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- Comment on VR is an absolute game changer for racing games 1 day ago:
I’ve got one already, with pedals. But I don’t have dedicated space to use it, so it never comes out :\
- Comment on VR is an absolute game changer for racing games 2 days ago:
The PS5 lets me play Gran Turismo with VR. and turn by using the gyro function on the controller, effectively mimicking a dedicated steering wheel by turning the controller itself rather than stick steering. I could use a wheel, but without a dedicated space to keep the wheel, setting it up and packing it down is just too much of an issue. Gyro steering gives me much of the same control as a wheel does, but without the hassle.
So gyro steering and VR together was a game changer for me. They were so amazing that I can’t play racing games any other way now…
But VR on the PS5 is basically dead in the water, so hardly any games support it, and gyro steering is basically unheard of in most racing games. So it’s pretty much Gran Turismo…
In theory it’s technically possible to use the PS VR headset on my PC, and configure gyro steering, but so far, the combination of getting them all working and configured correctly AND finding a game that supports it all has defeated me…
- Comment on Is it wiser to store one savings in Gold as superior to the average bank/savings accounts nominal interest? 3 days ago:
But you’re also betting that the economy will come back alive soon enough because without it all you have is a heavy pile of metal.
You probably don’t even have that. Unless you have your own vault, someone else is holding it for you, and if things collapse far enough, good luck ever seeing it
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 week ago:
My relationship with gender didn’t so much manifest that way.
Before I came out and accepted myself, I openly told myself I “should have been a girl”, but I also believed I wasn’t, and that was that. I didn’t really feel anything at the idea of femininity. That was my experience of feeling gender
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
This is just regular moderation, though.
It’s using the existing tool, but making a small portion of them (approving applications) available to a much larger pool of people
it doesn’t resolve the question I raised about what happens when two instances disagree about whether an account is a bot.
If the instance that hosts it doesn’t think it’s a bot, then it stays, but is blocked by the instance that does think its a bot.
And if the instance that thinks its a bot also hosts it, it gets shut down.
That is regular fediverse moderation
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but that’s after the fact, and after their content has federated to other instances.
It doesn’t solve the bot problem, but just plays whack a mole with them, whilst creating an ever large amount of moderation work, due to it federating to multiple instances.
Solving the bot problem means stopping the content from federating, which either means stopping the bot accounts from registering, or stopping them from federating until they’re known to be legit.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, approving users, you just let your regular established users approve instance applications. All they need to do is stop the egregious bots from getting through. And if there is enough of them, the applications will be processed really quickly. If there is any doubt about an application, let them through, because they can be caught afterwards. And historical applications are already visible, and easily checked if someone has a complaint.
And if you don’t like the idea of trusted users being able to moderate new accounts, you can tinker with that idea. Let accounts start posting before their application has been approved, but stop their content from federating outwards until an instance staff member approves them. It would let people post right away without requiring approval, and still get some interaction, but it would mitigate the damage that bots can do, by containing them to a single instance.
My point is, there are options that could be implemented. The status quo of open sign ups, with a growing number of bots doesn’t have to be the unquestioned approach going forward.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
How do you figure that? There’s nothing centralised about it
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
Make sign ups require approval and create a “trusted user” permission level that lets the regulated trusted users on the instance see and process pending sign up requests and suspend/delete brand new spam accounts (say under 24 hours old) that slip through the cracks
Boom, bot problem solved
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like depersonalisation to me. A form of dissociation.
Lots of trans people deal with it when they’re closeted. I know I did.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 3 weeks ago:
Kagi has an LLM community register they automatically use to filter their results
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 3 weeks ago:
I’ve got one even older than that!
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 2 months ago:
You’re right about that, and if I ever do go back, that will be why! But the sameness I was talking about is more the cultural identities of the countries. Every place we stayed felt like it could be transplanted to Australia, and fit right in. It might be different if I wasn’t Australian :)
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 2 months ago:
I’ve never been to the US, so I can’t say I won’t go there again, but I can say I won’t go there at all.
But in terms of countries I have been to, probably New Zealand. There’s nothing wrong with New Zealand, but it feels too much like Australia, and baring me suddenly developing an unlimited amount of time and money, there are other places I would rather go
- Comment on Why are some/most of the links on this account broken? 4 months ago:
Blahaj piefed ignores downvotes, so you can be safely assured that has nothing to do with it
If I had to guess, you probably saw that when we were playing around with our CDN. We found the blahaj zone CDN on this list here lemmy.ml/post/34374544, and made some changes to try and reduce scraping. Some images weren’t loading whilst we were getting it all ironed out.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
It sounds like a similar condition I had learning Spanish. In enough, I’d say “It’s hot”. In Spanish, that’s “Hace calor”, which translated literally means “makes heat”. And it was strange to me because I wanted to know what was meant to be making this heat
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Do you need to be an activist? Absolutely not. You have a chance to live on your own terms in a world that made that really hard. You don’t owe it anything.
That being said… Visibility makes a huge difference, and it’s super important that some vulnerable folk are visible and loud. But remember, they’re the ones putting themselves on the line, so that in the future, it won’t be as bad for those that follow, and that needs to be respected.
