Firefox sgibson5150 • Now • 83%

Warning to mobile Fediverse commenters

I've been experimenting with going without the suggestion strip on my Android keyboard because I tend to hit that row (and a random unwanted word) occasionally on my relatively new Moto when thumb typing. This can cause problems in FF as it did for me today when I was writing a long-ish comment and accidentally hit the reading mode button in the right of the address bar (I have my address bar at the bottom) and of course flushed my comment to hell. It was a perfect storm of shit haha. Might move to nightly so I can disable the reading mode button, assuming that's still possible. I've been on Android released for the last year or so. Edit: BTW this happened on the photon front end. Not sure if you could run into this with default Lemmy. Edit #2: In first paragraph, I used both the terms "comment" and "post". I was referring specifically to commenting. Haven't noticed the reading mode button be available when writing a whole new post, but I comment more than I post. Any other "gotchas" that you guys have encountered on mobile FF?

Doctor Who sgibson5150 • Now • 100%

Controversy

MAITLAND: Doctor, is there no way you can get into your ship? DOCTOR: No, not unless they return what they stole from my ship. RICHMOND: But will they'll never give it back to you! DOCTOR: Oh my dear, they're not invincible, no-no-no. Did any of you notice the peculiarity in their eyes? MAITLAND: No I can't say I did. DOCTOR: It's a fallacy of course that cats can see in the dark, they can't; **but they can see better than we humans because the iris of their eyes dilates at night**. Yes...huh! Haha!

Privacy sgibson5150 • Now • 96%

Talk me down: Teams could be a tool of mass data gathering

I know this will sound paranoid as fuck, but I've really been thinking about Microsoft lately. Like, they're pushing their Recall shit whether we like it or not. The fact that it even made it past the concept stage tells me that no one at Microsoft gives a single fuck about their users anymore. The final shreds of any trust I had in them as a company are gone and I've started thinking of them as an adversary. Today I was considering Teams in particular. My company has been using it for maybe six years. When our email provider went teats up, I did some research and realized we had Microsoft cloud stuff included in our Action Pack subscription. We started using their email, and about the same time we started using Teams. Teams offers EEE but only on Teams Premium, which we don't pay extra for. Microsoft has access to every message and chat. They could be saving transcripts and voice calls. They might have accumulated billions of hours of voice data by now. What could they do with all this data? 1) Sell to LEO 2) Commit corporate espionage 3) Gather government secrets 4) Use for AI training Something else just occurred to me. I did research a while back on the software stacks that big tech companies use. Not one uses IIS. I've been a Windows developer for thirty years. I used to *like* Microsoft. I looked forward to new versions of Windows and Visual Studio. Now I feel like they've lured us all in slowly until we put our throats in their jaws. Fucking mental. Talk me down, if you can.

Doctor Who sgibson5150 • Now • 100%

When you watch Hunters before you watch Class

Greg Austin is a fantastic actor but when I see those eyes it's reeeally hard not to see Travis Leich. 😬 Edit: Btw *Class* is fantastic. I'd have watched it back then had I known about it. I mean, I'd vaguely heard about another spinoff but I didn't know the particulars. Look man, I'm not on trial here. The real crime was cancelling this show.

Android sgibson5150 • Now • 98%

How can I power down this phone?

Edit: Many thanks to @MrGerrit@feddit.nl for suggesting that I hold all three buttons down. That appears to have worked! 🙏 Pixel 6 Pro. Yes, I did a factory reset after patching. No, I wasn't aware there was an issue. Yes, I understand there's no fix for this. My question is, how do I turn off the phone once it is in this state? I've tried holding power alone, power + volume up, and power + volume down for varying periods of time up to 30 seconds each. I've tried in the recovery menu and at the error screen. I've tried catching it during the restart. Can someone help me please?

