atrielienz
@atrielienz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 week ago:
Yeah but it seems like they were not expecting this change just based on their responses on social media, and it looks like Sony didn’t even “require it” until just recently. So I just wanted to know.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 week ago:
Is the game developer involved or is it just Sony doing Sony there are some things that there are some things that don’t things?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My asvab score was a 92. Had a migraine that morning. Can we not do this? This is just silly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I recommend some clips. The kind used to hang laundry. I believe that trashcan comes with a swiveling lid not pictured here and if the bag is installed properly the lid will hold it in place. But if you don’t have the lid (they’re not made of a particularly durable material or to a durable design spec), the clips do work.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
- Can we not do this?
- Comment on Come on, science! 1 week ago:
So it has support for hearing aids. But nothing for the automotive side of things in that regard for the hard of hearing. His phone was connected to the car via Bluetooth. But no sound was coming from the cars speakers, and that sound was not transmitted to his hearing aid.
The onscreen toggle setting for Google maps does not show up until you select to navigate to a destination (this was a problem, because at first we couldn’t even see if it was toggled on). Picking a destination and choosing to start navigation made that toggle show up, and it was toggled on but we still had no sound.
There’s a settings toggle at the bottom of his screen (mine is not the same, I checked that both apps are updated to the latest firmware), and that settings menu has toggles for things like assistant voice/smart features related to the app, but no sound features. To get to the advanced sound features for the app you have to select your profile from the menu, then select settings, then select Navigation settings, and only then can you select things like “mute state”, or “guidance volume”.
Specifically things like “play voice over Bluetooth” which was not selected by default after his last update. This is not a setting he even knew existed or knew how to find. So I honestly doubt he deselected it.
My pixel 8 has accessibility features that allow for quick toggles. To control things like screen brightness and volume. It also has more settings for the hard of hearing than his. His S23 has the support for hearing aids but not things like sound amplifier that I was looking for. And audio adjustment which would have been useful to allow him to rebalance the sound for the ear that doesn’t use a hearing aid. I actually wonder if that’s a developer settings thing and why it should be hidden that way.
I also couldn’t select what type of Bluetooth device he was using (but this may be because of the make and model of his car, not a shortcoming of Google or Android).
For him I’m sure this was very confusing because it seemed convoluted even to me. Anyway in the long run, we got voice prompts for navigation up and running, and he was happy with that. But the bar for entry for the hearing impaired seems a bit high.
- Comment on Come on, science! 1 week ago:
I was actually helping an aging coworker who wears a hearing aid set up some features on his phone and connecting his phone to Bluetooth. I was significantly disappointed with the lack of features geared toward those who are hard of hearing. Specifically in driving mode for Android auto. He’s got a newish phone (S23) so it’s not that. And the settings were far too convoluted to find for my tastes.
It really bothered me quite a bit that I couldn’t make the Bluetooth register that he was using a car and therefore speakers, not headphones. And further that the settings for voice prompts in the maps app requires he go into his personal Google settings to change toggles because the app user facing one is only available once you pick a destination and he couldn’t hear it.
Is it too much to ask for a long presa shortcut?
- Comment on I was handed this lovely flyer while grocery shopping 3 weeks ago:
We clearly need to bring back the big red rubber stamp. Just stamp it “SCAM” and leave it somewhere like a bulletin board. Because if they want to waste their money and paper, we should make it expensive for them. The stamp isn’t expensive really and ink pads are fairly cheap and last a long time.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 1 month ago:
www.reddit.com/r/…/warning_there_is_a_data_cap/
I know I know, Reddit post. But there is in fact a soft data cap. The guy who made the post was torrenting and received an email for reaching the data abuse threshold.
If you’re using FI, and you set the device your using the phone hotspot for to metered connection you’re not too terribly likely to reach the data cap on pretty much any of the unlimited fi plans. I do this for work.
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
I am not the network/sys admin so I can’t but I will pass it along to them. Thank you. What’s funny is we use windows ten for our work laptops because of some software and I don’t have this problem with those. Just the desktops where we clock in and out and do online training.
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
I’m the one who has to deal with these popup every time I login in order to clock in on time. Worth it to me, but perhaps not to everyone.
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
Meanwhile I’ve been trying to turn off all the news, bing smart AI, and BS popups in windows 11 on the computers where we clock in for weeks. No such luck.
- Comment on hmm. too much relish. 1 month ago:
This looks like a bun filled with guac and mayonnaise.
- Comment on Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes. 1 month ago:
Some states don’t even require insurance for motorcycles. So there’s that.
- Comment on Gourdlets - Official Trailer | WLG Showcase 2024 1 month ago:
Thank you. I was wondering what this was.
- Comment on People who park in the handicapped ramp boil my blood. 3 months ago:
That’s a place holder plate. Dealerships, and used car places put them on before official licensed plates are available (in order to advertise), and will often put a dealer plate on the inside of the vehicle in the window or similar so that the vehicle is street legal. I think (not super positive) that rental car places do that as well sometimes to move vehicles etc.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 4 months ago:
I can’t get through path of pain and I’m done with trying.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 4 months ago:
Probably Hollow Knight at this rate. That 112% is a lot.
- Comment on Following Bobby Kotick’s exit, former ABK devs call out his toxic management and Overwatch 2 sabotage 4 months ago:
So they’re fixing overwatch 2? I know, I know. I’m a sweet summer child.
- Comment on What multiplayer games having singleplayer/offline mods? 4 months ago:
Local co-op games, or just strictly games that are multiplayer with an offline single player mode/main game story line?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
This is a good point.
- Comment on This toilet paper at my work 4 months ago:
That’s military grade single ply right there. youtu.be/f6HuAhJ0k5E?si=BucLnrDAhgJol_OC
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I don’t even do that for Imgur. I use a pihole at home and set my DNS in my settings to DNS . Adguard . Com. No spaces. I don’t see any ads in Imgur pretty much ever.
- Comment on Touchscreen smartphones aren't even fun or novel anymore, they're just necessities for daily life 5 months ago:
All of them aren’t. There are cheap touch screen phones. You just don’t get ridiculous features at the price point if $50. The Samsung A30 is a pretty cheap android phone.
- Comment on Sony’s PlayStation Portal is now available in Canada for $269 5 months ago:
Yeah. Steamlink has been a thing for ages. I even still have a physical steamlink box somewhere in storage. Same premise, somewhat nicer execution.
- Comment on Sony’s PlayStation Portal is now available in Canada for $269 5 months ago:
Parents would be my guess. Who don’t want a TV or gaming system in a kids room but would like to allow them to play games while a sibling or parent is using the TV.
- Comment on My friend on social refuses to see how this is a pyramid scheme 5 months ago:
To get people in the door or talking about the store. Free advertising from a group of readers who are more likely to buy the next and the next and the next in a series of books. Even if you’re making one sale instead of two, it’s still a sale. And you’re more likely to make more than one sale if they buy more than one book (which is likely).
- Comment on My friend on social refuses to see how this is a pyramid scheme 5 months ago:
Upholstery covers with different colors and fabrics exist. Washable covers exist. My great grandma has a turn of the century sitting room set with colorful covers for each piece that matches the seasons. My own couch is a cream color with washable covers. Scotch guard also exists. Stain removers even exist and they do work (especially carpet cleaners).
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 5 months ago:
Please read the above thread because I recognize that it is illegal, but so are tax fraud and wage theft.
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 5 months ago:
Apparently Federal Law sort invalidates the legality of a tip pool altogether because the tip only counts as a tip if the person who tips determines who the tip is given to and how much and it’s non compulsory. But a lot of places ignore that as well.