I let them know! They’re pretty tickled that it’s clearly given people a chuckle.
It’s a ridiculous app which makes it so funny, but it’s also kinda cool that it’s possible to bang out an app that actually streams the real time status of a fucking space station’s toilets in an afternoon. I mean what the hell
I was particularly fond of the naming:
Really is isn’t it? A friend made this and forced me to be an alpha tester, and I just had to share.
Wonder what the reasoning behind that is. Some of the takes people (devs and users) have had on Lemmy design decisions have been frankly a bit weird too – like when someone requested instance blocking so they could block Lemmygrad:
Nutomic: Would it be an option for you to switch to another instance which blocks lemmygrad.ml? For example https://sopuli.xyz/ or https://beehaw.org/
dessalines: This may be a non-issue, because I’ve added an easy way to block communities from that community page in the next release (you could already block them by going into your user settings). So you could just block communities from instances you’d rather not see, as they show up in your feed.
I kind of agree with nutomic tho, that if you don’t want to see communism in your feed, you’re better off signing up for an explicitly anti-communist instance.
And someone suggested instance blocks be logged and reported to admins:
ericjmorey: The implementation of this feature should include a log and reporting accessable to instance admins of when a blocking action was taken and the current state of which instances are being blocked by which accounts.
Weird API. Returning the text for deleted comments and then expecting clients to redact it seems highly silly
And the thing is, I think the reality is even worse than that.
Current AI models aren’t going to lead to general AI, we need something radically different. The current “static” neural network models just won’t cut it, we need something like spiking neural networks so the AI can be “on” all the time.
Actual AGI is probably still so far away that I doubt mass-scale industrial society has enough years left before either the climate or some other human-caused idiotic omnifuck kicks the chair away from under it.
Well, could be like Taiwan; never, ever underestimate the human capacity for fucking things up. If there’s one thing humans are exceptionally good at, it’s making the dumbest fucking decisions you can possibly make without being single-celled.
Who knows how the world would have turned out if things had gone in such a different direction.
We meatbags have to be the absolute worst role models for AIs
That’s too many nuts. The recommended maximum amount of nuts is 2
“Understandable, I hope you have a better one”
Oh yeah, and I just realized I’ve been a dum idjit and completely forgotten to mention the slightly hacky way you can enlarge some UI fonts that might help y’all @feoh@lemmy.ml & @Libb@jlai.lu.
You may be familiar with this already, but by editing some system preference keys “manually”, you can crank up the default font sizes that apps, the OS, and some native UI elements use beyond what System Settings lets you do – both allowing for bigger font sizes in apps and the OS itself (but which can lead to UI bugs), and allowing changing eg. label or tooltip font sizes separately. This can only work for native apps, but even then sometimes it only sort of works at best and especially SwiftUI seems to just completely ignore these (because of course it fucking does).
You can either use Tinkertool which also allows you to export and import the current state of all the configs that Tinkertool manages, and that’s pretty handy when you’re fiddling with your configs. It does eg. limit the system font size to max 24 for whatever reason though, so if you want to go over that limit you can hop in the Terminal and use defaults to add/change the preferences:
(All of these take an int value)
NSFixedPitchFontSizeNSSystemFontSizeNSMessageFontSizeNSLabelFontSizeNSToolTipsFontSizeNSTitleBarFontSizeNSPaletteFontSizeSo for example to set the system font size to 15, you’d use defaults write -g NSSystemFontSize -int 15
If you want to restore the default value I think it’s enough to just delete the key(s) you’ve changed: eg. defaults delete -g NSSystemFontSize.
Caveat emptor, though: this is of course completely unsupported and you’ll probably run into UI funk depending on which sizes you change and by how much. For example NSLabelFontSize defaults to 10, and I’ve increased it to 12 which mostly works but some labels can get truncated if the label’s container doesn’t scale with the label font size which many apps assume will never change. It’s definitely not an ideal solution or even a good one by any means because UIs do kinda start borking once you change these too much, but might be worth a shot anyhow?
