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- Comment on American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car' 1 day ago:
Definitely not. Test Drive Unlimited 2 leaps to mind, which while it certainly had racing events and racing related content in it, you could also just drive around doing nothing in particular as much as you wanted.
There are several other racing oriented games that nevertheless had open worlds and you’re never actually forced to race anybody in any of them, albeit usually at the expense of sacrificing any game progression and thus having a rather limited vehicle selection. Need For Speed Underground 2 and Forza Horizon, for instance.
- Comment on Proton 5 days ago:
Yeah, just wait until you get a load of the number of things called “One.” Here’s a hint: It’s a lot more than one.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 6 days ago:
Broadly yes, and also including private sales. I will however point out that you can buy a long gun (rifle or shotgun) from an FFL dealer in a state other than your state of residence provided the item you purchase is legal in your home state. Handguns in this situation must be transferred to an FFL in your home state, however. The former you can take with you, the latter you can’t.
- Comment on Give me your fucking money 6 days ago:
…No.
- Comment on Does a tiny motion tracking mouse thing exist at all? 1 week ago:
Wireless optical mice are basically given away free in boxes of Frosted Flakes these days. Is there really any pressing need to “fix” this one in particular via some roundabout method? Like, do you have some sentimental attachment to it, or something? I don’t think you’re likely to succeed, there. Notwithstanding that the sensors you’d need to buy would be significantly more expensive than a new mouse, but then as you’ve observed you’d also have to hack up a way to make your operating system treat your new sensors as a mouse input, and also preserve the click inputs from the separate remaining carcass of the mouse.
Really, just replace it. Any nerd should have a whole box of the things. I do; hell, I could just give you one.
The next time you paint a mouse take it apart first. The upper shell is typically quite easy to remove with just a couple of screws and then you can paint it separately from all the electronics to avoid destroying any of the functional parts.
- Comment on Does a tiny motion tracking mouse thing exist at all? 1 week ago:
Whatever solvent OP would have to use for this would surely cloud and/or otherwise destroy the plastic lens over the sensor, rendering the exercise moot.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 week ago:
I see. Perhaps I misunderstood the format.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I’d use Bill Nye as the example of the asshole atheist, unless that’s the joke. Maybe Christopher Hitchens.
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 1 week ago:
Incorrect, only because you’re still tacitly assuming that science (or anything else) must have some kind of external cosmic significance outside of human thought.
Science is important to us – or at least it ought to be – because it’s the method by which we understand how the universe works. Being important to us is all that matters, because we can’t think with the minds of anything else.
- Comment on Embrace this Truth and enjoy life 1 week ago:
The flaw in all of this sophomoric philosophic whinging is that it mostly tends to start off with the presupposition that all of these concepts aren’t just human constructs. The only reason anything has meaning to us is because we decided it does.
The purpose of life is life itself.
- Comment on Horror 2 weeks ago:
I addressed that in another comment here. The long and short of it (very long, as it happens) is that the volume you’d need is still the same. So your elongated balloon would have to be well beyond what most people would consider to be ridiculously tall. 325.5 meters tall, in fact, given the 0.75 meter diameter I assumed to start with. I figure most people could probably stand in a 0.75m circle provided they didn’t wave their arms around a bunch.
- Comment on Horror 2 weeks ago:
This I am fairly certain we do not have the technology to achieve. Anything vacuum filled that large would need to have walls so thick so as to completely negate any buoyancy effect. I don’t know of any modern material that would simultaneously be rigid, strong, and light enough.
- Comment on Horror 2 weeks ago:
Sure. You could do a cylinder of three quarters of a meter across which seems like a reasonable footprint for someone to stand in. That’d only have to be, uh, 325.5 meters tall to have the same volume.
- Comment on Horror 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely, but the scale of the balloons is a bit off. Nobody would be walking shoulder to shoulder like this. For a normal-ish 170lb/77kg individual your personal balloon would have to be a little under 6.5 meters across assuming it were filled with helium.
Yes, I did the math.
- Comment on The world is only about me 2 weeks ago:
Just pick that fucker up and stick it on the other side of the Toblerone block.
And then revel in the inevitable fistfight with its owner that ensues. (Pro tip: Be sure to win.)
- Comment on Real 2 weeks ago:
🐧🗡️!
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 weeks ago:
Key word being deliberately. I predict the majorty of people who wind up with either of those ghastly things did so because they were all that was available, easily filched from the supply closet, or it’s all their parents would give them because they are above all else cheap.
I have probably handled and used hundreds of the damn things in my life but I have never once spent a single penny on any of them; they were without exception foisted off on me by circumstance, not intentionally sought out.
I was a Staedtler nerd in school anyway, any time I was not allowed to use a fountain pen.
- Comment on ^_^ I just think skibidibi sounds neat :3 2 weeks ago:
You rang?
- Comment on Is there a good way to buy chrome lettering in the same font as the brand's original lettering on the back of the car? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never actually successfully made anything shiny with that type of “chrome” spray paint. But they can give it a shot.
You’re right that most car badges are plastic anyway, covered with a thin veneer of that flaky chrome effect stuff. I have no idea if it’s actually chrome or just some kind of shiny plastic, a hot-dip process, some kind of PVD or sputtering, or what.
