Agreed, it's so good.
I got an invite to join last year and signed up to test it out.
Felt like there was a lot less people and a lot less content on it than Mastadon.
Unless the users/content now really starts to take off, there's not enough on there to make it interesting.
Loved the house used for the indoor shots in this scene. I believe it's a famous piece of brutalist architecture in the LA Hills.
Some forums are still reasonably active. I use Whirlpool fairly regularly. Mostly tech related, but has lots of other sections too.
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/
If you search around you can find others.
Yeah, it seems to work now. Didn't used to work reliably a few years ago. Now, text within any document I save seems to come up in search shortly afterwards.
This happened to me once.
I forgot I had contraband on me and jumped to New Atlantis. I got scanned and asked to hand it over, but instead I just jumped out to The Den to sell the Contraband.
As soon as I got there security started shooting at me.
Had to load a previous save.
An interesting read. Yeah, it's complicated.
I think sound has been a bit under-appreciated compared to visual effects/quality in recent years.
In summer, I'd rather have more daylight at 7:30pm than 4:30am.
It's things like this that make me glad that my email service defaults to not loading any images/links/html. There's a small button at the top to load them if I want.
Yes, I remember that! I recall thinking, imagine how good this will get in the future. Sadly it didn't.
Exactly the same in Australia.
This.
I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of "never visit" sites.
In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.
But to read the odd crappy article? No I'm not disabling my ad blocker.
Yeah, I really liked the movie and it's hard to describe exactly why.
It's not an amazing story, or amazing characters, it's not exciting....but it has a certain vibe/mood to it that I liked.
I was also a bit fascinated by Japan, so that's part of it. Got to visit a couple of times in the years after seeing the movie and whenever I've been in a Tokyo hotel room it's reminded me of the film!
Yeah, that's on my to watch list.
Yes, they are less prevalent due to Reddit and other social media sucking up a lot of the users.
They are still around though. One Australian forum that I've been on for years which is still very active is Whirlpool. Started as a tech forum and expanded. It's very useful as source of info as it's been around over 20 years and a lot of questions have been asked and answered there.
I watched Amsterdam, a 2022 comedy/mystery set in the 1930s, starring Margot Robbie and Christian Bale and a big cast of others including Mike Myers, Rami Malek, Robert De Niro and Chris Rock.
It is loosely based on The Business Plot, an actual political conspiracy in the US in the 1930s. I'd never heard of this before.
It was an interesting and 'different than the usual' type of movie. A lot of the focus was on the witty dialogue between characters. Pretty nice movie visually too. Overall I enjoyed it and would give it about 7/10.
Nice. Thanks for the tip.
Got stuck in hospital for a few weeks recently and used the opportunity to finally learn Affinity.
I'm now really liking it. Takes a few tries to get into it though.
I particularly like it on the iPad with the Apple pencil. A bit less so on my windows laptop.
Earlier today, Samsung announced that three new apps are coming to its Wear OS-based smartwatches. One of those apps, Thermo Check, is coming to the Galaxy Watch 6 and the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic first and then to the Galaxy Watch 5 series. It also revealed new features the app will bring to the tabl...
Earlier today, Samsung announced that three new apps are coming to its Wear OS-based smartwatches. One of those apps, Thermo Check, is coming to the Galaxy Watch 6 and the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic first and then to the Galaxy Watch 5 series.
Thumbs up for the readability
The competition between Lemmy apps is really hotting up.
As more and more apps get all the features we want, it gets harder to pick one.
I've found myself still favouring Connect and I realised it's because it looks nicer to me when reading through comments.
Something about the font and spacing makes it look nicer than the competition.
Second best for me is Liftoff. The features are now there, but at a side-by-side comparison, this app looks easier to read.
Good job on the design side!
Out of interest what font does Connect use?
Affinity Photo: Calling out a hero in this subscription dystopia
From the smoothest photo editing and design software to next-gen page layout, Affinity is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with creative technology.
Last year I got an iPad pro as a gift. I've been meaning to do more with it especially photo editing and I finally got around to looking into it.
But....every damn photo app seems to be a subscription. The ones that aren't are very basic.
Until I found Affinity Photo 2.
Holy hell, an extremely full featured photo app with no sub?! It's like Lightroom and Photoshop rolled into one for a one-time payment of $A30.
I took a few days to learn it and once you do it's very good.
For the cost of buying Affinity forever I could get Adobe's photo plan for just 2 months!
For someone like me who will use this stuff lightly, going some months without using it at all, subscription software sucks.
Well done to Affinity for providing a high quality alternative. Give them a look - they also have Windows and Mac versions.
This sounds like an ad but it's not, I'm just so tired of having subs pushed in my face - especially on the app store - that when I find a good alternative I feel like shouting about it!
Pay with your palm?
__ New age technology has enabled consumers to pay for groceries with one wave of their hand, a development that has been deemed “kind of scary”.
The technology was highlighted in a video of a woman checking out of US retailer Whole Foods with Amazon One – a system allowing shoppers to pay with a mere flash of their palm. __
Hmm, interesting. Not sure what I think about this. Anyone in the US using it already?
I mean it's convenient. You can't forget your palm at home. Your palm can't run out of battery. It's pretty hard to replicate based on the article which suggests it is "impossible for a person’s palm to be replicated because its scan captured the hand’s 'underlying vein structure to create a unique numerical, vector representation'”.
I'm guessing this is for small transactions, not buying a car, so I doubt people are going to be chopping off people's hands and using them to buy groceries (hopefully!).
Could be a useful tech?
This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads
Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?
Even allowing people to follow that account?
Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.
Text markup toolbar not functional for replies
I've found that the text markup toolbar (is that what it's called?) does not function in Connect when replying to an existing post. Tapping on any icon has no impact.
However if I'm creating a post, like this one, then it works fine.
Is this by design or is it some sort of bug or limitation?
Text Size
I may be asking a stupid question, but can you change the text sizing in Liftoff?
Would seem like a fairly basic appearance setting, but I can't find it anywhere. Am I missing it or is it not there?
If it's not there, would be great to add this option. Ideally individually for Title, Headers and Post.
That said, the app is starting to look quite nice.
It's looking like it's going to be a really competitive field for new Lemmy apps on Android! We're the winners I guess. I'm likely to get/buy a number of them :)
Best Gamepass Games on a Phone
I'm stuck with my phone only for a couple of weeks. No controller. I have Gamepass Ultimate.
Can anyone recommend a good cloud gaming game that is good on a small screen using touch only?
I've got an S23 Ultra, so it's a big phone but still pretty small for gaming. So nothing with a tiny interface!
Thanks
Sunset Over Manly, Sydney NSW
This pic just after sunset was through a pretty dirty window, but I really liked how the clouds looked in the last light of the day.
Cactus Moonrise
Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.
Lunar Eclipse
Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.
Red Planet
Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.
Empire State
Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.
Ana de Armas
Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.
Mountain Galaxy
Sharing some dark AMOLED wallpapers. Not my own work, I have downloaded these previously.