Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hires a goth chick⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll take it in another direction from the other responses and just say: people give too much of a fuck about this idea of virginity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good for plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve wondered if it was because the air vibrations that sound is help knock dust loose from the plant, which helps gasses get in and out as well as more light.

  Heavy metal probably has the most vibration going on out of all genres.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey you should have some pride in your dad, being able to keep going longer than a movie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Libreoffice does this without forcing you to allow them to store all of your files. Because it’s a feature that doesn’t rely on any kind of cloud bs, MS just added that requirement because they are assholes that have no respect for their users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm I think now they meant the original “switch to linux” bit sarcastically and are stuck in a mindset thinking that it’s way more complicated than windows and thus anyone claiming to have already switched must be lying…?

  Though thinking about it more, it kinda feels like a bad faith response, posting about a vague windows solution that they want people to know exists but doesn’t want to share, while treating Linux as big and scary and requiring more effort than fighting against what your OS really wants you to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My approach was spending even more money for the pro version so I could access the OS settings paywalled by group policy and set it to never automatically download updates.

  It would tell me about updates, but wouldn’t do shit until I clicked a button on the update page to actually install them (though without the option to pick and choose which ones).

  It still nagged me about stupid shit I didn’t want, like edge, bing, one drive, and their office subscription.

  So when I built a newer computer, I gave them $0 and installed Fedora and laugh at my former reluctance because it’s actually been easier and I haven’t even had moments where I wished I had just stuck with windows.

  Not saying that it’s been perfect without any issues, I just recall that there were also issues on windows to deal with, a lot more dated responses showing up in searches that tell you do go to some setting window that no longer exists because the question was answered 6 months ago. Oh and I haven’t had to fight my fucking OS deciding to change my settings back to the shitty defaults they set (plus Linux just has better defaults, so doesn’t even need as much settings tweaking).

  And as an added bonus, switching made me finally pull the plug on xbox game pass, which was a nice idea but I still mostly just spent my time playing games on steam and forgetting to check game pass when buying games on sale, so it was kinda a waste of money. But each time I considered getting rid of it before, I’d instead convince myself it was good to have and end up playing some games on there for a few days before forgetting about it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hammond also gets a very different ending in the book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their system was set up such that when they rebooted the whole thing (which they needed to do to get out of the lockout Nerdy used, intending to steal the DNA samples, deliver them to his contact at the docks, then return without anyone realizing what had happened), it would first start up only using AUX power. Then they just needed to run a command to have the system switch to main power.

  But they forgot because the whole island was a well-polished shit that they were barely holding together and hadn’t ever trained on what to do after a reset.

  After this scene, the power goes out through the whole park and to restore it, someone needs to go to the power station and manually activate the mechanism that closes the breaker to bring main power back on.

  In the movie, IIRC they just skipped straight to the “start the power up manually in the power station”, which Ellie does after Arnold fails to do so or return.

  The book had a better system overall (where main power could have been turned on from the control room, or safely in the bunker if they had remembered it before the fences failed) and the issue was with a lack of experience with that system. The movie’s version was simpler but a stupid system for a park full of dangerous predators because it didn’t have a fail safe at all. Plus that stupid 3d interface that apparently Lex knew and was thus able to figure how to enable secondary systems when all of that would be custom software running on the OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teddybears - Punkrocker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they could do something like the One Punch Man game, where you can select Saitama and he will destroy anyone else without effort (unless it’s a mirror match, in which case it’s a normal fight). But, because it’s Saitama, he’s always running late.

  So you pick teams of 3 and if Saitama is on yout team, you have to survive with just 2 until he gets there.

  So a game where you play as someone else but superman can show up and stomp everything before going off to do something else could work. You’ve gotta survive until he gets there and maybe do things to get his attention or help resolve some other issue he’s dealing with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to meet girls at college⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Man that reminds me a lot of the game, oh I forget the name of it, but it had some vowels in the name, where you go in thinking the point is to kick a lot of butts and towers but it turns out the real point of the game is getting your ass kicked and having your team yell at you.

  Like this one time I was playing and wanted to try this annoying character that bugged the hell out of me when others played him. Can’t remember the name but he’d go like “ahhhhh” and then you’d be slow and couldn’t use abilities even if you ran away and the ground would do this explody thing. Doesn’t that sound soooo annoying? Anyways, I decided to try playing as this guy but I kept just dying instead of annoying the other team.

  I see you want to say something but shut up for a bit, I’m not done yet.

  So then I decided to try jungling. No, not juggling, I mean fighting the guys in the jungle. That way, I don’t keep giving gold and xp to the other team when I repeatedly die, except for a few times when I accidentally thought their base was the jungle.

  Anyways, we should play some games after we have sex at the end of the date. If you brought a gaming laptop, at least. If not, you can watch me play or give me a bj while I play or something so it’s fun for you, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now I finally get it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, the only conclusion you can logically draw is that it’s impossible to know if they do or don’t exist. Instead of seeing the world as a set of ideas that either resolve to true or false, I see it as a set of ideas that resolve to true, false, or unknown.

