ch00f

@ch00f@lemmy.world

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

ch00f,

I picked up a Solitaire app. ScreenTime says I played 6.5 hours last week.

ch00f,

I literally bought a Lightphone II because I was spending too much time on reddit. Like, I’d stay in bed for an hour just scrolling.

I’ve recently slacked off and started keeping my iPhone (on wifi) next to me when I sleep. I loose interest in like 20 minutes.

I’ve made a point of not posting or commenting on reddit since the recent debacle, but it’s really frustrating when I have some OC that would be great for a niche community that just doesn’t exist in any real numbers on lemmy.

like Playdate dev or Framework laptop.

ch00f,

It’s actually checking your mouse movement to see if it looks natural or robotic. You can get a few wrong and it’ll still pass you.

ch00f,

It might fall back on the actual images in that instance. Captchas are a lot more advanced now. The ones where you just click “I am not a robot” use cookies to track your browser history and make sure it looks organic. Identifying images alone has gotten too easy.

ch00f,

Relevant XKCD xkcd.com/1623/

Though don’t get me started on how many things are called “holograms.”

Pepper’s ghost isn’t a hologram. It’s just a reflection with more steps.

ch00f,

www.defordmusic.com/…/what-site-changes-do.jpg

ch00f,

2003-2007 will never be beaten when it comes to heist movies.

ch00f,

One of my favorites is in Volver. The woman murders her husband and had to come to the door when a neighbor knocks. She has blood splattered on her face.

The English translation has her explain “I cut myself,” while the original Spanish is a much funnier “women’s troubles,” which better explains the confused look on the neighbor’s face.

ch00f,

Autocorrect. Akira

ch00f,

I was thinking of Lady Miyako I think. I’m not a super big anime fan, I just remember a friend telling me about that when we saw it during a theater showing. In one of the American dubs, she has a man’s voice.

ch00f, (edited )

In Akita Akira , didn’t the English dub totally change the gender of one of the characters?

ch00f,

Classically, mirrors used silver metal, and black and white photographs used silver halide. So strictly speaking, a digital or even color film camera would work.

ch00f, (edited )

Magnetic soap holder.

You shove a little metal bit into your soap bar, and the bar dangles from a magnet on a stand that holds it over the sink.

Soap dries quickly, no scum in the soap dish, any drippage falls right into the sink.

Only downside is the magnet falls out when the bar gets smaller, so you have to mash the old bar into the bottom of the new one to keep from wasting it.

ch00f,

Buying a new car is worse than keeping an old one

Also, what do you think happens to your car when you replace it with an electric car? Do most people just drive their old cars into the ocean when they upgrade?

ch00f,

Electric cars are indeed much worse for the climate at production time than combustion cars likely will be throughout their entire lifetime.

Break even point is currently around 13k miles though it depends on where you live.

reuters.com/…/when-do-electric-vehicles-become-cl…

And that’s not even counting the growing market of battery recyclers.

ch00f,

I swear there has been a big uptick on the other site of videos depicting and celebrating the brutalization of shoplifters.

I think people are increasingly inclined to just hate poor people.

ch00f,

Eh, I would argue that having a scratched screen goes beyond a cosmetic issue. It tangibly downgrades your experience.

Plastic scratches much easier than glass cracks.

ch00f,

Same here! It was during the MoviePass heyday, so basically once a week we’d eat dinner near the theater and go see whatever was playing. We were definitely pleasantly surprised.

ch00f,

Alita Battle Angel

Fight when she’s like 100% gonna die, but she pulls it off.

ch00f,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288

I like to be high up.

ch00f,

I’ve recycled old ram trimmings to recover 2.5g of gold for use in my fiancée’s engagement ring (wasn’t enough for the whole ring, but it’s the thought that counts.

If you do it right, the only byproducts are salt, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water.

Copper (II) chloride dissolves the copper and makes Copper (I) chloride. Mix with sulfuric acid and get CuSO4 and HCl. CuSO4 can have the copper plated out of it and get more sulfuric acid, and HCl can be mixed with Copper (I) chloride to recycle back into copper (II) chloride.

So you’re left with gold and other bits. You can dissolve the gold in a mixture of nitric and Hydrochloric acid to get chloroauric acid. Wash with water and you now have a beaker of gold in solution that looks like an alcoholic’s piss.

Then bubble in sulfur dioxide and you get gold, Hydrochloric acidic and sulfuric acid.

So if you play it right, it’s infinitely recyclable. You just need electricity and heat to keep recovering the waste materials.

The problem I mostly ran into was ending up with a shitload of HCl. The store bought stuff is 30%, but the best you can recover through distillation is 20%. It takes a LOT of baking powder to neutralize it.

ch00f,

The most dangerous is probably the sulfuric and nitric acid. Sulfuric acid has earned its nickname “oil of vitriol.” 99% sulfuric will burn through paper in seconds. Skin and paper have a lot in common. Didn’t play much with the nitric acid, but I’ve heard it’s angry. You really only need a small amount to help the hydrochloric acid dissolve the gold. Also sulfur dioxide is hella nasty smelling.

Nitric acid is the single hardest ingredient to get. I found a seller on eBay. I think you can make nitric acid with store bought chemicals though, but I never had to do that.

Other ingredients:

Hydrochloric acid - sold as concrete cleaner Sulfuric acid - sold (diluted) as battery acid. Easy to concentrate with a condenser. Unlike HCl, you can get like 99% purity through distillation. Copper Chloride - Drop some copper into a bath of hydrochloric acid and hydrogen peroxide Sulfur Dioxide - Mix sodium metabisulfite with an acid. Sodium metabisulfite is commercially used in some food/beverage preservatives. I bought a bag of it of amazon that was marketed towards brewers. SO

ch00f,

The sperm is not a self-reproducing cell. The chromosomes it carries are not used to make it.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • localhost
  • All magazines
    •
    Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #