imvii
@imvii@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Calm your tits 4 hours ago:
There wasn’t.
- Comment on Marc Rober shows why Tesla's camera-only self-driving system is dangerous 1 week ago:
I don’t think anything Rober does is out of virtue.
- Comment on Marc Rober shows why Tesla's camera-only self-driving system is dangerous 1 week ago:
I had assumed Mark Rober was a sponsored member of the alt-right intellectual dark web.
He is.
- Comment on Marc Rober shows why Tesla's camera-only self-driving system is dangerous 1 week ago:
Maybe it was downvoted because of Mormon weirdo Mark Rober and not the content itself?
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 3 weeks ago:
I treat my yard as a natural meadow the best I can. I only mow once or twice a year and we’re slowly pushing out the grass previously planted. I dislike the look of a traditional boomer suburbia yard. I much prefer the wild look.
We don’t rake at all. I prefer to just let things do their thing and I’m also far too lazy to bother raking. We live in an area surrounded by woods.
We have snakes and foxes and hares that come out of the woods from time to time. A ton of birds. It’s perfect.
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 3 weeks ago:
I lived most of my life in areas where fireflies were around, but they weren’t the bioluminescent type,
The house I moved to about 5 years ago is in the woods and 3 months out of the year these guys buzz around my front yard and I’ve even helped a few out of the house.
They never fail to bring a smile to my face.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 3 weeks ago:
I’ve always had a manual car. I love them. That is until I ended up dating a younger woman and we moved in together. Several years later the manual turned into the second car only I drove. That got sold and we now have two cars she can drive.
One day I might teach her how to drive manual. We live in a really flat area with no major hills, so it shouldn’t be a problem. One day maybe,
- Comment on nets 4 weeks ago:
I was just going to post this channel.
- Comment on I always suspected that these never actually cleaned anything 4 weeks ago:
The heads pick up dirt and over time the tapes shed on the play and record heads. It’s a dark brown mass that builds up. The thicker it is, the more it interferes with record/playback. Playback will sound muffled with a loss in the high end. Also, the buildup promotes the tapes shedding more doing damage over time. It usually comes off easy with a few light wipes with an alcohol dipped q-tip.
The only “trick” I’ve heard is you are supposed to only wipe off the tape head the way the tape runs across it. The idea being you don’t want to scratch the head which would then damage the tape. I don’t know if this was just folklore, but it seems logical.
I used to have a reel to reel Tascam 8 track that ran 1/2 tape in my studio. I was always careful to wipe only in the direction of the tape and I’d clean before each studio session. I never saw any build up on those heads.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 4 weeks ago:
That’s when I’d put my “smart” phone in the toaster and go dust off the Nokia 3310
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 4 weeks ago:
I think he was trying to download something, it was taking time, and he thought the requested files are all in order in “the tubes”. He had to wait for the other files to be delivered before his arrived.
…or something.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 4 weeks ago:
" And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material." - Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 4 weeks ago:
I think Jose is from Witchistan
- Comment on It works for anything 4 weeks ago:
Am I right or am I right?
- Comment on Freedumb 5 weeks ago:
I have a smallpox scar on the back of my arm and I didn’t even know it was there.
We got the shots in school and I have faint memories of the Jet Injector. Most scars of people my age are on the side of the arm up near the shoulder. I didn’t have one so for years I assumed I didn’t get the vaccine or my memory of it was wrong.
Then one day in the shower my girlfriend pointed it out. It’s around the backside of the arm and hard to see in a mirror - but it’s there.
I feel kind of special having it as it isn’t that common these days.
- Comment on Freedumb 5 weeks ago:
I’m the same age. I never knew anyone who had measles EXCEPT older people who told stories of it. I never knew anyone who had it whilst I knew them.
On the flip side, we attended chickenpox parties to get infected. Of course this was before the vaccination and knowing more about Shingles. All the folklore knew was one you get chickenpox, you never get it again and it’s better to have it as a child than adult.
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 5 weeks ago:
You can download all the old Netscapes here - home.mcom.com/archives/
I found Mosaic 1 here - winworldpc.com/product/ncsa-mosaic/1
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 5 weeks ago:
Going from Netscape 1 to Netscape 2 which supported animated gifs. What a day that was!