Piers

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Piers,

Just because the right likes to screech about how your centrists are extreme leftitists doesn’t change the fact they aren’t leftists. It’s just a smokescreen for the rightwing to cover just how extreme they’ve become.

Piers,

One reason is that every implementation I’ve ever tried relies on using the wired earphones as an aerial and Apple magically convinced everyone that having a 3.5mm port is somehow a bad thing.

Piers,

Just double-checked. My current smartphone that I partially picked for it’s 3.5mm socket does have built in FM radio that works great and only functions with earphones plugged in.

Piers,

It’s not about more reusable hardware it’s about software being constrained to support existing hardware rather than ditch it to save a fee bucks on development.

Piers,

I really don’t understand why it’s such a common confusion. None of these people struggle with the difference between their gas supply and their oven.

Piers,

If it’s anywhere near that long you should see a doctor.

Piers,

If all the food in my fridge is warm I don’t immediately assume my electricity has been cut off rather than something is wrong with my fridge.

Piers,

Yes it is tolerating intolerance.

Piers,

Sounds like they have some level of knowledge of history and have remotely thought their views through yes.

Piers,

Oxygen is a good recent French one on Netflix. Very claustrophobic.

Piers,

It’s a troll account. They’re intentionally making bootlicking comments everywhere to get a rise from people.

Piers,

No. Wordpad is the one being discontinued. Paint is one of several programs that can now be uninstalled from Windows by end users without any special tricks.

Piers,

People keep comparing this to how WotC had to give up more gorund than they started with after announcing their DnD bullshit. As someone who plays Magic I can tell you they do and get away with stuff like that multiple times a year and the DnD thing was a rare exception of people holding them to account. They’ve shown no signs of having changed things either.

Businesses who act like this know that in the long run they get very slightly more profit out of it than they lose from the times people stand up to them.

Piers,

Wrong. The real question is why do we presuppose that the output of creatively driven individuals must generate profit for a capitalist economy to have sufficient value that those people be permitted the basic necessities of life? Frankly I suspect most of our most valuable contributors to culture are never given the opportunity to be bad enough long enough to develop into their potential.

This whole “oh no, AI is going to take away our liveihoods” notion fundamentally accepts the false notion that people are only deserving of a functional life so long as the primary activities of that life is ultimately to contribute towards increasing the wealth of a tiny percentage of individuals.

It’s the same mistake that leads us to massively undersupport educators and carers and will have people freaking out about how they’ll “earn a living” once robots are able to do everything we practically require to be done.

People are fundamentally entitled to a living. If someone is being denied one, then look at the system that causes that not the specifics of that particular flavour of how it’s happening.

Aphantasia... apparently 3% of the world has it. Any aphantasists in here, who've had success improving their condition?

10 years ago, I’d have put my ability to visualise at 0 out of 10. Practice and occasional halucinogen use has got me to 2 out of 10. It causes no end of problems in day to day life, so I’m interested to hear if anyone has tips or just experiences to share so it doesn’t feel such a lonely frustrating issue....

Piers,

If you neither hear nor see the words in your head, how do you experience them to reorder them?

Piers,

i just can’t stop trying to get all the words in the right order

Piers,

Yes but my question is that if you say you neither hear nor see the words, what experience does “I just think of the words” mean?

For me if I think of the words in a song I experience that as an auditory thought that may have some more abstract or emotional types of thinking attached to those words (ie, if I’m think of the word “cold” I might hear the word cold in my head and also feel the idea of coldness, or if I think of the word “angry” I’ll hear the word angry in my head and angry associations will come up. Note, this hearing of sounds inside the mind is not the same as experiencing an auditory halicination where you perceive you have heard an external noise with your ears.)

Piers,

But, for you to put the words in “in the right order” they must take some sort of descreet experiential form.

Piers,

I did write a lengthy (nice) response to try to better articulate my own subjective experience for comparison so we could continue to try to better understand one another but then I kinda just lost faith in the idea…

Do you possibly speak more than one language to any degree? If you think of the words “yes” and “oui” (yes in French), there must be some difference in what you experience inside your mind despite the meaning being the same. So what is different between the two subjective experiences for you?

Piers,

AFAIK whilst some creatives do fully conceptualise the work in their heads then set out to externally reproduce it, the more normal approach is to have a less complete notion and then create something via the process. IE, a musician might have a melody in their head but then they will play it on the instrument and experiment with different variations and accompaniments to see what sounds good and build on it that way, rather than sit and think of an entire piece based on that, then play it out loud.

Piers,

For those who didn’t read the article, Trump claims Biden is too old and senile to be trusted to run the country then proceeds to confuse WW2 and WW3, then confused Biden and Obama and then immediately after confused Hilary and Obama (ie, the headline slightly understates it if anything.)

Piers,

Did you see the “Fables” creator’s recent action and commentary on IP law? …substack.com/…/willingham-sends-fables-into-the

Piers,

People seem to be convinced that the worst thing that can happen will definitely happen.

I mean… The last decade or so of general events seems to suggest that’s the most likely outcome in most situations.

Would you be buried alive for 48hr for a million dollars?

You are buried in a coffin 6ft deep, with no light or cell phone. There is only a small tube connected to the coffin from outside that allows you to breathe (edit: you can breathe with no difficulty). After 48 hours, you are dug up and given 1 million dollars. Do you do it?...

Piers,

What makes you think OP hasn’t just been offered 10 million dollars to lay in a coffin for 48 hours?

Piers,

Yeah I guess paying the people who do the work fairly is gonna probably put Netflix-land out of business. I hadn’t thought of the plight of the poor defenceless multinational corporations until you pointed that out.

Piers,

The wealth class were buying more money from the future. We’re now living in that future and all our money is disappearing into the pockets of the wealthy. Somehow this is an essential process in order for people to get anything done.

Piers,

I’ve seen a claim that the old terms of service explicitly stated that you could do so so long as you didn’t update to the newer version. Which is probably fine for most developers who are already deep into a Unity project. (Though as Unity has now taken down their GitHub page with those terms on it, I haven’t yet seen anyone link to an easy to verify and read copy for people to see if that’s true or not.

Piers,

While it would potentially be easier to learn all the not-programming stuff that’s different whilst sticking with a programming language you’re familiar with, I would recommend also having a play with GDScript too. It’s well documented and pretty easy to get started with (syntactically it’s basically Python.)

Piers,

Because it is the best choice financially in the short to medium term and it’s pretty much impossible for most businesses to make decisions based on any other factor. Which is why most companies will end up just swallowing this change.

Piers,

The thing is that something like this and further similar actions were clearly in the future back when companies decided they didn’t care about the last scandal enough to leave. There will be a few companies this pisses off enough to leave but fewer than people might be hoping for.

Piers,

Not to mention that they eat their own dog food. The Godot application is itself running on Godot engine (which is also super useful for people wanting to add to it or make changes. eg. if you can make a UI for a game in Godot, then you can mod the actual Godot interface quite easily.)

Piers,

Do W4 have a publically available fork they want people to switch to? I was under the impression they were just offering third party porting to consoles. I don’t really understand how they would be able to even offer a proprietary version with support to directly build console versions.

Piers,

This is basically like if John Deere started following everyone around so they could charge a farmer 1 cent every time you bite into a vegetable you bought at Walmart.

Piers,

The poor one.

Piers,

Edge to edge glass is a bit silly but having a window is nice to be able to see at a glance that fans and such are working normally.

Piers,

That’s your fault for buying Intel. AMD boards get several generations. They’ve just switched to AM5. Build a system around that and you could probably throw in a great brand new CPU in about 5 years time and get ten years out of it.

Piers,

Technically it probably runs slightly cooler.

Piers,

I think real is ok so long as it’s got a frame all around it. The single panels of glass seem like madness to me. I do prefer plexiglass personally. I also definitely have my pc on the floor and can see inside it at a glance. (Better than when I was briefly obliged to have it on my desk). It’s not stashed under the desk though TBF.

Piers,

Afaik they’re not likely to shatter to bumps. It’s contact with something hard and sharp that’s the big issue.

Piers,

British people all hate English people. Even the English.

Piers,

Yeah I want to see option three where whatever imaginary number of people exactly comfortably fits into either 100 fully detached homes OR 100 apartments in a single block (realistically I don’t think there is a number of people both those things serve equally) intergrate into the natural environment of their new island home in a mutually beneficial way. The fundamental claim of this post is “we cannot coexist with nature. The only viable way for us to provide housing for humans is in a way that is in direct competition with the wellbeing of their environment” is foolish and the root of the issues it claims to be trying to solve.

Piers,

Yeah the people who will do the best in that scenario are the ones able to sustainably produce their own food not the ones with the biggest pile of preserved food. The Almost have the Mormons beat for "the weird American religious group that is most able to keep feeding themselves once America falls over.’

Piers,

It’s a good question. Hopefully the Beehaw admin team will reach out to the Lemmy.World admin team to have a discussion about exactly what the LW admins are trying to achieve and under what conditions they will be ready to reopen submissions. Though even if they do have that conversation there’s no guarantee that that will match up with what the Beehaw admins are looking for in order to refederate. It was made clear from the Beehaw admins at the time though that they didn’t have any issues with LW in general, only that toxic disruptive people were using the open sign-up of LW to create accounts to go cause trouble over at Beehaw (outside of the general LW userbase) and that they hoped to refederate once better tools were in place to address those disruptive users. Could be that lines up pretty well with LW’s goal to wait until they have better tools to address malicious bot accounts before they reopen signups.

Piers,

neocities.org

Piers,

Yeah and the key part would be to get up his nose which “Bring back Twitter” + boos certainly achieves.

Piers,

Good washer-driers are had to find but being able to put a single cycle on and come back to fully washed and dried clothing is a huge improvement for ADHD folk over having washing and drying as a two separate processes. Definitely worth the investment.

Piers,

In the UK rental properties nearly always include space for a washer and landlords are almost always thrilled when you say “hey, I have my own machine I want to put wear on instead of yours so could you please take that one out.” (Assuming they even provide white goods as part of the rental agreement in the first place.)

Piers,

Proton also includes DXVK.

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