lichtmetzger
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- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 23 hours ago:
That sounds a bit like burnout, to be honest. I stopped reading for a few years, too, and didn’t even know why, I was just not “in the mood” or at least I thought so. I have picked it up again this year and ultimately realized that my job was stressing me out. I was constantly worried about problems at work, but for reading, you need a calm mind.
Quitting my job and going to another company this year was one of the best decisions ever. Since then I have found time for hobbies (and losing weight) again. I also read on a WiFi-less eBook reader and put my phone into another room, so I cannot get distracted.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 days ago:
The story was excellent, the combat was a slog. Still finished it and ultimately enjoyed it, but it felt like they were being limited by the DnD system a lot, ultimately worsening the experience.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 days ago:
Act 3 launched half baked and half broken
It still has bugs to this day. I played through the whole game two months ago. The printing press mission was extremely broken. It’s a mission where you are supposed to swap out the headline in a printing press so a magazine doesn’t shit-talk your party. The mission progressed as intended, the press even praised me for swapping the article out and on the next day I still got shit-talked.
I had to do the whole mission again and talk to the printing press twice (for no reason) to fix it. Yenna in my camp also never cooked for me.
Larian announcing their next game to be even bigger than before makes me a bit cautious. I hope they don’t bite off more than they can chew.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 2 days ago:
Cyberpunk’s launch issues were largely stability/performance related
I played the first release when it came out. There were a LOT of mission-breaking bugs, missing content, much less customization options, entirely missing features, a really messy perk system etc. It feels like a very different game now, since they patched in more content that was initially missing.
Someone did a writeup of all the patches here.
They should’ve pushed back the game at least for another year. 1.05 mostly focused on the cutscenes and Jonny Silverhand/Keanu Reeves since that’s what sold the game initially and left a lot to be desired in other areas.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 6 days ago:
Sellers can also pay Amazon to get a higher listing in that shitfest of a result page. It’s all intentional.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
This is so true. I worked at a callcentre for two years, doing crazy shifts for more money, overtime, short weekends…it was my first job - I liked the money and since it was my first job, I wanted to prove myself and did way more than I was paid for.
The people that worked there for many years saw it coming and told me to take it slow or else I’d burn out. I was young and stupid, so I ignored them and the signs my own body gave me. When I was tired, I went to the coffee machine and made myself a triple espresso. Here we go again!
Then came the day where I just…stopped functioning. I couldn’t do anything anymore. I never felt so tired in my life and fell asleep on the toilet in the company bathroom. I still remember my dad driving me home and falling onto my bed, but not a lot else.
It took 1.5 years to get my energy back and the first few months are just a blur, I must’ve slept for weeks. I never regained all of the energy I had before that happened. Burnout is a bitch and what I did back then will follow me for the rest of my life.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
I agree, the forced auto-translation is really annoying. There’s a browser extension called “YouTube No Translation” that fetches the original titles and descriptions from the YouTube API and replaces them.
It’s ridiculous, I already need three extensions to make YouTube useable again. YouTube Row Fixer, YouTube No Translation and YouTube Enhancer. And it’s still garbage in some places.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
That dialer change was evil. I have switched to Fossify Phone now and use that as a dialer. The Fossify apps are amazing, they also have a gallery and messages app, so Google’s proprietary BS isn’t neccessary.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
My post literally says so :D It’s still a dickhead move to put the assistant in there as the default when setting up the device and hiding the option under “Gestures”.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
If its the same as Samsung, holding power + volume down should bring up the power menu.
On my NP1, it’s Power and Volume Up. So much for consistent behaviour between different Android devices…
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
It seems like they haven’t changed the setting retroactively for existing users, but I just reset my Nothing Phone 1 to factory settings and then it got set by default.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
Yes, the Nothing Phone 1. I reset it, because I switched to a Unihertz Titan 2 now and only use it as a USB webcam. :)
- Comment on These are the types of Whatsapp Channels Indians get recommended 1 month ago:
I’m from Germany and I get recommendations for all kinds of German police forces (for each major city). Added to that, I often get channels for microwave recipes or random channels underage teenagers have created.
What a great system!
- On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistantdiscuss.tchncs.de ↗Submitted 1 month ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 107 comments
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 month ago:
Depends on the bank, mine doesn’t have a problem with root.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 month ago:
Nothing already lost me when they put a tiny, useless OLED screen on the back of their flagship and called it innovation. They had something great with the Glyph lights on the whole back, so of course they ditched it.
Not even Unihertz put Facebook garbage on their new Titan 2phone. And they also have an OLED on the back. A much bigger one. For a fraction of the price.
- Comment on just one more bro 2 months ago:
This reminds me of the sketch from Chris & Jack, where one person tries to outsmart a genie and almost succeeds, but still fails.
- Comment on OpenAI signs $1 trillion worth of chip deals to feed its AI habit 2 months ago:
Ed Zitron’s gonna have a field day with this. OpenAI’s motto seems to be scaling “to infinity and beyond”. But what can you expect from a techbro CEO that takes Dyson spheres seriously.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
Absolutely. 😃 Someone even went through my recent unrelated comments in other communities and downvoted each one. I didn’t think blocking some ads would make people this mad!
