tiramichu

@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot Seat Advert⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, looks like it.

  The advert clearly hopes to give the impression the seat will move you around (like a simulator) but what it actually says is that you move the seat yourself and the seat acts as a controller.

  Pretty clear you’d try it, get fed up after 10 mins because it’s harder to control the game than with a normal controller, and never go back to it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah sure if my dog is a serial killer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You could argue the other way around - growing up with decent and non-predatory practices makes you less tolerant of when companies try to extort you because you already know what “good” looks like.

  I’m sure the corpos would love nothing more than kids getting exposed to predatory practices from a young age so they grow up feeling those things are acceptable and normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My biggest peeve with JSON when I’m forced to use it as a configuration file format is that it doesn’t have any syntactical support for comments.

  So I can’t even add any notes to the file.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems like the obvious way to do it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously! What else would you use?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For some people the only things that brings them joy are 1) winning 2) making other people stuffer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If E3 was still a thing I imagine the execs would have felt inclined to keep a few projects going, just to avoid the public humiliation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm which one I guess?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just did a search in the store and discovered there are at least 15 separate workout apps published by the same company with the same red icon theming. (men, women, abs, legs, lose weight men, lose weight women…)

  Like, what the actual fuck.

  I guess when people treat the app store like a search engine we get into the situation where apps become hyper-specific to match the hyper-specific things people are searching for, using individual app names as if they are search results.

  I hate it, and I hate the human behaviour that has lead to this being a profitable tactic for app developers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"ok, imagine a gun."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because we invariably import whatever bollocks the US says or does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can certainly charge a phone with a PD laptop charger. PD does negotiate, so it will only give the device what the device indicates it can support.

  I use my laptop charger with my android phone frequently if I’m out and about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The person you replied to is referencing findings made by the author, in the article.

  The author tried plugging a PD charger into the watch to charge it, and it wouldn’t work. It’s probably not PD as a specification couldn’t work, but that the watch failed to negotiate with the charger.

  Whatever the reason, the findings were that trying to charge this cheap little watch with your PD laptop charger does not work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really interesting when you think about that.

  In the video world, we’ve had an arms race all throughout the last 25 years for the lowest possible file size at the best possible quality, with new codecs and containers constantly coming in and out of favour. Hardware playback has always been spotty at best, with little guarantee you’ll get a file to play on any device in particular.

  Meanwhile I could rip a CD and put it on even my first-generation MP3 player from the year 1999, and it would work. A blessing we rather take for granted.

  I guess there just hasn’t been sufficient pressure to toss MP3 out completely. From an evolutionary perspective, just like the horseshoe crab, it is “good enough” and so it endures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a nice list, but for the novices it’s obviously meant for, it’s a bad learning experience.

  Why? Because it doesn’t explain any of the reasoning behind what it asks you to do.

  Why are we changing the deafuly SSH port, for example? Someone who is seasoned might identify this is a somewhat limited attempt to obscure our attack surface, but to a novice it’s inscrutable and meaningless.

  More important than telling people what to do is explaining why, because it puts the learning in context and makes it stick by giving a reason to care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100%.

  I haven’t bought a full price game in a long, long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One twenty-ninth of a cent? That’s cheap!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no strict rule, either is acceptable.

  “Write down the age of everyone here”

  “Write down the ages of everyone here”

  Equivalent, and both equally fine.

  When we are talking about a group of two or more people either singular or plural work, and singular doesn’t imply they have to be the same either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve upgrade Steam's trailer player, and all it took was trawling through something like 400,000 videos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For broadcasts yes. The autoplay for trailers keeps forgetting its setting constantly and there’s nothing you can do about all the embeds - which are really the worst offender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robocop: Rouge City⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That page won’t open for me because it’s http only, won’t upgrade to https, and my browser won’t allow it.

  But I know the story you mean and it’s brilliant lol.

  Here’s another report on the same: Welsh translation gaffe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve upgrade Steam's trailer player, and all it took was trawling through something like 400,000 videos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re the sort of person who likes to take in plenty of trailers when you’re hunting for new stuff to play on Steam […]

  How about if I’m the sort of person who hates it when a bunch of shit starts autoplaying and there is a dev stream popping up and 10 embedded animated images in the product description?

