Buffalox
@Buffalox@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you think all billionaires deserve to die? 19 hours ago:
No, but their fortunes need to be taxed.
- Comment on Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming? 1 day ago:
Exactly. 😋
- Comment on Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming? 3 days ago:
No you could die, depending on the difficulty of the game.
- Comment on I found the Picasso gender bathroom 4 days ago:
To be fair, I had to ask my wife. 🤣
- Comment on I found the Picasso gender bathroom 5 days ago:
Nah it’s symmetrical enough IMO. I don’t care much about the mirror anyways. 😋
- Comment on I found the Picasso gender bathroom 5 days ago:
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- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 1 week ago:
She offered to pay for it!
the woman repeatedly asked for tap water with her meal, even offering to pay for it.
- Comment on Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel 1 week ago:
That’s really low class of the Hotel restaurant, and I am pretty sure it would be illegal in most countries.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
😀
- Comment on how much money is there in total? 1 week ago:
In my opinion, money is not just debt.
Money is literally an “I owe you” note. It is issued by a central bank, and has no intrinsic value. The entire value of money is based on trust, that this “I owe You” note will good when you need to spend the value of whatever you did to earn the note.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Linux can easily be run on your 500 MB HDD, it can also be run from an USB stick or even a DVD.
Linux can even run on the original Raspberry Pi, a single board computer with only 512 MB RAM!
You should probably look for a distro that is made for older systems, but if you do that, it should work very well. There are obviously limitations with only 2GB RAM. So I wouldn’t use a resource heavy desktop like KDE/Plasma.
- Comment on Find Cow 1 week ago:
This is impossible, it is not circled in red like it’s supposed to.
- Comment on How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it? 1 week ago:
That’s how WW1 started.
- Comment on Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in? 2 weeks ago:
Almost exactly what I came to say, in Chess you lose fair and square based on how well you play.
Games that have an element of chance, you can lose to the statistically improbable, despite being the better player.In pure chance based games, it doesn’t really matter IMO, because it’s purely chance.
- Comment on If only the person who did this ceiling had their tools even half as well calibrated as I do 2 weeks ago:
There is no other option than to simply tear down the whole house and build a new one.
- Comment on If you could make a magic wish so that your crush liked you, would you do it? 2 weeks ago:
Does it really matter if she likes you because she is genetically or socially preconditioned to think you’re handsome?
Or she is randomly attracted to your pheromones?
Or you randomly share an interest?
Or whatever other random thing causes it?Or that she likes you because you want her to?
Instinctively I agree that yes it matters, but I find it less easy to argue the point rationally.
- Comment on What is wrong with Pop OS? 3 weeks ago:
Personally I prefer rolling releases, because apart from being generally more up to date having all the newest features, I also like to generally only have to fix 1 problem at a time. Where a dist-upgrade for a non rolling release sometimes have more problems at once.
I feel like I have fewer problems on average with rolling releases. - Comment on What is wrong with Pop OS? 3 weeks ago:
Very nice explanation. One minor detail though:
Endeavour doesn’t market itself as stable
Endeavour OS is per normal Linux developer definition unstable.
But that doesn’t mean what some people think it means. It only means it’s not feature freezed because it’s a rolling distro.
It doesn’t mean that it has more bugs, it can in theory have more bug fixes than new bugs are added, because it runs on newer versions of software.What it means is that some features may change, and that can cause problems in a production environment. So often professionals prefer stable, because features are frozen and do not change, which guarantees that production is not affected by changes that were not prepared for.
Many people believe stable means more reliable and fewer bugs, but that is not always the case. In my experience Arch derivatives are often more “reliable”, than a “stable” OS like Ubuntu.
I haven’t tried Endeavour, but I used the older Antergos that Endeavour replaces, and Antergos was amazing IMO.
One thing that makes a rolling release sometimes more reliable, is that it has newer drivers, and newer drivers often have bug fixes.
