GreyEyedGhost
@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 1 week ago:
240v wiring is common in Canada and the US, just not all outlets, and until recently not usually in garages. I expect 240v outlets in garages to be more standard in the future.
But, creepy or no, posting on a public forum and not using throwaway accounts and then being surprised that people actually reference your posting history is hopelessly naive.
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 1 week ago:
They are a better source than anything you’ve provided, yes.
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 1 week ago:
You’re right, Wikipedia is a terrible primary source, because it isn’t a primary source. So, while you should never reference it in a paper or dissertation, the sources it references are perfectly valid. The good news is, I’m not writing an essay or dissertation, and I don’t have to follow the correct rules for those. I did you the favor of clicking two links deeper (it took about a minute) and finding the information where they talk about all those cases that the judges totally threw so they could force you to pay illegal taxes. Now, I can’t make you turn that link purple, but if you do you might get the other side of that argument that you apparently haven’t stumbled across in your decades of examination. Good luck.
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 1 week ago:
Sorry, saw your response just after I had posted the same in response to his comment.
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 1 week ago:
There is no historical agreement that the earth is round, but guess what?
When the second argument that is listed in Wikipedia is that Ohio doesn’t count when it had been a state for over a century before the amendment was proposed, I start to think these arguments are specious at best. It seems every judge the case had gone before agreed with that stance, which also sounds like historical agreement to me. Given the amendment was proposed due to the Supreme Court overturning income tax as unconstitutional, it also appears the courts were more than willing to rule against income tax prior to this supposedly dubious amendment.
Do you have any evidence that is stronger than the Obama birther conspiracies?
- Comment on IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It 1 week ago:
What do you mean by questionable circumstances?
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #18 1 week ago:
Space is almost free, and it’s a good cue to what you’re going to find. It’s how I tell my PerfectDark posts apart.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 week ago:
I largely agree with what you’re saying, but he’s been in the right place at the right time 3 times, and made good on the potential. Maybe he was just really lucky, maybe he had dozens of things going and those 3 are the ones that panned out, maybe he was a genius that destroyed his talents with hubris and drugs. Certainly, having the financial security to take those chances was a big factor in his success, as much as apparently believing that success was all due to his inborn talent was a big factor on his continuing fall from grace.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 weeks ago:
I had a teacher mark my answer incorrect because I said women can have hemophilia. They said you can’t because it’s a sex-linked disease. I said sure, but what happens if you have two X chromosomes with that gene on it? Still didn’t get the point. This was in the 80s, and I couldn’t just look it up on the internet and prove how wrong they were.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Our little bastard takes days to settle down after we take him and his littermate to the vet. They’ve been together their entire lives, but if either or both go to the vet, even in the same vehicle, he’s all “Who the fuck are you?!” when we get home. And his brother is all, “Aww geez, what the hell’s the matter now?” Every time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I can’t think of a worse way to frame this discussion. There are significant differences between a 35 yo man dating a 15 yo girl and a 50 yo man dating a 30 yo woman, legality being just part of it. Swapping the genders doesn’t make it better.
- Comment on Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans 2 weeks ago:
Performance is really a key factor, and gives rise to now being a time when truly competitive handheld is possible. Like this chart shows, there was a quadrupling of power between 2016 and 2020, but only a doubling of power between 2020 and 2023, with stagnation for the last couple years, largely due to technical limitations. RAM and storage have also seen massive boosts followed by stagnation, as well as a closing of the bandwidth gap between RAM and storage (from about 6 orders of magnitude to 3 orders of magnitude difference with solid state storage). The GPU front is still increasing in performance, with more watts and/or transistors giving more power, with raw performance increasing by a factor of 8 over 10 years.
