SolOrion

@SolOrion@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “other; different in origin.” is the meaning of xeno.

  So… it kinda fits, it kinda doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not disparaging the dead or anything. But why does it seem in the US we are expected to feel sorry for a person who overdoses on illegal drugs? Didn't they make the choice knowing the outcome?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because their first use knew what road it would lead them down.

  The vast majority of people aren’t starting with heroin or fent. They start with getting prescribed cough syrup with codeine in it, or a friend offers them something ‘fun’ at a party.

  And what about them? You can feel bad about them and bad about a celebrity dying. They’re not mutually exclusive.

  It’s harsh to phrase it this way, but frankly I don’t care all that much about the One Direction guy that died personally. I wasn’t a fan. It didn’t impact me emotionally, but I can still acknowledge that he was greatly loved and it sucks for his fans and- I assume- his family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not disparaging the dead or anything. But why does it seem in the US we are expected to feel sorry for a person who overdoses on illegal drugs? Didn't they make the choice knowing the outcome?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No? This is a confusing question. Do you think they’re just committing suicide? Cuz most people that OD aren’t doing it intentionally. And even then… do you not feel bad for people that kill themselves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are movies where the time loops over and over considered time travel movies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused, do you think this is a request for time loop movies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get over fear of cooking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In response primarily to #4: Yeah, I’ve done a lot of cooking but I’ve never actually started a fire. As long as you’re not being wildly negligent or deep frying something the risk of burning something is very very low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it ok if i don't identify as latino?? please don't say otherwise please⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that name kinda checks out ngl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you scale down a firearm to make an identical looking firearm that fires a different round?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To clarify for the OP, these don’t generally scale down the whole gun. Caliber conversions can be as simple as swapping the bolt.

  You can also sometimes swap to a larger caliber. They make ‘conversion kits’ for the AR-15 that are functionally just most of a new gun. You can get those for a variety of calibers from 7.62x39 to .50 Beowulf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t vote because they see the system is rigged so the popular vote isn’t a great standard to go by either, it’s a product of the system as well

  Yeah, I didn’t even bother. My area is such a strong republican district that my vote is functionally irrelevant. Hell, they didn’t even bother with democrat candidates on a local level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy really any different from reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and more political just in general, actually

  Yeah, that’s pretty much the only part of Lemmy I don’t like. It feels drastically more political than Reddit did. I didn’t even know what the hell a tankie was before I joined Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the issue between the band Thrice and Google⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who knows?

  This stuff just happens sometimes.

  I remember Tokyo by Imagine Dragons wasn’t available on Spotify for a few years. No clue why, but it just reappeared one day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL. That’s actually really cool info!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Double up. Assert dominance. Demand to be referred to as ‘Mister Doctor’. Hmm… ‘Doctor Mister’? I think I like Mr. Dr. better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my reaction weird?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boners are largely age dependent. I remember in high school I got random boners all the time and anything could trigger them.

  100%. I remember sometimes they’d happen in Church of all places. No clue what happened. Tip for anyone with this problem currently: flex your legs hard and repeatedly. Always worked for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I open something in the website?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? You’re opening your browser, and going to amazon.com and it redirects you to the app?

  I will assume you’re on mobile. Try using your browsers incognito/private browsing feature- you’ll probably have to login again but it should prevent app redirects like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to die in a viking funeral, like getting put on a boat and set ablaze while I am in the middle of the see can this be done? Or is it even legal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did he want to be fired without being cremated? I can’t imagine someone wanting to be splattered everywhere lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does alcohol expire? Specifically whiskey?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Grandma’s shot challenge from hell

  This is so funny I laugh every time I reread it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone here ever bought games on eneba?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s possible. It’s not incredibly likely, though, I’ve bought maybe six or seven games from key sites like that over the years and I’ve not been banned.

  Just keep in mind that if the price is too good to be true it probably is- be really wary of any keys that are below the historical low for whatever game you’re buying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s not, maybe that’s what he means by ‘in a way’?

  Great games, highly recommend them. Not sure they really fit the trope, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people make and save kaomoji art?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ChtGT

  I’ve not seen someone censor that yet and I was confused asf lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone watch Google, Microsoft, etc the way Cop Watch watches cops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but that would just make them a biased source. Not an entirely useless one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He can travel as a proper national leader to all the places he wants to travel

  Unless he wants to travel to a place willing to enforce the ICC’s arrest warrant. Afaik he’s only been to Mongolia and South Africa since the warrant was issued, and both were criticized pretty heavily for not enforcing it.

  Realistically, he’s not going anywhere that even might arrest him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because A: putting a bounty on the leader of a nuclear power is drastically different from the leader of a… terrorist rebel organization(I’m not entirely sure what to call al qaeda).

  And because B: it would change basically nothing. Putin already can’t travel in most places internationally because there’s an ICC warrant out on him for war crimes. The bounty isn’t going to be relevant in Russia or allied places, and it’s not going to be much of a motivator to an entire government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t personally use this feature, so I don’t honestly know if this would solve your problem, but there’s a firefox addon that might add the functionality you’re wanting.

  If it doesn’t, then this issue

  except that links clicked from within them will open in Chrome intead of FF, which makes for a confusing experience.

  could possibly be solved with a chrome extension

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the word "burger" have any extra meaning in some parts of the gay or lgbtq community?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I greatly appreciate your old man mode. Sounds like a fantastic job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does leaving a single board computer caseless can be a problem or not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell I ran the processor (450MHz P3) without a fan, just a passive heatsink.

  They still make passive heatsinks that work, but they’re fuckin massive and not incredibly effective compared to just… putting a quiet fan on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the word "burger" have any extra meaning in some parts of the gay or lgbtq community?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it can be used separate from a “flame”, which is a term for the very flamboyant gay men regardless of their presentation or physical appearance.

  TIL. I’ve heard people being called, usually in a derogatory way, “flamers” or “flaming” but never just “flame”, nor did I understand the context.

  The ones that would travel for shows carried all the news and culture with them, like fabulous bards.

  So just your average bard, then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can explain a few terms, if you’re interested. I’m simplifying so nobody murder me:

  Retroarch is basically a program that lets you emulate (basically make your computer mimic a console to play the games from it) a bunch of different videogame consoles. Mostly old ones, but some newer things like the Switch.

  Shaders are complicated to ELI5 but it’s easiest to think of them as a filter you can apply to a videogame in real time, like you would apply a filter to a photo or something. You can get some absolutely crazy effects with filters- generally the simpler the game the more shaders will accomplish.

  He’s basically just asking if shaders for old games intended to make things look more like a CRT- those old, gigantic tube TVs- are just nostalgia bait or if they actually make things look better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember I had a CRT as a kid that had the deepest button press to turn on. It felt like it was a whole 3 inches of travel- realistically I’m just remembering it like that cuz I was 8- but that was the best button. You could feel it actuate at the end, and even hear it. And CRTs had a presence about them. In hindsight, I was probably just hearing the whine and didn’t realize it.

  Idk CRTs had their own vibe. Objectively, the crazy resolutions and crisp screens we have todays are better but in some less definable ways they feel lesser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed completely. I have an S23 rn, but my previous phone was a mid-tier android with a fingerprint reader on the back. My natural resting grip on my phone would just unlock the thing. It was amazing. My current phone is a clear upgrade in every way except the fingerprint reader. My new one has it in the screen and I fuckin hate it.