  Which also “resolves” a bunch of language paradoxes that depend on the only options being “true” or “false”. Like “this statement is false”. It also works on the halting problem, though still doesn’t make it trivial to solve (it just defeats the paradox proof if you allow a third option for paradoxes instead of insisting it only returns true or false).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now I finally get it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I did change my mind from atheism to agnosticism just because a lack of evidence isn’t a proof and you can’t prove a negative. Established religions reek of control and manipulation, but I had to also conclude that it was naive to have faith that there isn’t anything more to whatever this reality is beyond what we can tell with science.

  At the very least, there’s future scientific discoveries we can only guess at, but there’s also unknowable things, at least given the limitations we currently have as beings of this reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it to help figure out the order to cook things like stir frys with whatever ingredients I happen to have, which is an improvement over my previous “just throw it all in and stop when I feel like it’s time to eat then wonder why the meat is so tough”.

  It also helped me figure out that I’ve been steaming food instead of frying it for a long time. Though my cooking got a lot messier when I corrected that and I went from never burning anything to occasionally burning some things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, forget the photon sphere, even. Know that jet of energy black holes are thought to sprew out at their poles due to the material falling in to them? Imagine what that material is doing inside the event horizon. Whatever it is, it’ll be pretty violent, enough to call the moon slamming into the earth “relatively peaceful”. It would probably be more pleasant hanging out in the core of the sun than even an AU away from a black hole’s event horizon (and I mean on the outside).

  Also, the event horizon is where light cannot escape. The “spacecraft event horizon”, or the orbital plane surrounding a black hole where a spacecraft couldn’t escape it is going to be much farther out, unless we can figure out ftl travel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now I finally get it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is Genesis was written before the religion it was written for decided it was a monotheist religion that believed it was the only truth. So Yaweh created Adam and Eve, who had a couple of sons, one killed the other, but then that other went out and joined up with the other people made from other gods or titans or whatever, somehow convinced some of them to join his clan for a god that loved them, but then hated them because they sought knowledge (via eating fruit lol they really didn’t want their followers to be able to figure out shit to the point of even misdirecting them for how one obtains knowledge).

  Where it falls apart even considering the original context is Noah’s flood, because that did apparently wipe everyone out except one mating pair per species, so how did Noah’s descendents repopulate the world without other populations to hook up with?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst part about living in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, with those bottles, if you’re prepared for them to potentially explode, you can open them carefully and just close it again if pressure leaks out quickly once the seal opens. Then let out the extra pressure in short bursts and the bubbles won’t bring a bunch of liquid with them because they can’t build enough momentum to lift it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was an episode that ended right where it started getting good. Not that the episode was bad before that, but it left me wanting more of that, not a jump to a new premise in the next episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Parabolic would only work if the camera is in the focal point, so you’d need a different part of the parabola or a different parabola depending on where you are standing relative to the camera. This is in addition to the aiming mechanism.

  And even then, I’m not convinced it will damage all camera techs instead of just overexposing the image or frame for some. If they just clamp the affected pixels instead of trying to maintain the relative brightness, they might be able to still see your face clearly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I don’t think there’s enough competent therapists in the world to help everyone who could use some therapy. And that’s ignoring the bad therapists who can make things worse and the whole bit where therapists like to get paid but not everyone who needs them can pay them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I hate the idea of not doing something because there’s idiots out there who will fuck themselves up on it. The current gen of AI might be a waste of resources and the whole concept of the goal of AI might be incompatible with society’s existence; those are good reasons to at least be cautious about AI.

  I don’t think people wanting to have relationships with an AI is a good reason to stop it, especially considering that it might even be a good option for some people who would otherwise just have no one or maybe too many cats for them to care for. Consider the creepy stalker type that thinks liking someone or something gives them ownership over that person or thing. Better for them to be obsessed with an LLM they can’t hurt than a real person they might (or will make uncomfortable even of they end up being harmless overall).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why it’s not common for people to cut out the middleman with these services that just connect a provider with a seeker. Then the seekers can stick with a reliable provider when they find one and the provider can take the full amount rather than giving away a cut (or, more accurately, accepting whatever the middleman thinks is the least they can give without driving the provider away). By the time they come in contact, the middleman has already added all of the value they can to that interaction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💀 💀 💀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep it to a light poach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aspergers officinalis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On another branch of that family tree, those leaves are kale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💀 💀 💀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many bubbles before the pump fails and needs to be re-primed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The mains are shared with your neighbours, so a hot water main would also be shared with neighbours. So just like running the hot water in the bathroom sink before a shower means hot water gets to the shower quicker, with hot water mains, your neighbour having a hot shower before you means you’ll see hot water sooner.

  Though my country does not have hot water mains. I wouldn’t be surprised if the heat losses are enough that even sharing a water heater between unattached neighbours is less efficient than both using their own heaters, let alone a whole city doing that. Though maybe tropical areas could do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Xbox 360 can now be hacked in less than one minute⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find your pride in your skepticism confusing. Why even bother commenting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He was awesome in Face Off. Never knew he could pull off such a great John Travolta. I almost thought they just switched the roles between the two actors. Though John Travolta’s Nick Cage was kinda weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I didn’t realize it was Hugh Jackman playing that role until today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably equivalent to about a $2k PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any time you want hot water, you need to wait for all of the water between your house and the heating facility to drain before you get hot water. It can help to coordinate with your neighbours.