Tom Nook for president

Yes but more like Fallout Shelter (which is like FTL but from the side).

I get why you went to FTL, because it’s in space and you’re on a ship. Maybe Fallout Shelter was inspired by FTL?

But nah, this is more like Fallout Shelter in space, maybe with some elements of FTL because rather than having a base where characters are added and must go out for resources, the base moves and can’t really get new characters (or maybe it can, Neelix, Seven, and Kes came from the Delta Quadrant, so ostensibly they could get more) but still sends people out on missions.

Because the point was the moral question.

I’m kind of amazed that someone thought something based on Voyager would even sell. I loved Voyager when it was new — don’t get me wrong — but coming hot off the ending of The Next Generation, and its first few seasons coinciding with Deep Space Nine right after things got good on DS9? It wasn’t very popular at the time. Then we got ENT to dump on, then STD. And I like most/all Trek, but I’ve found generally people dumped on the new thing. I’m glad Voyager is getting love. We got Prodigy which is kind of a sequel to Voyager, in much the same way Picard was to TNG. (Now do DS9, you cowards!)

Not sure this game is it… it just looks like Fallout Shelter, reskinned with some extra bells and whistles. Which might not be such a bad thing, people liked Fallout Shelter. I got overwhelmed by it and gave up on it. I might play it on my computer if it comes to macOS, but I don’t see myself booting up the Xbox for a game like this. (I see they are porting it to PC, but Macs run a whole other hardware architecture, one that phones and Nintendo Switch run. Mac ports are more likely when a game is coming to one of those; for example, any game that runs on either Switch should run on all M-series Macs. It’s just a question of whether they want to support the platform.)

I just downloaded MKBHD’s iPhone Air review, and it played perfectly. 1920p whatever that means (somewhere north of 1440p but not quite 2160p… or 2160p/4K but slightly letterboxed). AV1 (Ay-Vee-Wun, not Ay-Vee-Eye), 30fps… looks and sounds great.

Glad to see the community fixed it fast.

I use jdownloader2 which probably uses yt-dl on the back end. But it also downloads from a metric fuckton of other sites, too. It’s like the Swiss Army knife of downloaders. And it’s Java, so it runs just as well on my Mac as it did on Windows back when I used that. (Wish they had an official dark theme that was easy to set up though. I know how to do it manually but can’t be arsed.)

One point: support local farmers by buying their food.

Another: not supporting businesses who pay overworked people below minimum wage (restaurants) while treating them like shit.

Beyond that: the pride of making something yourself.

A fourth one: usually you save money

And fifth, since we’re in a spectrum community: not having to go out and deal with people.

Apple would never agree to it, and they have no reason to.

iOS is a stripped down version of macOS, which is certified UNIX, whatever that means. They also claim to safeguard your privacy, though I’m not sure they’ve ever proven it. Quite the opposite, I think they’ve unlocked iPhones, handed over iCloud data for law enforcement, while denying grieving families the same privilege.

I think the best outcome would be for some privacy fanatics with deep pockets to purchase a smaller OEM that already has manufacturing down. The problem they will run into is how to fund it and how to compete, not only with iPhone and the big Android OEMs, but with the smaller Android OEMs that have the same stated goals, to protect privacy. What that might look like is a phone with specs a couple years out that costs maybe a little less than the big names, with the speculation that if enough people buy it, they will support it, but if not enough people buy it… they won’t.

Not a makeup person but I feel like if she fits the meme and is on the spectrum, sure might not be thinking about how her makeup looks, especially if she’s home — and I think that’s part of the point. I can’t imagine being on the spectrum and female, with all the issues that entails.

Huh. I haven’t even heard of those two.

I want to believe Apple has my privacy in mind like they say because I want to believe they’re a computer company first and not an information services company and all that… and it would make me feel better about my iPhone 16 Pro Max having such lousy software running on it… but also because going back to Android seems scary. No good privacy options. Nova is basically dead. Google is going after sideloading. Google is going hard with AI. The Pixel camera straight up hallucinates detail. And yet if I needed a new phone right now it probably would be a Galaxy S25, but I can’t say for sure it wouldn’t be an iPhone 17.

