towelie
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- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 3 days ago:
I moved into a tiny home and got one for measuring the current draw of my kitchen appliances and keeping track of the cost of my electric space heater ($40/month so far, yeesh)
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- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 1 week ago:
It’s been a long time since I tried, but I tried to install Atkinson Hyperlegible on my android and it wasn’t possible without rooting the phone. Your manufacturer may have a way to add fonts, but for Samsung I was limited to downloading them through their Galaxy store, which had no fonts I wanted
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 1 week ago:
Oh hell yeah I use Atkinson Hyperlegible everywhere. There is also Atkinson Monolegible for a monospaced font so you are stuck using Consolas
- Trump's team states Ukraine must cede territories to Russia as part of peace agreementnewsukraine.rbc.ua ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to privacyguides@lemmy.one | 0 comments
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Studio Will Work On Several Projects Simultaneously, Insipired From CDPR 3 weeks ago:
Oof that’s a challenge, but one can assume they’ve grown quite a bit as a studio and are up to the challenge. I wish them luck!
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
Tor. Anything short is freely giving your data away. If you’re looking for something that isn’t based on Gecko or Chromium there is the DuckDuckGo browser, which is WebKit. I can’t attest to their privacy practices though
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
I used a Jelly pro for two years as a daily driver. Smaller than a credit card
- Comment on Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader 4 weeks ago:
It took me this long to realize that trump wears that same arrangement of suit colors everywhere because it’s red, white, and blue 🤦♀️ JD Vance has started exclusively wearing it too I think
- Comment on Upset with the lack of necessities in life and no representationin government? Time to go in the funny box. 5 weeks ago:
Idk I kinda wanna try the grippy socks, but the rest of it sounds like a bit of a hassle tbh
- Comment on I love the future. 5 weeks ago:
Hey man, I’m sorry you’re feeling that way. I can absolutely relate to all of that. The way things are going in the world is certainly making things feel darker than ever.
If these are of any consolation I’d like to share them; they are a few realizations that I’ve come to over time, and that I try to bring myself back to when I start feeling those feelings:
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I can’t control the world. There are things in motion that I simply won’t be able to affect, set that way long before I ever came along, and that ball will keep rolling long after I’m gone.
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I’m not a failure for not becoming a millionaire, famous musician, successful executive; for not having the relationship I wanted by this point; or whatever high standards I held my future self to. I know more than that person did, and that person, compared to me, had a very naive outlook on how things will or ought to be.
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You are up against the most advanced technologies we have ever created; the most conniving of villains; the world pollutions; the greatest wage gap in human history; inflation is skyrocketing and unemployment is too; we are in a great recession; we are more isolated than at any time in our history. You are not a failure for struggling!
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I’m going to die one day, but I’m here right now. The ride will end; I don’t need to get off of it early, and I can experience things like awe and wonder while I’m here.
I am not a failure for these things. My only fault was ever thinking that I, the world, my life, should be so perfect; and even then, being wrong is expected of us. We are dreamers. Don’t be so hard on yourself, you are doing so great.
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- Comment on I love the future. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on I love the future. 5 weeks ago:
If only he had spent some skill points in Charisma, he could’ve talked Hoover into self destruction, but alas
- Comment on I don't have my shit together 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion 5 weeks ago:
Skyblivion in OpenMW
- Comment on Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion 5 weeks ago:
Half right. They are rumors that they’ll be releasing a remaster of Oblivion soon, which is a separate project from TES 6. And yeah, it’s a major dick move.
- Comment on Browse and watch videos in FreshRSS like it's YouTube: "Youlag theme/extension" (v3.0.2) 5 weeks ago:
So I accidentally disabled the UserJS toggle, and now I can’t interact with the UI at all to re-enable it. Any ideas how I can fix that in the configuration files?
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 5 weeks ago:
Man I miss my Sony Ericsson. Phones used to be unique
- Comment on Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women 5 weeks ago:
Sex with a hella sexy robot? Nice.
Using a hella sexy robot to fill the hole left from a lack of intimacy and authentic mutual connection? Not nice.
For some reason sex with a robot doesn’t feel gross to me — until they start using it to fill a hole (hehe)
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 5 weeks ago:
America is an insanely rich country, as are their populus. It’s lost on us here in the West. Through the release of the first iPhone to the mid 2015s I’d wager that most consumers agreed that iPhones were superior to Android by most metrics: they featured more support across the board, had more apps, looked nicer, and were considered the premium. Apple invented the modern smartphone and had a headstart in getting users hooked into their ecosystem. Nowhere was thisnmore pronounced than in the wealthiest country in the world (and Apple’s home country).
That’s a huge generalization but I think it resonantes true to a degree. Also, anecdotally, I remember that all my school computers were Macs when growing up. I’m sure Apple seaped it way into people’s live a variety of ways. As a lifelong Windows user I’ll have a panic attack if you make me print a document on a Mac; I’m sure its the same vice versa lol
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 5 weeks ago:
Is that Windows 11-only thing, or have I been missing a bunch of notepad features?
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 5 weeks ago:
- Keeps your progress if you exit without saving
- Supports tabs so you don’t have 5 separate notepad windows open
- syntax highlighting for programming languages and markdown format
- plugin support
- can handle extremely large text files (I’ve opened 50gb text files and used ctrl+f to find terms and it worked fine)
- superb tools for manipulating text (e.g., use reg expressions). Super easy to make mass edits.
- dark mode support. That should be enough on its own lol
- Comment on Browse and watch videos in FreshRSS like it's YouTube: "Youlag theme/extension" (v3.0.2) 5 weeks ago:
Man I’ve been looking for this exact sort of project for ages. Thanks for sharing, OP!
- Comment on Just Because 5 weeks ago:
Canagaia
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
I tried Jellyfin two years ago and was so fed up troubleshooting the installation that I swore it off. Tried it again a few months ago and it worked flawlessly! Now I host movies, shows, music, ebooks, and audiobooks for a handful of friends and family. My jellyfin instance is probably siphoning $120/month from Netflix’s subscription revenue lol
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 5 weeks ago:
Three of them in government have done it now. Elon did it a few weeks ago, it was widely condemned, and then two other losers (Steve Bannon and another figure who’s name I don’t know) did it at CPAC in the White House just the other day. You’re being disingenuous by refusing to look into it, claiming its leftist rhetoric before youve even looked for yourseld, but nonetheless engaging in discourse with us about it. Why won’t you at least go look? Then we will have something we can talk about
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 5 weeks ago:
Same with my partner’s American family. They dont believe a word of it. And if we can’t turn the domestic terrorists in our homes back to reality what chance do we stand turning back the country.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 5 weeks ago:
The Dataview plugin is the most critical one. You can create queries with your metdata. If that sounds like nonsense to you I highly encourage you to check it out because it’s super cool. I think of my Obsidian vault as my second brain.
Some cool examples here that you can click through. Also note that because the obsidian pages are in markdown format you can use the Jekyll engine to directly turn them into web pages (this is how GitHub Pages works)
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 5 weeks ago:
Its a staggeringly powerful app. Utilizing the markdown format and the Dataview plugin to create queries with metadata in your notes allows you to build INSANE knowledge management systems.
Example of some set ups here: forum.obsidian.md/t/…/81788
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 5 weeks ago:
Use SyncThing. It’s a free FOSS app for syncing files across devices and is available on all devices. I initially used it for Obsidian syncing, but it’s proved incredibly useful beyond that
