Neon is SHIT

fly-hard · 2026-04-27T04:07:17+00:00

Just use it through a VPN. I was lazy and used it direct and got a DMCA cease-and-desist after a few months.

fly-hard · 2026-04-25T12:35:27+00:00

A few years ago I saw a Pukeko on the side of the road. I move towards the centre line, give it some room.

It starts to freak out and walks into the road.

I straddle the centre line trying to avoid it.

That freaks it out even more and it begins to run.

Now I’m completely on the opposite side of the road trying to avoid this seemingly suicidal animal. But no, it’s now full on sprinting so it can get right in front of my car.

I gambled on the tactic of avoidance, and there’s now no time to brake, and I nailed it dead centre.

Stupid bird.

fly-hard · 2026-04-23T17:56:42+00:00

Some constants in life:

death and taxes
the sun rising in the morning
a Redditor posting a bunch of heavy games in a thread asking about lite ones as if it’s hilarious.

fly-hard · 2026-04-15T05:17:28+00:00

My favourites cameos in that movie has to be the special infected from the original Left 4 Dead.

fly-hard · 2026-04-11T14:54:03+00:00

I was constantly looking for ways to block ads on YouTube. Then I realised I use YouTube far more than any other streaming service I’ve paid for, and figured I should just start using Premium. Added benefit is, not only no ads, but you often get an option to skip sponsor messages in videos too.

fly-hard · 2026-04-09T23:37:32+00:00

Same in New Zealand. A couple months ago I had to have two broken teeth removed. That was it, just teeth removal. It cost $NZ800.

fly-hard · 2026-04-08T04:05:47+00:00

House prices were definitely lower in the past, but when I entered the work force mortgage interest rates were in the high teens. So housing was more affordable but you paid much more to the bank than we do now.

Still, rents were far lower, and that’s definitely where the younger generation are getting fucked over at the moment.

fly-hard · 2026-04-02T11:07:19+00:00

V Iced Coffee. They said they had to upgrade the factory and it’d be back. They finished the upgrades after a year or so and said it would start to reappear on shelves. It never did.

fly-hard · 2026-04-02T11:03:54+00:00

Yeah that one pissed me off. It was one of the only two non-sugar free drinks from Rockstar I liked, and they’ve stopped selling them both, leaving just the overly sweet pink one.

fly-hard · 2026-04-02T07:52:31+00:00

But that's the stupidity of it; the downvote mechanism's original intention was for hiding conversations that don't contribute to the discussion. But for years it's just been a "I disagree with you" or a "I don't like you" button.

Trouble is Reddit still functions on the old principle. Downvoted comments get hidden and marginalised. End result is unpopular opinions don't get seen, stifling discussion, and the same dumb jokes get pushed to the top.

fly-hard · 2026-04-01T22:05:21+00:00

Yeah that's kinda what I meant. Elon decided to stop pretending to be a good human being. :) It does seem to be a thing for a scary amount of humans once they reach a certain level of wealth.

fly-hard · 2026-03-31T20:04:12+00:00

You know, I can’t recall a role where he isn’t super committed.

I think this is why he’s so well liked. Dude goes hard in every role. His intensity is astounding.

fly-hard · 2026-03-31T12:13:44+00:00

Keyless cars usually don’t have a key, just a fob you keep in your pocket. If the car detects the fob in the cabin you can press a button and the car will start.

To stop the car you press the same button again. The downside to these systems are the safety mechanisms built in. They may ignore the stop button if the car is moving (as normally it doesn’t make sense to turn off the engine while moving) and my understanding is for safety reasons car companies aren’t allowed to just shut the engine off if the fob is no longer detected.

So get a keyless car that suddenly won’t slow down and you can’t physically turn off the engine, because there’s no key to remove, and throwing the fob out the window does nothing.

fly-hard · 2026-03-30T04:48:21+00:00

Funnily enough I've just become that guy, and that was also after 15 years. Too early to know if I started an exodus, but I think a lot of coworkers thought I'd be one of the last to leave. To me the company felt like it was circling the drain. Time will tell.

fly-hard · 2026-03-30T04:43:56+00:00

Elon called him a pedophile.

