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- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 3 days ago:
I’ve always experienced the opposite - native English speakers are horrible at spelling because they don’t have to put any effort into comprehending the language, vs non-native speakers who frequently have to take ESL tests for either academia, work, or immigration, and therefore had more exposure to spelling practice.
- Comment on Last Epoch Season 2 | Patch Overview 6 days ago:
That’s a lot of QoL improvements, specially for endgame crafting!
- Comment on Tron: Ares - Official Poster 1 week ago:
It’s Troning time!
- Comment on Does a tiny motion tracking mouse thing exist at all? 1 week ago:
Most scroll wheels use an optical sensor inside the housing to monitor the motion of the wheel. If you got paint inside the housing then it can confuse the sensor.
Question: did you take off the top of the mouse to paint it, or at least tape off any areas that needed to be protected like the scroll wheel and the bottom sensor?
- Comment on UFO Sweden (2022, dir Victor Danell) 2 weeks ago:
Eliminating the need for subtitles altogether
Oh yeah, this is totally going to help people with hearing problems… not!
- Comment on What is a TV show that was one of your favourites, but just went on for far too long? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a darn shame that Scrubs ended on season 8, but on the other hand imagine what a disaster a 9th season could have been…
- Comment on Box Office: How ‘Snow White’ Landed in Potential Bomb Territory 3 weeks ago:
And the uncanny CGI…
- Comment on wriggle wriggle 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 3 weeks ago:
Elijah was fine. However the writer was Max Landis, and… well, he’s not a great character, turns out.
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 3 weeks ago:
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency falls under the same category.
- Comment on World travelers 3 weeks ago:
Asia via the Pacific to the Americas, then a swallow grabs one and brings it to the Atlantic coast.
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 3 weeks ago:
I remember that post from slazer2au… lemmy.world/post/19338754
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 3 weeks ago:
When we talk about 2.4, 5, or 6 GHz the devices don’t operate at exactly that frequency, but within a band more or less on that number. For example 5 GHz is actually a set of channels between 5150 and 5895 MHz.
Why isn’t there a 3Ghz, 3.5Ghz, 4Ghz, etc?
Technically there’s 802.11y (3.65 GHz), 802.11j (4.9-5.0 GHz), etc. It’s just that several of these bands cannot be used universally across the globe, because they may be reserved for other purposes. By and the bands that end up being used are ones that don’t require licensing to operate.
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 3 weeks ago:
Better off Ted.
Pushing Daisies.
- Comment on 'Harry Potter' actress joins OnlyFans to pay off debt 5 weeks ago:
Gotta name drop for that sweet SEO.
- Comment on What’s your best “they must have had a lot of fun making this” movie? 5 weeks ago:
As a general thing, any Kurt Russell movie directed by John Carpenter was [according to them] a pleasure,
I can believe that, especially for Big Trouble in Little China
- Comment on tig ol bitties 1 month ago:
Also Mazinger (may be known under a different name in some countries). One of the robots (Aphrodite A) had titty missiles: tenor.com/…/afrodita-aphrodite-mech-anime-gif-168…
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 month ago:
Fight or Flight
- Comment on Why are tornado sirens only for tornadoes and not other severe storm events? 1 month ago:
Other kinds of severe weather are predictable, whereas there’s a big difference between “this pattern could develop into a tornado over the next half hour, batten down the hatches” and “A TORNADO HAS TOUCHED DOWN NEAR YOU, GET TO A SHELTER WITHIN THE NEXT MINUTE OR YOU’LL DIE!”
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 1 month ago:
Icewind Dale did the same with Baldur’s Gate. Not just the UI, they blatantly reused a lot of the assets too!
- Comment on Potsy Ponciroli to write The Goonies sequel 1 month ago:
Based on other films that had late sequels: they’re the parents now, all boring and business like. Their kids are the ones who get into hijinks, but the parents need to reignite their sense of wonder and adventure to rescue the kids.
I think that covers about 80% of the required sequel tropes.
- Comment on Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank? 2 months ago:
Keychron keyboards are solid and maintainable, and available in Canada. Pick a model that supports swapping switches, and start with brown switches perhaps - they’re on the more quiet end of the spectrum, but common so you won’t break the bank. Then over time you can customize it as your budget allows - different switches if browns are not the right fit for you, keycaps of your preferred colour, etc.
- Comment on The ridiculous Steam Brick just makes me want a proper Steam Machine 2 months ago:
- Get one of those mini PCs with a recent Ryzen G CPU.
- Install Bazzite on it.
- Enjoy your Steam Machine.
- Comment on Is there a better sequel than Terminator 2? 2 months ago:
Empire Strikes Back.
And if you’re into “it’s so bad it wraps around and becomes hilarious” films, Troll 2.
- Comment on UNTIL DAWN – Film First Look 2 months ago:
groundhog day style horror movie
You should watch Happy Death Day
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 2 months ago:
I’m on the fence. Visually the bowtie seems more flattering because it draws attention to the head, but I also get the argument about the necktie filling empty space and being able to flap around. Opinions in this post seem somewhat polarized too, so depending on the effort required to implement it I might suggest giving the player the option to choose either.
- Comment on I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital 3 months ago:
My not-so-funny story is: about a decade or so ago I had an Xbox with a blu-ray drive. I wanted to watch one of my discs on it, but couldn’t because the Microsoft DRM servers were down.
The end.
- Comment on I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital 3 months ago:
Physical media without DRM is better than streaming.
- Comment on Should you bother with... mini PCs? 3 months ago:
I bought one and put Bazzite on it. It’s now my kids’ gaming console. Integrated GPUs are perfectly cromulent for most casual games.
- Comment on Well, they finally got around to me 3 months ago:
Might want to think twice. The liberal party (current party in power) is falling apart, and the populist conservatives are looking like they’ll win the next election with a majority unless something changes significantly.
Provincially things are not much better either: Ontario is being run by a drug pushing grifter, the prairies took a hard right into ultra conservatism, the eastern provinces are essentially majority owned by a few rich families…