WoodenBleachers

@WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the hops taste of beer and regularly drink it for just that. I barely get a buzz and no one else is drinking around me so there’s no social pressure. Whiskeys are interesting because if you taste them correctly, you taste all kinds of interesting sweet notes and earthy notes and it’s very cool to taste those things. That comes from a $25+ bottle, but it’s affordable if you enjoy that sort of thing. Again, 1 glass every once in awhile. Now things like vodka? I’m pretty sure that’s just to get you drunk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot attest to all of science, but anecdotally, that is wack bs. I am very sensitive to caffeine. Know how I know? I got them mixed up once and after 3 cups of black “decaf” (it was the caffeinated) I started low-key tweaking. Hot flashes, cold flashes, sweats, vision blurring. I can’t say all stuff is like that, but I did NOT mix up my caffeine and decaf like that again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear this a lot, I’ve not known a single person who has considered it a status thing. There are people who have cheap phones from both apple and android and they were made fun of for the price of the phone, not the bubble color. iMessage just made it much nicer to talk to people. “I can send messages over wifi!” made it so you could send messages in school or anywhere with a big metal roof. “The images are better!” These were limitations of the SMS standard that Apple designed around. Now? Yeah, there’s other options, but back then iMessage made its hold by being able to be used by people who couldn’t use SMS or didn’t want to for whatever reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Still on Disco Elysium. It’s good, thus far, but some of the controls bug me. The game has made me laugh multiple times though, it’s a real “dramadey” of video games. Although I had a nice evening the other day playing the Jackbox Party Pack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, some of us like that stuff! But I have no idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a personal anecdote or a recurring problem in some cities?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t comment on hope good it is yet, but I picked up Disco Elysium for $10 and have been playing that. Also Open Roller Coaster Tycoon 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Purposefully bad memes using Politics streamers Twitters - Day 3.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s ironic about the news media?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, yes. We do this already and we are probably safer for it. If we had a model we could point to evidence that, in general, this helps. It should never be admissible evidence in a court, but it would help police figure out who to keep eyes on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Maps Now Uses AI to Find Where People Are Having Fun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If the model is accurate though, I’d be okay with it. I understand it’ll never be perfect and laws should be put in place banning people being arrested or interrogated just for that kind of suspicion, but still

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fantasy rednecks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool. I wouldn’t mind fantasy characters having accents (it’s fantasy after all) just providing context for why it’s predominantly English

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fantasy rednecks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I read the Silmarillion, he was sad about the fact that England had no real “mythology” so he made his own

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fantasy rednecks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure because the “original” fantasy was written as a false history for England (LoTR was this). So it makes sense that the people would bear an English accent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey I'm trying to abbreviate here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, just sanitize it again. .Replace(“&”, &), Regex.Remove(amp;), if(.Contains(“amp;”))

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. I can use Linux. I don’t want to. Plenty of people are still computer illiterate and people forget that. My father uses excel on windows every day for his job, but couldn’t use a mac because he just knows his Windows. He got confused that the taskbar disappeared lol. Linux would blow his mind. Yes, if you’re training someone on the new OS it’d be no different, but so many people only know certain windows programs.

  Also, audio SUCKS on Linux (speaking from running PipeWire and ALAX and Pulse). Try explaining to someone how to fix that mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey I'm trying to abbreviate here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why the devs have so much trouble with parsing this. I’m not sure if it’s an API thing or a front-end issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The joke's on you! I wanted to be in their engineering department anyways!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, I’m sorry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Communick News Network: topic-specific lemmy instances.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This just seems like extra steps are added to the already established servers. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I don’t think a server for exclusively tennis will attract many communities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it does. I have two HDR monitors, neither with exceptional hdr. Both look much better with it on, but I personally like the HDR look that some things have. I can tell when something is washed out, but my RGB has also not been properly calibrated. Regular HDR modes in games suck and make it look like I’m staring at the sun or an old photo. Auto HDR makes fire look brighter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, but I feel my point stands. It’s not like spotlight on Mac, but it actually understands what I want now. I use it mostly to launch programs.

  And before someone attacks me: I use all 3 major OSes weekly. Hot takes: Mac doesn’t suck and isn’t incompatible for the majority of tasks, but it does end support for things normal people don’t care about, Linux is not that great when it comes to normal quality of life (not power user stuff, it’s awesome for that), and windows makes things easy to access while somehow making everything behind a million menus and across different menus (but still much easier to change than linux)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strangely Engraved Rock Is Giant 'Treasure Map', Archaeologists Say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish people would read more too. I was an avid reader in my youth and my younger sibling has trouble reading well below where I was at that age and it saddens me. I included this because people are stupid and may get upset if they read this and find out it’s not actually leading to piles of gold

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  HDR support is a big one for me and the reason I switched. APK support is nice. I like the glassy look although that could be achieved on 10 via other means. The search function feels much better to use and it’s nice because I like to use the search function instead of keeping things on my desktop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strangely Engraved Rock Is Giant 'Treasure Map', Archaeologists Say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DR: It’s a map that points to different ancient towns so it’s a treasure map for the archaeologists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How so? I’ve always found finder did a good job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you use an iOS device? I have an app that works very well and is on the app store, no side loading

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use arc on my mac and it’s nowhere near as nice as that, but I like the side tabs, the way it gets out of the way when I’m searching, and bing isn’t too bad; I’ve actually used it a few times. Once I found a customizable start page I haven’t looked back. Again, for work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That duckduckgo default is the thing that aggravates me the most. Sometimes those results just don’t cut it but I don’t even have the option to chance my default browser. I had to bookmark google

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use edge for work every day, what popups?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy instances that are focused on mirroring Reddit content?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can host it, that’s fine. I just want my memes however they happen lol. I’d I just have to buy a domain I’ll do so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy instances that are focused on mirroring Reddit content?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my first time looking into this service, but I would be willing to pay to have the service hosted. Does your link above include a way to get started with running the software you coded?