andrewta
@andrewta@lemmy.world
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 2 days ago:
Excellent answer.
On a side note: if I could get my ant colony to build small camp fires we could create some ugly forest fires, or some nasty building fires in large cities.
- Comment on Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam? 2 days ago:
I cannot afford to buy directly from the manufacturer. Otherwise, yeah, Steam is my second option.
- Comment on What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here? 3 days ago:
It does not bother me at all. The reason it does not bother me. Is because sometimes things that are easily googled, are also things where if you don’t have the right search words or the right search terms, Google won’t help you. And I’ve had that happen to me. Before I tried and tried and tried to find an answer and I couldn’t find it. Once I got the answer that I pushed that into Google oh there it is right there for me.
Sometimes people prefer to talk to other people instead of googling. Given you’re not actually talking to anybody you’re typing into a forum, but still point is. So it doesn’t bother me. And if I have a chance and I know the answer, yeah I’ll answer.
- Comment on Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone? 1 week ago:
Exactly. That’s why I don’t use biometrics to unlock my phone.
- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 1 week ago:
My dad did once. Stolen off his pickup while on a work parking lot
- Comment on Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone? 1 week ago:
Yep, that is so true
- Comment on Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone? 1 week ago:
That is true, in some countries they can demand that you use your biometrics to unlock your phone. In other words, if you can unlock your phone by simply looking at it or using your thumbprint, they can demand that you unlock your phone using that. From what I understand the United States now does this. They can’t demand to give up your pin number because they can’t require you to give up something that’s inside your head. But biometrics are not what is inside your head that is publicly available data. So they can use that to require you to unlock your phone. Personally, I think it’s a bullshit concept that they can require you to do that.
- Comment on After updating CachyOS, I am unable to play games as easily as before. How do I fix it? 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for letting me know about this group
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Contact an attorney, and explain that you want to use inmates as a work release program. Or possibly to have the inmates work on your project inside the prison.
- Comment on I swear it won't hurt you if you use it for like a second 3 weeks ago:
As a Linux user I approve this joke
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Watching this back and forth while I’m eating my chips 😅
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
If you do check the store don’t look at the west wall, or in any glass show cases.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Doubt it. Maybe a few but nothing huge
- Comment on Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? 4 weeks ago:
That’s how I interpreted the statement.
Open web browser
Click install
Files down load and install. Computer reboots with Linux os installed on hard drive
- Comment on What would happen if the US got rid of the majority of their bases and brought all the stationed soldiers home? What would be the impact on society, the economy, and other things? 4 weeks ago:
I think to add to what you just said, places where US military bases are at , those local communities, especially their restaurants. Will see a big hit in traffic. Ramstein air base in Germany has over 70,000 Americans there. Those people eat in restaurants in the area (off base) they shop in stores off base. That is a LOT of money going into that economy. And it isn’t all going to major stores (corporate stores) it also goes to mom and pop shops.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 4 weeks ago:
That’s interesting that your experiences that adaptive cruise control is never set to the closest. Every time I go to test driving new vehicle and when I say new, I mean very low miles like 15 miles or something. I checked the adaptive cruise control. It’s always set to the closest possible setting.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 1 month ago:
I can make it a good solid guess as to what happened there. They probably had adaptive cruise control running. For those who don’t know adaptive cruise control is it’s a sensor that will adjust your speed to perfectly match the speed of the person in front of you. If you are using cruise control. The problem is by default adaptive cruise control is set to the shortest distance possible. So it , from the person who is in front , from their perspective it looks like you are riding their ass. It should never be set to the shortest distance possible it should be set so you have about a three second following distance. Most people never adjust this because they’re stupid.
Now, why did they follow you when you change lanes? I’m going to call them a lemming. Well, the other person moved over so I’ll move over too. So as you slow down the adaptive cruise control makes them keep slowing down. And they’re not paying attention until like you said you get down about 30 miles an hour. Then they realize what’s going on.
