tiramichu
@tiramichu@lemm.ee
- Comment on Life hack 1 day ago:
“The squeaky wheel gets the grease” is an adage that is unfortunately true, and I find it absolutely infuriating.
I would much prefer that we can all be polite and courteous to each other, so when being polite fails but having a screaming tantrum gets results it really makes me annoyed at the unfairness.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 day ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if they use it for creation in some cases, depending on locale, or if you seem “suspicious” to their metrics in some way, e.g. registering while on a VPN
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 2 days ago:
Even the latest Andor is true to that formula.
In one part, two characters are communicating over “radio” voice comms using code speak - presumably in case there are any Empire operatives listening in. And prior to that they kept missing each other because they weren’t at their radios at the same time.
So you’ve got hyperspace travel and laser guns, but no data encryption. Alright then.
Except of course, they do have encryption when the plot calls for it, and that’s another reason to consider or fantasy. In most sci-fi the rules stay pretty consistent, but in fantasy it’s more flexible.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 2 days ago:
*in the past.
(“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”)
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 2 days ago:
The way 2. is written is basically a death sentence.
What they presumably meant is “never exceed your ideal weight no matter how much you eat”
- Comment on they come 3 days ago:
We simply didn’t need those things. Cold winters were more of an issue than hot summers, so our homes historically have been built with brick or stone construction that holds the warmth.
When it is hot for just a few days in a row, that same construction actually helps stay cool, because even if it’s hot outside the heat takes a long time to penetrate, and inside stays nice and cool.
But now that climate is changing and we’re seeing summers with a couple of weeks of intensely hot weather in a row with temperatures higher than ever, that same construction actually becomes a problem. Because now the stone and brick become completely saturated with heat, and even at night when it’s cooler outside the brick is staying hot abd radiating that heat. It’s basically like living in a pizza oven.
The past few years it’s been like that maybe only a couple weeks of the year, but nonetheless air conditioners are starting to become more popular.
For insect screens, same deal - we just never usually have a problematic amount of insects. Which is why when we do have a lot of insects it’s in the news.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 6 days ago:
This - get the no-brand replacement heads. No way would I spend the prices Oral-B are asking.
Sometimes the big brands can end up as better device purchases, since despite being more expensive upfront, there are plenty of cheap third-party consumables available.
- Comment on Grieve with me 1 week ago:
Something nonconductive seems the safest choice, so you can’t accidentally short anything.
- Comment on Adobe to automatically move subscribers to pricier, AI-focused tier in June 1 week ago:
I guess this means Microsoft’s similar recent move with Office worked out for them financially, even though it caused a lot of backlash.
- Comment on Is andor still worth watching if I've never seen anything else Star Wars? 1 week ago:
Yes.
In fact, I’d say that among all Star Wars TV shows it’s the one which makes the most sense to someone who is unfamiliar with wider Star Wars lore.
Andor is a very independent entity, and everything you need to know to enjoy the show is encapsulated within the show itself.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 weeks ago:
Dithering is still to this day extremely useful for making custom wall art in Minecraft using maps, because maps have a very specific and limited pallette.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 weeks ago:
And websites would have a link to a page and say “Warning! This page contains a lot of pictures!” so you wouldn’t click it unless you were prepared to put your other browsing on hold for a little while
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 2 weeks ago:
You’ll probably have a long time to wait.
The Switch 1 was only able to run homebrew due to a hardware exploit in the CPU which allowed injection of arbitrary code. The interesting thing about that vulnerability being that since it was a hardware vulnerability, it couldn’t be patched out even after it was discovered.
Following that incident, I’m sure Nintendo has been working especially hard to ensure there are no similar vulnerabilities existing on the Switch 2.
That said, console hackers are an amazingly creative and talented bunch, so I wouldn’t be surprised by anything.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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’ 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Yes, which is a big part of why it sucks.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 1 month ago:
Me neither. The age of genuine physical game ownership is toast.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 1 month 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] 1 month ago:
But maybe I enjoy that
- Comment on Is ‘Mickey 17’ the latest victim of the Oscars’ newest curse? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Fair :)
- Comment on Three original movies are being released in theaters today 1 month 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.