dihutenosa

@dihutenosa@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With 1st world economies going to shit, would this not have a trickle down effect (reaganomics style) to 3rd world countries? Resulting in more unstable countries and regions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Suppose there’s any sort of difficulty, and wheat price on the global market rises 20%. People in affluent places/positions will grumble and pay 20% more for bread or pasta. Poor people will grumble and eat 20% less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Heliobiology considered legit or a pseudoscience?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of weird things happened in Soviet Russia… I don’t know about heliobiology, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism was discredited pretty thoroughly. That’s (and the anti-vac anti-mask clown performance in the USA) is what you get when politicians get to decide science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyists, How are you avoiding the crazy prices for computers and newer tech?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So much this! I know the abilities and quirks of my software and hardware, and I get excellent use out of discarded junk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are wireless mice these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, looks like it’s rotting. Then again, at my age, so do I.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are wireless mice these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Logitech MX Master 3. I’ve had it for many years. Happy, except the scroll wheel is stiff and hard to click (remap the SmartShift to middle button with Solaar).

  Does either Bluetooth or dongle.

  The battery lasts for months (I’ven’t measured, but it feels like I recharge it a couple of times per year. When it feels peckish, it lights a LED, at which point I turn it into a wired mouse for the night (it eats USB-C).

  Input lag? If you want input lag, run a Teams call. I’m not a FPS gamer, so I wouldn’t know, but I don’t notice any.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your personal media diet?

  Books (mostly sci-fi - Permutation City by Greg Egan) are easy to fit into short slices of time.

  Video games (Cataclysm: DDA, Dwarf Fortress) are nice when you have a hour or more to concentrate.

  Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6rCu2Daeyo) is always nice. Doesn’t demand much attention, if you can’t spare much, but can absorb any amount of it (more complex stuff like Maurice Ravel).

  Movies? I tried movies, but they require dedication (if I’m going to sit for 2 hours in front of my PC, I’d rather do something fun - and movie theaters are a whole new level of hassle), the content is either boring or nerve-wrackingly stressful.

  IIRC, the last movie I watched was some Star Wars something - it had spaceships just sitting just above a planet (instead of orbiting - why wasn’t it falling down like a stone?), and when one spaceship flew near another, there was audible sound (rumble) in the other one. I suppose they must have played this rumble over speakers, or something. I can suspend my disbelief and imagine the “laser” weapons that shoot slow-moving pink plastic-looking cylindrical things are mislabeled as “laser”, and are actually firing some particle beams or something, but I can’t forgive sound transmitted through space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, my bad. Initially I meant it as a “not everyone is an American” group with sample size = 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I say this as an ex-coder, but is it possible to ask for a paper ballot instead of using the stupid machines when voting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I vote, you plop your government-issued smartcard in your PC and cryptographically sign your vote. Of course, this raises a privacy concern.

  It should ideally be impossible to determine who you voted for, or if you did, while still allowing you to verify your vote got counted. Last I checked, this was an active (and super interesting) area of research in cryptography.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point, thanks, I learned something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thou confusest my personal perspective with bovine excretions. I’ve heard the name “Batman”, none of the rest rings any bells. I am hereby offering an utterly personal perspective on Ameirican pop culture - we have no contact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy! We don’t view, or watch, American superhero movies. Never saw them or their appeal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any good tools for learning blind typing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just type stuff. Take a frequeent word you use, then repeat it until fluent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is using an ssd as a cache to speed up a harddrive still a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I’m running this setup. Honestly, I haven’t measured how much better it is than a plain HDD, tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The 2GB of RAM are going to hit you harder than the HDD, if you intend to run a modern browser on it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need to clean my keyboard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I too use Dvorak 👋

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 10th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Started a new run of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, got eaten by zombies in minutes. Will try again when I have time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with it, Libby.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to tell from this distance, but the roof looks nice and waterproof!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  AI deepfake? Meh.