- Comment on Is there a good way to buy chrome lettering in the same font as the brand's original lettering on the back of the car? 3 weeks ago:
This is one of those jobs that seems tailor made for 3D printing.
You may not find the font you need exactly, but you can probably doodle something up that’ll be close enough to get the point across, especially if you can get a good scan or image of the letters you have got, and copy them (and their style).
3D print your parts (in ASA/ABS or a fairly heat resistant material is probably a good idea) and use copper electroplating spray on it and then nickel plate the shit out of it to make it silver and shiny. Nickel plating is easy to do at home (unlike chrome plating) and pretty tough to screw up.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 3 weeks ago:
I already own that exact some Kuru Toga, so this one’s a no-brainer.
Anyone who deliberately picks the Sharpwriter or the Bic needs keeping an eye on; we need to keep those kinds of people on a list.
- Comment on Minecraft's 'Vibrant Visuals' Upgrade the Start of a New 'Graphical Journey' 3 weeks ago:
Minecraft has a long and storied history of cribbing features from modders and integrating them into the official base game. This includes hoppers, light senors, pistons, slime blocks, several of the types of trees, armor stands, displaying maps in frames, quite a few mobs, several of the current biome types, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff I can’t remember offhand.
So yeah, stealing the idea (even if not the outright code) from shader mods would be completely on brand, and not at all unexpected. It’s up to the player base to decide how they feel about this, but honestly it seems nothing short of kidnapping babies and setting them on fire would get any significant portion of people to turn away from Microsoft’s stewardship of the game, given how hard they’ve tried to screw it up post-acquisition and yet it continues to print them money.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 3 weeks ago:
All modern dishwashers do indeed have some type of water heater.
Additionally, your Euro is showing. American dishwashers are almost without exception designed to be connected to a hot water line rather than cold; Typically your home’s water heater is more efficient (or at least cheaper) at heating water than the dishwasher itself is, and certainly faster since the majority of homes have a storage tank heater that can be expected to already be full of hot water. The less heating the dishwasher has to do to the water the better it’s energy consumption rating will appear, which the manufacturers love. (Offloading the energy requirement for heating the water to your central water heater also shifts the cost/blame to the water heater and away from the dishwasher, allowing them to put a smaller number on that yellow Energy Guide label, even if taken from the big picture view this is prima facie bogus.)
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 3 weeks ago:
Well, there’s also this.
I believe Maytag once ran a commercial back in the '60s or '70s or something that implied you could cook a turkey in their dishwasher as well, boasting how powerful their heating element was for the dry cycle.
I should also point out at this juncture that an awful lot of dishwashers these days including almost all import brands (Bosch in particular, also LG, Samsung, Asko, Miele, Smeg, etc.) are “condenser dry” machines and don’t have the heating element for drying anymore. You’re unlikely to cook anything satisfactorily in one of those. You could hope for the wash water being hot enough to do it, but I’m not playing any bets. Maybe you ought to select the sanitize rinse option…
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 3 weeks ago:
This is basically ubiquitous on many public lands, specifically here in the US. The term is “carry in, carry out.” Bins accumulate trash (obviously) which in turn is an attractant for rodents, bears, raccoons, etc. which causes its own problems. Wild animals should not be artificially fed by human trash. Trash can also be blown out of cans, or scattered by animals. Overall, especially for low traffic environments, the best plan is to have people take all their trash out with them.
TL;DR: Pack out your trash.
- Comment on Chrono Trigger Is Timeless 4 weeks ago:
Getting the full experience from Chrono Trigger specifically, unlike most other similar games, is getting all of the endings. The New Game+ mode will help there.
Chrono Trigger has 18 endings, if I recall correctly, including various permutations. Plus one additional one in the rereleases from the DS version forward. Some of them are only very subtly different from each other depending on which combination of character side quests you fully completed, and they all vary depending at which point your manage to defeat the final boss in the main story sequence. Several of them are significantly different interpretations of the future (or the past) post the defeat of the final boss with various for-want-of-a-nail factors causing huge changes to the outcome.
You have quite a few opportunities to fight the final boss up to and including immediately after discovering the first time gate all the way back at the beginning of the game. (Do that in New Game+ with an overpowered Crono, though, unless you want to get steamrolled instantly…)
- Comment on A Weekly Occurrence at Work 4 weeks ago:
Mostly not finding the entire stack of towels either soaked through with water, toppled over into the sink, or scattered all over the floor the next time someone uses the bathroom.
And, you know, not making our business look completely janky and unprofessional since clients can also use this restroom.
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 4 weeks ago:
Ha-ha, your box of counterfeits is small…
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 4 weeks ago:
It’s explicitly against Amazon’s ToS to incentivize reviews, or write/modify reviews in exchange for any kind of compensation. This includes the typical business card included in the box with the product pleading for 5 stars and promising “free gifts” or store credits. When I still used Amazon, any time I got one of those it was the only thing I mentioned in my review.
I don’t know if anyone actually meaningfully enforces this, but quite a few things I’ve reviewed in such a way seemed to disappear from the site more quickly than usual.
