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 This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos. 22 hours ago:
The earth is round, so bottom is actually top. Middle is deep inside the earth (“bottom”)
- Comment on What are some good RSS feeds that I should follow? 1 day ago:
Nice! Will be adding that to the list
- Comment on What are some good RSS feeds that I should follow? 1 day ago:
“CapyReader”
- Comment on What are some good RSS feeds that I should follow? 1 day ago:
I do follow them too, forgot to mention! They do make good comics though
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- Comment on Why does American media (and to an extent the American public) seem to only focus on one issue at a time? 2 days ago:
I did mention that non-American news are similar, but the American ones in particular are very on the nose when it comes to this.
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- Comment on Rename the "shutdown" shortcut to "power off" in KDE Plasma? 4 days ago:
Not that, when searching with the “application menu”. Or is KRunner running when that is open? I’m pretty sure its different since KRunner (when opened with keyboard shortcut) shows extra things compared to the application menu search bar. Dang, you can’t edit that easily?
- Comment on If dark matter doesn't emit, absorb, or reflect light, what happens when light hits it? 4 days ago:
I remember reading something somewhere that the gravitational lensing of dark matter (where light bends around and you can see behind) was evidence for dark matter being a thing that exists. Dark matter could really be anything though (ones I have heard about include WIMPs, primordial black holes, and supersymmetric particles like gravitinos), and we simply don’t have enough experimental data to know what it is. We know it exists as we see its gravitational effects in galaxies and such, but that’s about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
No, don’t think you can. You can upload a link to a video hosting site though (a file hosting thing would also work)
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- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 5 days ago:
So it’s like when a camera doesn’t have enough light to properly take a photo, producing a lot of grain. Like when you have a high ISO when taking a photo/video in a dark room, it looks very grainy. I guess the eye is still adjusting its “exposure” if you see some of this graininess in the dark (or when you close your eyes?)
- Comment on What's a realistic, low-power home server setup in 2025 for Plex/Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and reliable backups? 1 week ago:
Personally, I’m just using an old laptop (think it’s 11th gen Intel i5) as a home server. A mini PC seems like a good option if you don’t have an old laptop though.
I also have an older laptop with a 6th gen Intel core i3 and a dead battery that I have to put to good use at some point, but haven’t bothered to do so yet. What should I use it for?
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 week ago:
if not humming, then listening to music in your mind!
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 week ago:
thinking about stuff (what to eat later, what to do later, etc), chatting with a friend/family member, looking around to see what’s happening (construction, birds doing bird things, plants changing shape/size/color, etc), reading, or humming to a song you know (you don’t need your phone to enjoy music!)
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 week ago:
like the chess piece with eight on each side. The one that can be promoted to any other non-king piece once it gets to the other side. pwned is getting your data leaked, being “pawned” means getting taken advantage of/being puppeted by a higher power, and I always linked that to being scammed through a phishing attack (and usually your data has been leaked, you have been pwned)
- Comment on Are platforms like reddit just "internet noise" and bots or just genuinely the darkest parts of humanity? 1 week ago:
No way, beep bop, there aren’t any bots on the internet! Beep-doop-bop
There are a lot of not very nice things on the internet, the meat bags are mean sad beep bop
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- Comment on Not sure where to ask this but why do some wall powered usb-c hubs refuse the charge anything until they are plugged into a computer? 2 weeks ago:
Apple, Samsung, all the Chinese phone brands with their proprietary fast charging standards, HP, Bambu Lab, Nintendo, Xbox, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, etc. etc.
There’s a lot of terrible companies, actually.
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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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 ... ?? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, surface area!
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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.