News sgibson5150 • Now • 96%

Neil Gaiman: Three Women Accuse Author of Sexual Assault

www.rollingstone.com

Following initial investigation in July, three more women come forward, including one who signed NDA following her experience with author Edit: Not sure why the link abstract says two. The article clearly says three.

Mildly Infuriating sgibson5150 • Now • 92%

UPS has started charging for pickups even if you have a prepaid label

I have a UPS Ground prepaid label to return the cell phone that I'm trading. They told me it would be $10-12 to schedule a driver pickup, else I can take it to a dropoff location. When did this start? Boo, UPS. Boooooo. Edit: To be completely fair, it may be that the destination decided not to pay extra for driver pickups rather than this being some new UPS thing. I don't know the inner workings.

Doctor Who sgibson5150 • Now • 100%

Young Lady Eddison?

m.imdb.com

Would anyone happen to have a source on who portrayed the young Lady Eddison in The Unicorn and the Wasp? I've checked IMDb, Wikipedia, fandom, Shannon Sullivan, and a few sites I wasn't previously familiar with. Fandom had the names of some of the uncredited cast (footmen, kitchen staff, etc.) but I couldn't find anything about young Lady Eddison. Thanks!

Mildly Infuriating sgibson5150 • Now • 96%

Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog

"If you don't save your data to someone else's computer then we can't monetize it." I know they're not *explicitly* selling SkyDrive or OneDrive or whatever it's called now, but they kinda are. What's funny is, this file is stored in an encrypted container that *does* live in the cloud. 😄 Edit: Thanks to user @NoneYa@lemm.ee I now know about F12 in Office applications to bring up the "classic" Save As... dialog. Today I learned!

Risa sgibson5150 • Now • 90%

Writers telegraphing their fetishes

*Troi

Showerthoughts sgibson5150 • Now • 90%

Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben?

*BONG BONG BONG* *bing bing bing*

News sgibson5150 • Now • 99%

Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies? A lawsuit dared to ask | Neil Barsky

www.theguardian.com

> The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes

arstechnica.com

I never went as far as to defend Gwyneth Paltrow, but after her Hot Ones appearance I created a post (which I will link in the comments) where I suggested that she's done no more harm than male grifters and that the dislike of her as a person was primarily due to misogyny. That's before I learned about her promotion of these unproven "vampire facials". Now an unlicensed clinic performing this procedure has given at least three women HIV. You guys were right and I was wrong.

Android sgibson5150 • Now • 77%

Android app dependency?

I have found the translation from camera source feature useful in Google Translate and I use it from time to time. Last night was one such occasion, yet when I attempted to enable camera mode, I received the message shown in the screenshot, "Please install the latest Google app in order to use camera translation". I currently have a Pixel phone and I have had the Google app disabled since shortly after I got it. I left negative feedback on the Play Store after I discovered this new wrinkle as I feel Google thinks they have struck upon a way to prevent users from disabling or uninstalling the Google app. The developer responded that Translate camera is "now powered by Google Lens which is part of the Google app". I have been struggling to remember another occasion where an app has been dependent on the presence of another app to function in either Android or iOS. Besides the obvious Google shittiness, I feel like introducing these sorts of application interdependencies opens the door to... idk, something bad. Thoughts? Edit: As I have noted in the comments, this is not a problem unique to the Google Pixel phone. If the Google app is disabled on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, the same behavior occurs.

Baldur's Gate 3 sgibson5150 • Now • 67%

Me and the girls are doing a little shopping

🛍️ Edit: I can't say I'm not curious about all the downvotes. FWIW this is OC from my third and current playthrough of the game. My sorcerer had to live though the first two acts wearing her awful "Playtex" underwear set, so it was good when we finally made it to the Lower City and were able to purchase some proper sexy unmentionables at the shop near the gate to the Upper City.

LGBTQ+ sgibson5150 • Now • 100%

The 30-year hunt to find the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert bus: ‘My jaw was on the ground’

www.theguardian.com

> Not long after the 1994 film became a smash hit, the titular bus disappeared. Where did it go? Who had it? And could it be recovered before it was too late?

