kassiopaea
@kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Held back no longer 2 days ago:
The truck I was driving had a DT12 (12-speed) and it would shift 1-2-4-6-8-10-12 if I remember correctly. Even with only 6 gears to go through, it still took forever. Maybe it wasn’t actually more time shifting than accelerating, but it sure felt like it lol.
- Comment on Held back no longer 2 days ago:
As a former truck driver: can confirm. It was mostly freeing because I could actually go to Walmart or do laundry in the city without worrying about where and how to park.
Also, without a trailer it accelerates a lot faster. Like, genuinely spending more time shifting than accelerating. Feels weird.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 3 days ago:
I remember having a PowerShot SX110IS back in 2010 and there was an open source firmware I loaded on it. I forget what it was called. It’s a damn shame that we can’t really do stuff like that anymore.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 3 days ago:
Fair enough. I shouldn’t be posting within 30 minutes of waking up anyway…
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 3 days ago:
The problem is that people read a few things on the internet, think they’re now suddenly domain experts, and do it anyway.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 3 days ago:
That would immediately blow the fuse in the lights and/or start a fire if the two strands were on different circuits that happened to be on different electrical phases.
While I wouldn’t doubt that some people are stupid enough to do that, it’s actually summer that it’s done the most for because of storms and power outages, and people learn that backfeeding is a thing (that you shouldn’t do unless you absolutely know what you’re doing).
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 3 days ago:
Well at that point all you need to do is cut a normal extension cord and strip the ends. Maybe add a switch or a button for extra safety.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 3 days ago:
In my jurisdiction, backfeeding your house from a receptacle is very illegal. Transfer switches and interlock kits exist for a reason.
For anyone wondering exactly why it’s a bad idea: Power from your generator can, if your house isn’t isolated from the grid, travel back into the utility lines and backward through the big transformer at the utility pole (so now it’s a few thousand volts again) and give an unsuspecting linesman a nasty surprise. People have died from this. It is a bad idea.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 5 days ago:
Wouldn’t Google’s crawlers respect robots.txt though? Is it naive to assume that anything would?
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
I would love to not let the nazis dictate how the swastika is used, but their perversion of the original meaning has permanently altered how it’s seen by the rest of the world. Claiming the moral high ground by trying to force something to mean what it no longer does is a pointless exercise.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 1 week ago:
Have you considered that the comment could, in fact, be a joke?
- Comment on The only way to be 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s what the US government is trying to do.
- Comment on My ravioli bowl won't unstick. Took about an hour of prying, and still I couldn't unstick the plate. 1 month ago:
Well it already got cold, hence the sticking together in the first place. All they need to do is get it hot again.