atrielienz
@atrielienz@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Weirdly yes. I’m consider going back to my previous place of work because somehow, even though it was just differently bad, I miss it.
It was the same when I left the military.
- Comment on Edible Wood 1 week ago:
I used to eat the shells on sun flower seeds. That’s basically wood and it was indeed edible.
- Comment on EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog…
The people who own the company that’s trying to buy EA are the people who ordered the assassination of Khashoggi.
- Comment on EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead 1 week ago:
Not me, but I pirated sims 3.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 3 weeks ago:
I tried to make sure it got quoted by my app doesn’t do well with copying the user so I did it this way so people would know it certainly wasn’t me who saw the flaw.
If it helps UFD tech on YouTube also reported off the Tom’s Guide article, spouting the same flawed data as the headline.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 3 weeks ago:
Someone else already explained (after watching the video) why this test is flawed.
"This is purely from a broken test. Watch the video and you’ll see that its not testing with the same power limits.
17w tests are actually 16w vs 20w+ and 35w test is 25w vs 35w
This leads to drastically higher clock speeds on both cpu and gpu as seen in the video and thus higher fps (and power draw, so lower battery life)
- Comment on Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions 3 weeks ago:
Did they defend MS and Cloudstrike?
- Comment on These nonprofits lobbied to regulate OpenAI — then the subpoenas came 3 weeks ago:
So basically, Open AI is upset that Musk sued to prevent them becoming a for profit company, and they’re upset that so many tiny non-profit companies are opposing them for various reasons. So they have decided to subpoena and or sue all those tiny non-profits under the ‘assumption’ that they must be funded but Musk in order to further his opposition to the company and their for profit plans. And intimidate these small non-profits, which kills two birds with one stone.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 4 weeks ago:
I did figure it out and it’s been awesome although I don’t know what the difference is between high refresh and regal.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 4 weeks ago:
I need to figure out how to do that because I’ve been manually refreshing if I need to and keeping the refresh rate somewhere in the middle.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 4 weeks ago:
I own the Boox Tab Mini C. It’s fine for reading ebooks. The screen refresh isn’t really fast enough for a lot of apps , especially apps with pictures or things other than text. This causes a lot of artifacting.
You can read news papers, magazines, ebooks, and comics and it’s fine for that although I think perhaps would be better without the color e-ink for most things. If it had a color setting and a grey scale setting I’d like that.
But it makes the page illegible if you scroll for too long otherwise, so stuff you would use it for like reading web pages get progressively more difficult the longer you scroll.
I think the size is good and I also think you’re likely to have the same problem on a Kindle to some extent.
Additionally, it is android but it doesn’t natively come with a lot of android apps you might be used to. You can remove some of the apps but it’s not as easy as just going to the app store and deleting them.
It’s nice to see this kind of thing in person before you buy it.
I recommend buying it from a store where you can return it if you don’t like it.
- Comment on Researchers achieve breakthrough integration of 2D materials on standard silicon chips 4 weeks ago:
How do they know/how did they measure the 10 year data retention?
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 5 weeks ago:
I’m honestly not sure (given the price the cable likely adds to the price of the device vs the quality/longevity of the cable) that I want it. Apple has been notorious for selling their charging cables at a premium while making them basically as cheaply as possibly. Other companies have literally made their brand on being better than the OEM cables and chargers you get with devices.
Other phone manufacturers aren’t exempt from the phone cable failure thing either. It’s crazy to me that they were allowed to sell such shoddy accessories in the first place.
When you add in the ways that countries are trying to cut down on e-waste I can’t say I’m surprised.
- Comment on Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify 1 month ago:
That doesn’t mean the Board doesn’t think that “the CEO stepping down” will make the company look better to the people they pissed off by shoehorning AI into everything.
- Comment on Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for the artists boycotting Spotify 1 month ago:
Probably their Board.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 1 month ago:
Are they going to be paying for extended support? My job is still on windows 10 (after they tried to upgrade to 11 and ended up having business applications not work as they should), but they are paying for extended support.
- Comment on Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company 1 month ago:
I’m not sure why she’s being banned from criticizing the company? Like she signed a “non NDA” that included a clause about disparagement of the company, I get that, but I don’t really understand how that’s not a violation of her rights and therefore an invalidation of the contract.
And on further reading it’s claimed that she hasn’t been forced to pay any damages for breach of that contract so how is she on the verge of bankruptcy? Is it that she can’t promote her book?
- Comment on Justice, ParkMobile is finally forced to pay up. 1 month ago:
A discount code? BS.
- Comment on Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools 1 month ago:
So, let me get this straight. Spotify uses AI, is developing AI and is allowing (and possibly seeding the platform with) AI generated music.
And the company [Spotify] is upset that the users are downloading their own data and putting in it trust in a collective for the purposes of selling it to an AI company to analyze?
And Spotify made it part of their TOS that you have the right to download your own data as a user, but also made it part of the TOS that you can’t use the data you own to train AI (which only makes sense if you don’t own your data).
Have I got this is right?
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
The birds in greymoor.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
As someone who just got a verbal reprimand at work for “language” due to having an outburst of irritation where an explosive was used (which is a common enough occurrence in the hangar where I work), I’m seriously about to start auto censoring everything in the most gen Alpha way possible just to annoy the others.