Now you take those base values for performance, and a few things come together. First, storage has become low-energy, and is more performant, especially in the mobile market. Second, lower power CPUs are reasonably competitive, which means longer battery run time at an acceptable performance level. Third, while there is a bigger gap on GPU performance, smaller screens mean fewer pixels to drive so something a little older and less power hungry can still give satisfactory results. Put those all together, coupled with the steady and constant improvements in battery performance over the last 30 years, and you can make an acceptable mobile computer platform with decent results that’s able to play all but the most demanding of games from the last few years. Certainly, you can’t compete with the power of a desktop gaming PC, but you can get good enough. And then, with a few design tweaks, you can get a little better.
So, until and unless serious changes happen in the CPU or GPU market, mobile PC gaming has a chance to be good enough for a lot of people. I currently do over 90% of my gaming on the Steam Deck, but I’m also aware that I have little interest in playing the newest game as soon as it comes out so the Steam Deck is particularly suited to my tastes.
- Comment on In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you” 3 weeks ago:
If Windows was actually good, you could have it take a question and paste the results into Notepad without having to add AI there. If it was really good, the AI segment would be optional.
- Comment on In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you” 3 weeks ago:
It was definitely lacking in core areas. Large files, better search, possibly spell check (and why isn’t spell check core Windows functionality?). It also could have used better handling for non-Windows text files. But overall, yes, this wasn’t a program that needed a dedicated team to manage or improve.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 3 weeks ago:
I only got my deck last year, so it think I can hold off until the Deckard. Kind of okay paying 3 times as much for VR to not have it tied to Meta/Zuck.
- Comment on No, Steam wasn’t hacked, and your account details are safe 4 weeks ago:
I asked my company if I could use a password manager and they said no. So now they get a set of rotating passwords that are the same for all my work accounts. It doesn’t really bother me - it’s their data, not mine.
- Comment on Back up off my nuts 5 weeks ago:
“These yoots…”
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 1 month ago:
Distillation doesn’t have to be of water. Not all impurities are solid. And the evaporated water does go back into the water pool, just with steps we aren’t directly involved in.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 1 month ago:
What exactly do you think evaporation ponds are doing, then?
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 1 month ago:
The lacy top makes it a lot less ambiguous. Also, the ties in OPs image look like spidey swinging towards you while the ones in your link really do not.
- Comment on Thought provoking tee shirt 1 month ago:
This shirt looks old, but I’ve never seen it before. Reddit has let me down again. Thanks Lemmy!
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 1 month ago:
I have a Win11 ThinkPad for work, so I get MS ads, Lenovo ads, and 2 or 3 versions each of Teams and Outlook. We use SharePoint, so when I open a file from there via the web interface, I don’t want to deal with that BS for printing. Depending if it’s Word or Excel, the button/link for opening in the desktop app will be located differently (or maybe it’s based on editing permissions), but it never fails to throw a dialog saying it couldn’t open the file in desktop mode and asking if i want to cancel or try again…just before the desktop app opens.
Some of these things don’t happen every day, but they all happen every week, and anyone who doesn’t see a problem with that hasn’t used a half-decent OS (and I’m willing to include early-release Win10 in that group, telemetry and Cortana notwithstanding).
- Comment on Anon describes their dream home 1 month ago:
Regionally dependent, typically based on the weather, terrain, and how populated the area is. In cold places with more than 16 feet to bedrock, you will typically have basements because they’re cheaper to heat in the winter and cool in the summer. If the bedrock or the water table is close to the surface, basements are too expensive or impossible. If there is lots of space around you and it isn’t too cold, you won’t have basements because they cost more per square foot than building on the surface. If you’re densely populated (and don’t have the exclusion conditions listed above), you will likely have a basements because it costs less to have a second floor (above or below) than it does to buy more land.
In short, bungalows have basements where it’s more cost-effective than having a bigger bungalow.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 months 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 months ago:
I’ve been cheated!
Could not find post in your instance.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 2 months ago:
- Comment on My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate. 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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 months ago:
That feeling when LLM matches your worldview.
Also, this. (Not LLM, but still beautifully disturbing.)
