[-] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

In the USA licenses are not contingent upon manual vs. automatic. No one checks what car you drive. So you would have to learn somewhere - someone around you has to own a manual car in order for you to learn how to drive one, and here simply no one does. No one in my entire extended family, none of my friends, none of my coworkers I'm friendly with, none of the 50+ cars I have any tangential access to are manual. So even if I wanted to learn, what are my options? Buy an entire car just to learn? Services like Turo won't let you rent one unless you can drive one already.

We have Driver's Education in high school but it involves no actual driving - there are separate paid/private courses you can take that might involve defensive driving or learning stick. I did one on controlling skids on wet or snowy pavement and demonstrating e.g. turning under braking with and without ABS. But nothing about manual.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I will second Durock V2s and TX AP/Rev3 or rev4 stabs. If you use TX make sure you use the "plugs" - the little wheel of snap-off bell-shaped pieces that hold the stab in from behind since they do not screw in.

Also double check your PCB thickness, 1.2mm vs. 1.6mm and make sure you get the right size.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't enjoyed their main channel content for ever. Every once in a while if I'm interested in a product and have exhausted all other decently sized tech channels, I may watch their coverage but I've likely already made my mind up on the thing. I don't and wouldn't trust them for GPU, CPU or case reviews. I do generally like listening to the WAN Show, but Linus is sticking his foot in his mouth an awful lot these days. I like his vision for the lab, and I like what he ultimately wants to build with it, but I really worry they're going too fast and going to bake in a lot of problems that will haunt the platform for ever, assuming it even gets off the ground. I was already worried but this video made me even less optimistic. I only knew about some of these oversights, the extent is pretty startling.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll be significantly cleaner than average I expect... I don't like cases, but a long time ago, circa when shiny black plastic was making its way in to touch screen phone design for the first time, a friend and I discovered if you keep your phone in a microfiber bag (like some sunglasses come with, particularly Oakleys we bought together at the time) it effectively cleans itself in your pocket. I still do, and I cycle those out and clean the bag once a year or so, or if it falls on the ground or gets something spilled on it. I have more now from different sets of sunglasses, laser goggles, etc.

I also happen to work in a clean room where you're expected to wipe anything you bring in, including phone, laptop, etc., with isopropanol-soaked wipes before entering so that's like disinfecting and taking off the oil every day or every other day.

No one else I know ever cleans their phone beyond wiping it with a shirt or something when the oil & smudges becomes too noticeable.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes I see you've met every Minecraft shader

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yes! Much preferred. Now if I could just stop getting logged out every time I check the app - but I'm pretty sure that's a kbin thing, not an Artmeis thing.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Good to know, thanks.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I made a community on lemmy.world in the first few days of the big Reddit migration. I have a lemmy.world account and a kbin.social account. Both are moderators, but I've taken more and more to kbin.social so I'm mostly on this account these days. If I look at the moderator options on that community from my lemmy account, I see this. If I look from kbin I see this. Comments are similar - no mod options when I look from kbin.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is why it’s useful at the account level. It’s also useful at the post level in order to build a sorting algorithm which raises the most engaging/important/interesting submissions to the top. Within a community it is important to help define what that community is - irrelevant and low effort content is suppressed and relevant/high-effort gets boosted. Moderators can enforce this by just removing and pinning too, but that’s almost always too unilateral, and the voting system is generally better because it’s expected that then you get a representation of how people in that community feel about it. It’s a good system.

[-] Valdair@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Portal 1, as Yahtzee famously said, is perfect. The twist, structure, pacing, music, even how efficient they were with assets and the length of the game. All flawless.

Portal 2 is great and also does a good job for its length but Portal 1 would be my pick.

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