SolOrion
@SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How is TikTok being blocked in the US? 2 days ago:
iOS only. Sucks.
- Comment on There is a scene in Saving Private Ryan where a soldier gets shot in the helmet and it bounces off. Now a days soldiers seem to get shot in the helmet and it goes right thru. How come and why? 3 days ago:
Surviving a headshot isn’t particularly likely in any scenario. Helmets are more to stop shrapnel, glancing blows, and- depending on the helmet- maybe pistol rounds. Realistically, a helmet just isn’t stopping a direct shot with a rifle round.
- Comment on How to take CPU out? 1 week ago:
Tried twisting first. Didn’t work lol. It was very stubborn. I’m still using the CPU rn so it ended fine.
- Comment on How to take CPU out? 1 week ago:
I have an AM4 CPU, and legitimately suction lifted the CPU out of the socket entirely on accident. I was changing heatsinks, and the CPU came with the darn thing. I had to pry it off with a knife.
- Comment on Can I wear hardware o rings with my 4g piercing? 1 week ago:
why would you assume it’s safe?
They’d didn’t assume it was safe? They thought maybe it was and asked to double check…
- Comment on How can you bypass a Reddit site ban? 2 weeks ago:
I assume many on Lemmy face similar situations and also switched to Lemmy because of a similar reason I don’t know that I’ve actually seen someone admit that they’re on Lemmy because they were banned from Reddit.
Most people just don’t like Reddit for some reason or another. Pretty sure Lemmy as a whole gained a lot of population when Reddit did their API changes- that’s when I joined Lemmy. I used Baconreader for years, and I refused to swap to their dogshit mobile app.
- Comment on If the United States has Cuba banned from things, how does Guantanamo Bay exist? 2 weeks ago:
From some perspectives, those are the same things.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
…no? Why would the judge care if you were old when you were driving drunk?
- Comment on Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"? 2 weeks ago:
They’re supposed to keep their lights on under 10000ft. They’re less for the pilots, at least aside from takeoff/landing, and more for other planes.
Idk why that specific configuration was chosen- to pull double duty, I guess? They’re functionally landing lights, but also warning lights if they’re low/in crowded airspace.
I just googled the question, and looked around a bit so it’s possible this is wrong.
- Comment on why does everyone i know treat me like a child or if i was a very childlike person?? 3 weeks ago:
I deadass have been ID’d a single time since growing a beard- when I decided to try shaving it. It’s real lol.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 3 weeks ago:
I hate when games launch directly into a cutscene. Let me change my graphics, turn on subtitles, change the audio, etc.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 3 weeks ago:
The only game I can think of that doesn’t actually require a restart is Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries. I’m sure there’s more, but that’s what I’ve encountered.
- Comment on Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable? 3 weeks ago:
First, I’m not an electrician, or anything even vaguely approaching one.
I’ve never heard that advice with extension cords, only power strips.
You could theoretically link enough extension cords together to cause problems, but it would need to be some extremely shit extension cords or a LOT of them. Resistance increases over distance, which in power cables manifests as them getting hotter. That isn’t a problem until all the sudden it is a problem.
For power strips, the main danger is that you’re potentially introducing more outlets than any of them are rated for. If you’re just using 2 3ft power bars to functionally make a 6ft cable that you’re only plugging a single thing into… you’re fine. Or at least I was, idk I did it for like a whole year. If you’re plugging 16 things into a single wall outlet via power strips you can trip the circuit breaker, or potentially much worse stuff can happen like things getting melty and starting a fire.
If you know enough of what you’re doing to math out the power draw+what your outlet/power strips are rated for you can pretty (afaik) safely daisy chain them if you wanna.
- Comment on Are there people without handedness? 4 weeks ago:
My brain just autocorrected it, I guess.
- Comment on Are there people without handedness? 4 weeks ago:
Did you even read the OP or have they changed it?
- Comment on How do you voice chat without bothering roommates? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not ideal, but in a pinch: yes.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 5 weeks ago:
Oh, dear. No, I meant like a baby chicken. It’s apparently a reasonably common thing.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. It’s better than it used to be- you can get a reasonable output far easier than you could previously, but if it’s going to fuck up anything it’s going to fuck up the hands.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 5 weeks ago:
There’s more than one video of horses eating a chick.
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 5 weeks ago:
TIL, that’s really neat.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It sounds like you’re looking for deep meaningful conversation in the comments of thirst trap posts. Which is wild.
- Comment on What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy? 1 month ago:
I remember commenting in a sub and getting bounced by automod because I didn’t meet a karma limit. Which is fine, lots of subs have karma limits. But it felt really high- I had a couple thousand karma at the time- and the mods explicitly wouldn’t tell you what the actual limit was.
So I guess you’re just supposed to let automod bounce you occasionally til you manage to hit their magic number.
- Comment on What are examples of things that would get you banned on reddit, but is okay on most major instances of Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Okay, that kinda makes sense in that context. I can at least see where they’re coming from.
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 1 month ago:
It kinda can’t, though. ‘South Korea will be leveled’ is basically the worst imaginable outcome, unless you’re saying they’ll nuke the friends SK invites. Realistically, ‘no nukes/missile strikes at other countries’ is probably going to be China’s only requirement for assistance. Which would make it a horrible grueling land war.
- Comment on What is the typical sentence for Hunter Biden's Tax Evasion? 1 month ago:
I feel like the distinction is that when they started the investigation they had no idea about the crimes. They were just looking for literally anything. It was a fishing expedition, basically.
- Comment on When did browsers start being able to remember your previous session. 1 month ago:
It’s definitely a security issue, I guess, but it’s not been an issue in the 20+ years I’ve been using computers so…
- Comment on My brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive? 1 month ago:
The lack of moving parts also makes SSDs drastically more drop resistant, and just generally less likely to die on you randomly. Not that they can’t, it’s just less common.
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 1 month ago:
I’m not the guy you originally replied to. I’m a random third party that read what he said, read what you said, and then commented what I did.
I didn’t read “you want them to feel like part of the in-group” as political. I read it as “you want them to feel like part of the family”
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 1 month ago:
My brother/sister/nonbinary sibling in christ “make your kids feel included in the family” is absolutely not in any way psychopathic manipulation.
- 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. 1 month ago:
“other; different in origin.” is the meaning of xeno.
So… it kinda fits, it kinda doesn’t.