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    1. Help disabling flashy "animation" on my dumb watch

      This is the "animation" (video, image). It is the circle on the upper left. The watch is a very cheap one, a Chinese concoction called "Skmei El Luminous Dual Time". It looks great for my taste,...

      This is the "animation" (video, image). It is the circle on the upper left.

      The watch is a very cheap one, a Chinese concoction called "Skmei El Luminous Dual Time". It looks great for my taste, but the insanely flashy, continuous animation is unpleasant. I bought it online, and the animation didn't look as annoying in the videos as it is in real life.

      Yes, I know most people wouldn't care about that, but I'm neurodiverse etc.

      The official manual makes no mention of the "animation", and asking AI was useless. There is a real possibility that the animation is hardcoded, in which case I will probably keep the watch as jewelry for special occasions.

      Perhaps someone has the same watch and can help me out?

      Thanks!

      18 votes
    2. Humble Choice - April 2026

      April 2026's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games. Steam Page OpenCritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Assassin's Creed Valhalla 83 67 / 68...

      April 2026's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.

      Steam Page OpenCritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB
      Assassin's Creed Valhalla 83 67 / 68 Win 🟨 Playable 🟨 Gold
      Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion 70 68 / 63 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum
      The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria 60 71 / 80 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum
      Until Then 82 95 / 98 Win ✅ Verified ✅ Native
      Planet of Lana 81 93 / 93 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum
      Artisan TD N/A 81 / 72 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum
      The Procession to Calvary 79 95 / 97 Win, Mac, Linux ✅ Verified ✅ Native
      Buddy Simulator 1984 78 78 / 94 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum

      Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?

      12 votes
    3. TV Tuesdays Free Talk

      Warning: this post may contain spoilers

      Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.

      Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.

      11 votes
    4. Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 6

      This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...

      This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.

      This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.

      18 votes
    5. Tildes Gardening Group: Week 6/4/26

      Welcome all to our weekly (ish) gardening group discussion! Feel free to discuss anything related to gardening, beginner or advanced, challenge or success. ‘Seed’ questions? Has the weather been...

      Welcome all to our weekly (ish) gardening group discussion!

      Feel free to discuss anything related to gardening, beginner or advanced, challenge or success.

      ‘Seed’ questions?

      Has the weather been working out for you?
      What is your favourite gardening tool, or are you looking to get a new one?
      What is your biggest error this year?

      19 votes
    6. Educational calm content

      Do you know any other playlists list like Absolutely understand guitar or The Secret Life of Machines? Basically any Bob Ross like content of a person calmly teaching a topic. I find some of this...

      Do you know any other playlists list like Absolutely understand guitar or The Secret Life of Machines?

      Basically any Bob Ross like content of a person calmly teaching a topic.
      I find some of this content through archive.org, but their search is not the best.

      25 votes
    7. AI Coding agents are the opposite of what I want

      I've been thinking a lot about LLM assisted development, and in particular why I keep dropping the available tools after a few attempts at using them. I realized recently that it's taking away the...

      I've been thinking a lot about LLM assisted development, and in particular why I keep dropping the available tools after a few attempts at using them.

      I realized recently that it's taking away the part of software development I enjoy: the creative problem solving that comes with writing code. What's left is code review tasks, testing, security checks, etc. Important tasks, but they all primarily involve heavy concentration, and much less creativity.

      Why aren't agents focused on handling the mundane tasks instead? Tell me if I've just introduced a security vulnerability or a runtime bug. Generate realistic test data and give me info on what the likely output would be. Tell me that the algorithm I just wrote is O(n^2).

      Those tasks are so much more applicable to matching against existing data, something LLMs should be extremely good at, rather than trying to get them to write something novel, which so far they've been mostly bad at, at least in my experience.

      46 votes
    8. Looking for an online spreadsheet to share with others (not Google or Microsoft)

      I figure the title is good enough, but, I just want to upload/make a spreadsheet in an .ods format so others can view it. Not edit it, not have to sign in to view, but still has sorting options or...

      I figure the title is good enough, but, I just want to upload/make a spreadsheet in an .ods format so others can view it. Not edit it, not have to sign in to view, but still has sorting options or whatnot. And in the .ods format.

      I'm seeing a few options online, but it seems more that they offer viewing but not sorting (which is a huge aspect of spreadsheets), or no importing, or doesn't support .ods.

      So I can keep searching and I'm sure something is out there, but does anyone already use a site for these requests?

      15 votes
    9. Tildes in JavaScript-free browsers

      I'm used to browse the web without JS on my phone. (It's old, battery degraded.) Recently I noticed that Tildes is broken without JavaScript. Contracting/expanding threads doesn't work, as well...

      I'm used to browse the web without JS on my phone. (It's old, battery degraded.) Recently I noticed that Tildes is broken without JavaScript. Contracting/expanding threads doesn't work, as well trying to reply to a comment.

      Is it possible to fix that? Maybe expanding all comments when JS isn't available and opening the reply form in a new page?

      21 votes