Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It’s negging.
Manipulative bullshit insult with a half-excuse tacked in.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
Archive level Blue-Rays sound interesting!
But note that any drive based solution with RAID or anything runs into the problem that the drives all age at the same time. Once one drive fails, the others are close to failing also.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
Hard drives aren’t rated for 30 years, though. Even in optimal conditions, they’d deteriorate.
- Comment on I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump? 1 week ago:
Because US officals only let law apply to poor people
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 1 week ago:
Best: reshape reality as I wish at any time
Worst: spontaneous inexistence
- Comment on How long would it take for a ball rolling across the room to bounce off the wall and get back to you - but the room has a time traveling portal halfway through? 2 weeks ago:
Assuming it comes back through the portal, and it took 4 seconds with no portal.
Your stopwatch will measure 4 seconds when the portal is there.
A stopwatch in the ball will measure 4 seconds when the portal is there.
If you want to take stepwise measurements based on your clock, the ball will be at time 1 sec before going through the portal, time negative 1,767,225,598 when it hits the wall, 3 sec after it exits the portal second time, 4 sec when it reaches you.
- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 3 weeks ago:
Stay off redpill forums or pickup influencers. They will put ideas in your head that isolate you and make you unlikeable and lonely, and vulnerable to macho grifts.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 3 weeks ago:
Nethack
Tetris
OpenTTD
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 4 weeks ago:
Or 4. none of this is up to any of those people it is not their job or within their right.
- Comment on Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun 4 weeks ago:
If you first hack off the fun, then sure. Buying the fun back in tiny pieces is technically adding fun?
- Comment on Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before" 4 weeks ago:
Not obviously, but it sounds like she is making a connection you don’t know what is.
You should ask her to explain what she means, so you’ll either understand that oh it was sexist didn’t think about it like that, or disagree on some knowable point.
- Comment on Ross Scott Gets A Second Chance For His ‘Stop Killing Games’ Crusade 4 weeks ago:
Never have I felt so annoyed that my country isn’t part of EU. Wish I could give a vote.
- Comment on How do I deal with a very negative inner voice/second conscience that's constantly loud? It's like I have two different people in my head but they're both me, telling me opposite things endlessly. 4 weeks ago:
While that answer is correct, “professional help” isn’t a thing most people can just pick up from the grocery store, so to speak.
Knowing what type of help to ask for, getting affirmation that they need help at all, how to describe the problem, whether it has any other known names, etc are very valuable resources that people can only really get from asking friends or online forums.
I need to go through my GP to get “professional help”, and the waiting list for non-urgent appointments are 1-2 months. I would for sure be stuck for months or years in “stressed or burnt out maybe rest some” if I tried to bring up that my inner voice is mean to me.
- Comment on Canadian creator Peter Liepa - The story of how Boulder Dash was created 5 weeks ago:
Sorry if I missed it, but did he have any thoughts on the 40th anniversary edition?
- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 5 weeks ago:
You are making strong assumptions on her motivations, and then judging those motivations as stupid. Her sins are in your imagination only.
Alternative reading: A cool lady who does what makes her happy and give zero fucks if she confuses people.
Or alternatively: A lady and I do not need to have opinions on her, really.
- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 5 weeks ago:
Good. Creep pics of strangers is fucking disgusting.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 5 weeks ago:
Someone made a modified version of Quake back in the day, that rendered to stereoscopic 3D in a white noise pattern.
It was such a mindfuck to play!
You get 3D depth but no colors or shades or contrast. It’s just shapes moving. So doors that were flush with the wall were impossible to see, but enemies in dark rooms were fully visible because there is no light or dark.
I like to imagine I got to experience what a bat sees with echolocation.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. I can change my vision’s focal point and focus distance at will, so it’s usually easy even though my eyesight is getting fucky with age.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 month ago:
Muh business model :'(
- Comment on I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following? 1 month ago:
Up and Atom: youtube.com/@upandatom
Sage the Bad Naturalist: youtube.com/@badnaturalist
Philosophy Tube: youtube.com/@philosophytube
Angela Collier: youtube.com/@acollierastro
Elly’s Everyday Soap Making: youtube.com/@ellyseverydaysoapmaking
The Poopie Show: youtube.com/@thepoopieshow
Münecat: youtube.com/channel/…/münecat
Dr. Becky: youtube.com/@drbecky
RailCowGirl: youtube.com/@railcowgirl
Ami Yamato: youtube.com/@amiyamato
Simone Giertz: youtube.com/@simonegiertz
Hannah Fry: youtube.com/@fryrsquared
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Oh this game is FUCKED
- Comment on How would I repurpose a work laptop? 1 month ago:
The main risk on company laptops is confidential data on the machine itself or any access the machine has to internal resources, so most locks are designed to be hard agaist that. The device itself tends to have more “bypassable” protection.
By which I mean: If the machine is locked down, it’s usually possible to clear and reset the lock somehow as long as you’re fine losing the data on it.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 month ago:
Thanks! I am starting to think a steamdeck is going to be my solution. SteamOS on my tiny nongaming Linux laptop works perfectly for 2D or light 3D games, so I expext it to be fine.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 month ago:
How’s the deck for mouse-heavy strategy games like Stellaris, Civ, etc?
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 month ago:
Thanks. Does it work well with controllers, or do people mostly play with the on-screen joysticks?
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 month ago:
Was considering a new switch, but may hold off now.
Which tablets do you have in mind? I could not find any suitable for anything but phone games via touch screen and unimpressive battery, but I don’t really know this market
- Comment on How does Apple make its infomercial animations to be identical to its software UI? 1 month ago:
Part of the answer is that the UI is “designed first” and coded to follow the design. If changes are seen as necessary when coding the UI, the design is updated first then the code made to follow.
So any UI behavior will already have a lot of accurate design and animation resources for them to work with.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It is a sentiment that separates politics from the people.
I believe/hope it is not a popular term because enough people believe it’s bad for democracy.
Depoliticaztion of the populace is what allows governments like Russia’s to happen.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Desktop computer: Installing a keylogger, for example, is cheap and require skills like “can purchase a cheap and simple technical part” and “can plug in a USB”, which are skills you can assume a CS student will possess.
Laptop: Same, but have to open the laptop and install a less standard straightforward loggrr on the internal cable. This require more effort and patience.
Phone: I have no idea, and I am a computer scientist who spends time thinking about this. I mean, all phones can be opened with corresponding equipment, and the touch screen is connected to the internal computer with a cable, but they differ in details per model and the space to work with is tiny. The research investment is significant and model dependent. Meaning, the effort cost is quite high and they’d need extremely strong motivation.
- Comment on How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work? 1 month ago:
A bookie is needed. Betting requires odds and bookeeping, plus a prize pool guarantor.
The movies either leave the bookie out of shot for dramatic brevity, or, equally likely, have no idea how betting works but just copy other movies.