Futurama

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[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

I can't believe everybody's just ad-liiiiibing!

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Needs to be rewritten as 3rst.

3rd must be Thi-rd, so 3st is just Thi-st.

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a half and half. Left foot has a shorter second toe, right foot has a longer one.

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Those are fun! I went to 4 or 5 of the Harry potter movies in concert. It's a fun way to re-watch older movies on a projector above, while having an amazing live orchestra play through the whole movie. It's really cool that the orchestra director can follow along with the electronic karaoke-like metrenome and keep everyone in sync with the movie the entire time.

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

It's an emergency propeller, when the main engines lose power.

It's also the reason I never sit in the emergency exit row. The reason they give you extra legroom is so passengers can use the pedals that pop up from the floor when the masks are dropped. When they ask if you're willing and able to help on an emergency, this is actually the most common thing you'll have to help out with.

Everytime I've been in a crashing airplane, I just lean back a few degrees and laugh at those poor suckers who traded for a couple inches of extra legroom and now have the responsibility of saving the rest of us.

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Endless Sky is an amazing one. I've put tons of hours into it. It's a top down 2d space trading/fighting game, very similar to Escape Velocity if you've ever played that game.

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You should never give up your right of way under the guise of being courteous. It's unsafe for everyone, and even in the best scenario it still causes frustration to all drivers involved.

Dont be polite, be predictable. And that means taking the right of way when it's your turn!

6 deserves what they got.

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And now it's a digital screen rendering of a painting of a rainy window showing the moonlit ocean.

But in all seriousness, that is a really cool painting and concept.

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They're making the (possibly false) assumption that density will stay the same, so size must grow with weight.

Of course, it's equally likely that size will remain constant. It changes or it doesn't -> 50/50 odds. Until the point it all collapses into a black hole.

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

If you cut the sleeves off of a T shirt, wouldn't that make it an I shirt?

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Is that a render of what they're planning? That mic button doesn't look like a switch. It looks like a momentary button. I'd want something that has two distinct positions to confirm it is physically disconnecting some wire, as opposed to a button that may control an electronic relay.

[–] Futurama@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Most cable modem router combos have the ability to turn off the router part and just act as a modem in Bridge mode. If that's an option, you can get your own router to handle local traffic, including dhcp (and thus dns) for all your local devices.

Obviously, this goes against your request not to get your own router, but I thought I'd mention it in case you thought you would have to buy your own modem as well (which you are also free to do, assuming your isp supports customer-owned modems). The modem part can stay the same while having a separate router not controlled by the isp.

If your particular unit doesn't allow that, you can usually still locally override dns settings, though this is more for computers and phones than it is some smart home devices. iPhone and Android phones will let you specify dns ip addresses when you set up a wifi connection. Just edit the wifi config and change to a static ip. You can usually safely use the ip address given to you from dhcp, so make a note of your device ip address before changing it to static, and just use the same values. Then you can manually set the dns ip address.

 

I can't be the only one who's noticed this.

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