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Gestrid ,

Oh, look, it's Reddit all over again.

(Yes, yes, different reason. Same user response, though.)

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Posting photos and videos from the Switch directly onto Twitter.

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You can directly connect to the Switch over a wifi network it creates. You can select up to 10 photos to share at a time. It'll create a one-time-use wifi network (the connection details are different every time) and generate a QR code so you can connect to it. After your phone is connected, it'll generate another QR code that'll direct you to a webpage (a local IP address, specifically) where you can browse and download the photos from.

Make sure to turn off data on your phone while you're trying to do this. Some phones use data as a fallback if the wifi network they're connected to isn't connected to the internet.

Gestrid ,

You can actually go on your PS5 and re-send those photos or videos if you need to. Just hit select when you've got the photo you want to re-send highlighted, and an option to send it to the PS App will appear.

Gestrid ,

It's been a function for at least a few years. And they didn't mention whether it had to be new or not.

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Honestly, it's easier for me to just double-tap the power button to open the camera and scan the QR code than to have to open my bookmarks.

And I don't mind that the SSID for the wifi changes every time. Again, it's simply faster to turn off data and scan the QR code than it is to force my phone to connect to a network that isn't connected to the internet.

Yeah, there's more convenient ways this could've been done, but it's not a horrible design.

Edit: fixed a typo ("eventually time" -> "every time")

Gestrid ,

With the second paragraph, I was mainly referring to your first comment about it being cumbersome (sorry for doing that out of order), which I took to be referring to the whole process. I probably could've phrased that a lot better.

Gestrid ,

Like ability to install different desktop enviroment?

Technically, with root access, yeah. It's just that Android's UI isn't a DE/WM in the desktop Linux sense

You can also just install different apps that change the home screen. Android calls them "launchers". You can install one from the Google Play Store or elsewhere like any other app. Then just set it up. Once it's setup, the phone simply loads that app's launcher instead of the phone's default launcher (which is usually also an app).

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I just use the AdGuard app. It runs all my Internet traffic through an on-device VPN server (The VPN is the phone itself.), and it uses that to filter out all the ads.

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You're forgetting the annual safety inspection required in most US states. That'll catch stuff like brakes wearing out, taillights and headlights that need to be replaced, and other stuff.

Gestrid ,

I did say "most" states. I used to work at a car dealer's service department, and I've seen some cars come in where they don't have a state inspection sticker because the owner just moved from a state that doesn't do state inspections.

Because of that job, I've also seen stickers from other states that do do state inspections. Most of them will be on the windshield either in the bottom corner on the driver's side or in the bottom center. They'll list a month and year as numbers (ex. 8 and 24 for August 2024) for when the inspection sticker expires.

So, at least in my state, someone with 8/24 on their sticker would at least need to drop their vehicle off at a mechanic (not necessarily the car dealer, just a mechanic authorized to do state inspections) by the last day of the month. If the mechanic doesn't do the inspection until the the beginning of the next month, that's fine. You'd just get a sticker that says 9/25 on it when they're done.

Gestrid ,

The only problem I can see with that is poor people like myself.

The state inspection in my state costs a set, predetermined amount. The mechanic legally cannot charge more than that amount. (I think it's about $10, but I could be misremembering. It's somewhere around there, though.) If anything doesn't pass inspection, that's where the cost can come in. How much it costs depends on where you get the thing fixed.

In my state, if you car doesn't pass inspection and you choose not to get the thing repaired right away so it does pass (maybe you don't have the money right away, or maybe you want to bring it someplace cheaper to get it fixed), you're given 30 days to fix it, regardless of the original expiration date in the sticker. They replace the inspection sticker with a special "state inspection rejection" sticker that says by what date the inspection is due. At my old job, I used to see plenty of people come in on the last day of the month knowing their car would fail inspection. They came in to get that 30 day extension.

just because one aspect of my car isn't up to code doesn't mean I don't still need my car to get to work.

Generally, inspections don't take too long to do, though that can vary depending on where you bring your car. They usually won't take longer than 24 hours, though. For me, they're usually done either within a couple hours of bringing the car in (if I bring it in early enough) or by mid-morning the next day (if I bring it in in the later afternoon or evening). So I could bring my car in after work on the day before my day off, and it's pretty much guaranteed that it'll be ready by about 10am the next day the next day (or end of day if they find something wrong, depending on what it is).

When I was working at the car dealer, customers waiting in the lobby would typically have their car ready within a couple hours, and customers who had alternative transportation would usually have them done by the end of the day with enough time for us to call the customer and for the customer to come by and pick up their car.

This definitely isn't the case everywhere, but the dealer I worked at also gave out free loaner cars for customers to use depending on the circumstances (ex. did the customer have an appointment) and availability (ex. do we have any loaner cars available right now). Customers just coming in for a state inspection wouldn't typically get one, but, if there was something that didn't pass inspection, then we might set them up with one if we had one available and if the customer wasn't able to wait any longer.

Tl;dr: In my state, getting a state inspection is usually relatively painless. The inspection itself doesn't cost much, but the cost of fixing something so it passes inspection depends on where you go. There are also ways to get extensions if you need them, and, if you plan ahead, you can usually get your state inspection done on your day off without any problems. Even if there's something that'd cause it to fail inspection, it's usually still done the same day.

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If somebody did that, I'd disapprove of those rules out of pure spite.

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"Oh, looks like nobody's doing anything during their lunch break, so I'm sure it'll be fine to schedule a meeting during it."

If they're paying for lunch, I'm fine with it. If not, I'm not fine. My lunch is my time to recharge for the rest of the workday.

Gestrid ,

Fast forward to today, I ended up killing him and am writing this from jail.

That went from 0 to 100 real fast.

Gestrid ,

This is true. It's an operating system that runs on a computer.

Computers can be good or bad depending on the hardware they use.

Gestrid ,

I'm a Windows user, but my church uses a Mac to run its projection and video recording. I'll admit it works pretty well for what we typically need it to do, but it recently took me like five minutes to figure out how to crop a picture because you apparently can't do that by simply opening the file and clicking the crop icon.

Mac's filesystem is an absolute mess, too. This might just be my own inexperience, but I've saved things like PowerPoints and videos in order to upload them, and then I'll go to the website to upload them, and I won't be able to find them because they're not in a specific folder or something.

Gestrid ,

Technically, Android does that, too, but the limit on that is a few years. If I'm not mistaken, the lowest version of Android that Google will allow a user to install through the Play Store is Android 12 (released in September 2020).

Gestrid ,

I think you meant to reply to this comment.

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That's for manually installing apps, I believe. But developers on Google Play have to follow this.

Gestrid ,

Yes, but 99% (give or take) of Android users won't know or care how to install 3rd party apps. So most people would only care about the Google Play Store limitation.

Gestrid ,

To be fair, I don't think the average user would think that Google, the creator of that Incognito Mode, would keep the data.

Incognito Mode warns specifically that websites the user navigates to may still keep records, but I don't think it says anything about the creator of the browser keeping records (unless, of course, you visit their website).

Gestrid ,

They tried their best to make Nitro succeed first before turning to other methods of making money.

Gestrid ,

If I'm not mistaken, they are a private company.

Granted, they're a private company with a goal of getting an IPO soon, though.

Gestrid ,

They tried to do that, but it's difficult to make a decent subscription service for what's essentially a chat app.

Gestrid ,

I still use it occasionally. It's primarily used for smaller, more private communities, but Wikipedia also hosts official IRC rooms, too. I don't know of any other major companies that use IRC in an official capacity, though.

Gestrid ,

It is, but it's not exactly a good subscription service for the average Discord user. In the past, they kept adding and removing features, trying to find stuff that stuck. While I think they've got a decent feature set right now, it's still not great, and I don't think the average Discord user would be very impressed by it.

"Pay $10/ month for increased upload size, custom emojis shared everywhere (and not tied to being used in only one server), and animated profile pics/ banners/ backgrounds!" There are other features, but I don't think most people would use them.

The biggest feature, custom emojis being able to be used in any server, is also part of their $5/ month tier, so most subscribers don't even have a need for the more expensive tier.

Gestrid ,

To a degree, yes. But a non-public company doesn't usually have that "obligation" for ever-growing profit. Unfortunately, Discord's goal does seem to be to eventually get an IPO.

Gestrid ,

Yeah, what happened with GitHub?

Gestrid ,

Asking stuff like that is always a good idea, IMO. It could be the difference between a successful Linux install and a very expensive paperweight.

... Don't ask me how to install it, though. I've only tried Ubuntu as a dual-boot, and that was several years ago.

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Ironically, Microsoft would later remove Cortana itself in an update.

Gestrid ,

What's the number of Threads users compared to Lemmy? If the number of Threads users greatly outweigh the number of Lemmy users, then we'd simply be drowned out by all the Threads posts. That's part one of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Extend adds functionality to Threads that Lemmy either can't support or won't support for a while due to development time. People migrate to Threads because Lemmy is "missing" functionality. Plus, though I'm not clear on the exact legal specifications, proprietary code can be added to open-source code, and the proprietary code would be copyrighted. In other words, Lemmy devs would have to figure out a way to interact with and mimic Threads' proprietary code using open-source code.

Extinguish is when Threads' support of Lemmy is eventually dropped. The users left on Lemmy have suddenly lost a huge amount of content, and they're left with fewer users than before Threads enabled federation.

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My guess: they'll go the lawsuit route.

Gestrid ,

but yet keep buying it.

Probably because they'll keep repairing it themselves anyway. Making it legal would just make it easier for them to repair it without triggering the tractor's version of DRM (can't remember what it's called).

Gestrid ,

Believe it or not, I don't think this is technically from an anime. One of the characters is (the short one), but the picture itself appears to be from DeviantArt. The other character, as far as I can tell, is an OC. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong.) Even the DeviantArt post just calls him "Anime Boy".

The short character in front appears to be a character named Tomoko Kuroki, the main character in the show "No Matter How I Look At It, It's You Guys Fault I'm Not Popular!" (It's apparently usually referred to by a shortening of it's Japanese title: "WataMote".)

I'm a little surprised I learned all this just from a reverse image search.

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Weren't they also caught using AI bots to drive up engagement in some subreddits, too? (I think it was supposed to be some of their subreddits in foreign languages or something.)

Gestrid ,

Fortunately, at least in my experience, the adblockers usually win. Even if a company changes something to avoid an adblocker or force someone to turn off their adblocker (Hi, Twitch!), it's usually fixed within just a few hours at most.

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They're in the middle of trying to get their users to create accounts with E-Trade, their Directed Share Program (DSP) administrator. They'll start selling shares to their users as part of their DSP late next week. After that is the IPO.

Gestrid ,

In the US, most TV commercials are so obviously TV commercials that they don't label them. Some TV stations do have bumpers they air when the TV show goes to break and comes back from break.

Gestrid ,

It's... really not that hard.

  1. Uninstall the new app, download the old app from https://www.apkmirror.com/ (which is basically an archive of most apps downloadable from Google Play).

  2. Use an app like APK signer to change the app's "signature" so it doesn't automatically update.

  3. Install it.

It takes like 10 minutes at most.

I did exactly this with the Discord app last year when they suddenly changed the app's entire layout.

Gestrid ,

What I'm talking about was when they changed the Android app to behave more like the iOS app. It was a buggy mess when it first launched. It's much better now, though. I've since updated my app to the current version.

Gestrid ,

It is their job, but, sometimes (I'm speaking in general terms, not specifically about Nintendo), it's better to pretend it doesn't exist, especially because of the Streisand Effect. But, if someone from outside tells them something exists, they might be legally obligated to take action in order to maintain certain legal protections on their properties in the future.

From what I understand this happened to Yuzu recently (and that's probably what this post is referring to), where, supposedly, some angry person found a bunch of Nintendo email addresses and emailed them all about Yuzu.

I've also seen it happen at least one other time, too. Cartoon Network used to have an old MMO called FusionFall (not FusionFall Heroes). It was shutdown several years ago, but a community of devs decided to remake the game, and they were even working on upgrading the graphics. They were making some really significant progress on it. Some guy apparently got banned from it, though. (It was in a public beta.) And they emailed Cartoon Network about it. Cartoon Network sent a Cease & Desist, and it disappeared immediately.

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Antov Yelkin who played Checkov

You mean Anton Yelchin who played Chekov?

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I was very confused by the headline. I legitimately could not understand what it was saying. Then I saw the website.

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That's true. Those trucks are huge.

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MacD’s

I think you mean ModL's.

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I once had several dreams within a dream, like they were layered on top of each other, Inception style. It was quite honestly the worst nightmare I've ever had. Then I woke up, and my parents hadn't even gone to bed yet. I was awake for most of the night after that.

Gestrid ,

Wendy's is also investing in upgrading all their restaurants to digital menus by the end of 2025, though.

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