Weird, I thought I put city. Thanks for quoting me so I can see that’s not what I sent. Either iPhone autocorrect is worse than I thought, or I’m not as young as I used to be.

They can in many areas but chose not to. So you’d have to ask them why they don’t when they can. Why aren’t they setting an example for the other areas? Like New York I believe allows women to go topless. The Empire State. Home of the biggest or at least most populous state in America and they don’t do it.

Didn’t say it was. I said that was the idea behind them. I’ve never used a phone from any of those three.

I switched to iPhone in 2016. I had no idea Pixel was coming, and my choices all sucked. The more I looked at the iPhone 6s, the more I realized it was the right phone at that time.

I’m now on my fourth iPhone and I’m kind of done with them. “Apple Intelligence” and the keyboard gets so many things wrong. On a 16 Pro Max. And yet my Galaxy S10 which is 5 years older gets almost nothing wrong.

iPhones have great screens and the newest Snapdragon barely catches up to the new iPhone chip. But I think it does more. The Pixel chip is much further behind (comparable to an iPhone 11, I hear) but even that phone seems smarter.

I feel like iPhones are really nice basic/feature phones. They work well with my Macs, but Macs don’t stop working if your phone runs Android. They just don’t play well together.

Apple is a lot better on privacy. They never pretended to be or care about open source though. iOS is based on macOS which is certified UNIX; Android is Linux more or less but neither is open. I think it’s a moot point at best and a bullshit non-point most days. Open source I mean. As far as privacy, I think Apple is better on a good day but maybe misleading, but Google never really pretended to care. The deal was always, premium stuff for your personal data. We just didn’t care as much back then.

Honestly there are no great options. If I had to buy a phone right now, I’d probably get a Galaxy S25. I just hate what’s going on with Nova Launcher. But I love using my S10, it’s just a dated screen at this point.

I knew who he was from the meme, and I knew he was some sort of alt-right influencer, but other than that I couldn’t have told you much about him. Honestly still can’t. I don’t care for politicians or anyone in that circle of influence.

I have friends and colleagues all over the political spectrum. Guess which ones really don’t like it when I say “can’t we all agree that they all suck and just get along?” Yeah, it’s the conservative/authoritarians. I mean yeah, the liberal/progressives who fight for us are more aligned with our — that is to say, those of us on Lemmy who lean left — views might be better, but they still exist in a grey area, they still do what they need to to get ahead. We accept that those things are necessary but I don’t think any of them are saints. But on the other side? They believe their leaders can do no wrong, and that is worrying. But they love when Trump does bad things to dark-skinned people or the LGBTQ+. They love him for the things we despise him for, from the child predator shit, to the attack on the country almost six years ago, the felony convictions, and all the piss poor decisions he’s made in office.

That’s what OnePlus, Nothing, and FairPhone are supposed to be about.

For privacy, I like my iPhone, but I can’t really recommend them anymore. Even with “Apple Intelligence” the keyboard is hilariously terrible. It gets a few things right and I’m wondering more and more if the ecosystem is worth it. But throwing money at Google somehow seems worse.

For paying people more in some markets and adjusting the prices to be about the same everywhere. So the way a business works is, they have certain profits they have to make to appease the shareholders, and this has to improve year after year. It doesn’t always, but to do so is the goal. So when things like regulation and etc. raise their costs, they raise their prices so their profit still increases.

Honestly, Taco Bell used to be cheap. Now it’s not. It hasn’t been cheap for a long time. But yes, all fast food places have gotten crazy expensive.

Sit-down restaurants have gone up, too. But not as much. So if you want a burger, a sit-down place might not be cheaper, but it might be a better value.

