djdarren
@djdarren@piefed.social
- Comment on Life Is Strange 2 days ago:
Yeah, I really enjoyed the first couple, and The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit is a really beautiful little thing that ties in to Life Is Strange 2, but stands on its own nicely.
LiS2 didn’t touch me as much as the first, and :Before the Storm, but it’s still enjoyable enough. I haven’t played True Colors though.
- Comment on UK heatwave triggers price rises for items such as hot tubs and air conditioning units 3 days ago:
Somehow, the market only ever pushes prices up for things we want to buy, and down for things we want to sell.
- Comment on What's with black superheroes and lightning powers? 1 week ago:
Apropos of, well, this thread: If you aren’t aware of Black Lightning by The Bellrays, then you really ought to be.
- Comment on Sorry, bit of a UK-related rant, following this post I saw on Re**it 1 week ago:
If you have a child with disabilities such as that, then there’s a strong likelihood they have a blue badge already, and yes, they have every right to park there.
- Comment on Sorry, bit of a UK-related rant, following this post I saw on Re**it 1 week ago:
Just this afternoon I witnessed someone doing a spectacularly poor three point turn using someone’s driveway, thereby holding up all the traffic in both directions, having just picked their kids up from school.
In the time it took to carry out that manouvre, they could have just driven around the block.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 1 week ago:
I attend a place of work from 0700 to 1600.
Do I work in that time?
Yeah, why not…
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 week ago:
Tbh, it’s not even about affordability, I just don’t want to have to own four different devices in order to play fucking games.
How many CD players did you need to play regular CDs from all the studios? One.
Same with DVD. And Blu-Ray.
Consoles got a pass back in the day because they legitimately used different formats and architectures, but now they’re basically all just single use PCs that don’t even have a physical media drive, they can all piss off. If a game isn’t available on PC, I’ll wait until I have a PC powerful enough to emulate it, then I’ll pirate it and they can shit up a rope.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
Here in the UK we do something similar, though not until we see the flashing lights. We pull across as far as we can in order to allow as much space as possible.
- Comment on What do I need to know about GrapheneOS? 2 weeks ago:
After ten years of being able to only carry my iPhone, it felt like quite a regression going back to carrying my wallet after I got a Pixel and put Graphene on it. That and not having face unlock any more made me feel like maybe I’d made a mistake. But I got over it soon enough.
- Comment on What do I need to know about GrapheneOS? 2 weeks ago:
Be aware that if you fail the ID check for Curve (which I somehow managed to do) they’ll essentially just ghost you without offering the opportunity to try again. I’ve tried a few times to get someone from their customer service to help me sort it out, but it always fizzles out after a couple of messages.
As an alternative, I use Monzo with a Garmin watch. It’s not perfect because I have to transfer any money I want available from my bank to Monzo, but once I’ve done that it’s easy enough to access on my watch. All in all, I mostly carry my bank card in a magsafe wallet, but it’s handy to have payments on my watch in a pinch.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 5 weeks ago:
How do you use yours? I have a couple, and have never managed to figure out how to get them to pair properly to either my Mac or my Linux machine. I mean, they pair, but then I can’t really seem to use them for much.
- Comment on Think Bold 5 weeks ago:
A man can multi task.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 1 month ago:
I’m currently replaying Horizon: Zero Dawn on my wife’s old GTX 1060 machine. Yeah, it’s kinda janky at times, but it’s still a great game.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 1 month ago:
Also, people are less able to afford the hardware to truly make the most of AAA games.
- Comment on Think Bold 1 month ago:
There are two wolves in me, and I’m glad I came to this furry convention.
- Comment on The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod 1 month ago:
I might look into Lidarr. Currently, I have a folder in SymcThing that my server monitors, so any audio I drop in there automatically gets moved to my Navidrome folder. It works well enough, but is a little clunky.
- Comment on The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod 1 month ago:
Navidrome serving up my 200gb library from home, via Tailscale, and all it cost me was the music that I bought* over the years. Oh, and a fiver for Symfonium on my phone. But Feishin is free on my computers.
Then I worked out how to redirect it through the VPS I use for my website, and now I have my own streaming service. It’s pretty sweet.
_ *well, some of it…
- Comment on The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod 1 month ago:
iPods are still out there, and you can still buy parts to mod them. Mod a 6th gen iPod Classic with 500gb of flash storage and a new battery, and you need never worry about another music player. You can even wedge bluetooth into them now. And a USB-C connector.
- Comment on Simple love 1 month ago:
She was only with him for his woollen underpants knitting pattern.
- Comment on Where'd it go? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I make good use of the Hidden Posts section in the profile page on Voyager, every time the feed refreshes for no good reason.
- Comment on One new message! 1 month ago:
Oh god, I’ve just remembered a time on holiday when he went to bite into a perfectly innocuous hamburger, and discovered a single slice of tomato. He was so outraged he threw up on his plate.
That was fun.
- Comment on One new message! 1 month ago:
When my kid was four and refusing to go to bed, he once stood at the top of the stairs, holding tight to the stair gate, looked me dead in the eye, and shit himself.
On the one hand I was impressed with the show of superiority, but on the other, I did briefly consider having him adopted.
So yeah, I get it.
- Comment on Poorly drawn guys club 1 month ago:
Aww yis!
- Comment on Poorly drawn guys club 1 month ago:
How dare you talk about the Pallas cat that way. He be very floof and round.
- Comment on Is the UK falling out of love with social media? 1 month ago:
I keep it for Messenger and because sometimes I need to flog my old shit on Marketplace. But yeah, I’ve not posted on there regularly since 2019.
Meanwhile, I’m almost always on Mastodon and Lemmy.
- Comment on Turbines are our friends 1 month ago:
Nokia 3310s.
- Comment on To whoever decided it is acceptable to wear yoga pants in public: 2 months ago:
It’s all good, my dude.
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 2 months ago:
Particularly when it’s an old Mac that Apple obsoleted years ago, but which still runsimux perfectly.
- Comment on it really do be like that 2 months ago:
Sundresses are wicked lovely to wear. I can heartily recommend it to any guys who are worried about doing so.
- Comment on Government to make “plug-in solar” available within months 2 months ago:
Cool. As a tenant I’ll finally be able to take advantage of solar power without having to beg my landlord to have it fitted.
