"I have a pen... I have a paper... I know their address... I'll report them."
Weren't they supposed to be in damage control mode after the broken Torii gate incident? Why are they trying to make Ghost of Yotei stronger? Are they stupid?
Summoning !nokotan@ani.social
Fair point. I've never had one round out, but I see how the low contact area and flat angles could do that.
That's just a myth. From the 1935 patent US2046839A by Phillips Screws Co.:
As pointed out in said prior application, one of the principal objects of the invention is the provision of a recess in the head of a screw which is particularly adapted for firm engagement with a correspondingly shaped driving tool or screw driver, and in such a way that there will be no tendency of the driver to cam out of the recess when united in operative engagement with each other.
Another object of the present Invention is to provide a screw head with a tool-receiving recess' which may be produced by a simple punching operation and at the same time preserve all of the desirable virtues of the screw head and the recess therein, and which results in certain additional advantages, namely, the screw head is left stronger near the outer edge than heretofore possible; the recess firmly and adcurately receives the driver and causes the driver to centralize it self with respect to the screw head.
The head was designed to be cheap to manufacture by cold-forming the metal.
That's how I always refer to my sysadmin colleagues when talking to others. Chris and Steve Classrooms, Bill Proxmox (née Vmware), and I'm Jack Networks-Linux. Not real names of course.
My perfectly factual opinions notwithstanding, there are other factors that prevented the total dominance of Torx, and somewhat kept the flathead around.
The first is simple metallurgy. The Robertson was a direct competitor to the Phillips, but punching a deep, straight-sided square hole into the head subjected the metal to a lot more stress compared to the angled cruciform of Phillips. It made the head brittle and the screw worse overall. This is a non-issue with modern manufacturing practices, but it was a significant factor decades ago.
The second is a saying that applies to most fields of technology: standardized is better than perfect. I still groan in frustration whenever I encounter a pentalobe or tri-point screw because I never have the correct screwdrivers at hand. It was the same situation with Torx about 10-15 years ago. It proliferated since then, and all of my sets now contain several Torx bits. I believe it will overtake the Phillips with time.
(edit) I was incorrect in the first point. The original square head screw was invented in the USA and used a flat-bottomed die to stamp the recess into the head, which is what caused the brittleness. Robertson's die has sloped walls and a bottom that tapers into a point (like a short obelisk) that mitigated this weakness somewhat. The real reason the Phillips came out on top is because Henry Ford chose it over the Robertson.
(not OP) Because Philips Phillips sucks and I will die on this hill. It is way too easy to cam out and strip the head. It is the second worst commonly used head, only marginally better than the flathead. Pozidriv is better, but only by a little.
Torx doesn't cam out. Hex doesn't cam out. The Robertson head (square cross-section, popular in Canada) doesn't cam out.
I'm cool with the weed, but single-use vapes is where I draw the line.
Fine, I'll read the article for you.
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however the company again said it wouldn’t be issuing a fix, since the affected devices have all reached EoL.
Realistically, the Bible is a compilation of cherry-picked stories ranging from historical fiction to high fantasy, written by dudes who weren't alive at the time, in a language nobody speaks anymore, translated a dozen times, losing important historical and grammatical context each time, with parts added/removed/rewritten at the ruling political and religious leaders' fancy. I want to read the version where a Bethlehem resident wanted to confirm Mary's post-natal virginity by hand, but the pope won't let me.
zombie Jesus broke the rules
Even living Jesus broke the rules. According to the fanfic gospel of John, Lazarus was dead for four days before Jesus resurrected him. It's where the line "Jesus wept" comes from.
not have headlights turned on
Running lights, not headlights. Different things both practically and legally.
Yesterday I was paying attention specifically to the front lights of cars. Almost all cars that had license plates registered in the last ten years also had independent running lights. Mostly in the form of a white LED strip around or under the headlight cover, an element built into the headlight (e.g. a ring around the main lens in BMWs), or annoyingly, a separate amber-colored light that I often mistake for a turning signal.
Legally, running lights might not even exist at all where I live. Traffic laws (and common sense) require proper headlights to be used in any kind of reduced visibility condition.
Most grants I've seen require that you keep the devices for a specific time (5-10 years generally, probably depends on region). Our storage space is full of long outdated tech that we can't toss or use in any realistic capacity.
What if you wanted to go to heaven, but God said NACK?
This place needs better memes.
Explanation
In the Wayland protocol development process, an authorized representative of a large project has the power to issue a NACK (negative acknowledgement) if they think that a protocol or its implementation is harmful to the Wayland project, which essentially kills that protocol, or at least its current implementation. GNOME has been very actively NACKing protocols that they don't find useful (even if they would be for other compositors). It got to the point where the entire ACK/NACK process was restructured to prevent such abuse.
An ant's gender can be determined by throwing it in water. If it sinks, girl ant.
If it floats, buoyant.
The Scrombler: breaking up large tiled textures
This is a simple shader node group that breaks up the visual repetition of tiled textures. It uses a Voronoi texture's cell colors to apply a random translation and/or rotation to an image texture's vector input to produce an irregular pattern.
I primarily made it for landscape materials. The cells' borders are still sharp, so certain materials, like bricks, wood, or fabric, will not look good.
Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".
Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name
Youtube's web UX team is a joke.
- see cool video on front page
- click
- "Haha, fuck you, you've just clicked on the invisible button that takes up half the thumbnail like a fucking moron!"
- redirected to the sponsorship info page
- go back
- video gone
why are you completely incapable of making a functional website you wet dildo
Not all construction jobs are equally engaging.
For example, drilling or enlarging a hole can be boring, but fixing two pieces of metal together is often riveting.
I tried sudo for Windows and was left thoroughly blue-balled.
It's a poor imitation. A mockery of the name. A GUI addict's idea of a CLI tool.
There was always a choice
Not entirely accurate, the person on the side track should be a pile of money, but I'm too lazy to change it now. Also, imagine, like, flames coming from the bottom-right corner.
How do you manage your headphone cables?
I recently switched from wireless to wired headphones (Samson SR-850, probably the best for the very reasonable price) and my chair's wheels instantly started eating its cable. Right now I'm using a small plastic hook that came with a face mask to keep it off the floor, but I'd like to hear other solutions.
Small audio output switcher script
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
I use this in Hyprland to quickly switch between the headphone jack and a USB wireless dongle. Executing the script will show a dialog that lists all available audio sinks, with the active sink selected. It requires pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse for the pactl program, and kdialog for the dialog.
In an alternate universe, where Sharlayan would not keep its counsel.
In the alternate universe, Ford Renault is still a dick.
"Shame on you!" - DT, 2023
I'm not trying to attack him, but this is pretty funny.
Context: 11 days ago DT released a video where he called out the people who refer to Linux distributions as "Linux" as opposed to "GNU/Linux". Today he released a video where he did exactly that.
We don't talk about #3671.
Only the OGs will remember when Steam would sometimes rm -rf /* your system. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
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What happens to images that are uploaded, but never used?
I recently discovered that you can paste image data from your clipboard to a post or comment field, and it will upload the data and generate an embed link. I assume, since the clipboard is ephemeral, that the data is uploaded and stored on the server immediately.
What happens then if the embed link is removed and never used, but the file isn't deleted by the user? Does it just sit around in storage, collecting dust and taking up space, or is there some sort of garbage collection that detects unused files? What happens to embedded files if the post/comment where it is embedded gets deleted?