Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Hell nah brah 9 hours 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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! 3 weeks ago:
That’s just cruel, at least I let the rest of the song play!
- Comment on wake up! hadewede hadebede make up! 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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! 1 month 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! 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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! 1 month 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! 1 month 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! 1 month 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! 1 month 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!?!? 1 month 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!?!? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.