AugustWest
@AugustWest@lemm.ee
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 6 hours ago:
I get your point, but I gotta say: I do want to buy my ketchup in a plastic bottle. And I do, mostly because the ketchup is 10 times better than then generic crap that is Heinz or whatever major name.
But I don’t mind shaking the bottle, it’s not hard.
Most things I don’t want plastics for, and in the case of viscous fluids, why not jars?
It would be nice to drop off the jar with the local mustard maker and get a fresh one. Standardizing on glass sizes would help a lot, but then of course we gave water issues for cleaning all of them.
- Comment on Yes 1 week ago:
I can’t remember if the tape drive came with a TRS-80, but I do remember using the tape drive port to get sound from games like pacman. Basically it was hack to use the save to cassette to make sounds for the computer.
This game contains programming which produces sound effects that leave the computer through the AUX plug in the cassette cable. To hear the sound follow these instructions: First, load in the game. Remove the tape from the recorder if you loaded the game from cassette. Insert the large grey plug on the cassette cable into the AUX jack on the recorder. Insert an earphone into the jack labeled EAR on the recorder. Pop open the cassette door on the top of the recorder and reach in and hold in the interlock switch that is located in the left rear corner. Now press Record & Play together and then release the interlock switch. Sound should now come through the earphone.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 week ago:
The infuriating part is people willing to use Facebook at all.
- Comment on Yes 1 week ago:
- Comment on Yes 1 week ago:
Windows XP is what made me switch to Linux.
Ubuntu is what made me stick with ANY distro as long as it was not Ubuntu. Most crashy breaky thing ever.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It only is if you want it to be. Subscribe to what you like and that isn’t your will see if you only view those things.
Use scaled as a sort occasionally to see other posts in your subscriptions. I switch back and forth.
- Comment on This word-game roguelike looks unique and has one of the longest names I've ever seen 4 weeks ago:
So anyone play it yet?
- Comment on Pinterest users left confused by mass account suspensions 4 weeks ago:
Its all worth it if Pinterest goes away.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 5 weeks ago:
That makes more sense. Thank you for the context.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 5 weeks ago:
Lol what? Linux servers are much higher in market share.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 5 weeks ago:
It won’t be. It can’t be. It will have to monetize, then it will have to restrict, and you end up with the same problems Reddit has.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 5 weeks ago:
I just recently found out Reddit has achievements. I don’t use their official apps or new desktop so I never saw them. When I see what Reddit looks like to most people it is so bizarre. Like completely different experience.
Thank goodness Lemmy looks and feels the way it should.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 month ago:
Gotta take a stand. There have been a few things where I gotta tell friends that I can’t do this. If they won’t change… Meh. Gotta have principles.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 month ago:
Uh… You stand up to corpos. Just leave. Nobody is forcing you to use it.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 month ago:
I never got the appeal of discord, but that’s fine.
The use of it as a support for a project? So bad.
Hopefully it will collapse and go away.
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 month ago:
- Comment on The Naked Gun | Official Teaser Trailer (2025 Movie) - Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson 2 months ago:
That was awful. I loved police squad. I liked naked gun.
This just looks like action squad. Read: boring.
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 months ago:
I guess I am going to be that guy…
Roundup is a pesticide. It is an herbicide, but it also is a pesticide. As are insecticides, fungicides, etc. Pesticide is the catch all, herbicide is the descriptive.
