Chainweasel
@Chainweasel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do I feel sick every time I go out to eat with my gf? 2 hours ago:
Placebo effect?
Maybe you got a touch of food poisoning one of the first times and now you subconsciously associate it with date nights? - Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 1 week ago:
Not as a Republican.
- Comment on Help me to settle on a face design for the character I've just added to my game, called The Humorless Toaster. (It's only here to make toast, not listen to your nonsense.) 2 weeks ago:
Yep
- Comment on Help me to settle on a face design for the character I've just added to my game, called The Humorless Toaster. (It's only here to make toast, not listen to your nonsense.) 2 weeks ago:
2, but make him look more indifferent and less angry I think.
- Comment on Can I run mint Linux from an external drive? 1 month ago:
The “superior OS” is whichever one meets the users needs the best.
For most people Windows works just fine because a PC is an appliance to them, and an important feature of an appliance is simplicity for the user.
But for others Linux works better, especially if you want to do anything server related - Comment on Could President Biden fully legalize cannabis before he leaves office? 2 months ago:
Trump also could have won in 2020 and we’d already be living in the dictatorship with no prospect of an election this November, so does the “you” in this time realize how lucky you are?
- Comment on Are cars with AWD worth it compared to FWD. 2 months ago:
Depends on where you live, does it snow a lot? If so then AWD is absolutely better.
- Comment on $500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form 2 months ago:
Why won’t anyone make these with a GBA layout?
My old GBA was my favorite way to play Gameboy and GBC games because it’s just easier to hold. - Comment on Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less 2 months ago:
$16.99 was pretty steep for how much I used it, I just cancelled.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 2 months ago:
Fucking Internet lefties
Ah, there it is.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 2 months ago:
That’s a long way to go to avoid a question, several paragraphs and you can’t even come up with one name.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 2 months ago:
Who do you have in mind?
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- Comment on Is 0.3 quarts extra too mich oil in a car? 2 months ago:
Some of that oil will be used to fill the filter so you’re fine.
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 2 months ago:
So they’re turning it into a Driver/GTA clone?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So you’ll know it’s supposed to be funny.
If you’ve ever watched the the videos of the Big Bang Theory sitcom with the laugh tracks removed, you’ll notice it feels a lot more like a group of people being shitty and verbally abusive towards each other and it’s not all that funny without being told to laugh.
Why go through the trouble of writing an actual funny dialogue when you can just tell the viewers it’s funny and they’ll laugh? - Comment on What happens if I never activate Windows? 3 months ago:
It’ll harass you to activate it indefinitely but Microsoft has a policy that they’d rather have people steal their operating system than pay for someone else’s, so ultimately that’s it. It’ll just annoy you.
- Comment on If we get two sets of chromosomes, how does our body decide which genes to use? 3 months ago:
They reside in the X chromosome and sometimes one of those genes has mutated. If you only have the mutated version you may be unable to see some colors.
Also, with 2 x chromosomes it’s possible to get an extra set of cone cells and see MORE colors.
- Comment on How come there aren't any moral geniuses? 4 months ago:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable
- Comment on ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! 4 months ago:
I think Gamers Nexus also did a video on it recently.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 4 months ago:
I don’t disagree at all, But I feel like the only reason why the United States has any interest in controlling the Middle East is because of the oil.
- Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use? 5 months ago:
Use us as cheap labor to produce products intended to be sold overseas, just like China has been doing for the past 40 years or so.
Do you really think the people that made your iPhone will ever be able to afford an iPhone? - Comment on Where in the world is laptop gaming the most popular? 5 months ago:
Right??
I only game on laptop because I can’t justify spending the money on a homebuilt rig at the moment. - Comment on Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been? 5 months ago:
Just a quick correction, but there are 5 generations to a century, a generation is 20 years.
- Comment on Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been? 5 months ago:
No,
The best non-archival grade digital storage media will last decades at best, including optical Media like CD/DVD formats.
We’re in what’s considered a “digital dark age” where most of our digital backups will not survive in their current form and endless copying will eventually corrupt the data. There are archival grade systems that can theoretically store data for hundreds of years, but obviously we haven’t had a chance to test that yet.
But I think the biggest issue is compatibility.
If I were to hand you a 5¼ floppy disc with data on it, what’s the likelihood you have the equipment on hand to read that data right now? It’s pretty slim but it’s possible. But they’re not making 5¼ drives anymore and we’re left with what’s on hand.
200 years in the future, if someone finds an archival grade DVD long after the standard has been replaced, it’s highly unlikely they’ll have the equipment or software to read it.
The second issue is electricity.
If something like a Carrington event level solar flare happens and knocks us back to the Stone age for a generation or so, we’ll be able to read our remaining knowledge from ink and paper just fine, but we won’t have a prayer of accessing the digital information.
You need to remember that digital storage is less than a century old, we’re just scratching the surface of this tech now and we haven’t even come close to revealing all of its secrets, things are going to continue changing rapidly for the foreseeable future and a consequence of that is leaving old tech behind. - Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 5 months ago:
We heated my childhood home with coal until I moved out as an adult.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 5 months ago:
I’m still hoping for LineageOS on the Nord N30 but I can’t Even find a stock ROM to root it.
- Comment on Phil Spencer wants Epic Games Store and others on Xbox consoles 5 months ago:
The Series X would make a great Steambox
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 6 months ago:
I have the same razor. I promise you that it’s not DC. It’s a regular plug that passes 120/60 to the device.
- Comment on Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. 6 months ago:
Figure eight connectors like that input line voltage. So even if the charge voltage is different, the chargers still require the same line voltage.