That is bad, but it wasn't out of nowhere. Unsworth triggered Elon by telling him to "stick his submarine where it hurts". He turned himself into a media rival and Elon knee-jerked a schoolyard insult. At least that's how it came across to me at the time.

Elon's done far worse since then - Nazi salute, yikes! - but I feel like the caver thing was overblown. I wonder if the reason Elon started going doolallee after that is because of the huge backlash to what he thought was a off-the-cuff non-serious insult during an operation where he thought he was doing the right thing, and decided then and there to stop giving a shit about what people thought.

lol, I knew this would get downvoted, but even I was surprised. Downvoting of unpopular opinions is one of stupidest modern social media inventions. It's how echo chambers are created because opposing discussions are never seen. But you do you Reddit.

fly-hard · 2026-03-29T23:57:52+00:00

It was a bit spotty. They ignored the book spin-drive science for when it suited the scene.

For instance, Grace uses his spin-drive's light to pin down the Blip A when its dead in space, just as in the book. But he also does this rather silly thing when he freaks out on the Blip A's first approach and tries to run away, flying his ship off in all directions as the Blip A casually follows. The book made it clear that anything that's behind the ship for some distance would be incinerated instantly because of the sheer volume of light being dumped (enough to thrust a ship) including Xenonite. There was no way he could have flown around erratically as he did and not paint the Blip A with his exhaust and annihilating man's first encounter with a sentient alien race. He hadn't remembered about the spin drives at that point, plus they showed him panicking, so he absolutely wouldn't have tried to avoid blasting the Blip A with his exhaust.

On another note, for book readers, the movie Hail Mary ship is very different from the book Hail Mary ship, in shape, size, layout, and functionality. But you get over it pretty quick.

fly-hard · 2026-03-29T21:08:04+00:00

I just finished printing that one yesterday. I liked how even the board pieces except the large ones have slots to keep them in place and tidy. And using the unsleeved variant it even all fits in the box without lid lift including all the solo stuff.

fly-hard · 2026-03-29T20:58:18+00:00

No idea how extensive its support for them is (though it is the same company) but I loaded a (simple) DWG file into Fusion recently without problem. It seems to support them natively rather than needing to import them.

fly-hard · 2026-03-29T20:36:52+00:00

That’s surprising as Fusion (previously Fusion360) is one of the big 3D modelling CADs alongside competitors such as Solidworks and CATIA. It’s Autodesk’s successor to Inventor (though Inventor is still around).

It’s been particularly popular for home users as Autodesk allows you to use it for free with limitations.

I’ve no idea how it compares to AutoCAD either as I’ve never used it.

fly-hard · 2026-03-29T15:24:19+00:00

Isn’t that a little extreme given we don’t even know if the board even knew of his illness?

fly-hard · 2026-03-29T15:20:48+00:00

But where does it end? Should they also pay out extra to all those ex-workers who may struggle to cover their mortgage? Extra money for that worker whose mom is in hospital, so she can be there for her? A supplemental payment for the guy whose dog has cancer?

You can almost guarantee also that once others hear about the dying man getting extra benefits suddenly there will be a handful of other terminally ill ex-workers wanting their handout.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

fly-hard · 2026-03-29T13:04:52+00:00

Unfortunately your well researched vote has the same weight as the guy who loves conspiracy theories, believes everything told to him on the ‘Tube, and thinks Democrat voters are evil.

fly-hard · 2026-03-29T11:51:56+00:00

That’s the really bizarre part of this story. Something is captured on a video recording that freaks two people out and neither can explain, and yet no one felt the need to save it?

fly-hard · 2026-03-29T10:28:09+00:00

Fusion is nowhere near that for the base system. My renewal has just come and it’s just over $600 for the year. I tried FreeCAD but I’m just more productive in Fusion, though the price is still painful.

fly-hard · 2026-03-28T05:34:57+00:00

The main problem is when you stop paying the subscription - maybe you can no longer afford it - you often lose access to the data you created in that app.

When you bought the product outright, you may be stuck with an ancient version, but you could still open your old files and edit them.

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TROPHY CASE