Buffalox
@Buffalox@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
The same way I handled being 36 and 38, and every other age.
It’s only a crisis if you make it a crisis. If you have a nice life be happy about it. - Comment on Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization 1 day ago:
And Dr. Mengele was the best personal doctor EVER!
- Comment on If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion? 2 weeks ago:
It’s obviously not a delusion if you know it’s fantasy, it’s only a delusion if it’s fictional, but you strongly believe it to be true. Like believing there is life after death.
Fantasy is a part of our imagination, that enable us to speculate on things that may happen in the future, and prepare for them.
We can do that for fun, and speculate on things we very well know will not likely happen. That is entertainment.Delusion is to believe things that are very unlikely to have either already happened or will happen, but believe them despite being contrary to logic and the evidence. Like for instance religions or believing Santa Clause is real.
If a delusion is fixed, and no degree of evidence it is a delusion will persuade the person. It can become much like a psychosis:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PsychosisTherefore Religion can reasonably be considered a mental illness. Which most today will not be willing to acknowledge, but I think maybe in 50 years will become more accepted.
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 2 weeks ago:
That’s a question for your local police intelligence service, I’m sure they can point you in the right direction.
- Comment on Why is the spellchecker in Firefox so abysmal? 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t autocorrect, but with a spelling error you can right click and use a suggestion. But if all suggestions are wrong, you have to correct manually.
- Comment on Why is the spellchecker in Firefox so abysmal? 3 weeks ago:
feel I must must be doing something wrong.
I don’t think so, I have the exact same experience. Pretty ordinary words are unknown, and simple spelling mistakes/typos often have very bad suggestions, so you have to correct manually.
This is the greatest weakness of Firefox IMO, if someone has a suggestion, it would be extremely nice.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 4 weeks ago:
Even posting a Fox News article in the News areas will get your post removed
Fox News is not acknowledged as a news channel outside USA. In fact it would be illegal to call it a news channel in mostly any other “western” country. You might as well post stories from the Onion and call it news.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 5 weeks ago:
Mormons
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 5 weeks ago:
Once I would probably have said when everybody has enough.
But I have found out that is naive, because looking at billionaires, it’s obvious that people just increase their consumption to the extreme if they can. Apparently we will never have “enough”.With near limitless resources, we will probably want to own our own planets.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 5 weeks ago:
Hey I love my double packaging, because I love sorting my garbage. /s
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 1 month ago:
If it’s infinitely long it has zero energy, making it kind of irrelevant.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
Apple was built on innovation, and you completely left the original product out.
Apple II, Macintosh, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, iPad. In software OSX was also significant, and obviously IOS that worked extremely well for both iPhone and iPad.
The M series of SOC are also way ahead of anything else. Retina display for iPhone was also a first. And finally the technologies Apple has used to completely switch the hardware architecture of major series of products.
First from Motorola to IBM Power, then from Power to x86, and finally from x86 to Arm. No other company has dared doing that, and when Microsoft tried to emulate it, AFTER Apple they did it way worse!There is no way you can realistically say Apple is not generally an innovative company, and that they aren’t leaders. When 5 times they’ve been leading major changes within an industry. What other company did that? There are very few companies that have brought groundbreaking disruptive new products like Apple has.
I’m saying this as one who has sworn never to buy another Apple product, because I despise the Apple closed garden mentality. So I’m definitely not a fanboy.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
Apple rarely leads the charge.
Absolutely that is how it is now, but they did coin the format every modern smartphone uses today. And originally they were way ahead of the competition in almost every aspect. They were so dominant, that for years there was a shortage for every other manufacturer of components to build smartphones that could compete!
But a lot has happened since the still pretty recent emergence of the first iPhone, that absolutely revolutionized the concept of smartphones.
And the competition is absolutely cutthroat, so even major renowned labels couldn’t keep up.
Like Nokia, HTC, Ericsson that were all major brands, are now almost completely gone. Obviously the Blackberry RIM is almost gone too, and I think Microsoft is out completely now, despite they were a significant factor before iPhone, and investing billions in an attempt at a come back!So it is quite amazing that a statement like Apple rarely takes a lead is so easily taken as a true statement, considering how different it was just a few years ago. A testament to the absolutely crazy development cycle smartphones still have.
Apple does however still lead on the SOC by a good margin. - Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
Apple is pioneering better SOC than anybody else.
But apart from that you are perfectly right, none of the big 3 companies are actually pioneering anything anymore.
Google never was, but leaned on 3rd parties that made some very good Nexus phones, ending with the Huawei made P6.
Now the pioneers are mostly Chinese, while Samsung seems to be falling behind.
Google Pixel was never a front runner, iPhone was traditionally in some areas mostly software, while Samsung was in both software and hardware.
If you want the coolest newest stuff, it seems China is ahead with Xiaomi, Honor, Vivo etc.
The Samsung S25 Ultra is still absolutely a great phone, and I think recognized as the leader to beat, as a well rounded high end package.Regarding camera I think it’s getting damned hard to say which is best, comparison tests with many photo’s seems to swing between one phone maker to another, and movie stabilization also vary, even with good camera.
