sgibson5150

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Greg Austin is a fantastic actor but when I see those eyes it's reeeally hard not to see Travis Leich. 😬

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

Far out. Thanks for all your hard work.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 133 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Active noise cancellation. It's a bit like magic. Don't be a wanker and say "Um actually, all you have to do is emit an inverse waveform." I think it took a hell of a lot of work to get this right, especially integrating it into relatively inexpensive consumer devices. Thanks, scientists and engineers. Well done.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

For some reason I prefer light mode on photon for Lemmy. Dunno why. I used dark mode for most everything else.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Ah geez. That's weird with a beard.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Happened to think of this today and found this site

https://mylocation.org/

Scroll down to the Browser Geolocation section, expand it, and click Start Test. It prompted me as expected and returned the correct data.

If FF isn't the problem, maybe there's a recent bug in a commonly used js framework? πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988). While not The Blob or Night of the Creeps, it's pretty fun.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

While I've had some nagging KDE session issues, thankfully using an xbox controller has thus far been a great experience for me in Bazzite. On Windows I had to replug my dongle after every. single. freaking. reboot.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

I'm an Aqua Velva man but years ago (before some of you were born) there was this cooling aftershave gel that was fantastic. Forget who made it. Maybe Old Spice? It must have had alcohol and maybe aloe or something. Sadly discontinued. If I like it, they always discontinue it. 😐

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

DXL has treated me ok over the years.

https://www.dxl.com/

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Haha! I hadn't thought about that. Maybe his listenership primarily uses RSS. I miss RSS podcasts.

Edit: Forgot a word.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by sgibson5150@slrpnk.net to c/android@lemmy.world
 

Edit: Many thanks to @MrGerrit@feddit.nl for suggesting that I hold all three buttons down. That appears to have worked! πŸ™

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?

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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.

 

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.

 

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!

 

"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. πŸ˜„

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!

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*Troi

 

BONG BONG BONG

bing bing bing

 

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.

 

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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.

 

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?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by sgibson5150@slrpnk.net to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
 

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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. 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.

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