The guy who created gif says jif, so that one, for starters. I’m sure you say CD-ROM in a way that rhymes with rom-com (side note, rom is wrongly a short O here too) with a short O, yet ROM stands for Read Only Memory. Or do you say See Dee Rome? Maybe with a Spanish background, but not English. Similar with PIN, I for identification but no one says pine. GIMP photo software stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Whether you say Gee Enn Yoo or GNU, GIMP isn’t said a way that matches. The G in GLaDOS is for genetic. PAL (TV) is for Phase Alternating Line. PHAT, pretty hot and attractive. 50% of any time a Q is involved.
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XeroxCoolto No Stupid Questions•Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F?5·11 hours ago
I assumed two equal patients since the mile high club doesn’t require a pilot in the room
I’ve been looking at Neven, but have no idea if they’re as big as they seem or if they’re any more durable than Knockaround.
I like Knockaround’s styles, specifically the Fast Lanes for being somewhere between a classic Rayban and a square aviator, but I keep ending up with scratched lenses. They do have a one-time warranty, but I’m not sure the extent of replacement due to wording. Only tried it once directly through customer service before I realized there’s an actual policy. I took much better care and even ordered more (different colors), but they still wear out. Daily wear, rotate through ~6 pairs. Get about 2 years out of them. I guess that’s fine, but my old sunglasses weren’t so consumable. Maybe I just not familiar with the longevity of mirrored coatings. They’re ~$35usd each and sales are frequent. The custom shop is neat.
XeroxCoolto Technology•FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification DatabaseEnglish5·21 hours agoMy android shows a history of notifications. Not sure what the retention period is. It does add conveniece by allowing me to check dismissed notifications. It allows some monitoring about the type, content, and frequency of notifications as well as control to block them.
It certainly now appears the convenience isn’t worth the loss of privacy, though.
XeroxCoolto Cars - For Car Enthusiasts•Nissan's Skyline Revival May Bring Back The Twin-Turbo V6, Built On A 2014 Foundation | CarscoopsEnglish2·1 day agoInfiniti is North American badge engineering of Nissan. The Skyline is not strictly the GTR variant. GTR was a trim, not a dedicated model, prior to the R35. Even still, you can see the G-coupe body lines in the R35. After the R34 Skyline generation came the V35 in 2001. Check out the V36 (2006) and V37 (2014) Skylines as well and you’ll see they have been “Infinitis with a Nissan badge” for 25 years
OK, but if all Protestants reject the pope, then it’s a useful metric for the question about whether or not Americans would generally be upset about threatening the pope
Alright, so I had to check my understanding. Yeah, that’s all Protestantism, but they’re all different and all disagree with each other. Baptists are the largest single Protestant group in the US, overlapping to classic original southern US states. Honestly, I thought Protestants were a distinct group but I guess the group I’d assume them to be would actually be Lutherans, assuming they’re adherent to the original protesting Martin Luther.
Catholics are not the major Christian group, it’s 2nd place in the US. 69% of US residents claim to be Christian, 45% of which Christians claim to be Protestant while only 22% of which say Catholic (Gallup 2020). It’s regional too, I beleive centered around Italian and Irish immigrant communities, or at least the suburbs around where those city diasporas used to be. Protestants specifically do not give a shit about the pope.
XeroxCoolto Games•What to Play (and Watch) While Waiting for Forza Horizon 6 (my article!)English1·1 day agoShit I forgot to buy FH5
XeroxCoolto Technology•YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!English4·2 days agoYes, but unfortunately, there’s not always an alternative left to use. If you can’t jump devices, then commercial breaks are just how it is. It’s one thing to complain that there’s no new workaround, but instead, you decried the platform for presenting the one (currently) reliable solution. That is why the platform is jumping on you.
XeroxCoolto Technology•YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!English5·2 days agoIf there’s no solution to your device, then the only solution is a new device. At some point, it made sense for me to switch out my Chromecast (gen 1? puck) and go with a dedicated media pc. Now the Chromecast lives in the garage to stream music uninterrupted while I can still watch YouTube tutorials
XeroxCoolto Technology•Honda President After Visiting Chinese Auto Supplier:'We Have No Chance Against This'English3·2 days agoYes they do. The internet is a loud minority on both ends. The majority is silent because they don’t give a shit about the politics of the CEO or privacy or reasonable expectations about their mobility appliance. It’s just an appliance. The more cool things it claims to do, the more it sells because the people buying NEW want it to look new.
This thread is full of “I don’t buy new, but here’s what new cars should do”. No, I don’t buy new either.
XeroxCoolto Games•Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the worldEnglish9·3 days agoI bet a dollar you live more than an hour from most stables. It’s like skiing. It’s a luxurious hobby at its base. If you’re local, it’s not that big a deal and lots of neighbors are into. If you have to travel to maintain the hobby and you do, in fact, maintain it, you’re either very dedicated or very well off.
XeroxCoolto Ask Lemmy•Any gadgets that you suggested to your friends later found out was trash6·3 days agoSounds like you got a month out of it. Hopefully the hours are worth it
The guest with the birthday was Dakota Fanning. I only really know because of the meme, of sorts, that connects 9/11 to the downfall of DeGeneres. 9/11, my chemical romance, twilight, 50 shades, Fanning’s rise, Degenres’ downfall
XeroxCoolto No Stupid Questions•Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid?1·4 days agoI appreciate your outlook and empathy. I think I’m smart. I know I ignore certain things and probably look stupid. But you are absolutely right that you can’t know what exact information they’re working with as the basis for decisions/statements/opinions. Being able to identify some base misconception can bring about resolution so fast. I still have sudden realizations that uproot some belief I had based on some bullshit my dad said decades ago. If you never had reason to question it, it doesn’t enter the critical reasoning part of your head.
Only example off the top of my head is he once said tetanus was, effectively, caused by dogs urinating on rusty metal. I was probably under 10, who am I to question? Well, tetanus is such a rare topic that I never thought about. Working under rusty cars from my teens onward? Not a problem, dogs aren’t peeing up into my car. Well, a friend mentioned he’d was updating his tetanus shot around 30 since he also works on rusty cars. “Wait, any rusty metal?” it was a dolly-zoom moment. Turns out, any source material that’s contaminated while puncturing skin can do it. It just happens to often be lost nails or broken glass. But I carried that belief for like 25 years.
XeroxCoolto Showerthoughts•I've never met a loud and outspoken atheist that didn't celebrate Christmas.1·4 days agoThey don’t skip from the 3rd to the 5th, do they? I didn’t say US independence Day. The 4th happens to be a Saturday this year
XeroxCoolto Technology•Someone finally did it: a high-end TV with a DisplayPort connection actually is coming this year, including 4K 180Hz supportEnglish5·4 days agoMy roku/vizio made it seem impossible to proceed without a connection and account. The workarounds I found online vary by model. I caved to avoid a fight. Even after a later reset, I couldn’t figure out how to bypass it. I tried disconnecting it from wifi through the tv but it kept forcing me to connect it again, or else it wouldn’t proceed. However, I changed the wifi password later and it was surprisingly quiet about it. It constantly flashes the power light when on now, but a little tape keeps it in check.
Get EV. Make it do the skateboard design idea where the chassis/drive train is a skateboard under the cabin/cargo body. Delete the bolts that join the halves, replace with bungee cords. Done.
I had a toy car at some point that had plunger bumpers that reversed motor direction on impact.