DaddleDew

joined 2 years ago
[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 59 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

It is baffling that people hadn't clued in about this sooner

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I presume a person would curl up into a ball to preserve heat which would reduce the effective skin surface area. But that is still quite fast

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Look up the short film called The Man Who Planted Trees. A great watch.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I see AI as a working animal with a bit of a behavioral problem. It can do some specific things much better than us humans which is why we use them. But you can't trust them without a human handler. And if you leave them on their own for too long they will definitely end up doing something unbelievably stupid.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

A human body will also eventually freeze in space. The same physics apply. It's just not going to happen fast.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Yes it is. But it is the main way by which things cool down in space.

That's how satellite electronics are cooled down. They have large heat sinks that slowly radiate heat away.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

You're talking about conduction. I'm talking about radiation.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

You constantly radiate heat. The warmer you are, the faster you radiate it away. In space this is the primary way you lose heat.

In your living room you are constantly bombarded by radiated heat from all the objects that surround you, even if they're just at room temperature, which lessens the effect. In space, not so much.

Someone who knows better might chime in, but as far as I know the trope of rapidly freezing out in space is exaggerated. You would definitely freeze eventually, but perhaps not as dramatically fast as portrayed in The Guardians of The Galaxy for example.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I see it as an attempt at manipulation and I do as much as possible to get as much of it out of my life as I can. If a gas station plays ads while I fuel at the pump I will look away. If it plays sound this station is dead to me and go to another one.

The worst is that it is a blatant tax on everyone. Not just for being annoying eyesores, but in the value of the products we buy. When a company spends millions of dollars in advertising to make their $400 product look like it should be worth $800, it is the consumer who foots the bill and then some.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Switzerland and Russia, staying as steady as ever

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Because as long as they haven't seen the files they can make themselves believe that maybe the whole Epstein affair is speculation and grossly exaggerated and that they can't possibly be that bad. When they finally see the truth they can no longer make those mental gymnastics. It also helps that they also likely realize that the truth will get out sooner or later and don't want to be among the ones who protected those monsters.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Calm down, it was primarily a joke comment.

 

For those who want to know:

Nobody's Boy: Remi is a depressingly dark late 70's kid's show where a orphaned boy gets absolutely pummeled by an extremely harsh life episode after episode, carried forward solely by his hope of one day being reunited with his unknown parents. Poverty, parental abandonment, death... No bleak theme is spared from this show intended for a child audience. If you have seen this show as a child and don't remember crying, you're a psychopath.

 
 

Macrodroid has been a favourite of mine for automating things on my phone. This is no longer the case.

It has been silently updated at some point to become a data mining and leaking nightmare. At the time of writing these lines, this app contains 30 trackers from various third party telemetry services according to the latest Exodus report. This is an extremely high number of trackers and there definitely weren’t that many a few years back. Even most junk free mobile games can’t manage to contain this many. It appears that the owner of the app has sold out and turned it into spyware to sell your data to as many companies as possible.

This is particularly worrying considering the level of access and permissions the app requires to function. If you are using the app still, I’m urging you to reconsider.

Spread the word.

Exodus report

 

Macrodroid has been a favourite of mine for automating things on my phone. This is no longer the case.

It has been silently updated at some point to become a data mining and leaking nightmare. At the time of writing these lines, this app contains 30 trackers from various third party telemetry services according to the latest Exodus report. This is an extremely high number of trackers and there definitely weren't that many a few years back. Even most junk free mobile games can’t manage to contain this many. It appears that the owner of the app has sold out and turned it into spyware to sell your data to as many companies as possible.

This is particularly worrying considering the level of access and permissions the app requires to function. If you are using the app still, I’m urging you to reconsider.

Spread the word.

Exodus report

 

Macrodroid has been a favourite of mine for automating things on my phone. This is no longer the case.

It has been silently updated at some point to become a data mining and leaking nightmare. At the time of writing these lines, this app contains 30 trackers from various third party telemetry services according to the latest Exodus report. This is an extremely high number of trackers. Even most junk mobile games can't manage to contain this many. The owner of the app has sold out and turned it into spyware to sell your data to as many companies as possible.

This is particularly worrying considering the level of access and permissions the app requires to work. If you are using the app still, I'm urging you to reconsider.

Spread the word.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

In many RPG games, when you level up, it feels good. You see your stats increase, your damage output and damage resistance go up, all the numbers get bigger. It gives you a sense of accomplishment. But then, you are made to face tougher enemies which completely cancel out the progress you've made. As a player you're locked into a gameplay loop that acts like a treadmill that keeps you struggling all the time while providing an illusion of progress.

Inflation and "pay raises" are doing exactly the same thing. When you get a pay raise, you feel like you've progressed because you make more money than you used to when you first started. But if you take inflation into account, you've never really progressed at all. For most, their struggle only got even harder even.

 
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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
 

I have an old Laptop (MSI MS1721) that I want to repurpose as a media player on my TV. I have installed an old SSD on with Linux Mint XFCE.

Almost everything works well, with only one exception. The laptop's graphics card (ATI HD3850) requires proprietary drivers that haven't been supported since Kernel 3.4. The replacement open-source drivers cause stuttering while playing videos, which makes it useless for my purposes.

Are there Linux distribution options out there that would fit my needs?

Edit After trying a wide array of distros including Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Lite, Linux MX, Bohdi, Linux Mint Debian Edition, Nobara, Debian XFCE and CachyOS, I was pleasantly surprised to see that CachyOS performed very well and still feels like a modern OS and runs surprisingly smoothly with KDE. It looks like the open source drivers do work decently after all depending on the distro you're running and how well optimized they are for your CPU.

 
 
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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by DaddleDew@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

What if Trump was really into this kind of stuff and everything he has been doing is a secret genius plan to make sure people will pee on his grave for decades, if not centuries to come?

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