pdxfed

joined 1 year ago
[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

Oh UI improvement from Google? Yeah they'll get right on that.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

"we wanted you to learn about financial markets--but not like that!" - school boards and PTOs

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"Two small pair...8s and 8s" is still a staple at family card games.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That sniper rifle was so dope, but the accuracy of CPU players with an AK like across the map and then /gaspingsoundwhenhit was so frustrating lol

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Goldeneye Surface level PTSD. Enemies beyond your sight horizon due to fog/snow, no map overlay for relative positioning, memorization was the only way to not get lost.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I checked out a compendium of his short stories from the library after having the plot of the bottle imp referenced in an article I was reading and thinking it was a fascinating plot idea. All the stories were good, I wish I had more time to read!

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

RLS is so good. Poe is in my pantheon as well for short mysteries as well.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Sorry but we're raising the minimum retirement age to 72

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I read the book Frostbite this year, which is the best book I've read in a few decades, think Fast Food Nation but for refrigeration. The final chapter was about the global seed vault and the authors visit to tour--the tour was closed down because of water leaking in due to permafrost melt--which hadn't happened before and had caused electrical and issues with the refilrigeration keeping the seed vault correctly temperatures and ventilated.

Even the grandest schemes won't matter against the chaos ahead if we don't drastically change.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

You just need to buy the North America Animal Recognition AI subscription and this wouldn't be an issue plebs, it will stop for 28 out of 139 mammals!

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"Action? Yeah....they got 4 new detectives working on the case...they got us working in shifts! Action, ha."

Would love to see the allocation of resources in the stupid company toward crime prevention vs. developing new methods of enshittification to harvest user data

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

😂 that's great

 

If anyone else uses this emulator and (unfortunately) Windows, are you seeing turbo run throughs when loading ROMS? This updates were installed yesterday and they're the only thing I can think of unless the rom speed can be controlled elsewhere in the system I'm not seeing:

2024-10 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5044285)

2024-10 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8.1 for Windows 11, version 23H2 for x64 (KB5044033)

Cheers.

edit - fixed with tip below (- key slows down emulation)

 

There is probably a link somewhere but it would be nice to have the essentials in the boost comment/post forms somewhere so that if I'm trying to remember how to link a user/forum/instance or how to strikethrough text it would be right there.

 

Replacing a dishwasher. Most of the mid-range options now come with fucking Wi-Fi. Found a model I liked, no info in manual and support from Samsung was of course, useless since it wasn't already in the manual and wanted to keep talking about their exciting "smart things" app. gag.

I saw a youtube video of a guy disconnecting wifi cable on a fridge. I'm fine doing that if I have to open up the board but it'll probably be smaller than the fridge and who knows if it'll be helpfully labled like the one in the video was. Internet searching showed me there may be oven keypress combinations to turn wi-fi radio on/off. Anyone have anything similar/advice for Samsung appliances, specifically dishwashers?

 

Going into quick settings or full settings from search result menu, I disable AI in Search Results. It goes away.

Opening Firefox again and searching it turns back on.

How can this be disabled in Brave permanently? Not only do I want to not wait for AI, it's trash to begin with.

TIA

 

Instead of posting, then having to tediously copy/paste to different instances with similar communities, it would be nice (although potentially crazy spammy) to allow x-posting from one post. This may be less of a Boost idea and more of a Lemmy discussion, but if it can be enabled in Boost I thought that would be a nice addition.

 

Other than "dont' use Godaddy", what do I need to know? I've never owned a domain or had a website of my own before.

  1. Domain registration/host recommendations?
  2. Web hosting recommendations? Should I mix #1 and #2?
  3. Website template creation suggestions? Have fairly simple needs like service offerings and contact forms but want something without rotating construction cones.
  4. What else should I consider? Security? e-mail?
  5. Am open to all-in-one for the above, just would like to understand tradeoffs, what to look for/avoid.

TIA

 

It’s a common misconception, but if you registered "Independent Party" you aren’t “independent” you are a member of your state’s Independent party, who has a platform and agenda you may or may not agree with. What you actually want is called an "unaffiliated" voter status. The good news is, all you have to do is...nothing!

LA Times had a good summary a few years back: https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-american-independent-party-california-registration-card-20180405-story.html

You don’t need to register with any party to show you don’t like R or D, do nothing or choose "unaffiliated if you want to be “little i independent”.

Examples:

#USA #politics----

 

Twice in the last week videos I have viewed have been saved in a boost photos folder. I didn't request to save or download them at any point. Is this based on the site, internal vs. external browser choice, caching or something else?

Obviously is prefer videos not be downloaded if I don't try to save/download them.

 

It would be nice, and I don't know if it's because the functionality doesn't already exist in Lemmy, but it would be nice to be able to limit one's search to one's own comments/saved/upvoted/downvoted easily--the profile menu where these are listed would make the most sense. The search functionality to search all of lemmy and limit to local/all, etc. is powerful to find content, a particular community, but if I'm looking historically for an article I commented on or saved, upvoted, etc. it would be convenient if this were easier.

Thank you

 

Price range for retail seems to be $100-250 for IKEA stuff that will fall apart in 3 years, or $1,000+ for something better. Is there nothing in between? Would prefer to buy new with risk of bed bugs or other contaminants but open to other options if I'm missing something.

 

It's strange and unintuitive that my own submitted posts are hidden with this basic feature. Given the slow pace on some communities as Lemmy grows, it gets really repetitive without the ability to filter out read posts. On the other side though, the ability to review my posts and check back on them seems pretty basic as a feature.

Is there a deliberate reason Lemmy functions like this?

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