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realitista ,

Good riddance.

realitista ,

Starting with Apple II, folder never caught on with me anyway. Everything has always been a directory.

realitista ,

Wow I think he’s right.

realitista ,

Reminds me of

realitista ,

Just be happy you don’t live in Ulanbaatar, they have worst for much of the winter.

realitista ,

I’m impressed at the strength of the guy’s upper arm that he’s sitting on.

realitista ,

I want a VR game like this so bad.

realitista ,

Bold idea here, but maybe if we stopped fucking subsidizing SUV’s, people wouldn’t buy so goddamn many of them. Just a thought.

realitista ,

I’m mostly cleaning some manner of shit off myself, kids, deck, or grill, so jet is my pick.

realitista ,

I can’t really see the difference in the pics they show.

realitista ,

Hey babe, want a soggy cig?

realitista ,

Going full cornholio with the voice and everything might just work. Take it to the next level.

realitista ,

I like that it went out with a bang

realitista ,

As an American living in Europe, I wouldn’t be caught dead pronouncing the city “baloney”. The thought never would have crossed my mind to be honest. I’d use an anglicized version of the Italian pronunciation bo-loh-nya. And not because I thought about it, but because anything else would sound rediculous. At least to my ears.

Taking it one step further to the sausage, I’d only use baloney to refer to the American cheap imitation of the Italian stuff. For real Italian bologna, I’d probably pronounce it the same as the city and call it “Bologna sausage”.

How Accidental Geoengineering May Be Affecting Climate Change. [Re: rise in sea temperature] (threadreaderapp.com)

Scientists have discovered that the recent spike in global temperatures may be caused by a reduction in sulfur dioxide pollution from shipping vessels. Ships have long emitted sulfur dioxide, which cools the planet by seeding clouds and reflecting sunlight. However, new regulations that limit sulfur in ship fuels took effect in...

realitista ,

My fear with geoengineering is that is allows us to become complacent about solving the primary problems, and then also creates its own set of unexpected secondary problems.

realitista ,

And you think we will make significant enough farms on foreign worlds to make any dent in this in the next few decades? If we can’t make enough food with a planet that’s literally designed with us in mind, there is no hope of making it work anywhere else that we can reach.

realitista , (edited )

Most could be replaced with an AC adapter wired to the battery terminals. You’d need to understand the voltage and amperage needed for each device.

Usually (but not always), something with 2xAAA batteries as pictured runs on 3v, so you could get a 3v probably around 500 mA ac adapter and wire it in and it would run. But you’d need to understand some basics about electronics and soldering to do it.

realitista ,

Lol, corrected.

realitista ,

Resistors don’t reduce voltage, so no, that won’t work. You need a 3v dc power supply (probably unless batteries are in parallel).

realitista ,

“But if you force us to tell the truth it ruins our whole business model!”

realitista ,

Reddit won at building its own viable competitors like Kbin, Lemmy, and Squabbles and all the users of those platforms also won big from Reddit’s hubris. The one thing I know for sure is that they have grown Lemmy by 7000%, and that’s nothing to sneeze at.

Time will tell what happens to Reddit.

realitista ,

Siri on the other hand…

realitista ,

Funny that I’ve seen tons of research saying the opposite. Enough to say, at a minimum, that the verdict is still very much out on the link between productivity and remote work. But I only see the negative ones being published now, whereas during COVID I only saw the positive ones.

realitista ,

And boats are modeled after swans.

realitista ,

Where is it? I looked everywhere, couldn’t find it.

realitista ,

And sadly her friend is looking at it and laughing. Some friend.

Most emotional moments in games? (SPOILERS)

Just for the heads up, this thread will probably have a lot of spoilers. I’m gonna try to go vague on spoilers for anybody that hasn’t played Hotline Miami 2. If you’ve played the game, you’ll probably know what I mean, but I’m going to say some purposefully esoteric shit to keep it out of full spoiler territory....

realitista , (edited )

When Aloy’s adopted father dies in Horizon Zero Dawn.

realitista ,

SPOILER:

No.

First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia (www.nbcnews.com)

First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia::ATLANTA — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades.

realitista ,

Yes! More of this please!

realitista ,

Build up was a bit long, but the end was worth it :-).

realitista , (edited )

If it has backwards compatibility then yes. If not then I guess it doesn’t really matter. I won’t have much interest if they don’t finally embrace backwards compatibility like everyone else.

realitista ,

God yes. On iOS too. It’s embarrasingly bad.

realitista ,

I’d be surprised if there weren’t people willing to hire him to get that exact look.

realitista ,

I thought they just dropped an ice cube in the ocean every now and then.

