Carighan

Carighan , 10 months ago

Sadly not updated in years, it’s an incredibly impressive keyboard otherwise.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Didn’t some TV station one broadcast that fuck all happened that day, anywhere?

Carighan , 10 months ago

Yeah, notice the top. This was taped to something.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Joke answer: Peter Molyneux

Serious answer: The sadly now retired Eckart von Hirschhausen, who does comedy mostly about health and medical topics.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Yeah he never fails to make me laugh. 😅

Carighan , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

No, both sides are. It’s not okay to pretend to be a doctor and masquerade paid product promotion as medical advise.

But it’s also inherently not okay to look at TikTok (or something comparable) for medical advise, that’s just obvious bullshit. And any even remotely reasonable person should intuitively know that.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Oh I explicitly mention that in the last sentence.

Carighan , 10 months ago

But isn’t that feature a crucial component of people adding 360° pictures to google maps?

Carighan , 10 months ago

Fromage fighters? What a stinker.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Is this the right time to get into the cactus growing business?

Carighan , 10 months ago

What is the overflow menu for, if not for overflowing? Poor menu. Robbed of its reason for existence. 🙁

Carighan , 10 months ago

Yeah, just like far-right ultraconservatives and fascists elsewhere, the idea is to always go “Nope, you’re all wrong and also all want to hurt us, in reality it’s all simple, we’ll fix it, just vote for us”.

Their issues are also stuff that is easy to make someone afraid of:

• Rising cost of living
• Money expenditure by the state
• Raised age of retirement
• Immigrants and others in general

Sure, the AfD couldn’t fix a shoelace if they got into power, but they wouldn’t need to. And to get there, they can promise the moon full of simplest solutions and blame everyone else around them for everything. The issue that modern generations are so anti-politics overall that they no longer care and no longer even bother to look into it. And the older generations have seen too much negative consequences too quickly (that them or their parents fucked up) to not be vulnerable to populist rhetorics.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Yeah, in the times where we would most need to all work together, 25%-50% of people in many western nations would rather intentionally abolish intellectual progress, science and common sense, just so they can spend their lives sitting there going “Na na na na na can’t hear you” with their fingers in their ears.

Pass the buck to the next generation.

Granted, it is this very fear - that we’re the generation that gets to see all the shit hit the fan - that causes the fascist parties like the AfD, the Republicans or the Tories to be able to woo their voters. But it’s so sad that it works, especially because a lot of AfD voters do have kids. And do have someone sitting at the table they want to actively fuck the world up for.

Carighan , 10 months ago

No, have a Safety Control Rod Axe Man. The dropping rod hits the breakers and smashes it, cutting power!

Carighan , 10 months ago

The idea that you should fly with exclusively self-hosted approaches is equally absurd to the idea that you should just blindly trust everyone.

Plus, if they have, as you say, “enough” data already, then surely giving them more doesn’t actually hurt you in any way, shape or form?

Carighan , 10 months ago

Because it’s just unnecessary. Due to their nature, you want a few services reachable from anywhere, anyways. There’s no reason for the average consumer to acquire hardware for this purpose. Just rent the service or the hardware elsewhere, which also reduces upfront cost which is ideal in situations where you cannot know whether you’ll stick with the service.

Again, it’s either extreme that’s absurd. You don’t need your own video streaming platform for example. In rare cases, sure. For the vast majority of people, Netflix is a much service however.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Yeah at this point the world would do well to either put a giant glass dome over them. Soundproof, of course.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Yeah, and blowing it up was a shit move and not okay. Fuck the rebels pulling that kind of shit.

Destroy its weapon system, sure. But not blow up the whole station. I mean the only difference here is that the Imperium blew up an actual planet, not an artificial one.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Still to date one of more sensible JavaScript demos.

Carighan , 10 months ago

When every app looks the same, none of them look like anything any more. Plus it’s just fugly with excessive whitespace, overly wide fonts and button sizes that seem to be optimized so my neighbor from across the street can easily understand the UI. It almost feels like UI parody to me.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Not really, it’s the typing “click to find out!” click bait. Isn’t it?

Carighan , 10 months ago

rising market costs

= “paying right wingers like Joe Rogan to shit out podcasts on our service”

Carighan , 10 months ago

I mean I feel like undoing all creation every time I fall or stub my toe, too. Sure, we all do. But geez, it’s a figure if speech! An in the moment thing!

Carighan , 10 months ago

Analogue radio is getting shut down in favor of digital broadcasts, so I doubt this would truly be helpful in many areas.

Carighan , 10 months ago

Are there car ferries where you are allowed to stay inside the car? O.o

Carighan , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

The possible extension to Android 15 is very nice to hear. Late as they are to updating, at least they’re truly committed to long term soft- and, importantly, hard-ware support.

