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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was a surprisingly fun way to tank my productivity on Monday.

Honestly, the fact that you mentioned it having a definite end was a huge factor in making me click on that link.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually disagree there. Might be showing why I don’t work in high end product design lol, but I think as a pro model you can go a little crazy on the weight. You can probably save some thickness from under the camera bump somehow if you redistribute whatever can be displaced from under there, which would be easier in a thicker phone. Like any PCB that doesn’t need to be directly under the optoelectronics could be redesigned to go around some of the camera stuff, which would eat into the battery. But that wouldn’t be a problem when the whole thing is a mm or two thicker. 220g is probably not crazy. 250g would be pushing it. 300g would be unreasonable unless they have some real high tech stuff in there to show for it, like some kind of force touch or possibly a 3.5mm headphone connector.

The thing is heavy. I have a heavy case on it as well, go figure. I must admit though, in the past I used to drop my phone on my face. Now I make the split second effort to dodge if I drop it. But the weight makes it feel premium. Sure, the dad test is psychological, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important.

I think switching the back from all-glass to something else would help drop the weight slightly, but at this rate it’s just that there’s so much in these phones. Between the battery, the slabs of glass, the complicated cameras, you’d think fitting a headphone connector wouldn’t be so hard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s in the Canary Islands, for those of you like me who don’t know where Fuerteventura is.

TIL the Canary Islands have a population of 2.2 million (!)

 

I will be honest here. I kept myself out of the loop on a lot of Lebanese bands that were gaining traction out of some kind of contrarian snobbery.

Is there any good stuff that should be on my radar? The only big band I'm familiar with is Mashrou3 Leila, but I'm not super into their music. Maybe others would be more in line with my taste?

Bonus points if their live events are fun!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have deployed an AI reply system into the comments, probably to make up for the decrease in traffic that could hurt their IPO.

I don’t think it even needs to be them for it to be a huge problem. People have been automating the process of gaining karma to sell accounts for years and years, I would imagine this process is accelerating with the rise of LLMs and the bottom falling out from under all the mod tools.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

In Lebanon, “Handy” means a cordless landline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use Windows with an audio interface on my PC, and I think that caused some audio routing issues when it came to remote play. I haven’t tried it again, might have been fixed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Lord forgive me for what I’m about to do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The weird part for me isn’t that the corrections are online. It’s that the whole book isn’t a searchable help page with all the errata patched away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I actually found this because I was following a guide that needed Process Explorer to find out which damn program was catching my controller before DS4Windows was.

It was Firefox, specifically the Stable Diffusion WebUI for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You’re telling me you don’t like putting on on your most ridiculously offensive Yeehaw Hollywood American accent when asking your phone to set a timer?

 

I remember installing this or a similar one on a friend's laptop, just setting it as the screen saver for later chaos. Must have been around Vista era.

Something incredibly funny to me about the fake Microsoft error being a Microsoft product.


More weirdness from the Sysinternals resources: one of the resources that MS actually recommends in the year of our lord 2023 is to actually go out and buy a physical book for their software:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/troubleshooting-book

I'm leaving that link as a URL on purpose. Just look at that. /troubleshooting-book. Amazing. The errata are updated online though. Very weird. Maybe leftover contractual obligation after acquiring SI in 2006? So weird.

They even suggest you go buy it from an independent bookstore if you're not feeling like the Microsoft Press Store does it for you.

I've always been fascinated by these third-party-but-now-first-party-after-acquisition situations everything doesn't quite line up neatly.

 
 
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternative way to think about it: 10% of people are insufferable assholes. Do you want them to be happy with what you say?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m here from All, so I just stumbled upon this. But yeah, he seems like a genuine dude with a genuine internet project.

I’ve given him a not-insignificant amount of money over the years, between the website and the iOS app.

If you pay for an account, you also get to see some photos from his expeditions in nature to record sounds for his site. Fucking dream retirement right there.

I won’t lie, nothing has made me want to try getting into tabletop RPGs more than Medieval Library, linked above. It’s so goddamn atmospheric.

 

I’m always on the lookout for these. The only prominent ones I know of are the Jackbox series, skribbl, and Gartic Phone. Surely there must be more?

I know these aren’t the typical “gaming” games, but hey, different games for different situations.

 

Y'all ever heard about LebGeeks?

