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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
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Comment on The "go fix a minor annoyance" togetherness topic in ~life
0x29A Link ParentYeah at my place, both bathrooms are wired to the same GFCI, so if one trips the other does. These are also tied to an outdoor outlet that has a weatherproof cover. That outdoor outlet's silicone...Yeah at my place, both bathrooms are wired to the same GFCI, so if one trips the other does. These are also tied to an outdoor outlet that has a weatherproof cover. That outdoor outlet's silicone seal was deteriorating and tripping when it rained which would then trip both of my bathrooms' outlets. That is now fixed and no more tripping.
My assumption is this is done just as a simple way to tie more things into GFCI that need them (wet locations, etc), which would also explain why in some cases an outdoor light is tied into these?
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Comment on The "go fix a minor annoyance" togetherness topic in ~life
0x29A Link ParentUpdate: The spot I thought I needed to block actually didn't exist. However, I did find a couple of spots I missed the last time, and also still 3D printed a cover/surround to go around the drain...Update: The spot I thought I needed to block actually didn't exist. However, I did find a couple of spots I missed the last time, and also still 3D printed a cover/surround to go around the drain pipe and sit atop the steel wool below it, then weighted that down, that way it looks clean and is a couple layers of protection around the biggest gap.
Next, I decided to buy some caulk and I'm going to caulk all the seams where the cabinet floor meets the house's wall in the back and the sides where it meets the walls of the cabinets, because the seams have a bit of a gap that a young mouse might be able to get through. It's overkill, but worth it. I just want to be 99.9% sure a mouse is impossible because I want to be able to put stuff back in the cabinets and drawers worry-free that they're not going to get massively contaminated again like last time
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Comment on Yum Brands sells Pizza Hut to private equity firm LongRange Capital and Yum China for $2.7 billion in ~food
0x29A (edited )Link ParentYeah, I used to eat it all the time as a kid and in college but really stopped eating it post-2010 or so, with maybe an occasional exception early on. Have not touched it in a decade- it really...Yeah, I used to eat it all the time as a kid and in college but really stopped eating it post-2010 or so, with maybe an occasional exception early on. Have not touched it in a decade- it really worsened over time. The quality fell, the prices jumped, and it just wasn't enjoyable at all anymore and made no sense to get compared to any of its competitors- it also didn't help that whatever changes they made over the years also made it impossible for my body to process.
I can eat pizza just fine (almost anywhere else- even other fast food pizza like Dominos), but the moment I have Pizza Hut, I get the worst gastrointestinal issues and cramps, every single time, even if I only have a small amount. No idea what it is, but it seems specific to Pizza Hut.
While I'm not inclined to think favorably of private equity, I do think if it couldn't improve on its own, it really is time for the brand as a whole to just sunset, however that has to happen. What I don't want to happen is what sometimes occurs in these situations- which is a temporary revival of the brand happens due to the short-term cash boost from selling off the real estate, where they think they've got a shot under new ownership and temporary money to structure the company differently, only for it to crash hard shortly thereafter because they don't own the real estate it's on anymore and can't stay afloat because now they have to rent or whatever. Tale as old as time.
