JustEnoughDucks

@JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but they hide that as much as possible.

  • No longer warranty
  • No specs that indicate longevity
  • also has bullshit WiFi/touchscreens because it is so cheap to integrate for them

  If you are extremely lucky, there is a review for that model somewhere that isn’t just paid advertising, but outside of the US with less-used models, that is pretty much a fantasy.

  For example, even on the most expensive 1400€ Series 8 models Bosch (traditionally one of the best quality washers in the EU) now instead of a drum with bolts and a gasket, plastic welds their drum covers so it doesn’t last as long, breaks at the seam, and is almost impossible to repair correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BASED?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also why people should seriously think about if they are ready to have a kid or want to have a kid.

  Millions or tens/hundreds of millions of kids have parents that never really wanted them and just gave in to the biological clock and/or social pressures and the kids have a shitty childhood. It sucks to be unwanted, and kids can really feel it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And there were tons of ones back in the day that didn’t cost that much either.

  Surprise, cheap stuff existed then too, it just didn’t survive like the expensive appliances.

  The difference is now the expensive stuff ALSO barely lasts at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, many of my childhood best friends live a 9 hour flight away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s literally how much they cost now and they last 10 years or maybe 15

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, THC drinks are all over the US now and very popular. Most of my (young millennial) friends there barely drink alcohol and have swapped them with gummies and seltzers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s technically possible by water fasting for 2 months, but that is pretty dangerous for so long and you would need a strict vitamin and salt intake to even have a chance of doing it safely.

  Definitely not a good idea, certainly not without doctor supervision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I might catch flak for this, but I understand Fahrenheit made a ton of sense of an illiterate bygone era (well, I guess coming back maybe)

  The vast majority of people were uneducated. Decimals were a non-starter, maybe negatives were also difficult?

  0-100 was very easy. Under 0? Don’t go outside if possible. Over 100? Don’t go outside if possible. >50/halfway? Time for a coat. Having the same scale from -15 to 40 might have been confusing and not centered for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The LCD Steam Deck is no longer being manufactured⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They had said on release (a few years ago) that they were selling the base model LCD just a bit above “at-cost” to try to break it into the market and capture share. It worked.

  Now that RAM prices have >3x’ed, they would likely be selling that model at a significant loss if they keep manufacturing it. Completely logical move.

  Bad for the consumer, but RAM being sucked up by shitty near-useless plagerism machines with the goal of replacing jobs for extra corporate profit is also bad for the consumer and probably a large part of the cause behind this production stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨surely your hobby can't be that expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t spinning your own yarn an amount of work that you should be saving money? 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What, artificial chocolate sprinkles on buttered white bread isn’t peak cuisine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Minigame maps in source days were crazy good!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does streaming compare to "analog"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had accubattery for my phome’s duration and Sony have the feature that you can force stop charging at 80%. In the past 3.5 years with the phone, I have charged 1 814 046 mAh in that time. Assuming avg 3.8V (not hitting too much or CV with 80%) and my local price of 0.32€/kWh, that is only 2.14€ over 3.5 years.

  Phones are absolutely crazy efficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, here in belgium for an Electronics degree, there are about 10 open Electronics engineering jobs nationwide right now.

  Like 400 software/firmware and like 150 electric installation jobs, but if you want to switch to one of those you pretty much have to go back to a junior level (and pay) which isn’t much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point who in the world could stop Trump over doing something totally illegal? Like lets say using bunker buster bombs to destroy DEM cities? Or is USA communially FUCKED?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean like all of the air force brass, logistics commanders, pilots, all the way down to the MPs, who have been consistent in following illegal orders to fly black bagged and chained legal US residents that were refused due process to foreign concentration camps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is funny because it routinely happens as well as nation states hiring small teams that start edit wars occasionally IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two former Polygon writers are starting a new site⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how financially viable it is nowadays

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really depends on what you consider grinding.

  Pretty much all MMOs or PVEs have you grinding for gear (helldivers 2 I don’t feel is grindy in comparison, but some do)

  Survival games like ark, valheim, etc… Have you grinding for bases and the next section of the game

  Pretty much all PvP games (CS2, valorant, apex, starcraft, Rocket league, etc…) have you grinding out muscle memory skills

  The antithesis to these are instance-based games where at max you grind aesthetic gimmicks, but in single player games they don’t have those like REPO where you always reset and fall guys where it is minigame based

  The problem with these games is since you don’t have a “reward for work” (grinding), people get bored of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh I hate excel. It can’t do the most basic search and replace things reliably in all cases. I have moved literally all data analysis besides the absolute basic “count” and “sum” operations to python in spyder. 200x faster, repeatable, and has never once failed a basic operation like a search and replace. Not to mention the localization issues and the fact that it will fuck things up completely if you install a new printer because Microsoft decided the printer has priority of your document and spreadsheet layouts over choosing a default.

  I had some evaluation board software that whenever the value dipped below -1, would place the comma completely randomly in the floating point number.

  Excel almost had a heart attack when I asked it to search and replace ”-1” with “-1,” and it found all of the cases just fine, but decides to ignore the replace and not place a comma at all. If I tried to convert them to a number, it freaked out and placed the decimal place also randomly, different than the input. And of course trying to do in-place operations on a column for export is just painful.

  Hell, in notepad++ I could just regex the digit range that was preceded by a ”-1” and get everything replaced using a few brackets.

  Not to mention how terrible the graphs work in comparison and how bad they look with the default options 😅. But hey, you can automatically put in a drop shadow or frame it in a useless way.

