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ALostInquirer

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I like to ask a variety of questions, sometimes silly, serious, and/or strange. Never asking in an attempt to pester or “just asking questions” stuff.

I’m generally curious and/or trying to get a sense of people’s views.

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ALostInquirer ,

Whoa, they gave you therapy animals? Lookit this guy

ALostInquirer ,

Isn’t offline though […]

How do you mean? I was of the impression it was.

Sega "Gold Cartridge" in Master System

Hi, I’m looking for info on the compatibility of the “Gold Cartridge” with regards to the Master System. I was looking at one of these and it says on the box that it’s made for the Mark III and Master System. However, the form factor is different than other Master System cartridges, and it’s also nothing like a Sega...

ALostInquirer ,

Were you looking at one of them online, or offline in a shop? If the former, do you have a link that might help ensure one’s on the same page?

ALostInquirer ,

but what do if u the professional? 😨

ALostInquirer OP ,

Thanks! I appreciate the perspective on this, as lip-reading is kinda like “eye-reading” to me in that I’ve struggled to understand what’s involved.

To put my experience into perspective, which might work for at least a few people: subtitles. I mean… I’ve never asked anyone else but yall arent just reading them, right? To me they just clarify the speech subconsciously (for the most part), rather than me reading them off the screen when I need them. Subtitles are weird… Who knows if this is accurate to my experience or similar to others.

This also helps me understand, as I often do watch stuff with subtitles to help better follow dialogue, and I’m usually not closely reading them all throughout.

ALostInquirer OP ,

For anyone not wanting to click, it’s a short video from the National Geographic channel titled: “What It’s Like to Read Lips” and it’s good! It definitely reinforces how I’m not great at reading lips. 😅

ALostInquirer OP ,

Thanks! Here’s to hoping it grows into a helpful space for folks! Remember to mention it to anyone else that might be interested!

ALostInquirer ,

On Lemm.ee you have to use an external image host and post links from them due to issues with keeping people from posting illegal imagery. Not sure how other instances have gone about mitigating that (if they have, they may just not be as cautious).

ALostInquirer OP ,

I’m not familiar with those, so this might be a bad suggestion, but the short description makes me think this may still fit, have you read The City & the City by China Miéville?

It’s set in two overlapping cities, whose inhabitants diligently disregard the other city’s until they formally cross the borders, and it’s a crime to do otherwise. It’s a pretty compelling read imo!

ALostInquirer OP ,

On 5, have you heard of Crying Suns? Crying Suns is more in the vein of FTL, so not a deckbuilder, but if memory serves I think it has the branching map to it.

It’s received some praise for its setting from what I gather, but I haven’t gotten around to seriously playing it, so can’t speak much to that.

ALostInquirer OP ,

Do you feel more embodied?

ALostInquirer OP , (edited )

Is it mainly voice chat? I tend to prefer text chat as I don’t like fussing with audio settings nor hearing roughly handled mics (albeit I know you can often mute those players).

ALostInquirer OP ,

When you say hide it, do you mean back where you found it or elsewhere? Are there some that encourage you to add/move parts of the caches around from one to another?

ALostInquirer OP ,

Neocities came up in another question I asked, and so I looked into it. They have a couple ways they handle funding, via donations or becoming a supporter and subscribing for a little each month.

You may have already looked this up by now, but for anyone else that comes across this and was wondering too, there ya go!

ALostInquirer ,

are we safe?

ALostInquirer OP ,

I probably should have adjusted the examples as like metalbulletins.org to better describe what I was trying to ask.

It’s not strictly the explicit software as part of the address that I’ve found odd, so much as the blending of the software in the names, but I think generally it comes down to the same basic point being made in the different comments concerning domain registration and management.

ALostInquirer OP ,

Lemmy is a technology where each instance follows the same rules: acompatible federation API. You want people to know your website is a Lemmy instance.

I kind of see where you’re coming from, and I think the reason I wasn’t thinking of it in those terms is that I see ActivityPub as the more important underlying tech across the fediverse than say Lemmy/Mastodon/Friendica/etc.

I say that in part as I’ve come into the fediverse from Mastodon, where there’s more than two options in play, e.g. Akkoma/Firefish/Misskey/Pleroma/etc. each of which has some commonalities, but also some pretty distinctive features, particularly from the Misskey side. Hell, Mastodon itself even has Glitchsoc, which is what the original instance I joined on that side of things runs.

On reflection, I don’t know that the microblogging instances mix in the name of the software they’re using as much, which you’d think with more options they might be inclined to, but the more I think of it the more I remember a lot of them use some fun, odd names instead.

Why are some modern tvs' audiovideo settings still sliders/incremental without an option for exact number input?

This is something on tvs and even PC monitors/speakers that’s left me a little confused. Sliders/incremental input are okay for basic settings adjustments, but if you know exactly what you want your settings at…Why isn’t there a direct number input option on more devices?...

ALostInquirer OP ,

than type in a number, if that’s what you’re referring to.

It is, and also don’t most generic remotes still have keypads? 🤨

That’s the part that probably gets me the most here. You used to, and with certain services still, have to directly enter in a channel number to go to that channel…So the basic setup is all there, but…Pretty much exclusively used for channel navigation because ???

ALostInquirer ,

Do you visit here/Reddit for some news alongside other stuff, or more other stuff than news?

If the latter, you can somewhat avoid the rhetoric back & forth by blocking out a lot of the news communities, but then you do run into the general content problem more (especially if you’re also blocking memes).

ALostInquirer ,

Have you checked if the source sites of the articles being shared have RSS feeds? That would be a more optimal way to aggregate articles from a few sites than communities, depending on what you’re after.

