garretble

garretble, 1 month ago

I hope he’s able to get better soon.

garretble, 1 month ago

So Apple hardware that’s super powerful but has bad software to support all that power?

“Where have I heard that one before?” he types on his iPad Pro…

garretble, 1 month ago

I’m less bothered about the App Store than I am just allowing these devices with these very powerful chips to stretch their wings.

And it’s just simple things, too. iPadOS should allow you to have two different audio tracks going at once. It can handle that. But it’s too skewed to being a “bigger iPhone” than it is a “smaller MacBook.”

And I honestly love my iPad. Using it right this moment with a wireless KB and trackpad. And I’m happy I can extend the display relatively easily to a monitor now, too.

But it could definitely be so much more if the handcuffs were taken off.

garretble, 1 month ago

I did not know the blue were in the finals; that’s cool.

garretble, 1 month ago

Get ready for in about ten years we’ll see — even more than right now — how much methane pulled from the earth is screwing us. By then I feel like national news sources will finally start talking about how wasteful methane is and how much is leaking (and not used just wasted) from pipes all day every day that isn’t accounted for. I,mean, I guess that’s exactly what this article is about. But we need more talk about this all the time.

Climate Town had a great video about this that came out last week.

youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw?si=3WvFyjvIkHwLOJ_d

garretble, 1 month ago

It’s always wild to me that rich people just have to not do crimes and live the rest of their lives carefree.

I guess it’s really hard to not so some crimes when you have too much money.

garretble, 1 month ago

Is there a consumer tv out there that has display port as an option?

Monitors for sure, but I’m talking 70” OLEDs and whatnot.

garretble, 1 month ago

Weird how every one of these tests shows most people use the money to better themselves instead of wasting it all like right wing media would say.

Super weird.

garretble, 1 month ago

Every time I make fun of country I’ll sing some made up lyrics like “got a girl in my truck and my truck in my beer” so I definitely laughed when I heard this parody because it’s basically the same thing.

garretble, 1 month ago

They are basically magic, but as soon as it takes three seconds to load an app we are all like, “this piece of junk!”

garretble, 1 month ago

I thought Threads was supposed to “suppress” political posts.

Maybe that’s just in the US.

garretble, 1 month ago

To be fair to this image, I think I would also have that face when walking into a kitchen where they are growing whatever that is in the sink.

garretble, 1 month ago

SGA is cold blooded.

garretble, 1 month ago

Some smart devices.

The $20-30 cheap garbage is exactly what it is: cheap garbage.

Apple charges a premium for their streaming box, but guess what: the 4K AppleTV they released in 2017 is still going strong. I’ve had this thing for seven years, it shows no ads on the main screen, and still gets updates. And it’s still fast as hell.

Maybe the enshittification is just on all these Android streamers? I have a Chromecast with GoogleTV in my bedroom, and it’s fine. But it’s just about two years old and already sluggish (especially compared to the AppleTV), and every time I turn it on it takes longer than it should to update the Home Screen with trash I don’t care about.

garretble, 1 month ago

When you say “original” you mean the 1997 one?

I’d say so. FF7 was always just OK to me, but Remake and Rebirth have been fun and I feel like I appreciate these characters a bit more now. Though these new ones do change up the story a bit.

garretble, 1 month ago

I wasn’t a huge fan of Remake at the time (I liked it but I didn’t think it was amazing either), but as I near the end of Rebirth I’m actually kind of interested in playing it again.

Rebirth, just FYI, has a TON (think of a number and add more to that) of mini games which you could probably chalk up as filler. But even though some of them are pretty mid I am enjoying this game a lot more than Remake.

garretble, 1 month ago

I know nothing about this guy, but calling anyone a visionary because they thought about making a Facebook clone is a stretch.

garretble, 1 month ago

The “come and take it” crowd scared of their own kind.

garretble, 1 month ago

“So, students, does anyone have an argument against intelligent design? Yes, Billy?”

“Yeah, the balls are on the outside.”

garretble, 1 month ago

Here’s another year old article that came out in response to this.

TLDR: You should not worry, and the only people who might think about worrying are those drinking 12 cans of diet soda a day — so basically no one.

npr.org/…/world-health-organization-is-aspartame-…

“Our results do not indicate that occasional consumption should pose a risk to most consumers,” said Dr. Francesco Branca, director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety at the WHO, during a press conference in Geneva. He said the problem is for “high consumers” of diet soda or other foods that contain aspartame. “We have, in a sense, raised a flag here,” Branca said, and he called for more research.

But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it disagrees with this new classification, pointing to evidence of safety. In a written statement, an FDA official told NPR that aspartame being labeled by the WHO “as ‘possibly carcinogenic to humans’ does not mean that aspartame is actually linked to cancer.”

The WHO has long set the acceptable daily intake, or ADI, of aspartame at a maximum of 40 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day. So, a person who weighs 60 kilograms (about 130 pounds), could consume up to 2,400 milligrams per day, which is roughly equivalent to 12 cans of Diet Coke — much higher than most people consume.

garretble, 1 month ago

Bro drink some water.

garretble, 1 month ago

Here’s a tip that may come in handy. Microsoft makes an app called PowerToys that lets you remap keys without having to dink around in the registry: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

I’ve used it to put CTRL on that useless capslock key like god intended.

garretble, 1 month ago

Yeah for sure. I have my mechanical keyboard super customized with several layers.

garretble, 1 month ago

The Hulu app runs so much faster on my appleTV than the Disney app, so while the idea of having them bunched together isn’t a terrible one from a user’s perspective, I’ll still just jump to Hulu when I want to watch that content because everything is snappier.

garretble, 1 month ago

Paramount+’s app is also pretty trashy.