vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My first read of this headline had me thinking "that's strange, gendered bathrooms are still pretty normal, they can't possibly have been banned, could they?"

...it hadn't even passed within miles of my mind that this was talking about racial segregation. I can't even comprehend this level of regression.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It cannot be overstated how much of a boon Discord's lack of friction is for connecting with people and forming communities. It is mind-flatteningly easy to get onto Discord and into a community, and while the content of those communities is woefully unindexed deep web, forever sequestered, the external discoverability of the communities themselves is exceptional.

You will not ever reach the same people with the same ease of use as Discord if you use a hosted alternative.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago

What could possibly be in the vaccines that would be worse than your child no longer existing?

The article says the man is a Mennonite, which means he probably believes in an afterlife. In his mind his child still exists and he'll get to see her again when he passes and spends eternity there.

I pretty firmly believe that afterlife beliefs account for a pretty significant distortion of values in people and helps explain a large number of frankly insane behaviours. Preventing deaths becomes much less important when there's an eternal paradise waiting for you and the "real" risk is doing something that bars you from going there.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

Work, home, online (anonymous), online (WoW friends), online (Elite Dangerous friends), online (Street Fighter friends), IRL friends.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My most common use for Google assistant was an extremely simple command. "Ok Google, set a timer for ten minutes." I used this frequently and flawlessly for a long time.

Much like in your situation it just stopped working at some point. Either asking for more info it doesn't need, or reporting success while not actually doing it. I just gave up trying and haven't used any voice assistant in a couple of years now.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Some people prefer it.

I maintain a small piece of Windows software and originally just provided an installer, but I received enough requests for it that now when I publish releases I provide both an installer and a zipped portable build.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

...are you calling first person shooters "shmups"?

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Your laptop uses an iGPU. The "i" stands for integrated, as it's built into the same package as the CPU.

The alternative, a dGPU, is a discrete part, separate from other components.

They're saying that your situation is becoming increasingly common. People can do the gaming they want to without a dGPU more easily as time goes by.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd argue that Li should be red and Hg should be yellow.

Elemental mercury in liquid form is fairly safe. It needs to get into your blood in order to be a problem, and even if some does stick to your tongue and get swallowed the digestive absorption is extremely low.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

Mine does something similar but there's simply more pixels for it to float around in, so nothing clips. It's a 3440x1440 display, but the actual physical screen is something like 3460x1460 so the image can shift without clipping.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It is insane to me when people complain about the failure of a public service to turn a profit as if that's some kind of bad or unexpected outcome.

Services cost money to operate for the benefit of those using them. That is literally the point.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They'd need to charge amounts that families can afford for that to work.

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