OmegaMouse

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[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

That's interesting to know, thanks! Most coffee shops where I live would probably never get busy enough to use a spare shot. Perhaps they change out to a single shot portafilter, but I've never noticed.

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Follow-up question - each portafilter is two shots right? So if you end up adding an third shot to a coffee, what do you do with the leftover fourth one?

(Or do you have a smaller, single shot portafilter?)

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh thanks. I think Pawb would be a good alternative then. I might set up an account as a backup option, just in case my instance does suddenly go offline.

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just remind me on this - if an instance like lemmy.ml has defederated yiffit, and I create an account on yiffit, would I still be able to see/interact with posts from on lemmy.ml communities? Or does it affect communication both ways?

Ah thanks for confirming that the upload issue is more widespread. I still may consider migrating anyway, as the owner of my current instance has gone awol, which doesn't bode well...

 

So there's a possibility the instance I use will go offline. I've never had to think about this until now, but I want to choose a new instance and I'm wondering how this will affect things.

Certain instances have defederated from furry instances right? If I create an account on pawb.social for example, will I lose access to any particular communities? Is that a stable server running the latest version of Lemmy?

 

I'm unsure where this problem originates, but my guess would be the instance as it's consistent no matter where I try to post (local or external communities).

Whenever I try to attach an image to a post, I'm getting the following error:

{"data":{"msg":"Error in DB","files":null},"state":"success"}

Does anyone more knowledgeable about these sort of things have any clue what that's about?

 

A fascinating summary of every type of plant, organised by evolutionary links

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Glad you enjoyed it! It was a really interesting heist type novel with some great world building. Cool how it basically started its own 'cyberpunk' genre.

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've read Project Hail Mary - that was great fun, and went to interesting places I wasn't expecting.

11/22/63 is one I've been wanting to read. Will definitely do so at some point next year!

What did you think of Neuromancer? I finished that not too long ago.

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Wow that's a lot! Do you have any particular favourites of the ones you read?

 

Looking at a microphone under an electron microscope to discover how it works

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOOOK AЃ ͱANDS

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Well I hope you're able to slow down the pace a bit (assuming that's what you want)!

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah thanks for clarifying. Would you not say that reading it slower would be the more enjoyable method? If you're after escapism, wouldn't it be better to engage yourself fully in the plot? At least for me, I find escapism works best when I'm fully immersed in the story's world and characters. What you've described sounds more akin to someone skimming a research paper.

[–] OmegaMouse@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Storygraph is quite a good alternative from my experience

 

So this isn't a major thing, but I've blocked some bots (e.g. ones that provide an alternative video link on every YouTube post), and whenever I see a post like this, it still shows 1 comment. So I go in, and there's nothing there. Obviously it's still counting the blocked account commenting within this total.

In order to see what people are actually commenting on, is it possible to have the option to adjust this total to ignore blocked accounts?

 
 

It's been a while since I was taught Chemistry, but I was reading something the other day and I couldn't quite get my head around the concept.

So the periodic table shows elements with their atomic numbers (protons) and atomic weight (protons + neutrons). Isotopes have different numbers of neutrons, like carbon-12 and carbon-13 which I believe would have 6 and 7 neurons respectively.

So why is carbon-12 the 'default' option, shown on the periodic table? Is it to do with which version of carbon is the most common? I don't understand how we decide what makes up the pure version of an element/ it's atomic weight as shown on the periodic table

 

Really well produced video about the effects of pressure on different elements

 
 

I understand that the Romans were unable to conquer Scotland so they build Hadrian's Wall (which explains the survival of older cultures there). But as far as I know they occupied Wales and Cornwall, so how is it that the Celtic culture (language etc.) survived in those places?

 

So this is a very niche tool, but I thought I'd post about it in case it has uses elsewhere.

Recently I heard about Moonring, a free RPG based on the Ultima games. It's really fun, and it seemed like a nice fit for the Deck. And for the most part it is - there are plenty of custom control layouts already that work well.

The one thing that annoyed me however is speaking to NPCs. You need to listen out for keywords and then type those in to advance the conversation. The game auto suggests what you may wish to say - for example 'treasure' may be mentioned and when you type 't' it suggests the full word. You then press tab to confirm. So a lot of the time I'd need to type a+tab, b+tab etc. This should work fine in theory but the steam keyboard is extremely temperamental! Bringing it up every time I wanted to quickly type was annoying me...

So I wanted to know if virtual menus could help, and yes!

To set this up, you want to create 8 Action Sets, labelled ABC, DEF and so on (PQRS and WXYZ are grouped, like on an old phone keypad). Personally I'd set ABC up first and then you can copy that action set when creating the others.

Whilst in the controller settings, press R1 to move across to the ABC action set, and then create a radial menu on the left trackpad. Within those settings, set the center button as changing the action set to default. Then add new buttons to trigger A, B and C. Under general settings, change button type to 'release', otherwise it can be quite easy to misinput when using the menus. Create the remaining action sets by copying ABC and change the buttons for the remaining letters.

Finally, create a touch menu on the default action set with buttons to change between the action sets. I also added buttons for tab, backspace and enter. As before, make sure it's set to 'release' activation rather than click.

I'm not sure how useful this will be to (if you want to type anything substantial, the regular keyboard does a good job) but it's cool to know that it's possible!

I might edit a few bits in my controller layout, then I'll export it in case anyone else wants to try this out.

Edit: Now uploaded to the community as 'Omega's layout' :)

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