Especially for games newer drivers are less likely to lack features a game may need. - Comment on Is time ~25% faster now? 3 weeks ago:
The limit of speed of light is a property of space-time, not a property of light.
Another way to understand it is that it is the maximum speed of causality.
The reason only light can achieve this speed is that it is massless. Because if light had mass, it would have infinite energy, and take infinite energy to achieve the speed of light.
There are numerous explanations for how 2 objects moving at the speed of light still only approach each other at the speed of light.
Take a look at Youtube, there are many good videos explaining relativity in general and speed of light in particular. - Comment on Is time ~25% faster now? 3 weeks ago:
As Einstein said, time is relative. But that only means it is relative to different circumstances.
Moving at light speed time stands still, and the theory is that inside a black hole time also stands still.
So being at a stationary position in non gravity space is the fastest time will go.
But lets make it simple, and consider weather time is a constant on earth, at least within a margin we are not able to perceive.
And to that question the answer is that yes time is constants, because changes in the speed of time are universal and affect everything equally.
Meaning that the relative time we perceive is constant.BUT on the other hand, time is different to a satellite that orbits the earth, because the faster movement slows down time, but the lower gravity accelerates it. Which makes it necessary for GPS satellites to compensate for that to make accurate positions possible.
Anecdotally the GPS system was originally financed and implemented by the US military. And the generals did not believe this, so they claimed the system to compensate was unnecessary, which of course it turned out the scientists were right, so they had implemented the system to compensate anyway, and could turn it on, when they had proved to the generals that it indeed was necessary.gpsworld.com/inside-the-box-gps-and-relativity/
The net effect: A GPS satellite clock will gain about 38 microseconds per day over a clock at rest at mean sea level.
- Comment on Is time ~25% faster now? 3 weeks ago:
If time was faster or slower, you wouldn’t notice anything. Because time is an expression of causality, and if causality is either faster or slower, it would go for everything, including you, your phone, your watch and everything else.
If time was slower or faster, there would be no way to detect it. - Comment on How long can someone last with the Death Note in real life? 4 weeks ago:
How long could Huey, Dewey and Louie remain children in real life?
- Comment on Some people really lack civic sense 4 weeks ago:
To bad smoking isn’t allowed, I could find good use for a cigarette there.
- Comment on Why do we have alcohol advertisements. We don't allow cigarettes to advertise 5 weeks ago:
Alcohol is bad, but smoking is worse.
Smoking is both way more addictive and it is a bigger health risk.
It’s rare to be a moderate smoker, generally you either don’t smoke at all, or if you do you are a smoker, with numerous health risks.
With alcohol moderate use is the norm, and only excessive use will make you an alcoholic, resulting in numerous health risks.AFAIK it has only lately become known that even moderate alcohol use is still a health risk. AFAIK mostly causing intestine cancer.
So instead we have campaigns warning against drinking to much, which was also how it started with cigarettes. - Comment on Why is Fallout New Vegas considered a very transy game? 1 month ago:
Confirmation bias.
- Comment on You need to install an extension to reject cookies in websites that use Google Analytics 1 month ago:
My gosh, it’s so rare I have a chance to use my printer, thanks for sharing. 🤣
- Comment on How can I kill a buterfly? 1 month ago:
IDK where you live, but here we could never be annoyed by butterflies, we actually plant bushes in our garden that attract them.
If you computer is black butterflies shouldn’t be particularly attracted, if it’s not get one that is. - Comment on Is the US headed to a Plutacracy? Like Plato predicted would take place after the fall of a Democracy? 1 month ago:
USA was never a functioning democracy, but at least as much a plutocracy all along.
What USA is headed for is fascism. - Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 1 month ago:
I always do that, but if the eggs are fresh, they will still tend to stick to the shell.
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 1 month ago:
this happens usually with very fresh eggs
Exactly, I came to mention that too. So he/she should enjoy the egg being fresh.