Dave

@Dave@lemmy.nz

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This has some nice Daniel Tiger’s Tiger Cake vibes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent half an hour on it. Felt good.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a good reason. I guess when I’m directly writing SQL the queries are point in time and not part of some enduring codebase.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent half an hour on it. Felt good.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
More specifically I meant when I am writing in the language.

I don’t write “SELECT * FROM users;”, I write “select * from users;”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent half an hour on it. Felt good.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not sure if joking but I meant the language not the acronym.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent half an hour on it. Felt good.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A person is unlikely to read it but they will be looking for trends. I hope you used lots of good keywords.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spent half an hour on it. Felt good.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Do people actually write SQL in all caps? Ever since I was a boy I’ve always written SQL (and HTML) in lower case.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell nah brah⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t mind a call but I really appreciate the people who ask via message first!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aww man here we goo...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks for the tip, very helpful since I’m looking for MAX safety!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I guess I don’t get why the people selling you the seat have applied a fee from themselves instead of it just being part of the airfare.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
What is “Carrier-imposed fees”? Isn’t the carrier the airline?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mod of a similar comm to one I started deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Just ban them for vote manipulation and be done. I don’t think it’s petty, Lemmy doesn’t give you many tools to solve this so just use the one you have.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mod of a similar comm to one I started deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
If they are downvoting posts in your community, can you not ban them from the community?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wake up! hadewede hadebede make up!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That’s just cruel, at least I let the rest of the song play!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wake up! hadewede hadebede make up!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
One of my kids loved chop suey until they worked out it said that, then now wants to skip it every time.

Honestly I’m surprised that was the reason they don’t like it, and not because I used to blast it in the morning to wake them up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My computer will remember for me, I'm just along for the ride.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The more you learn about memory the more you realise that doing this is totally justified.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks, looks like this research is quite UK focused. However, some of the previous research they link to here shows NZ as the second highest rents compared to general costs, second only to the UK.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not in the UK but I am in the OECD - is there a full list so I can see how fucked my country is?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If the salmonella is on the outside, shouldn’t you cook the outside of the chicken?

Since you can kill the salmonella in eggs without cooking the egg (as in pasturised egg), then the temperature that kills salmonella seems low enough that any form of cooking will kill whatever is on the outside of the chicken.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah I can imagine trying to do it manually could get pretty tricky. I’ll look forward to the smart watch support (though I don’t own one, I might get one if others report it working well with GrapheneOS).

Edit: also one thing to try out if possible is to remove battery optimization from Google Play Services. Your device might be killing that, which stops counting the steps.

It seems it’s already set to not be optimized. It doesn’t seem to have access to the physical activity permission, but granting that permission didn’t seem to help. It still doesn’t count steps with the screen off.

No matter, thanks for all the ideas, I’ll just keep watching and see if others find a solution. I’ve subscribed to the Walkscape community so hopefully you’ll be posting updates there 🙂
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It doesn’t seem to be helping. If I ever work out a more reliable way to get steps counted I’ll let you know. I know some pedometer apps don’t need Google Play Services and use a persistant notification to keep it active, but it seems like quite a significant change from what you currently have which wouldn’t be worth spending time on to appease such a small group of users.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plot twist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Marshall Islands appears to have been independent from the US since 1979, so is not a US territory.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The article says:

she’s well-loved and considered one of the best characters in Enterprise

So I think you might be with the majority on this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plot twist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

(at least in America, not sure where your pineapple under the sea is located).

Bikini Atoll, right? But on on the atoll, but the bottom of the sea by/in the atoll. Under the jurisdiction of the Marshal Islands. It seems the minimum wage there is USD$2 per hour, and has been that way since 1986. I found no official source but two sites agree on this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I can’t say I know drumming, but from what I can search up it’s apparently better than nothing. An electronic drum kit is better than a pad but not as good as a real kit. They all have different feels.

However, it seems that doing anything (even air drumming) is better than doing nothing.

If you are serious, then i investigate lessons. You might be able to use real drums at your lessons and the pad for in-between. The teacher should be able to help you pick good exercises for using on the pad.

From what I’m searching up, it seems if you’re not doing lessons you’ll get bad habits regardless, but it shouldn’t prevent you from starting. Anything is better than doing nothing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Get a pressure washer. Then you could get a cheap electronic drum pad like this.

If you enjoy the drums you can upgrade to a better set later.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

If Google Play Services aren’t on there, the Recording API will not count steps in the background.

That makes a lot of sense.

Probably easiest solution is to let WalkScape to run in the background, when it’s freezed the battery consumption should be basically nothing.

It’s allowed to run in the background, but I have now disabled battery optimisation and will see if that helps.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
From my understanding, any app installed directly from Google Play should be in the sandbox and have access to Google Play Services. I haven’t quite worked out where the steps are missing, but it seems when the game is open it’s fine, and when the game hasn’t been killed by the OS it’s also fine. If I go back to the game and it has to launch again from scratch, it doesn’t seem to count steps that happened while the game wasn’t running (foreground or background).

I also see this post where others are seeing the same thing, and are not using GrapheneOS. Maybe my use of GrapheneOS is a red herring and there’s actually something else happening.

It was always odd to me that apps need to be constantly active to get the steps. I don’t get why the phone doesn’t just count in the background then allow you to request “how many steps today” or “how many steps since X date/time” via the API.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m using GrapheneOS and struggling to get the game to count steps when it’s not actively open. Anyone else using GrapheneOS and have any tips?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I thought I’d mention as it hasn’t been mentioned yet: the only way to install the game on Android is through Google Play. You also need to join a Google Group to get access on Google Play.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MS new captcha: Why did it have to be that hard!?!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m tired of looking at clear, easy to spot traffic lights that I get 100% right but have to do page after page of them because I’m using a VPN. If it’s not important I will give up on a site using reCaptcha.