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HornyOnMain , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

I'm definitely one of these. I come from the era when misspelling a major websites name meant you landed on a virus infested page that could do all sorts of fun things to your computer.

GrappleHat , to linux_gaming in Help me to install Diablo 2 The Hell
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In my experiemce The Hell 2 has a visual glitch in Linux during the opening menus where they are all black. Judging from your screenshot and report of hearing audio you might be seeing the same thing - but in that case you mighy already be to the point where the game is playable.

Despite the black screen try interacting with the buttons with the mouse? Does the screen redraw itself in the vicinity of the mouse as you move it? If so, try to navigate the menu to start a new game.

ProgKing OP ,

Lol! I managed to start the game, and it seems that everything works fine. However, the screen does not redraw itself, unfortunately. I was only able to start a new game by pressing the arrow keys and enter. But, of course, I can’t create a proper character like this…

ProfoundNinja , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

I use some sort of browse by name function. I never complete a url, I just type the name and hit enter. It bypasses the search results page and goes to the site direct. So I’m pretty sure I’m contributing to the data but I’m definitely not using it like most.

AdmiralShat , (edited ) to startrek in Is the next episode a comedy? S204 "Charades"

I hear good things about this show

flamingmongoose ,

Strange New Worlds is pretty light hearted, this is a perfectly reasonable possibility for them

theinspectorst ,
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It's great. Apart from Picard S3, this is the best Star Trek we've had since the 90s.

crazycanadianloon ,

My partner describes it as like TNG with the weak episodes taken out. They’re great, good, or neutral.

Fortychops , to nonononoyes in On my finger tips

Gloves and machinery are not the best mix

Crakila , to assholedesign in What the fuck. Program is Hyperbeam
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name and shame.

lagomorphlecture , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

I do it all the time because the address bar and the search bar are the same bar, on mobile at least. Try it. You open a new tab and get a page with a prompt to type the search term or web address. If you type in the full url with no typos you will be redirected to the correct website. If you do not type the full url you’re getting search results. I do not do this intentionally, I’m just lazy and dumb and it gives you that drop down that looks like it’s saying “oh look here is a link to like Walmart or whatever” so you click on it but it’s search results. This was a very intentional design choice on Google’s part.

theragu40 ,

Came to say this also. I don’t know why this isn’t obvious.

I was anti using google instead of URLs for a long time. But once browser makers decided to start catering to people who do that by combining the address and search bar…well it happens by accident so often that I’m now one of those people.

oddshiver , to nonononoyes in Not funny fade away jumper
PopOfAfrica , to fediverse in Lemmy.world reaches new milestone: 100k users and counting!

I’ve checked out the Reddit popular tab a few times recently. The quality has declined immensely.

Kurroth ,

The reposting has gotten to a whole new level, and the amount of content pulled straight from tiktok and twitter has increased. Also started to see some very uncanny subreddits climbing into r/all.

I’m done loading that place all together pretty much.

SJ_Zero , to fediverse in Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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They’ve done a lot of stupid things lately, but this isn’t one of them.

Governments should be using open platforms and open source software.

Koffiato ,

Absolutely! Using open source software is much cheaper, as well. Hiring developers to work on open source software/OSs would cost less than buying software annually. Governments pay stupid amounts of money for easily replaceable software.

CodeMonkeyDance ,

Why. So they become less secure? Propriatery software has its uses /s

Freesoftwareenjoyer ,

Yes and how is the developer supposed to earn their money when they can’t spy on people and insert ads?!!!!!!!1111

CodeMonkeyDance ,

Not enough exclamation marks… Add more to better convey your fragility. lol

grissee ,

I’m from Indonesia and I can assure you European level of stupid doesn’t even come close to my country’s

bstix ,

It would be nice if governments could make a “software union”, pledging to use the same standards. It seems that everyone is inventing the wheel separately in every country or falling back on commercial industry standards.

F.i. the exchange of financial documents. There’s a standard coming along called SAF-T, and even if it is a standard, every country using it are making their own definitions of what it is. There are also some countries that already have their own completely different standard. The crazy thing is that almost every country worldwide are asking for the exact same info on tax returns, but they’ve all individually come up with that. Only differences is the order of fields on the form.

