Onomatopoeia
@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program 12 hours ago:
Such a fun game too.
There also was a free add-on/extension (something) called Jack that was a short game.
- Comment on Which fly came first? 1 week ago:
Fly, as in the insect, is from proto-Germanic, so very old.
Fly - Etymology, Origin & Meaning www.etymonline.com/word/fly
- Comment on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says 1 week ago:
To any social media company?
- Comment on Fucking why though? Are cows endangered? 2 weeks ago:
This.
Time and space are major impacts to the cost when aging.
And cheese needs to be moved when aging. Like flipped over. This is done all day, every day, at the larger places, because they have so many blocks of cheese.
It’s similar to things like alcohol. Champagne bottles must be turned every day. Whiskey in barrels loses upwards of 2% per year as it ages, so a 40 year old cask has lost eighty percent of it’s volume, while sitting in a cellar and taking up space.
- Comment on What do ambulances do with patients cars? 3 weeks ago:
This is like the joke “If a plane crashes on the border of two countries, where do they bury the survivors?”
If you a had an accident bad enough to go to the hospital in an ambulance, it’s unlikely your vehicle is driveable.
- Comment on What do ambulances do with patients cars? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on He's living the dream! 3 weeks ago:
Who said you can’t hang a curtain outside the door? Just get a spring loaded curtain rod.
Don’t let the man tell you how to live!
- Comment on Apple calls for changes to anti-monopoly laws and says it may stop shipping to the EU 3 weeks ago:
It may stop shipping to the EU
Lol, right. Talk about an empty threat.
iPhone has about a 30% market share in the EU, which means Android is about 70% (I’m sure there’s probably 2% that’s something else).
Apple stops shipping to EU, that will drop to 5%, giving away 25% market share.
Pleas Apple, stop shipping to the EU, when you become a bit player everywhere but the US, you’ll have to start competing by opening up.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
All of this kind of garbage is AI now.
- Comment on Is English just badly pronounced French? 4 weeks ago:
30% is high. It may have a lot of words from French, but they aren’t necessarily pronounced in a French way - they often become Englishized (Germanized?).
English is squarely a Germanic creole, with French being the single greatest contributor (courtesy of the 1066 Norman Invasion).
Today and English speaker can nominally understand middle English, and learn it in perhaps a week. I learned both Spanish and French, and French is so removed from English I can’t say I know it even today.
- Comment on Is English just badly pronounced French? 4 weeks ago:
No, it isn’t.
It’s a Germanic language* with a strong French influence, and the influence of pretty much every other language.
*A Germanic language is one that comes from the same precursor language that produced German.
Any linguist would tell you this, it’s pretty surface-level stuff.
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 4 weeks ago:
So… Pay it on the 15th?
Or, get a different card that permits this?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Anon buys a car 5 weeks ago:
Then a used car purchased for 25% less (or more) would’ve been an even greater value.
My last purchase was a 3 year old car from a small dealer that I paid half the new price - they depreciate that hard rolling off the lot. And it was in perfect condition.
Fuck buying new.
- Comment on Bosch dishwasher needs app for many neccessary features 5 weeks ago:
Because I cook, and need that stuff back. I don’t have all day, I gotta cook again in a few hours.
- Comment on Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC 5 weeks ago:
From a cooling standpoint, you probably don’t want go any smaller than a Small Form Factor desktop. These are large enough to have a proper heatsink and fan on the cpu, enough space for a dedicated video card, have the motherboard connections for a card, large enough power supply, and can support a case fan.
Mini desktops have minimal cooling capacity, definitely no case fan.
For example, I run a Dell SFF (OptiPlex 7050) as a server for virtual machines, Jellyfin host, file server, and media converter. It’s an older machine with an 80 watt power supply, no case fan, and the stock cooler/fan is fortunately well designed.
That stock cooler also evacuates the case, but can’t move enough air to keep the large drive I installed at reasonable temps. Adding a case fan dropped the drive temps by more than 20F.
Without the sizeable cpu cooler and it’s fan, there’s no way to keep the cpu cool when doing anything more than basic desktop functions. A mini pc would quickly overheat.
- Comment on Bosch dishwasher needs app for certain features 5 weeks ago:
Surveillance is too tempting, and the idiots of the world keep buying this crap.
- Comment on Bosch dishwasher needs app for many neccessary features 5 weeks ago:
Hahaha.
I just replaced a 20 year old dishwasher with it’s newer equivalent: it has a grand total of 3 cycle options.
Screw this surveillance nonsense. Why does a dishwasher need connectivity?
- Comment on Can a Brit confirm this? 5 weeks ago:
Scotch Eggs… Omfg, those are fucking incredible.
- Comment on Why is it just ChoMo s have their identity and address released to the media? I get for the kids but would also like to know if I am living next to a murderer or serial meth maker or whatever? 1 month ago:
A type of document?
Now I’m really confused.
- Comment on Why is it just ChoMo s have their identity and address released to the media? I get for the kids but would also like to know if I am living next to a murderer or serial meth maker or whatever? 1 month ago:
Wtf if a ChoMo?
- Comment on Canadian Workplace Safety PSA 1 month ago:
Wish I could upvote twice!
- 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) 1 month ago:
It’s not required, it just seems required to non-technical people (I know, potato/potato, it’s effectively required).
- 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) 1 month ago:
Linux is servers.
Hell, VMware migrated to a Linux base a while back, and with their new exorbitant pricing, large environments are switching to things like Proxmox.
The next ten years, VMware will be second string virtualization, even in data centers.
I’m not sure what’s going to happen, but there was a “BIOS War” in the 80’s,when IBM wouldn’t release their BIOS code, so other devs reverse engineered it. No reason why that couldn’t happen again.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Hell, forward that to DOL - they’ll surely take a dim view of what that jackass is doing.
- Comment on The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid 1 month ago:
Um, duh?
- Comment on When something still uses micro USB in 2025 1 month ago:
Yep.
Re-engineering is expensive, and so is the licensing of USB-C (along with the port cost, and revamping the manufacturing process).
The device would no longer be inexpensive, and it has no need of USB-C capability.
There’s lots more involved than just the port connector itself.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s not about being a “bad dad”. The question is whether this is reasonable with this specific kid. Pros/cons, risks, etc.
- Comment on Is VHS back? No, but I bought a 'new' VHS release. (Techmoan) 2 months ago:
I haven’t had a VHS since 1999
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 2 months ago:
I mean you picked an American car company. They’ve been garbage for decades, I’ve owned exactly one, a 90’s Taurus, probably the most reliable American car we’ve seen in decades, and it just barely approaches Japanese cars for reliability and maintenance.
I say this as someone who’s worked on every brand of car, from the 1940’s to today. You can’t give me an American car (or German, or just European). I refuse to own anything other than Honda or Toyota any more. I’ll sacrifice style and features for a vehicle that just works for 100-200k miles, or more.
Buick has been a style-over-substance brand in the GM lineup since the 80’s, at least. Not that any GM is particularly good, Buick just makes it worse with cheap gimmicks. Same with all Chrysler products.
But yea, all brands include some nonsense today.
