Physical controls were a primary reason I went with a 2023 Mazda 3. I didn’t want a touch screen as the primary input device. The rotary dials for menus and volume have been great. I find the screen is just in a better position too; it doesn’t need to be within reach so it just blends into the dash better and is at an easier angle to see.

Before I updated my car I used the headphone jack regularly for playing music there. Otherwise it was relegated to a couple situations a year like air travel.

Now that I’ve got a newer vehicle I just have all my music on USB there.

I only go for one community surrounding a book series, and only on Mondays when there are weekly discussion threads for new chapters. I found reddit pretty easy to cut out when I just stopped using it on mobile entirely.

Good way to play victim too.

Really hope the series does something with the completion of this cosplay. It’s been more interested in talking about its in-universe fiction than it has anything else of relevance.

I haven’t watched any episodes (of any series) this season, but I’m pretty surprised to see something above Mushoku Tensei. Figured that’d be a lock for the season.

Cause crypto is shit.

Thanks, that was interesting. Pretty different experience when there’s very little contention for space.

Rather humorously that “some poor soul” is named “somerandomperson1231”

Hah, I see now that you mention it. Pretty ambitious scale.

Nice, I didn’t see that post (not subscribed to the anime community). Even just the top of the robe could be good - that’s a lot of area to fill, though.

I suspect it was supposed to be Ferdinand from the Honzuki no Gekokujou book series, bookwormstory.social has a couple things on the board and the colors matched up. The glico pose is used in the series so it’s probably what was originally intended (Example from the Light Novels).

Totally down to help convert it to Neco-Arc.

They start out somewhat similar, but the manga gets a lot more wholesome and less abusive as it goes on. Well worth the read.

Less engagement is exactly what I would want. Show me my new chronological content and then I’ll get the hell out of there.

Not having a touch screen was a pretty sizeable component of my decision making process when I bought my 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLWY7fCXUwE

This is one of my favorite GDC talks and it’s about this subject with a sizeable segment devoted to the second paragraph in this article comparing Video Games to the availability of classic Movies.

Just to pose these in a similar thread, I have a few questions as a casual observer, some of which I’m unclear if they’re handled at the protocol or Lemmy level.

• As I understand it servers subscribe to other servers and everything is then push based?
• I assume ordering is not a guarantee. So there’s probably no concept of offset tracking on subscriptions or replaying a time range?
• If ordering is not a requirement how do likes/comments handle out of order receipt? Everything seems to have a local ID, so can content get pre-liked before the root message arrives? Unclear if ID generation is based on any identifiers you’d have to work with or not - or whether remote content retains its origin IDs?
• Lemmy at least appears to have some retry mechanism, but I’m unclear the behavior on that - seems annoying with 1000+ subscribing servers.
• I seem to recall reading ActivityPub has some pattern for batching, but reading the spec again I’m not seeing it. Is that a thing?

At the point where I had ~5 years of experience I was put on a variation of PIP for being overly negative about a (new) project’s direction and feeling that our efforts were very misguided. My manager provided some training items on soft skills, then I left the company a few months later of my own volition. While I still feel that the project was fundamentally flawed, and last I had heard it was scrapped shortly after I left, I do get the sentiment and have used it to at least better gauge when/where to critique and try to provide insights going forward.

My first manga was Gin no Saji and I started that after the anime ended. Once I got into the habit I just picked up more and more.

Not a fan of it being all upside. At a glance it doesn’t seem as annoying as Initiative, but that’s a low bar.