BagOfHeavyStones
@BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social
- Comment on YouGov: One Nation now 2 points behind Labor on primary vote 2 weeks ago:
Is this organic or engineered?
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
So that the recipient can’t tell it was an image I pasted onto the pdf instead of a page I printed, signed, then scanned in again.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
Still using it today whenever I need to flatten a PDF with my scanned signature.
- Comment on Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data 3 weeks ago:
Hmm. Managed to get Wireguard to connect to my VPS, but that kills AdGuard. Phone is unusable without AdGuard. WG Tunnel app crashes when opening so guess I’m stuck for now. Need the latter to chain VPN and AdGuard.
- Comment on Starlink updates Privacy Policy to allow AI model training with personal data 3 weeks ago:
What useful information do they get from users?
Are they just referring to personal data when you sign up, or are they using deep packet inspection to see where their customers are browsing?
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 4 weeks ago:
I agree it isn’t great. But I don’t want to be in the abusive relationship with Microsoft. Yes I could probably just turn off the deep search option but they’ll just do something else.
Maybe there’s a better option than FUTO, it’s just the first thing I saw as a recommended alternative.
It seems if I swype carefully it’s reasonably accurate but I have to be patient.
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 4 weeks ago:
My vote still for total launcher.
This post has just reminded me to change from Microsoft keyboard to FUTO. I wasn’t worried about the data harvesting, but it started redirecting my searches to Bing by hijacking the search button on the keyboard.
I’m 30% slower with FUTO though at this stage. Not sure if it’s my swype style being slightly out of calibration or my device is not fast enough to keep up. (Moto g84).
Will see how I get on.
- Comment on quack 1 month ago:
Never found that one.
Back then I was a dialup ISP I used to host network games of Quake 1 with my customers. At the peak though we found the Xylogics Remote Annex couldn’t handle it, and it rebooted mid game.
- Comment on quack 1 month ago:
Used to love going to the console in quake 1 and setting gravity to 1. Each jump and you could hit the roof.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 1 month ago:
- Comment on Cube me 1 month ago:
Use that mesh from bird cages, he should end up as a few mega pixels when viewed front on.
From the side it’s gonna be more like cheese sticks, but with more colours.
- Comment on NOOOO JAPAAAAAAAN DON'T CALL IT THAT 2 months ago:
Well, it killed off the Martians.
Oh wait, that was bacteria.
- Comment on Reading and working out 2 months ago:
Those arms look a bit long for a kangaroo. I could be wrong.
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 2 months ago:
Well, it’s driven me to Debian.
- Comment on What did I forget? 2 months ago:
- Comment on The struggle is real 2 months ago:
Shower pending…
- Comment on turing completeness 3 months ago:
I thought it was just Pokémon go, but for dickbutt?
- Comment on Banana 4 months ago:
When they’re still a bit green they taste rank.
- Comment on My body is a roadmap of pain 4 months ago:
- Comment on No excuses 4 months ago:
Australian here. Limit is 100km/h? Fine, set cruise to 100 and relax. Not fast enough? Tough, that’s your problem. (but we get fined for 3km/h over here.)
- Comment on Chick? Cock? Both. Definitely both 5 months ago:
Glazed.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 5 months ago:
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science? :)
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 5 months ago:
Now I'm wondering if you can attach a projector to a Wang terminal...
- Comment on advertisement 6 months ago:
I suppose "bullshit magic beans" means we can eat grass now?
- Comment on There are too many cases where this applies or is going to apply 6 months ago:
Not a problem in the forest. The parrots eat the all.
- Comment on Be nice 6 months ago:
You're welcome! I like my floss to stay the same price.
- Comment on Be nice 6 months ago:
Most cryptos are deflationary. That seems to cause hoarding.
Having no inflation sounds good to me if paired with no growth in population, but I know little about economics.
- Comment on Eurythmics straight-up kills that guy 6 months ago:
Who am I to diss a brie?
- Comment on cold 6 months ago:
Well, it works with ice cream.
- Comment on What is piefed? 7 months ago:
Others have covered most.
For me the one killer feature is grouping of duplicate articles over multiple instances into one post, with comments from all istances listed therein.
This takes away the ghost town feeling of Lemmy, and the frustration of seeing the same post multiple times while scrolling.
The one bad thing is we can't upload images to posts or comments, so it's several steps forward, one step backwards.
