anticonnor

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Hi all! Just curious where some of you find out about new games/systems. I used to really enjoy the RPG Of The Month thread on old Reddit before the site really went in the crapper, but not sure where to find similar discussions nowadays.

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll probably go this route, thanks!

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, those look nice! Looks like they're sold out at the official retailer sites though. Bummer.

 

Does anyone have any experience or recommendations for a physical remote control that can be used with HomeAssistant? I'm hoping to find a multi-button zigbee or wifi device that HA can recognize and allow me to configure buttons to HA automations.

I'm already using a couple single button devices that can be configured to perform different actions on single press, double press, and long press, but would love a single device with multiple buttons for some locations.

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I take it back, having used it as my default search engine for a few days now I can say that it's more difficult to find decent results that DDG or Google.

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What made you start looking for reddit alternatives? What subreddits are you hoping to find analogs for?

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm generally pretty skeptical of companies touting tree planting campaigns as it's often just greenwashing, but I'll give this a shot. So far, the search results aren't any worse than other Google alternatives.

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Could you expand on that? If I were looking for federated platforms that get a lot of activity from artists posting their work, what would you recommend?

 

I used to primarily use Instagram for following illustrators, sculptors, digital artists, etc., but I dropped Insta for obvious reasons.

There was also a large exodus from Insta to Cara.app almost a year ago due to Meta's stupid policies on using Insta content to train AI. While Cara is generally a great site and has anti-AI policies (I'm not anti-AI, just anti the way most companies implement AI), my problem with Cara is that it's an owner funded site that will inevitably need to find a way to monetize the content/users.

On the Fediverse, I'm on Lemmy, Mastodon (though I don't love the micro-blog format), and Pixelfed (very little activity).

So my question is: What platforms in the Fediverse are you seeing the most original artist content?

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah, this report is designed with a transportation agenda in mind, so the graph only shows a select set of emission sources to make the tailpipe emissions look as bad as possible. Add in all other sources of emissions and the graph doesn't look quite as impressive for the point they're trying to make.

Figure 1: In the 2019 statewide greenhouse gas emissions inventory, car tailpipes accounted for 119 MMTCO2e — roughly 28% of California’s overall emissions, and more than the emissions from the entire buildings sector and electricity sector combined.

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

I feel ya. I have a dog and three cats, but so far have not had an issue with hair or cable chewing. The frame is essentially just a kit of 2020 extruded aluminum t-slot rails with connectors. If I were to do this again, I would probably not go with a kit and instead just buy the rails and connectors I need for my specific motherboard/components. Also, any extra rails/connectors you get could go toward a DIY 3D printing frame (that's my next project)!

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For my ITX build I went with this open frame so I can really customize the placement of each component and keep everything nice and compact. I'll probably build a cover to go over this frame at some point. ITX Motherboard PC Computer Case,Mini ITX Open Air Frame Computer Overclock Case Computer Motherboards PC Test Bench, Aluminum Mod Base Motherboard Test Bench Support ATX Power

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Also, I just want to add that this is an incredible app and I really appreciate all of the work you put into this!

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I'm trying out those settings you suggested and it does seem like it would mostly solve the issue for me, but you can see from the volume of comments that I am not alone in being unaware of the magic combination of settings that would make the default behavior of the app less frustrating.

I think it's still a good idea to either prevent the back button from taking the user from their Posts page to the Communities page, or to include a method of returning to the last spot in the Posts page.

 

When browsing posts, it's far too easy to click the back navigation button on my device which currently takes me to the Communities page. The problem is, once you move away from the Posts page there doesn't seem to be any way of returning to your previous place in the Posts page.

This could be solved a couple of ways:

  1. Disable the device's back navigation button from moving you away from the Posts page.
  2. Have some method of remembering and returning your the previous place in the Posts page.
[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

In LA, I would have said the Cineramadome, but they closed during pandemic. We've still got Egyptian, Aero, and Nuart though.

 

I'm in the process of de-googling, and for the most part I'm pretty okay with using separate services for things like email, photos, calendar, etc... but the few things that I really like having bundled are Google Docs and Sheets in my Google Drive.

There's plenty of good alternatives for cloud storage, but I haven't seen any that come with any sort of office-like products. I know that I can self host my own private cloud storage and something like OpenOffice, but I'm hoping to find an existing cloud solution so I don't have to bother with that maintenance.

Any recommendations?

 

I tend to not hear about expeditions until it's too late... does anyone know of a way to get email or push notifications for upcoming expeditions?

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