Yeah, that’s what’s always bothered me about the drive for the highest-fidelity graphics possible. In motion, those details are only visible for a frame or two in most cases.

For instance, some of the PC mods I’ve seen for Cyberpunk 2077 look absolutely gorgeous… in screenshots. But once you get into a car and start driving or get into combat, it looks nearly indistinguishable from what I see playing the vanilla game on my PS5.

I’ve actually seen this recently at some stores, usually just for the self-checkout section.

But but but but but my shadows look 3% more realistic now!

I love how all of this was just to avoid asking a family member “hey can I change some settings on your router to fix the Wi-Fi?”

The lengths I’ll go to just to avoid human interaction. 🤣

Sometimes you just need to do some good old fashioned percussive maintenance. :)

My example: I fixed a wifi interference problem by adding more wifi interference.

I’m currently staying at a family member’s house for a few months, and need to use their wifi to work from home. After moving all my belongings in, I soon realized that I wouldn’t be able to work on this network, because of how intermittent the connection was. My phone, laptop, and PlayStation would all disconnect about once every 1-2 minutes. It was so severe that it took me over 2 hours to play a 40-minute video due to the consistent freezing.

And I guess everybody living here just must not use the internet that much, and have just kinda accepted this as a fact of life and nobody’s tried to fix it. This would be something I’d normally be able to resolve by myself, but because this isn’t a network I own and control, I’m not going to go changing their router settings. And since I’m a guest in this home, I’m not gonna go drilling holes to run ethernet to my room, either.

Using a wifi analyzer, I was able to spot the immediate issue: There were about 30 networks in the area mostly with pretty weak signal, but all on channels 6 and 11. There were only 2 networks using channel 1, and they were weak. The router I’m connecting to is also on channel 11, and I can tell right away that if I can get it to switch to channel 1, I’d be all set. But, since this isn’t my network, I can’t just tell the router to use channel 1, even though it should’ve automatically switched a long time ago. But it’s just a crappy ISP-provided router, so I can’t really expect much of it.

So I hatched up a plan, and took an old router of mine and piggybacked it to the router here at the house. My router uses a web app to control its settings, so all I needed was for the router to get an internet connection via ethernet and I could control it. Once my router was online, I was able to log into it and force it to use channel 11, the same channel as the home’s router.

The sudden appearance of a very strong connection on the same channel (since it’s placed just a few feet away) caused the home’s router to finally switch itself over to channel 1, which was still largely free of any signals. Now the router is working flawlessly, and all my devices, and everybody else’s at the house, are staying connected seamlessly.

I agree. I think a big part of the issue is that going out to do things is just so expensive these days. There aren’t any “third places” for people anymore.

Both, and also neither. The creator can have their own vision, the collective crowd can have their own, but you as an individual can have an interpretation outside of either of those. And none are any more valid than the rest.

Fuck off, liar.

This guy again.

EDIT: Can’t find a proper cache and the thread was deleted by OP and not mods so it doesn’t appear in the modlog, but Googling OP’s username brings up a snippet of his previous small-penis humiliation kink post: https://files.catbox.moe/kgbkzb.png

This is fake. OP makes new accounts all the time and posts humiliating questions in AskLemmy and NoStupidQuestions, making everybody else non-consenting participants in his sexual kink. This is the same guy who has made posts about having small feet and an engorged belly. He is getting off on people believing his bullshit.

Admins need to ban him from the instance completely.

Saving this thread to my “just in case” list.

Thanks, and I agree. I’m not sure what grounds they have to withhold that sort of information from a lessee on. The lack of information from all angles makes it really difficult to prepare, because I have no idea what I need to be preparing for. It’s been a very difficult week. :(

Pretty bad. I found out recently that my roommate has been lying to me and spent the rent money I gave him on something else. He hid it from me long enough for it to be irreparable. I can’t get my roommate to be honest with me, and the apartment management are refusing to share any information with me (despite me still being on the lease) and won’t even accept a payment from me or even tell me what our debt is, so now I’m almost certainly going have to go to court soon to be evicted.

I’m bipolar, so usually a major event like like this would send me either into a manic or a depressive episode. But for the first time that I can recall, I’ve been finding myself going rapidly between the two states throughout the day.

I know I will be fine. But right now, I’m not fine.

PDSes and relays exist at the whim of Bluesky’s corporate entity. Having all of the endpoints on the network controlled by a single agent is what makes Bluesky centralized. If Bluesky decided so, your server can be removed from their network and is functionally useless at that point. They decide who is and is not allowed to be a part of Bluesky.

For contrast, no such governing body exists with ActivityPub networks. Nobody can decide whether or not an instance should be removed from the network, they can only choose whether or not to federate with that instance. If you wanted to truly silence a Lemmy instance, for example, it would take the cooperation of all the major Lemmy admins to defederate, and is an entirely democratic process as a result.

EDIT: To clarify, ATProto is not what is centralized, “Bluesky” the platform utilizing ATProto, is what’s centralized.

The only mainstream platform that I’m still active on would be Discord, but that’s only because there’s no viable alternative yet.

Wow, that audio is super unsettling. On its own it would seem innocuous, but with the context of trying to contact somebody in a country that’s on the verge of being nuked, it’s downright horrifying.

Back in the olden days, it was “here is my product, and this is the price, if you like it buy from this store”

When exactly are these olden days you refer to? I ask because most “modern” advertising practices have long-since been in place for over a century now; the only things that’ve changed are the delivery method and frequency.

(btw: Does anyone actually enjoy theaters? 🤔)

For me, it depends on the movie. For something moody or really heavy, I’d prefer to watch it comfortably on my couch. But for cheesy action movies or something, I like the big screens and the crowds for the energy they provide.

There’s also something special about theater junk food. Giant bucket of popcorn drenched in not-legally-butter, hot dogs, nachos, a gallon of Coke so that you’ll definitely need to pee right when the third act starts…

Why a metal interior?

I couldn’t find the rabbit on Friendica’s website, but I did find it here: https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_mascots#Flaxy_O’Hare

You’re right, it’s awful lol.