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- Comment on Caption this. 4 days ago:
The like cameras
- Comment on 2024-05-06 downtime 1 week ago:
Thanks for your hard work!
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 2 weeks ago:
ReVanced, NewPipe, SmartTube. You’re correct that their mobile browser experience sucks.
- Comment on Gotta get on that grindset 3 weeks ago:
I do NOT consent to Elon flashing me for $250k 😉
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 4 weeks ago:
The EU is not at all equivalent to the USA. The US federal government has a looot more power than the EU and the states a lot less autonomy than EU countries. Also, culture is more homogeneous across the US than across the EU.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 4 weeks ago:
Please do! I must know the longest possible drive in every continent.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 4 weeks ago:
Someone show this pale blue dot to Isreal, Palestine, Russia, and Ukraine, stat! /s
All I’m saying is, if we’re comparing data we gotta at least keep the confounding variables consistent. Not that it matters, it’s literally a bean meme lol.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 4 weeks ago:
Oh, the entire continent is fair game?
5 days 20 hours to drive from bottom of Panama to top of Alaska
- Comment on Adobe is buying videos for $3 per minute to build AI model 5 weeks ago:
The article is like 4 short paragraphs and yet it’s clear 95% of the comments on Hackernews didn’t read it. They’re paying their usual list of artists/videographers up to $120 for footage of boring junk they can use to train their model like a person walking or showing emotion.
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 1 month ago:
Marijuana grows in nature and you just need to dry it out and light it on fire.
- Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy? 1 month ago:
Is each instance like another person with a server? Yes.
Could that person just shut it down whenever they wanted to? Yes.
Are there any companies that have invested in hosting Lemmy/ other fediverse servers? Idk, they’d be very niche.
Sorry I’m sure I messed up some of the terminology, I hope my questions make sense! Nah, you pretty much nailed it.
Lemmy, and a lot of the fediverse, functions very similarly to email. Gmail can send emails to Proton even though they’re hosted by two completely separate companies. A post/comment/vote/interaction is like an email in that a copy of every interaction is sent to every federated instance, like emails sent to recipients. This creates a lot of redundancy and traffic between instances, which has its pros and cons.
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 4 months ago:
I’ve never tried, that might work? Connecting via bluetooth works. You can even use the tv remote!
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 4 months ago:
I own and like the steam link, but the reason they don’t sell it anymore is because the steam link app is on most smart devices now, and if your TV doesn’t support it, you can buy a streaming stick that does for like $30, give or take depending on sales. And those devices are more portable (less wires) and more versatile than a steam link.
Any competitive price for the steam link would be less than what Valve can produce them for. Weren’t they selling it for $5 at the end? Pretty sure I picked mine up for $10 or less. Steam can’t show ads to subsidize the price of the hardware like every other smart device does.
- Comment on My first time playing Cities Skylines 4 months ago:
I’ve never seen a highway with a hill so steep that your visibility is less than stopping distance. There’s an exception to every rule, but I’d wager that it is at most exceedingly rare. It’s definitely not regular.
Texas has u-turns at basically every highway intersection, with exceptions like this photo. The u-turns bypass the stop sign/lights so that it’s just a yield. I’m not sure if any other states do that at the same frequency. With that design, it’s probably easier to just raise the highway since it’s a straight road rather than raise an intersection. I’m sure it also depends on which road was there first.
The huge access roads also typically stop at intersections, unlike in this photo. In order to support that and have the smaller road use an overpass, the access roads would either need to be built much further away from the highway or curve out and in at every intersection in order to reduce the grade of the overpass’s slope. The overpass would need to be longer too since it’s crossing more lanes.
If the smaller road goes over the highway, it’s pretty common that the highway actually goes down so that the smaller road needs to be raised less.
I’m sure there are plenty of other positives and negatives, but I’m not a structural engineer. I’m just pointing out that it’s not an arbitrary decision and it comes with some benefits like robust access roads and u-turns.
- Comment on My first time playing Cities Skylines 4 months ago:
Texas has big access roads on almost every mile of highway, and it’s glorious. If there’s one thing Texas does right, it’s highway infrastructure. Except for its obsession with tolls.
- Comment on poggers 5 months ago:
I think you’d need to prove that the average is (100+1)/2 because that’s not an axiom.
- Comment on Unsubscribe means nothing to them.. 6 months ago:
Not sure what scenarios are exceptions to that. Like, you wouldn’t want to get locked out of an account just because you said STOP to your 2fa codes.
- Comment on Unsubscribe means nothing to them.. 6 months ago:
I set up automated texts a while ago and IIRC they must comply with the keywords STOP and HELP, otherwise they can get in big trouble with the carriers.
- Comment on It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy 8 months ago:
And car companies have so many more data-collecting opportunities than other products and apps we use – more than even smart devices in our homes or the cell phones we take wherever we go. They can collect personal information from how you interact with your car, the connected services you use in your car, the car’s app (which provides a gateway to information on your phone), and can gather even more information about you from third party sources like Sirius XM or Google Maps. It’s a mess. The ways that car companies collect and share your data are so vast and complicated that we wrote an entire piece on how that works. The gist is: they can collect super intimate information about you – from your medical information, your genetic information, to your “sex life” (seriously), to how fast you drive, where you drive, and what songs you play in your car – in huge quantities. They then use it to invent more data about you through “inferences” about things like your intelligence, abilities, and interests.
- Comment on ‘Barbie’ To Play Imax Theaters This Fall With Never-Seen Post-Credits Footage 8 months ago:
Is anyone really going to the theater again just for a 1 minute clip they can watch later on youtube?
- Comment on Unable to upload photo for photo post 8 months ago:
Thanks for linking squoosh, that is awesome!
- Comment on Unable to upload photo for photo post 8 months ago:
Photo uploads are limited to 100kb on lemm.ee
- Comment on Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison 8 months ago:
Left off a crucial end of that headline: “for criticizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”
- Comment on When you get ad spammed by an adblocker..... 9 months ago:
I for one like this post
- Comment on BattleBit Remastered :: Update 2.0.0: Universal Healing, Map Reworks, New Vehicle [and] more! 9 months ago:
This is an interesting angle! It’s important to note that bandages will only heal yourself. Applying bandages to teammates will not heal anything. This works around that because engineers can provide others bandages they can then use to heal, like some sort of sneaky medic.
- Comment on BattleBit Remastered :: Update 2.0.0: Universal Healing, Map Reworks, New Vehicle [and] more! 9 months ago:
I think bandages healing is good. Medic is by far (too far) the best class and a lot of that is because of the self-healing. Making medic less of an obvious choice will increase the variety of classes on the ground which is good for the game.