overview for Alk

Anon browses ancient memes in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

It's true that my original comment was also from my phone haha.

Drug makers can’t make knockoff weight-loss drugs anymore—and they’re mad in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

They were in too deep to give up, the only way forward was down.

Is it just me or do all search engines feel soooo bad these days? in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You do it once.

Anon browses ancient memes in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

When people without computers were let loose onto the web.

Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Game pads that use keyboard keys with custom switches and unique form factors are where I think we're heading. Like the razer tartarus v2, which I have. It is great for gaming, better than a standard keyboard that uses identical switches, but still not ideal. It is similar enough to the layout of a keyboard that finger positioning can be the same and the learning curve is smooth.

It's closer to your "ideal" but not there yet. And I completely agree that we need to go in that direction.

Anon races against the jock in P.E. in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Naruto run is not bullshit, unless you don't believe in the other bullshit in the anime. To get to speeds where wind resistance makes any difference, you need to be running in the ballpark of the fastest running humans are capable of. Not the fastest per se, but the same ballpark. And even then, in the real world, it's only a minimal difference and the Naruto run is far from optimal. To make it necessary you'd have to run faster than any human can, by a very large margin. Maybe even an order of magnitude faster.

However, in the anime, the ninjas ARE able to run that fast. So if you take into account the inhuman basically "magical" abilities of the in-universe runners, it would definitely benefit them to lean forward that much to reduce wind resistance. In many scenes they are moving so fast they will jump between trees for 4-5 seconds of airtime without losing altitude. That's fast. Not only would the Naruto run improve air resistance but it would also prevent you from flailing all over the place when you jump.

So anyway, that's why you should definitely run like Naruto if you are running track in the 7th grade.

Why do Counterstrike and the other top 10 games on Steam NEVER change? in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's also a very solid game. (the same can't be said for every game on that list but it's true for many of them)

Anon plays Overwatch in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

When you die you see your whole character. I guess OP was very bad.

In ref to parents bringing their kids to Hazbin Hotel panels in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

Mozilla grants Ente $100k in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Check out immich, I use that self hosted and it's exactly like Google photos. It even has optional facial recognition.

In ref to parents bringing their kids to Hazbin Hotel panels in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This isn't about protecting the kids. It's about protecting the panel-goers from having to be around annoying kids.

In ref to parents bringing their kids to Hazbin Hotel panels in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

[–] Alk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You missed the opportunity to end that with -when I'm in them.

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My impression of github since switching to Linux (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Alk@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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I've been transitioning to Linux recently and have been forced to use github a lot when I hadn't much before. Here is my assessment.

Every github project is named something like dbutils, Jason's cool photo picker, or jibbly, and was forked from an abandoned project called EHT-sh (acronym meaning unknown) originally made by frederick lumberg, forked and owned by boops_snoops and actively maintained by Xxweeb-lord69xX.

There are either 3 lines of documentation and no releases page, or a 15 page long readme with weekly releases for the last 15 years and nothing in between. It is either for linux, windows, or both. If it's for windows, they will not specify what platforms it runs on. If it's for Linux, there's a 50% chance there are no releases and 2 lines of commands showing how to build it (which doesn't work on your distro), but don't worry because your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date and it magically appears on flatpak only after you've installed it by other means. Everything is written in python2. It is illegal to release anything for Mac OS on github.

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The Vulkan Science Directorate has... Wait a minute... (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Alk@lemmy.world to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

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Does this seem familiar to you?

https://infosec.pub/post/9613132

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Feature Request (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Alk@lemmy.world to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

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First off, amazing app. I didn't use boost for reddit, but currently this is the best app for my personal uses that is out there. I use the small cards with full width images. I mainly browse by tapping the image to expand the preview.

Previously, I used relay for reddit with a very similar layout.

I have 4 features/changes that I would love to see options for.

I am left handed, and I have the image thumbnails on the left. It's very difficult for me to reach the floating button to hide read posts. I cannot do it while holding my phone in my left hand. An option to put the button in the middle or on the left would be nice.
One of the best features of relay was how quick it was to open and close images. All of the images would pre-load the hq versions so when I tapped, there would be 0 loading at all. I've noticed some loading with boost for lemmy which isn't super annoying but it would be cool to avoid.
Relay had an option to disable double tap to zoom in previews. This means that when you would tap an image to dismiss, it would not wait for the double tap and would disappear immediately. This is the single biggest difference between the 2 apps that I notice regularly. It does get kind of annoying, having to wait every time. There is currently no lemmy app that has this feature.
When dismissing an image, it simply disappears. It would be cool if the image "shrunk" back into the thumbnail location which would make it easier to see which post I just opened in case there are similar looking image thumbnails next to each other, such as text images. Relay also has this.

Again, I'm not trying to bash the app. This will be my app of choice going forward and I've already purchased the ad removal. It really is a fantastic app. I'm just throwing some ideas out there that could be cool :)