herrvogel

@herrvogel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only reason I accept to not let these people pass is if it forces you do something unsafe, like throwing yourself over to the next lane and slamming on the brakes to match speed with the other cars. Otherwise just give them the lane and let them be a reckless ass somewhere else away from you. Safer that way. It’s not your job to enforce traffic rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cow eggs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These are the tampons they stick into female bulls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nvidia drivers at least do something that are fairly complex and heavy, and they’re necessary. Whereas this thing is just some comically overdeveloped and extremely annoying piece of bloatware from Logitech to remap a bunch of buttons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🧊🧊👶⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2023, the on-time arrival percentage of ICE trains was 60something%. That’s not exactly a number that screams reliability. I don’t remember the exact number DB had to pay out for delay compensations that year but it was an embarrassing sum. Just today 2 separate people in my group chat were saying unsavory things about DB’s mother because of 30+ minute delays on two separate ICE trains.

  German trains being on time is a myth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mothing phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a nothing phone. The glyphs were a neat gimmick the first few weeks I had the thing, but now I only use them as a softer flashlight. They just don’t really add much value to the thing.

  Still like the thing very much though, overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protip:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once saw a girl very abruptly stop walking on a rather busy street, throw herself down on a nearby bench in a hurry, take out her stuff from her tote bag and just start knitting with an oddly peaceful expression on her face as if nothing happened. I was left wondering what the fuck I just witnessed. Happened in the span of like 4 seconds.

  Yes she was barefoot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a fine game that was tanked by the massive inconsistency of its quality as you progressed. The game starts out absolutely fantastic, but the quality takes a very sharp and sudden fall after a few hours, and then it just sorta ends not long after. It was a very weird experience. Definitely felt like something went very wrong during development and they had to make big changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't all act like this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have removed my car’s muffler and modified it to be even louder.

  I skip rope in my apartment in the middle of the night.

  I walk right towards the front of a queue pretending to only have a quick question to ask and then I get my job done while I’m there.

  I do use my indicator lights, but only 0.46 seconds before I actually turn.

  I flush used cooking oil down the toilet.

  I yell at the screen throughout the entire movie at the cinema.

  I feed people’s pets without asking.

  I accelerate when approaching a pedestrian crossing.

  I empty a full can of axe body spray onto myself before using crowded public transportation.

  I stop showering 6 days prior to attending cultural events.

  I do not wipe down the devices at the gym after using them.

  I think the last Star Wars trilogy was the best of the three.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Look Up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a trick to bypassing the Israeli defenses. Just make sure what you’re doing will be giving the unhinged leader of the genocidal regime a casus belli to launch a war of conquest that they can sell as a defensive war, and suddenly you’ll find you can do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s an Apple keyboard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Is Doing So Well It’s Giving $27 Million to Its Staff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the painting and detailing that can be quite expensive and time consuming. You obviously don’t have to paint your minis, but that’s the entire point for a lot of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metamorfuckthis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry Boss, can’t come in. The half-eaten apple lodged into my exoskeleton has become infected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And sir cumference, the sphere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you doing in England?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those were all human names first. Places named after people, not the other way around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Daedric lord of soul crushing corporate vocabulary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life is unfair to landlords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Killer pastry though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prices are out of control⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good butter straight from a dairy farm is super dangerous though. You can suddenly find yourself standing in your kitchen, no memory of the last 45 minutes, the fridge door open, a greasy knife in your hand, breadcrumbs all over the floor, and half the butter gone. Gotta be careful with that stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance is futile⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Connecting to the network does not have to mean connecting to the internet. Basically every consumer grade router out there is capable of restricting a device to the local network only. It could reach other devices on the network and the other devices would be able to reach it, but it would still be cut off from the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Widewine? Maybe they have some content that requires L1, which still doesn’t work on Linux because of totally legitimate technical reasons that are absolutely not at all utter horseshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are popes always really old?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If by “literally anyone” you mean any catholic man, then sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine, when he hears breathing under the latrine he's using [Day 116]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that the guy who was stabbed in the anus by a toilet child climbing up the poop chute?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gimli Giblets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Past experiences

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely wasn't late to work making this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So that the toddler can enter the workforce and start pulling itself up by the bootstraps as soon as possible. The lithium mines need more bodies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polish leader offers actor Jesse Eisenberg military training to 'land the new James Bond role'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No thank you. No need to transform a classic character and franchise into something they notably are not. Being cool and charismatic and smooth and whatnot, in other words essentially the polar opposite of the average Jesse Eisenberg character, is part of the core identity of the character itself. Change that and you don’t have Bond anymore. It’s a whole different character that shares the name for marketing purposes.

  Nobody’s stopping nobody from writing their own movie with their own original character who happens to be a weird neurotic psychopathic nerdy secret agent, though. No need to hijack a cinema classic for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  JFC this thread is bizarre. Just look this shit up, it’s not that hard. In fact here: duckduckgo.com/?q=less+vs+fewer&t=ffab&ia=web

  You will see that all of those results will agree that less is almost always correct when talking about time, despite the unit. And the very rare cases where fewer is correct do not cover OP’s title.

  You will also see that less is practically always correct for money. It is the single most notable exception to the countable vs uncountable rule that is mentioned very often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oops, something went wrong!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The why is easy. As others said, the vast majority of error messages are entirely useless for you, the user, because there’s not a single thing you can possibly do to address it. What are you gonna do about a database connection issue, or bad cache, or broken Javascript? Nothing. So don’t worry about it. Besides people are less panicky when they see an oops rather than a stack trace or a cryptic error message.

  And don’t worry, people who know how to write up useful support tickets and bug reports know how to do it even when all they can see is an “oops”. Builtin browser dev tools will have information they can use to help the devs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not. You can count years, but years are a unit of time and you can’t count time. Same thing with weight or distance or volume or a bunch of other things.

  It’s not a super strict rule anyway. Money is very much countable but it’s “less”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Report Shows Working-Class Americans Live 7 Years Fewer Than Rich⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. It’s rare to see someone incorrectly use fewer instead of less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is electricity not part of the classical alchemical elements? (Earth, Fire, Wind, Water)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be fun.

  Long ago, the 118 nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Ytterbium Nation attacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course not. You need other software to rip your music from physical media, or potentially multiple other software to search and download them. You’ll need additional software to host everything over the internet. You’ll probably want a computer to act as a server. You’ll very likely need a private VPN to be able to access it over the network. You’ll need some networking knowledge to set everything up. Hope you’re familiar with docker. And afterwards you’ll have to manage everything yourself once they are up.

  Even if you don’t search for new music very often it’s a lot of work. If you care about being able to discover new music then it’s pretty bad. There’s a reason music streaming exploded in popularity so quickly. This shit is not easy or convenient to self-host. At all.