Chozo

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, that's what's always bothered me about the drive for the highest-fidelity graphics possible. In motion, those details are only visible for a frame or two in most cases.

For instance, some of the PC mods I've seen for Cyberpunk 2077 look absolutely gorgeous... in screenshots. But once you get into a car and start driving or get into combat, it looks nearly indistinguishable from what I see playing the vanilla game on my PS5.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 9 points 6 hours ago

It was a summer camp for girls, and the campground got completely swept up in the flood. The flash flood warnings didn't come in until after 1AM, well after most of them would've been asleep.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 27 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The facility [...] will have an initial capacity of about 3,000 detainees, DeSantis said. The center was built in eight days and features more than 200 security cameras, 28,000-plus feet (8,500 meters) of barbed wire and 400 security personnel

Now imagine if they gave even half as much of a shit about building housing for low-income families.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 9 hours ago

I've actually seen this recently at some stores, usually just for the self-checkout section.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

But but but but but my shadows look 3% more realistic now!

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 16 points 10 hours ago

I mean, a burst bladder is the currently-accepted cause of death. There were some suspicions that he was poisoned, but I believe they examined his remains multiple times and concluded that the burst bladder is the most likely explanation.

Now, whether that's because he intentionally held it or had some other preexisting condition that caused his bladder to burst, may still be up for debate. But I'd have to imagine that if there were signs of any other causes, it would have been found in one of the exams they did. But the lack of any other medical evidence, combined with first-hand testimony, kinda only points to one reasonable explanation, which is that the story is true and his situation was a medical outlier.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 6 points 11 hours ago

I love how all of this was just to avoid asking a family member "hey can I change some settings on your router to fix the Wi-Fi?"

The lengths I'll go to just to avoid human interaction. 🤣

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 9 points 21 hours ago

Sometimes you just need to do some good old fashioned percussive maintenance. :)

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 92 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My example: I fixed a wifi interference problem by adding more wifi interference.

I'm currently staying at a family member's house for a few months, and need to use their wifi to work from home. After moving all my belongings in, I soon realized that I wouldn't be able to work on this network, because of how intermittent the connection was. My phone, laptop, and PlayStation would all disconnect about once every 1-2 minutes. It was so severe that it took me over 2 hours to play a 40-minute video due to the consistent freezing.

And I guess everybody living here just must not use the internet that much, and have just kinda accepted this as a fact of life and nobody's tried to fix it. This would be something I'd normally be able to resolve by myself, but because this isn't a network I own and control, I'm not going to go changing their router settings. And since I'm a guest in this home, I'm not gonna go drilling holes to run ethernet to my room, either.

Using a wifi analyzer, I was able to spot the immediate issue: There were about 30 networks in the area mostly with pretty weak signal, but all on channels 6 and 11. There were only 2 networks using channel 1, and they were weak. The router I'm connecting to is also on channel 11, and I can tell right away that if I can get it to switch to channel 1, I'd be all set. But, since this isn't my network, I can't just tell the router to use channel 1, even though it should've automatically switched a long time ago. But it's just a crappy ISP-provided router, so I can't really expect much of it.

So I hatched up a plan, and took an old router of mine and piggybacked it to the router here at the house. My router uses a web app to control its settings, so all I needed was for the router to get an internet connection via ethernet and I could control it. Once my router was online, I was able to log into it and force it to use channel 11, the same channel as the home's router.

The sudden appearance of a very strong connection on the same channel (since it's placed just a few feet away) caused the home's router to finally switch itself over to channel 1, which was still largely free of any signals. Now the router is working flawlessly, and all my devices, and everybody else's at the house, are staying connected seamlessly.

 

Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I agree. I think a big part of the issue is that going out to do things is just so expensive these days. There aren't any "third places" for people anymore.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Both, and also neither. The creator can have their own vision, the collective crowd can have their own, but you as an individual can have an interpretation outside of either of those. And none are any more valid than the rest.

