Willie

joined 2 years ago
[–] Willie@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I thought TES6 was already not going to be on PlayStation.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, you're correct in that assumption.

I've only really ever heard of the box outside of someone's home being called a postbox or mailbox. Despite the fact that both terms also refer to the box at the post office where you can put outgoing mail, there's just no separate word for them. And I've only ever heard of the slot on the house door where the mail is placed being called a mail slot.

Letterbox is a completely new term to me in this context... and I still am not quite sure what it would mean, if not a mailbox. Haha.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It is nice if you live in a small town or the middle of nowhere to have resistive heating. There aren't any gas lines running out there to provide your home with a constant stream of gas, so if you want a gas powered solution, you end up having to have a pig (it's this gas tank thing) outside your home, and you have to pay to have LP trucked out to fill it up many times a winter, and if you forget to check the pig and run out of gas, your family gets cold, and then you have to pay extra to get the truck to come quickly.

Meanwhile resistive heating uses the power lines that are run pretty much everywhere, and you pay monthly with your power bill, instead of incurring a larger charge for a longer period of time all at once.

But also, and I don't know if this is true or not, so don't quote me, heat pumps don't work if it is too cold outside, and a lot of the time when it is winter, it is very cold outside.

Basically, resistive heating has its place. As for running calculations to create heat, I'm not sure if that's effective on its own, I feel like you'd need a space heater or two to kickstart your way to having a warm home if the temperature changes suddenly, but apart from that the idea seems pretty sound.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (12 children)

You say that, but in the US, if you don't live in an apartment, your letterbox most likely doesn't lock or anything like that either. They may as well just be tossing the mail onto the floor.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's so much easier to get started on a service like this vs Mastodon, where you kind of have to figure out what you want to look at completely on your own. I ended up only following my bros on Mastodon, which makes it a pretty useless service, since I talk to them regularly.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Make note about what? This is a good thing. They went through the efforts to acquire the rights for the training data, and people might have even been paid for the original work.

It's not like this stops someone from paying artists or photographers to make art or photos for their training data, or creating some sort of group where contributors actively give the rights to their own artwork or photos for a model, like some sort of open source project kind of thing, people love that kind of stuff! You're just acting like this is some awful thing, when it's completely fine, and the way it should be.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Steam kind of does, I mean, if you have the achievement showcase on your profile, it'll totally say how many games you've gotten all the achievements for. That's about it though. Steam doesn't seem to care all that much about achievements.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Damn, I guess the years stopped coming.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Honestly, if you want to use Nintendo Switch JoyCons as your PC controller, your best bet is to just use the JoyCons. I'm not sure if later revisions corrected it, but the HTC Vive controllers had pretty poor build quality, I'm not confident they could stand up to any real heavy usage.

The biggest issue with them though, is that they simply have too few buttons to do anything great with. On each one, you get two side buttons, a menu button, a power button, and (this is what kills it) a single trigger. This gives us 4 real buttons on each. We need ~16 to emulate a real controller, and we're only half way there. You might be able to squeak out some extra buttons from the touch pads, but I'm kind of assuming you'd be using those as joysticks, since the controllers have none. Having buttons and joysticks both in there sounds like a bad time.

So yeah, I'd probs go with the JoyCons and just live with the poor wireless range if possible. It kind of sucks, but they seem to be the right tool for the job.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I don't know though, I feel like giving money to an app for Lemmy would kind of be like supporting the wrong person. Especially if you haven't even donated to your instance's owner yet.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I learned about this as a child, since my cat would put her paw into the cat bowl and pull pieces of dry food out to eat on the floor.

I started putting her food on a plate and no more food was pulled to the floor.

The kitten I have now plays too rough and breaks all his whiskers off, so he doesn't mind the bowl. But he'll also get a plate if he mellows out.

[–] Willie@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like that's even more of an agreement than a thumbs up.

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