tiramichu
@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon went to a birthday party 5 days ago:
Old-school proprietary memory cards like that generally are, because they don’t mount a filesystem in the way a modern flash drive would.
You can safely remove the card as without problem as long as there is no current write operation happening.
You often needed to switch memory card to change between games, depending which card your save was on, and people would certainly not turn the console off to do that, nor does the GameCube manual say you should.
- Comment on That's clever 1 week ago:
It’s actually nothing to do with mixing mentos and coke but just funding the mission via corporate sponsorship
- Comment on yummy 2 weeks ago:
When someone messages just “hello” it’s a very useful indicator. They clearly don’t value their own efficiency (as well as not valuing yours) so you can assume their job mostly involves sitting in interviews and chatting to people, and does not in fact consist of actual ‘work’
- Comment on Why are some people deciding to switch to iOS as Android is putting on more (iOS-like) restrictions? 2 weeks ago:
There will be a cohort of people out there who have always been of the opinion “I would prefer an iPhone, but I want to sideload”
Now that android is becoming closed, the main reason they chose it is going away, and therefore they move to Apple.
Not a perspective I personally agree with, but I imagine it’s quite prevalent.
- Comment on Weeeeazels 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, a lot of ‘play’ behaviour in cats and dog is largely hunting instinct behaviour too.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 5 weeks ago:
Me too, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting one.
I haven’t had a VR headset since the original Oculus Rift. I’m still salty about them selling to Meta, and after I moved to Linux it turned into a paperweight anyway.
Since that point, no new headset had checked all the boxes for features, Linux support,and a vendor I could actually tolerate engaging with.
The Steam Frame is doubtless going to seem very expensive in comparison, but I see that as the price I have to pay to avoid an account on a platform I don’t want and all the associated data harvesting.
I will pay that price.
- Comment on So... is Iran blocking the Strait thing and then the US is also blocking it? So is it like... double blocked? Is it like "no you can't close the Strait, I'm closing it"? 5 weeks ago:
One cannot make sense of what is going on, for there is no sense to be made of it.
- Comment on Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option? 1 month ago:
100%.
Logitech mice work fine out of the box as a generic mouse. You only need third party software if you want to mess around with the Logitech special-sauce stuff.
Neither Windows or Mac have ‘support’ fo r that either, until you install Logitech’s software. Of course, Logitech as a company don’t provide any software for Linux.
So if anything, it’s not that “Linux doesn’t support Logitech” it’s that Logitech doesn’t Support Linux
- Comment on America 1 month ago:
12:30PM means 30 minutes after 12-noon.
People saying that and meaning the middle of the night are just wrong, and if that’s a genuine thing it would drive me quite mad.
30 minutes after midnight is 12:30AM
- Comment on 😎😎😎 1 month ago:
“What’s this in your holster?”
“Wow, that’s a nice piece you got there”
- Comment on Thank god 1 month ago:
Bro, don’t hit goats either
- Comment on Odo should have had a battle form ala Hulk, or He-Man 1 month ago:
It’s very interesting, and although frustrating at the time I wonder if in retrospect it was for the best. Without being able to fall back on effects as a crutch you have to make sure the show stands up on the story and actors alone, and that can only make those things better.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 1 month ago:
*can’t
- Comment on be a shark 1 month ago:
Sharks have a completely neutral attitude to human gender or sexual orientation.
Be more like a shark
- Comment on Bussin 1 month ago:
I can never understand why the tier list meme start ls at red (bad) for the best rank and goes to green (good) for the worst.
I wondeted if red was being used to indicate “hotness”, but then the bad colour should be " cold" like blue.
Is it just completely arbitrary?
- Comment on PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real 1 month ago:
What it’s all about is “market segregation”
The purpose being to chop up your product differently to get different groups of consumers to pay more based on what they can afford, or the urgency of the purchase.
This is something that business has known about forever, with things like dividing travel tickets up into first class, business, economy, early-bird tickets etc.
