sbeak
@sbeak@sopuli.xyz
Hi, I’m sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.
- Comment on If I submit a question to /nostupidquestions/ and I get downvoted does that mean my question was actually stupid or is it a paradox? 10 hours ago:
I think that a majority of users on the internet down vote if they see content that is not relevant, breaks the community rules, or simply not very nice.
p.s. “no stupid questions” is a play on the phrase “There are no stupid questions, Timmy!”, but of course you still need to be polite and follow the rules
- Comment on Who's receiving and who's loosing electrons? 1 day ago:
English really is a funny language
- Comment on Who's receiving and who's loosing electrons? 1 day ago:
The short answer is, to “lose” means to have lost something (e.g. “Did you lose your keys?”, but in this case it’s electrons) while to “loose” is used to describe getting something to be able to move freely / unstuck (which could arguably be used to describe the loss of electrons in a material, since you’re rubbing them loose)
- Comment on Whew no need to continue flossing. 1 day ago:
Why is there a (presumably AI-generated) Earth on fire for the “end of the universe”, when the Earth would be way gone far sooner than that (that is, in a few billion years when the Sun blows up to a red giant)? It’s pretty misleading in my opinion, as it makes it seem like a doomsday apocalypse kind of scenario.
The catching on fire doesn’t make sense either, as the end of the universe will likely be very very cold (a heat death, some might say).
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- Comment on Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F? 6 days ago:
The Philippines were named after a Spanish king, King Phillip, or Felippe in Spanish. Given that the country was first controlled by the Spanish for ages, then the Americans, I’m guessing that at first the Spanish name for both the people and the territory was used, but when the Americans took over, the English-ified name of the territory was used, while the Spanish name for the people stuck as colonial powers use the name for the territory more often? Perhaps the Filipino diaspora also plays a role in this. I don’t know, just my guess.
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 6 days ago:
DisplayPort is for displays though? Like HDMI? They aren’t used for file transfer as far as I understand. And DP alt mode over USB-C is also just used for displays…
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 6 days ago:
Pretty cool that both brands show the charging spec on the cable! Props to Startech in particular for labeling that the cables are USB 2 data transfer speeds
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 6 days ago:
I don’t think DP cables are used for charging smartphones? Unless you’re thinking DP alt mode over USB-C, but that would still be for displays
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 1 week ago:
Looking at the reviews, the silicone sleeving of these looks pretty cool! And quite neat that Creator Warehouse is able to compete with the bigger brands while not having a ridiculous price tag, the prices seem pretty good actually (but shipping to many countries will be higher, which is understandable as a smaller company). Hopefully they become in stock soon!
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- Comment on Is there something on the market that can provide as good anti reflective coating as the S24 Ultra? I want the same effects for my Pixel 9 1 week ago:
Samsung S24 Ultra onwards have the anti-reflective “matte” coating (diffused vs shiny) while the S26 Ultra is the first with the dumb “privacy display” feature.
It’s neat tech, but it significantly reduces the resolution when enabled, it has worse viewing angles when disabled (since half the pixels are less visible when viewing side on) and the feature is done better with a cheap screen protector. Pretty cool that you can use it for notifications, but I think that’s the only part-of-screen tinkering you can do with it, it’s that or the whole screen, so you could just set the notifications to hide message contents?
- Comment on Ggs lol 1 week ago:
When the cold war waned, both the U.S. and the Soviets began to denuclearise, treaties were signed, etc. tensions were deescalating (if you search for a graph for no. of nuclear weapons over the years, you see a peak during the cold war then a gradual decrease)
Now, everyone is afraid that nuclear war could be coming soon, with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Trump’s America kidnapping Maduro in Venezuela and bombing Iran with Israel, not to mention his threats against several other nation’s sovereignty (many of which are NATO members), Israel’s starvation of Gaza, conflict between India and Pakistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan are having conflict too, the world is a mess, made worse that all conflicts I mentioned above involve nuclear armed states and could have additional nuclear armed states intervene in.
- Comment on Ggs lol 1 week ago:
Perhaps it’s talking about the Cold War where both sides built enough nukes to obliterate the world numerous times, then began to disarm as the Cold War came to its end, and now rearming yet again threatening another nuclear arms race?
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Well it would be weird if they gave you bonus points for it /s
- Comment on What is hubris as an adjective? 2 weeks ago:
then blindly confident
- Comment on Should I use a "proper" password manager instead of Firefox? 2 weeks ago:
It’s better to use a separate password manager, since it’s an additional layer of security, as you must type in a master password or, if you configure it, use a hardware key/biometrics. Also, as others have said, you can use them in non-website logins too, so it’s more flexible!
Personally, I think Bitwarden is a pretty good option for most people. It’s cross-platform, and I think there is an option to self-host the server if you wish.
Another option, the one I use, is KeePass (XC on desktop, DX on Android, KeePassium on iOS), which stores passwords in a local database file, and you can use Syncthing to sync the contents of the database!
