Gestrid
@Gestrid@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 9 hours ago:
It’s been a function for at least a few years. And they didn’t mention whether it had to be new or not.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 16 hours ago:
You can actually go on your PS5 and re-send those photos or videos if you need to. Just hit select when you’ve got the photo you want to re-send highlighted, and an option to send it to the PS App will appear.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 16 hours ago:
You can directly connect to the Switch over a wifi network it creates. You can select up to 10 photos to share at a time. It’ll create a one-time-use wifi network (the connection details are different every time) and generate a QR code so you can connect to it. After your phone is connected, it’ll generate another QR code that’ll direct you to a webpage (a local IP address, specifically) where you can browse and download the photos from.
Make sure to turn off data on your phone while you’re trying to do this. Some phones use data as a fallback if the wifi network they’re connected to isn’t connected to the internet.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 16 hours ago:
Posting photos and videos from the Switch directly onto Twitter.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 2 weeks ago:
The only problem I can see with that is poor people like myself.
The state inspection in my state costs a set, predetermined amount. The mechanic legally cannot charge more than that amount. (I think it’s about $10, but I could be misremembering. It’s somewhere around there, though.) If anything doesn’t pass inspection, that’s where the cost can come in. How much it costs depends on where you get the thing fixed.
In my state, if you car doesn’t pass inspection and you choose not to get the thing repaired so it does pass (maybe you don’t have the money right away, or maybe you want to bring it someplace cheaper to get it fixed), you’re given 30 days to fix it, regardless of the original expiration date in the sticker. They replace the inspection sticker with a special “state inspection rejection” sticker that says by what date the inspection is due. At my old job, I used to see plenty of people come in on the last day of the month knowing their car would fail inspection. They came in to get that 30 day extension.
just because one aspect of my car isn’t up to code doesn’t mean I don’t still need my car to get to work.
Generally, inspections don’t take too long to do, though that can vary depending on where you bring your car. They usually won’t take longer than 24 hours, though. For me, they’re usually done either within a couple hours of bringing the car in (if I bring it in early enough) or by mid-morning the next day (if I bring it in in the later afternoon or evening). So I could bring my car in after work on the day before my day off, and it’s pretty much guaranteed that it’ll be ready by about 10am the next day the next day (or end of day if they find something wrong, depending on what it is).
When I was working at the car dealer, customers waiting in the lobby would typically have their car ready within a couple hours, and customers who had alternative transportation would usually have them done by the end of the day with enough time for us to call the customer and for the customer to come by and pick up their car.
This definitely isn’t the case everywhere, but the dealer I worked at also gave out free loaner cars for customers to use depending on the circumstances (ex. did the customer have an appointment) and availability (ex. do we have any loaner cars available right now). Customers just coming in for a state inspection wouldn’t typically get one, but, if there was something that didn’t pass inspection, then we might set them up with one if we had one available and if the customer wasn’t able to wait any longer.
Tl;dr: In my state, getting a state inspection is usually relatively painless. The inspection itself doesn’t cost much, but the cost of fixing something so it passes inspection depends on where you go. There are also ways to get extensions if you need them, and, if you plan ahead, you can usually get your state inspection done on your day off without any problems. Even if there’s something that’d cause it to fail inspection, it’s usually still done the same day.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 2 weeks ago:
I did say “most” states. I used to work at a car dealer’s service department, and I’ve seen some cars come in where they don’t have a state inspection sticker because the owner just moved from a state that doesn’t do state inspections.
Because of that job, I’ve also seen stickers from other states that do do state inspections. Most of them will be on the windshield either in the bottom corner on the driver’s side or in the bottom center. They’ll list a month and year as numbers (ex. 8 and 24 for August 2024) for when the inspection sticker expires.
So, at least in my state, someone with 8/24 on their sticker would at least need to drop their vehicle off at a mechanic (not necessarily the car dealer, just a mechanic authorized to do state inspections) by the last day of the month. If the mechanic doesn’t do the inspection until the the beginning of the next month, that’s fine. You’d just get a sticker that says 9/25 on it when they’re done.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 2 weeks ago:
You’re forgetting the annual safety inspection required in most US states.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 3 weeks ago:
our streets are all jacked up
Not that it’ll really help your situation, but you should look into whether or not your state’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has some sort of reporting tool online.
Mine does, and I’ve used it to report several issues, including several potholes on my neighborhood road. The potholes were filled within a week after I reported it.
- Comment on Turn up the heat 3 weeks ago:
Because everyone has a different core temperature. So it really can’t be set value like 100°F.