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Comment on Yum Brands sells Pizza Hut to private equity firm LongRange Capital and Yum China for $2.7 billion in ~food
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Comment on Anbernic to sell replacement parts for some of their handhelds in ~tech
0x29A LinkThat is great news and the way things should be done. Heck yeah. I have an RG35XX H and am glad to see all sorts of stuff available for it: Shell, Screen, Conductive Rubber Pad, Joystick, Battery,...That is great news and the way things should be done. Heck yeah. I have an RG35XX H and am glad to see all sorts of stuff available for it: Shell, Screen, Conductive Rubber Pad, Joystick, Battery, Motherboard
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
0x29A LinkEnsanguinate - Death Saturnalia (with temples below) - death/black metal Auzawandils - Laste Eclipse Ouer Golgothas Pytt - psychadelic black metal Cenotafio - La Escisión Acausal... - death/black...Ensanguinate - Death Saturnalia (with temples below) - death/black metal
Auzawandils - Laste Eclipse Ouer Golgothas Pytt - psychadelic black metal
Cenotafio - La Escisión Acausal... - death/black metal
Various stuff by E-40 - rap
Dredg - Catch Without Arms - atmospheric indie rock
HEALTH - Addendum EP - industrial/electronic/heavy
HIM - Dark Light - gothic rock
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Comment on Google Chrome to fully remove legacy support for manifest v2 in ~tech
0x29A Link ParentThe iOS version of FF does not allow extensions like the Android one doesThe iOS version of FF does not allow extensions like the Android one does
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Comment on The "go fix a minor annoyance" togetherness topic in ~life
0x29A LinkDid a bunch of post-mice cleanup and sanitation after multiple rounds of disinfection and time for extra safety. Have a bit more to finish up today, and going to 3D print a shield/cover to block...Did a bunch of post-mice cleanup and sanitation after multiple rounds of disinfection and time for extra safety. Have a bit more to finish up today, and going to 3D print a shield/cover to block the one remaining spot i think they're still getting in from. If they still find a way in after that then they're squeezing incredibly tight. I think I have nearly fully mice-proofed the cabinets at this point
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Comment on Brave Origin, a paid, premium version of Brave is now available in ~tech
0x29A (edited )Link ParentI also switched to Waterfox as my main since they've stayed away from AI/etc so far. It's a nice fork. Sync still works, easy to move profile over, etc Tried Zen, wasn't a fan. LibreWolf was a...I also switched to Waterfox as my main since they've stayed away from AI/etc so far. It's a nice fork. Sync still works, easy to move profile over, etc
Tried Zen, wasn't a fan. LibreWolf was a consideration but a bit too overkill for me privacy/security wise, etc
If I have to use a Chromium browser in a pinch, I use Helium
No longer interested in the vanilla corporate versions of browsers anymore, basically forks all the way down for me
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Comment on Apple unveils their new operating systems for 2027: iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and more in ~tech
0x29A (edited )Link ParentI just think for MacOS they fully committed to the "tons of whitespace" "make it look kinda like mobile" types of design language, in addition to all the ways it was unrefined and just awful in...I just think for MacOS they fully committed to the "tons of whitespace" "make it look kinda like mobile" types of design language, in addition to all the ways it was unrefined and just awful in some places where it was clear they paid no attention to detail (things that were unreadable or transparent in the least usable way, etc). It just looked like an even less professional, "toy" operating system with even less information density than it used to have and just lots of weird transparency in places that didn't need it. So I decided it wasn't for me. That plus Apple's overbearing "we know better than you" stuff that power users have to work around, and some other restrictive things I ran into with my M4 mini just made me decide to give it up and go back to a machine that I can easily upgrade storage / components in and so on. I specifically used it as my music / creative production machine, and decided to go back to a de-bloated Win10 machine (actually specifically chose 10 because it's no longer getting updates). Linux just isn't there for music production yet (at least for the plugins/etc I've invested in) so maybe someday I'll go that direction because it would be my preference- I'd love to eventually get the last non-Linux machine in my home switched over to Linux, just not gonna happen to that one specific system any time soon. It's also plenty powerful. Most of the "power" of the M4 for me was going unused anyway. Now I have easily upgradeable storage, way more RAM, add-in cards if I need them including a more powerful discrete GPU if I want to use that machine for editing photos/videos/etc too, etc.
I definitely understand the nicety of being fully in the ecosystem where they own the entire vertical and everything works together well, so I don't blame people for liking that, I just never use almost any of those benefits anyway, so it wasn't a big deal for me to leave. I don't use any other Apple hardware than iOS/iPad OS now. Got rid of my AppleTV, don't want a watch or airpods, etc.
