tiramichu
@tiramichu@lemm.ee
- Comment on Will SNW (or any future Trek) Retcon Mojave, California? 6 days 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 6 days ago:
Yes, which is a big part of why it sucks.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 6 days ago:
Me neither. The age of genuine physical game ownership is toast.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 6 days 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 week ago:
But maybe I enjoy that
- Comment on Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy 1 week ago:
I just exported my MAL list, and I suggest others do that too, as a backup. (View your list, there is an export button at the left side)
I don’t exactly know what this news means and I dont intend to stop using MAL immediately, but if this is a signal for the beginning of the end for MAL then I wouldn’t be surprised if they remove the export ability at some point, to try and stop people from leaving.
- Comment on Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy 1 week ago:
You can export your list from MAL and import it there.
I personally literally just now did that - so I can’t actually give a review of how decent anilist is or isn’t, but I have friends who use it.
- Comment on Interesting 1 week ago:
Rena would definitely play the hell out of that
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 1 week ago:
Same logic, the bra itself as a whole is a cheat covering.
But a bra does have a “pair of cups” though!
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 1 week ago:
For some items like glasses it’s very clear why they are pairs; if you can have a reading glass (which is an antiquated way to refer to a handheld magnifying lens, for example) then you can certainly have a pair of reading glasses because it’s the two pieces of glass which are plural.
For trousers there are no certain answers, but I’d suggest it’s very much with with how we conceptualise their function. For 90% of their height trousers are split and cover the legs, of which we have two, only joining right at the top.
For shirts you might think it’s the same (two arms right?) but it’s a completely different story because the primary function of a shirt isn’t to cover the arms but to cover the torso. So it’s singular. And gloves of course are distinct, so it’s back to pairs.
- Comment on With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before 1 week ago:
It’s just not fun anymore.
It used to be kinda humorous in an irreverent way back in the 2000s when Google used April Fools to announce things like the Google Romance search engine, or a facility to archive all your Gmails on printed paper. It was tech making fun of itself.
But these days when the mask is fully off, and we recognise that big tech and social media has been one of the greatest problems the world has ever faced, we’re not laughing any longer.
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 1 week ago:
Oh no!
…well anyway :)
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 1 week ago:
10 years isn’t a bad run, but it still proves the point that anything which needs an app or connected web service to function will inevitably become e-waste, and maybe sooner than you’d like.
Earlier today, I was looking at reviews of portable Bluetooth speakers. One had a bullet point “No equalizer app, with only basic EQ functions available by controls on the device itself.”
The review intended that to be a negative, but I was like “Hell yeah that’s what I want!”
Functionality in pure hardware means it will keep on working as long as the hardware works. It means that I myself get to be the one who decides when I need an upgrade, not when the company forces my hand.
Every single tech purchasing decision I make these days, having freedom from apps, cloud, or any other ticking time bomb is top of my feature list.
- Comment on Enshitification of CrowdSec 3 weeks ago:
Personally. I don’t feel that analogy is a fair comparison.
Begging a dev for new features for free would definitely be entitlement, because it’s demanding more, but what OP is upset about is reduction in the service they already had.
I don’t think any free tier user of any service could have any right to be upset if new features were added only for paying customers, but changing the free tier level is different.
In my opinion, even if you aren’t paying for it, the free tier is a service level like any other. People make decisions about whether or not to use a service based on if the free tier covers their needs or not. Companies will absolutely try to upsell you to a higher tier and that’s cool, that’s business after all, but they shouldn’t mess around with what they already offered you.
When companies offer a really great free tier but then suddenly reduce what is on it, then in my opinion that’s a baiting strategy. They used a compelling offering to intentionally draw in a huge userbase (from which they benefit) and build up the popularity and market share of the service, and then chopped it to force users - who at this point may be embedded and find it difficult to switch - to pay.
So yeah, it doesn’t matter in my opinion that the tier is free. It’s still a change in what you were promised after the fact, and that’s not cool regardless if whether there is money involved or not.
- Comment on The Internet Desk 3 weeks ago:
For sure right!
What really changed though wasn’t the size of the computer, but how the computer produced value.
Initially, a lot of what people wanted computers for was to get their “document stuff” done, and that was what took up all the room, because of the printer, and scanner, and paper, and filing drawers, and so-on. And soooo many CDs for software you needed to get that all done.
I remwber when I was a kid, my babysitter used our Windows 95 machine to write up and print off a cover letter for job applications, and it was 9 year old me who taught her how to do it, lol.
