bdonvr
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club
Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you’re reading this.
- Comment on Mobius tape 5 days ago:
Behold!
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 5 days ago:
That’s probably why I saw it I’m my steam recs the other day then. So the publicity is working!
- Comment on WHY 6 days ago:
And then you get - el agua
Feminine. With feminine adjectives. El agua clara
Spanish is still way more consistent than English tho
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
I think Motorola makes a much better flip phone in terms of experience overall.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 1 week ago:
It’s one of the best ones to come out recently, but it’s still significantly taller than the pre-iPhone 6 models
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 1 week ago:
They gave out Wipeout and infamous for free out of that, I got a lot of play time out of those two games.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Seems like a good thing to milk for a bit then GTFO when you save enough to achieve some goal
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 2 weeks ago:
Yeah like I said. Plus it doesn’t look like they’ve ever used it without being asked.
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 2 weeks ago:
Not really. They’re part of the Commonwealth, an association of former British colonial possessions, and “recognize” the British monarch as their own monarch. The monarch (King Charles, currently) has a representative in Canada known as the Governor General. They do a ton of stuff like appoint Prime Minister, heads of the Provinces, dissolving parliament, etc.
However they almost exclusively can only act when asked to by Parliament or the Prime Minister. They also do ceremonial stuff. They do have some emergency power however it’s never been used in the post-independence era.
Basically no, not really. King Charles (King of Canada) could technically try and like dissolve the parliament or something but it would cause a constitutional crisis that would probably just end up removing the whole Canadian Monarchy thing.
But they are strong allies.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s been declining but in 1981 it was at peak with 65% of male babies circumcised. In 2007 it got down to 55%. Source: www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/…/circumcision_2013.htm
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No in the US it’s almost standard practice
- Comment on Mercury poisoning 3 weeks ago:
That’s not elemental, metallic mercury. It’s methylmercury which is easily absorbed by the body and very toxic.
- Comment on Mercury poisoning 3 weeks ago:
From my understanding no, not elemental mercury. The main danger with that is inhaling mercury vapor.
However the broken thermometer could introduce open wounds which could do something I’m not sure.
Here’s a guy swishing some around his mouth, he explains more about how the body generally can’t absorb elemental mercury. Not through skin or mucus membranes. youtu.be/DNpdMz0Cfv0
He’s been tested and has not shown to have unusually high levels of mercury in his blood.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 3 weeks ago:
The screw to get to it is supposed to be on the side that would be facing the wall when plugged in so no
- Comment on While shitposting at work as well 3 weeks ago:
Us salaried fools pooping for free 😭
Well not really, I’m still leaving at the same time so less time working
- Comment on Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico 3 weeks ago:
At least the parts that used to be Mexican Territory, if nothing else.
Or all of it I’m good with that too
Although the fact that Mexico’s official name is “Estados Unidos Mexicanos”/“Mexican United States” does muddy things a bit.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Heh, kiddo has no clue what 3 meals a day takes
Either that or you’re gonna have a lot of frozen food and sandwiches.
Let them learn
- Comment on ADL defends Nazi salute 4 weeks ago:
They’re an organization that calls out antisemitism.
Problem is saying anything against Israel, or pro-Palestine will get you on their public list of antisemites, along side your local neo-nazi militia members.
It’s Zionist propaganda and intimidation.
- Comment on Anon is in trouble 4 weeks ago:
I like it. Use the filtered water at work, some of this when I want flavor/caffeine.
The black cherry flavor is honestly great. And if you happen to have a carbonator at home try it carbonated…
- Comment on How can I search lemmy for answers similar to how in 2019 you could google search "[problem] + reddit"? 4 weeks ago:
I mean, “[problem] + Lemmy” works
Actually put Lemmy in quotes and it’ll return better results
- Comment on Trust the process! 4 weeks ago:
Pork can be done all the way down to medium rare now that Trichinosis has basically been eradicated from pork. Though most say it’s best at medium.
- Comment on Time to chop wood 5 weeks ago:
Poor people didn’t have horses
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 5 weeks ago:
It likely depends on if your great-grandparents naturalized as US citizens before your grandfather was an adult.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think they offer free tuition to non-EU citizens
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 5 weeks ago:
Do you have ANY Italian ancestry? Even fairly distant like 100+ years ago? Irish grandparents?
Other than that it’s gonna be tough bud.
Not EU but there’s ways to do remote work in other countries… Look into some “digital nomad” communities although they often come across as gross privileged fucks who just want to exploit lower costs of living and not try to fit in at all.
- Comment on 小红书 5 weeks ago:
Easy choice. The US gov has massive power over me. The Chinese gov has near zero.
If I had to choose I’m definitely going for the Chinese.
- Comment on Totally forgot there were subreddits that did this lol 5 weeks ago:
Dude give it a friggin rest
- Comment on Behold, the peak of Twitter (formerly renamed to X) 5 weeks ago:
Consider adding content warning for slurs
- Comment on Now give me a treat 5 weeks ago:
“and all the innocent people you helped lock up? Are they happily retired?”
- Comment on Report: Switch 2 Announcement Expected This Week 5 weeks ago:
Basically.
So the Switch uses an Nvidia Tegra X1 chip to power it, which isn’t the only device nor the first that it was used for. The Nvidia Shield TV and Google Pixel C (tablet) used it too. On those devices holding down a certain button at boot would put it in a special mode that let it boot from code sent over USB.
The Switch simply did not have this button, but by shorting those pins you send the same signal.
This is a very low level hardware feature so Nintendo couldn’t ever patch it with an update. They had to make new hardware to fix it.