  There are some people who can work very efficiently and do some crazy things in excel (like the excel doom) but unless you have literally been using it daily for many years and actively looking for ways to speed up, then it is just as easy or easier to do things in an actual data processing program like matlab, octave, python, or R (And I am not a coder) and you can literally copy paste a file name for the next full dataset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Note: before tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to see the stats on that. A lot of times people who are in the industry or know someone in it see their wages and others’ wages going up and say “wages went up with inflation” where the starting wage or the wage normalized to seniority level actually hasn’t changed much at all. For example, in engineering like electriical (outside of silicon valley in the US which has its own economical wage ecosystem) has had entry level positions that have gone up around 20% since the 2008 while inflation has gone up almost 50% since 2008 and productivity has skyrocketed with CAD advancements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Note: before tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the difference is that wages have not significantly gone up since then apart from minimum wage in a few states. That is the difference. People are literally poorer because of the massively increased wealth inequality coming from employers shoving down wages while making yearly record profits…

  If peoples’ purchasing power is more or less the same, factoring in inflation to game prices would result in a ton of people simply not being able to buy “luxury goods” like video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love LoRa for IoT devices, sensor nodes, automation, environmental monitoring, etc… And I think it is absolutely the future for outdoor electronics. As far as communication I am really not so sure.

  What benefits does it have to ham radio though besides no license? There is no real time communication, no possibility of voice, mesh-based which results in delays or dropped messages, and it only works within walking/short biking distance (a couple kilometers) without line-of site tower infrastructure or in mountainous areas.

  I could see a potential use of it as a broadcast system during emergency by a central tower for messages that work over text, but further than that I have only seen personal projects or youtubers use them.

  Camping isn’t even a great usecase (in my opinion) because in an emergency there are 3 things needed for communication

  • Satellite or very long-range communications/broadcast to alert S&R
  • GPS location
  • real time communication to guide someone out of a dangerous situation or guide them to you using descriptive markers

  Lora only has the possibility one of them: telling people your location who are within walking distance. Not to mention it is blocked to a degree by vegetation. Most people go camping with all of their important people within like 100m, and the number one rule of backpacking is don’t go off on your own, especially not off-trail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨11 Best Indie Games of All Time⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a better list than the actual list probably 😅 Not having hollow knight or cuphead on the actual list is pretty insane and it is much more of a “non-mainstream best indie games” list

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is very cool, I have never met someone who had success with open hardware. Can I ask what the company is?

  Any tips for doing crowd funding if I decide to put my stuff on the market? I feel like crowd funding has died off a lot in comparison with 10 years ago since most campaigns either don’t reach the goal, don’t deliver the product (or a very basis version), or were scams to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Open-source hardware is almost non-existant compared to software. There is a reason for it.

  I am an electronics engineer who makes open source hardware as a hobby.

  Hardware is extremely different from software. It requires substantial monetary investment.

  My company last year did a dirt-cheap lowest-possible-budget prototype design and run of 10 for someone funding themselves independently. It cost 8000€ for the design and that one prototype run, and an extremely simple design at that (electronically, medical-spec mechanically).

  Software you buy a system and you can develop and develop and iterate and test 1000 times and develop multiple projects on that single machine. If you sell 0 units, sure you are out a computer and a ton of personal time. Sucks, but you won’t lose your house.

  If you do electronics + mechanical development, every time you iterate on the electronics, that will be 200€-1000€ please, plus test equipment. If you make a small mistake equivalent to a wrong pointer that is another 1000 down the drain.

  Hardware projects, pure material-wise, can cost more than a car to develop (just going through CE and FCC compliance testing can be 2k-10k and you aren’t allowed to sell in the EU without it.

  You need capital to burn. Most people would rather make a down payment on a house than develop open hardware that might never recoup just the material costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how they say

  there are moments when Arceus is genuinely pretty

  and then show a screenshot of a game that looks objectively worse than a low-budget movie tie-in from 2007. I mean look at the 1 tile, non-randomized, no noise, no depth, repeating light effect on the water with 0 effort put in to even make it look slightly good. The depth of field and fog looks like it is from pokemon pearl with a gaussian blur put on top of it.

  Super mario sunshine from 2002 looks almost as good at the water looks 10x better lol

  Gamefreak puts literally 1% effort into any of their games…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doing my part with 20-30mbps upload 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Murica⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who lives in Belgium where it is more rainy than the UK apparently, you just need 120€ of good biking gear (maybe 150 now with inflation)

  I have some cheap Columbia rain pants, some cheap rain covers for shoes, a decent marmot raincoat, and a very cheap cover for my helmet. I bike 40-45 minutes each way to work.

  I arrive to work dryer like that when it is very rainy, especially my feet, than when I have to park in a parking garage and walk 10-15 minutes. With an umbrella and raincoat.

  I mean, it definitely isn’t fun at all biking in that, but unless it is really a downpour, it is not crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t people here conflating intrusive thoughts vs the call of the void? I remember someone explaining it to me a bit like this:

  Intrusive thoughts are often violent and more “you need to kill yourself right now, jump in front of that train!” Or “push that person down the stairs now, do it!!!”

  Where call of the void is much more passive as in “what if/I could I jumped in front of a train right now” or “if I pushed that person down the stairs right now, they would probably get very hurt” and extends to things like “I could just drop my phone in a sewer grate”

  My understanding is that everyone™ gets the second but a lot less people get the first. I also get the second but not the first. I could be wrong because it was a random person that explained it to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No assistance would be no guns, no bows, no knives, no traps, right?

  Literally using your bare hands or something you find on the ground.