Although, amusingly enough, you could also follow the RSS feeds of the news communities instead of doing that, but then there wouldn’t have been much of a point to making an account. 😅

ALostInquirer ,

While I don’t entirely disagree, I’m a little confused by your description of the front page of lemm.ee, which we’re both on. My front page when viewing All here is mostly memes/shitposts/news/technology when set to Active sort, is yours not?

I’ve admittedly blocked a fair amount and have show NSFW/bot posts disabled, but the communities you mention aren’t affected by that.

ALostInquirer ,

Have you seen the shitpost communities? Cleverness isn’t required, and in fact I think in those communities it’s somewhat frowned upon, 'cause c’mon, no polishing shit!

ALostInquirer ,

I honestly think we need to revive many communities related to questions, interesting topics, and overall “lets-have-a-chat-on-something” (preferably not related to what I mentioned above, or at least that touches a broader audience).

Have you subbed to the various AskLemmy/Ask[instance]/NoStupidQuestions/Out of the Loop communities across here?

To my own amusement, I found sh.itjust.works has several question communities that I tossed some posts to here & there.

Think they were:

!askshit
!randomquestions

And of course, the obligatory:
!asklemmy

But besides those and the big AskLemmy communities on World and Lemmy.ml, there’s:

!nostupidquestions
!nostupidquestions

!outoftheloop

Also although I haven’t sorted out what I might want to post in them, there’s these chat communities for other discussing other topics besides those you highlight getting plenty enough discussion:

!casualconversation
!chatter
!chat
!general

ALostInquirer ,

Have you continued exploring, or found yourself settling in more?

For me any place stagnates when I start settling into it, so I try to find a new angle, a new question to ask of it, and eventually something gives way to something exciting and fascinating that was right around the corner the whole time.

ALostInquirer ,

Have you checked out !lemmy411? For some reason I don’t see it mentioned or linked to much, but it’s basically that, which I think would feel much more approachable to new people than pointing them to tools like Lemmyverse (as much as I do really appreciate it).

Another good one for sharing communities you’ve stumbled across would be !wowthislemmyexists.

ALostInquirer ,

I gotcha. Fwiw I kind of agree, even beyond Lemmy I’ve been a little surprised some of these sites/instances haven’t done more to tailor themselves to accommodate more folks or focus on specific demographics.

That’s supposed to be one of the big perks of the federation approach, being able to create more distinct communities, but outside of a few, they largely seem to run the software as-is, maybe with some backend adjustments to help reduce the costs of operation or the like.

ALostInquirer OP ,

That’s typically how I approach things, but this is asked in the context of having done stuff under a personal account that could help advance you professionally, but you don’t want to share your personal handle as it’s, well, personal.

ALostInquirer ,

Isn’t there an adaptation for some organisms that’s basically, “im just a fren c’mere and give me a pat” and then you help them the most by feeding them and they always remember you fondly as, “mmmmm good nom”?

ALostInquirer ,

You may be looking for !dadjokes?

ALostInquirer ,

Is this best done on a work computer in the office as the boss is roaming about?

ALostInquirer ,

What would be a good place to start with IPA? Going off Wikipedia’s pages on the matter is like Force’s comment, well-intentioned but not a great intro as you flit back & forth across the tables making sense of it.

I also vaguely remember a similar experience with physical dictionaries, which I think tend to have some kind of IPA (or related) pronunciation guide in them. It’s been awhile since I’ve used one though, hence the foggy memory, and some online dictionaries seem to have given up on showing IPA pronunciation guides.

ALostInquirer ,

Whoa! Thanks a ton for the additional breakdown and links! Saved this post and am still reading over it, and wanted to give you a quick reply letting you know I’ve seen it, appreciate it, and am in fact reading it all.

T-Mobile sued after employee stole nude images from customer phone during trade-in (www.cnbc.com)

T-Mobile sued after employee stole nude images from customer phone during trade-in::T-Mobile has been sued again for failing to protect consumer data after an employee at one of its Washington stores stole nude images off of a customer’s phone.

ALostInquirer ,

Is the last one an absolute requirement? If not, although I imagine you’re already aware of it, have you considered the Moto G Stylus? It manages the first three details nicely, but I don’t think any of the models have a capacitive fingerprint scanner (may be mistaken, wasn’t a feature I was interested in when looking into these).

ALostInquirer ,

Any particular boots you might recommend? I tried going this route but apparently should have researched more as the ones I got didn’t really hold up that well.

ALostInquirer ,

Ah, yeah, I find I need some more padding in my shoes to feel comfortable, but appreciate the reply all the same!

I’ve tried on some without much and was pretty sure my feet would feel like trash within a few short hours standing and walking. Think I spoiled myself with some shoes with gel insoles.

For those active across the fediverse, who are some creatives you follow and which creative communities do you enjoy?

Creatives of whichever fields, whether writers, artists, musicians, meme-makers, developers, film makers, and the like and/or communities, I’m curious to know about some of the people around the fediverse creating some original stuff....

ALostInquirer ,

Your argument rests on a fallacy- “vote with your wallet”. This presumes that we don’t vote with our voice anymore, so it supersedes a democratic system of governance.

Meaning this genuinely, not in a snarky way: did you read to the end of my comment? My phrasing may have been poor or a tad wordy, but I recognize what you’re describing and advise collective, political action instead of voting with one’s wallet.

The parenthetical at the end wasn’t to suggest otherwise, only that doing so via one’s existing/current government may not be a readily available option, demanding one change their government so as to make it work to those ends. I should have been clearer on that point.

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