It was something like 2010, and I googled some obscure DSL problem. I thought I'd include my ISP's name as well. Lo and behold, a site emerges from the darkness. It's called LebGeeks, a forum for Lebanese techies. Seemed cool, I was a bit of a forum enjoyer myself. I pop on over to create an account so that I too can enjoy complaining about this trash ISP.

The signup process involved a simple programming exercise, which was unusual. The gatekeeping was pretty silly, but it did serve the purpose of keeping non-techies out. Which was the point, but it was 2010 in Lebanon - these were the only people who would join that forum.

Anyway, I did not make friends on that forum. Bashing ISPs and the telecom ministry's inaction with the slow internet can only give you so much gratification.

A few years later I discover this other tech forum. This one is called Reddit, and it's pretty dope: there's a community for all kinds of stuff. Building PCs, gaming, Windows OS mods, go nuts.

Eventually found myself on /r/Lebanon. Being the early 2010s on Reddit, the majority of users were programmers, network engineers, IT guys, what have you. There were meetups, but I never went because I was too young (or at least I felt too young - back then I swear everyone online seemed 30 to me).

The sub was good overall, I believe it was a force for good for a long time. The mods were (and still are) decent folks, and they did a good job of letting people with shitty social or political opinions speak their peace and get downvoted and taunted, which was great IMO. Let those fucks understand we don't like them or their za3im.

The subreddit's demographics did change over time, along with the rest of the site. That's fine, it was a good platform and it was expanding pretty aggressively. By that point, there were a lot of Lebanese spaces online, as the internet was much less niche than it was even ten years prior. Nobody really needed a general-purpose Lebanon forum, since you can now go to Twitstagriktokbook and do all the Lebaneseing you want, in a space where AUB and LAU students don't make up 85% of the userbase.

What about Lemmy? I'm not interested in moderating a large community at all, but I don't expect Lemmy to be popular at all in Lebanon for a while. I will try to grow the community, but I will probably hand it off to people who are better at this, if this ever grows. That's what the original mods did for /r/Lebanon anyway. I expect this to stay casual for some time until things become clearer.

Apologies for the cheap ass banner image, but I don't want to pick a nice photo from one area just yet. I found some nice ones over on Unsplash that I really liked, of Beirut, of the hills, of villages, but I didn't want it to seem like this was a space that's dominated by city folk, or by people who have never stepped in the city (you know what I'm talking about).

I think FMHY is a good instance for this - it's a general purpose instance with (so far) very few defederations (fingers crossed). Also seems to be run pretty competently. Which is more than I can say about the old site.

Feel free to help me grow this space. News, discussions, memes (as long as they're good), all welcome.

Also, what happened to LebGeeks? Well, the site is still around, but user activity has slowed to a crawl. Pretty sure the thing that killed it was the subreddit. The trade forum was still pretty active though, last time I checked a few years ago. So maybe a gatekept signup for tech dudes helps with cutting spam down and keeping a close community of people who sell computer parts to each other. Idk

 

God I really need to get back into tinkering. This video (and the Posy VFD video, which is probably the reason YouTube recommended this to me) makes me long for the days when electronics were more unique. Everything had its own look, every display had to be intentionally designed around the hardware limitations of the time. Nowadays everything is a black slab. I do like my black slabs - but this stuff is so much cooler aesthetically.

If you found this video interesting, there’s also Fran Blanche who posts about obscure displays, as well as Posy, who is probably one of my favorite internet creators.

 

Between Postecoglou, Maddison, and Vicario, it looks like Spurs are actually cooking for a change. They also just properly signed Kulusevski.

During the managerial mess, I was super on board the Nagelsmann train, and when that fell through, I really got on board the Slot train the more I read about him. I never took the Big Ange possibility seriously.

Over the few weeks since Postecoglou’s announcement, I’m actually optimistic about this cursed club again. All the players and coaching staff gushing over him, all the trophy photos. The man’s mentality and passion are incredible, especially when contrasted with the negative associations that come with the club. I’m also excited to see what that means for Ryan Mason. I want to see fun football, and I want to see it done by teams that aren’t a feel-good propaganda arm of an oil kingdom.

I’d usually turn to /r/coys to have (or rather, to skim) this discussion, but I don’t plan on visiting any /r/ for a while

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