BorgDrone
@BorgDrone@lemmy.one
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 19 hours ago:
So I’ve actually looked into the EU wallet stuff quite a bit. The article talks about age verification. The way the EU wallet works is that you can share individual attributes, you don’t need to share your identity at all. When you load your government ID into the wallet, one of the fields is
over_18which has a boolean value (true or false). Any service that requires you to be 18+ would only need to request this single attribute, nothing more. No names, no other personal information, just the fact that you’re over 18. - Comment on Anon watches Jurassic Park 2 weeks ago:
You getting old is what happened.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
So having the aerodynamics you can literally fly at that speed.
You can at much, much slower speeds. For example this STOL plane only stalls at 32km/h).
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 5 weeks ago:
There are also a shitload more humans now. Even if number of horses per capita is lower, the fact that there are more people may compensate for that.
- Comment on Blobfish 1 month ago:
Yep.
You’re welcome.
- Comment on Blobfish 1 month ago:
In the same vein, stop drawing dead butterflies
- Comment on It's not up for debate! 1 month ago:
Taste like crab, talk like people.
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 1 month ago:
Same on iOS
- Comment on Bumble heightens safety measures with new ID verification feature 1 month ago:
Bumble’s new verification feature lets users submit a picture of a government-issued ID to authenticate their identity
ID verification using a picture taken of the ID is practically worthless. It is trivial to fake.
- Comment on He's totally not a Nazi tho 1 month ago:
Well, if he wants to follow that logic: Tesla’s CEO didn’t make billions of dollars, his workers did.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
No, crashes in the US happen because Americans are shit drivers. They are shit drivers because you get a free driving license with box of cereal. Germany on the other hand has one of the strictest driving tests there is. A German with a driving license has had many hours of instruction from a professional instructor.
In addition, American cars are shit. Lots of poorly maintained and unsafe vehicles on the road with very lax regulation. By contrast, German cars have to pass a very comprehensive yearly safety inspection.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
83 million Germans, 63% above 16
Not sure why you think this is relevant. Children aren’t allowed to drive in Germany.
- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
Three-wheeled e-bikes (trikes) also exist. I know someone who also has balance issue (mid 40’s with reduced motor control on one side of the body) who uses one all the time.
They are also used a lot by elderly people who are afraid to fall over. A friend of mine’s mother uses one for that reason. Depending on your needs they come with either a normal bicycle saddle or even a full seat if you need the extra support.
- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
Where do you live that you are 5 miles from a grocery store? If I ride my bike 5 miles in any direction I will pass half a dozen grocery stores.
I had a quick look at Google Maps and there are at least 50 supermarkets within a 5 mile radius of my home. That radius covers the whole of the city I live in, which has 38 supermarkets, plus a sizable portion of the neighboring city, which has 24, plus a few smaller villages which all have at least one.
I went grocery shopping twice today. Once this morning to pick up some breakfast stuff and another visit in the evening to get some things for dinner. It’s a 3 minute bike ride. A grocery trip takes less than 15 minutes including the time spent in the store. I don’t think it’s possible to live farther than that from a supermarket in this city, I lived 1 minute farther away I would be closer to another supermarket.
- Comment on I love the future. 2 months ago:
Gotta love people who don’t want to take a vaccine that was designed by the absolute top experts in the field and extensively tested, but have no problem popping pills some grifter on the interweb sold them.
- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
If your skills are so specialized that the only company that hires someone like you, you can probably afford to relocate.
- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
I don’t know your limitations, but you’d be surprised at the number of ways cycling can be made accessible.
For example, there are handbikes that attach to a wheelchair. As with all assistive tech it depends on your specific situation what is possible.
- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
Try this when you are in your 70’s and come back and we’ll chat.
70+ year olds cycle all the time here in the Netherlands. My parents included. Most use e-bikes nowadays.
And bring a cure for my chronically poor balance on your way over.
Here you go. Again super common among the elderly over here.
- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
Like my mom used to say: are you made of sugar?
- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
Why would you need to buy a weeks worth of groceries? Just buy for 1 or 2 days. Make additional grocery trips as needed.
- Comment on Murica 2 months ago:
Who the fuck takes a job that far from home?
- Comment on Steam has the best UI 3 months ago:
There’s also some stupid UX choices that show they simply don’t give a fuck. On the Steam Deck when you want to update something and you don’t have enough space it simply says “not enough free space”. What use is that to me? Tell me how much you need!
- Comment on Time to wake 3 months ago:
When it’s all over
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 3 months ago:
The way it works here (the Netherlands) the monthly cost for the connection to the grid depends on the maximum current and number of phases.
Some examples: a 1 phase 1A connection costs €11,12 per month, 3x 25A costs €168,99 , 3x 80A is €408,94 (there are other capacities available with different rates).
To me this seems like a fair way of doing it, someone who draws more power (or higher peak power) needs a beefier hookup and that requires beefier and more expensive equipment and cables.
- Comment on Yay 3 months ago:
I don’t close tabs, I just open new ones for the next project.
Someday a archeologist will be able to write a paper on life in the 21st century after excavating my collection of open tabs.
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 4 months ago:
It’s one microwave, how much could it cost? 1000 dollars?
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 4 months ago:
That’s not a solution at all. First of all, depending country, you will need a gambling license. This is a PITA as gambling laws will differ per country. In my country gambling is heavily regulated and you would need to check ID and keep track of how much a person gambles. You have a duty of care and if you notice a person’s gambling habits are becoming problematic you have to refuse them.
- Comment on Saw this at a neighbor's Christmas Eve Party. I didn't have the nerve to tell them to change it 4 months ago:
They knew.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 no longer exclusive to Xbox, is now coming to PS5 – WGB 4 months ago:
I don’t think it’s a token gesture. Microsoft is a software company; they want to sell software, not hardware. They don’t really care about xbox other than as a means to sell more software and gamepass subscriptions. Selling their games on as many platforms as possible is a logical move for them.
- Comment on Beer, I summon thee 5 months ago:
A bar in my city has an actual walk in fridge: devluchte.nl/over/