Salamander

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Joined 4 年前
Cake day: 2021年12月19日
  • Salamander@mander.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?
    19·
    2 个月前

    I would take a portable CD player, place a CD with Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up on it playing backwards, hook up solar panels, remove the ability to shut it on/off, and set it up a circuit that will:

    • As the device solar charges, keep it off until some voltage threshold is exceeded
    • Once the voltage is high enough, start a random timer (8 - 100 hours), so that it is not immediately obvious that the sun activated the device
    • When the timer ends, turn the music on on repeat mode
    • Sometimes turn the music off at random, and then turn it on again at random after a long delay, so that in some cases you can have turn ‘ON’ events without the device being exposed to the sun
    • When the voltage drops below a low threshold, turn the device off until it is charged again
  • Salamander@mander.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s a big mistake you made in another language?
    10·
    2 个月前

    I speak spanish natively and at during uni I would hang out with a group of Brazillian friends. I would speak a mixture of portuguese and spanish with them.

    The mom of one of these friends made a Brazilian dish for us (Feijoada) and asked me how it was as it was the first time I tried it. I answered that the dish as ‘exquisito’, which in Spanish means delicious (similar ‘exquisite’). She seemed somewhat disappointed and upset by my response so I probed a little and found out that ‘esquisito’ in Portuguese actually means ‘weird’. She thought I was calling her dish weird tasting. I found quickly enough to clarify, but I did feel bad about making her fell that way… She was very excited about sharing her cooking and she thought I called it weird.

  • Salamander@mander.xyztoWholesome@reddthat.com•What do you all think if a Christmas appeal?
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    3 个月前

    I’d be happy to contribute to a fedi-organized charity!

    ‘Christmas’ can create a bit of a split as there is a wide range of opinions on it, so you could also consider framing it differently if you are not attached to the Christian tradition. For me, I’m OK, Christmas or otherwise 😁

    If fundraising you may want to put some effort in providing options that preserve anonymity considering that Lemmy has a large demographic of privacy-conscious individuals.

  • Salamander@mander.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Would you buy a Smart Glass in the foreseeable future?
    5·
    3 个月前

    The use-cases that I see advertised are not things that I do in my day-to-day. I usually place my phone on a drawer or leave it in my backpack - I definitely don’t want it on my face.

    So, to me, smart glasses feel like an uncomfortable gimmick at this point. Maybe there is something amazing about them that has not yet clicked with me, but for the time being I don’t see me buying one of these for the foreseeable future.

  • Salamander@mander.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Did anyone else not even know who Charlie Kirk was!?
    4·
    3 个月前

    I also did not know of him at all. I did know who Ben Shapiro is. This week has been an educational one: I have learned about Nick Fuentes and ‘groypers’, Candace Owens, and that the change my mind meme guy is called Steven Crowder (I first thought it was this guy when I saw the video of Kirk).

    The US political commentator that I do watch some times is Hasan, but not too often. The US lore goes too deep and moves too quickly, hard to keep up.

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