- Comment on I asked 20 game developers about Stop Killing Games. [Alanah Pearce] 2 months ago:
He also sells a lot of his “good side” via short form videos on Tik Tok and YouTube etc. So when you only get a snippet or two of him talking or answering questions, and he seems like he’s encouraging people to learn to code or do game dev etc it sounds nice. It sounds like he’s being supportive of his audience. It seems like he’s just a dude. But when you get right down to it, that doesn’t bear out who he is, even his actual online persona in his long form content or streams.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 months ago:
s3nd.pics is also a possible successor.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 months ago:
www.imgcat.io is being built by an imgur user but it’s not ready yet.
- Comment on Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline 2 months ago:
And the people who use Tik Tok don’t see this as a red flag.
- Comment on Meta is going to stuff Midjourney AI images into your feed 2 months ago:
What feed. Mm y Facebook exists to face tank all the photos my MIL shares. That’s it. I don’t like… Use it. Open it? Scroll the feed? Absolutely not. Don’t have insta. Don’t have messenger.
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 2 months ago:
lemmy.world/comment/18865484 Your welcome to read my other comment, but I doubt you are knowledgeable about this subject.
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 2 months ago:
If you are woried about the swap I’m sure care exaust and tires particles which are know to damage environement a lot. Trains are electric so at least polution will be localized near power plants and thoose can be eventualy replaced by renewables.<
Okay. So firstly, “the swamp” is an important and endangered part of the environment. It absorbs flood water and run off, it is a sink for greenhouse gasses, it absorbs a lot of the toxic pollution from cars including exhaust particles and the shed particles from tires. In Florida and Georgia specifically, flooding is a major factor in the civil engineering and design of roadways and population centers, and the elevation is mostly at or below sea level. Both of these states are prone to weather patterns that lead to storms, hurricanes, and tornados.
There is 4 lanes, you can remove one or two and set train tracks which don’t have a lot of constraints compared to cars due to train wheel being steel and having better adherence.<
So we’re not just talking about one set of rail on I95?
I’m going to preface what I say next with two points. There is already a rail system down the East Coast (including the east coast of Georgia and Florida), with an Amtrak line that runs stops between Georgia and Orland Florida. Two, at least part of that railroad line is endangered because a lot of the East Coast, including parts of Georgia and Florida is sinking due to salt water intrusion.
Additionally, I95 (one of the major interstate highways that runs from through Georgia and Florida) is also running along the eastern coast and is endangered more and more every year because of the same salt water intrusion and sinking coast line.
There’s two options for rail. Diesel powered rail which would require refueling stations or at the very least places to store the fuel. But I doubt that’s what people mean. This would add to traffic (fuel delivery and maintenance isn’t going to be done using this train) because trucks would be required to carry that fuel.
You’d also still need to build ingress and egress points for the rail, things like park and ride, things like stations, things like dropoff areas. This will have to be in addition to what is already there because what you’re expecting is that more people in Florida/Georgia will use rail rather than drive. So no. We aren’t just taking two lanes off a highway and dropping in some railroad tracks. That’s not how that works.
To move the same volume of people in the event of a tropical storm, hurricane, or flood, a train has to be able to be powered. So I’m going to assume (since most people who argue for trains are people who think it’ll be more environmentally friendly) that we’re talking about electric rail. Meaning you’re going to need electricity to power those rail lines. What happens when power isn’t available? Where do we put electrical substations? Where do we put the rest of the infrastructure to support the rail? I’m guessing we’re clearing swamp land for that.
People who still need a car for whatever reason<
Evacuation due to weather is a big one. Can you evacuate on the train? If it’s running, sure. Should you? Questionable. Is it easier and are you more likely to be able to take things with you that you don’t want destroyed in a different vehicle? Pets? Old people with equipment like wheel chairs and other aids? And before you go “of course!” I’m going to remind you that building that are fully up to fire code expect paralyzed people to just figure it out. Elevator? Don’t use the elevator. Stairs? Guess I’m dragging myself down the stairs if I’m able bodied enough to do so. My multi-thousand dollar piece of medical equipment? Unless someone is willing to help me drag it down serval flights of stairs, the recommendation is to leave it. And it may not be reimbursed or replaced by my insurance company. Assuming I have insurance.
Tickets on the train that is already available? $140 a ticket one way.
High speed rail doesn’t pay for itself, and to get Floridians to use it you’re going to need to make it affordable. This will raise the taxes of Floridians and they don’t pay state income tax. Meaning this is going to be paid for using federal funding (which Trump has cut repeatedly in the last 6 months), sales tax, tax on titles and tags,.and property tax which sounds great until you realize that those people who still need cars when and if this is built will absolutely still use cars, and the people paying the property tax will fight this to the death.
I was going to mention they “in good faith” bit and respond to it but in trying really hard to be chill about this since I’m obviously not talking to someone with any background data for this subject, up to and including anything about Florida, and its water table, or it’s elevation compared to sea level and the kind of storms and acts of nature it normally gets.
There are other factors to, but I’ve spent enough time on this specifically.
So if you would like to continue this conversation in good faith, do some research please.
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 2 months ago:
So what you’re saying is you advocate for the government to clear swampland (fuck the environment I guess), and continue to disenfranchise Native American peoples because you want high speed rail so badly?
Yeah. Yeah. I know you didn’t say that. But that’s what can be extrapolated from your assertion that the government and billionaires could if they wanted to. Don’t normalize this shit. It’s wrong for the government to seize things that don’t belong to it regardless of the purpose they plan to use if for.
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 2 months ago:
Just curious about what your thought is here? How straight are the roads? How often do they have to be resurface or maintenance? Just because there’s a road or highway, the are must be able to support high speed rail? Should they continue to clear swamp land in order to erect high speed rail? Is the plan here to usurp the highway for high speed rail? If so, what happens to those people who still need a vehicle in order to get where they’re going? What happens if they need that highway?