 

HOUSTON — A Houston man is suing Whataburger for nearly $1 million after he says his burger had onions on it.

Turns out he had asked for a no-onions order.

On July 24, 2024, Demery Ardell Wilson had an allergic reaction after eating a burger that had onions on it at Whataburger, court documents say. He alleges that he requested the fast-food chain to take them off before serving him the burger.

 

I just picked up a couple of "flamed titanium" pocket clips, and I love the look of them. I've always been attracted to the blue-on-black color combo for most things I own, and I love the way the color pops on my Vision FG!

I've noticed, however, that even the slightest touch from my fingers will dull the shine and really mutes the color. It comes right back with a simple wipe on the clip with any dry cloth, but it's a little annoying just how well this finish attracts skin oils.

I was thinking about picking up some flamed ti scales to go with this, but after seeing how quickly the color fades after being touched, I'm not sure how I'd feel about an entire handle with that finish.

 

And I thought they were supposed to be shying away from fossil fuels.

 

I often make late-night walks down the street to the convenience store. Due to my work/sleep schedule, I can pretty much only do this late at night.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the same time that the local skunks begin prowling around the undeveloped lot between my home and the convenience store. Luckily, they've not yet gotten close enough to be a threat, but I always worry that one night I won't be so lucky, and I'll accidentally sneak up on one and spook it into spraying me.

I've looked online, and most of the articles I can find on the subject are about how to keep skunks from occupying your property in the first place. Which is great, but I don't own the property they're hanging out in, so I can't do much about that. I couldn't find many articles about skunk encounters that offer much advise beyond "stay away, dummy". Which I obviously plan to do, but life doesn't always go according to plan.

I live in the city, so it's actually kinda weird that there are skunks this close to a populated area. The city life has prevented me from having a lot of experiences with skunks, and honestly I want to keep it that way. But does anybody have any advice on how to help ensure that skunks stay away while walking?

 

Why YSK: Some car manufacturers, such as Tesla, will lie about the capabilities of their autonomous vehicles. Misplaced trust in self-driving technology leads drivers into making unsafe decisions while on the road, endangering the lives of themselves and drivers around them. Understanding what your car is capable of, in comparison to what the salesman told you it was capable of, is important to keep in mind when purchasing or operating such a product.

Currently, no Tesla product - including the inappropriately-named "Full Self Driving" mode - has surpassed Level 2 autonomy, falling behind competitors such as Waymo, NAVYA, and Volvo, who all have Level 4 cars in production.

 

Elon’s not invincible, and now we have proof.

 

Sorry that it's a YT Short; this format seems to work well for Steve, so many of his uploads are Shorts.

 

Seriously, what happened to the idea of decades? We’re already halfway through the "20s," yet for the past twenty years, the cultural conversation has been dominated by "generations" instead. Here’s why that shift isn’t doing anyone any favors.

Adam Conover talks about time, culture, and linguistics. I'm not sure about the accuracy of some of the things he talks about, and he admits that he's largely speculating on some topics. I felt it was something interesting to think about.

 

Wasn't expecting to see Ozzy drop a music video in 2025, but here we are.

 

I just received my aluminum model Exo-M in the mail today, and I absolutely love this knife, but it's so damn loud! I feel the urge to fidget with it, but I worry that I'm annoying my neighbors. It's so loud and piercing, it sounds like a Garand ping every time I open a package.

Does anyone have advice for noise reduction on knives? I thought about maybe putting a thin layer of epoxy or silicone or something along the ends of the frame that make contact with the blade, but I feel like the tolerances are so tight that any amount of material being present could possibly interfere with opening/closing the knife, so I don't want to risk something like that just yet. I suspect that any kind of coating I could apply would also just peel off almost immediately, anyway.

Any ideas? Or should I just learn to live with it?

 

Just noticed that my comments and posts from the last 24 hours don't seem to be appearing on outside instances at all.

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