Not at all a solution, but worth mentioning that in a YouTube URL you can replace /shorts/ with /v/ and get the normal player for the same video.

In a few threads now where someone typed an expletive, the post gets censored and it just says removed where the word should've been.

I'm trying to link to a comment, but when I check the link, it keeps pointing to my response to them. Seems like some other lemmy quirk, but maybe it'll work for you

In another post, someone tried to say "resting removed face" but it came out "resting removed face"

edit: well that's awkward, when I tried to write b i t c h, it did it to my comment here. So it is a lemmy.ml thing?

I think it's important to bear in mind that some of those things are what neurotypical folks, I guess you could call them, use to convey interest or disinterest. Eye contact is a way to express interest, and helps to show one is intently listening to the speaker. Conversely, frequently glancing away is kind of the body language equivalent of giving short "uh huh" type answers when one is trying to disengage from a conversation.

My point isn't that you should feel bad about struggling with these nuances; I just think it's worth mentioning that some of those negative reactions you may have experienced just has to do with expectations in body language. It's not that someone who's neurodivergent is being an asshole, it's just that they're sending out signals we're otherwise used to interpreting as disinterest, and that is (often) off-putting.

Again, it's not something to feel bad about, it's just communicating on different wavelengths so-to-speak. Sort of like a language/culture difference.

I think they mean concepts like morning and evening, or day and night would remain. The difference would be that in London, midnight would be 12:00am, but in San Fransisco, midnight would be... 16:00 / 4:00pm. Each timezone would have to adjust the numbers, in the same way the southern hemisphere considers January to be in the summer.

Vivecraft mod for Minecraft

Can't overstate how great it is if you're into Minecraft. Stepping into the world gives such a difference sense of scale to things.

This is really a "it takes all kinds" moment for me. I can't think of a mechanic I dislike more than weapon durability. It makes me feel like I have to "save" my good weapon and only use it for boss fights or something.

In a way, it's cool to hear how and why someone loves it, even if I don't relate.

Man, I'm sorry to hear that's your experience. I guess some folks simply refuse to be understanding.

I read that any NPC/Quest that required this before will now be visible to living players. I think in the case of the BRD one, the NPC will himself appear as a ghost to living players.

I think there's some nuance there too. I'm not keen on the idea of my facebook messages, or google chats, or private emails, things like that going into other peoples hands (regardless of how much I can do to stop it), but purely ad-based stuff doesn't bother me. I'm gonna be seeing ads for something, and whether or not they're things google or amazon think I might want doesn't really change the equation for me.

However, I do hold it to be true people should be in control of that if they want to. I feel like the choice is important.

Spotify supports this already (between any devices you're logged into), and it's suuuuuuuuuuuper nice. This is gonna be an excellent QoL upgrade.

The S in MSRP is "suggested", so I don't see any technical problem with it. I think we need a separate term if it's meant to be a locked price point across sellers.

I use it whenever I'm typing with one hand only. It works very well IMO, on gboard at least.

It also has a light mode now. I know that was a drawback for some folks when it was first being mentioned.

My friend group uses google the same way apple users use imessage. The implementation has changed many times over the years (google chat, sms integration, hangouts chat, whatever), but it's always basically been the same thing and it's usable from any device. That's my main complaint about ~~signal ~~ and telegram: if I'm at home, forget using my stupid tiny phone, lemme do it from my PC that I'm probably on anyway.

edit: tried to strike out signal, but it's ignoring the formatting I guess.

Point to your credit here: it's illegal in this state to pay less than minimum wage whether the employee is tipped or not. ALL workers make at least $15.74/hr here, except for 14 and 15 year olds who can be paid 80% of minimum wage.

Huh, there are some filtered slurs in there I've never heard of before! I guess this probably isn't the place to ask to whom they apply and how, though. Still, the list isn't as long as I expected, and doesn't seem to apply to profanity so much as just offensive slurs. I feel like the "b-word" is a little bit of a stretch, but I can appreciate the intent there.

Thanks for giving the best answer here!

You'll learn pretty quickly how just aperture affects a photo, in how much depth of field you have. The part that's more nuanced is figuring how zoom plays into that as well. Zoom also compresses the depth in a shot, so to speak. The most extreme version you'll see is towns with mountains towering above them that seem like they're in the back yard, but there's really a ton of distance. It just looks almost flat because the photographer is using a really long lens.

There are apps/calculators that will give you the depth of field for any given focal length and aperture, but I found it to be a lot of trial and error when learning how the various settings work together.

Man, I just didn't get Little Inferno. Glad some folks enjoyed it, maybe I just didn't understand what to do really? Oddly enough, the theme song pops in my head sometimes.

While I agree with what you're saying in terms of seeing posts, the flip side is wanting to make a post visible to as many users are possible gets tougher.

