kieron115
@kieron115@startrek.website
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 1 hour ago:
Not natively Linux but it runs just fine under Proton (although maybe not the default version)
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 1 hour ago:
Somewhere in Chapter 2 my Windows 11 install got corrupted to the point where a recovery upgrade wouldn’t even run so I installed CachyOS. I’ve played a good 4 hours so far and if anything it’s running better under Proton. The QTEs feel snappier.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 1 week ago:
I’m more interested in these bail peprs, I wonder what the conversion rate is?
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 1 week ago:
Thanks for the response, good points all around. The fingerprinting is the most convincing argument to me but I think the accessibility issue you bring up is more important.
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 1 week ago:
I thought graceful degradation in terms of web design was mostly just to promote using the latest current browser features but to allow it to fall back to the feature set of, say, 1 or 2 previous browser versions. Not to support a user completely turning off a feature that has been around for literal decades?
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 1 week ago:
9/11 listed separately from historical tragedies =|
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
I’d imagine that makes plane flyovers amazing.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
I recently moved my center channel speaker to above my TV and that has helped dramatically with audio clarity. No more coffee table blocking the voice channel.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
That’s the same configuration I have, with a Denon amp doing the atmos processing. I had some rear upfiring speakers also but I ditched them because my ceiling is too high for the heights to work anyway D=. Even without the heights though you get SIGNIFICANTLY improved positional audio. Things like panning from front to rear are seamless, especially with timbre matched speakers.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, full disclosure I have a full atmos system and it’s a noticeable improvement in positional accuracy over even DTS-HD Master. I wish there were less expensive solutions though so that it could go mainstream.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 2 weeks ago:
If you’re still using firefox, right click -> copy clean link. works most of the time.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure but Dolby Atmos might be responsible for some of it. Dolby Atmos lets the engineers assign coordinate values to each sound “object” in the scene, then your receiver takes that information, along with the room calibration mic info and your speaker layout, and actually generates the channels itself based on the listeners “position” within the scene. Maybe engineers just not putting as much work into making discrete channel audio mixes anymore when the “gold standard” no longer uses discrete channels.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
In the early days of television, directors really only had the choice of using theater trained actors since those were all that existed. Theater actors are trained to speak in that way so that they can be clearly understood on stage even without mics. But people don’t actually speak that way, and modern directors seem to have a preference for “natural performances” so I wouldn’t necessarily blame the actors. They may just be doing what they’ve been directed to do.
- Comment on As an American, I'm offended at AliExpress' portrayal of my people. 2 weeks ago:
But it has 360 degree wivel!
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit, hopefully god can’t see through my tin roof.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 weeks ago:
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle don’t grumble, give a whistle. And this’ll help things turn out for the best.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 weeks ago:
That’s an odd way of spelling incest. /s
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 weeks ago:
Obviously you just forgot to lick the tines!
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 weeks ago:
What kind of bulb is it? There’s a chance that homebridge or something could control it through an API without needing the app.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 2 weeks ago:
Through absolute chance (the TV i wanted was sold out on clearance so I got a different one on clearance) I ended up with an Android TV-powered sony bravia. It lets you go into the app permissions and disable the optical recognition whateverthefuck they call it software. The rest of the analytics can be blocked by some regex firewall/DNS rules. It’s the only smart TV OS that I would recommend
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 2 weeks ago:
Let’s split the difference and have some Brits redraw the lines at random, they’re great at it!
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but are we trying to get people into Trek or specifically into TNG?
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
Something else I forgot to mention was a concept that I learned in the military called BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front. The idea is that most people aren’t going to read past the first sentence or two before skipping to the end so you better get the absolutely critical information out right away; before your reader gets bored/decides they have more pressing matters to deal with. I would regularly see emails that started with a summary before even the salutations.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
This is also a great example of how, even if there are no disabilities involved, everyone has different learning styles. Some people just process information differently.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
Shhhh, that would require actual understanding of the culture and not just laziness.
- Comment on What are the best single episodes to show people new to Trek? 2 weeks ago:
That was basically my thought as well, but I still say it plays well as a stand-alone story to give someone a taste of Trek. They may be confused at the beginning of the episode but I feel it’s self contained and focused enough that most people can pick up the major beats from context (Cardassians = occupiers, Bajorans = formerly occupied). And then hopefully the acting, the mystery, and the twist ending are enough to, like you said, make the viewer want to learn more.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
That’s good, when I’m medicated I can sink into a book without as much trouble but typically I need more stimulus to be able to focus. It’s a fine line though bc too much stimulus and I’m right back into that zone you described.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
Some of them remind me of the old-timey radio shows from before TV. There was one I used to listen to when we had satellite radio that was about some private investigator for an insurance firm that would go around investigating fraud and, with the way they produced it, it felt like a full on murder mystery. Good stuff.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
🙏
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
He looks absolutely enthralled at the wall of text lol. Image