I bet even when your friend set up their shiny new all-in-one, they still had the old computer and all its attached devices hiding away shamefully in the ‘office’ there somewhere…
So it wasn’t really miniaturisation that killed the computer room as much as it was every aspect of life going online. No physical disks anymore because software comes over the Internet. No need to print because 99% of our life and business can be done online. So all the things that filled up the computer room just ceased to be needed, and so did the room that held them.
- Comment on The Internet Desk 3 weeks ago:
There was a brief and remarkable period in history from the mid 90s to the late 2000s where homes all across the land had a room that was referred to as “The Computer Room”
Not “The Office” no; for this room was not so pedestrian. It was a room whose entire function was to house the great monolith of The Computer.
A corner desk in veneered pine-effect plywood, atop which sat the great beige tower and CRT. A printer and a scanner straddling the desk like sentinels. Racks of CD holders built right into the fake pine, and a lidded box for floppy disks in a smoky translucent plastic, that for some reason came with lock and key as if the disks were precious jewels.
These days we have no need for such things, and the home office is once again simply an office. But for a while we had The Computer Room, and some part of me misses you.
- Comment on I answered your question now can we move on 4 weeks ago:
Welcome to my.TED talk
- Comment on “Literally just a copy”—hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft 4 weeks ago:
Lots of great money to be made in theft, apparently.
- Comment on The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses 4 weeks ago:
The wheels still scream “I’m an EV!” though, with that design that incorporates loads of flat area, but I’m glad the body design is moving away.
I can see why manufacturers and wanted “EV style” - EVs were the new hotness and so the makers want to strongly telegraph the electric nature of the car in the design language. And I’m sure certain consumers also liked driving around in something that looks like an alien spaceship.
But that design gets old real quick. Personally I don’t want crazy, I want classic shapes and a car that just looks like an ordinary car.
- Comment on What exactly are they teaching in our schools? 4 weeks ago:
YARE YARE
- Comment on Notion Mail - Off the waitlist 4 weeks ago:
I’m doing it slowly. Anything new I register with the new email, obviously. I moved over the most important things, and then everything else I switch at the point I come to use that site or service again.
I keep my gmail available in my browser on the laptop for.this purpose, but have signed out from it on phone and removed the app from phone, so the friction encourages me to keep switching things over.
- Comment on Thunderbird does not fall under the new terms frommmozilla 4 weeks ago:
Ironic how the typo directly inverted the meaning.
will not adopt = will not use the new Firefox terms
will not adapt = will use the new Firefox terms exactly, without any rewording
- Comment on BADBOX 2.0 Targets Consumer Devices: 1M+ Android TV streaming boxes, tablets, projectors, and car infotainment systems are infected with malware that conscripts them into a botnet. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve got a cheap-ass projector running some Android variant. I decided to not give it my wifi and just use HDMI
50% because I was concerned about things like this, and 50% because it might have malware straight from the factory for all I know.
- Comment on Notion Mail - Off the waitlist 5 weeks ago:
I can’t make any recommendations as having a desktop or alternative email client isn’t what concerns me, just having a non-Google provider. I’m currently using Proton.
- Comment on Notion Mail - Off the waitlist 5 weeks ago:
Well to be fair it does say this in the FAQ section on their product page:
Q: Which email provider(s) will Notion Mail be compatible with?
A: Notion Mail will integrate seamlessly with Google and Gmail accounts at initial launch.
I assume this is because they are using Google’s APIs to access your email and just provide some extra bells and whistles on top of that.
Makes it utterly worthless to me though. I’m trying to slowly REMOVE Google and Gmail from my life completely, not get locked in on using it.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. The way to make money pre-Internet was “generate repeat business” and the way to do that was to create a product and service the customer was happy with.
The way to make money now is to get the customer trapped, then pump them as hard as possible.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 weeks ago:
Companies were never our friends, but it used to be the case that companies sold products. They sold a product and you got to use it and that was the end of it.
Now instead, thanks largely to the Internet, companies barely care about ‘product’ at all and instead are all trying to get in on that gravy train of monetised data slurping, subscription models, DRM on every consumable, firmware updates that change the terms on you after the fact, and so on. Every electronic thing in your home is now super hostile to you.
TVs, printers, fridges. These products used to be just products, but now they are trojan horses.
- Comment on anime that are built diffrent 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely, differing tastes exist. Just wanted to share an alternative perspective for anyone wondering whether nichijou is worth a try :)
- Comment on anime that are built diffrent 5 weeks ago:
Nichijou has a pretty safe spot in my top 10. It very much depends what your sense of humour is like.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 5 weeks ago:
What has your choice of browser(s) been throughout the past decade?