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pelya , to For sharing fascinating artifacts and replicas in Spanish or Italian combination gun-spear with retractable blade, four barreled, 18th century AD

You don't need to worry about the accuracy of your smoothbore pistol pepperbox if you fix your target with the attacked spearpoint before each shot.

pelya , to Science Memes in We need a larger one. Yes, for the last time. Pleeeeeeeeeease!

That's what the asteroid belt is for!

pelya , to Coffee in Supermarket coffee marketing is getting… intense

I have discovered cold infusion coffee just last week. It's a surprising way to salvage ruined coffee roast. Cool water until there's some ice in it, or just dump ice in water, then dump your badly roasted coffee powder, shake, and leave in the fridge overnight (not the freezer). Strain the grounds, reheat in the microwave and drink (or just drink it cold and with grounds, whatever works for you). Ideally you should use coarse grind size, but it's mainly because it's easier to filter it.

pelya , to Coffee in Supermarket coffee marketing is getting… intense

Coffee tends to not have any upper price range, you always can find something even more exclusive than beans pooped by a rainforest squirrel. So whatever marketing trend is occurring, it likely won't impact most consumers, who drink it for the caffeine content not the taste. Maybe in 10 years when the trend soaks down to the bottom shelf of the supermarket, I will have a bit differently tasting beans in my free office-provided coffee. But it's already 95% Robusta with 5% mystery beans to provide foam, not enhance the taste. They could add fried soy beans for all I care, it certainly won't make the taste worse.

Anyway, to answer your original question, I'm not seeing any "100% Robusta char-fry" coffee ads in my city.

pelya , to Coffee in Supermarket coffee marketing is getting… intense

Nothing like that, just more automated coffee machines with credit card terminals across the city. It's a progress I guess.

I never understood "100% Arabica" trend. It's just sour. The fancy expensive coffee made by a barista on a shiny manual espresso machine tastes acidic to me, and the best-tasting coffee is what our free office-provided automated machine makes from bottom-shelf beans. Am I supposed to fix it with cream and sugar? Do I have some rare gene mutation that makes me sneeze when looking at the sun and makes 100% Arabica coffee bad-tasting?

pelya , to Science Memes in Jinkies

I first used Matplotlib 10 years ago. It was unintuitive and very slowly redrawing the whole plot each time you tried to zoom.

I'm using it right now, and I'm happy to report that it kept to it's time-honored tradition - zoom is still piss-slow even on my fancy new PC with 12 cores.

Maybe in the next 20 years, matplotlib devs will discover wonders of tile cache.

pelya , to Linux in Chrome OS switching to the Android Linux kernel and related Android subsystems – OSnews

It was so simple for Google to add desktop mode to Android during Android 5 times. And they even had Android TV as a mouse-oriented hardware. And they could populate Play Store with quality opensource Linux desktop apps, by just organizing the work, there's currently no technical reason why Krita or Gimp couldn't be built for Android natively, it's just that no one cares to do it after Google ignored Android desktop mode for ten years.

pelya , to Linux in Will Corps ditch Windows over Recall for Linux?

Nope. They don't care about privacy, as long as there's no lawsuit.

pelya , to Linux in Chrome OS switching to the Android Linux kernel and related Android subsystems – OSnews

I guess someone could cross-compile a bunch of desktop Linux apps like Gimp or Krita and publish them to Play Store to run on Chromebooks. There was some work on porting Wayland to Android, there's also X server on Android although it's unmaintained, and all other libraries like QT and GTK can be cross-compiled with some effort on top of Bionic.

pelya , to Asklemmy in People who refuse to learn how to drive a car, why?

Subway that arrives almost to my office. Yes it's a bit slower overall, but I can doomscroll my phone for a hour per day instead of rotating the wheel for the same amount of time.

pelya , to For sharing illustrations of history in Dacian tribesmen using a captured Roman artillery piece

These arms only rotate 60⁰, so ironworks are okay

pelya , to Linux in How happy are you with your current distro?

Debian 12. It just works, except for buggy Wayland, thankfully KDE still supports Xorg.

pelya , to artporn in Self Portrait as a distressed poet - Augustus Egg (1858) 🇬🇧

Nope, the lemmy-cached thumbnail has a different picture

pelya , to Traditional Art in Modulation - by Gustavo Munoz (Archival ink on paper)(2024)

Looks like a visual representation of a chiptune

pelya , to Ask Lemmy in Do you have any smell you like/dislike even though most people don't?

Cat piss does not smell particularly bad to me.

Maybe it's toxoplasma speaking.

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