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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It means that you can use more secure passwords rather than using easy to guess passwords/one password for everything. Using cloud based ones like Bitwarden means you have to trust the company hosting your passwords to not screw up and suffer from a data leak. I think Bitwarden is pretty trustworthy, but I might be wrong on that one.

Alternatively, you could selfhost (with something like Vaultwarden) or just use something local like KeePass. For the latter, you can choose to sync with SyncThing if you want.

I personally use KeePass, but don’t use SyncThing.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

In my area, most of the streets, public transit, etc. are all labelled. I usually don’t type out the full addresses, just the names of the building/street/place. I personally use CoMaps (a fork of Organic Maps created to be more community-led) and it all works fine. I downloaded the maps in my area and, before travelling anywhere, download the maps for where I’m going. Offline maps are great!

I have a really weird thing where I actually like switching between different email providers every couple years or so. Maybe it’s because I don’t receive too many emails, but I find changing the email all my important accounts and forgetting about all the ones I don’t use anymore refreshing.

First I tried Proton Mail, then moved to Tutamail, but I didn’t like both as they did not support IMAP out of the box so I couldn’t use things like Thunderbird. I then moved to “Disroot”, which was decent and supported IMAP, but now I use one called “Autistici”. Another good one I would recommend is mailfence, which I set up for a family member once.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How my dialogue box works is by having a “Dialogue” object that has three parameters: the text, the avatar, and the duration (longer dialogues wait for 5s, shorter could be 3s). And in each “conversation”, it’s pretty much looping through an array of these dialogue objects. So for every conversation there is in the game, I would have to change the dialogue objects of each one.

And I don’t think I can map it to specific textures since I have multiple textures for different expressions (happy, shocked, angry, etc.) and am likely going to add more in the future so I can’t really hard code that in.

It’s quite a bit of work for something that I find mostly unnecessary as all the characters introduce themselves when you meet them and there is a clear visual distinction (different shapes, colours, etc.) between all of them.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

On adding the character names to the dialogue box, I don’t think I’ll do that. It’s too much work to change EVERY SINGLE dialogue and all the characters introduce themselves anyways. I think all the dialogue sprites are unique enough (Player is the duck, Prometheus is the human with golden hair, the winds are their own thing, the narrator is a donut thing, etc.)

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

if it’s not a bird nor a plane, it must be superman!

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

switching to linux! (an upgrade in general usability too)

self-hosting nextcloud, immich, radicale, and vikunja to replace google drive/pcloud, google photos, not having a synced calendar at all (never used gcal), and todoist. Only downside with Vikunja is there’s no mobile app (only a work-in-progress one that doesn’t seem to have been updated in years) so I have a shortcut to the website instead. Works fine for me :D

Using local mp3s instead of Spotify (offline listening is awesome!)

RSS feeds to catch up on news

using foss alternatives: inkscape instead of illustrator, OSM instead of GMaps, joplin for notes, etc.

not using gmail

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

I always thought it was the sound. A dry pop vs a wet squelch

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Today I learned that POTUS stands for “President of the United States”, never knew that before.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting, I learned something new today :D

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

a font that’s free for personal use called “Cute Pixel”

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, Samsung's new Fold 7 does seem to be very thin (and surprisingly keeps the same battery capacity with the Fold 6), and Apple Silicon has always been very good.

But things like larger camera sensors, ridiculously large SiC batteries, superfast charging speeds (Samsung does have 45W, which is probably enough for most people, but Apple unfortunately does not have fast charging...), and high-value budget to midrange phones (e.g. Nothing's latest ones are awesome with clean software, and of course all the Chinese ones like Redmi, Oppo, Poco, etc. that usually have bloaty software) the big brands don't really have anything that competes with the other smaller brands.

One comment already pointed out that Samsung would rather use their own sensor and are probably developing their own 1" sensor (as well has better sensors for the ultrawide and telephotos). A whole bunch say that the big brands usually play the long game and see how the latest tech develops before implementing it in their own smartphones. Another says that Apple and Samsung produce way more phones than the smaller brands so they have to wait for the tech to scale. So Apple and Samsung certainly have legitimate reasons to wait.

