detritus (u/detritus)

detritus commented on Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES relaxing.run/blag/posts/t... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

teekert · a day ago

Reminds me a bit of the game Retaliator, when I was 12 a class mate earned himself a night of "pick your own time to go to bed at camp" because he could show the teacher how to land. [0, the landing is at the very end]. I think at the time nobody knew what key to hit to deploy the landing gear (and flaps, though I think you could land without flaps). And since it was all copied stuff there was no book, no internet...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYwcrxbhiLs

detritus · a day ago

Gosh, I miss the aesthetics of vector games of this era. My absolute favourite was Armour-Geddon (on the Amiga), which because I'd pirated it I barely had any clue what to do but.. it was still fun, and so beautiful. And fast!

I know there's Tiny Combat Arena from 'Microprose' but its development's taking a while. I'd dearly love to know if there's anything else of that contemporary ilk out there today.

detritus commented on Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication lemonde.fr/en/environment... · Posted by u/isolli

itsdrewmiller · 11 days ago

I get a little paintbrush and paint the leaves of each dandelion with round-up - that ends up killing them but largely leaving other plants alone.

detritus · 11 days ago

I did much the same, but with a hypodermic syringe, on knotweed many years ago.

Yours is so much more.. tender though. Poor dandelions, but at least you made it personal!

detritus commented on Jolla Phone Pre-Order commerce.jolla.com/produc... · Posted by u/jhoho

tetris11 · 11 days ago

Add a keyboard, and you would have piqued my interest.

I dont understand how ex-Nokia devs could have built a phone like the N900 and then just walked away from it for 15 years

detritus · 11 days ago

eh, I was a Smartphone ‘it's gotta have a keyboard!’ hold-out too, but I've long-since embraced the Swype or whatever it's called, style of input. It's fine enough for 90% of my engagement with the internet via a phone. Anything more in depth I'm on a computer with a physical keyboard anyway.

But yes, the N900 was pre-slidey-smartphone peak brilliance.

detritus commented on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

FerretFred · 25 days ago

I can only speak for the UK but for quite a while now, McD's has become an uninviting experience, with miserable staff, menu screens that visibly tell you to hurry the f*k up and choose the product. Not to mention customers vying with delivery drivers for orders. I think the problem applies to all-income customers.

detritus · 25 days ago

Also, £4.20 for a Double Bacon & Egg McMuffin is just ... no. Why?

I could swear it wasn't that long ago it was under £3.

For a fiver I can get a better 'real' Bacon & Egg bap from an independent.

detritus commented on 'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40 npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/mooreds

dingaling · a month ago

It's curious that of all the famous American syndicated strips, only The Far Side, and maybe Garfield, seem to have bridged the Atlantic divide to the UK.

Maybe C&H and Peanuts were just too rooted in US suburban family culture. Dilbert had a niche following here and beyond that I struggle to even name another strip.

detritus · 25 days ago

Not my experience - my father had questionable taste in newspapers, but the daily express ran C&H and we had all of the compendia.

detritus commented on UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales bbc.com/news/articles/c05... · Posted by u/ksec

0x000xca0xfe · a month ago

Renewables are cheap but storage isn't.

detritus · a month ago

...just quite yet.

detritus commented on Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video] youtube.com/watch?v=dy-wF... · Posted by u/rsanek

trollied · a month ago

They are illegal now in the UK.

detritus · a month ago

'illegal' in that manufacturers add on a usb port and the basic board to tick the reusable check box.

I'm still seeing almost as many of these cast on the streets as I did a year ago.

detritus commented on YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm' news.itsfoss.com/youtube-... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

Pooge · a month ago

Those of you who don't use Linux as a daily driver: why?

What do you need in Windows that is not possible in Linux? Its slowness to justify your 40-hour work week?

detritus · a month ago

Software that's unavailable on Linux? That I use literally all day, every day?

I get that's a car-aazy answer, but here I am.

detritus commented on Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans cnet.com/tech/computing/a... · Posted by u/dmarcos

dangus · a month ago

It’s amazing tech, it’s just a solution looking for a problem.

It feels a bit like the original Segway’s over-engineered solution versus cheap Chinese hoverboards, then the scooters and e-bikes that took over afterwards.

Why would I be paying all this money for this realistic telepresence when my shitbox HP laptop from Walmart has a perfectly serviceable webcam?

detritus · a month ago

I always viewed the current generations of 'cheap Chinese hovebords' etc being a direct descendant of the Segway, and that Kamen and his believers weren't quite as ridiculous as we thought them at the time - they were just ahead of their time and expecting too much from too low a point in the technology curve.

detritus commented on Gravity Can Explain the Collapse of the Wavefunction (Sabine Hossenfelder) arxiv.org/abs/2510.11037... · Posted by u/felineflock

mike-the-mikado · 2 months ago

I would look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Hossenfelder before I took this too seriously

detritus · 2 months ago

This doesn't suggest much of consequence, other than a vaguely-implied smear?

I've watched Hossenfelder's videos for years and whilst yes - she might perhaps be overly critical of a lot of things - I don't at all accept that she has weird, conspirational leanings.

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