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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • CGPGray mentions this in his older video about encryption. Locks are a deterrent, but a motivated person or government forces can bypass relatively easy. The reason it works is because of the personal danger to people trying to break in getting caught. He used it to contrast how digital locks need to be much stronger since they can be “picked” from across the world without any physical danger of being caught or arrested.


  • 8BitDo has been my go-to for controllers for a few years now. I have the Ultimate and Ultimate 2 (Switch (also first I got, due to controller drift) and Steam deck respectively), Pro 2 (pc, Got used to FFXIV on ps2-lik3 controller) and even a SN30 Pro (not an intentional purchase; I got scammed when buying the Ultimate 2 then forgot to return it in time and afterwards tried it for the first time and decided to to eat the cost as my own stupidity).

    I like em a ton, and they’re part of why I no longer am loyal to Logitech. Being loyal to them was a dumb decision anyway; I have much better replacements except for my HOTAS.




  • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldso true
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    Been my experience with random people for like a decade or more. The only people I’ve run into who seemed to care was this elderly couple in Alabama (I was visiting, live in GA) where the wife always waited for her husband to open doors, and my sister-in-law who has my brother open doors for her.

    She also chastised me for not walking over to my mom’s door and opening it for her when we were all eating out once, to my mother’s confusion because she’s used to opening her own doors.





  • Too many times people who have been monitoring or are deep in a field overestimate how much knowledge an average person or even newly interested person has in the same field (oh hey, there’s an xkcd about that!).

    People scoffing at anyone who thought Elon Musk was just a meme a nerd CEO before the cave thing, people who expect everyone to know who is running every browser, OS, or other company, and lots of other minor things they think should be common knowledge, when at the time it was something only someone invested in the overall field or someone who knew how search much better than the average person.




  • Also, sometimes it’s men ignoring those actually interested in them. Be it too high standards or just incompatibly. I’m single, but I’m fairly certain I’ve friendzoned more people than who have friendzoned me, and I’m no Adonis or anything.

    I have plenty of wishy washy reasons I did it at the time, but ultimately I probably just need therapy.


  • I think giant panda’s a bit special because they were originally carnivorous (or at least evolved from carnivorous bears) and they retain a carnivorous digestive system. The main theory iirc is they started eating bamboo due to food pressure, and I guess really liked it and won’t eat what their body is built for.

    If someone just saw their bones, they’d be classified as carnivores.





  • I got a rental once, and it had roll down windows. No biggie, I grew up with a not dirt poor but very frugal family (no allowance, often no lunch money but I was never starving or anything).

    I got on the highway and realized it didn’t have cruise control and nearly lost my fucking mind. I think I’d take cruise control over A/C even.