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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: September 2026 nominations topic in ~games
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Comment on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in ~tech
preposterous Link ParentOh man that sucks. Mine runs a Panasonic OS-like software but it’s not intrusive at all and extremely responsive. It’s basically old style TV menus. I never use the smart part tbh. I don’t know...Oh man that sucks. Mine runs a Panasonic OS-like software but it’s not intrusive at all and extremely responsive. It’s basically old style TV menus. I never use the smart part tbh. I don’t know why they’d give that up, it was 50% of the reason why I bought the TV (the other half was oled + being the reference screen for color grading at the time)
Maybe you can find one used?
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Comment on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in ~tech
preposterous Link ParentTo be fair, last time I did was about two years ago. There was a YT app to clone from a GitHub repo and you needed a YT API/developer key but it did work well. It broke every once in a while but...To be fair, last time I did was about two years ago. There was a YT app to clone from a GitHub repo and you needed a YT API/developer key but it did work well. It broke every once in a while but only for a few days while the community looked for a solution and published a patch. I’d think the project is still going.
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Comment on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in ~tech
preposterous Link ParentI have a Panasonic FZ800. It can do apps, but it’s totally optional and it’s not a smart tv. Turns on under 5 seconds from button press to picture. It’s from 2019 or 2020 and was sold as “the...I have a Panasonic FZ800. It can do apps, but it’s totally optional and it’s not a smart tv. Turns on under 5 seconds from button press to picture. It’s from 2019 or 2020 and was sold as “the reference display Hollywood uses to color grade movies”. I suspect the model family kept evolving and so there is a 2026 version of it? Definitely feels more prosumer or professional oriented than LG/Samsung type of consumer junk. And the price difference wasn’t even that significant compared to Lg/Samsung junk.
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Comment on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in ~tech
preposterous Link ParentVery happy with: Panasonic oled (no smarts, just a tv) Kodi libreelec on a rpi home server with the servarr stack fetching from Usenet sponsorblock for YT on Kodi NextDNS for the tv for good...Very happy with:
- Panasonic oled (no smarts, just a tv)
- Kodi libreelec on a rpi
- home server with the servarr stack fetching from Usenet
- sponsorblock for YT on Kodi
- NextDNS for the tv for good measure
- tv on a vlan with only access to the home assistant instance for automation
No subscriptions besides Usenet (about 5–10$ a month), no snooping from any apps, and all the shows + movies I ever wanted in 4K hdr automatically available in the Kodi interface within an hour of airing.
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Comment on What's your line? in ~life
preposterous Link ParentI’m on a very similar boat… and can’t figure out how to reconcile it with real life. I still have bills to pay, stuff I’d like to acquire and do to fulfill my desires. But for that I’d need to...I’m on a very similar boat… and can’t figure out how to reconcile it with real life. I still have bills to pay, stuff I’d like to acquire and do to fulfill my desires. But for that I’d need to enable all of the above with my labour. I haven’t found a workable compromise so I wonder if you have?
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Comment on What's your line? in ~life
preposterous Link ParentThat sounds amazing. Absolutely jealous as I struggle with the morality of offering my labour in return for the privilege of having a roof and food. How do you as a collective find and get customers?That sounds amazing. Absolutely jealous as I struggle with the morality of offering my labour in return for the privilege of having a roof and food.
How do you as a collective find and get customers?
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Comment on What's your line? in ~life
preposterous Link ParentMe. That’s me. I’m Charity. That’s where the money goes. In Charity’s pocket. Technically not a lie. —Charitya "small percentage" of your purchase price from "participating merchants" would go to "charity"
Me. That’s me. I’m Charity. That’s where the money goes. In Charity’s pocket. Technically not a lie.
—Charity
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Comment on Small talk, ice breakers, lines in ~talk
preposterous Link ParentI struggle with small talk, in large parts because I’m anxious I won’t be interested in the mundane topic brought up in the ice breaker but won’t know how to gracefully get out of it or pivot to...I struggle with small talk, in large parts because I’m anxious I won’t be interested in the mundane topic brought up in the ice breaker but won’t know how to gracefully get out of it or pivot to another topic smoothly. Typically I find other people’s kids so boring as a topic (don’t have any myself), what do you do once they thread is started and you get bored?