What tech has done is enable not only segregating by service and time, but to segregate down to the individual person and find the maximum you’re willing to pay.
And they can look at every factor. In a rush, pay more. Used the service twice last week? You must be in the habit now, so pay more. Using an iPhone not Android? You must be better off, pay more.
It’s hell, and it should be illegal.
- Comment on PlayStation Store Dynamic Pricing Is Real 1 month ago:
Which is exactly why they want to get rid of physical sales completely
- Comment on AI generated t-shirts... 2 months ago:
Looks like Madoka Magica
- Comment on My kind of Doctor 2 months ago:
Literally just “Take whatever we have, and call it a doctor playset” lol
- Comment on hostile design: sink 2 months ago:
Things that can only happen in commercial buildings, because if it happened in your house you wouldn’t tolerate it.
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 2 months ago:
Lots of people care a great deal about themselves while caring not at all about others.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It bewilders me how anyone could give their kid’s stuff away without asking, and yet I’ve heard it from so many people.
I guess the thought process goes like “They’re grown up and don’t need ‘toys’ anymore!” and so they give the toys away to someone they think ‘wants’ them, and they’re ‘doing you a favour’ getting rid of it.
But even if they thought that’s true - which it often isn’t - those things were given to you as gifts. They were yours! They didn’t belong to your parents anymore to give away! And that really feels like a violation of trust.
When I came back from college my room was exactly as I left it. And when I moved out I decided on my own time what I wanted and what I didn’t. So thank you Mum and Dad for respecting my space and my person.
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 2 months ago:
“Suddenly” interests me the most. Not a condition or even a means, just a manner.
Like a catch-all for things they didn’t understand; heart attack, brain haemorrhage, things where someone’s fine one minute, and dead the next.
- Comment on The Hole 2 months ago:
It’s clear what is required. There are no blockers to contribution. It’s satisfying to be engaged in, and progress is rapid and measurable.
Just about the opposite of any other project you might be involved in
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 2 months ago:
The PS5 version of GTA6 is going yo sell pretty well then
- Comment on me btw 2 months ago:
For sure yeah.
I still end up having to use ffmpeg directly (in combination with other CLI tools) because there’s always something the GUIs haven’t caught up with yet. Most recently for me it was converting animated webp’s into something I could actually work with
- Comment on me btw 2 months ago:
I find it wild there are countless “convert videos online for free!” sites on the Internet full of bonus malware which are all just thin wrappers around ffmpeg. And yet they persist because people want googleable answers to their problem which don’t need a command line or downloading anything.
Personally I’ve got a Python script which provides a slightly friendlier wrapper around ffmpeg for my common use-cases.
But honestly ffmpeg is such a beast, so much of what we use daily depends on it under the hood.
- Comment on Is it rude to go through the car wash with a bunch of snow on your car? 2 months ago:
This.
You shouldn’t set off with snow or frozen chunks still left on your car. If you brake and it slides forward it can obscure your view, or when you get up to highway speeds it can fly off and damage whoever is behind you.
Please be consideate of others and don’t do it :)
- Comment on youtube shorts bingo 3 months ago:
Blocks shorts.
uBlock filters use a modified form of CSS selectors to determine what parts of a page to hide.
If you know vaguely how CSS selectors work you can infer that the filter definition is matching on
youtube.comand is finding an element whose title property isshorts- so it seems to be doing an appropriate thing.The important part is that uBlock filters are not executable; you can’t inject a malicious executable through one, as they are simply patterns which describe what parts of a page should be hidden, and hiding content is all they can do.
The worst that a filter could do is hide something that shouldn’t be hidden.
- Comment on youtube shorts bingo 3 months ago:
Because they want you to watch shorts. They know that people who watch shorts are the most brainrotted on the platform, and the ones who will keep scrolling and watching video after video, and seeing ad after ad, and those are the users YouTube wants all other users to be like.
And so they will push shorts in your face again and again no matter how much you say no, because they think eventually they’ll break you.
The close button is just a temporary placebo to make it feel like you’re the one in control.
You’re not the one in control.