Meron35
@Meron35@lemmy.world
- Comment on I got your 6-7 right here, kids! 1 day ago:
Tbh the world being God streaming a game of the Sims makes more sense
- Comment on You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat 2 days ago:
Chinese, and to a lesser extent Asian Big Tech is what American Big Tech dreams and aspires to.
Everything is intimately linked to the super app platforms WeChat/Alipay (China) or LINE/Kakao Talk (Japan and Korea). Nearly everything online is designed primarily with WeChat/Alipay plugins/mini apps as the primary entry point and it is not uncommon both many services/pages to simply not exist outside of these super app ecosystems.
The apps are super invasive with privacy and require identity documents and banking details to even function. To some extent, it has resulted in convenience for the locals, though tbh this is mostly just replicating the convenience of western infrastructure like payment systems.
Where it gets messy is dealing with foreigners. China is particular has an incredibly messy system of regulations, mostly to curb money laundering and capital controls, that interact in very unforeseen ways.
Foreigners must link their identity documents and a payment method. Many vendors (either due to laziness or laws) cannot deal with foreigners at all. Additionally, due to capital controls, foreign payment methods cannot transfer or receive money. Many smaller vendors only accept payment via personal transfers, so you can easily end up being unable to pay, or split bills with locals. The inability to receive money also means you can’t receive refunds.
It gets way worse when interacting with HK/Macau, which operate their own, distinct parallel WeChat/Alipay systems. So, not only do you need to set up and maintain separate accounts for these, doing so may still be of limited use due to capital controls. A common trip around the Pearl Delta region covering Shenzhen, HK, and Macau unironically requires planning out a convoluted chart of which specific systems and accounts you need to use.
- Comment on Why Australia Doesn’t Have Novelty Candidates like Count Binface 4 days ago:
I will not stand for this Max Dicks erasure!
Victorian Senate candidate Max Dicks has best name in Federal Election | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines - news.com.au/…/c10acca88b4493026baab7912a0a651b
- Comment on If only someone would invent one 1 week ago:
- Comment on It's been a very wet summer around here 2 weeks ago:
AI: Australia Inverted
- Comment on How do you use the "uno reverse card"? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Most people I’ve played with do some variant of the super stacker ruleset.
All draw cards function as a skip your own turn and add to the draw stack. Skip and reverse can also function as passing the stack to someone else. This adds an additional element of risk/reward, do you play a scarce action card to pass the large stack at the risk of it backfiring and you possibly receiving an even larger draw stack, or do you just take the draw now?
The variants were popular enough that the UNO Facebook page has officially suggested them, for what it’s worth.
Rules for Stacking Draw Cards in UNO | Uno Variations - www.unovariations.com/uno-variation-stacking
- Comment on A small moment in gaming history 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Seen in college dorm. People are really smart there 2 weeks ago:
For sale: brand new door stop in packaging, never used.
No low ballers, I know what I’ve got.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The agenda 1 month ago:
The straight pride flag. Because heterosexuality is a prison.
- Comment on Bee fly 1 month ago:
Inb4 Nintendo sues for copyright infringement
- Comment on They should be. 2 months ago:
Why are they called pussups and not bussups?
- Comment on Rotund 2 months ago:
Scrotox
- Comment on What a killjoy 2 months ago:
Did Adam eat Eve’s ass? Think about it. From the moment they were created to just before Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit, they were exploring the Garden of Eve, as well as trying to understand each other. Was the time in-between a matter of days, or weeks? We do not know because we were not there. Despite Genesis being the official story, this Old Testament book was created for human understanding, thus we don’t actually know. Therefore, Adam had plenty of time to experiment, despite not knowing what he was doing. One afternoon, Adam could’ve placed his hands on Eve’s ass and decided, “Hm, this feels nice, I wonder what it tastes like?” Please keep in mind that the good Lord said they could eat ANYTHING in the Garden, except the Apple of Eden. With this fact in consideration, Adam could have proceeded to eat Eve’s ass without repercussions, with God looking on thinking: “Well, they aren’t eating the Apple, so…” Lucky bastard
- Comment on Fit girls role call 2 months ago:
4 Exercises That’ll Make Your Bussy So Tight It Becomes a Dick Guillotine
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 months ago:
Don’t forget this market insanity started around COVID, and has basically been succeeded by consequent crises with few dips.
The typical release cadence of PC components is around 4-6 years, which requires new motherboard, CPU, and RAM.
Adding in the GPU basically results in a new build, and that’s being generous assuming no upgrades/changes to other parts like PSU and storage.My take is that a lot of these people wishing to upgrade are those who have simply been holding out since 2020 or earlier. This seems to vaguely match up with the Steam Hardware results, with a fair number of people still using RTX 3000 series or RX 6000 series, of which even the top end cards are starting to become par/outperformed by their modern mid level counterparts.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah it should be fishies
- Comment on d wha 2 months ago:
A fair bit. EmbeddingGemma is open weights and allows for 128-768 dimensions.
It’s not as simple as more dimensions = better, due to size, efficiency, and context rot limitations though.
Introducing EmbeddingGemma: The Best-in-Class Open Model for On-Device Embeddings - Google Developers Blog - …googleblog.com/…/introducing-embeddinggemma/
- Comment on 😉 😉 2 months ago:
Daisy Cruiser on easy mode
- Comment on They are totally different than they used to be. 3 months ago:
Conservative’s parents at age 24: Let’s vote for Reagan
FTFY
- Comment on Update announcement for the gamers 🚨 3 months ago:
Smh Anything to avoid releasing sex 2
- Comment on nigri irl 3 months ago:
When you forget to put the nigiri in the fridge
- Comment on Run the dishwasher, plug in the car: how Great Britain plans to use record wind and solar power | With a summer glut on cards, customers are being urged to use more energy when renewables are abundant 3 months ago:
How are electricity rates set in the UK? Some countries have companies that offer an off peak rate which can be zero during specific hours of the day.
- Comment on Is there a platform like github that isn't for code? 4 months ago:
pandoc. Converts markdown to html, latex, pdf, and Word.
It serves as the backend behind basically every program that support some kind of rendering of markdown, e.g. quarto, ipython notebooks.
Pandoc - Pandoc User’s Guide - pandoc.org/MANUAL.html
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I am actually so thankful for the AI voices.
I used to feel guilty for dismissing videos with thick accents because I couldn’t tell if it was the content was trash or I just couldn’t understand the accent.
Now with AI voices I can confirm that the content was indeed just trash.
- Comment on Truly, it was the end of an evangelion 4 months ago:
Spoiler
OG series: bad ending Rebuild movies: good (?) ending Upcoming: true ending
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 4 months ago:
The Gen Z state is simply the rational response in dealing with customer facing situations where either 1. the customer is problematic, or 2. if the worker genuinely doesn’t know what what to do.
Responding or engaging to problematic customers (racist, homophobic, misogynistic) can only lead to conflict, reprimand, or lawsuits.
Responding with inaccurate information or simply saying leads to conflict, reprimand, or poor reviews.
Both have worsened as people have become more polarised, and management cuts funding and hours for training.
- Comment on Eboni Dark'ness Clucking Raven Way 4 months ago:
Even applications to Gregg’s (UK bakery chain famous for sausage rolls) require 1000 word personal statements
- Comment on get zapped, idiot 4 months ago:
- Comment on mogged 4 months ago:
