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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

She had a podcast she'd promote saying things like it's ok to eat cake for breakfast if you want it

I mean, it is. I don't think eating cake for breakfast is so much worse than eating it after dinner.

I lost a lot of weight with basically calorie counting. I ate whatever I wanted until I hit my limit. If I wanted more, I'd do some exercise to burn off the extra calories.

It taught me a lot about portion sizes and nutrition though (entered everything into a nutrition app, not just calories).

But I'm pretty sure there were some occasions where I had some cake for breakfast, lol

(Also...a muffin, waffles, or pancakes and syrup for breakfast are probably no better than cake)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I agree with what you've said here.

At the same time, encouraging obese people to go outside and get some exercise without worrying about how they look to others seems like something to encourage.

If they can go out to the beach and it wasn't so bad, maybe they can go out to the gym on another day.

This wouldn't happen for everyone, but if it helps a few people, then I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

could we do something about this?

Downvote posts that don't generate good discussion.

Report posts that are flagrant rule breakers. (I report posts here that aren't actually questions, or bad faith statements that are only barely questions)

But more importantly...

UPVOTE the good posts!

And even more importantly...

POST the kind of content you want to see! Be the change you want to see. If you're just a commenter, you can't complain that there's no posts! Haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Real news, not to be confused with propaganda and misinformation, is readily available online to those with decent critical thinking skills

Propaganda and misinformation is also readily available online, disguised as real news, and is great at targeting people who think they have great critical thinking skills!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago

I feel like this deserves a diagram

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I know it's not "intelligent", but I don't get gatekeeping the phrase "AI".

We were perfectly happy to use "AI" to refer to the logic of computer-controlled enemies in video games for probably decades.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Arrogance and misplaced rage aren't anything to be proud of, either.

Your argument is pretty much a slippery slope argument, which is how we get things like people trying to ban gay marriage.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

And terrorism must be defeated.

I agree. Israel must be stopped.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Based on the rest of the comment, I think they were referring to how often members of the Israeli military defy orders.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Is this a question?

Woah, meta.

Yes, it is.

This is not a question, though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/189706-nintendo-switch/79890338

I used Backlogery, but Backloggd seems to be more popular nowadays. That forum discussion mentions a few others, too.

If you play retro games, then you could also look into RetroAchievements, which will track more than when you simply beat a game. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for all games though.

For more modern games, you could also use Achievements to track what you beat.

As for keeping track of what games you WANT to play... it's called buying them! Don't buy games you don't want to play, haha

Seriously though, you could go through your Steam library and add games you want to play to a playlist, or sell physical games you wanted to support but don't want to play.

But for multi-platform stuff, check out the linked forum post

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

ftr; also atheist, but decided not to be insensitive today, lol

 

I used to be able to press the microphone button on my home screen and say "Start 5-minute timer" and it would start the timer.

Now, when I do that, it does a Google search for "Start 5-minute timer".

How do I get that functionality back?

I don't want to open an app, and I don't want to use a number pad or anything to enter the number.

EDIT: Thank you! I went into the Gestures section of Settings, and now I can long-press the power button to get the desired behaviour. This might even be more convenient than tapping the mic icon!

 
  1. Tap search button on the bottom.

  2. Search like normal for communities with the search term. Results returned like normal.

  3. Clicking the unfilled heart (to subscribe) results in the error presented in the attached screenshot.

  4. The back button (Android) doesn't work. App must be force-closed.

  5. The subscribing action was successful; discovered on reboot.

  6. Repeating the steps, but instead of the unfilled heart, clicking on the community successfully navigates to the community.

  7. This didn't happen before.

  8. I might be one update behind current as of Mar 18

 

Bananas are ridiculously cheap even up here in Canada, and they aren't grown anywhere near here. Yet a banana can grow, be harvested, be shipped, be stocked, and then be purchased by me for less than it'd cost to mail a letter across town. (Well, if I could buy a single banana maybe...or maybe that's not the best comparison, but I think you get my point)

Along the banana's journey, the farmer, the harvester, the shipper, the grocer, the clerk, and the cashier all (presumably) get paid. Yet a single banana is mere cents. If you didn't know any better, you might think a single banana should cost $10!

I'm presuming that this is because of some sort of exploitation somewhere down the line, or possibly loss-leading on the grocery store's side of things.

I'm wondering what other products like bananas are a lot cheaper than they "should" be (e.g., based on how far they have to travel, or how difficult they are to produce, or how much money we're saving "unethically").

I've heard that this applies to coffee and chocolate to varying extents, but I'm not certain.

Anyone know any others?

 

I've got a fairly new 14tb Seagate Expansion. It works fine, and I've been using it for a month and a bit.

I don't know how long it's been doing this, but the power supply is making a very faint alarm sound. The power supply is plugged into a Belkin surge protector powered on and with the "protected" status light lit, and it is plugged into an outlet. The HDD is currently not plugged in to a computer.

It's not a beep or electricity. It's a distinct weewooweewoo. I couldn't even determine the source until I pressed my ear against it.

Googling just points me towards typical "my HDD is making a sound, how long do I have until it dies", but nothing pointed me to the alarm sound from the power supply.

I'll check again if it makes the alarm in other conditions, but in the meanwhile, I was hoping someone here might know something.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: The sound only happens when...

  • Power adapter is plugged into the HDD, AND the outlet
  • HDD is NOT plugged into the computer.

Plugging it into the computer stops the noise from the power adapter.

 

Due to personal circumstances, I haven't had much time for gaming in the last year.

I did have a couple of months in the summer with some free evenings though, so I dumped a bunch of time into Pokemon Violet, and I also completed Super Mario Sunshine, spending several hours getting those last few shines and blue coins after leaving the game at ~85% completed back in 2022.

Other than those 2 games, I hadn't really played much of anything on the Switch.

My year in review said I put a ton of hours into Pokemon Violet, single-digit hours into F-Zero 99, and less than 1 hour into NES online.

No mention of Super Mario 3D All-Stars.

I was wondering why it didn't count. But then I realized that these year-in-review things are not a nice service or gift to subscribers... they're ADS that they intend people to share with their friends to get their friends to buy more games. (What's a better review than "Your best friend played this game for 200h last year"?)

Since SM3DAS isn't available in the shop, it'd be useless to advertise that game. So maybe Nintendo is excluding it from their calculations...

Can anyone else confirm or deny this? Did anyone have any delisted games make their year-in-review? Or am I just going to need to spend a ton of time 100%ing Super Mario Galaxy in 2024, and only play 2 other games on my Switch? Lmao

 

I know money can't buy happiness blahblahblah.

Do they do gift exchanges at all?

Do they ask for anything?

They have enough money that they could get anything made or done for them at a moment's notice. Like having ChatGPT, but for services. Ridiculous things we couldn't imagine.

Anyone have any insight into general trends along those lines?

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