tiramichu
@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 9 hours ago:
The PS5 version of GTA6 is going yo sell pretty well then
- Comment on me btw 12 hours ago:
For sure yeah.
I still end up having to use ffmpeg directly (in combination with other CLI tools) because there’s always something the GUIs haven’t caught up with yet. Most recently for me it was converting animated webp’s into something I could actually work with
- Comment on me btw 20 hours ago:
I find it wild there are countless “convert videos online for free!” sites on the Internet full of bonus malware which are all just thin wrappers around ffmpeg. And yet they persist because people want googleable answers to their problem which don’t need a command line or downloading anything.
Personally I’ve got a Python script which provides a slightly friendlier wrapper around ffmpeg for my common use-cases.
But honestly ffmpeg is such a beast, so much of what we use daily depends on it under the hood.
- Comment on Is it rude to go through the car wash with a bunch of snow on your car? 3 days ago:
This.
You shouldn’t set off with snow or frozen chunks still left on your car. If you brake and it slides forward it can obscure your view, or when you get up to highway speeds it can fly off and damage whoever is behind you.
Please be consideate of others and don’t do it :)
- Comment on youtube shorts bingo 1 week ago:
Blocks shorts.
uBlock filters use a modified form of CSS selectors to determine what parts of a page to hide.
If you know vaguely how CSS selectors work you can infer that the filter definition is matching on
youtube.comand is finding an element whose title property isshorts- so it seems to be doing an appropriate thing.The important part is that uBlock filters are not executable; you can’t inject a malicious executable through one, as they are simply patterns which describe what parts of a page should be hidden, and hiding content is all they can do.
The worst that a filter could do is hide something that shouldn’t be hidden.
- Comment on youtube shorts bingo 1 week ago:
Because they want you to watch shorts. They know that people who watch shorts are the most brainrotted on the platform, and the ones who will keep scrolling and watching video after video, and seeing ad after ad, and those are the users YouTube wants all other users to be like.
And so they will push shorts in your face again and again no matter how much you say no, because they think eventually they’ll break you.
The close button is just a temporary placebo to make it feel like you’re the one in control.
You’re not the one in control.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This particular cheque should work, if processed by a person.
Cheques have two fields for the amount; numbers and written out. The numerical field is the most important and required part, while the written is to deter fraud, for example the bearer may attempt to alter £100 to £1000, or £300 to £800, and having the sum in writing makes this a lot harder.
So as long as this cheque has $650 in the number field, it should be valid.
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 1 week ago:
It’s viable again because well… gestures vaguely at everything
HP just launched a laptop ‘subscription’ service too. It’s a rather disgusting sign of the times. Companies would love for this to become the norm, because renting is a highly profitable game. Get that sweet money coming in month after month. And you are right; we must not encourage them.
I’d rather save up and go to the second-hand marketplace than line a corpo’s pocket by renting.
- Comment on This one was invented, by a writer 1 week ago:
No, not this time
- Comment on Is it a good idea to use an Android phone as an external SSD for backing up my home folder? 1 week ago:
Not the original commenter, but possibly because SSDs are eventually volatile.
SSDs store data by trapping electrons in cells to represent your ones and zeroes, and when the disk is unpowered those electrons can eventually escape, causing data loss.
This may take years to happen though, so if you use the disk frequently you are unlikely to experience it.
That said, the time to unpowered data loss gets worse the more cumulative data you have written to the disk over its life. SSDs that are extremely badly worn out could lose data in months, not years.
Traditional spinning disks don’t have this issue as the magnetic storage doesn’t depend on power to stay magnetised, so it’s a better choice for archival storage.
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 2 weeks ago:
I just got a new phone and I’m trying Kvaesitso to move away from Nova, but I just can’t get used to it.
I think I just really like the paradigm of having a ‘desktop’ where I can freely arrange my most used apps in a specific layout, and Kvaesitso - by intentional deaign choice - doesn’t allow it.
Which is really a shame for me because I love the ethos, I love the open-source approach, and I love that it’s a wholly original launcher rather than a fork of the stock or anything else.
A great launcher for some I’m sure, but to me it’s like even after I unlock the device I’m still stuck in something that feels like a lock screen to me, and I feel weirdly trapped and claustrophobic.
Not sure why it makes me feel that way, but it does!
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 2 weeks ago:
Same here in UK honestly - it’s that or the hazards, they both sebd the same message :)
Probably down to whichever is easiest. I’ve personally observed that drivers of big trucks tend to do the indicator thing, while most people in cars do the hazards. Not sure if there’s a specific trucker reason for that divide!
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 2 weeks ago:
Weird. You’d think Canadians at least would have a way to say sorry ;P
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 2 weeks ago:
Here in the UK, turning on your hazards for a couple of flashes means either “Thank you” or “sorry” to the car following, depending on context.
Someone let you merge in? "Thank you!*
You cut someone off? “Sorry!”