Say I have a problem with my MicroSonySonic MPZoomPod that's driving me crazy to figure out, so I figure I'll post on Lemmy about it and see if anyone else has had that problem and a solution. In the reddit days, I just go to /r/MPZOOMPOD, or I google for "reddit mpzoompod" and find the subreddit. I can now post there knowing I'm hitting the entire community of mpzoompod users, or at least the majority of them. To do that on Lemmy, though, I now have to wonder if instead of a single community with 120k users, I have 12 communities with 10k users. So either I post to a tiny fraction of the communty, and thus have a much lower chance of getting my question answered, or I post the same thing to 12 different communites and have 12 different threads to keep track of for replies.

Obviously this is simplified, cause more likely there will be on big community somewhere, a couple other smaller versions, and then probably a couple completely devoid of posts from when people were first migrating to Lemmy and were excited to start communities.

Anyway, that was kind of a lot, but I think it really comes down to the subject matter. I don't need 5 versions of showerthoughts, and I don't care if showerthoughts has 1k subscribers or 1m subscribers, but if I really wanted showerthoughts to grow in popularity, the more people using one copy the better. Alternatively,it would be rad if /c/googlepixel or whatever wasn't fragmented so I could know I was looking at the most likely source of information.

It's all kind of an interesting thing to think about, and I can't decide just yet which way I'd personally prefer. I remember reddit before all the digg people piled in, and I liked how it felt more like a community back then, but I also can't disregard how incredible reddit has been in recent times for finding answers to specific questions, or getting news, or finding fans of a particular subject just because it became the default website to look for that stuff.

Man, I haven't played through Myst since... the original Myst. I heard that Firmament was a bit of a letdown, but I really should go back and play Myst in VR. Thanks for the reminder!

It's worth keeping track of the universal unreal vr mod in development. I realize this post says "yet", and this is still in development, but they've mentioned a release this year and it should open up a ton of great games.

Thanks a bunch!

hunte.... wait a minute

Chopper Commando on the PC Jr and River Raid on the Atari 2600 were my first gaming loves.

Hawken

I still feel like this had one of the best atmospheres in gaming. Something about it felt so visceral. I had such high hopes of playing it in VR eventually, but by the time VR really came out, Hawken was already dying away.

My man!

Man, I find it to be unsettling. Maybe it's hooking into a sort of auditory uncanny valley, or maybe it's just knowing that it's all "fake". The way different portions of the song are mashed together, missing a beat, is sorta interesting. It's like pasting together text a piece at a time, only it's missing the paragraph breaks and instead if just mashed together.

Pretty sure the lens flare was just added in photoshop. As far as the "tele lens" goes, I think that's just a semantics thing. I agree that shooting straight into the sun like that would make it impossible to get that exposure.

On a related note, does anyone know of cases with a headphone jack built into it? It seems like an obvious thing to make, but I've only seen them mentioned for iPhone.

This seems to be a pretty popular thought, both in this thread and many others discussing Lemmy. I'd put real money down that the 3rd party apps will get this going, but for actually using the website on a PC, I'm imagining it'd be up to the devs/admins of whatever Lemmy instance you're using.

That's good to know. I think when I tried it before, I ran into issues signing into multiple devices at once. Chances are, I just got the apps confused in memory though. Thanks!

I'm using a set of klipsch 4.1's as we speak, and used to drive them with an Audigy 2.

As an American, the first half is in line with my experience. As far as group chats, we all use google for that.

Man, when I was getting into photography, that site was the holy grail of hardware decisions. It'd be a big loss if it went away, so this is great to hear.

This is intriguing. Are we talking about 3D youtube vids here?

You can, and I'm doing that right now. Logged into lemmy.ml through their site. However, I can see how one might be hesitant to log in through a 3rd party like this. It does look really nice, but I do wish it had a light mode as well.

Curious what would have happened if you just stopped at $30 up (also remember, $ before the number; ¢ after)

Was the $30 paid into your account, or in the form of a check or something?

I'm curious what game. My feeling is it must be something with a constantly changing economy?

Using "bis" for toilets is funny, like you're grinding a raid at the hardware store hoping for an epic toilet drop.

Getting a teeny bit slammed for your comment, but I think the simpler answer is: you probably wouldn't. If instagram is working for you and yours, then I'd imagine you'll stay there. That's totally fine. This is a thread about federated alternatives, though, so the overall subject may not apply to you.

I like pixelfed because a) it doesn't have ads for 2/3 of the content, b) it doesn't have reels (which IMO go against the entire point of instagram to begin with), and c) I'm specifically not looking for pictures of my friends. For me, instagram is a platform for discovering art from other people. It still works for that, but there's so much other stuff on there getting in the way. Pixelfed is "back to basics" for what I'm looking for in an art sharing platform.