bionicjoey

joined 1 year ago
[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 month ago

Lol, someone loves the taste of boots

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I could see some kind of arrangement where the age would be something reasonable like 16-18, but then there is a test you can write (basic civics questions eg. who are the candidates, what does the legislative branch do, etc.) and if you pass that test, kind of like a learner's permit for driving, you can vote even if you're under that age, down to a hard cutoff of like 13.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

"Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two conflicting ideas simultaneously"

  • Spec Ops: The Line (loading screen hint)
[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

That, the monospace font, and the heart button which seems to be identical to the upvote button, are all changes I am not a fan of. Otherwise it's not bad.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You and literally everyone else in the world

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As someone on the autism spectrum, I don't mind using it or hearing people use it at all, as long as it's being used as a synonym for "dumb" and not being used to specifically disparage someone with a disability. Just like "idiot", words evolve over time from being specific words to refer to disabilities to just general words for someone being a dumbass.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

Was he heavily involved in the film's production? I'm not very familiar with how this movie was made, but a lot of the stuff I've heard about it gives me the sense that his style didn't influence it very much (weird casting, lame jokes, etc.)

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you are sleeping so heavily that you sleep through your alarm every time, you probably aren't getting enough sleep. Go to bed earlier.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Username checks out

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

!ottawa@lemmy.ca

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Rule 5: must be a topic of discussion

This is not a subject of discussion. It's just OP saying "help me do my job pls"

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Anyone who can't pedal is also gonna have trouble standing upright and maintaining a neutral balance on a thin board

 

This guy breaks down just how bad the layout of the new PHB is. The cross referencing is non-existent and the subsections seem to go in the order someone thought of them. I'm sadly unsurprised that they've not improved on any of these problems which existed in the original 5e PHB.

 

I wasn't 100% sure this was a problem, as I had noticed a lot more people commenting what appeared to be static image responses to comments. But there's this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/16932878 which makes it easy to be sure that in fact they are definitely GIFs, and they don't play when you click on them. It just opens the first frame of the GIF like a static image.

 

I thought something was causing people to double post more recently, but after testing voting on some examples, I'm pretty sure posts are getting duplicated by the app.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
 

The game seems to downscale and blur all textures, so the only thing that looks sharp is text and 3d models. Unfortunately some of the UI text seems to actually be a rendered texture, so the text of some UI elements can look blurry and pixelated. It also seems that the blurring is a live process, not a preprocess. This means that a lot of the UI elements are constantly flickering on top of being blurry.

Overall I love the game FWIW. I picked it up this week and love the gameplay loop. I'm just amazed it gets the green checkmark despite having such glaring UI issues with the default graphics settings (which are ostensibly tailored to the Deck)

Can anyone tell me if this can be fixed?

Edit: I had half-rate shading turned on and didn't realize it. I'm an idiot.

 

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I have some pretty significant reservations, it's not the hill I want to die on. So my question is: what can be done to use WeChat without compromising my whole phone? I'm okay with it if our conversations aren't private, but I'd like to know that I'm not giving unfettered access to all of my phone's systems and data to the CCP. What can be done to limit the reach of this ubiquitous app on my device?

 

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I have some pretty significant reservations, it's not the hill I want to die on. So my question is: what can be done to use WeChat without compromising my whole phone? I'm okay with it if our conversations aren't private, but I'd like to know that I'm not giving unfettered access to all of my phone's systems and data to the CCP. What can be done to limit the reach of this ubiquitous app on my device?

 

Back in my days on Reddit, my favourite feature was the ability to hide individual posts if I had downvoted them. It made it easy to hide things which I didn't want to see or felt shouldn't be seen

 

Seriously this was very surprising. I've been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it's a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn't "true open source" but it's a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app.

I updated the YouTube backend recently and to my surprise and delight they had added support for SponsorBlock. However, when I went to enable it, it warned me "turning this on harms creators" and made me click a box before I could continue.

Bruh, you're literally an ad-blocking YouTube frontend. What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to be facilitating ad-blocking and then at the same time shame the end-user for using an extension which simply automates seeking ahead in videos. Are you seriously gonna tell me that even without Sponsorblock, if I skip ahead past the sponsored ad read in a video, that I'm "harming the creator"?

 

I assume that of course we are posting the iconic Lower Decks character who is Peanuthamper's father.

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