Some Apple users say its parental controls aren't working properly. A CEO who has 4 kids called it 'frustrating.' (www.businessinsider.com)

Some Apple users say its parental controls aren’t working properly. A CEO who has 4 kids called it ‘frustrating.’::Parents told The Wall Street Journal they have to continuously check their Screen Time settings to ensure their children’s usage is limited.

realitista ,

Do you have kids? I can tell you as a parent that parental controls are godsend.

If I were to try to do the same myself, it would be 10-15 arguments a day. When the software does it, there is no argument or very little. Sometimes they ask for more, and I can evaluate their case. Much better than chasing them around trying to tear the iPad out of their hands.

All that being said, I’ve had to use other 3rd party software because Apple’s parental controls are buggy and unreliable.

realitista ,

Do you have kids?

realitista ,

Do you have kids?

realitista , (edited )

I can’t tell if you are joking or serious. Do you give surgeons advice on being surgeons? Or is not allowing you to do surgery “surgery gatekeeping”?

It’s easy to imagine being a perfect parent. Being one, however, is not so easy. Any actual parent knows this. People who don’t have kids don’t know anything about having kids and usually tend to be the ones who think they know the most.

People who are actually knowledgeable on a topic rarely look at things in such black and white terms when discussing it.

realitista ,

Kids will definitely try to get around it. I’d be disappointed if they didn’t. It is a bit of an arms race, but having spent 30 years in IT, I’m up to the task. My only point is that using the tools at your disposal doesn’t make you a bad parent. Arguing with your kids every 10 minutes doesn’t make you a good one either.

realitista ,

So what do you do if you have a teenager you want to be able to reach on the phone when they are out with friends but not spend all day on Tik Tok?

realitista ,

Keep trying, you will figure it out. Obviously you need to physically monitor as well as use tools. But my teenager finally gave up trying after I thwarted numerous attempts at circumventing the limit.

realitista ,

Now would be a good time to remind you that the comment that you are so vociferously defending is:

What a hassle. Might actually have to be a present parent in your child’s life.

The clear implication being that people who use parental controls are not present in their kids’ lives. You really don’t see this hot take as a black and white assesment of the situation? I personally don’t see how it could be more black and white.

This is the clearest indication of someone who has never tried to balance screen time with the needs of parenting, because anyone who had sincerely attempted to walk this line would know that it’s not as easy as just “being present”. There are plenty of cases where the kids need access to technology without it taking over their lives. I would posit that any parent who could take such a hot take seriously is probably a shit parent who never actually tried walking this fine line.

And if you think that someone who has 0 experience in something as difficult as parenting is equally qualified as someone with decades of experience, you must either not be a parent or be a terrible one. Because I’m a far better parent now than I was 20 years ago, and anyone who had gone through this without getting better probably was never trying very hard to begin with.

realitista ,

Constantly arguing with your kids is the method being used if you don’t use parental controls. Especially as they get older and actually need technology to do their school work and to be contactable when they are out and about. I’ve tried it, and it’s not very effective at all.

realitista ,

Part of me wants to challenge them like I was to bypass them. Part of me wants to teach them to be responsible and practice good secuirty on the net

I feel exactly the same.

realitista ,

Ah yes, spoken with the surety and confidence of someone who has never navigated the waters of raising kids in the modern world. It must be nice to live in a perfect world inside your own mind.

realitista ,

Why does using parental controls mean that you can’t also educate your children about good practices on the internet? Why the assumption that anyone who does blindly trusts them and doesn’t attempt any other form of education? I don’t understand this religious adherence to not using the tools that are available.

realitista ,

Again, this is a response on a thread about parental controls where the opening salvo was

Do some parenting? Not just leave them alone with gadgets if you don’t want them on them all day.

The clear implication being that if you are using parental controls, you aren’t doing parenting and leaving your kids alone with gadgets constantly

As for you, you are the one making the assumptions here. What does this look like to you? Because to me it looks lke a pretty damn big assumtion:

I, personally, think it is idiotic to assume parental controls do more than present a barrier to content, not usually a blocker.

And it’s literally you who is saying that someone who uses parental controls won’t educate their children in any other way:

What happens when your kids use other devices without parental controls at a friend’s house or school? Will your kids know about being responsible with content and how to navigate to safe spaces, or are they just going to go totally wild?

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