units you use to make the measurement.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 5 months ago:
Not really. The pieces are already in place with UEFI and Secure Boot. All that would need to happen would be to force Secure Boot to be enabled, and only preload keys for an approved list of operating systems. With that, your fancy new motherboard may not be able to boot and run the OS of your choice.
- Comment on These totally legitimate comments 6 months ago:
I’m sure Google is perfectly capable of auto-filtering crap like that if they wanted to. They just don’t give a shit.
- Comment on I require nothing more 7 months ago:
Some rope lights would be a nice touch.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 7 months ago:
That 1990’s McDonald’s picture is the specific restaurant that was across the entrance from the Dallas Zoo, hence the animal theme. While it’s now remodeled and much more dull, it still looked like the picture up until just a few years ago. In any case, it’s not typical of what a McDonald’s has ever looked like.
As someone born around the same time as you, I do remember when the typical McDonald’s had a bright red roof with the yellow lights, which the 2000’s pic is a toned-down version of.
- Comment on I've got something special for you 8 months ago:
It works out for Dvorak.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 8 months ago:
Depending on what they are doing, it can be a form of sea-lioning.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 10 months ago:
I don’t think it’s incompetence, exactly. If you’re not going to pay for Photoshop (Lightroom, Audition, etc…), Adobe would rather you use a pirated Photoshop as opposed to learning something else. Because even a pirated version helps them keep their stranglehold on the market.
It’s the same reason Microsoft doesn’t really crack down on pirated versions of Windows.
- Comment on Meal prep 1 year ago:
Boiling a mug of water by blowing hot air on it is going to take a while. My guess is if someone was to try this (which I don’t recommend) it’s going to take longer than 10-12 minutes.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 1 year ago:
The only two games I have that I’ve put more than 1000 hours in are Factorio and Rimworld. I’d highly recommend both.
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 1 year ago:
It’s not actually wrong, but it certainly didn’t answer the actual question.
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 1 year ago:
I got all but one achievement in Subnautica, and all of the achievements in Below Zero (the sequel) in my first playthrough of both games, just from taking my time and thoroughly exploring both of the worlds and completing the story.
With that said, they are open world games and at times don’t really give you a whole of guidance as to what you need to do next. So you are kind of left to explore and figure it out on your own. If you don’t like that sort of game you might end up hating them by the end too.
- Comment on Basically a van 1 year ago:
I was always a bit impressed by those shuttles. They are warp capable and apparently capable of maintaining warp speed for at least several weeks. Not bad for something the size of a large van.