user224

@user224@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  :::spoiler NSFW
  (.)(.)
  :::

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to drink coke?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Without water, just the syrup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it too much to ask for??⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also this thing:
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  Source: e926.net/posts/5602468

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good boy⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Only found this from Yahoo Answers: web.archive.org/web/20131214042431/http:/…/index?…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Got it.

  I am prey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder God⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Pirate_Parties_International

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  By the way, Markdown also takes escape \, which is why sometimes the shrugging emoticon is missing left arm.

  - So this
  - also works with space

  So you don’t even necessarily have to leave out the space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube is getting a new tool that generates Shorts

  All I needed to know. I hoped for a button to report AI slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amid AI Plagiarism, More Professors Turn to Handwritten Work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer this way personally. I’ve always asked if I could write things with a pen rather than type them on a computer. Unless they want me to use a ballpoint and press harder because CC paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the heat could temporarily do something, but other than that this just sounds stupid. Especially with strong heat source like a flame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helpful guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It does. I’ve been using it, I tested it, it works. They just get the info that I am “currently unavailable” and I get SMS with info on who tried to call me when I was “unavailable”. Just like airplane mode, but I get to keep data and SMS.

  2G will be used only for emergency calls.

  4G/5G doesn’t support traditional voice calls like 2G/3G did. Only VoLTE, VoWiFi and VoNR which are a total mess with lack of one universal standard.

  But they can try, if that’s what you meant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helpful guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem solved.
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  You can’t call me.

  (If you can’t disable 2G and 3G and they are still used by your carrier, you can switch to LTE only or NR/LTE or NR only in *#*#4636#*#* menu. This menu may be disabled on some devices.)

  This also helps with reconnecting faster when travelling as it won’t have to unnecessarily search for 2G/3G towers.

  Alternatively, you could forward all calls somewhere else, so you can still make calls yourself right away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Point is, this could probably be buried in the many other blowing up power banks. Years old power bank caught on fire doesn’t make much news. Yet Anker went with a recall (though unfortunately it’s US only). Makes Anker look even better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was searching for something like that ereyesterday. Couldn’t find anything aside from maybe Xtar BC4 which is a battery charger with power bank function, but even if that works properly, it’s going to be not very useful capacity-wise.

  I have one of those 4xAA power banks from AliExpress, but it quickly drops voltage way too far. It’s fine for USB LED lights and running my USB fan for 5 hours (with some old NI-MH batteries I have), but it won’t charge most things due to the voltage drop. One more problem is the series connection. Weaker cells can get reverse-charged and damaged during discharge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The company has received 19 reports of fires and explosions

  The recall covers about 1,158,000 units that were sold online through Amazon, Newegg, and eBay between June 2016 and December 2022.

  That still sounds more trustworthy than random power bank from Wish.

  I’ve had a power bank with earbuds (yes) from AliExpress that just randomly started to feel quite warm. Not the battery being a problem, some chip (SY7656) on the board was cooking.
  I tried to replace it, but I couldn’t do a good job without a heat gun. It broke again after a few weeks. Probably overheated as I couldn’t do anything about solder that was supposed to be below it. But anyway…

  Also had a cheap power bank from Tesco that would self-discharge in 3 days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So is ADB, and Bluetooth tethering, and wired Ethernet, and OTG,…

  This can be solved with a warning like “You are not connected to the internet, hotspot will only allow access within local network.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate Samsung and their dumb software design choices, and this is one of them. Why do I need a SIM card to enable a hotspot whereas every other phone works without one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely yes. So many phones have USB 2.0, so the Wi-Fi speed is often going to be faster than cable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, no. It’s for CDs only. Specifically Mode 2 used for audio since that gives more control over what is 1 and 0.

  Based on a different similar project: instructables.com/Burning-visible-images-onto-CD-…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't really need it but it makes me feel better about myself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is CD-RW try cdrecord blank=fast first if it isn’t blank. Just an idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe. The way I understand it:

  Normal is something that’s basically the way it should be, while common just refers to being of higher frequency of occurence, regularly seen.

  For example: “Is police brutality normal?” vs “Is police brutality common?”
  No and yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not normal, just uhhh… common maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it could be forked to append images to actual audio tracks, but I am too dumb to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the error? I’ve played around with this successfully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of uses: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New tool burns images onto Compact Discs' recording area using ones and zeros — unlike Lightscribe, the technique works on any disc⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How famous is Lemmy? The linked hackaday post seems to be from 2022, the github page had last activity 3 years ago.

  Perhaps hackernews was a middlestep: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208283

  But otherwise it may as well originate from my recent Lemmy post: old.lemmy.sdf.org/post/36007202 (the old subdomain usually works as well as the API, but the native Lemmy frontend on SDF, 502 or long wait)

  I’ve also seen Lemmy being used as a source for something on Linus Tech Tips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you care about up/down votes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  uuuuh, yeah. I usually assume that if I get a lot of downvotes or a comment I agree with gets a lot of downvotes, then my opinion must be wrong.
  On the other hand, if something I am not sure about gets upvoted, then it’s probably good. I trust others more.

  Probably not a good thing, but I don’t trust myself with opinions. Though it’s not completely black and white either. It depends on where it is, who’s giving majority of replies*, and some bit of reconsideration (e.g.: is it logical, is it harmful).
  But in the end, it does shape my opinions into what I believe is “more correct”.

  Certain (more serious) decision-making for opinions may however take me 24 hours or even more. This helps me to balance out the effects of morning vs night-time emotional state**, which differs more with lack of sleep. If even then I am undecided, the upvotes win it and I take it as my own opinion.

  :::spoiler Asterisks
  * There’s a priority to trustworthiness. For example, lemmy.blahaj.zone has a high level of trustworthiness while hexbear.net ranks low. Let’s say there is something I agree with, but it is downvoted to hell. However, most replies are from hexbear.net or lemmy.ml with negative tone. In this case, I won’t really consider the votes, since I don’t know who they are from, but likely largely influenced by these 2.
  Now on the other hand, say there is something I disagree with. However it is highly upvoted and most replies are from lemmy.blahaj.zone with positive tone. In this case, my opinion is most likely shit and needs to be reconsidered.

  ** Most of the time, in the morning I am influenced by negative emotions while at night I am influenced by… also mostly negative emotions, but this time towards myself rather than others. Late night can be fairly positive at times, however.
  Generally speaking…
  Morning: Anger, feeling of 100% rightfulness, feeling of higher importance, not caring about others
  Night: Sadness, feeling of being wrong in everything, worthlessness, wanting to be useful, thoughts of suicide, highly affected by music
  Midnight (sometimes): Spike in productivity, positivity, will to do things :::

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innövative sölutiön⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, based on the comments, it’s AI.

  This one isn’t. A sheet of paper from mythbusters.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correct Grindr Response⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve seen such stuff on old forums. Unfortunately, a replacement GPU would cost around €50, and that is just not worth it to try obviously.
  The CPU was €1.38 on AliExpress, so that was worth a try, but for the most part it just produced more heat

  Some different GPU would probably work there, but then again, I don’t know if it is a GPU issue. It wouldn’t even show any drive activity when attempting to boot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correct Grindr Response⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps early Windows 11 was a bit different. Plus I disabled Superfetch and BITS which would otherwise max out CPU, and when still on HDD, that too.
  Though I am not entirely sure if I also disabled something else.

  It could idle at around 5% I believe.

  Also, unused RAM is wasted RAM. Just because it’s used doesn’t mean it’s unusably full. Linux too will eat up entire RAM for caching, but it can be freed when needed.