Generally speaking, a fever of 100°F is “fine”, albeit completely exhausting and not at all fun, but it’s good for helping the body to fight infections.
Fevers higher than 102°F are when you need to start working on bringing that fever down. If it climbs higher than that, you risk brain injury. The proteins in your body will also start to denature (lose their ability to function) as your temperature climbs, including proteins that work within your brain and your nervous system.
If it continues to climb or won’t go down even after taking medicine, you need to call your doctor or go to the hospital.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
In the US, most TV commercials are so obviously TV commercials that they don’t label them. Some TV stations do have bumpers they air when the TV show goes to break and comes back from break.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
They’re in the middle of trying to get their users to create accounts with E-Trade, their Directed Share Program (DSP) administrator. They’ll start selling shares to their users as part of their DSP late next week. After that is the IPO.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
Fortunately, at least in my experience, the adblockers usually win. Even if a company changes something to avoid an adblocker or force someone to turn off their adblocker (Hi, Twitch!), it’s usually fixed within just a few hours at most.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
Weren’t they also caught using AI bots to drive up engagement in some subreddits, too? (I think it was supposed to be some of their subreddits in foreign languages or something.)
- Comment on Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms 1 month ago:
What I’m talking about was when they changed the Android app to behave more like the iOS app. It was a buggy mess when it first launched. It’s much better now, though. I’ve since updated my app to the current version.
- Comment on Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms 1 month ago:
It’s… really not that hard.
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Uninstall the new app, download the old app from www.apkmirror.com.
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Use an app like APK signer to change the app’s “signature” so it doesn’t automatically update.
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Install it.
It takes like 10 minutes at most.
I did exactly this with the Discord app last year when they suddenly changed the app’s entire layout.
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- Comment on Watching F1 races with the subtitles on is wild 2 months ago:
whispers “Zoom, zoom.”
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s an amazing game. And, yeah, you most likely got the good ending. The other ending has more lore and a lot of post game content, assuming you’re playing the Switch version. (The Steam version still has post game content, but they added more in the Switch version.)
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 2 months ago:
Now play the other route. All you have to do is (Omori spoilers) >!not answer the door when Kel starts knocking on the first day. Do your chores instead.!<
Also, if you’re interested, there’s an official Omori orchestral concert on YouTube.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 2 months ago:
This. I’m lucky if I get an email saying I didn’t get the job.
Another thing I hate: those “personality tests”. Given the option, most of my answers to those questions would be “it depends on the situation”. (After all, there are several different variables to consider, variables that the scenarios those “tests” they give us don’t cover, that I would actually need to consider if I were in the situation described in the scenario.) But that’s not an option, so I’m forced to pick something that I don’t really believe is right.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
Yeah, it definitely wasn’t perfect, but I was primarily focusing on the UI since that’s what the others in this thread were focusing on.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
It felt less taped together (in the UI sense, anyway) before Windows 8, honestly. Mainly because they didn’t do semiannual or annual (or whatever the schedule is now) feature updates.
Windows 8 was… Windows 8.
Windows 10 never felt finished, especially whenever they shifted the UI design between updates. Some things would follow the new look, while others wouldn’t.
And now they’re repeating that with Windows 11.
- Comment on Altered Carbon 2 months ago:
- Comment on Sudo is coming to Windows 11 2 months ago:
Sudo is the “please” of Linux.
- Comment on Sudo is coming to Windows 11 2 months ago:
That’d like up with their Xbox naming scheme. XbOne, XSeX, etc.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
This. I literally just joined. I have no idea what the server layout is or where all the important links are.
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 2 months ago:
I have an extension called “ffck overlays” for situations like that. It can be hit-or-miss, but it works a decent amount of the time.
Firefox: github.com/mashedkeyboard/ffckoverlays
It was inspired by a similar extension made for Chrome called “F*ck Overlays”.
Chromium browsers (for those who haven’t left Chromium behind yet): …google.com/…/ppedokobpbdajgiejhnjfbdjlgobcpkp
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 2 months ago:
It definitely doesn’t take care of everything, but there are apps that run all the internet traffic on your phone through an adblocker. Most of the ones on Android setup a local VPN (a VPN running on the same device that’s connecting to it) and run their adblocker through that.
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 2 months ago:
squints eyes
… Are you a robot?
/j
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 2 months ago:
I hope it doesn’t click it on my computer. I wouldn’t trust an ad not to try to download a virus even on a legitimate site like YouTube.
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 3 months ago:
Actually, Steam is usually one of the best places when it comes to refunds. The process is simple, and they’re willing to make exceptions to the rules. And the company is run by one of the few CEOs in the gaming industry who seem to actually understand gaming.