The low-friction you mention is probably one the thing most non-Apple users don’t get as, when it works (which is not always the case but often is), a Mac is like butter smooth and help so much getting things done. Linux is not there yet but when I started considered and testing it I was was surprised how usable it was already and, at least, in exchange of that tad more of frictions we do get back that control we have lost to Apple. And that’s a compromise I willing to live with — and so are my older eyes that can’t read ant-sized texts anymore ;)
Yeah, even though the older I get the more I appreciate how macOS for the most part “just works” while still being a UN*X system at heart, I’m just so fed up with how each release is more opaque and less documented than the last, with more services that collect your data and send it to Apple even if you opt out. Also, because fixing bugs and incremental development isn’t sexy and marketing needs something cool, each OS release comes with an oodle of half-finished and buggy whizz-bang features that ultimately never really get polished, and end up sort of quietly abandoned and left to gather dust once Apple’s dev teams move on to working on the big OS release’s whizz-bangs, which often sort of overlap with previous whizz-bangs without actually leveraging them. So for example, instead of incremental improvements to Spaces and Mission Control – the two window management systems we already had – we got Stage Manager which initially didn’t even work with Spaces, and which nobody seems to have found a good use for yet, all the while multimonitor support somehow manages to get worse with every release, color calibration support was completely fucked much to the chagrin of visual arts folks, that audio balance drift bug is 10 years old, visual accessibility’s gotten worse, and so on and so on.
It never was great, imho. For some time, I even considered using Windows in place of macOS (since it worked better to make text larger), I even invested in one of Microsoft laptop but I ended up giving it away as I just could not stand all the incoherence within Windows itself (it is such a sad state of affair). Also, I’m not a fan of their telemetry.
The one issue I have not decided on so far, in regard to a full switch, is the phone.
Hah, yeah, as much as I gripe about problems with macOS and Apple’s data collection habits or the occasional jank in Linux, using Windows feels so painful and intrusive that it should probably be covered under the Geneva Conventions, although part of that definitely just comes from the fact that I haven’t owned a Windows system since Win8 was a thing so my Windows encounters are pretty sporadic. It’s honestly surprising that the accessibility story is actually better in Windows, I really wasn’t expecting that.
I’m in the same boat as far as phones go. Android’s UX somehow manages to irritate the everliving fuck out of me, so even a “degoogled” Android version is a non-starter for me, but there aren’t too many choices out there anymore (yay consolidation.) Sailfish OS is one that springs to mind, but as a project it feels more undead than really alive, and it’s closed source too.
I think this current Macbook is probably going to be my last Apple machine. I’ve been using both Macs and various Linux and BSD setups for the past ~25 years and I’ve appreciated having a low-friction, low-hassle UNIX OS with great UX. I’ve been exclusively running macOS for a few years now, and with each successive macOS version I just feel more and more that not only does the quality go down (even the fucking main development language, Swift, is buggy and poorly planned), but I also have less and less control over what’s actually running on my machine. For example, even if you toggle Siri off it’ll still do something with your data (fuck knows what) and actually disabling it requires first disabling SIP, and there’s also seemingly no way to opt out of Apple’s frankly creepy “trial” system which nobody really knows much about in the first place – they’re apparently running some sort of ML-related experiments on users via triald, but good fucking luck finding out much more than that.
Even the accessibility situation is deteriorating, especially for accessibility clients (so things like screen readers etc) – the API is ancient, extremely poorly documented, and a huge pain in the ass to actually use from Swift. And don’t get me started on the terrible state of Apple’s developer documentation in general…
Lemmy stalinists are going to enjoy this one
Will have the “mature tone of the original trilogy”.
Did we play a completely different original trilogy? Eg. framing Miranda’s ass in every shot was super duper mature, y’all
My main nit is that Rogue Incursion is hamstrung by how well one can tolerate existing in a tense VR setting for extended periods of time. (For me, I felt insane after taking my headset off, like I hadn’t blinked once in 30 minutes.)
Yyyyeeeaaaahhh, I probably couldn’t go 3 minutes 😅 I’m a big 'ol wuss and I just can’t do horror games, even though I absolutely love horror movies and the Alien franchise – I get so immersed in games that survival horror stuff is just a nope for me
They believe that God wants us to use our free will, which means that proselytizing isn’t kosher (har har.) Where Christianity and Islam have spread pretty aggressively (often literally), missionary work or let alone forcing people to convert is anathema to Judaism
Truly a utility that we have all been waiting for without even knowing it.