boonhet
@boonhet@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Life is hard 1 hour ago:
Microfiber towel
- Comment on Life is hard 1 hour ago:
Buy them a new car then?
- Comment on Life is hard 1 hour ago:
67C is a pretty old sauna, I prefer it at like 80-100 myself
- Comment on Life is hard 1 hour ago:
The deFROST button that looks like this?
It is quite obviously defrosting the windshield. Its other use is removing condensation from the windshield.
- Comment on Life is hard 1 hour ago:
I assume you mean EVs with heat pumps? I don’t know of any ICE vehicles that do this, seems inefficient to waste mechanical or electrical energy when you have perfectly good waste heat to use upon reaching operating temperature (though you may need to use an aux heater before reaching that, particularly on diesels)
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 2 hours ago:
No worries, we’ll just undude the dude in the romantic scene as well and oh shit now we have two transes
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 3 hours ago:
Never seen that unfortunately. Nvidia cards are always sold a bit above MSRP while AMD cards are sold far above MSRP. And of course AMD itself targets an MSRP as close to nvidia as possible while still being a tiny bit lower. Gotta keep profit margins rather than increasing market share I guess.
You know shit’s crazy when you’re rooting for INTEL to treat customers better than AMD or nvidia.
- Comment on How about instead, a longer healthier retirement? 3 hours ago:
Let’s make Americans healthier by…
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Letting them eat more contaminated food. Still no healthcare though!
- Comment on Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours??? 4 hours ago:
Okay, but I’m actually a night owl, I don’t get rested if I go to sleep earlier, I’ll be more tired in the morning, regardless of how much I sleep.
Now if I go to sleep at 5-6 AM, I don’t need a lot of sleep to feel OK the next day. But 10-12 PM? Forget about it, I’ll be groggy all day.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 7 hours ago:
But AMD had almost always pretty great midrange offerings which most consumer buy anyway. Especially in the last three generation they had their shit together and were IMHO pretty competitive in every price bracket besides the very high end. Still, they lost even more market share.
In the US maybe. Any time I looked at AMD cards in recent years, they were more expensive than nVidia equivalents. And that was even before Lisa Su started courting Donald Trump and the AI industry. There’s a cult following around AMD and they and retailers both abuse that.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 7 hours ago:
AI based instagram filter is a term I’ve heard to describe what it is. They put all their crappy new features under the DLSS brand now, little to do with supersampling. At least personally I wouldn’t call frame-gen supersampling either, but this is even worse.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 7 hours ago:
You can make black people look white in your games.
Wonder if it could also make female protagonists look like men, might be useful for the sort of people who complain that a game is woke when there is a women
- Comment on German joke 1 day ago:
Doesn’t kielbasa just mean sausage in Polish? I think sausages existed before Poland. And dumplings are said to originate from China though I’m sure the Poles have their own creative variations of the filling.
- Comment on German joke 1 day ago:
LED bulbs still exist and are more efficient to use than LED fixtures where you have to change the entire lamp instead of a bulb!
In fact, I’ve got a room with six such fixtures and only one still works.
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 2 days ago:
Not sure, haven’t investigated yet.
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 2 days ago:
Interesting, they try that here in the EU too. I find it particularly egregious because until I take delivery of the package, I’m not responsible for it if it’s lost or damaged.
- Comment on German joke 2 days ago:
So I went and googled it out of curiosity, after remembering that German for was/were (in some form anyway) is ‘war’.
I found this in a thread about Downfall and a translated joke where someone was wondering what the original was:
The German pun uses ‘Warenhaus’ department store and “Da war 'n Haus” - “there was/used to be a house”.
- Comment on Anon meets the candy man 2 days ago:
Prosperity gospel in one sentence
- Comment on Wages never caught up with costs 2 days ago:
123k seems to have been the median for a new home in the country when I googled it, average was higher. A bit of googling says that the average (not median this time) amount for rent in the US in 1990 was 447.
