tiramichu
@tiramichu@lemm.ee
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 hour ago:
Yes for electronic devices that expect low voltage DC and have a converter, like laptops, phone chargers, etc.
But don’t try and take a 120V hairdryer on holiday and plug it in because it will certainly blow up.
- Comment on Tabletop Convection Oven* 3 days ago:
I use my air fryer a lot, despite having a fan oven also.
Because the fan circulation is more powerful than in a typical oven, air fryers are really good at is crisping things up, and doing it quickly.
If you ever get take-out and have left over fries, you can put them in the air fryer and they go from fridge-limp to deliciously crisp in just 3 minutes, it resurrects them perfectly. Can’t get results like that in the big oven.
- Comment on Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles 1 week ago:
I have been annoyed about this for years. Even foreign-language movies had audio-descriptive subtitles instead of dialog only, and it really frustrated and distracted me.
Glad to see Netflix finally fix it… now that I already stopped using Netflix and never will use it again.
- Comment on Steam will soon list what accessibility features games support on store pages 2 weeks ago:
I like this a lot.
I don’t have any physical accessibility needs (unless you count my low skill level, git gud scrub) but accessibility options are something I really appreciate seeing in games.
I love being able to adjuat how I experience the game to match my needs, and making this visible and searchable on the store is only going to encourage more games to include good accessibility features :)
- Comment on zoomers are the new blooners 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. “kids these days” don’t even know what a website is, all they know are apps.
- Comment on welp, Patreon just destroyed my stable income after a decade on the platform - what now 3 weeks ago:
It’s an absolutely dick move by Patreon.
I guess Patreon figure it will make them as a platform more money, because people tend to forget about subscriptions and just let them keep going.
But it’s awful for creators who release less frequently, because people will start to feel cheated when months go by and they don’t get anything. And I’m sure the creators won’t enjoy that pressure either.
It’s like Patreon are cracking the whip, telling creators “Work faster, you have to justify your monthly subscription now!”
Assholes.
- Comment on But what if I really want a faster horse? 3 weeks ago:
This is happening because all platforms are optimising for the one single metric that matters most to them - engagement.
When you consider all users as a whole, the way to get engagement is not to have a good UX that lets you tailor what you see and search for the specific things you are interested in. The way to get it is to shove a constantly changing and brightly coloured stream of “content” right in people’s faces where they don’t have to do any thinking or make any decisions, they just mindlessly click what is offered and consume.
From Netflix’s perspective, they want someone to go from opening the app to watching a video in 10 seconds, and if they don’t achieve that, it’s a failure which they will optimise away.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 4 weeks ago:
Centralisation makes things easy.
If it takes more than 1 minute to onboard to a new service, and especially if you have to overcome any learning barrier (such as what ‘instances’ are and how to choose one) then the vast majority of people will immediately throw that option out and won’t even consider it.
People like bluesky specifically because it gives them something almost identical to what they had before.
- Comment on ‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’ 4 weeks ago:
“Yellow” isn’t just a colour match though, there are very significant historical stereotypes and prejudice with the associan between ‘yellow’ and ‘Asian’
- Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California? 5 weeks ago:
If they changed this in the way you describe, I wouldn’t even personally consider it retcon.
To me, “retconning” is changing some point which is kinda substantiative so that it disagrees with what was presented before. “This thing we said happened? Well it didn’t.”
If, as you suggest, they kept the idea of making the Mojave hospitable and pleasant but changed this so it’s more respectful of the existing ecosystem, then to me that’s not a retcon, it’s more like updating the existing concept to be better in line with the ideals of a contemporary audience. A refresh, if you will.
So I’d be totally fine with that :)
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 5 weeks ago:
Yes, which is a big part of why it sucks.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 5 weeks ago:
Me neither. The age of genuine physical game ownership is toast.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 5 weeks ago:
Nintendo a site say the cartridge must always be inserted in order to play the game, and so it is the cartridge that controls the game license.
On that basis it seems likely you could sell/give the cartridge to someone else, after which they can play it and you no longer can - they’d just also have to download it first.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
But maybe I enjoy that
- Comment on Is ‘Mickey 17’ the latest victim of the Oscars’ newest curse? 5 weeks ago:
Totally. I feel like winning Best Director is your one-time free pass to get a risky project greenlit that normally you could never.
And if those movies don’t smash the box office then maybe, in part, it’s because the director quietly never intended them to be the kind of movie that would.
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 5 weeks ago:
Fair :)
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 5 weeks ago:
There’s a time for everything, is my personal take. Sometimes I want a film that will be original and challenge me, but I don’t want that every day.
Sometimes it’s relaxing to know there won’t be any big surprises.
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 5 weeks ago:
You see Statham on the poster, you know exactly what you are getting.
- Comment on How to Spot AI-Generated Scam Products 1 month ago:
This probpem has become more prevalent with AI, but deceptive item listings have been part of the online shopping minefield for a long time.
The same rule applies now as it always has - if it seems too good to be true, then it is.
- Comment on Anon is waiting for Japan 1 month ago:
Looking back, I think we can say that the year 2000 was a much better time than 2025
- Comment on Not today 1 month ago:
Assuming this is a genuine question, I may not have realised I was using a British English specific term.
“High Street” does etymologically derive from the main shopping street(s) in a town where most shops would have premises, as you suggest.
In a contemporary usage it means physical retail (versus online) and also connotes city centre, versus places that have enormous out of town “big box” stores.
So economists might say “The high street saw the best Christmas profits in five years” and they mean all retail in that sector of business.
So when I said CVS were a “high-street pharmacy” what I really meant to imply by that was “they are a brick-and-mortar chain with physical stores on streets in towns and cities all over the place”
- Comment on Not today 1 month ago:
CVS is a high street pharmacy chain.
So the CVS guy is the cashier on checkout at the store.
- Comment on Free Him! 1 month ago:
A small animal anethetiser which can fit a variety of small mammals, not just one.
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 1 month ago:
Very kind and polite of you
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 1 month ago:
To play the role of the annoying five year old, “And why is that bad?”
- Comment on Here's one more for you 🐸 1 month ago:
Finally, some good fucking algorithm
- Comment on This whole "Sign in to prove you're not a bot" thing is pissing me off 1 month ago:
That’s part of it, but it’s certainly ALSO a mechanism to encourage people to use an account, or to register if they haven’t, because that’s more trackable and monetisable.
Same reason why when you hit an X post or an Instagram post it normally lets you see a little tease but roadblocks you to sign in as soon as you start scrolling. They want you signed in for their own reasons.
If google wanted, they could implement a range of measures to disincentivise bots, like not counting views apart from signed-in users so there’s less reason for bots to be engaging with the platform, but that also is bad for their ad view monetisation metrics so they surely don’t want to do that. They’d rather inconvenience the user.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
She could call her parents on the phone and tell them herself, but she doesn’t want to because she knows it will be a difficult conversation.
Therefore she wants bro to have the difficult conversation for her, so she doesn’t have to.
- Comment on I answered your question now can we move on 1 month ago:
Welcome to my.TED talk
- Comment on The FAA Has a Big Problem with Mental Health 1 month ago:
I hope so too.
The whole problem is treating mental health like “Oh you had a problem, so you are now shit-listed for life”
This is especially dangerous IMO because it means pilots who realise themselves that they are unfit to fly will simply keep on flying, while trying to hide the symptoms and avoid treatment, because they know that if they truthfully disclose what’s going on then it’s game over for them. It builds the incentive to lie directly into the system.