[-] Fluke@discuss.online 4 points 3 weeks ago

Amazing quality of life upgrade. It feels like a million bucks to have hot water instantly. However, when I looked into this for my home it seemed like it saves water at the increased energy expense of heating your pipes, right? For me it would end up costing more than living without it.

Do I have this wrong?

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 5 points 1 month ago

Usually, but not always. Some 5-10 year old games are still north of $50. The price for some movies and TV series has gone up rather than down over the years.

Luckily, as you said there's so much out there that as long as I don't get too picky there's more than enough available without paying gouged prices.

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 4 points 1 month ago

Bought a new keyboard a few weeks ago. Had function keys set to alternative hot keys. Only way Logitech offered to change that was to download their "options+" software. Don't remember for sure, but the final download size was MASSIVE. The software included AI tools, but had bare minimal settings options. It added support for additional gestures on the keyboard's track pad, but made the track pad jittery. Made the fn key switch, then uninstalled the software. The setting change didn't stick once the utility was gone.

Returned the keyboard. So excited for the day when my shoelaces and sunglasses require an Internet connection.

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

Keeping floss in the shower was my eureka moment. I haven't missed a day since. Hopefully it doesn't end up moldy lol.

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 4 points 5 months ago

Eyeballing looks like the house couldn't be more than 18x30 feet, or ~540 sq ft. Probably less in reality. Tiny home territory. Smaller than most single wide trailer homes. The doors as drawn must be for hobbits. Fun picture just the same. I love the urban homestead explosion and hope it never stops.

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 3 points 7 months ago

I loved them all, but if I had to choose

Descent 2 > Descent 1 > Descent 3

3 was a well done transition into a new type of game engine. Good advancement of the story. Worth playing if you are a fan of the first 2. Felt like the developers cared for and stuck to the vision.

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 2 points 9 months ago

This is a cool point. I've never thought about that before. It's a very stable environment allowing for efficiency to be selected for in ways that may decrease adaptability.

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah. Countless examples going both directions. I wouldn't call crocodilians super adaptable, but they are so well tuned for their specific environs that they've been largely unchanged for 94 MILLION years.

I would argue that being warm blooded makes an animal more adaptable. Interestingly, it seems cold blooded reptiles evolved into warm blooded archosaurs which eventually led to cold blooded crocodilians. Tellingly, these active warm blooded ancestors are all extinct in favor of the passive, cold blooded, low adaptability ambush predator.

In the opposite direction, the adaptable rat has done much better than the countless specialized species that have disappeared since the industrial revolution and human explosion.

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 6 points 9 months ago

They get eaten

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hadn't heard anything about this. Thanks for posting!

I saw a gray area where I live and wondered if somehow our pollution was low. Turns out that was just clouds. Different picture entirely when they moved.

Edit: changed great typo to gray

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

The perfect comment doesn't exi....

[-] Fluke@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

I thought your comment was a humorous perspective with maybe some small truth to it. I guess all the down votes say I'm in the minority.

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