olafurp
@olafurp@lemmy.world
- Comment on You're so predictable 10 hours ago:
Yeah, my first thought was it’s a, um, yeah, 4.8T. Then I realised my autism ruined the joke.
- Comment on #environmentalist 4 days ago:
Don’t you need to use the metal straws some ridiculous amount of times before it saves more carbon than the plastic single use?
Also, plastic multi use is probably better.
- Comment on true love is rare 4 days ago:
Screw the size, tell me the girth
- Comment on YouTube will help you quit watching Shorts 5 days ago:
Also possible to hide them from the feed.
- Comment on Vert is the best self-hosted file converter out there, and it's not even close 5 days ago:
ffmpeg is the best file converter
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Americans are not any better. Poll from 2022 …yougov.com/…/41556-americans-misestimate-small-s…
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 1 week ago:
“Big enough to fill most” then after say “we’re talking about shoes right?”
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 1 week ago:
Yeah, you should shake off the water first (12 times is a good number), then rub your hands to spread the water over your hands so your evaporating water on all parts of your hands.
Takes less than a minute and gives you completely dry hands. This works with type 1 and 3 mentioned by you. Type 2 like the Dyson Airblade work if you pull your hands through slowly but then they will take a couple of minutes to dry on their own. With type 2 shaking the water off is not important since the machine does it for you.
- Comment on Why do so many hand dryers not dry hands? Am I doing something wrong? 1 week ago:
I’d like to dispute that. My current routine is:
- Shake hands around 12 times
- Rub hands under the dryer.
Step 1 removes majority of the water and Step 2 spreads it evenly over your hands so you use all the surface area to dry. I get my hands completely dry within a minute.
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 1 week ago:
Now do Black and White
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 1 week ago:
It’s a fair point but it’s not as egregious as most other headlines. I personally give this one a pass since clickbaits are meta in the article space. It shows that GOG has this in their toolbox.
- Comment on I'm down with that 1 week ago:
Coconuts spread by floating on the sea from pacific islands to Madagascar
- Comment on Employers Who Steal Wages Should Be Made Criminally Liable 1 week ago:
This “slap on the wrist” handling of it is way too lenient and can only apply to people who accidentally underpay workers. If you can somehow prove that an employer does it on purpose or rejects a person’s claim for their salary they should be held accountable and be put in the same category as stealing a car with up to 4 years imprisonment.
If you only make employers pay a fine and backpay to whoever requests it might be less than the amount they stole. This way optimal business strategy become “get insured for it and continue”.
- Comment on Anon plays DOOM 1 week ago:
Serious Sam also has cows that is fun to blast with a rocket launcher
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 2 weeks ago:
This is what I always say. When people want diamonds they either want them because they’re pretty or expensive. If you want expensive then buy a gold bullion, if you want pretty buy a moissanite, for both, buy both.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for posting the comment I was looking for
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
Not all companies need to grow. Some do perfectly fine by just maintaining their current output like a owner operated single person plumbing company.
Another example can be Walmart, they don’t need to grow but investors prefer growth so it becomes a focus.
There are some companies that need absolutely to grow to survive. This is seen a lot in tech where in order for the business model to make sense they would need some big quantity of users.
Let’s say you got seeded 10M and managed to get to a minimal product with 10k users that get you $2 in revenue monthly but your cost are around 50k monthly. It means you’re making a loss but with 100k users you’d make a profit. To get to 100k you need more investment but to justify that investment being sound you need show growth.
So in general if being bigger gets you economies of scale then making a loss early can get you the investor money you need to survive. So to survive as a business you need to grow.
Those are two ends of a spectrum and everything in between exists as well. So quick answer would be “Companies don’t always need to grow but some really do because their business model only works at a different scale”.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 weeks ago:
I would personally use Linux mint but yeah, good idea.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 3 weeks ago:
That Uni is just one exploited vulnerability away from a botnet. Getting hands on a PC physically could get you could use Spectre/Meltdown, get the admin pass and mine bitcoin.
- Comment on Remember: You are loved. 3 weeks ago:
I like thinking about spinosaurus as a chonker Image
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Then it all made sense in the end of course
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 4 weeks ago:
More commonly known as Pussius
- Comment on Anon becomes Snake 4 weeks ago:
Are you including when you rephrase the question but the content is essentially the same?
^ This is how I do it
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 5 weeks ago:
My Spanish speaking friends have always said that my Spanish gets much better when I’m a bit more than tipsy. Finally somebody confirms this.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 5 weeks ago:
Let’s argue “what in heavy” before we go there
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 5 weeks ago:
Depends on whether or not you count in air resistance. I was just making a shitpost
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 1 month ago:
Obligatory “windows updates can break Linux on dual boot” comment
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
Next phone I get I’ll get fairphone and check the market for an alternative OS at that time. This might be the push that the Linux phone community needs to make it proper and good.
We currently need a KDE phone that they sell where I can buy a KDE phone and support them that way.
The pieces are coming together for Linux notably:
- SPA support instead of apps.
- Waydroid
- Core components such as calling, sim card actions, recording, speakers can be provided by fairphone via drivers.
I’m getting pretty sick of Google and other corpos locking down Android so fuck them, third best phone OS will have to do and I’ll do banking in the mobile browser page.
