BeezKnuts

joined 1 year ago
[–] BeezKnuts 55 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's a bit of self referencial humor. Like 15 years ago zuck did a live stream or something. On that Livestream he kept awkwardly talking about how much he loves sweet baby Ray's bbq sauce.

I think he did that because knows how detached he comes off as. He was a weirdo before he became a billionaire, and being a part of a separated class of society only made that worse. He also knows how everyone on earth thinks that he's a distrustful person. Plus he's just clearly not comfortable being on camera.

It was basically a failed attempt to come off as relatable and down to earth by sharing something that he has a passion for. Which apparently is grilling. I get it, I like grilling too. But I won't ever be tasked with trying to use that one interest I have as my entire public personality.

He tried something like that before. The reason he wears plain looking tshirts and pants is because it makes him come off as "like one of us" and that he remembers that he came from nothing like the rest of us. But then a few years ago it came out that the black Tshirts he wears costs like $400 each and so does the rest of his outfit.

[–] BeezKnuts 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's true. I'm glad that a big portion of all phones being released right now have oled screens, but it makes me miss the high quality ips LCD displays we used to get. Now you have the choice of a really sub par LCD, or an OLED/Super AMOLED display. I looked at the screen on my 2013 Nexus 7 and my Nvidia Shield K1 the other day and they hold up so so so well. It's a shame I can't just upgrade the internals. I'd kill for a Shield X1 or whatever chip will be going into the next switch.

[–] BeezKnuts 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean this post has 1200 upvotes. Considering most people don't engage with the voting system that makes me think that there's a decent amount of people here. At the very least it means there's a lot of people here who engage with the community. More come every day. If this post were on Reddit, it would be on r/all right now. That's not bad for a community with a fraction of the users.

I think that in 10 years this place will be doing alright. I think the growth that's happened in the last few months won't last, but I think that growth will still steadily happen. The reddexodus doesn't happen every day but with most social media platforms shitting their geriatric pants more and more lately, I think a consistent flow of refugees will come here.

[–] BeezKnuts 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Kind of. An LCD display has one backlight which illuminates the entire screen with one brightness. So a black screen and a white screen will use the same amount of electricity if both screens are set to the same brightness, even though to us a white screen looks brighter. Using a dark theme won't save any electricity, but it won't use any more either.

Other display types use self illuminating pixels. Like OLEDs and plasma screens. So a screen which is mostly black uses a lot less electricity than a screen which is mostly any other color but black. Using a dark theme would use substantially less electricity.

Even a CRT would use less electricity if you switch to dark theme while still using one, because the cathode ray wouldn't have to light up the black pixels.

[–] BeezKnuts 9 points 1 year ago

Consider using ublock origin

[–] BeezKnuts 1 points 1 year ago

I was looking into patching the reddit app with revamped manager. That might be able to help you. I decided to just leave reddit entirely.

[–] BeezKnuts 3 points 1 year ago

Until just a year or two ago a 40gb update would take as much as 3 or 4 days to download and it would take up almost all of my data. Even most of America still has shitty internet.

[–] BeezKnuts 1 points 1 year ago

Aww thanks haha. It's better than nothing for sure :)

[–] BeezKnuts 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this is about 500 yards from my house. Fortunately a lot of it has receded but the road is destroyed. What isn't covered in inches of mud, is just gone. Idk how I'm supposed to get into town. All of the roads leading into any of the towns near me are closed.

The sun is now out and there genuinely isn't a single cloud in the sky for as far as I can see. The ground around my house doesn't even look wet anymore, though the lawn is completely saturated still.

My brother found a dead fish in the parking lot where he works which isn't anywhere near a source of water. That's how bad the flooding is in some places. I'm up near Newport and we don't even have it anywhere near as bad as Barre or Johnson.

[–] BeezKnuts 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Me never receiving any messages to begin with

[–] BeezKnuts 1 points 1 year ago

He spelled it wrong. It's supposed to be "dicktaker"

Pretty embarrassing, he must feel so stupid.

[–] BeezKnuts 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine getting into a rear end collision 🤤

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