A bit off-topic, but I think it's kind of crazy that Huawei and Xiaomi were able to develop their own cars. Pretty wild.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

just installed it, and it works great :D

 

HI all, I'm making a game about Prometheus (the Titan who stole fire from the gods) assigning you, the player, a quest to "steal fire" from each of the 12 Olympian gods (e.g. mastery of the seas from Poseidon). I'm trying to decide whether to stick with side scrolling (where I'm comfortable in designing tilesets and player characters for) or go with top down (meaning having to learn how to design 8-way walking/attack/etc. animations and top-down tilesets)

I'm leaning more towards sticking with side-scrolling (since that is much easier for me), but what do you all think?

edit: The game will probably be a mix of exploration, puzzles, and a bit of action as well (e.g. fighting enemies, boss fights maybe?)

I'm thinking of adding lots of different symbols and references to interesting ancient greek myths I've read (e.g. how Persephone has to go between Hades and Demeter, causing a period of poor harvests when Demeter isn't with her daughter)

Also, the art will be pixel art as that's what I'm most comfortable with

edit 2: I'll be going with side-scrolling :D

 

It’s not officially supported, but I can see a few “unofficial” community builds. I like the idea of getting a small phone as a media player. I have some experience with installing operating systems, but never a phone. How difficult is it? Is this a good idea?

 

We, as humans, consider ourselves intelligent life. Other mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, etc. are all considered life. Rocks, metals, gases, etc. are not considered life, they are considered to be non-living things. Towns, cities, and Earth itself is not considered life but are composed of many lives to create larger communities.

But we as humans are made of cells, just as a population is made of humans. If you were a cell, the human body would be more like a city. Just as we do not consider cities as living organisms the human would not be too. Likewise, if you were a population, humans would be more like cells, only considered to be a part of yourself.

And if you become a simpler single-celled organism, you would consider yourself an intelligent organism, and multi-cellular organism would be like giant cities. But what would be “non-intelligent” life?

You are what we humans consider as the least intelligent life there is, so perhaps what we consider non-living objects could be considered as “non-intelligent life” in the perspective of a single celled organism. A “half-living” thing like a virus would be, to something like a bacterium, a bit like how humans consider some animals to me “semi-intelligent”: arguably has consciousness and can feel emotions and form social connections, but unable to do things like critical thinking and problem solving.

Perhaps everything can be considered “life” and we are all but naive little bald monkeys that are part of a greater organism that we call Earth.

 

Horses and bulls make a bit of sense, big animals make big poos. Calling something a big poo means it is very stinky, a huge waste, etc. Very yucky. But bat poos? Those are teeny tiny, small bats make small poos. What do people have against the poos of bats?

Also, what about larger animals? Whale poos are huge, and yaks, buffalos, etc. all make big poos. Don't ask me how I know.

 

On GNOME, it is possible to switch windows by doing the three-finger swipe up and selecting the window. When you do the three-finger swipe down, it goes back to your current window. Is it possible to configure GNOME so that when I hover over a different window after the 3-finger swipe up gesture and then do the 3-finger swipe down it goes to the different window rather than the current one? Or is that not a thing? It would be really helpful as then I don't have to click whenever I want to switch windows. I am running Fedora Workstation 42 on a laptop.

Aside from this small quibble, Linux has been very fun to use :D

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sbeak@sopuli.xyz to c/budgetaudiophile@lemmy.world
 

The Oppo Enco Air4 Pro looks very good for the price at about $20 USD in my region…I also see the JLabs Go Air Pop for about the same price. I also see the Moondrop Space Travel for a bit more, and it people seem to like its sound quality, but I don’t particularly like the design. I want earbuds with decent ANC and don’t sound like complete garbage

(for reference, I find that the wired Nokia buds that came with my old phone sound better than the Beats Studio Buds+, so either I’m not a good judge on sound quality or those Nokia buds are made of some kind of dark magic)

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