Sailor, software engineer, musician, terminally online.

Englishman in Wales.

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: July 5th, 2023
  • mobyduck648@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•There are two ways to invent a sport
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    3 days ago

    I’m surprised the US never found a love for rugby, it’s a brilliant sport to play and spectate but it tends to be a fair bit less dangerous to its players than American football. There’s various reasons but the lack of protective gear is a factor people talk about a lot ironically.

    Interestingly go far back enough in time and they evolved from a common ancestor, but nowadays there’s little to unite them other than fact they’re both full-contact ball sports.

  • mobyduck648@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Are you too young to remember these?
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    13 days ago

    A pain in the arse to drive from modern video sources is what it is! Bought a CRT recently with a thought to using it as a cool secondary monitor but HDMI to composite adaptors are all crap!

    What I ended up doing was using HDMI to VGA, then VGA to composite. This let me set a proper 4:3 resolution and the picture improved a lot. What I should have done is not bother with composite at all and gone VGA to RGB to SCART as this would improve the colour a lot, but couldn’t find the adaptors for that. Not sure how widespread SCART was, might have only been a European thing but when I was a kid most TVs could either take a composite RCA input or SCART, and SCART could carry composite or RGB.

    Definitely given me the bug for old TVs though, I’m going to have to write an ActivityPub to Teletext software adaptor so I can have Lemmy on a ‘90s TV or something. HackTV looks like a lot of fun as well.

  • mobyduck648@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Fahrenheit is better
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    17 days ago

    As a Briton who is throughly bilingual in units and mixes them liberally, Fahrenheit is just about the only one that reliably confuses me. In the past tabloids would put cold temperatures in Celsius and hot temperatures in Fahrenheit to make them sound more impressive but that’s not really a thing these days.

    To be fair I can kind of get it if I’d grown up with it, zero is ‘I need my foul weather gear on’ and 100 is ‘bloody hot summers day’ which on a human level beats the Celsius zero is ‘water freezes’ and 100 is ‘you are dead’ but the convenience of water freezing at zero is just too much.