For me, being trans was always just a medical issue
This isn’t helpful. Whether you see it that way or not, being trans is not “just a medical issue”. The fact that you were able to live your life as if it were, gives you a position of relative privilege that most trans people don’t share. The truth is, if you get publicly outed one day, it won’t just be a medical issue for you either. So whilst you don’t have to be an activist, you shouldn’t be downplaying the reality that other trans folk do have to face, and honestly, you shouldn’t be pretending to yourself that you are immune to them either.
Live your life on your own terms, and do so without guilt. But even if it’s just in the privacy of your own thoughts, make sure you build your visible peers up rather than mentally separating yourself from them
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 6 months ago:
Yeah, it’s extra work, and doesn’t change the infuriating aspect of enshitification, but it’s an option if you absolutely do not want to sign in to the app
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 6 months ago:
For what it’s worth, you can generally record a GPS tracking in another app or on another device and then use your photo editing software to add the coordinates to the photos after the fact.
- Comment on Whats the best way to deep dive into learning a language without apps? 7 months ago:
Comprehensible input! Start with simple content in that language you’re trying to learn, without any use of languages you understand. And then try and actively understand what you’re hearing, and work out how it all fits together!
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 7 months ago:
Open world games don’t hold me, because ironically, they tend to feel too small. When you can walk from one side of the setting to the other in real time, it all feels small.
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 7 months ago:
This is all an interesting hypothetical to you. To me, it’s my lived life. Trust me, I’ve done what you’re talking about. I was active in /r/changemyview, and I’ve spent a lot of time having this discussion with people on social media.
And in that time, not a single person has changed their perspective or view on the topic. Because they already had a view, and despite the ostensible goal of the sub, they’re largely not open to changing their view. They may want to, but they’re not actually willing to change it. Because ultimately, people arrived at their “concerns” through emotional manipulation, and that can’t be undone by “rational discussion”. Like sure, maybe you’re the single exception, and in my 5+ years of having this discussion, you might be the first to genuinely change your opinion. But even then, after 5 years of normalising the idea that my rights are up for discussion, as if it’s actually ok for people to want them removed because of their “concerns”, I’d have a single changed mind in 5 years.
But you know what else I’ve done in those 5 years? I’ve told every other person that I’ve had this discussion with that it’s actually ok to debate my rights, that whether or not I deserve rights is based on how well I can debate and argue. And I’ve given the bigots driving this whole discussion exactly what they wanted, which is to make myself a target.
Fuck that.
So what does it say about me? It says I’ve got more lived experience in navigating this topic than you ever will, and I’m no longer willing to see “civil discussion” on the erasure of peoples rights, in the pointless hope that it will actually help us. Because it doesn’t.
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 7 months ago:
That argument would be torn apart pretty easily
Sure. The argument can be torn apart. But that doesn’t change anything. What changes when you make those sorts of arguments is simply that it gives a green light to pushing back against marginalised people.
If argument being torn apart was enough, the argument against trans folk in sport wouldn’t even be an argument. But it is, because there is a political interest in creating harmful narratives about trans folk, and using exclusion from sport as a wedge to normalise exclusion in other areas. Which is exactly what is happening.
So if you’re ok with that sort of question, I think you need to spend a bit more time looking at the context those questions exist in. Why is it now that people want to suddenly talk about trans people in sports. It’s not because the trans folk have been doing anything different. It’s because there is an explicit motivation to create a culture war, with trans folk as the targets. You shouldn’t be ok with being part of that.
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 7 months ago:
I’m not asking you to argue about it. I explicitly don’t want people arguing about it, which I was hoping my previous comment would make clear.
There are people out there that were raised a certain way that want to change or perhaps have questions due to ignorance on the topic. By being combative, you’re doing more harm than good for something you clearly care about.
If someone turns against all trans people because they encounter a single angry trans person, then they were just looking for an excuse to justify what they already felt.
And it’s not my job to play nice with the people trying to erase my rights in the hope that maybe, just maybe, they’ll stop what they’re doing! That doesn’t work. That has never worked. Every single civil right gain has been made by pushing back.
So thanks for the advice, but I’ll keep pushing back
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 7 months ago:
So, you’d like to argue for the validity of excluding a vulnerable group, in the middle of a world spanning hate campaign against that exact group?
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 7 months ago:
So, you’d be ok with someone arguing that maybe a discussion about racism is warranted, because sometimes, a bit of racism is warranted?
Or is that only ok when it’s trans people?
'cause if you want logical and consistent, that’s something you need to ask yourself. Why is it that folk are quite willing to discuss the erasure of rights of just one class of people, when it’s not something you’d even consider talking about with most other groups?
There is no consistency in that desire, it’s not driven by a desire to be logically consistent. This is driven by political interests and think tanks trying to create social divide. It’s not a co-incidence that you just want to consider the logical merits or trans folk, right now, at this moment in history.
Until you’re willing to face the reasons behind that, and the impact your social context has on you, you can’t be logically consistent.
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 7 months ago:
What do you want changed then?
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 7 months ago:
Also, if you come in expecting to debate for the removal of trans rights, you won’t last long
- Comment on REVENGE 8 months ago:
Hey, I’m not a grandma yet!
- Comment on Why is my community modding everyone who comments? 8 months ago:
You are the only moderator of both communities you moderate, so it sounds like a display bug