- Comment on How do I change my pfp? 2 weeks ago:
Cool, a transformer person!
- Comment on How do I change my pfp? 3 weeks ago:
Summit does indeed support pfp changes! You go to the profile icon and select the gear to find Lemmy web preferences
- Comment on How do I change my pfp? 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 3 weeks ago:
But I must say, I am envious of those who are able to run LineageOS, mobile Linux, etc.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 3 weeks ago:
I will say, even with the Chinese ROM, I feel like I can use so much more software and have better access to my device than my old iPhone. For one, I can connect the USB with my computer and share files quickly, and F-Droid has so many cool apps that work, and in many cases look, awesome! Being able to use different default apps, use a different launcher, and customise the icons easily with an icon pack (Apple’s sorry excuse for icon theming isn’t all that great, all you get is either a glassy colour or glassy glass)
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 3 weeks ago:
If I do ever switch to a new phone (which won’t be for several years, since my phone is relatively new) I would probably go for a phone that I know is supported by LineageOS or perhaps iodeOS. This would probably be a Fairphone (likely a used model) given that I really want to support their mission for fairer materials and more repairable electronics.
I could also try going for a strange little Linux phone, just for fun.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 3 weeks ago:
Using a Vivo smartphone (the Chinese ROM) for its good cameras (once you disable all the AI “enhancements” to the zoom that makes it all look like a messy oil painting). The OS spin is, in a word, pretty garbage. There’s unfortunately no LineageOS support for my device it seems like.
It’s got some neat features, but there’s a whitelist for SMS apps, meaning I was stuck with the stock one. Additionally, it pops up a security warning whenever you install any app that isn’t verified by Vivo, but it doesn’t hamper my ability to install apps from F-Droid and Obtainium too much.
Using NextDNS with a few blocklists shows that it phones home to Vivo constantly, Vivo-related links are far and above blocked by NextDNS over anything else on my devices. Not very good for privacy, like at all. It also tells me off for having private DNS and assumes that it’s the problem whenever there’s a change in the network connection.
I am currently using the Kvaesitso launcher (and I know many like Lawnchair, but I favour the more efficient search-based interface of Kvaesitso) and for a long while it randomly switched me back to the stock launcher. The swipe up gesture also sent me to the home launcher like Kvaesitso was running as an app. It turns out that there’s a hidden option in settings to disable that, but it took a lot of looking around online to figure that out. With Kvaesitso, much of the oddities of OriginOS work out better (like the advertisements and Baidu results in the global search). I also disabled the “Origin Island” since it only worked for Spotify and nothing else I used, as well as a few other bits that I didn’t really need.
If you want a neat phone that is good for user privacy and all that, Chinese ROM phones aren’t the way to go, but dang the camera hardware run circles around anything Apple and Samsung can produce. If you want something that supports custom ROMs, there’s of course Fairphones, which are super repairable and use fair materials and labour, but there’s plenty of other devices that support LineageOS, iodeOS, e/OS, etc. If you really want to become independent of Google you could also try a phone that supports mobile Linux (like the OnePlus 6)
I do have photos backed up with Immich, and it works quite well!
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 3 weeks ago:
Nvidia’s software bits for upscaling (game plays with lower resolution, GPU does funny things to make it look higher resolution), frame insertion (in a nutshell, creating fake frames in between real frames to make gameplay look smoother), and similar. Many of the features require game support though, so many games are unable to utilise the more advanced features. These can also result in a degradation in quality and increased latency.
DLSS 4 introduced multi frame gen, where up to three fake frames were made for every one. It doesn’t magically make you have 4x the performance (so no, the 5070 is not the performance of the 4090), but it’s still pretty neat tech.
DLSS 5 is being criticised as it’s “enhancing” video game graphics to look like AI-generated images that look more “cinematic” and “photorealistic”. To quote an IGN article, “I think it looks shit.” (ign.com/…/nvidias-dlss-5-is-a-slap-in-the-face-to…)
In other words, it’s removing the human element of game graphics and nobody likes it.
- Comment on How do Superheroes or villians get their suits on is there like a magical zipper or something? Or how do they do it? 4 weeks ago:
Depends on the superhero. Many just change by spinning around really fast, like magic or something. Spider-man puts it on like swimwear, while Iron Man gives all the parts of his armour rockets that fly to his body (and eventually I think it’s nanobots that form the suit)
- Comment on stages of mitosis 4 weeks ago:
what the heck this is just a funny mitosis haha no need to bring in existential crisis
- Comment on What is this red Arch Linux logo? 5 weeks ago:
today I learned about this different arch logo that happens to have a red arch, what a masterpiece
- Comment on What is this red Arch Linux logo? 5 weeks ago:
Looking up that, it looks pretty similar. The current one has a sword right through the middle, perhaps that was added later? I couldn’t find anything online about a swordless blackarch logo though. This seems like the closest answer - but why have an old blackarch logo and no regular arch logo?
