Deebster

Deebster , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Ah, so this is the most popular cocktails on punchdrink.com - I thought the title was saying party punch was the most popular!

Edit: I think it's top-rated, not most searched:

these are the recipes you deemed best this month

They're all more obscure than what I'd expect to see on a populist list.

Deebster , 8 days ago

Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, bug, er poorly documented feature... user error

Gotta love the Register

Deebster , 11 days ago

At first I thought it was another safe with even more money, and I was wondering if I should get a magnet.

Deebster , 13 days ago

That performance cost seems to be negligible in uBlock Origin and other popular ad blockers that have focused on optimization [...], but there were probably other extensions not doing that well.

The article goes out of its way to not do what you're accusing it of. I don't understand how you've managed to read the article as having the opposite slant as what it actually does.

Deebster , 1 month ago

Well good news then, since they were joking (I guess) - it's a mod to improve Grim Fandango Remastered's graphics.

Deebster , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I've been building my music collection since I was ripping CDs by hitting play, recording in Win95 Sound Recorder and running the .wav through LAME (nowadays EAC to flac, of course). I see no need to pay a subscription to listen to my music, when I can just use that same money to buy and own the albums* and not worry about them disappearing.

* also means more money goes to the artist

Also Navidrome + Symfonium means I can still stream to my phone so the only benefit Spotify etc has is new music, but YouTube (+ uBlock) gives me that.

Deebster , 1 month ago

In Foobar2000, Shpeck allows you to run those old Winamp vis plugins - I have Milkdrop 2.2 with all those old classics. They still look great on modern tech!

Deebster , 1 month ago

Thanks for explaining it, not sure why you've collected those downvotes.

Deebster , 1 month ago

Yeah, it's probably shooting the messenger. Reminds me of once on Reddit where someone had asked a similar question and I'd replied with a sourced quote from the dictionary and got complaining replies and downvotes.

Deebster , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Do you also attack dictionaries for explaining offensive words? The person I'm talking to never used the term, they merely explained the meaning behind the number.

What you are doing is shooting the messenger. Please target your outrage more carefully in future.

Deebster , 1 month ago

I missed the news that K-9 was becoming Thunderbird for Android. I used to use it before switching to FairEmail, I think because development had stalled. It's a solid choice, hopefully they don't add too much in like they have with the desktop version.

Deebster , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsSonOrFathersSistersSon

The label for the contact’s mother’s sibling’s younger son or father’s sister’s younger son.

I thought it was just a male cousin, but it doesn't include a cousin who's your uncle's son. Which culture needs this?

Deebster , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Maybe his analysis considered this, but the article doesn't mention real-world factors like the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis, and what feels like the resurgence of fascism and the spectre of World War 3. It's noted that liberal families seem more susceptible - perhaps it's because right-wing families are more likely to believe these things aren't real, or aren't a problem?

Deebster , 1 month ago

It's a weird time to be alive.

Deebster , 1 month ago

You're missing Windows 2000, but I guess you can argue that's Windows NT not mainline Windows. That was definitely in the good camp, and I was not alone in sticking with it for many years (until XP got good).

Edit: I see @NickwithaC beat me to this point.

Deebster , 2 months ago

Mbin seems like a healthy project, and the only sensible move from kbin.

Deebster , 2 months ago

Yeah, people definitely have a tendency to act entitled just because they've paid money.

It reminds me of this story from Freakonomics:

The economists decided to test their solution by conducting a study of ten day-care centers in Haifa, Israel. The study lasted twenty weeks, but the fine was not introduced immediately. For the first four weeks, the economists simply kept track of the number of parents who came late; there were, on average, eight late pickups per week per day-care center. In the fifth week, the fine was enacted. It was announced that any parent arriving more than ten minutes late would pay $3 per child for each incident. The fee would be added to the parents' monthly bill, which was roughly $380.

After the fine was enacted, the number of late pickups promptly went... up. Before long there were twenty late pickups per week, more than double the original average. The incentive had plainly backfired.

Deebster , 2 months ago

I heard that one school (maybe the same school?) had success with a "three strikes and then you find yourself another school" policy.

Deebster , 3 months ago

I assume this latest bump is due to lemmy.world updating and now counting lurkers when assessing active users.