GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 days ago:
I’m not sure how this works, but I checked your posting history and it didn’t show up there, either. I guess the great weakness of the fediverse is if the links are interrupted. Perhaps it was due to instance maintenance or something.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 days ago:
I’ve been cheated!
Could not find post in your instance.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 days ago:
- Comment on My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate. 5 days ago:
But heating the gas inside would also work because, no matter how perfect the seal is, it won’t matter if there is no vacuum to hold the two pieces together.
- Comment on DIY X-ray Machine 1 week ago:
That guy was exposed to a lot more radiation than was safe or necessary to make that video. Running an unshielded radiation generator for fun is a special kind of insane. Not saying he’s going to die of cancer, but if he gets cancer he’s probably going to think of this video.
And get the camera out of the radiation beam!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
I have a Win11 laptop for work, and they changed the Start menu. Now it’s recent apps and recommendations for your starting point, and you have to click an option to see installed apps. Every. Time. There is a setting with 3 options - more recently used apps, more recommendations, or an even split of both, but the option to go straight to installed apps is mysteriously missing…
I will never install Win11 directly onto my hardware. If I have to use it, it will go into a VM of one flavor or another.
- Comment on There is no Vibe Engineering 2 weeks ago:
That feeling when LLM matches your worldview.
Also, this. (Not LLM, but still beautifully disturbing.)
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 2 weeks ago:
If you haven’t seen her other posts, I’d jump on her profile and read it. There are 7 more of these out there!
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #8 2 weeks ago:
As a Voyager user, the image load takes a looong time, but everything scrolls smoothly (except for the text jumping as images load).
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 3 weeks ago:
This is fairly inaccurate, as well. Paid work was certainly lower, but prior to the Industrial Revolution merely putting clothes on your back was a fairly labor-intensive task. One estimate puts it at 10 spinners to supply one person on a loom, and this work was often done by women at home, and was generally paid work in the Middle Ages. A British census in the mid 1800s, which over-represents unpaid work in domestic services as laborers (I’ll let you decide if that counts as women being part of the economy or not), still had about 50% of women in the census as employed.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 4 weeks ago:
There are good indications that the stock is overvalued by as much as 10 times, even after the recent drops in stock prices. A lot of that appears to be propped up by his hype. If the stock just normalizes to values typical of other car companies, it will be a major blow to anyone that owns the stock.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure he can’t, since he isn’t a normal person, just like he and the rest of the board have to announce any shares they buy or sell.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 4 weeks ago:
Some youtuber was saying as much. A lot of his wealth is tied up in Tesla and a lot of Tesla’s valuation is tied up in Musk. But Starlink is making far more than Tesla, he owns a larger portion of it than Tesla, and he’s selling Tesla shares. If he makes the right moves he can entirely walk away from Tesla and leave the shareholders holding the bag.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 4 weeks ago:
I mean, you didn’t say the balls couldn’t have flat sides, right? Innovative solution to a dangerous request.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 4 weeks ago:
When life needs parentheses.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 4 weeks ago:
Well obviously your worldview is about 15° off true. You should fix that.
- 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:
Well, I prefer to learn from other people’s mistakes. I’ve avoided some of the common pitfalls, but hadn’t realized the prevalence of this trick. I’ll keep it in mind when I research my future purchases.
- Comment on Bad news for Starlink: Earth’s atmosphere is shrinking 5 weeks ago:
Except that isn’t how it works. The lower your orbit, the quicker your orbit decays due to atmospheric drag. If the atmosphere was 10% less dense, this wouldn’t significantly reduce that at those altitudes. In the current scenario, if every one of those satellites stopped working right now, the vast majority of them (and their parts) would deorbit within 10 years. This would be a bit of a problem for manned space flight, but wouldn’t affect things too much otherwise.
If this was happening in geosynchronous orbit, with comparable amou to of mass, it would be a bigger deal.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 1 month ago:
I don’t know how it’s done, but I know images can be inserted. On the plus side, posts, including titles, can be edited, so any failed image attempts can be removed. This post was already enjoyable, but I’m interested in seeing how much more enjoyable it could be.
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 1 month ago:
It’s surprising how well the Steam Deck plays new games and how much support has been added to older games for something with a form factor similar to the Switch and a price point that is lower than most computers or consoles with similar capabilities. It’s a big change to the cost/benefit calculation.
- Comment on ‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot 2 months ago:
Welcome to the internet, you must be new. Keep scrolling through new here and you should see some pretty common jokes about the falliability of AI of various flavors. Criticism of the weighting on training models can be found with just slightly more effort.
- Comment on The Insane Biology of: The Greenland Shark | Real Science [26:21] 2 months ago:
The thumbnail for that video looks exactly like what I expect a 500 year old anything to look like.
- Comment on Day 189 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
I was going to post that you didn’t seem like you were trying very hard, on day 189, then I open the post and you prove me wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Well, about half the states have one, so that is no guarantee, either.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I used to never understand my dad. Some tiny thing would happen and he would blow up. “How could you do something so stupid?” “All you had to do was this one little thing, and you blew it!” But something big would happen and he would shrug and say, " Well, these things happen. At least everyone’s okay."
Now that I’m older, I get it. Some things are so simple, there just isn’t an excuse to fuck them up. And when people do fuck it up, it’s mind blowing, because all you had to do was not fuck it up. Like a fucking Nazi salute. And if these guys are going to do something so stupid and easy to avoid as a Nazi salute, do you really think they have the capacity to understand the implications of the big things they’re trying to do, or see the ramifications of the tough choices ahead of them?
Do you think Adolf Hitler figured he’d be dead by his own hand within a decade of Kristallnacht?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You think they won’t dismiss more obvious things? Feel free to review Trump’s quote from after Khashoggi was murdered, which boils down to, “Sure, they may have killed him, but do you realize how much money they’re spending here?” That got barely a mutter. Just how much do you think it will take to get Americans upset with what he does?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think Trump is the kind of person who thinks the world is better off ending with him than going on without him. Nothing matters if he isn’t there to enjoy it; the true heart of narcissism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Note the title. “Oh, they’re not proper Nazis, they’re just trying to be proper Nazis.”
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 2 months ago:
There are fixed costs and proportional costs. Property taxes aren’t put on hold just because you aren’t running. A certain amount of maintenance will be needed whether or not you produce a watt of power. Some maintenance costs will increase the more power you produce, including fuel costs. All of these factors need to be taken into cosideration when determining how much any given watt costs to produce.
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 2 months ago:
Well, I suppose they could just take out the stretch of power line between me and my neighbors who use their service and cut down those maintenance costs altogether!
This isn’t like a driveway, it’s more like a road. It’s used by more people than the people whose property it’s in front of. And where I live, the property owner is considered to be the owner of the lines that extend from the grid to the home, so guess who already pays the maintenance costs on that?
