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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Here's some "high quality" (heh heh) anecdata for you: I navigated from my house in Somerville to a restaurant in the Seaport district of Boston last night, in the POURING rain using public transit and walking.

Google maps literally was leading me around in circles downtown once I got off the train, so I switched to Apple Maps and it was straight shooting from there on in.

I think GMaps is more susceptible to the tall buildings fouling the GPS. Not sure why?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Joplin because I struggled for years with a consistent way to keep and refer to notes that I could find easily at a moment's notice and access from any device, anywhere.

(Please don't tell me about how you use a text editor and markdown in your home directory Like GH* INTENDED because I tried that FOR A DECADE and it didn't work for me. I'm old and cranky. Get off my lawn! :)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Post pandemic, this kind of ID "verification" is SUPER bogus, but it's quite common unfortunately, and, tbh, I can't think of a better way to handle it that isn't either in person or via snail mail.

Not great for sure, but most likely not racist, or at least not purposefully so (not that that matters).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Totally agree. Many people who keep using Chrome have a VERY outdated view of what Firefox can do. That's a shame, but it's unfortunately an aspect of human nature that negative impressions are SUPER hard to change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't think that's always the case. 1Password started out as a personal password manager and only added the corporate/teams/families features later.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I blame the tinfoil hat infosec crowd for not understanding that the world they inhabit is not the same one Regular Users live in.

Is there risk in keeping all your passwords in one place, whether it's on your hardware or someone else's? hell yes! Is that risk stastically speaking ANYTHING LIKE the risk you take when you use 'pencil' for all your passwords because you can't be arsed to memorize anything more complex? OH HELL YES.

Sure, if you're defending against nation state level agressors, maybe using a password manager isn' the wisest choice, but for easily 99% of computer users, we're at the level of "keeping people from drooling on their shoes". So password managers are probably a GREAT idea.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Friends don't let friends run Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is brilliant. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Long shot here: Donate to charities which help people in need in predominantly Trump held districts.

Less of a long shot: Volunteer for organizations like Vote Forward to try to reach folks. We're all human beings at the end of the day, and appealing to people can't hurt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I think "malls" in the traditional sense of giant concrete behemoths with nothing but row after row of stored and fast food were killed by online, but if you open up the definition a bit, some are thriving.

Like where I live, it's an 'archology'. A mix of residential units on top and commercial on the bottom. All outdoors which is a draw for folks in the forever pandemic world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I feel like this is one of those memes that just travevls like lightning because it's attractive to people.

IPv6 WAS crazy bad for a very long time, so I can kind of understand it at least, but wake up and smell the 128 bit addressing people, ipv6 is a SUPER useful tool when you need it :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Please stop doing web dev, it isn’t real.

So, let me guess. Web dev isn't "real" but Linux kernel dev is VERY real?

I mean, I don't take issue with what SEEMS like your base case: Capitalism is crap and money is a silly game we all play, but what I'm reading / understanding from your statement is that the millions of people sending E-mail, writing documents, and managing spreasheets using web based applications aren't doing "real" work as well?

Not arguing, just desperately struggling to understand where you're coming from and what you're trying to say in concrete terms.

 

I've noticed in recent years that more and more apps only offer "small, medium, large" font size settings. My problem is simple. I am visually impaired and need VERY large fonts.

I need my font size set like this:

https://share.icloud.com/photos/08bSDwyyJZm2X4g1f9iZ6mreA

But instead, with more and more apps like Ivory for example, the biggest I can get is this:

https://share.icloud.com/photos/00eUunqHWyZkEWCuFpHlPmVEA

I suspect that the culprit may be Swift UI, but I have no evidence for this.

Does anyone understand the reasoning behind this trend, and is there any possible fix for end users other than begging application developers to have pity? :)

Thanks!

 

So, years ago I tried PGP/GPG and put my key up on the public keyservers.

And then promptly lost the private key data. Lather, rinse, repeat, and now there are like 5 old GPG/PGP identities for me up there that are gone forever and can't be revoked.

So, it's 2024, and I think "I have a NAS I do regular backups and test restores on. Surely I can keep my private key data safe and secure now".

So I get GPG going, create my keys, and then, not knowing any better? copy my entire $HOME/.gnupg directory to my NAS.

The goal here is for me to be able to use the same private key across all the machines I use. There are several.

But when I copy down that directory, GPG refuses to "see" it. gpg --list-secret-keys prints - Nothing.

  1. Is there a better way to keep my key in sync across all my machines? I'd rather not use keybase if possible, they give me the willies after tainting themselves with cryptocurrency and being bought.
  2. Assuming there isn't, what am I doing wrong with my ~/.gnupg directory?

Thanks in advance!

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I created it!

You can find it here.

Looking forward to seeing folks online!

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Fantavision 202X (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This morning for some reason I was thinking about one of my very favorite games from the Sony PS-2 era: Fantavision.

This represents one of my very favorite kinds of game - cool graphics, interesting and different mechanics and gameplay you can relax to.

So for the halibut I searched on Steam and found that there's a remake!

Fantavision 202X.

I know it's unlikely but has anybody played this? I've totally exhausted my game buying budget for the nonce between the Winter Sale and a couple I bought afterwards, but this is definitely on my wishlist :)

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