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- Comment on this post is just 42kib 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
Microsoft would absolutely love it if people had zero computer literacy and had to ask an AI for help to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks.
Because then the AI becomes indispensable.
- Comment on Fediverse.com is available for sale 2 weeks ago:
The idea there should be some definitive, canonical domain for the Fediverse is completely at odds with the core tenents of the Fediverse itself - decentralisation, and no single point of ownership or control. And on that basis, we absolutely should not care about a particular domain, or assign any level of ‘specialness’ to it.
I understand your worry - that some ‘bad actor’ could buy the domain and do something anti-Fediverse with it, but my response would be to simply not care. The strength of the Fediverse is that we are diverse and unbothered by whatever nonsense some centralised platform is trying to pull. We don’t have a profit motive. We don’t care.
People who want to find the real Fediverse will find us, all on their own, regardless of who some random domain belongs to :)
- Comment on "CITY THE ANIMATION" New Key Visual 2 weeks ago:
Random thought: I’d love to analyse a bunch of anime and get a count of how often schools are shown as being on a hill or high ground.
I get the feeling from my memory like 90% of the time when a school commute is shown it’s always on a hill with the students arduously cycling or pushing their bikes in the morning, and then happily freewheeling all the way home.
I’d love to know
A) is my memory actually correct
B) if my memory actually is correct, is this an a media trope only (as in, a visual metaphor for the morning journey being unpeasant while the time after school is freeing and relished) or are Japanese schools actually on hills a lot of the time.
- Comment on Tabletop Convection Oven* 2 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 Steam will soon list what accessibility features games support on store pages 3 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 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. “kids these days” don’t even know what a website is, all they know are apps.
- Comment on Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan 5 weeks ago:
In 2025, things staying the same as they are rather than getting worse counts as a ‘big win’ :|
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 5 weeks ago:
I remember reading a story a while back about someone who owned a legit CS version with a proper serial and activation.
They had to change computer, and in doing so had to reactivate Photoshop, but it wasn’t working. They contacted Adobe support and explained the situation but support basically told him nope, not a chance, we aren’t helping you. You need to subscribe to new Photoshop.
So Adobe accepted that yes, he bought a perpetual licence for Photoshop and that yes, the reason it isn’t working is the online activation, but they still refused to help.
Scumbags.
- Comment on Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones 5 weeks ago:
It’s pretty common and especially so on devices that don’t have batteries which are intended to be user-removable - which is pretty much all new phones.
- Comment on Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones 5 weeks ago:
Unlike laptops, many phones simply won’t turn on without a battery connected.
- 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 Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Oh no!
…well anyway :)
- Comment on Logitech is dropping support for its oldest Harmony remotes 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.