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- Comment on Tower Networking Inc., an ISP/networking management game with physical switch connection and an in-game command line interface, releases demo on Steam 1 day ago:
Physical switch, huh? 2 guys and I worked an ISP in college as a start-up. 300 external US Robotics modems on the wall during the first year. THAT was physical switching, haha. Will give this a shot.
- Comment on Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews 1 day ago:
- Comment on Lemmy on Mastadon 1 day ago:
Heh heh, thanks, but MastAdon 😆
- Comment on Feds released close up pic of the drones! 1 day ago:
Too accurate.
- Comment on Lemmy on Mastadon 1 day ago:
What’s Mastadon?
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 3 days ago:
There may be something falling from trees that stains?
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 4 days ago:
If you go the S3 route, look into compatible alternatives. Cloudflare’s S3 compatible service is much cheaper, for instance.
- Comment on how do I avoid leggings creasing below the knees? 5 days ago:
I would imagine this is twofold: fit and material.
- For fit, if the leggings are too tapered at the bottom, and you have a defined or larger calf, the legging will attempt to move to the narrower area above the calf. Alternatively, if they are not tapered enough, and they are below the calf normally, but rising up onto it, you need more taper to keep that from happening. Just dont go so tight you cut off blood flow.
- For material, the amount of spandex plays a big role in fit. Too much, and it will easily stretch around your calf and move, too little and it won’t conform properly. If they are 100% polyester, thickness will play the same role.
What materials and percentages are they?
Disclaimer: I do not wear leggings, but I do wear base layers biking and backpacking, and sew, so I have some limited knowledge here.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 5 days ago:
Pretty sure they use Whisper, which is what FUTO Keyboard already uses on Android to keep it local to the phone.
I use Heliboard as a keyboard, then FUTO Voice connected to the mic button.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 6 days ago:
I thought the exact same thing when I read the title and first line. Post of the year.
- Comment on The European mind can't comprehend 1 week ago:
Oh boy… You just called a Brit a European. 50/50 chance you’re in trouble.
- Comment on Good ear protection for concerts. 1 week ago:
For reference, I have used equipment to tune home theaters to flat frequency responses, and designed speaker crossovers. Spreadsheets are fun, and sound is math.
Like the other commenter recoed: Loops www.loopearplugs.com.
The loop is tuned for specific frequencies, and it actually works. My partner also uses them on job sites, and the soft ones are great for sleeping. I typically use the ones for loud places that help you hear voices.
Regardless of where you live, you can buy them in your currency on Amazon if you can’t find a direct purchase: www.amazon.com/s?k=loop+earplugs&crid=2GUCLFWL47X…
- Comment on Good ear protection for concerts. 1 week ago:
Why EU only? These bad boys are on amazon.
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
Doesn’t matter, compensation is in order.
If a company uses tools that act poorly, or does not invest in training staff appropriately, it is a decision they make to optimize their business.
When they fail, they should have to learn what the costs of those mistakes are. A tweet is not enough.
- Comment on The enshitification of Meetup.com 1 week ago:
Maybe I’ve just been lucky. We’ve also had pretty defined rules in the groups I’ve helped organize for.
- Comment on The enshitification of Meetup.com 1 week ago:
Yea that’s my guess. It has always been taboo to make paid events unless it’s something like contributing to food or an activity (in areas I’ve lived or been an organizer), sad to see it going the way of businesses advertising events.
- Comment on The enshitification of Meetup.com 1 week ago:
I’m an organizer as well, and while the app hasn’t been great, this new level of focus on money is new since the acquisition.
- Comment on The enshitification of Meetup.com 1 week ago:
Wow, just saw that. You can still the list, and tap on each to see pictures, but wow. And you can pay for waitlist placement. Ugh.
- Comment on The enshitification of Meetup.com 1 week ago:
That’s the deposit, not the full price.
The point is that until recently, Meetup was mostly local organizers setting up events for people to… meet up. This one was hiking.
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- Comment on Lesson learned 1 week ago:
Incandescent light bulbs. LEDs in standard bulbs typically don’t get hot enough, especially since the casings are plastic instead of glass.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
A 501c3 has restrictions on lobbying.
They also have limitations on income beyond donations.
This isn’t a Mozilla situation where there are separate corp and org entities. His salary is most definitely funded by donations in some way.
- Comment on Does hand washing your undies prevent it from losing its shape and elasticity? 2 weeks ago:
All great questions, the merino ones I can handle 😉
Yes, merino is expensive, but it does last if you take care of it. The stuff you get on Amazon is often thinner than it should be, and prone to excesive wear. Usually a merino mix, where the garment is over 50% merino is a good balance, though we go more merino in socks (Darn tough with around 70+% and the lifetime warranties make u for the price to us).
For washing, we either use a bag with a gentle wash cycle or hand wash all our merino undergarments (and others) using Nikwax wool wash. We are in the outdoors a lot, so have definitely learned the advantages of the natural antimicrobial (and thus anti-smell, too) capabilities of the material.
As for itching, while merino is wool, it is from an entirely different kind of sheep than “normal” wool, and has a much tighter weave. If it’s authentic, it should not itch at all. If it does, it’s probably mixed.
And for washing frequency, that’s part of the reason we use merino. May be gross to some, but if you’re backpacking, you end up airing out your undies and socks on alternating days as you hike, and merino is great for that due to the above mentioned antimicrobial properties. (Note: We are not “alternative” in any way to be clear, we are both engineers and there’s science behind it)
For your final question about the gusset, that’s outside of my area of expertise because she and I haven’t discussed that and she’s out ATM, but my guess would be the contact point of the cotton is what natters most, so a cotton gusset would be A+. I’m happy to ask her when she’s back, if you would like.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Population Health needs a regulated definition.
- Comment on Identify a 1990s game with initials? 2 weeks ago:
Yup, that was it! Just figured it out with GPT, too, hah.
- Comment on Identify a 1990s game with initials? 2 weeks ago:
And ChatGPT to the rescued. MDK.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Heads up, don't link to the Guardian on 5/6 December 2 weeks ago:
I’m confused… Tues, or 5-6?
- Comment on Does hand washing your undies prevent it from losing its shape and elasticity? 2 weeks ago:
From my partner:
- Yes, but the same could be achieved on a cold and delicate wash with no tumble dry
- Reconsider the materials, especially if hand washing. Switch to merino for active wear and cotton daily to avoid infections. “Synthetics are for fun time.”
- Comment on Compress me 2 weeks ago:
Oh, new toy.