(Edit)
Has someone found where to set/edit the dynamic color yet?

Carighan , 10 months ago

Nevermind, found it. Wallpaper, then pick Wallpaper & Style as the app for it.

Carighan , 10 months ago

I just finished it, and loved it.

But you need to know what you’re getting. The game looks fresh, and has some relatively minor QoL done with interactions and shooting and all (and the replaced Cyberspace), but it is a nearly 30 years old game.

And the remake fundamentally still is. A very good game that in many regards is still unmatched, but also one tremendously outdated in plenty other regards.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Never Only One Sock Woman!

Carighan , 11 months ago

And also because hopefully people just laugh when Bavaria of all drug-guzzling states wanted to block it.

Carighan , 11 months ago

I have a Fairphone 4 since release and honestly I don’t have a clue what sluggishness people complain about.

My biggest gripe is lack of AR core (most board gaming apps require it) and lack of a notification LED. The rest is a fantastic phone where I can trivially repair broken parts. Which I’ve really been missing. In return it’s a bit pricey, granted.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Ouch, some of these lines hit far too close to home, like asking about giving back “the now unnecessary servers”. 🙈

Carighan , 11 months ago

I would certainly hope so! :o

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah, or well, in theory their formula works, but given the realities of developing countries they knew they were killing babies when they introduced it there.

Didn’t matter, made profits, line went up.

Carighan , 11 months ago

My big one, because I am playing the successor right now would be the Commandos-reinvention line of games by Mimimi Software:

• Shadow Tactics (feudal Japan)
• Desperados III (Wild West)
• Shadow Gambit (undead pirates)

They’re very faithful reproductions of the old Commandos-formula, real time tactics about sneaking and stabbing through a dense map full of guards covering each other, finding spots where to get in with specific abilities of your varying characters. In the newest one in particular, your pirates are recruited in any order you like, and being supernatural in nature they have some wild abilities. Your starting character can briefly freeze time for a target. Your Quartermaster can possess people. A skeleton has a golden head he can toss to make guards come over to try pick it up and then make their corpse disappear by using his fishing pole to drag it into the endless chest he has on his back.

Carighan , 11 months ago

For me it was the opposite, I loved the oppressive atmosphere in the EMMI rooms, and kinda was a bit deflated later when they stop being a problem.

Still, a phenomenal game, really enjoyed it.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yeah that was my first thought, too. Both sides of this are peak america really.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Yes, this one here officer.

Carighan , 11 months ago

It’s so wild that Google would rather weaken their own brand than just keep a secondary frontend around. It would require minimal maintenance cost (given the size of their company, just have 1-2 fulltime devs working on keeping it in shape and updated), and it could access the exact same backend as the Youtube Music app.

Weird.

And don’t misunderstand me, I really don’t like Google Podcasts for podcasts, but I also admit that having a separate app for podcasts is superior, as you listen to them very differently than you listen to music. Spotify amiably shows how their recommendation algorithms absolutely cannot handle someone listening to both, anyways.

Carighan , 11 months ago

But to a user, what would the benefit be? Would the UI also change depending on content played to expose the controls specialized for each type of media?

Carighan , 11 months ago

Melon Husk will probably treat that as a win. It’s confirmation that what he is doing is working and he’s aggregating the right (not as in “correct”) people on his platform.

Carighan , 11 months ago

Phew, been a few years. I remember getting that with my sis. It was amazing at the time, even with how envious we were of friends copying their PS games.

In particular I remember Starfox 64 / Lylat Wars, with the rumble pack. Such an amazing new thing that became a universal standard so quickly.

Carighan , 11 months ago

It does if you turn it on. Might be enabled by default for new accounts of course.

Carighan , 11 months ago

You can always see your own nose BTW, your brain just usually excludes it from what you actively notice.

Carighan OP , 11 months ago

This is almost always a situation that can be pinned on Steam, actually. The games that end up doing this are usually using Steamworks, which essentially forces them into a sort of soft-exclusivity on Steam since their multiplayer features and such can only exist there.

But Steam doesn’t force them to use Steamworks, so I don’t really see “steam’s fault” fault here. Although, of course, it’d be cool if Steamworks would work for non-steam games at least for modding/multiplayer. Granted.

Carighan OP , 11 months ago

I think the pseudo-quote you wanted to do the other way around.

The thing is, sure, I prefer buying things from say, GOG. But Epic is horrible, and that’s even just from my consumer perspective with it’s bad client, terrible discoverability and lack of forums or anything. So as a consumer I have no incentive to support Epic, no matter whether I want to give my money to Steam or another place.