Dave

@Dave@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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!?!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MS new captcha: Why did it have to be that hard!?!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The checkbox is only the first step. When it’s a google recapcha, cloudflare, etc that have the checkbox, this is the trigger to check. It sees how long since you loaded the page to when the checkbox is checked, how the mouse moved (perfectly straight line or instant jump to position indicates bot), and other info they have about previous visits (they store a cookie on your PC and when you go to another site they know where you have been and can compare that against the much higher risk of a blank slate user or against whether you’ve tried the same form 100 times).

  If you pass that, as 90%+ of users should, then you see no more. If you are like me, you use a VPN and fail the first check and have to do endless recapcha “click on the busses” until you give up and quit the site.

  I hate the google ones. Not only do they make life unbearable for people with VPNs, they use the info about what sites you visit to sell ads. And half the time you don’t even know because the recapcha is the hidden in page one not the one in the form when you click the box.

  The cloudflare ones are nicer. They virtually always pass me even though I’m behind a VPN, and although they technically can track me across sites (and probably do to track threat level), they aren’t in the business of selling ads.

  I have also generally had a nice experience with hCapcha. And recently I came across one that is using proof of work, mCaptcha - not sure what to think on that as it probably uses excess energy but it’s nice to have your computer sort it out in the background. The idea here is a sort of rate limit. It takes 5 or 10 seconds to do the work to pass the test, but it all happens in the background while you fill the form in so you don’t notice. It slows down bots but doesn’t really detect them - more of a rate limiter or something designed to reduce the cost effectiveness of bots.

  Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anons make the worst game ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very long unskippable cutscenes before all bosses.

  It’s probably assumed but just to be clear - the save point is before the cutscene, so if you die then you have to watch the cut scene again every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting an inheritance is generational wealth. How come generational wealth is ok but only if I’m the one receiving it?

  Your question seems like a strawman. My comment was only about the apparent conflict between the two stances and I was not trying to make any comment about whether one or the other is the correct way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I find it a little funny that people complain about generational wealth and then complain about not getting an inheritance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. A smart CEO wouldn’t force RTO, they would lease out that unused space or expand using those unused desks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evil⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone else commented, it appears that the license isn’t free because when you share it the new person now owes the original author a beer if they ever meet them, so the middle person isn’t free to do whatever they like because of the ongoing obligation being forced on their users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evil⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes that makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evil⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was free as in speech not free as in beer? So if it costs a beer then isn’t it still free (as in speech)? Or is this a OSI vs FSF difference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godot Engine – 2024 Showreel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure anything described as “hardcore” is my kind of game haha, but thanks for the suggestion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godot Engine – 2024 Showreel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the suggestion! Looks like they have demos so I’ll check them out 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godot Engine – 2024 Showreel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heaps of cool games in there! Anyone played any and want to recommend them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out the join site here: joinmbin.org

  There is a list of servers there to check out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the current state is:

  • Mastodon users can participate on Lemmy
  • Lemmy users cannot follow Mastodon users

  So you may see comments or posts from Mastodon users, but if you want to follow Mastodon users you’ll need a Mastodon account.

  There is a middle ground. Mbin allows you to participate on both Lemmy and Mastodon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Talos Principle: Reawakened | More Than a Remaster | Coming Early 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe one day I’ll have time again!

  I had an Index, and after many years one of my lighthouses died (was actually from the Vive I had before that). But I wasn’t playing it enough to justify buying a new one.

  Now the kids are getting older I might get back into it at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Talos Principle: Reawakened | More Than a Remaster | Coming Early 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have mine anymore :(