atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 1 week ago:
Fun fact: Jupiter has rings too!!!
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
I was honestly surprised when we got the Series. I was pretty convinced that they were done with consoles after the One X|S and that Xbox would become more of a Steam competitor as a brand. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Series ended up being the last console.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial - CBS News 2 weeks ago:
I’m not exactly sure what you are asking, it sounds like you want to be able to play music to a speaker or group of speakers without being in the same location, but then you wouldn’t be able to hear it. I think maybe Sonos stuff can be controlled like that but I am not sure. Otherwise why would you need the device itself to connect to the Internet and not the device initiating the casting? (Though in some cases they, especially the chromecast, will hand the stream to the casted to device rather than streaming it from the initiating device across your local network but I don’t think that’s what you are asking about either.) AirPlay for instance will just play whatever audio is currently playing on the casting device no different than if they were headphones. You can also set up AirPlay receiving on things like a Raspberry Pi if you want to try it out before buying dedicated hardware.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial - CBS News 2 weeks ago:
There are AirPlay and Chromecast devices you can get that will do that part. I have castable speakers in every room and not one of them also has a microphone or requires an app.
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost exclusively called River Cane here. Probably why nobody thinks it’s bamboo.
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 2 weeks ago:
One correction and fun fact: We absolutely had bamboo.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
You aren’t wrong but I also think people tend to forget just how much of what we grew up on were remakes and rehashes of stuff even from the radio era. Especially the cartoons that we watched as kids, so much of that was just recycled jokes and such with some jokes for the adults of the day thrown in too. Even Star Wars was an homage to the serials of the 30s-50s like Flash Gordon, which itself got an 80s remake (with an excellent soundtrack by Queen). The remakes aren’t new they are just more obvious.
- Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out? 3 weeks ago:
Several of the scenes in 6 were obviously shot on TNG sets. The Engineering scenes are the most painfully obvious as, in some cases, they literally just have a bunch of extras standing in the way of the panels they didn’t change.
- Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out? 3 weeks ago:
There has always been an incongruence around the A where the original point, when it was revealed at the end of four, seems to have been that it was a recommissioned and renamed constitution class that had been recently refitted like the Enterprise was in TMP. But then Shatner came in with five and insisted that it was a brand new ship for some dumbass reason that most people seem to have retconned from the cannon.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They day they killed off Windows Phone is they day I knew that there were no more devs left in the c-suite and that they were on a slow path to spinning off what’s left of their profitability.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the warning. Any show that continues Discovery’s bullshit isn’t going to be worth a watch in my opinion.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 3 weeks ago:
Picard didn’t leave him to die, he expected the ringleader to let him go back for the dude but she didn’t. The point of the scene was to show that she was an asshole not that Picard was heartless.
- Comment on Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene 4 weeks ago:
I am pretty sure MacOS does this and that there is a Gnome extension for it as well.
- Comment on Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos. 5 weeks ago:
How young do you think boomers are?
- Comment on Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos. 5 weeks ago:
That already happened.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 5 weeks ago:
The book came out in 1990.
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- Comment on conditional soap 1 month ago:
When I was in high school the trend was baggy pants and lots of women did wear men’s pants.
- Comment on On Venus. 1 month ago:
We absolutely saw those photos in school in the US… maybe this person just didn’t pay attention?
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 1 month ago:
Precedent for an exception would go to Ceres not Pluto.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 1 month ago:
You can reuse it several times by running it through a cheese cloth. Otherwise just put it in a jar/pitcher/empty oil bottle.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 2 months ago:
That could easily be hot chocolate as well. Like how Strawberries aren’t berries, they are still called coffee cherries even those they aren’t.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 2 months ago:
Seems quite a few people really like hot ground up roasted cherry pit water.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 2 months ago:
On the contrary, lots of people were radicalized by hearing people like new age healers given the same airtime as medical doctors.
It’s taken 20 years to fail at making the publicly funded internet a utility. The purpose of the doctrine was to govern publicly owned airwaves. I strongly believe it would have been and is impossible to expand the FCCs jurisdiction to include privately owned networks. I also strongly believe that the current administration would abuse the fuck out of these regulations.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 2 months ago:
People give the fairness doctrine too much credit; First it’s partially responsible for the current mentality of all opinions matter no matter how stupid. But more importantly it only ever applied to broadcast TV and Radio, not cable or satellite, or the Internet. So it never would have applied to Fox News, for instance.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 2 months ago:
You are correct. What they can’t do though is only allow you to buy the car with one method of payment, which is what is being described here.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 2 months ago:
I think you would be surprised how many states already have laws like that on the books. Mine does.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 2 months ago:
That isn’t how holding a business license works.
Sure everybody has the right to refuse service, but they can’t offer service only through one means of pay.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 2 months ago:
I think you just got a shitty dealership. “Legal tender for all debts public and private” means just that, they aren’t allowed legally to refuse dollars. My cousin also successfully did what you are describing.
- Comment on Niche species 2 months ago:
It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.