tankfox
@tankfox@midwest.social
- Comment on If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras? 1 week ago:
Rick and Morty did this once, Rick simply put on a hat with a QR code that made a robot army recognize him as a high level commander.
A few days ago I read a short story,
comp.basilisk.faqby David Langford, which sketched a world in which specific images could irreversibly crash the brain, leading to a full scale worldwide ban on images on the internet and many other places as well. The story postulated hundreds of potential info-hazards with many of them simple enough to be applied via stencil and spray paint. Two of them are branch families of the Mandelbrot set ‘and no we won’t tell you where, do not look’Other examples; Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson Blit — David Langford The Atrocity Archives — Charles Stross Doctor Who — “Blink” / “The Time of the Doctor” SCP Foundation — SCP-096 SCP-7387 (“The Mathematician’s Grin”)
“Keep your eyes peeled or we’ll peel them for your wholesale!”
- Comment on When one earbud decides to not charge and I need to remove it from the case and put it back. And I even sometimes don't realize that... 2 weeks ago:
about the same as the last pair of $7 wired earbuds did; good enough.
- Comment on When one earbud decides to not charge and I need to remove it from the case and put it back. And I even sometimes don't realize that... 2 weeks ago:
My man I got a set of wireless earbuds for ten bucks at a hardware store. How much less could wired ones cost? A banana?
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
Yes, stupid empire units. You had me excited for a minute but I should have known that was absurd.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
You’re describing the gravity fed charcoal grills from masterbuilt and I love mine. Especially when I toss in a cast iron pan full of bacon and run it at 450 for half an hour.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 1 month ago:
I have a Masterbuilt that has optional firmware updates sometimes, nothing mandatory and certainly nothing automatic. It’s a gravity fed charcoal grill that works like a computer controlled forced air rocket stove. Gets up to 700 degs from cold in 10 mins if I want or hold 225 for the rest of time as long as I keep feeding charcoal into the hopper and emptying the ash bin. The computer is adding actual value.
No soggy pellets, no weird feeding issues, the biggest problem I’ve had with it was the hatch sensors all going out over time, but once I jumped the circuit past them it worked fine again to this very day, going on six years now.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
I’m glad at least someone else here had that feeling. I ended up not liking mine at all and sending it back. I couldn’t get used to the pads at all even though I wanted to like it a lot, maybe it’s just my hands. I use my steam deck all the time, first an led and now an oled, and I can count the times I’ve used the trackpads on it effectively on one hand.
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 2 months ago:
no problems at all for me because I pay for the shit I use
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 months ago:
a trebuchet could throw 300 grenades up to 300 meters
- Comment on Jennifer Lopez suffers brutal facial injury rehearsing for the 2025 AMAs 3 months ago:
I thought for sure it said she was practicing for 2025 xmas
- Comment on Jennifer Lopez suffers brutal facial injury rehearsing for the 2025 AMAs 3 months ago:
LEGEND
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 3 months ago:
The motivation from their side is not wanting to support Linux. There’s a difference between working and supported; support costs them money in terms of every phone call from every person for whom the material doesn’t work correctly, as that means paid trained staff on hand all the time whether you’re having linux issues right now or not. Imagine if one person a year had linux issues, requiring them to hire a full time linux tech with nothing to do but pick up the phone once a year. By putting a roadblock in front that people can get around, it can ‘work’ on that system while they have a leg to stand on to say no to any linux user who wants help they can’t provide.
- Comment on StarCitizen skins worth it ? 4 months ago:
Nothing about StarCitizen is worth anything
- Comment on ‘Angry Birds 3’ Flying To Paramount For 2027 Release 4 months ago:
If they keep being good I’ll keep watching them. It’s a fun formula.