sbeak
@sbeak@sopuli.xyz
Hi, I’m sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.
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- Comment on How did we go from being against fake pictures of the moon to accepting things like changing out the entire sky? 1 day ago:
several can mean 2-5 years, right? Or are you one of those people who insist on a distinction between couple, few, many, and several?
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- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 5 days ago:
driving bleach? I assume you mean drinking (which for obvious reasons is not a good idea). Also, what the heck is a horse de-wormer?
- Comment on Are you sure there aren't any ... ?? 1 week ago:
lemmy.world -> An instance of “Lemmy”: it’s like if Reddit could be hosted by anyone in the world rather that one big server, and all these mini-servers can talk to each other! Also, Lemmy is part of the greater “Fediverse” (kind of like if Instagram users could see posts from Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. The Fediverse is a collection of different platforms like Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, Frendica, PeerTube, etc.). lemmy.world in particular is one of the larger instances of Lemmy.
lemmy.world is used like Reddit, you can create posts in “communities” (subreddit equivalent) and comment on them. There are thousands of communities on all sorts of topics (discussion, sciences, movies, games, asking questions, various hobbies, etc.)! You are also able to upvote and downvote (but there’s no “algorithm” like on something like Reddit). That’s the main gist of it, I think.
Perchance is an AI image generator, so I don’t think it has much of a connection with any of Lemmy’s instances. I will say that competitions usually give you extra entries if you subscribe to their social media and such on the various platforms, so that’s probably why you had to make an account on lemmy.
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 1 week ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 1 week ago:
Yeah, surface area!
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 1 week ago:
I thought area was for 2D things, and volume is for 3D things? Or does he mean surface area?
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
A clean reinstall would certainly ruin my dual boot (Windows loves occupying the entire drive), and I have already spent many hours waiting for the disk partitions to reshuffle and resize when reclaiming that ~180GB of space. Also, things like Tiny11, being repacked versions of Windows, could easily be compromised and have all sorts of nasty malware. Having about 87GB of space for Windows is fine right now, and since my laptop has 1TB of storage, Fedora gets over 900GB of space. Much better than the ~700GB I started with.
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
Well that was the problem, trying to use the ISO image (with both Ventoy and balenaEtcher) simply didn’t work, and I was unable to reinstall Windows for god knows why. I looked at the site of balenaEtcher and apparently they don’t do Windows ISOs.
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
I am not running a minecraft server, we are just playing via a LAN connection!
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 week ago:
Actually, do werewolves have regenerative abilities like Wolverine? Is that why Wolverine is called that, after wolves???
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 week ago:
Teeth would definitely hurt more. Another question, how slowly would a wolf teeth bullet need to be fired to not kill someone? (I remember reading something about how bullets, even those of “non-lethal” materials like rubber, can still be lethal)
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 week ago:
Autocorrect can be a thing…
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 week ago:
If werewolves did in fact exist and they had the ability to turn other people into werewolves through their saliva, using their spit in a gun would probably turn them into werewolves. It would be kind of like using snake venom in poison darts. I am unsure why one would want to turn someone into a werewolf though, that seems like a terrible idea for the target, the shooter, and the rest of the world.
- Comment on Would it be possible to build a where woof gun? 1 week ago:
If I’m reading this correctly, this is a fixtional question on whether you could store werewolf spit into a dart and use it in a gun to turn people into werewolves. Autocorrect I assume
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
unfortunately that would almost certainly ruin dual boot (Windows loves overwriting the entire disk…and I don’t have the option of using a second drive since it’s a laptop…)
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
It’s crazy how much crap Windows preinstalls, I was able to save over 100GB just by removing unnecessary programs and files…
Also just to note, I’m very surprised that messing around with the order and size of the partitions didn’t break my computer!
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
cutting Windows down from 200GB to just 87GB gives me loads of space, nice!
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
I mentioned that I disabled hibernate with the powercfg command, so it should be deleted.
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
around 2.5GB it seems
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 1 week ago:
Checking using Windows settings, there is a ~3GB “eSupport” folder (seems to be used to store drivers and other stuff from the laptop manufacturer) and a ~1.3GB “AdwCleaner” folder (a malwarebytes thing, is this used by Windows Defender or something?). Are those safe to delete?
Also, it seems that I had Cinebench still installed (portable, so I didn’t see it) which took about 3GB. After uninstalling that, Windows still takes up over 100GB…
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- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 1 week ago:
So if you want to handle the infinity stones safely, you just need a lot of lead…
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 1 week ago:
And don’t tell me that the stones can’t bring back the dead, because they certainly can (see when they reversed Thanos’ snap)
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- Comment on eel butts 1 week ago:
e. eels
I know it’s more than two, but you can do it!
- Comment on Which fly came first? 1 week ago:
I meant the insect you would call a fly (the annoying ones that buzz in your ears) vs the word used to describe things in flight (flying bird, flying insect, etc.).
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t explain the AI-generated models on the thumbnails holding up a small hand-sized globe (which is a geography thing, mind you!)
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 2 weeks ago:
The AI-generated videos helpfully have a big red border (or rather, unhelpfully, as it draws more attention to them)