I definitely also understand having high quality hardware (despite my MANY qualms with their hardware in other ways) in a desktop or laptop form is nice for sure. Great touchpad, build quality, etc. The tradeoffs have just tipped the scales for me. Apple is not a company that makes things for me anymore.
I don't even know if my next phone will be an iPhone. Probably because of inertia/investment yes, but I'm going to use my current devices until I just can't anymore.
I still prefer iOS / iPadOS to their Android equivalents but begrudgingly so. I do hate Liquid Glass. Aside from the abject ugliness, and me despising the aesthetic choices in general, on my iPhone, even multiple updates in, it's still less stable than iOS 18. Still, apps occasionally freeze that never did before, or the home screen / app icons occasionally uncache themselves and pop back in, or sometimes the animations on the phone are really laggy and slow. None of this happened in 18, and they began immediately after upgrade (and still happen), so it was definitely OS-based, not a symptom of my hardware being too old. This is why I've avoided it on the iPad Pro. I do not want to experience there what I've experienced on my iPhone.
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Comment on Apple unveils their new operating systems for 2027: iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and more in ~tech
0x29A LinkDisclaimer: guess I'm being rather critical of things today- so a forewarning. I am glad to see they're refining liquid glass a bit more because I hated (and still hate) it but there was zero else...Disclaimer: guess I'm being rather critical of things today- so a forewarning.
I am glad to see they're refining liquid glass a bit more because I hated (and still hate) it but there was zero else in the announcement for me. I decided to abandon my Mac rather than upgrade to macOS 26. Seems 27 brings small refinements but still is maddeningly fisher-pricey so I'm glad to have completely abandoned the desktop Mac ecosystem (for the second time in my life)
Most of the announcements are all a bunch of AI garbage I could not be less interested in. FWIW, I am glad I'm still on a model of iPhone that can't run most of that stuff anyway. I do have an iPad Pro but I might keep it on iOS 18 as long as I can hold out, then begrudgingly update when some app I need requires it
Though as garbage as Siri has been as a thing, what's sad is this might actually improve it
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Comment on Final Fantasy Resonance | Trailer in ~games
0x29A (edited )LinkInitially was excited to see an HD-2D FF, but this seems kinda generic (?). I guess it's a new game built in the Brave Exvius world in HD-2D, from what I'm gathering? That's one of the paths the...Initially was excited to see an HD-2D FF, but this seems kinda generic (?). I guess it's a new game built in the Brave Exvius world in HD-2D, from what I'm gathering? That's one of the paths the franchise took that I just never got into. I tried it, got ignorantly suckered in to the original OG "gacha" for a short time as a time waster on my phone and soured on it quick because that's not what I want out of FF (or ever- I do not play gachas, that was my one attempt at one). Also disliked all the "IP crossovers" that game, and games like it, do.
I suppose this sheds some of the overtly bad gacha parts and keeps the world and makes a new game out of it? Not sure how I feel. I guess there are plenty of BE fans but that just feels like a waste of HD-2D- these never feel like a fully fleshed-out "real" Final Fantasy to me
Yeah I see there are "packs" you can buy that give you in-game items and XP boosts. Gross. There are fan-service "Visions" where previous FF characters aid you in battle. Ew. If this was simply an actual FF RPG with a solid story (even as a spinoff), interesting characters, and something to say, I'd be all-in, because I'd love to see an mainline-FF-quality HD-2D game (something like Octopath but better)
$50 for this is unfathomable (but expected from Squeenix)
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Comment on GOG apologies for emailing Nazi runes to its followers in ~games
0x29A Link ParentYeah choosing to deliberately send it after reviewing it AND preventing it from going to German subscribers means they absolutely cannot pretend that they didn't know what they were sending. They...Yeah choosing to deliberately send it after reviewing it AND preventing it from going to German subscribers means they absolutely cannot pretend that they didn't know what they were sending. They 100% knew and decided they had no problem with it
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Comment on Searching for neighbours on the indie web in ~tech
0x29A Link ParentWonderful! :) (Also thanks for the shout-out in the Thank You section, appreciate that!)Wonderful! :) (Also thanks for the shout-out in the Thank You section, appreciate that!)