  Got any features for me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robocop: Rouge City⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bizzarre mistakes in signage, just like in real life! Realism++

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how you can make the points you make, and still call it a “generally brilliant solution”

  The entire point of this system - like anything a giant company like Hertz does - is not to be fair to the customer. The point is to screw the customer over to make money.

  Not allowing human employees to challenge the AI decision is very intentional, because it defers your complaint to a later time when you have to phone customer support.

  This means you no longer have the persuasion power of being there in person at the time of the assessment, and means you have to muster the time and effort to call customer services - which they are hoping you won’t bother doing - who even if you do call can then easily swerve you over the phone.

  This is all part of the game plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t even tried it yet, but just from the video you can tell it’s going to be insanely good.

  It’s the first bit of software I’ve seen in a long time where I took one look and immediately thought “Fuck me, I need that!”

  I use Unraid and just on the off-chance I went to the Unraid community ‘app store’ and someone’s already created a Docker definition for it, published today! The hype is real

  I’ll be giving this a shot latrr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be like “it even works with browsers from the future!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but it’s multi-modal.

  If you’re having a conversation, or doing some other task that makes sound, or scrolling social media and a video starts playing, there could be a noise that momentarily covers up the audio and you miss something. If there are subs then you can also quickly glance to see what was going on.

  Listening to spoken dialog allows you to look away, but subs let you catch back up if you miss the spoken dialog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree with that, all I’m saying is there are additional factors in play which also account for at least some of the rise in subtitle usage. It’s not all down to a single cause.

  Volume normalisation is a problem, but it’s also true that people aren’t the same as they were 20 years ago and don’t behave the same as 20 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You being lucky doesn’t necessarily imply that other people will be equally lucky, though.

  Plus, what we may not have thought about is that the triggers for a financial institution to review your account will happen due to a change in circumstance. Address move, insurance change, employment change.

  Since you left 25 years ago, there have presumably been basically zero changes to your personal status as far as the bank is concerned. They aren’t hearing about it because you don’t live and work in the country anymore.

  So your account is just sitting there, quietly unnoticed and unbothered.

  To.make them want to close it, something would need to happen to make them want to review it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dynamic range and loudness normalisation is surely the main reason people are using subtitles, but habits are undeniably also changing too, as is the way people consume media in general.

  People don’t just look at the TV for an hour straight - they are doing other things, or second-screening, or having conversations, and multiple methods being available to pick up on the show dialog is helpful.

  Let’s not forget simple reasons like accessibility, either. My friend here in the UK is Hungarian, and despite being completely fluent in English he always likes to watch shows with subtitles as it helps with understanding some British accents which can be tricky for non-natives.

  And people just process information in different ways. We’ve all heard by now that some individuals can be visually oriented, while other people are aural. If you get a choice, why not take it?

  Not to mention that subs on streaming services are much better visual quality and timing than subs on broadcast TV used to be, which felt nasty and mis-timed, and very second-class. Clearly ‘good enough’ for hard of hearing individuals but not very pleasant.

  I don’t think it’s a hot take to say that as accessibility features get better and more available, more people will use them. And accessibility is for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who dares disturb my liver?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gaying instrument

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgrace to you disgrace to your family disgrace to your cow⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, the performance of the main voice actors is THE single most important moment-to-moment element in how an anime hits. Shows with pretty poor animation can be rescued by amazing VA performances, but even the best animation can’t save a show if the acting doesn’t land right.

  And in dubs, the voice acting almost never reaches the quality of the original.

  The voice actors usually sound like they are just reading a script alone in a box, with no proper context of the emotional setting or tone, or awareness of who they are saying it to, or feeling that they care about the words. The delivery is flat at times it should be spirited, or dialled to 100 at times where it should be nuanced.

  Even in the cases where dubs are actually competent (Ghibli movies, as a good example) the process still introduces changes. The original casting directors chose the actors they did for a reason, and it’s those people whose performances I want to hear.

  And this isn’t just true for anime, it’s true for all foreign films and shows. Just let me have it the way it originally was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgrace to you disgrace to your family disgrace to your cow⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Subtitle gang, always and forever.