GenderNeutralBro

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[–] GenderNeutralBro 14 points 1 week ago

Oh great, it's USB3 all over again. Or should I say USB 3.1? Or USB 3.2 Gen 1x1? I know those are real things, but I have no idea what they actually mean.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 5 points 2 weeks ago

Either that or the tech has plateaued.

I just don't think bandwidth is a meaningful bottleneck, or will be in the next decade, even.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 5 points 2 weeks ago

The job title should be "Tech Traitor".

[–] GenderNeutralBro 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can also just sync your files. Koreader, by default, stores metadata in the same folder as the epub file. If you sync the directory with something like Syncthing, then you don't need a server.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you go into KDE's settings > Sound section, what devices does it show, and what type of output (like "Digital Stereo" or "Pro Audio") are they set to?

Once in a blue moon, my audio output will get mysteriously changed to a format that does nothing, or the audio controller will go *poof* and I need to manually re-enable it. It's rare, and I've never been able to pin down the exact cause, but it seems more likely after I've been connecting and disconnecting alternative audio devices, like my PS4 game controller (which also reads as an audio device due to its headset port), USB microphone (same deal), or USB headphone amp.

After all these years it's still a pain point.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 3 points 3 weeks ago

We'll definitely see Rocket Town in Revelation. I'm looking forward to seeing how they adapt Cid's temper when we finally see him with Shera.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Technically, Rebirth (part 2) ends at the same place in the story as disc 1 of the original. Disc 3 of the original was mostly the same as disc 2, since you could do a lot of side content early or late. They just needed another disc to fit all the FMV scenes.

So the general flow of the remake trilogy is:

Remake: Midgar. In the original, this was the first 5-8 hours for a typical player, and included roughly 1/3 of the whole game's dialogue, so it's not as crazy as it sounds at first, even though you can speed through Midgar in like two hours if you rush.

Rebirth: Open world up to the "big event" that ended disc 1.

Revelation: Everything after the "big event", so discs 2 and 3. (Possibly also adapting some aspects of Advent Children and/or Dirge of Cerberus, but we'll just have to wait and see.)

There are a couple things that were moved around. For example, we didn't go to Rocket Town in Rebirth, while that was much earlier in the original. Cid appeared in Rebirth but was not a playable party member, so they've reorganized it a bit to focus on Cid's whole story in Revelation.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh?

Okay, it's been a very long time since I watched that movie, but as I recall, he very clearly died. I know they went on to bring him back to life a hundred different times in PIC, though. Is that what they meant?

[–] GenderNeutralBro 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The gist is that it's a trilogy (Remake, Rebirth, Revelation), and there are some spinoffs.

It was officially confirmed as a trilogy about 4 years ago, and unofficially known as a trilogy for a couple years before that. Revelation is the final installment.

Remake and Rebirth are awesome, and you should play them.

They also remade (or "remastered", whatever) the 2007 PSP spinoff/prequel, Crisis Core, a few years ago for PS5. It's okay, but not great. Worth playing if you're really into the series, otherwise skip.

Then there's a mobile game called Ever Crisis, which sucks like only mobile games can. If you really want to catch up on obscure side stories, just read the wiki. It's way more fun.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 4 points 1 month ago

I enjoyed this one, as I've enjoyed all the Murderbot stories.

I did feel a bit let down by the dangling thread of the other rogue SecUnit. It showed up, ran off, and then we never saw it again. I guess it was just setting the stage for future stories; the hack is uncontained and any SecUnit could realistically have it in the future.

[–] GenderNeutralBro 1 points 1 month ago

It looks like you tagged an unofficial Lemmy community. You probably meant to tag the official Vivaldi Mastodon account, which is @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net

(I'm replying from Lemmy, and sometimes posting across Lemmy and Mastodon is weird, so...I hope this works right.)

[–] GenderNeutralBro 1 points 1 month ago

Never thought I'd compare Macs favorably to PCs that cost more than twice as much, but here we are.

Does Microsoft have such a captive market for hardware that they can actually get away with this? What kind of chump would actually buy this at $1300? The tech world rightly laughed at Apple in 2024 for releasing an 8GB laptop for $1100. And macOS, while hardly svelte, is nowhere near as bloated as Windows 11.

 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by GenderNeutralBro to c/sdfpubnix
 

Edit: This appears to have been fixed already with another backend update. Leaving the post below as-is.

Current version in the footer: UI: 0.19.0-rc.11 BE: 0.19.0-rc.10

Starting today, most image thumbnails and pictrs links will not load. I tried clearing cookies and I tried in three different browser engines (Firefox, Chromium, Safari).

If I try to open one of the image URLs directly in my browser, it shows {"error":"auth_cookie_insecure"}.

Interestingly, images will load correctly if I am NOT logged in. Why are the pictrs URLs even checking cookies when they do not require auth? Is that new behavior in this version of Lemmy?

Here is an example post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/8482278

And an example direct image URL from that post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/c8556f4f-d33c-4cac-86f3-975726ea69ec.png

I am interested to know if others are seeing the same issue. I have not exhaustively tested different cookies settings in my browsers, so it's possible some anti-tracking privacy settings are interfering with this behavior.

Worth noting is that the Eternity app on my phone continues to work. I did not even need to log out and back in today, like I did in my browsers.

 

That is all.

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