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Comment on Searching for neighbours on the indie web in ~tech
0x29A Link ParentSounds good! Any preference on if I store the image locally or hotlink it from your provided image URL? (I think some may prefer hotlinking so they can dynamically update it if they change their...Sounds good! Any preference on if I store the image locally or hotlink it from your provided image URL? (I think some may prefer hotlinking so they can dynamically update it if they change their design, though I can see arguments against doing so as well).
I'll add the bordered one to my page shortly
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Comment on Searching for neighbours on the indie web in ~tech
0x29A Link ParentThanks!! I love the spinning cat gif on your site by the way! :) Added your button!Thanks!! I love the spinning cat gif on your site by the way! :)
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
0x29A LinkBeen learning how to measure and create threaded parts in CAD for 3D printing. On a related note, though I didn't have to design this one myself, I had a locking nut crack/break on a tablet holder...Been learning how to measure and create threaded parts in CAD for 3D printing.
On a related note, though I didn't have to design this one myself, I had a locking nut crack/break on a tablet holder I have and I was able to find that multiple people have already designed replacements to 3D print. Apparently these are a semi-standard design on articulating phone holders / tablet holders. Probably a few different sizes but all the same type of idea. First one I tried (this one) worked perfect and now I have a working tablet holder arm again.
So nice to be able to fix things with like 5 cents worth of filament and 30 minutes of my time instead of creating more waste and buying a replacement. Especially when I could print hundreds of replacement nuts for the cost of a single tablet holding arm. So even if it fails I can have spares ready to go
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Comment on Searching for neighbours on the indie web in ~tech
0x29A (edited )LinkVery interested in, glad to participate in, and love browsing the small web. Though I should probably update it at some point, I do have an 88x31! Wouldn't mind having some neighbors and finally...Very interested in, glad to participate in, and love browsing the small web.
Though I should probably update it at some point, I do have an 88x31!
Wouldn't mind having some neighbors and finally building out a little 88x31 section
My button is available here https://inward.garden/inward_links and linking it to https://inward.garden is fine.If anyone else wants to exchange feel free to let me know also. While probably a rare worry, I will note there are a number of things I refuse to link to like anything involving crypto/nfts/generative AI/LLMs/etc, just FYI. You may want to browse my site to get a sense of my vibe before exchanging and that's understandable.
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Comment on What change would make you quit Tildes? in ~tildes
0x29A (edited )Link Parent(First, I will disclaim that I might have stronger feelings about this topic than possibly many others here, so I can't really get a feel for how many feathers would be ruffled overall). That said...(First, I will disclaim that I might have stronger feelings about this topic than possibly many others here, so I can't really get a feel for how many feathers would be ruffled overall). That said I still think it's worth mentioning making a distinction between different things that all get called "AI":
For me, if it fed into or is based on anything that touches or runs on an LLM model specifically, I would be opposed even if none of my own data touches it. Just its existence would be enough. Including pseudo-"local" systems that still require downloading some kind of pre-trained model / dataset
However, I have much less of an issue with a completely locally/narrowly/consensually trained non-LLM regular "ML" system (like those used for computer vision and audio classification like bird song detection and so on). Especially if none of my own data is fed in (or at least requires opt-in). These typically avoid a large majority of the long list of qualms I have with LLMs (which I will not go into here- let's not turn this thread into a debate about these)
Great selection of stuff. Love Mortiferum. Painkiller is my favorite Priest.
Malignant Altar (RIP) is one of the best death/doom bands to ever exist. Thankfully the members continue on in other bands, but nothing like Malignant Altar was. Will forever cherish my longsleeve tee. At least there are plenty of other top tier bands in the same vein (Fossilization)