I think Samsung is still clearly ahead of Google and Apple, and the Chinese phones too have strengths and weaknesses. I like Xiaomi a lot in their flagship killer range, but on the top tier, they still have problems with camera stabilization Samsung handles better IMO.
The thing that impresses me most, is how much phones still improve in a single generation.
Maybe not enough to ditch the old one, but definitely enough to make the new model worth considering even when you can get last years model at a pretty hefty discount. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 1 month ago:
I absolutely answer the questions, what’s your problem?
What part of the question is not answered in my reply?Am I not free to ad my opinion too?
- Comment on What things should I do if I spilled a small amount of scalding water from a kettle on my arm? 1 month ago:
Keep it under running water for ½ an hour, at the level that is the most comfortable.
Don’t make it too cold, but cold enough to ease the burning sensation. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 1 month ago:
OP wanted cheaper phones, but phones ARE getting cheaper with better features too.
- Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 1 month ago:
Well it’s not ALL progress, personally I’d like the notification LED and the mini jack back.
But overall, I think modern smartphones are amazing. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 1 month ago:
That would be things like not being able to replace the battery.
Fortunately EU is regulating that shit now. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 1 month ago:
Because the development of new Smartphone SOC has been very strong, and the new ones really are better in multiple ways. The gains are far from minimal.
Also you can get usable smartphones dirt cheap now, that are both way better and way cheaper than just a few years ago.
The reason they all make better phones is due to this thing we call competition. If all brands except one stopped making better phones, the one that continues will take marketshare from everybody else, and have by far the best profits, because the highest profits are with the high end phones. - Comment on Why do people especially men care if someone forgives a cheating partner 2 months ago:
Why is it rong to forgive the one you love ?
Whoever you were unfaithful with hadn’t promised your boyfriend anything, so definitely it’s irrational to blame him.
If you had agreed to be in a monogamous relationship, you broke that agreement, and for most people that’s a very serious thing.
I do not however buy into your claim that this issue is something men care about more than woman. On the contrary women are generally the ones complaining about unfaithful men, to a degree one would think that is much more common. When statistics clearly indicate that since there are more men than women, chances are that on average, women are more frequently unfaithful than men. - Comment on Why are living beings not being cooked alive constantly at the tekpersatures we are? 2 months ago:
No you can’t sous vide at body temperature. red meat needs 60 °C (130 to 140 °F).
Try to warm some water to 60° C and put your finger in it, and see how long you can hold it there.
Or maybe don’t because you will get burned. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Police here (Denmark) is seriously understaffed, I don’t think they do much unless they see a pattern and suspect it’s organized or a repeat offender.
But at least we can call the police without fear of getting shot when they arrive.
- Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 2 months ago:
OK fair enough, but that’s not what it looked like to me when I read the headline.
I don’t use anything Microsoft, and I use only very few Google things for basic functionality of my phone. - Comment on Microsoft is is bed with Google now, in a worse, more OS-integrated way than Mozilla was. This timeline sucks. 2 months ago:
What? How was Mozilla ever in any kind of OS integrated way in bed with Google?
Google was just the default search engine in their browser. That it, and it’s dead easy to change the default search engine in Firefox.Why are you making a completely false equivalence, to make Mozilla look bad?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
AFAIK it’s not uncommon for a small upstart company for instance, to rely on friends, because friendship helps working together.
I know it can smell a bit like nepotism, and we know that’s bad.
But there are actual good reasons people prefer to work with people they know. So I think it will be just fine, as long as you are not fighting over the same girl. - Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 months ago:
If it’s only air it just gets cloudy, not discolored.
It can be disolored from iron, and that’s not a health problem AFAIK.I have never heard of anybody here in Denmark who has brown or cloudy tap water. That would simply not be considered acceptable.
Tap water here is always CRYSTAL clear, and generally higher quality than bottled water. - Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 months ago:
Sad for you, but just because you can’t taste it doesn’t change the fact that water actually has taste.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 months ago:
You are spot on. Water is absolutely not flavorless.
Fortunately I live in a place with high quality clean water, and on a warm day if I’m very thirsty, the taste of water is really really good, it clearly beats any soft drink IMO. I can even prefer it over a cold beer when I’m thirsty!
But even minor contaminants can make it taste way worse, if you live in a house with old plumbing, or if you can see buildup in the metal filter most taps have, the taste of your water is probably influenced by contamination besides Iron from the pipes. Good iron pipes are OK, but new synthetic pipes are better.If I drink a carbonized mineral water, I can also most definitely taste the carbonation.
If the water smells like rainy weather or wet skin or in some other way smells off, it is probably contaminated. However the water can have a slight metallic smell because there are actually naturally occurring minerals in the water. BUT if your water is discolored, it is definitely contaminated, and drinking it can make you sick.
Our water is pretty high on calcium, but there is for instance also a small amount of lithium. Lower calcium water taste a bit sweeter, so natural water definitely exist that is even better than our water.Remember always let the tap run for a short while before drinking from it.
If the water doesn’t taste good, it’s probably because it’s not good. - Comment on What are the key things people need to know about islam? 2 months ago:
Well for starters (besides every extraordinary claim is a lie), the founder was a pedophile.