Jajcus

@Jajcus@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-toxic glue would be starch or gelatine - both used as base of some 'real glues', both with valid culinary use, including exactly this use case. We just don't call those 'glue' in this context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Otherwise they should be forced to state the game is a rental not purchased if it requires a server that may shut down.

  But that is what they already do. Currently this might be hidden in the EULA, that no one reads, but even making this plainly visible during purchase wouldn't change much. I is not like the players have much choice when they want to play that specific game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prison Architect 2 transitioning game to a different studio⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like what happened to Kerbal Space Program 2… it didn't end well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a mobster kind of favor. They took advantage of studio weakness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When using the English word 'floor' counting ground floor as 'first floor' makes sense – ground level still has a floor and it is the first one.
  Other languages (at least Polish) have separate word for 'non-ground level of the building' so those are counted.

  In Polish we have the word 'parter' for the ground floor (lowest non-basement level of the building) and 'piętro' for any level above it. So it is: ('piwnica' (basement), ) 'parter', '1 piętro', '2 piętro'… This makes complete sense… but I still remember it being confusing when I was a kid. A 'floor' (the bottom of a room) is 'podłoga'.

  So, answering the question: there are three 'podłogas' under the second 'piętro' here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you know if you have a Habit?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is were habit stops and addiction starts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What caused the change in electronic terminology?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly the same in Polish (same spelling).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do new sites embed tweets?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  'doctoring' can go both ways. Embedding gives more 'doctoring power' to original poster and X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube ads finally got me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You say content creators should not be paid for their work? And Google should provide all those servers and bandwidth for free?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube ads finally got me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The old business model could not last forever… and even if it could it was not good for anyone.

  Think about it

  Hosting videos is expensive, someone has to pay for it. It was mostly paid by ads. Ads which many (most people) would block and many people would not ever click even when not blocked. But it still made money… The money come only from ads which 1) where not blocked 2) where at least clicked. The business relied on that.

  So YT relied on ads targeting people who did not know how to block ads and people easy to manipulate by the ads (eager to buy whatever they are trying to sell). Probably not the brightest. Or just easy to be taken advantage of. So the incentive would be to promote content for those people. Not good content, not true content, just content that makes ads viewed and clicked.

  People using ad-blocks were still affected by those who do not. And whole site was optimized for advertises not viewers or content creators. And that is bad.

  I am all in favour of any direct form of payments instead of ads powering the internet. Sites get very little money for each view anyway – so the prices for users should also be quite small.

  Unfortunately as long as ads are supposed to be normal part of internet, they may get forced even onto paying customers. We need regulations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In Poland: decimeters are sometimes used (I have been ordering cut sheet metal priced by square decimeters) , I have not seen decameters in use. Hectopascales are often used in weather reports. Decagrams are often used when buying food where these amounts make most sense (meat, candy).

  The 'more exotic' prefixes are usually only used with some specific SI units and in very specific contexts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern corporate management model is just broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are these floating on the surface⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the kettle has some kind of non-sticking internal surface?

  Yes, that sounds like limescale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom orders workers back to the office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The one that is going to use all the data for AI training? They are not that stupid. ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why bother?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That depends on tree species and damage.
  Willow tree would probably survive that without a problem, most other trees won't. Some could be saved with appropriate protective measures, like trimming the roots.