Think they just googled average numbers for 1990.
- Comment on Cannot tell you how many times I have asked this question 3 days ago:
Reminds me of the Rich Piana natty vegan memes
Guys in that photo are significantly more believable.
- Comment on Vroom vroom! 3 days ago:
I’m assuming between Monday and Thursday it’ll be really quiet everywhere, F thru S might differ.
Good luck on your vacation!
- Comment on Vroom vroom! 4 days ago:
That would work where I live (everything being dead in september because all the families with kids did all their holiday shit in the summer already so enjoy vacancies everywhere), but I had a minor culture shock when I was visiting the US a few years ago and it was like late october or early november or something and we tried to get a hotel room at night in some small town because we had 300 miles left to drive to where we were actually going but at 11 PM kinda wanted to get some shut-eye first and the clerk was like “oh sorry, can’t help you, it’s still wedding season”. Like apparently summer through autumn is just wedding season and hotels are fully-booked even in November??? And no, this wasn’t like Florida or California that’s warm all-year round, this was upstate NY.
- Comment on Vroom vroom! 4 days ago:
Don’t think it went above 32C here. Lots of rain tho, so good crops and no risk of the well running dry. First time I’ve wished for more heat during a summer in recent years honestly. Of course the heat we did have landed when my car’s AC compressor blew up and it went away when I got it replaced so that was amazing.
Now that summer’s basically over, it’s just a few months till I get 5 hours of sunshine a fucking week. I’m already pre-pissed-off at it. If I didn’t have a kid, I’d move somewhere nicer and only come here in the summer to spend time with friends and family, but oh hey look, the absolutely absent mother of my child has equal parental rights so she can rightfully tell me to fuck off if I want to even go on a vacation with my offspring, let alone move somewhere.
- Comment on I guess they didn't Edge enough 4 days ago:
Way back in the day, when I still (barely) used Facebook (might’ve been my late teen years or early 20s, so early-mid last decade), a friend invited me to a group for “dark humor”. Pretttttty much every 3rd post was about black people. You can get away with it a bit easier here because we only have like 3 of them, but it did not take long to figure out that “dark humor” for these people means “I’m allowed to make fun of minorities because it’s a joke”. I was expecting much wilder jokes, but nah. Garden variety racism.
- Comment on It's never been about helping people 4 days ago:
These numbers are going to need context.
$66,000 for how long? A year? Median across all sentences regardless of length?
If $16,000 houses AND feeds a homeless person permanently, how long exactly are we letting them live before euthanasia? There’s no “permanent” when it comes to feeding or even housing, both include ongoing costs. 16 grand is a couple of years’ food costs for me. More than 1, fewer than 10.
Note that I’m not arguing against housing the homeless obviously. Besides the obvious “what the fuck” factor of making homelessness a crime, incarceration by definition can’t be cheaper because it involves housing, feeding AND guarding them. I just would prefer there to be more context when numbers are thrown around like that.
- Comment on Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 5 days ago:
It doesn’t make sense at Google’s scale to review each case individually, easier to just ban everything and review those that appeal.
The DMCA is pretty unreasonable for centralized services.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 6 days ago:
That’s all very, very dependent on what kind of appointment you’re trying to get.
Want to see my GP/family doctor? 1-2 days, same day if it’s an emergency.
ENT? Month or two at most usually, unless it’s a super busy time for them. May need to go to one in another city of course.
Want to see a dermatologist? About a year, 2 at most.
Want to see a psychiatrist for free? No.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 6 days ago:
Is that true in the US? Where I come from, card payments have a fee that the merchant has to pay, but bank transfers are free and instant.
- Comment on Overturn Citizens United (and launch billionaires into space) 1 week ago:
I figured, which is why there would have to be a law saying that spaced billionaires’ shares can be revoked (or acquired by the government).
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 1 week ago:
…Why would I want to do that?
