HatFullOfSky

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[–] HatFullOfSky 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, I forgot Atomic (radio) clocks existed. My parents used to have one of those over a decade ago, but I always saw them as more of a novelty. Not saying they're not valid, just uncommon IMO.

[–] HatFullOfSky 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (7 children)

Every appliance in my house (with a clock anyway) and all of our clocks (2 analog, 2 digital) require manual changing. None of them are connected to the internet, which I would think is the only way they would be able to. Do they really make "smart" analog clocks now?

Edit: my car is somewhere in between. It'll "automatically" change, but I have to turn it on/off. It's basically just automated the action of moving the hour forward or back.

[–] HatFullOfSky 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's online radio, where you can make stations built from a seed song/genre and then it tailors itself based on the thumbed up/down songs. Both interactions will give the selection algorithm more info to work with, but the thumb down will also immediately skip a song and prevent it from showing up again.

It used to be a really good service and was my primary music option, but it got bought by LiveNation and went into the shitter fast. Ads are completely out of control, but uBlock helps significantly ofc.

The algorithm also had a tendency to form your various stations into very samey sounding, but that may just be me using seed songs that are too similar and not being aggressive enough with the thumbs down.

[–] HatFullOfSky 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It wasn't world, Lemmy.ml is his home instance which does the censoring

[–] HatFullOfSky 26 points 5 months ago

SteamOS is arch based and uses KDE Plasma as the default DE, so you could probably run Endeavour OS and be pretty darn close

[–] HatFullOfSky 15 points 5 months ago

My dad's go to is "Joe's Bar and Grill, this is Grill speaking". Sometimes he'll shake it up and answer as Bar instead

[–] HatFullOfSky 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Typically, this is what the cards are themed as, at least the older sets. White and Black are "enemy" colors in Magic: the Gathering after all, same as Red and Blue, Black and Green, etc (based on their position in the MTG color pentagon).

That said, there were some definitely racist cards that got banned and pulled from databases in 2020, Invoke Prejudice being a notable example.

It shows a hooded executioner with a black axe. “If opponent casts a Summon spell that does not match the color of one of the creatures under your control, that spell is countered,” says the card. It effectively kills off creatures that don’t look like the creatures already on the table.

https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/10/21287154/racist-magic-the-gathering-cards-banned-removed-from-database-wizards-apology

[–] HatFullOfSky 41 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Potatoes you have to keep mounding up with dirt to force the plant to grow more roots (tubers) instead of the leafy tops.

[–] HatFullOfSky 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From what I remember, they got bought out by Coke and the quality rapidly declined shortly after. Plastic bottles, basic flavors, no more witty lizard quips in the cap.

[–] HatFullOfSky 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Discord is another, goes into effect on the 15th

[–] HatFullOfSky 2 points 7 months ago

YES that's it! Honestly never thought I'd see it again, thank you for the links!

[–] HatFullOfSky 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This vividly reminded me of the browser flash game for Bionicle that LEGO had on the Bionicle website when the original run was big. I logged so many hours in that game, I wish I could find an archived version to run through again.

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