rowinxavier

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[–] rowinxavier 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

OK, so watches come with a few different standards for the pin length, the gap between the two metal rings that watch pins pop in to. The pine time seems to use 20mm bands, so searching for those on your internet purchase place of choice is the next step.

https://pine64.org/documentation/PineTime/Accessory/Watch_band/

The documentation links to a couple of options in the link above, but any of the bands for a galaxy watch which are 20mm will do just as well. All you need is to make sure the pins are for a 20mm watch and the rest works itself out. Good luck!

[–] rowinxavier 1 points 1 month ago

OK, so it sounds like you may have a loose ribbon cable. I have had a couple of similar issues where the number of lines is not reporting correctly so the system doubles up or halves weirdly. This has in most cases been a loose or dirty ribbon cable connecting the screen to the motherboard. Unplugging and replugging the ribbon cable is likely to solve the issue if that is the cause, you really don't need much friction and ribbon cables are very delicate.

I think the update timing is probably just a coincidence, there is not really a simple path for updating something to impact your screen in BIOS unless you have microcode updates or something similar, but really it is probably not from updates.

[–] rowinxavier 3 points 1 month ago

True, but EndeavourOS recommends BTRFS and Timeshift, so that was the most likely backup solution in place. I personally like it, but not making any judgement, just asking based on highest likelihood.

[–] rowinxavier 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think he is saying that of the total interactions he gets he would expect a large amount of hostility to his opinion on Mastodon, and it is also a small population which is available to interact with on platform. Consistent, just talking about the experience and an objective measure. In my opinion Mastodon will be helped by Bluesky adding a paid membership. The worse it is the better for Mastodon, and honestly if people have already started moving out from Twitter to Bluesky they are not locked in yet so moving out again is easier, they already dropped Twitter but Bluesky is not solidified yet.

[–] rowinxavier 16 points 2 months ago

Because insecure manlets like him want things in simple little boxes so he can attack people who are outside the boxes so he can feel big and special. Honestly it is just fascism, the hard lines of gender roles and hierarchy, but this really is an uncreative repeat of early 20th century ideology. Zero stars, no creativity, would not recommend.

[–] rowinxavier 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That is Lorem ipsum, a test text used usually for doing layout and playing around with text processing. I have absolutely no idea why it would be showing up on boot.

That said, no idea why you would have this type of issue. Do you have BTRFS? With Timeshift? If so, you should have the option to boot into an earlier version, as it was before the update.

If not, to clarify, is this happening in the BIOS as well? The doubling of text lines with some cutoff? Can you show a photo of that too? And do you have an external monitor to connect? Maybe something happened with the display itself and it isn't software at all.

[–] rowinxavier 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What has worked best for me is making a small change and giving it more time to become default. If I change too much it is unstable and never settles into my normal, so when I make changes they are small and isolated from other changes. For example, I have automated my banking over the last year, but most of the changes are done at the end/start of a month and then carry over, so automating money into an account for my medications happened around November, before that it was electricity bills, before that yearly phone plan. Each one is in place long enough to not be disrupted by the next.

[–] rowinxavier 3 points 2 months ago

Vibes are great. You can still hear people talk, appreciate music, and have awareness of things around you, but it is all down by a sizable number of decibels. They are also comfortable and don't make the blocked ear feeling.

https://www.discovervibes.com/

I also like using TWS headphones with foam tips. I have SoundLiberty 79s and they are great, put some good foam tips on them and they act at earplugs as well. Maybe not as useful for your situation but maybe good for other times. The SoundLiberty 79s are not sold any more, not sure about a good replacement.

[–] rowinxavier 5 points 2 months ago

Half Life 2, I got a new laptop a couple of years ago and it was the first that could actually play it properly but I never got to it, then the big update came out and wow, so worth it, loving it.

TES IV Oblivion. Love it, so silly, I love thieving.

Autonauts vs Piratebots, such a fun and cute little programming game.

[–] rowinxavier 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So broadly you will find categories in games like Smash Bros and so on. Some characters will be heavy, some light, some fast, some slow, some strong, some weak, but each trait creates an axis. The ideal distribution of characters is to have all areas of the multidimensional space filled or if not filled at least alternated.

For example, you should have one heavy, fast, weak character, one heavy, slow, strong, but maybe not a heavy, fast strong or a heavy slow weak. You can chart them on a two dimension axis at a time, then use the characters from Tuxcart etc to fill the space based on what makes sense, eg the Gnu should be heavy but also fast, but it is definitely a prey animal, while penguins are smaller and fast with a more moderate attack level, maybe even weak.

Once you have some of the extremes filled you can consider subversions of the paradigm. For example, a compiled language is slow at creation but fast at use, so maybe a mascot for one of those could have two modes, switching state and therefore characteristics.

Another thing to consider would be the dynamics of your interactions. Are you going for the jumping around of Smash Bros? If so, lots of the details about their camera work can guide your decisions. What about the overall pacing? Do you want frenetic play like Smash Bros? Combos? Strategy? Lots of things to look at there with a narrative approach to the characters as representing their projects, for example Wilbur is smaller and supposed to be super modular, so maybe having quite a few modes with different characteristics would work, while something like puffy is great for water levels alongside tux and any other aquatics.

[–] rowinxavier 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Are you sure you don't have ADHD? Being bound in the tethers of schedules and appointments makes me feel a deep unease, driving me to avoid calendars and schedules. That said, to function I desperately need them, so my choice is disquieted ickiness or life catching fire, so yeah, about 70% successful for using calendars.

[–] rowinxavier 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The claim by Meta that they block this type of material combined with the existing spread of this type of material mean that adding a temporary source of material does not carry the same level of harm as may be expected. Testing if Meta does in fact remove this type of content and finding it failing may reasonably be expected to lead to changes which would reduce the amount of this type of material. The net result is a very small, essentially marginal increase in the amount of self harm material and a fuller understanding of the efficacy of Meta filtering systems. If I were on the ethics board I would approve.

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