TheRealKuni

The Cheat, we gave you that switch so you could turn the lights on and off. Not so you could throw light switch raves!

I have a personal domain I use for email, with an address set up as firstname@lastname.family

Most people understand this just fine, but sometimes forms don’t work with .family as a TLD. EVERY NOW AND THEN, though, someone cannot comprehend an email address that doesn’t end in Gmail.com.

When I arrived to have some work done on my car recently the person on the phone had recorded my email as: firstnameatlastname.family@gmail.com. Like, the actual word “at” was in there. I had never said anything about Gmail. And when I corrected it after arriving at the shop, their form had no issue with the .family TLD.

I think some people genuinely don’t understand that Gmail and email aren’t synonymous.

I once heard someone say:

“My teens were my body’s puberty, my twenties were my mind’s puberty. By my thirties I started to have a handle on things.”

That has really stuck with me. I’ve loved my thirties!

I mean…better that than Skydance…but also maybe let’s stop consolidating properties.

But fsck (file system check) instead of fuck is a Unix joke. I think it’s fine.

Otherwise I broadly agree with you. It’s why I’ve adopted the swearing from Stormlight Archive for use around audiences that I shouldn’t swear around.

In fact, one has a similar learning curve going from Android to iOS (as I learned when I transitioned to iPhone) even if iOS is broadly considered more “user friendly.”

I think you’re onto something. Switching to Windows would be painful to anyone used to Linux regardless of all the philosophical differences simply because the OS works differently. Lord knows I despise MacOS despite people who use it saying, “it just works.”

My understanding of volume is awful. 3.8L sounds so much bigger than the volume described by 16.2 x 15.6 x 15.2cm. Like, my brain goes, “that’s almost two 2L bottles and those are huge!”

The cube is smaller than it looks. It’s a bit bigger than the GameCube. 3D print a handle for it and it’s as portable as a machine gets!

Edit: I mean, obviously not as portable as the Deck, but that’s a handheld.

Edit 2:
Steam Machine is 16.2 x 15.6 x 15.2 cm.
GameCube is 15 x 15 x 11 cm.

1080p looks fine on a 4K (2160p) screen especially if whatever you’re using to display it (be that your machine, receiver, or the TV itself in the case of “smart” TVs) is good at upscaling. Worse case scenario it looks the same as 1080p content looks on a TV of the same size, since 2160p is literally just 4x the pixels of 1080p.

1080p can look bad on a 1440p display though, since it doesn’t go evenly in and you’ll need good upscaling.

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Weird how I never once said metric horsepower was part of “The Metric System” and how I also gave the kW value in my very first post.

It’s not that I don’t know what you mean, my friend, it’s that I am not using the word metric the same way you are. That’s the whole point. You can say colloquial all you want! I never disagreed! You can talk about by and large all you want! You’re not wrong!

Metric horsepower is a metric unit, it’s in the name. Whether it’s an SI-unit or part of “the metric system” is completely irrelevant. I am technically correct, the best kind of correct.

I am shocked we’re arguing about this. Again, I apologize for trying to have fun on the internet, I promise it won’t happen again.

I’m not ignoring your point. I’m saying your point is irrelevant. This is a unit in use today, with “metric” in its English name. I don’t care that it isn’t part of what is colloquially called “the metric system.” That wasn’t the point.

But don’t worry, next time I think to myself, “I could reply with a fun bit of trivia I know and make a comment that is both correct and also not at all what the person I’m replying to means or expects,” I’ll first ask myself, “What would Dasus say?”

Oh I read your pedantry. You just really don’t want to say, “Oh, interesting, I didn’t realize there was ever a metric horsepower.”

Got it. Metric horsepower isn’t metric. Forgive me for thinking a recognized metric unit is metric. And also for not putting the kW conversion in bold or something.

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So I’m not goanna say your wrong per se. But you’re not exactly right either

In what way am I not right? We’re talking about an electric motor for automobiles, and I gave a metric unit that automakers use. What’s more, I also gave it in kW! 🤣

What are you on about? The metric unit for power is the Watt

They said anything but metric. The SI unit for power is the Watt, sure, but there are other metric units that are not SI units. One of these is the metric horsepower. 1 metric horsepower is defined as the amount of power required to raise 75kg of mass 1 meter in 1 second against Earth’s gravity. I used pferdestärke because automakers use the “PS” abbreviation in my experience.

This unit exists as an attempt to have a value comparable to historic mechanical horsepower measurements but defined with metric terms.

Obviously Watts are the preferred unit for most things, but the automotive world still likes horsepower. So, metric horsepower.

Well the metric version is about 1014 PS, but honestly the difference between horsepower and pferdestärke is pretty negligible.

Sadly “745 kW” doesn’t sound as cool as “1000 horsepower.”

They also, if you don’t turn it off, default to allowing other Amazon devices to use YOUR Ring to access the Internet.

Right. Midwest.social is not hosted in the US, but it’s for the Midwest region of the US.

4K Blu-rays look stunning on a good OLED TV. I tend to pick up movies I really loved the visuals of in 4K Blu-ray (Interstellar as an example).