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
You claimed that I was uploading and batch-processing images on the developers’ infrastructure. I tried to tell you it’s not true, because all of those features still work without internet. Load photopea.com, disconnect your internet - tadaa, you can still “upload” images, crop them, save them, draw on them…
I must be a magician if I can connect to the developers’ machine without any connection at all. There is only one person in this thread who cannot understand how basic technology works. And it’s not me.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
Was it the fact that Photopea isn’t FOSS?
That definitely plays into it, but the major point for me is that it’s an alternative to Photoshop, which it literally tries to mimick as best as you can in a browser, down to the same keyboard shortcuts Photoshop uses.
Most people here would probably agree that Adobe is a very greedy company. So when there’s an alternative to their software that works fine for many years and then gets turned into a subscription model while the author actively fights uBlock, it just feels…wrong. It’s just the same playbook, but with a slightly lower cost.
I also think it’s very hypocritical to accuse me of freeloading from Photopea, because that project uses other open-source libraries under the hood. Did anyone ask the developer if he financially supported the projects that he is profiting off? He doesn’t even mention them on the website (or if he does, it’s not easy to find), but you can see them when you deobfuscate the Javascript blob.
If someone criticizes me for using this project ad-free, it’s just as valid to criticize the developer for using open-source libraries in a closed-source project (as closed-source as a web-application can be).
But to break it down to a simple point: I would’ve paid for the software if it cost 5€/month. That’s 60€ per year, which is reasonable for an image manipulation tool that can run most of its features locally. But 96€/year is too much. I’m not moving away from Adobe to pay for another big subscription. Now that ship has sailed for me completely, after this whole uBlock fiasco.
You just called GIMP icky and didn’t do the bare minimum level of searching that’d tell you ImageMagick exists for batch edits.
I know about ImageMagick and as I’ve said in another comment, a commandline tool is not suitable for cropping different areas of multiple images, I need a visual representation. GIMP might have improved, you’re right on that point. I haven’t used it in a long time and I will try to see if it’s better now (2.x was painful and anybody saying otherwise is simply delusional).
lazy, entitled cheapskate
Not sure why this was neccessary. You started out so eloquently and then your emotions got the best of you. I believe you can do better than the typical Reddit “discussion”.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
I think you’re taking heat a little bit unfairly.
Most of it seems to come from one user who seems to hate me in particular. :D But it’s fun to start a controversial topic once in a while. At least I’m not getting banned for having a different opinion (which would’ve definitely happened on Reddit).
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
You can’t just save the webpage as HTML and run it (which is what woelkchen doesn’t seem to grasp, even though I tried to explain it to him in another thread). But technically, all of the image processing code for cropping, saving, painting on the image etc. runs locally.
You can see that easily for yourself, just disconnect your internet after opening the site and it continues to work just fine.
That’s why all of the accusations that I’m freeloading and straining the developers’ server while not paying a dime are unfunded.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
Are you financially supporting literally any developers at all?
Yes, I’ve donated to the digikam project in the past, just to name one example. I also donated to Slackware when it’s creator was in financial trouble. And I am actively donating to the Fediverse instance that allows me to post this comment.
You think you got me here, but you didn’t.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
Keep trolling, my man! I’m outta here. :)
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
commercial-grade
Today I’ve learned that cropping five images in a row is “commercial-grade”. Sure…
Self-hosting is a good idea, though, if I can find some useful software in that field. See, despite all of the trolling you are actually giving me good advice. I don’t know if it’s intentional, but thanks nonetheless.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
Or save the page if “All of that code runs in your own browser.”
Sir, this is not how the internet works. I thought people on the Fediverse are a bit more technically-versed than the average population.
When I disconnect my internet, I can still crop images, save them to my machine in various and use the tools in the left sidebar. Photopea does not use the developers’ server to do these tasks, or otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do them at all, when I go offline.
That doesn’t mean I can just save the whole website locally and run it as is. Mostly, because the developers’ code contains references to online sources or might bug out in certain places if it’s not run on the intended domain, etc.
If I disassembled the obfuscated code and replaced those online references, I’m pretty sure the whole thing would just work. Not being able to save a website locally and just run it as is does not disprove my point that the application does not technically need a server to run. It’s just that the developer coded it that way.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
I am not paying another high subscription (yes, 96€/year is high for some people) for a tool that processes images locally, no.
That attitude has worked out fine in my life so far.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
You admitted that you do frequent batch processing of many images on their infrastructure.
I’m not sure why you keep commenting this as a fact, when it’s literally not true. As I’ve said in another thread, you can open up the site, disconnect your internet and process all of the images just fine.
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 months ago:
This won’t work because there is actual server-side code running
That is not true! You can figure that out for yourself - open up the site, disconnect your internet and resize/crop some images. It will do it just fine.
