SARGE

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The spectacle of it would certainly boost sales for a little bit. How much and whether it covers the development time, who knows.

I'd do it on principle alone, but I'm a petty bitch.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 11 points 1 month ago

Nintendo can sue me any day, I'm out here making RC hang gliders and making tiny 3 second games where the only purpose is to pull out a glider and put it away instantly.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 12 points 1 month ago

It's the capitalism way.

"The company with the best, cheapest product will come out on top.... Unless the shittier company has more money and lawyers and then they sue everyone else into the ground for even attempting to break into the market."

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago

Shit like this is why I haven't bought a Nintendo product in many years.

They might think it's keeping their profits up, but it's hurting their business, as a lot more people than me feel the exact same way.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

birth bath

Uhhhhhh you should probably at least drain out the placenta fluid...

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 34 points 1 month ago

My first thought was ".... Again? They need some better contraceptives" but no, it's the same one... A shame, that would open the door for so many jokes.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

It was a stereo from 1987.

Ye Olde Analog airwaves, no fancy digital nonsense.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I tested this with my Facebook app in 2013. Found a Spanish radio station, set my phone down next to it overnight, and for several weeks I was seeing ads exclusively in Spanish. Deleted the app the first day I saw them in Spanish, and deleted my account not long after that.

My wife still uses them after 5 years together and me pointing out all the times it's obviously eavesdropping on us, and she's even been creeped out by it before. Still uses it...

Unless my microphone and camera have physical switches, I will assume they are being used. Those little "your camera and microphone are off" icons in the corner of the screen don't reassure me.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago

An acceptable trade.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago

Yes. Yes it is.

Personal experience.

I have a 750w inverter plugged into my 12v plug, and it is absolutely more than enough to run the little 500w single plate burner I have.

I have used them together but I don't do it outside of camping when it's too rainy to use a fire. It takes forever to cook bacon eggs and pancakes on a single burner.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Ah. Well that's a relief, I removed foxit, and never had anything Adobe.

I open the pdfs in inkscape to pull the vector files and save them as an svg. There's probably a simpler way, but this allows me to open the vector in a lot more programs like my laser software and my CAD programs.

The only pdfs that get printed like a normal person are small rc planes and the files are from trusted sources.

It's nice to know I can do a little extra to protect myself from pdf based attacks though, thanks for the info!

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is such a weird comment, full of "NiCd batteries aren't good enough so solar/wind are useless because we can't store the power" energy.

It's a test reactor, it's meant to be smaller than the "big boys", and in a few years it'll be smaller and more efficient.

Sure, it's not going to singlehandedly power an entire country, but distributed power is better than localized. 1000 small reactors placed all over means less likelihood of system wide failure than a handful of large ones.

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