tiramichu

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank god⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Bro, don’t hit goats either
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Odo should have had a battle form ala Hulk, or He-Man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
*can’t
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be a shark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Sharks have a completely neutral attitude to human gender or sexual orientation.

Be more like a shark
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bussin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Which is exactly why they want to get rid of physical sales completely
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI generated t-shirts...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Looks like Madoka Magica
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My kind of Doctor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Literally just “Take whatever we have, and call it a doctor playset” lol
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hostile design: sink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Lots of people care a great deal about themselves while caring not at all about others.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The PS5 version of GTA6 is going yo sell pretty well then
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me btw⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.com and is finding an element whose title property is shorts - 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
This particular cheque should work, if processed by a person.

Cheques have two fields for the amount; numbers and written out. The numerical field is the most important and required part, while the written is to deter fraud, for example the bearer may attempt to alter £100 to £1000, or £300 to £800, and having the sum in writing makes this a lot harder.

So as long as this cheque has $650 in the number field, it should be valid.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s viable again because well… gestures vaguely at everything

HP just launched a laptop ‘subscription’ service too. It’s a rather disgusting sign of the times. Companies would love for this to become the norm, because renting is a highly profitable game. Get that sweet money coming in month after month. And you are right; we must not encourage them.

I’d rather save up and go to the second-hand marketplace than line a corpo’s pocket by renting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This one was invented, by a writer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
No, not this time
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a good idea to use an Android phone as an external SSD for backing up my home folder?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Not the original commenter, but possibly because SSDs are eventually volatile.

SSDs store data by trapping electrons in cells to represent your ones and zeroes, and when the disk is unpowered those electrons can eventually escape, causing data loss.

This may take years to happen though, so if you use the disk frequently you are unlikely to experience it.

That said, the time to unpowered data loss gets worse the more cumulative data you have written to the disk over its life. SSDs that are extremely badly worn out could lose data in months, not years.

Traditional spinning disks don’t have this issue as the magnetic storage doesn’t depend on power to stay magnetised, so it’s a better choice for archival storage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What launcher should I replace Nova with?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I just got a new phone and I’m trying Kvaesitso to move away from Nova, but I just can’t get used to it.

I think I just really like the paradigm of having a ‘desktop’ where I can freely arrange my most used apps in a specific layout, and Kvaesitso - by intentional deaign choice - doesn’t allow it.

Which is really a shame for me because I love the ethos, I love the open-source approach, and I love that it’s a wholly original launcher rather than a fork of the stock or anything else.

A great launcher for some I’m sure, but to me it’s like even after I unlock the device I’m still stuck in something that feels like a lock screen to me, and I feel weirdly trapped and claustrophobic.

Not sure why it makes me feel that way, but it does!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Same here in UK honestly - it’s that or the hazards, they both sebd the same message :)

Probably down to whichever is easiest. I’ve personally observed that drivers of big trucks tend to do the indicator thing, while most people in cars do the hazards. Not sure if there’s a specific trucker reason for that divide!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Weird. You’d think Canadians at least would have a way to say sorry ;P
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Here in the UK, turning on your hazards for a couple of flashes means either “Thank you” or “sorry” to the car following, depending on context.

Someone let you merge in? "Thank you!*

You cut someone off? “Sorry!”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people eat this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Seriously though!

Textural variation makes food interesting for the mouth. That’s why fresh, crisp lettuce is so good in a sandwich - not because lettuce tastes of anything, but because it gives that satisfying crunch.

Texture is why we put croutons in soup, and why we sprinkle crispy onions on a hot-dog.

I’ve never eaten a toast sandwich, but if all I had left in the house was bread and butter, it might be quite fun to try.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Sure, there are always exceptions.

I’m not being self-deprecating for the sake of it - I’m speaking what I feel from personal experience. And on the basis of that experience I would rank the average state of British food well below the average state of food in a pretty wide spread of other places.

And that’s what I’m basing it on - averages, not exceptions.