Fast food has kind of always been a scam though. You’re paying for the convenience. So in the west market, Hardee’s (which is called Carl’s Jr. out there) marketed a burger about 20-25 years ago called the “Six Dollar Burger.” They argued that their burger was the equivalent of what you’d pay six dollars for at a sit-down restaurant. What they assumed their customers were too stupid to understand was, that “six dollar burger” at a sit-down restaurant came with fries and cheese and was still bigger. By adding fries, the $4 burger got real close to that $6 price. The combo was more. So they were banking on people not being smart. Naturally, it worked. (Hardee’s just called it the Thickburger. They’ve since discontinued the whole line. Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. no longer make thick burgers anymore. They’ve honestly been trash ever since. And most burgers in fast food start at six bucks now.

That’s awesome. I don’t get Lost Highway, or Lynch in general, but Lost Highway is cool. Just rewatched it a couple months ago, introduced my wife to it. First saw it when it was fairly new. I think I rented it on VHS. But that movie was my introduction to the song “Rammstein,” but the local record store didn’t have Herzeleid, the album it’s on, they had Sehnsucht, which has Du Hast. I still like both albums (ended up getting the first one later).

I have a good friend who’s seen them live from the front row. Wouldn’t be surprised if some of his hair got burned in the pyro stuff. They do a lot of it.

I watch anime. So, no.

But we’re talking about books and I just realised what community I’m in. So, I’ve read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. Prolific Japanese author from the… I think 1930s or 1940s? Definitely not contemporary. There are a few translations out there, but the one I read (pink cover with a shadowy shape of a person) was pretty good. I mean it was a good book. I can’t speak to how well it was translated. English and Chinese/Japanese are basically the most alien to one another, so translation is not always so straightforward. To understand any Japanese (or Chinese, similar story) you either have to learn the language, the history, the cultural nuances, and maybe live there for 10-20 years… or you have to accept that a translation by someone who has is good enough for you.

German is much closer to English so translation should not prove to be controversial. An interesting anecdote I have about German translation is the industrial metal band Rammstein. In 1998 they were not very well known in the US except for appearing in a David Lynch movie (on the soundtrack). But they wanted to appeal to Americans, so they had someone translate two of their singles to English, and they sang them without question. The song Du Hast is pretty popular, but it was mistranslated. “Du hast” can mean “you hate,” but it can also mean “you have,” as in like “have me do something” or “compel me to do something.” Like “my mom had me do the dishes.” And they wrote it in the latter sense. It was never meant to say hate. But he sings “you, you hate, you hate me to say, you hate me to say and I would not obey.” This… kind of makes sense. But what Till is trying to say is “you, you have, you have me, you have me to say, you have me to say and I would not obey.” “Have” doesn’t really work here, it just sounds weird, but, you can kinda get what he’s going for. It’s more like “you… you force… you compel me… you force me to say and I would not obey.” That’s what he means. Not hate. Though, he probably also hates the person for having him say something he doesn’t agree with.

With Japanese? Much more complex, but similar issues. Like we might say “gomenasai” which kinda means “sorry” (some people like to be cute and say “gomenasorry”). We also might say “sumimasen” which also… seems to mean sorry, but it also seems to mean “excuse me.” So what it is… it’s like “sorry for bothering you but…” So it’s a more formal “Excuse me” if that makes any sense.

I just use the native one. My issue is, I have medications that have to be spaced apart and Apple does not support that. Like pill A can be taken whenever, but pill B has to be taken 4 hours out. You can set them for times that are that far apart, but if you take pill A late, you aren’t told to take pill B even later to compensate.

What you need? Sounds like you need reminders. Apple’s medication tracking isn’t a pill counter. So you either have a 1 or 3 month supply, typically. When you start taking them, you could set a reminder (in the Reminders app or in another app you like) for however many days before telling you to refill. Some of the prescription apps actually will remind you on their own when it’s getting to be time to refill.

I’m wondering what anime they’re actually talking about? Redo of Healer? Nukitashi? There’s certainly some “provocative” anime out there. For everything else (and even those) there are age ratings.

Bad enough animation awards just go to Disney by default even when their stories are plagiarized and their movies are forgotten the next year when the next one comes out. Okay, Frozen stayed around for a few years but most are soon forgotten.

I’m glad Sony Animation is starting to get credit (Spider-Verse, KPop Demon Hunters) but it’s still “safe” animation.