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Comment on White House website debuts five retro arcade video games that promote US President Donald Trump’s agenda in ~games
preposterous LinkI think Trump and his cronies are doing this mostly to push the envelope and see how far they can go before there is pushback. They’re still looking for the bottom it seems, and ever time it looks...I think Trump and his cronies are doing this mostly to push the envelope and see how far they can go before there is pushback. They’re still looking for the bottom it seems, and ever time it looks like they’ve reached it, it turns out the bottom is actually even lower. What a time to be alive.
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Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech
preposterous Link ParentWorks on all OS. Same as Tab and Shift Tab to navigate back and forth in a UIWorks on all OS. Same as Tab and Shift Tab to navigate back and forth in a UI
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Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech
preposterous LinkCtrl-L in a browser or a file explorer to focus the address bar and type a path. Works on all platforms, all major browsers, and most file explorers (Cmd instead of Ctrl on a Mac). Even works in...Ctrl-L in a browser or a file explorer to focus the address bar and type a path. Works on all platforms, all major browsers, and most file explorers (Cmd instead of Ctrl on a Mac). Even works in file explorers where there is no “address bar” visible.
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Comment on What are your "how on earth did I not learn this sooner" tech moments? in ~tech
preposterous Link ParentCtrl Shift V to paste without formatting (great when you copied HTML and paste it in something like word)Ctrl Shift V to paste without formatting (great when you copied HTML and paste it in something like word)
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Comment on Norway vs the world's favourite chicken – billions of meals each year are made from the fast-growing Ross 308 genetic strain of birds, but a backlash is gathering pace in ~food
preposterous LinkIf only we had a cheap, plentiful source of food that doesn’t involve death and eating the carcasses of dead animals… oh wait we do: plants!If only we had a cheap, plentiful source of food that doesn’t involve death and eating the carcasses of dead animals… oh wait we do: plants!
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Comment on What are we in a golden age of? in ~talk
preposterous Link ParentIn my opinion, what really weird is to kill your dinner. Not withstanding extreme situations or developing countries, it’s really not necessary. And it sidesteps the whole suffering/not suffering...Maybe it's more weird that our meat animals had been killed a long time ago in a strange horrible place and now sits under plastic wrap.
In my opinion, what really weird is to kill your dinner. Not withstanding extreme situations or developing countries, it’s really not necessary. And it sidesteps the whole suffering/not suffering question.
I was reflecting on this point in my original comment because it’s a very unusual twist on eating animals and it made me feel even more awkward than the usual dilemma.
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Comment on How to find a new calling in life? in ~life
preposterous LinkIt’s a tough one. In truth, nobody can figure this out for you, and you can hardly do it for yourself either. Because there is a lot of luck and circumstances involved. Even though I have to...It’s a tough one. In truth, nobody can figure this out for you, and you can hardly do it for yourself either. Because there is a lot of luck and circumstances involved. Even though I have to remind myself of it constantly, the vast vast majority of people are just trying to not fuck up and make it up as they go along. No matter how successful or composed they look like, it’s just all improvisation and randomness.
That being said, you have some control over it. I suggest working backwards. Don’t pick a passion, pick something that you can tolerate and that will allow you to build whatever life you want outside of it. Picking something you’re passionate about doesn’t make for a good job in my opinion for two reasons: doing it as a profession will suck the fun and enjoyment out of it, ruining it for you; second reason is that passion jobs get you exploited. See the movie industry, the food industry, art… employers know people do it out of passion and so will tolerate terrible working conditions in exchange for living their passion. It’s a trap. Keep your passion as a hobby.
I would approach this in a pragmatic way: go look at labour market statistics and facts. Which jobs are highly in demand, which are projected to have growing shortages of workers while being something you’d tolerate and can study for in a reasonable amount of time and effort (whatever that means for you). Then go find professionals in these jobs (LinkedIn is amazing for that) and get informational interviews with them IRL over a coffee if they’re local or on video if they aren’t. You’d be surprised at the amount of people who want to help you, and how much they want to help you. The goal here is to find reasons why $job wouldn’t work for you so go for ”hard” questions that would make you not consider this particular path if the answer wasn’t what you expected.
Of course there is a limit to how pragmatic you have to be: if you’re vegan and being a slaughterhouse worker is a job with incredible perspectives, it still wouldn’t be a good match. But don’t pick out of a passions perspective first and foremost. It’s much better to be in a profession you’re competent at and can tolerate that has a shortage because you can make a good living: getting paid a lot means you could spend much less time working to earn as much, and use the extra time + money to do the other things your really want.
