tiramichu

@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brad buys a house⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus, the whole point of a signature is that it’s easily reproducible by you, but not by other people.

  Fast and fluid in a way that feels good to your hand is therefore the best signature, whereas something written slowly and precisely is easier to copy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is woke, so that checks out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mkdocs for recipe catalogue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same for me with Markdown. Love the simplicity.

  I went through a phase a while back of evaluating a bunch of note-taking and to-do apps, and hating almost all of them for being proprietary products with so much vendor lock-in.

  I eventually settled on Joplin because it just uses plain old markdown, and allows you to selfhost the storage back-end so you own your data.

  So because if that, my recipes are just a folder (and some subfolders) with markdown in Joplin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No brainer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  7 could actually be insanely overpowered depending on interpretation.

  “Instantly see inside any open container”

  What does it mean to “see” inside a container? If that just means “know what the contents are” (i.e nothing) then its limited, but if it means literally see, with remote sight, that’s much more useful, depending on this next parts…

  What does “inside” mean? Does it mean we can only observe the interior, or can we look out from the interior as if out point of view occupies it? And given a glass cup can be considered an “empoty container”

  At its most favourable, this power gives you the ability to remote surveil almost any location where a common everyday empty glass can be found.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what basis one is comparing it.

  They are very different kinds of game, but they have to exist within the same economic realities.

  Big studios seem to be working on the basis that just because they spend millions on a game, the game automatically becomes worth whatever price tag they want to slap on it - as if it’s a natural law that pumping in more money should directly translate to more revenue, without fail.

  But it turns out the value of a game is what players perceive it to be worth, not what publishers hope its worth.

  So it’s no surprise that indie games with amazing price-to-value ratios are seeing a surge, while big studios are struggling and don’t seem to have any ability to understand why their business model isn’t working.

  Publishers are all shocked pikachu when their big budget games fall flat, but If people don’t want to buy your $80 game it’s not their fault - it’s your fault for not doing enough to justify the price tag.

  So my message to studios isn’t “your games should be $20” (although sometimes they should) it’s “you should provide value that matches the price tag” - and Silksong over here just laid down the gauntlet as a game which looks set to deliver tonnes of value for relatively little cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take note AAA studios - this is how you do it.

  With this pricing, Silksong may be the only game this year that I’ll actually purchase on release day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A person with a hammer? Why does it need to be difficult :P

  Or just go with direct address

  “If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little Pea Shooters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. If the planet was stationary in space, it wouldn’t work. Approach from ‘behind’ the planet and you get a boost, approach from the ‘front’ and you hit the brakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chuck Tingle, is that you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot Seat Advert⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah sure if my dog is a serial killer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.