Manalith
@Manalith@midwest.social
- Comment on Anon had a nightmare 2 days ago:
For me, sleep apnea’s can’t breathe usually immediately jolts me awake, brought on by something in the dreamstate, the first time it was driving into a lake and drowning, then sitting up hyperventilating. Sleep paralysis is a lot scarier, I tend to be, or at least perceive to be, awake and in my bed, but there’s something else there, and for one reason or another, that thing keeps me from breathing, maybe it’s to not make a sound, maybe it’s stealing my breath, I dunno, but it keeps me from hitting that jolt awake moment with the hyperventilating. The post felt more like the second one.
- Comment on The Anonborn gets recruited 5 days ago:
I don’t pick a side in the civil war, but I will murder Thalmor and Stormcloaks indiscriminately.
- Comment on The Anonborn gets recruited 5 days ago:
Skip all vanilla quest lines, go do Dawnguard, get sexy vampire wife, grab the plantation from the creation club and live rest of my Skyrim days recreating the anime Farming Life in Another World while power leveling my alchemy.
- Comment on Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days 1 week ago:
I think in most cases it’s added functionality and convenience at the cost of privacy, sure the scale is still gonna tell you how much you weigh, but what if it automatically saved that to an app so you can track your weight loss progress without writing it down manually (as long as you’re OK with some company also having that info so they can share ads with you for weight loss products to help you reach that goal faster without allowing you to build the habits to do it right.
Isn’t it nice that you can just ask your fridge if there’s milk in it while you’re at the store rather than hoping you have milk, or assuming you dont? Disregard the fact that Samsung is using that fridge to know whether or not you’re home right now, if you have an iPhone, or what kind of smart TV you have. It’s still a fridge, it still keeps things cool, until a firmware update breaks that of course, guess you just need to buy a new fridge, it’s been a couple years anyway.
Sometimes (though not often) the smart appliance is cheaper since they know they’re gonna make money on the data.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t generally do the adoption thing in Skyrim, but I’ll be damned if I don’t bump into flower girl and give her a place to live. I might be the leader of the Dark Brotherhood, but I’m not a monster.
- Comment on Anon plays an RPG 2 weeks ago:
I did play both of those when they first came out, I don’t remember a whole lot of the gamepkay outside of, no actual travel outside of town, for XD you can only capture dark Pokemon, don’t remember for Colloseum, and they both have the same, rather obvious, twist of who the villain is. That said, I enjoyed them both a lot when I had my GameCube.
- Comment on Anon plays an RPG 2 weeks ago:
I’ve always felt this about Pokemon, there’s so many moves that affect stats, cause status effects, or do something interesting, but I always just go for whatever deals damage. Even on my current run, I’ll keep a move around because it sounds fun, but won’t use it.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to that, but I didn’t realize that was them.
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 month ago:
I’m left-handed and always secretly wished I had this and a right-handed twin so we could literally be mirror copies of each other.
- Comment on That would be petrifying 1 month ago:
That depends, is the planet Mogo or Ego? I’d feel pretty good if Mogo were our nearest celestial neighbor. Alternatively it means a poorly buried giant, next we find out Transformers are real, Mars just used to be filled with Energon and the war depleted it. Granted a face that large, could imply Unicron, which is also a problem.
- Comment on That would be petrifying 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, we’ve already established that Outlook doesn’t work in space.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Maybe it’s an issue of perspective. I see them as replacements for Twitter and Facebook and for me specifically I was posting the same things on both, its just that I had some people exclusively on one or the other, so when deciding to cut things, it made sense for me to only setup one given not many people I was communicating with were using either Mastodon or Friendica. I guess the core issue is either I’ve never really been using social media properly, or I just don’t know what the core usecase/structure for Friendica/Facebook actually is.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Genuine question, are there a good number of people using Friendica? I looked at it back in like 2017 or whenever Hak5 did a video about setting up Friendica servers, but it always seemed like Mastodon was the way to go, I k ow they aren’t technically filling the same space, but still.
- Comment on Removing Paramount+ on Three UK Risks Inviting 100Mbps Data Speed Cap 2 months ago:
To elaborate more on this for those not reading the article. New customers already have the data cap and need a £4 add-on to remove. Removing Paramount+ from your plan is essentially akin to changing your contract, so you get the new terms.
To be clear, I don’t like it, but what initially seemed like some sort of shady deal between Paramount Skydance and Three UK, is actually just telecoms being telecoms. Paramount Skydance can still suck it though.
- Comment on First time ever I voluntarily took a picture of myself and fully dressed up :D 2 months ago:
Gotta fully commit with the tattoo now 😂
- Comment on Nice one dad 2 months ago:
You quit just before getting to Ford Edge. I see you
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 3 months ago:
Don’t worry, they’ll output enough heat that even when power goes down, it’ll warm Texas for months
- Comment on How to calculate stardate? How is measured? 4 months ago:
I guess I’d probably use the xxx as the day of the year 001-365 but I’m almost certain I’ve heard a stardate like 40538 so that ultimately wouldn’t work very well. Given that it’s a sector of a galaxy and not specifically based around earths orbit of the sun, it would make sense that you would have more than 365 days in a star year.
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 4 months ago:
Probably? I’ll be honest, there’s only a few songs by Disciple that I’ve really listened to, but I liked them. Kind of the same with DH, I really like Black Stained Glass
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 4 months ago:
I’m just going to tack a few more on here so I can find some of yours later, but I’d like to add:
Nine Lashes, which are probably more overt than some
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, for the entirety of Don’t You Fake It, and a few other songs
Red
Demon Hunter
Switchfoot, don’t @ me Dare You To Move is a banger
Disciple
Pillar
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 5 months ago:
I haven’t had any issues loading my GOG games through the Heroic launcher on ZorinOS
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 5 months ago:
I use GOG for DRM free games.
- Comment on US bans any new consumer-grade routers not made in America 6 months ago:
Make sure it’s got two NICs on it
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 6 months ago:
Ah, that’s fair, I was a child when I first watched the series so I don’t think I ever really registered the visor as a disability given that being blind doesn’t hinder him at all, besides the aforementioned headaches that rarely come up.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 6 months ago:
Where do you consider TNG being preachy about disability? Not arguing, it’s just been a while since I’ve watched it beginning to end and this might be something I failed to pick up on.
- Comment on Does the "White Power Ranger" seem like an odd title? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 1 year ago:
Just saying USA has less syllables and letters.
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 1 year ago:
Quick spread the word to them
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
That already exists as their cloud virtual desktop service.
- Comment on Got any grapes? 1 year ago:
Discover Card, Nice!