An accelerometer isn’t a good idea; but if the car’s systems are responding to a command from the driver to slow down, be that a press of the brake pedal, lifting off the accelerator in a car designed for 1-foot driving, etc. it should illuminate the stop lamps.

I spent the day making a planter box out of cedar, and it doesn’t smell like food even a little.

I think there’s room for an exception here: operating systems or other software that handles a large number of files could bog down with use as the number and size of files grow with time.

Somehow, T9 worked better than basically anything we have now.

My first thought was you could probably set national anthem type lyrics to the classic Kakariko Village theme from LttP or OoT.

My next thought was there tend to be two kinds of national anthems, the ones that are weirdly “our fields and trees are great” like the Australian national anthem, or “We’ll stab all your blood out” like the French anthem.

My third thought was wait, both of those phrases fit into the Kakariko Village theme:

Our fields and trees are great with hills and grass and lakes We’ll stab all your blood out stab and stab and stab

–O Kakariko, Verse 1

Fairphones run Android, don’t they?

Roku started off selling a series of little boxes with HDMI ports (or little sticks that plug into an HDMI port on a TV) to to make any HDMI monitor a “smart TV.” Hardware-wise it’s not dissimilar to a Raspberry Pi, it’s a little ARM chip made by Broadcom running Linux with a smart TV GUI running on it. Nowadays TV manufacturers build in a little ARM computer into the television itself and partner with Roku, or Google, or maybe one or two others, to do the UI and such.

I would prefer to go in the opposite direction and have a completely open source phone rather than more closed down.

To be fair, the machine they replaced my original Inspiron with (also a 7000 series from 2014) is still working after a bit of a post-warranty glow-up including replacing the battery, CPU fan and HDD with an SSD. It’s in “still works fine running Mint” territory. When it finally snaps I’m going Framework.

I will grant you, you can build much more granular things in Factorio, it’s nittier and grittier. I’m real excited to play the full release this September.

Back in the beforetimes I had a fairly long commute to work, I pretty much had to rely on what I could carry with me, so I had a rather significant EDC which included several tools, utilities, comforts, conveniences and PPE between my pants pockets and my laptop bag. Now I don’t even carry a Leatherman with me and when I do leave the house it’s just keys-wallet-phone.

I wouldn’t have guessed a beaver would sit on his tail like that. Like how did he move to get it under himself like that?

I haven’t been able to go back to Factorio after playing Satisfactory.

I am currently in my like 90th run of Subnautica. I’m doing an “All Cuddlefish, no native food, save the Sunbeam” run.

“Do you like whiskey?”

“I don’t think so; the mocha lavender thai peanut aqua velva bourbon I tried wasn’t great.”

If it’s a brewpub or similar, I tend to go for darker beers. And since the “All Craft Beers Are IPAs Now Act Of 2018” was signed into law I have just stopped going to brewpubs entirely.

If you’re going to open a bottle or can for me it’s probably going to be cider, though I notice the ciders that bars tend to stock are trending in an acidic and heartburn inducing direction so I don’t walk in there as often anymore.

I’ll order a neat bourbon unless it’s hot/I’ve been working hard then I’ll order a whiskey and coke.

If you want to get into cocktails, I can think of a couple ways in.

1. White Russians. Pleasant sipping cocktail if a little heavy because of the cream.

2. Crown and coke. Crown Royal is technically a whiskey. Many of its fans don’t identify it as such, and neither do many whiskey fans. A shot of crown stirred into a glass of cola will present as a glass of cola with a little bit of an interesting flavor added. From there you can graduate to bourbon and coke, Jim Beam or Jack Daniels are common enough and pair well with cola. If you survive this long, maybe try this experiment: order a whiskey and cola, and then a rum and cola, find the differences in those flavors.

If you’re up to those shenanigans, maybe try going to a bar on a Tuesday afternoon when it’s a little slower, talk to the bartender tell them you’re wanting to explore cocktails and see if they’ll mix you smaller portions of a couple drinks like that, so you can test A and B. You would be amazed what that can do to open up your palette. If I handed you one glass of neat scotch, it might as well be a goblet of gasoline. If I hand you two glasses of different whiskies you’ll find some flavor in there.

I haven’t flown in ten years, so…yeah.

guillotines are renaissance era.

Don’t you understand? Every post on Lemmy must be about this!