Same with user identification. Every country has their own almost identical solution for identification, which however does not work across borders, despite the similarities.

buildbreakrepeat , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar

A bunch of people append "site:reddit.com" or just "reddit" to searches to avoid SEO bullshit, which might cause false positives in the trends graph.

SaintWacko ,

Yeah, that’s what I suspect is happening here

Neato ,
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It's this. I'll do search terms and append "reddit" or "youtube" if the current list doesn't get me what I need. I'll do "site:" if it's really fucking stubborn.

tryagain , to assholedesign in The Xbox Series X doesn't support bluetooth, while all smartphone companies are removing the 3.5mm jack

Neither does the PS5 but there’s a 3.5mm jack and a built in mic in the controller. Sony’s claim is that standard Bluetooth isn’t fast enough to stay in sync with the screen and your control inputs, so they have their own bespoke wireless (but not Bluetooth) headset. I’m happy enough with a cheap pair of wired headphones from the supermarket.

NOT_RICK ,
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Just chiming in to add that Xbox controllers also have 3.5mm jacks, although they’re annoyingly incompatible with Sony’s 3.5mm Jack to get the mic working (at least last time I tried with a pair of old iPhone earbuds which use the same configuration as Sony).

tryagain ,

Now THAT is asshole design. Just make it work, you fucks. You know you can.

Metallibus ,

Sony’s claim is that standard Bluetooth isn’t fast enough to stay in sync with the screen and your control inputs, so they have their own bespoke wireless (but not Bluetooth) headset.

To be fair, this is kind of true… Most Bluetooth latency is fucking atrocious.

curiosityLynx ,

Yup. Main reason I don't bother with bluetooth mice and use either radio mice with receivers or wired mice over them.

QuinceDaPence ,

Yeah, music and videos are about the limits of it.

I don't really think this is asshole design, because if they alloed ot people would 100% complain saying the audio is laggy.

bech , to mildlyinteresting in People really do use Google Search to visit well-known websites instead of typing their names into the address bar
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sieurorage , to startrek in Is the next episode a comedy? S204 "Charades"

@snowyday ST:VOY did the same back in the days with B’lana’s Klingon DNA, in a quite interesting episode about identity. I reckon the same theme will be dealt with again this time…

snowyday OP Bot ,

Wow! I had completely forgotten about that

Kichae ,

This episode seems like it's going to be light-hearted. Faces was, uh... not.

freamon , to startrek in Is the next episode a comedy? S204 "Charades"

Looks like it. The last Spock and T’Pring episode was that fun body-swap one, I think.

maegul ,
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Probably a smart and distinctly SNW move to use all the Vulcan stuff for comedy.

BrooklynMan ,
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the whole show is a bit goofy, and it works in their favor most of the time, as it did with TOS. DSC tries to be so serious, and I find it to be insufferable, mostly because the writing staff doesn’t have the talent to pull it off.

eva_sieve , (edited )

To be fair to other series, plenty of them tapped into the Vulcans’ potential as comedy straight men. This is arguably why we had the recurring conflict of goofy alien Neelix vs. Tuvok on Voyager. Lower Decks doesn’t see a lot of them, but gets a lot of mileage making fun of their uptight nature in Wej Duj. TOS even had some fun poking holes in Spock’s facade-- just look at the end of Amok Time.

But yeah, it’s kinda crazy seeing the shenanigans come from the Vulcans themselves in this show.

snowyday OP Bot ,

Just like how Data was often comedy relief. His misunderstandings (and poetry) may have been comedic, but he himself was never the joke or comic (ironically, when he tried stand up comedy, he was at his least funny. Let’s all pray that Spock never meets Joe Piscopo)

Crankpork ,

So we might be in for more hijinks?

HobbitFoot ,

Will the hijinks ensue?

doleo ,

Trek Culture referenced in their last video that Spock has become the comic relief, this series.

Madison_rogue ,
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That episode is forever known as the "Enterprise Bingo" episode. I absolutely loved the sub-plot with Una and La'an. It's one of my favorite episodes of Season 1.

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