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Comment on What are we in a golden age of? in ~talk
preposterous (edited )Link ParentThat’s… weird. It makes me uncomfortable. Why save them and then eat them anyway once they die? I understand he doesn’t kill them to eat them, but it does blur the line between pet and food. Which...keeps them as pets until they die of old age and then he eats them.
That’s… weird. It makes me uncomfortable. Why save them and then eat them anyway once they die? I understand he doesn’t kill them to eat them, but it does blur the line between pet and food. Which is something interesting, why would you eat a baby cow but not a cat or a dog? Is it just because you didn’t know the baby cow but you know your cat or dog? But then why not eat a cat or dog if not your cat or dog and have no such qualms about baby cows?
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Comment on What's something that's more challenging for you than it is for others? in ~talk
preposterous Link ParentIt sounds like we’re on the same boat :/ Curious to hear from others who feel that way, how do you cope (emotionally but also logistically), what helped and what didn’t.It sounds like we’re on the same boat :/
Curious to hear from others who feel that way, how do you cope (emotionally but also logistically), what helped and what didn’t.
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Comment on What's something that's more challenging for you than it is for others? in ~talk
preposterous Link ParentThanks. Was the lucky streak because of the job, or your mindset?Thanks. Was the lucky streak because of the job, or your mindset?
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Comment on What's something that's more challenging for you than it is for others? in ~talk
preposterous LinkA few come to mind. I struggle to get out of the house and do things. Not in the sense that I am depressed and don’t have the energy. I struggle to explain it. If it’s a chore type of thing, I’m...A few come to mind.
- I struggle to get out of the house and do things. Not in the sense that I am depressed and don’t have the energy. I struggle to explain it. If it’s a chore type of thing, I’m often lazy to go and do the mildly boring thing. I end up doing it eventually because errands need to be run but I’m always putting it off (I’d have to gear up and risk a crash if I’m cycling, I’d have to get stuck in traffic or risk damaging the car if I’m driving, spending gas sucks, parking can turn into a mission…)
If it’s a social thing I worry that it’ll be boring, I’m not keen on buying overpriced drinks (I rarely drink alcohol) or food (it’s always so much tastier at home), and I expect it to be draining and to struggle to make conversation. Sometimes I just feel like it’d be more comfortable and less draining to stay home and read a book, play a video game, continue digging into whatever topic I’m into at the moment.
I’ve always had this issue. When I was a kid and there were parties, I’d often go but end up hiding or spending time a little away from the action (when I was younger, 12–16).
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Another thing is formulating a plan and executing it. Especially professionally. I have many ideas but when it comes to having rubber hit the road, it’s a lot more effort than I think it should be. It’s holding me back, especially as I’m self employed so if I can’t do this well and efficiently then I don’t earn income.
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On the topic of work, I’m rather bad at being an employee. I resent giving up so much of my personal time to make someone richer in return for not that much money (in comparison to how much stakeholders get as a result of my efforts), mediocre working conditions, having to submit to the will of sociopaths (as most managers are in my experience), and grovelling for the privilege of taking time off. I have never had employment go well, it always ends up in me resenting the conditions too much and getting fired or quitting followed by a period of burnout recovery (time varies, a couple months to several quarters). I feel like a defective alien because most people seem to be able to cope with employment and I can’t, which brings a lot of uncertainty and instability in my life.
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Organizing day trips or vacations. It always feels like an overwhelming task, I end up paralyzed and the amount of decisions to make, and give up in the end. When we go on vacation my partner organizes it all. As for day trips, I often put them off as a result.
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cooking. That one is twofold. I never have any idea what to eat. I open the fridge, it looks back at me, and that’s that. When I was in my own, I’d eat mostly the same thing for weeks on end because it was simpler and efficient. The other part is actually cooking recipes: I find approximate directions from recipes puzzling. Quantities that aren’t exact (how much is a pinch, how much is a big tomato) but also keeping track of several threads: while simmering X I also have to get Y ready because they’ll need to come together later on a specific schedule when X is done otherwise it’ll be burned. But also don’t forget about Z that was started three steps ago and should be done by now. Considering I’m a software developer by trade it’s surprising as I often hold a lot of concurrent information in my head while working and that’s fine.
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Dealing with frustration. I give up more easily I think, out of spite or patience running out. If a video game becomes a little difficult I’ll turn on cheats or look the solution up rather than struggle or redo the level over and over. I’d rather buy the right tool or equipment than make do with a Jerry rigged, inconvenient alternative. It’s not always possible or practical though and then I have to muster a lot more energy than others to get through it.
Boost: Mother 3
One of the retro games I enjoyed playing the most