TheRealKuni

@TheRealKuni@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Venus.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple TV is a great service. It’s like Netflix pre-Enshittification. You don’t need Apple devices to use it.

  Also you can just pirate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forbidden fourth leche⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dulce de leche (which is essentially caramel made from milk).

  So tres leches cake has whipping cream, condensed milk, and evaporated milk. Cuatro leches cake adds dulce de leche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure about hand washing. But if you want to save water, and have access to a dishwasher, oh boy can I help. Just search “Technology Connections dishwasher” and get ready to learn!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just couples things⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually did this once. My wife asked me to check our car do a hair tie for her friend. We did not have one.

  So I ordered like, 200 hair ties for a pittance and put 100 in our car, and gave her friend the other 100 and said, “Put these in your car.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is ice heavier than water?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t wrong. You’re keeping the mass constant, they’re keeping the volume constant.

  I think the confusion might come from their phrasing: “the same volume of ice as water,” which could mean “the same volume of ice as the volume of water” (which is what they meant), but could also be interpreted as “the same volume of ice in the form of water.” The latter interpretation doesn’t fit the rest of their sentence though, so we can safely assume they meant the former.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The shrinkflation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, always use vet-approved pet food for your pets.

  But I’ll definitely take some fried potatoes covered with salt for myself. Nothing artificial about it, just processed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Link for Non-Steam games on Wayland? (Linux)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I’m still a Windows user, haven’t yet migrated over (though I do have a Nobara install I’ve played with a bit, I haven’t tried to get Apollo working on it). I stream 2560x1440 and just ignore the black bars, but I could request 2560x1600 and I think it would work just fine (I prefer the higher resolution for higher quality, rather than the native 1280x800, though I can confirm that requesting 1280x800 works when my bandwidth is limited).

  That setting is handled within Moonlight, and Apollo respects that setting by default, so Apollo presents itself as a virtual display with the resolution requested by Moonlight. At least that’s my understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Link for Non-Steam games on Wayland? (Linux)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out the major difference is the thing I use most: virtual display in headless mode.

  When I connect as a virtual display, I have Apollo set to treat the new virtual display (whose resolution is set by Moonlight’s settings, so I can control it on the client end). Headless mode means all apps open in the virtual display, so I never need to go to the PC itself. And finally, in the advanced settings I have it set up so the virtual display is treated as the only display, so existing applications move to the virtual display (in case I already had Steam or Battle.net or whatever open).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chocolite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  British candy fucks, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Link for Non-Steam games on Wayland? (Linux)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Try Apollo in place of Sunshine, it was recommended to me as having more options. (I don’t actually know though, I never used Sunshine.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to do this, only to find that I had texted them SQUID back in 2022. I learned then that firefly squid flash lights to attract their prey!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pies of Power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a dreadful day for literacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TheRealKuni, this is for you.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bahahaha!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pies of Power⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People can put whatever they want on their pizza and pineapple adds a delightful sweetness which can be appropriate in the right context. It doesn’t belong on every pizza, but it’s fine to have on some pizzas.

  I will die on this hill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedy Delivery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe? It’s been a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedy Delivery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but it is how Santa worked, as seen in Hogfather.

  Gods are a species that become more powerful the more worshippers they have and essentially powerless when they have no followers, as seen in Small Gods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fare thee well⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man those potato cakes though. Dummy thicc hash browns any time of day? Yes please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You nomster!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The key is to not only do this, but also compile this quick autohotkey script to an exe, hide it on their computer, and set it to run at startup:

  #NoTrayIcon

  m::n
  n::m

  That way it’ll fuck with touch typers. And when they look down to confirm that something’s wrong, it won’t look wrong. It’ll drive them nuts!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you're cooking and it does its thing. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like raw onions. But if you sauté or grill those tear-jerkers, they’re amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my understanding, 4 sounds like the word for death and 8 sounds like the word for wealth, so 8 is considered lucky.

  But I don’t speak any version of Chinese, and could very well be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How? It’s a well defined term. If you don’t have a publisher and are independent, that’s what indie means. It has nothing to do with budget. Even an indie game can be AAA, because the term AAA refers to how expensive it was. These are two different subjects.

  That’s not how the term is used. Definitions are descriptive, not prescriptive. Wikipedia’s definition is far more useful.

  Take the game “Animal Well.” Go look it up if you haven’t heard of it. Animal Well was programmed by a single person, Billy Basso, as developer “Shared Memory.” It was then published by Videogamedunkey’s company “Bigmode,” the very first title Bigmode published.

  By your definition, Animal Well is not an indie game. But it’s exactly the kind of game meant by the term “indie game.” So your definition isn’t a useful one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in Western cultures. In East Asia, it’s 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple reminding me my iPad sucks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The iPads with AI support are the Pro ones with M processors, same series that the MacBooks use. (Believe it or not, iPad actually got the M4 before the MacBooks did.) Unless they’ve enabled it in the newest iPads running A series processors, which may have the AI cores that the iPhone 15 Pro and later have. I don’t know, I haven’t followed any iPad news in a while. My iPad Pro is mostly an extremely overpowered sheet music device that I occasionally use for productive tasks or Moonlight/Xbox/video streaming. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple reminding me my iPad sucks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (eg Apple AI on iPhone 15 Pro, not plus, but it’s all in the cloud anyways)

  It isn’t, though. Apple does a significant amount of their AI processing locally. It’s part of why they’re “behind” the competition, but I actually see it as a plus due to the privacy advantages.

  (When they do go to the cloud, that is, when the on-board models are insufficient, first it goes to Apple’s servers, where the request is reportedly handled without any tracking or logging. If Apple’s AI isn’t good enough, it will ask if it can send the request to ChatGPT, and then even that connection goes through Apple instead of through your account so tracking is minimized.)

  Apple cares about privacy, or at least cares about appearing to care about privacy. They’re obviously not at the level of GrapheneOS or something, but for a mainstream retail phone company, they’re better than most in this regard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battle Bun⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Long Patrol, wot-wot!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fair's fair.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quid cobiet ipsos cobes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can understand this hesitation, but I don’t expect that from Larian, they’ve delivered in the past and I suspect they’ll deliver again.

  (So had CD Projekt Red of course, but Cyberpunk’s launch issues were largely stability/performance related, IIRC. Whereas Hello Games over-promised and under-delivered core features on No Man’s Sky.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it sounds like the proper tool for your use case is a spoon or squeeze bottle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, and that general purpose tool works fine. This is just the tool specifically designed for honey. It’s not necessary, just useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You keep slowly rotating it as you move it from the honey to whatever you’re going to put the honey in so the viscous liquid essentially “orbits” this thing instead of dripping onto your countertop. Then when over the target you stop rotating and let it pour off.