Eiri

@Eiri@lemmy.ca

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13 skeletons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Granted. The wish spell has never existed, so you can’t use it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13 skeletons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Isn’t that killing the thief rogue subclass’s use magic device ability?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13 skeletons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Hmm, that works, but only for spells in your class list. That won’t allow you to cast legend lore as a wizard, for instance
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eksbawks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I hope we can reach the point where everything is convenient to switch to whatever you preference/physical controller is in every game.

Maybe one day.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eksbawks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I like their button layout better though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13 skeletons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ah, that’s the risky use of Wish though. It comes with a chance of losing the spell forever.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eksbawks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Xbox has influenced PC gaming too much for that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13 skeletons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Wish, but for emulating other spells. Literally anything I want, of 8th level or lower, as if it was already prepared? So handy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo Pro 3 Bluetooth announced with swappable magnetic ABXY⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ah, I see. A pity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo Pro 3 Bluetooth announced with swappable magnetic ABXY⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I loved my Switch 1 pro controller until the L/R/ZL/ZR buttons started losing reliability. They wouldn’t register unless I pressed really hard, or would cut when I was trying to hold them pressed. I imagine the new one has similar issues.

But wait your say the Switch 2 one has analog triggers now? Ugh. I hate analog triggers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo Pro 3 Bluetooth announced with swappable magnetic ABXY⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What are those L2/R2 buttons like when you switch their mode?

Do they resemble what we had on PS2 (feels like just a button)?

If so, I’m really interested. Damn gradual triggers do NOT work well with most games where you want precision for those button presses.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Take Home Pay⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Looks like a pretty low tax rate to me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shhhhh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
You mean, beep when they’re finished?

Many microwaves have a semi-hidden feature to mute all sounds. Usually involves long-pressing one of the number buttons.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a map to show me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’d say it’s probably averaged from bra sizes sold by some company.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Investigation finds Bangladesh politician bought over 350 homes in UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Initially misread as “brought” and imagined someone squeezing houses in a briefcase
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
But like what even is a social media for women? I wasn’t aware the ones we currently have were for men
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't lemmy DMs compatible with mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oof, sounds like we really need a new, better put together version of the protocol. I wonder if the W3C would be good to do that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't lemmy DMs compatible with mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds like the protocol needs an upgrade if people are doing funny stuff like that. No?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well okay if one tenant is renting the whole building it’s different.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
For the SUM of your tenants’ rent to pay for your mortgage and most of the upkeep? Probably fair.

For ONE tenant to cover the whole mortgage? Geez, that’s not nice, to put it softly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They will truly do anything not to admit the problem is cars
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Is everyone using LinkedIn instead now?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Job related: Am I being stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Have you looked into becoming a nurse practitioner? You sound like you might feel more fulfilled with more medical knowledge and a job in more of an expert role.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red - HTMHell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What the fuck, HTML. I kinda like it in a perverse way.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They’re not communist fight communities explicitly though. I haven’t joined any communist-themed communities. It’s just content that kinda bubbles up left and right.

I COULD start avoiding everything “.ml”, but that sounds counter-productive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well, it’s not because something has the potential to be addictive that it’s necessarily bad. After all, a video game that isn’t addictive at all could also be called boring.

I think the line between an enjoyable experience and unhealthy addictive features is drawn in user choice and the absence of malicious intent.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
1. The apps are kinda meh. I haven’t found one that doesn’t come with significant disadvantages yet, and I’ve tried FIVE.
2. There’s no recommendations feed. You see what you’re subscribed to, or everything. No in-between. You can’t see what you’ve subscribed to, and a few posts that the algorithm thinks you might like. People like to complain about the algorithm, but one reason it’s so addictive is that it’s useful.
3. Notifications don’t work in every app
4. Just having a feed that behaves normally seems to be really hard to do for apps. Stop slowing me posts I’ve already scrolled past, and when I click home/pull down to refresh, I want new posts, not the same thing again that I’ve already scrolled past and ignored. Some apps have settings (that are somehow not on by default) to hide read posts and mark posts read on scroll, but I haven’t tried an app where that works every time.
5. There’s no “main” app. Think about Reddit before the API fees. There used to be a default app. It had its issues, but most features worked out of the box, and most things were intuitive and normie-friendly. You could use that to get comfortable with the social network itself, and then eventually try other apps when something got too annoying.
  
  Compare that with Lemmy. You want to try it, and you already have to deal with choice paralysis. A ton of apps on the website, with utterly unhelpful descriptions (“an open-source Lemmy client developed by so-and-so”; wow, exactly zero of those words help me pick) and a random order that doesn’t even let me default to one most popular one.
  
  Quite a few apps focus on niche UI features like swipe-based navigation while still not having the basics down right. I’m several months into having joined Lemmy and I still haven’t found an app that feels somewhat right. That is a challenge not one of the other social networks has managed. Congrats, Lemmy. Impressive.
6. Picking a server and signing up in general is complicated. And it’s an impactful decision that you have NO tools to make so early, unless you start researching like it’s school homework.
  
  .world? That’s popular but you’ll be judged for having joined it, plus you lose access to the piracy community. .ml? Hope you like communists and DRAMA. And if you get it wrong, there’s no intuitive and easy way to migrate. You clunkily export your settings and re-import them; the servers will NOT talk to each other. And even then you lose some stuff.
  
  This UX issue is tough. I don’t have an easy solution. But I’m sure a UX expert could find one.
7. Manual validation of your sign-up by a human. What is this, a Facebook group? If you introduce a 24-hour delay so early in the process, of course people are going to fall off.
8. The mouse logo is kinda ugly, won’t lie. I’m sure it’s a more potent people repellent than you think.
9. There is a LOT of tribalism. On Reddit, there’s r/Canada, that’s full of convinced conservatives that won’t hesitate to artificially skew the discourse. And there’s r/OnGuardForThee, basically the same but with progressives angry at the conservatives.
  
  On Lemmy, that feels like the rule, not the exception. I just joined communities based on my interests, and my feed is full of communist vs communist vs non-communist drama. Can we frickin’ chill?
  
  If I need to start filtering out whole fields of interest that were taken over, joining less popular community clones or literally defederating instances to get a good experience, we’ve got it wrong. Normal people don’t wanna do that when they literally just got here. They’ll just leave.
10. Somehow even more US-centric than Reddit. So… Much… American politics.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eggs in japan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Probably not. They contained a lot of air at that point. But yeah … If it doesn’t look, taste or smell rotten, I’m usually not worried by food.

But then again, I’m vegetarian, so I avoid most non-obvious risks by that alone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eggs in japan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Btw I took a look at your comment and if it helps, washed eggs are good basically forever too. I never throw them away. I’ve eaten eggs that had been expired for 6 months, and while they were a little dried up (kinda dense; the white had shrunk), they were otherwise totally fine.

You know how they say you know there’s a methane or propane leak because of the smell of rotten eggs… I’ve never smelled rotten eggs. Only propane. Eggs refuse to rot.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eggs in japan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not American, but in a lot of American cooking videos I watch, the host will go like “NEVER eat raw egg” or “I’m tasting a small amount here but it’s a calculated risk I’m taking and you may not want to”.