- Comment on Do people eat this? 4 weeks ago:
Seriously though!
Textural variation makes food interesting for the mouth. That’s why fresh, crisp lettuce is so good in a sandwich - not because lettuce tastes of anything, but because it gives that satisfying crunch.
Texture is why we put croutons in soup, and why we sprinkle crispy onions on a hot-dog.
I’ve never eaten a toast sandwich, but if all I had left in the house was bread and butter, it might be quite fun to try.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 4 weeks ago:
Sure, there are always exceptions.
I’m not being self-deprecating for the sake of it - I’m speaking what I feel from personal experience. And on the basis of that experience I would rank the average state of British food well below the average state of food in a pretty wide spread of other places.
And that’s what I’m basing it on - averages, not exceptions.
- Comment on That's a tight sandwich 4 weeks ago:
Sandussy
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 4 weeks ago:
As a British person myself, I completely disagree that our food is anything you would call top tier.
We have some nice food (as you mentioned) but it’s the exception, rather than the rule.
As a child I was forced to eat a lot of Sunday roasts at the grandparents that were bland and anemic and mushy, with veg boiled within an inch of its life, and where the meat was the only good part. I don’t think my experience was atypical.
British food these days is getting better all the time, but mostly because modern British food is a cultural fusion of tastes and techniques from everywhere in the world, and thanks to the Internet people are actually learning how to cook. Good roasts these days have sweetly caramelised oven-roast veg with olive oil and herbs and seasonings, and are a million miles from the mush I was served as a child.
But has British food historically been good? No, it has not.
- Comment on Check mate, Libertarians 4 weeks ago:
Doctor: “Let’s check your reactions”
Me: dodges the little hammer “How was that?”
- Comment on aspirations 5 weeks ago:
Gooning is a more specific subtype of masturbation.
Masturbating is the act of physically stimulating one’s happy parts, solo. It may involve porn, or it may just depend purely on the physical sensation to lead to orgasm.
Gooning has a much closer association with visual stimulation because one would generally goon at something or to something. It also has a strong implication that it usually lasts for a long while; that the point of gooning is to stretch out the pleasure as much as possible and to push away all thoughts until you are nothing but a drooling mess of ecstacy.
So it really is quite different.
If young people have a tendency to always say “gooning” for any kind of masturbation (which I think is probably true) then that’s likely because:
- It’s a generational neologism and people like owning and using words that belong to their age group
- It sounds less formal and more fun
- A lot of the masturbation that young people are doing probably is actually gooning anyway, because that’s just what happens when you have an unlimited and infinitely varied supply of free Internet porn
- Comment on aspirations 5 weeks ago:
I made a helpful table
Activity Type Visual Stimulation Duration Gooning Mental Required (Typically porn) Long Masturbating Physical Optional Long OR Short - Comment on i am a simple person 1 month ago:
Minecraft is really out of place, yeah.
The rest are all multiplayer PVP/PVE shooters, MOBAs and the like, and then there’s Minecraft just chilling.
Been playing Minecraft since Beta, and the way I play it, it’s a super chill and creative game.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
Right, but the person I replied to said it was for stress relief [only] - as if to invalidate by omission OPs assertion that it’s for controlling fill level,when the truth is that the article supports both positions.
I pointed out what’s in the article. In terms of who is wrong, or right, or only partially right, people can draw their own conclusions.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
That very same article also does say however:
On top of that, the indentation allows the manufacturer to precisely control the volume that the jug can hold.
- Comment on get out of my head 2 months ago:
What actually happened was centralisation.
We moved from a web made up of lots of tiny websites hosted by individuals, to one of corporate-contolled mainstream social media.
And yes - those sites don’t want any objectionable content because that’s not good for revenue.
So it was censorship, but only made possible because we all collectively decided we would spend our entire Internet browsing time on the same five massive websites, and let them control what we see.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 2 months ago:
The whole “discard if damaged” is likely just standard cover-your-ass legalese which the lawyers will copy-paste on every single product they sell, including this one.
- Comment on Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic. 2 months ago:
I wish recipe writers could form a consensus on what the terms “minced” or “crushed” mean when it comes to garlic.
Sometimes “minced” means finely chopped, while other times it means as a paste.
Some recipes use “crushed” to mean the paste, while other times that means to squash a clove with the back of your knife so it cracks and the oil runs, but still leave whole.
You can normally work it out from context, but it drives me crazy!
- Comment on Diabolical 2 months ago:
Calling it a “car” as well I’m quite sure pisses him off. Beautiful.
- Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube 2 months ago:
Maybe, but the GameCube was really riding a particular techno aesthetic, both externally and in the menu design. It was really the very tail-end of the “just because we can!” breed of design.
The Wii went all nice and soft white, rounded buttons, happy and family-friendly, which was absolutely the correct move for Nintendo commercially to make it mass-market, but it lost something at the same time.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 months ago:
The one that really stuck with me was COCKFAIS