rmuk

@rmuk@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good advice⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Done and done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨good advice⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they forget the “to”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern birds are more closely related to tyrannosaurus rex than tyrannosaurus rex was to stegosaurus. Modern birds are, by any reasonable definition, dinosaurs and sometimes they act like it.

  Clever girl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devices (fanmade, obviously)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  • Apple Pippin
  • Cybiko Handheld Computer for Teens
  • 80386 implemented in Microsoft Excel with clock signal provided by a drinking bird toy.
  • Wintergaten Marble Machine
  • Pebble (Smartwatch)
  • Pebble (Enchanted)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pissebed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve lived in a few places around the UK and I have never, ever heard of a “cheesy bug”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game files are verified, House⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  100% this. Latency is far more important than bandwidth for most things and I’d much rather have a 50/20 FTTP service than a 300/100 cable or DSL line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re surprisingly wrong. Landlines exist but there is basically nowhere left in the world where landlines outnumber mobiles (except places like North Korea, obvs). Mobile networks are literally cheaper to run than landline networks and that gets more and more true as the quality of infrastructure drops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was once in New York using an AT&T payphone and trying to place a reverse-charge (or “international collect”) call to the UK and the operator REFUSED to accept that UK phone numbers are ten digits long. You better believe I put that thing through it’s paces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace “inside of a highschool” with literally any location with reasonable footfall to get the same answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As you are doing it you never realize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the North of England that’s called ‘shittin yer keks’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They tried doing the same thing in the UK with a comedy duo, Mitchell (PC) and Webb (Mac). They were best known at the time for a Channel 4 show, Peep Show, where Mitchell played an educated, qualified, no-nonsense, go-getting, straight-talking realist who was a bit awkward and frumpy, while Webb played an entitled, self-aggrandising, directionless, scatterbrained half-wit convinced he deserved greatness… I forget where I was going with this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Flanian Pobble Beads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once we get the Americans to write the date properly we should probably agree on the symbols we’re using as decimal and thousand delimitation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your cognitive ability changes with you. Your human thoughts, emotions, memories, reasoning, skills, understanding and desires are destroyed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The universe doesn’t distinguish between “intended effects” and “side effects”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re one of those people who can’t click their fingers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rhubarb⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You misunderstand. Phil’s abilities and agency are not in question. Phil can read. Phil chooses not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wishing for this kind of world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever someone tells me they’re trans I always say “don’t fucking talk to me. You’re disgusting.”

  In fairness I say that other people too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you know…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that how it works? Like a file-o-fax made of mortadella?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Old man yells at cloud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOVE THEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Carmageddon had a glove with the severed hand still in it. Just saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy. Just read the manual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helpful tip for this weekend⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This used to work when the guy worked for the restaurant and had, like, three pizzas to deliver and an empty backseat, but now they’ll have six different bags with food from nine takeaways organised with four different delivery apps and doing some realtime Travelling Salesman maths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android updates: thanks I hate it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it. The “progress bar” style fill is nice and clear, and it’s so much better than having an icon with a number next to it. “BuT iT dOeSn’T lOoK LiKe A bAtTeRy” what, do you think your phone is full of AAs? A plain oblong is actually closer to the mark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you just want great scrambled eggs without adding anything else and can be arsed: separate the yolks and cook the whites to your preferred consistency. Then, turn off the heat and whisk in the yolks straight away. The residual heat cooks through but by cooking them less than the whites you get a lot more flavour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This still works. Most debit and credit cards can still be used to authorise offline payments up to a set limit, though it’s kinda of moot if the PDQ’s battery is dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This depends on where and why. I know that in some parts of the Carribbean, for example, most towers will only last a day or two, but there are some that can last weeks with satellite backhauls providing minimal service to large areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dihydrogen Monoxide can make your lungs shut down, killing you, and if gets into your blood it can cause your brain to swell, also killing you. Cancer, Coronavirus and Polio all thrive in environments rich in hydrogen monoxide. If a building’s foundations are exposed to dihydrogen monoxide it can lead to structural collapse, and it causes painful blistering and instant cell death if flesh is exposed to it in its gaseous form. Despite this, the food industry - clamouring for profits above all other considerations - uses dihydrogen monoxide throughout the food production process, meaning this dangerous chemical is present in almost all processed foods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t be bothered reading the article but could someone clarify for me: is the fountain of pee the means or the recipient of the communication?