Mildly Infuriating sgibson5150 • Now • 92%

YouTube needs more potato

🤨 Edit: Thanks all for the troubleshooting advice but this occurred on a channel that is known to me that regularly posts 4k HDR content. At the time I tried to play it, the video had 14k views and had been up for two days. It's probably just a transient thing. I mainly thought this was funny because I'd never seen such an anemic selection of resolutions. Perhaps you guys can try to enjoy the post in that spirit. Edit #2: I know I said we weren't troubleshooting but if anyone wants to try it out, the video is [here](https://youtu.be/oMMf_K_P-no). I tried on my phone this morning and there are only the two crappy resolutions. Edit #3: Credit to skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl here. I think they came the closest to explaining the problem. After I tried this on my phone, I tried it on the laptop and **all resolutions with and without HDR were available**. This may indicate that something like H.264 High Profile was used for encoding which (depending on the level) may not be supported on mobile device and it would seem, set top boxes like my Roku Ultra. Edit #4: Some others had commented about the same problem in the video comments on YT so I told the content creator what I knew and (politely) asked how the video was compressed. Will report back if I get a response. Edit #5: Clarified a point in Edit #3. *Some* mobile devices may support *some* levels of High Profile, or at least that's my understanding. Final Edit: Creator did not respond to me directly but they indicated that they requested help from YouTube in the matter. Haven't checked the Roku yet but all resolutions are now available from my phone as of 2024-04-13T11:12:00.000 UTC.

Unpopular Opinion sgibson5150 • Now • 61%

Jurassic Park is 6/10 at best

I do not like Jurassic Park. I have never liked Jurassic Park. It has great special effects and Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, but that does not make it a good movie. I don't care if it made a billion dollars at the box office. I don't care how many awards it won. The worst part, though, is the memes. They're second only to Prequel Trilogy memes in terms of how much they annoy me. I long ago added "clever girl" and "life uh finds a way" to the list of phrases that braying jackasses won't stop posting on social media that fill me with a near-homocidal rage. I'd block these phrases and move on with my life but these people put them in freaking images, too. I can't get away from it. \*continues to froth incoherently\* Edit: As of this writing, I have three downdoots. I'm going to assume that all downdooters agree with this post. Edit #2: Now like 8 of 29 people agree with me! I guess this unpopular opinion isn't quite as unpopular as I believed. ❤️ Edit #3: 15 of 45 people reject that this is an unpopular opinion! Thank you all for your love and support. ✌️

Food and Cooking sgibson5150 • Now • 100%

How do you wash a granite mortar and pestle?

A few years ago I got a Gorilla brand granite mortar and pestle. I seasoned it as directed and got quite a bit of use out of it, then I stopped cooking for a while and it got kind of...well, gross. It's possible that I spilled something on it, but portions of the bowl and exterior are a darker color now. I guess I'm afraid with the relatively porous granite that it's full of rancid garlic effluvium. Does anyone know how to clean this thing? Should I just pitch it? Before: https://imgur.com/a/lWyQNGH After: See Google album link (I tried again to use imgur and my phone crashed 😆) Alt share because imgur is being a pain: https://photos.app.goo.gl/LzXZoxnhdEvmQHug7 Edit: Edited to include links to "before" images. Edit #2: Added a backup Google album Edit #3: Added after images to Google album

Firefox sgibson5150 • Now • 94%

Advocacy emails

This is the second such email I have received recently. Seems legit but I don't recognize the domain in the link to sign, and it seems like the people who make Firefox would know that the people who use Firefox would be hesitant to click. IDGI. Anyone else getting these? Edit 2024-04-10: Got a new email today and it appears all the links now go to links dot mozilla dot org. I won't flatter myself that this post had anything to do with that, but maybe the same thought occurred to someone at Mozilla. Nice. ✌️