kyle
@kyle@lemm.ee
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 3 weeks ago:
Exactly my same thought, it’s just a smaller Mac Mini.
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 5 weeks ago:
Don’t mean to clutter the thread but it sounds like option 3 is the best user experience. Hyper privacy focused users are probably more likely to make their own instance or use another smaller one.
Love the work you do, I appreciate it so much!
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 5 weeks ago:
If this is feasible, it sounds like an elegant solution. Does it work for the various mobile apps, or would each app need to do it on their end?
- Comment on Thanks to science, men can now locate the clitoris with micrometer accuracy. 2 months ago:
Honestly same, it’s not like you have to go digging for it, or like it’s different for every woman. It’s right there.
- Comment on Pizza 2 months ago:
Idk why, but this interaction cracked me up lol
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
What is up with that title
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Instructions unclear, discussed sexual boundaries with my players.
- Comment on New leaf, it seems to be happy up there. 3 months ago:
Wonderful! Our monstera stopped making babies recently, but it’s become gigantic, practically unmanageable.
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 4 months ago:
“Foreign” in this context just means “not Crowdstrike”, not like a foreign government.
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 4 months ago:
Thank you for actually providing an explanation beyond stating the word “science”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Honestly same. I saw that lemm.ee was the second largest and had an active admin, felt like I would dip my toes in and I would change if needed.
Never needed to, stuff like this gives me confidence in the platform.
- Comment on Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support 5 months ago:
I’m on year 2 of the game, and rarely notice bugs. There’s this arena boss fight you can do, my wife died and teleported outside the area, but her crossbow shots traveled infinitely and could still damage the same boss I was stuck in the arena with. Random stuff like that, certainly nothing game breaking, no crashes or anything.
Compared to Stardew Valley, it’s much more heavy on quests. SV has some basics, but it’s pretty much just build the community center, upgrade your house, get married, etc. It’s also much heavier on skill progression. You’ll eventually use magic for nearly everything if you (mining, tree harvesting, watering, fishing, etc.).
Sun Haven also has 3 different towns, all roughly the size of Stardew Valley (the main town is bigger though).
Which leads me into my only real complaint. You will have a farm in all 3 towns, with their own houses, crops, barn animals, and quests. If you play alone, it’s kind of a lot to manage. It’s just my wife and I that play, but if I played on my own, I would probably only focus on one town at a time, which feels weird. I’d rather the game introduce something like a familiar that can slowly take care of things while I’m gone doing other stuff.
- Comment on Sun Haven is for Stardew Valley fans that want more and it now has controller support 5 months ago:
If it matters they’re all skins that don’t really matter, purely cosmetic. I bought and played the game, on year 2.
If you’re opposed on principle, I get it, but IMHO extra cosmetic packs aren’t predatory. What you get for your money is clear (unlike loot boxes) and you aren’t paywalled behind new content (so no FOMO).
- Comment on You Compete Against the Classics 5 months ago:
For sure, they’re incredible. I’ve only personally read Jade City, but haven’t circled back yet. I’m assured by friends the whole series is great.
Just wanted to point it out since the fantasy genre is so freaking male dominated.
- Comment on You Compete Against the Classics 5 months ago:
Jade City is actually amazing. I feel for her, but bookstores are just gonna present the most popular because they’re trying to make money. Bookstores cooler than B&N might have a “like that, try this” kind of thing which would get attention.
Tolkien and Jordan also have recent TV shows, which definitely influence what books the stores will display.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
I know PII is protected, and a company like Riot is audited. I’m sure something in their TOS says they can collect the information, as BS or unenforceable as it is.
They’re probably multi-cloud, but I know they are a huge AWS customer because they have a giant booth at re:Invent every year. AWS has pretty easy ways to encrypt data and even detect if it has PII. They’d encrypt or redact the images because the potential of capturing HIPAA or PCI information is too great a risk.
If anything, trust that the company is profit driven and will avoid that risk. They’re still garbage and kernel level anti-cheat sucks, but we shouldn’t be spouting that unencrypted stuff as fact.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
The screenshots are awful, but your statement is pure speculation, and likely just wrong. It’s pretty easy to encrypt images.
- Comment on When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why? 7 months ago:
You are 100% correct.
I think OP agrees with you too, but the question is more around the “why”. Once, we were also like animals, and didn’t have clothing. To the animal brain, things like large breasts or wide hips means better reproduction. Did we start to cover up because it was cold and we got sick? It makes more sense to me that we started for practical reasons, and the hyper-sexualization came later, probably with religion.
Today, women are sexualized to an insane degree, and expanded to any number of inane body parts and not just breasts.
I think OPs question could also be phrased as “why did sex become so taboo?” And we might get a broader picture.
- Comment on If someone offered you $100 dollars a day to stay off social media, what would you do? 8 months ago:
Primarily turning off all notifications for them, and removing/hiding the app icons. I pretty much only consumed social media on my phone.
By removing the shortcuts on my phone, it broke the muscle memory of just opening my phone and blindly going to Facebook or IG. It was very tough for about a week, where I would catch myself and then just put my phone down but it’s all I could think about, like I was addicted to cigarettes and getting a smoke was all that was on my mind.
This was a few years ago. I’ve gotten a little lax on it, but I definitely don’t fall into the same pit as before. A buddy of mine still regularly sends me tiktoks and I’ll go weeks without checking it.
- Comment on If someone offered you $100 dollars a day to stay off social media, what would you do? 8 months ago:
I feel like I use it so rarely at this point, I could take the deal without any trouble.
I’d really miss the memes though
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 8 months ago:
At least it’s drawn to scale, but yeah I get it. Starting at 7k probably makes it easier to read.
- Comment on An achievement 8 months ago:
The vid has 167k views now, good for him.
- Comment on FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters 9 months ago:
Phone numbers actually can be an identity, but generally that’s just business numbers. There’s also a lot of phone numbers that aren’t cell phones and can’t get texts. It’s a lot easier and cheaper for companies to design one system. Depending on the company, they’ll still do text/email reminders for things. Old people like phone calls, so companies need to know their audience too. Again, cheaper to build a single system, so that tends to be the default.
Source: I design call centers for a living, personally done probably 200+ projects over the years, in banking, insurance, retail, transportation, state/local govt, etc.
- Comment on The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs 9 months ago:
When your weapons are dollars, we are woefully ill equipped
- Comment on Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash 11 months ago:
Honestly you can probably scroll the front page and find them if they’re on, they’ll have a ton of viewers.
- Comment on Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return 11 months ago:
I had read that Altman was “ambivalent” to re-joining OpenAI and the board wanted him back after regretting their decision? (presumably after the backlash)
- Comment on 🌰🌰🌰 Quercus Master Race 🌰🌰🌰 1 year ago:
Oh muh lawd Quercus is the name of oak trees??
Quercus is a squirrel character in Divinity Original Sin 2, who is trying to stop the Great Acorn from destroying all non-squirrel life.
- Comment on Okta cybersecurity breach wipes out more than $2 billion in market cap 1 year ago:
If you work in an office, chances are you use Active Directory or Azure AD. Just another way to sign on to stuff, sorta like how you can “sign in with Google” or “sign in with Facebook” on some sites.
Okta is pretty popular tbh, and a breach this large is crazy.
- Comment on Academic Writing Mood Meter 1 year ago:
We vibin’
- Comment on What's the most desturbing thing when you look up your username in SteamDB? 1 year ago:
It says I have nearly 4k hours playing games, but I have a single game at 1k hours and only a few in the 100 hour range. Idk how it got that high, I feel like it’s counting non-games but idk what.