tiramichu
@tiramichu@lemm.ee
- Comment on 'Ripped off' caravan owners start compensation fight 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, it’s absolutely disgusting.
For a time my retired father was looking into buying one, but I’m super glad in retrospect now this has all come out that it didn’t go through and he walked away.
These parks and the individuals who run them are intentionally scamming vulnerable people out of their entire retirement by painting a false picture that these holiday caravans are a sound investment just like owning a house, while all the while knowing fully that people will lose almost all the money they put in.
- Comment on The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025 1 month ago:
I use Pop for gaming and it just works.
As a plus, I also love the somewhat mac-ish UX design, although that won’t be to everyone’s taste.
- Comment on the council 1 month ago:
Heart of the Sea
- Comment on oh no 1 month ago:
Ignorance is bliss
- Comment on Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US 1 month ago:
If your device can be disabled remotely, it isn’t your device.
- Comment on Instagram faces backlash for lowering quality of low-engagement videos 2 months ago:
You’d be surprised.
I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who use their Instagram or Facebook as basically the history of their social lives, where all their memories are, the local copies long gone.
It’s a terrible idea, but I’m certain people are doing it.
- Comment on Instagram faces backlash for lowering quality of low-engagement videos 2 months ago:
YouTube videos degrade in quality over time too, as they reencode from one codec du jour to the next.
Heck, even Google drive pulled that stunt where they stopped storing photos in original resolution.
Point being, none of these companies exist primarily to archive your content - they exist to monetise it.
If you want to safeguard your content in original quality, then you need to either put it on a cloud storage that you are PAYING for, or keept it on your own hardware.
- Comment on SPOOPY TARDIGRADE 2 months ago:
In English too, the colloquial name for tardigrades is “water bears” :D
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 2 months ago:
Even being prerendered, it was an intensely impressive game for 1993.
And it’s not like they didn’t have plenty of problems to solve.
Here’s an interesting interview with founder Rand Miller about developing Myst and how they were barely able to make it work due to the limitations of CD drives.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 months ago:
I appreciate your point, but here’s why I don’t agree with it.
In fiction writing, the ideal case is that the words themselves slide neatly out of the way and become invisible, leaving only a picture in the reader’s mind. Generally speaking, anything distracting is thefefore counter-productive for fiction. Strange fonts and strange typesetting, while interesting, take the reader out of the prose. There’s a reason almost every fiction book you pick up from the shelf uses Garamond.
In an engineering context, remembering “12 eggs, 6 toast” is probably the most important thing, and numeric digits assist in that. In fiction however it doesn’t matter if, by the next page, the reader has forgotten exactly how many eggs there were; the important aspect is to convey the sense of a large and chaotic family, and the impression is more important than the detail.
Thats why although the numbers are important for setting the scene, we really don’t want them to jump out. We don’t want anything at all to have undue prominence, because the reader needs to process the paragraph as a cohesive whole, and remember the scene not the numbers.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 months ago:
Cooking is just applied chemistry, after all.
- Comment on No excuse 2 months ago:
I feel like it’s also an outlook/mentality thing.
I personally am happy to take a few extra seconds parking, because I see it as spending time to make life easier, faster and safer for my future self when I come to leave.
Zooming in forwards is like “I care about now more than I care about later”
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 months ago:
Context is everything, IMO.
In engineering work numbers should always be digits. In prose numbers should be spelled out.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; twelve eggs and six rounds of toast for their three sets of boistrous twins.
Breakfast at the Thompson’s was a busy affair; 12 eggs and 6 rounds of toast for their 3 sets of boistrous twins.
To me it’s pretty clear which of those reads better and more naturally as prose; digits really ‘jump out’ on the page, and while that is great for engineering texts, it is incongruent and distracting for prose.
- Comment on Vital Statistics 2 months ago:
Proper massive innit
- Comment on The Elder Gods 2 months ago:
Does a male’s eye look substantially different?
- Comment on Probably 2 months ago:
That’s what you get for being indecisive!
- Comment on PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out 3 months ago:
UK here and they are turned on.
Thanks a lot, Brexit :(
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 3 months ago:
I had so many good times on forums back in the day.
The personal nature of them was great for being social and making friends, but it was also good for the quality of the content for and user behaviour too.
When everyone recognises you and remembers your past behaviour, people put effort into creating a good reputation for themselves and making quality posts. It’s like living in a small village versus living in a city.
The thought of being banned back then genuinely filled people with dread, because even if you could evade it (which many people couldn’t as VPNs were barely a thing) you’d lose your whole post history and personal connection with people, and users did cherish those things.
- Comment on Assassination Classroom Manga Under Review After Parent's Complaint About Classroom Violence 3 months ago:
Super wholesome manga about an amazing teacher who guides a bunch of misfits to overcome their own weaknesses, grow as individuals, and learn to work together
But yeah sure its got guns and panties so it’s obviously bad right ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Dress Codes 3 months ago:
Your spreadsheet will pierce the heavens
- Comment on It's coming! :( 3 months ago:
Not quite, I don’t think. Enshittification is driven by profit motive, which means if there’s no money at all involved, then there’s no motive.
I guess you chose your words carefully though because the terms ‘product’ and ‘service’ pretty much imply that money is involved somewhere there.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 3 months ago:
The worrying truth is that we are all going to be subject to these sorts of false correlations and biases and there will be very little we can do about it.
You go to buy car insurance, and find that your premium has gone up 200% for no reason. Why? Because the AI said so. Maybe soneone with your name was in a crash. Maybe you parked overnight at the same GPS location where an accident happened. Who knows what data actually underlies that decision or how it was made, but it was. And even the insurance company themselves doesn’t know how it ended up that way.
- Comment on Thank you! 4 months ago:
That’s not even on the menu so no you won’t be.
It’s a “choccy (chocolate) coffee”
- Comment on Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October | Initial Recall preview was lambasted for obvious privacy and security failures 4 months ago:
That’s the strategy, yes
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 4 months ago:
Even if the common advice is to avoid spoilers, I’m glad you found your own way to enjoy it :)
I’m sure I could play it again myself and still enjoy the atmosphere, even if the discoveries weren’t new. Or maybe it would be fun to watch a stream of someone else playing for the first time instead!
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 5 months ago:
For real. It’s an amazing game that just can’t be the same again once you know all its secrets.
I bought it for two of my friends, and they both ended up hating it lol.I don’t blame them, but I think it’s very much to do with the mentality of how you approach the experience.
One friend just got plain stuck and gave up. The other found it frustrating that they were doing the same thing several times over, and just wanted to rush as quickly as they could to make progress.
Personally, I enjoyed the slow pace of discovery. I loved that feeling of being a true explorer, discoving facets of lost civilisation. Watching in melancholic awe as a world crumbled around me. Finding just a small piece of new information was always a joy, and made it feel worthwhile to get there, even if I’d done 90% of the journey before.
Slowly getting richer in a game where the only currency is knowledge.
- Comment on Basalt Baddie 5 months ago:
Hexagons are the bestagons, after all
- Comment on Fisherman slapped across face by whale's tail at Tweed Heads 5 months ago:
“Fuck you in particular”
- Comment on Can you spot the g differences? 5 months ago:
I also got “Pattern on the beach towel is wavy lines rather than staright lines” but now I’m not certain that isn’t just image compression artifacts.
- Comment on perspective 5 months ago:
For you, maybe it was.
The point of good presentation and design cues is that they can make information instantly clear to almost everyone, no matter if their brain is the size of TON 618, or not.