jqubed

@jqubed@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never written a game FAQ but when I’ve done documentation for other things on a computer I’ve found that I prefer recording myself doing the task and then writing the guide while going back through the video. It’s too easy to skip steps otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nanananana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Top right looks a little like Godzilla

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely spongeworthy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a strong preference for Dobie Pads, and found their version inferior

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely spongeworthy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How well did they work if she still became a mom, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely spongeworthy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the birth control sponge still available?

  Yes. Though the birth control sponge was taken off the market in 1994 – and again in 2008 – it was reintroduced for a second time in 2009.

  Why was the birth control sponge discontinued?

  The birth control sponge was introduced in 1983, but was discontinued in 1994 after FDA inspectors discovered bacterial contamination at its manufacturing plant. The sponge reemerged in 2005 under new ownership. The new owners promoted the product and then sold it to another company – a business that went bankrupt in 2007. A new distributor picked up the birth control sponge in 2009, and the product has been sold nationwide since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Username relevant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically started on Apple II at school, at home we first got a 286 PC compatible running Windows 3.1 and some version of DOS, then in 5th/6th grade had a little exposure to Macs at school before switching to schools where everything was Windows. Didn’t touch a Mac again until college and it was another 8 years or so before I got comfortable with them. Now I barely touch Windows and am starting to get into Linux and have my eye on potentially trying some variants of BSD also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is commercial/industrial service is normally 3-phase but residential service is typically only single-phase. Wikipedia says that gets supplied as two 120V AC lines that are 180° out of phase with each other along with a shared neutral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are computer chips designed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the book and would you recommend it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you even old enough to remember number 1?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a toy version of number 1. My first was number 4 or a similar model, a hand-me-down from my dad when I started driving and he upgraded to number 5. We actually found number 4 while clearing out the house when moving my parents a couple years ago. Not sure why they still had it; it had been years since anyone used it when they moved in almost 20 years earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you even old enough to remember number 1?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes my dad would bring that last one home from his job if he was going on a business trip. I remember on one or two occasions he also came home with a Lincoln Town Car that I think was a company vehicle mostly driven by the company president and it had a car phone in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail Passwords Confirmed As Part Of 183 Million Account Data Leak⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not a breach of 183 million Gmail account passwords. This is a collection of credentials, largely stolen by infostealer malware and circulating among cyber criminals, which was collected by a security researcher and passed on to Have I Been Pwned. Over 90% of the data has already been seen in previous releases.

  Adding the details of website URLs, email addresses and passwords to the Have I Been Pwned database, owner Troy Hunt said the data consisted of both “stealer logs and credential stuffing lists” including confirmed Gmail login credentials.

  The “confirmed Gmail login” bit comes from contacting one of the victims at random to verify the data and he confirmed the password was his Gmail password. It doesn’t appear to be a Gmail breach, just the results of credential stealing happened to include some people logging into Gmail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're calling again.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to watch more Frasier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting Taco Bell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, that’s pretty decent pay in Knoxville! Tough to add 90 minutes of round trip travel on top of that, though. I wish you the best in that, and hope you’re able to find some steadier work as well. I kind of enjoyed it but being away from my wife and kid in the evening weighed on me after a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting Taco Bell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did that a time or two when I hadn’t Dashed in a while. It worked as a way to my numbers up. I also got around $15/hour. That wasn’t great to me because at that time I was typically getting at least $20/hour and trying for more than $25. But it was harder to get those good orders when I hadn’t done it in a few months. It’s been about a year since I’ve Dashed; have they made it worse for drivers in that time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendnesday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wendsday

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting Taco Bell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasted enough time at Taco Bell I started turning down those orders unless the tip was really good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP said it’s US District court, and I think the federal courts tend to be stricter. It might vary from district to district, not sure about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was that US or State court?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Xbox developer kits are getting a big price hike⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand it’s not just impacting US developers, as the price of these development kits is also going up across Europe and elsewhere. That’s likely because those “macroeconomic” conditions extend beyond just US tariffs, with currency fluctuations, production costs, and other elements impacting pricing.

  I’m thinking they don’t sell that many dev kits so maybe the price is going up for Europe also simply because all of the kits ship from China to Redmond and get distributed to the rest of the world from there. Like, I kind of doubt they even build and sell enough in a year to fill a single shipping container.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s out here deep frying crepes? American county/state fair vendors?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Share your poops!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s why the fancy hotels had phones next to the toilet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does you feel Crash Team Racing was better than Mario Kart?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience was only playing at friends’ houses who had Play Stations, but I never felt like one was better than the other. I appreciated the mechanic of upgrading items helped to give a different element to the game instead of it being the same thing Nintendo was doing but with different characters. What we really played a lot with friends, though, was Battle Mode on Mario Kart. I don’t think CTR had that, or else no one thought it was as good. It really hasn’t been as good in Mario Kart either since the Wii version I’d say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild Seals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I now plan to use “the morals of a seagull” whenever I can

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any old yearbooks? You might recognize him in there and at least be able to remember his name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Share your poops!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We used to keep diaries like civilized people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You dont have to answer silly questions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord is really a terrible place to discuss issues and how-to’s. Whatever happened to just having a forum? Topics and threads keep things organized better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a welcoming party⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Set up a camera and run the video to a nearby viewing room

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure but I’m trying to look (not very actively right now, though). Amazon seems to keep updates going for 6 years or so but I’d prefer to not be in such a closed ecosystem. There’s certainly an attraction to an Android-based system. Google has been pushing for suppliers to provide longer Android support but it doesn’t seem like many smaller suppliers have been doing that still. Of course, if you disable internet access and only load files over USB then it’s less of a concern, but then you lose out on some of the Android benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i hunger⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who would win? A railroad speed champion or one grassy pile?