Here’s the fun part when they pull out to go around you. If they speed up normally their engine doesn’t get gunned really hard. But if they just pull out, the adaptive cruise control kicks in and realize oh there’s nobody in front of me and I’m supposed to be going 80 mph. And the car will absolutely freaking gun it. It’ll go into overdrive. And if you aren’t prepared for that it’s quite the jolt.
And yeah they are basically goldfish and lemmings out there.
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 1 month ago:
That’s a nice sentiment. Wait until the United States government says we don’t care if it’s open source or not , you’re going to comply. Which from what I understand is exactly what they’re pushing for.
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 1 month ago:
As I said to another comment, the law is being wrote Where it will cover all operating systems. So exactly which one would I use if they’re all covered?
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 1 month ago:
And when they require age verification of the o/s then what?
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 1 month ago:
The problem is they are trying and basically succeeding in age verifying the o/s. The only choice at that point is to never go online or use an electronic device again. Not sure how that works
- Comment on Should businesses (big or small) be allowed to kick you out because of your speech? 1 month ago:
You have to be careful around pubic property. Sometimes it’s rough, sometimes it’s like a swamp. Then there’s the ugly times where it just stinks.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you enjoy the song you are hearing, if you enjoy the singer/band then why not vote for them? Give them your support. If you enjoy the format of the show and how things are presented Then go and participate.
For example of the voice here in the United States, they used to have a really good way they set it up. Now I don’t know if I’ll even watch the show anymore.
you have the blind audition, which is cool. But then you have a head-to-head competition, where the singers do not get to choose their song. Then you have a battle round, Again the singers do not get to choose their song. Then you have a semifinal which I think is a live episode. And then you have the finale. There’s not enough time to figure out what sort of artist the singer really is. There’s not enough time to watch them actually progress and grow and improve. I literally don’t know if I’ll even bother watching again.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 1 month ago:
This needs to be taught in the US and it needs to be enforced. If there’s two lanes on the road.(And I mean, two lanes going one way two lanes going the other way) Then, if it comes to a standstill everybody part so you have a center area that emergency services could drive in
- Comment on If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now? 2 months ago:
Can’t argue with that logic.
- Comment on Are defense attorneys ‘good people’? 3 months ago:
A good attorney/a smart attorney is going to directly ask their client if they actually did it. There is 0% chance you can really defend your client if you don’t know if they did it or not. Because if you don’t know if they did , that means you also won’t have access to all of the information that the other side will have. And then you can pretty much guarantee a failure. By failure, I mean, having the Defendant wind up in jail.
And yes, I know the old statement of every pedophile should be in jail in every rapist should be in jail. But from the defense attorneys point of view, if your client winds up in prison, then you failed. You get too many fails and nobody’s gonna hire you for defense. Even the people are actually innocent will not hire you.
Now I do understand the intent of the original posters comment of why would somebody want to defend somebody who admits they raped or killed.? As you said, everybody is the right to a presumption of innocence. Because you don’t push back on the argument in every case, what will happen is you’ll wind up with innocent people in prison. What it does it make sure that the prosecution when they come to the courtroom, hopefully has their act together. And is fully prepared. If you cut corners on one case you’re probably going to cut corners on another case. This just ensures the system functions.
- Comment on Does having a child with someone give you any legal right to their property? 3 months ago:
this has to be the dumbest thing i’ve read today.
it should be mentioned that i am not attacking you (the person who said they had to pay child support) … i’m attacking a system that would allow this. what in the taco bell shitting hell was going through a persons head when they wrote that law?
- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 3 months ago:
I’m also curious as to what he’s referring to
- Comment on Why do pot or other drug dealers "lace" their drugs knowing full well it will pretty much kill their customer base and rep? Is this not like a retail store telling customers everyday FUCK YOU and hope 3 months ago:
I also watched a report from Mariana Van Zeller about the drug. She got in contact with people that make the drug and she got a chance to interview police who have to deal with the mess.
Can’t find a link to her report.