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noughtnaut noughtnaut @lemmy.world

Am definitely human.

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Our camp at night In Yellowstone.
  • Really?? In Scandinavia such well equipped camp sites are all over the place.

  • Funniest answer wins!
  • It's been abused for so many decades im sure you can reliably use either spelling and not be misunderstood.

  • Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges
  • I went directly from a dot matrix (ImageWriter II ftw!) to a laser. Except for photo prints, I find it immensely practical to be able to print stuff at home.

  • SketchUP 2024 running flawlessly on Arch Linux using Wine (system 9.17)
  • Good for you! Seriously!

    For the rest of us, a few notes on how you accomplished this would be sha-weet! I think sketch up is the most approachable 3d program, but all my "post Windows" attempts have resulted in crashes and freezes. 😥

  • This really puts the size into perspective
  • Plus, the 17th Poland was "made room for" by removing New Zealand, a mapping error so common there's a dedicated sub for it.

  • NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules
  • Emoji passwords made me think of the Lotus Notes password prompt with their little images that changed as I typed (which never really made sense to me).

    Yes, I'm old...

  • A page from...
  • It's been a while since I saw good old 4281 referenced. 👍

  • Co-op campaign mode unlocked
  • As a recent divorcee: fuck this hurts.

  • This week I predict there will be a lot of f**ked off astrologers
  • What on earth does this mean? I'm not a world-class expert in mathology but I've never seen this kind of relative comparison before.

  • Moments where something happens that feels like it goes beyond stupid dumb luck?
  • More comedic than dramatic, and more "highly unlikely" than "dumb luck", but this one time I fell while skiing. It happens, I was a reckless kid as many are.

    But this? This was on a flat, broad, almost level stretch connecting two pistes, and me and my dad were basically just cruising along. I don't know what, but something happened and I face planted, stopping instantly.

    One ski out to the side, the other... vertical? Stuck into the piste at a right angle, all the way from the tip to the binding... without becoming detached from my boot. The mechanism worked fine, mind you, it just hadn't disengaged. There was no gash in the snow, no entry mark, just hard packed piste with half a ski sticking out of it like so much sword in a stone.

  • A dramatic rise in pregnant women dying in Texas after abortion ban
  • This is terrible, and yet entirely predictable. 💔

    In all honesty I cannot fathom that Texas still has anyone in it that might appear to be of the feminine persuasion. Why haven't you all moved already?

  • What is the best FOSS alarm clock app?
  • Not an alarm, but a timer app.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.persapps.multitimer

    MultiTimer is brilliant for having a dashboard of purpose made timers that I use all the time (weekly baking, laundry, tea timer, etc) and ad hoc timers.

  • French dig team gets 200-year-old note from archaeologist
  • Michael Crichton's "Timeline" (1999) says hello.

    Keep digging, you'll find eyeglasses and Jeep tracks, I'm sure.

  • Post your IT redundancy tales here
  • I absolutely love and support your use of misplet.

  • Patterns on this watermelon
  • You seem knowledgeable in this matter, so let me ask you: is this harmful to humans? What is the harm of this watermelon virus?

  • Zero is not zero?
  • Ohh, Rankine, thank you! I only remembered Rheamur - there you go. 😊

  • Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type
  • ... Like what is not a very common skill? Touch typing in general? Or doing it under VR specifically?

    • The latter would be quite niche I suppose.
    • The former? I cry for the current and future generations. It really is not very hard to learn, realistic to master, and incredibly useful in daily (professional and personal) life.
  • Small linux-friendly laptop
  • Hey, that sounds very interesting. It's there anything not working as it should work that hw/sw combo?

  • No awareness whatsoever
  • Honestly, this is the most heartening thing I've read about US politics in recent years. (PS. Am not American, and not in America)

  • Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type
  • Asking because I've never had the experience: how does one write anything while wearing a VR set? Please don't tell me it's one-finger "Fliegender Adler" on a giant floaty image of a keyboard?

    This would utterly kill the comfort, convenience, and speed of touch typing, would it not? Ahh, progress... Even in Minority Report they had (friggin' sweet-looking!) keyboards alongside their fancy futuristic FAUI*.

    ^((* FAUI - flailing arms UI)^)

  • Gif slow loading animation tool?

    This is likely a very niche request, but perhaps there's a genius here with the answer - or can point me to a better place to ask.

    If I want it to look like a web page is loading an interlaced gif over an old modem connection, would there exist some tool to convert a given static image to an animated gif (preferably downsampled to 256 colours)?

    You know, the one where it starts off as one giant coloured block which then gets progressively segmented into thinner lines with more detail as each interlaced line is received...

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    Why are migraines so painful? How is a headache sensed?

    From my understanding, (a) the brain has no nerves, which is why you can talk to people while doing brain surgery on them; and (b) headache is caused by blood vessels constricting. Now, I am unsure whether migraines are also caused by blood vessels constricting, but in any case - what is it that is doing the sensing of this pain? Or is it a(nother) case of the brain just making shit up because it hates me?

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