You seem determined to take issue with the concept of a bidet. That’s OK no one is forcing you to use one. The toilet seat attachment ones are super cheap and convenient. You don’t have to get up and go anywhere. You just turn a knob when you’re done pooping and you get cleaner than you can with paper. Feels good to be clean.

Like back to the arm poop analogy, if you for some reason were getting shit on your arm every single day, sometimes multiple times, then having to go do the shower soap towell thing becomes a hassle. Maybe it makes sense to have a special hose next to where you keep getting shit on you to make clean up easier.

It’s a single wipe on clean skin. Much less paper used. No abraison. No mess. If you got shit on your arm would you be satisfied just wiping if off with paper?

What changed is that unchecked power and increasing public presence have caused his behaviour to become increasingly erratic, exposing him for the charlatan he is.

I use Dunlop strap locks and they work well. I like that the buttons look just like stock and can hold a regular strap if for whatever reason you don’t have a locking one handy.

How did your warwick ones break? Can you share a picture?

Sorry I can’t add much to your question, though I’m super interested to see other responses. What struck me is why you think it would be at all obvious to anyone else that you associate Sunday with yellow? What are your ‘obvious reasons’? I’m genuinely interested.

Has it ever been done right though? A capitalist entity’s mandate is to grow itself to extract maximum profit. It is obliged to become as unfettered as possible to achieve that. This is inheritly unsustainable and in conflict with the interests of society and the environment at large.

How close are the pickups to the strings? If they’re very close try lowering them a bit. When they’re too close the magnetic field from the pickups can influence the vibration of the strings and cause odd sounds.

What do you mean by > ‘the humbuckers are starting to die?’ They’re just magnets with copper wire wrapped around them, they don’t really wear out. What’s the problem you’re trying to solve? If it’s quiet/scratchy/noisy you probably just have a bad potentiometer or a cold solder joint. If you don’t like how to guitar feels then yeah something different may be in order. If you like the guitar but something about the sound isn’t perfect then maybe different pickups will help, but your amp will have a much larger impact on your tone than different humbuckers.

I’m pretty sure the muscles are controlled by the same nerves/neural pathways. A lot of people can’t shit without pissing also but once you have shat you don’t need to hold those muscles so you can let loose. It’s a bit like trying to wiggle your ring finger without moving your pinky or middle. Except with your dick.

Yep that app is definitely not a privacy nightmare. No.

Well-intentioned people: let’s wait and see if #Threads is, for example, a privacy nightmare

Facebook: we’re not launching in Europe yet because right now it would be illegal

Right so.

https://mastodon.ie/@davey_cakes/110657130482549839

There’s no retroactive syncing. So a regenerated instance would start seeing any new content from the moment federation is switched back on. It’s the same if you’re the first user to subscribe to a community on another instance (from your instance). Until that moment your instance doesn’t know the community exists but one a user subscribes your instance starts copying new content from that community and other users from your instance will start seeing that content in ‘all’.

I have issues with the Green’s leadership and naive infighting, but this policy could improve our housing stock, help kerb the cost of living crisis, and potentially stabilise our insanely overinflated housing market. All sorely necessary.

Talent is mostly a myth. You have to push though the part where you suck to get good at anything. Pick a thing and stick with it. Even 10-20min a day of practice and you’ll see results. With music the hard part is getting to the point where you can just ‘play’ but you’re young and you have more time now than you ever will again. Pick a thing and suck at it. Keep doing it anyway until you suck less. One day you’ll find even though you still think you suck someone else compares themselves to you and is jealous of your ‘talent’

This is the pcgamer website without adblock!

I discovered this this morning as I was trying out a Lemmy app (thunder) instead of my ad blocked Firefox and followed an article link.

In less than 600 words there were:

• 3 full page ads to dismiss
• an auto playing video taking up 1/4 of the screen that follows as you scroll
• a sticky animated footer banner
• and a half page animated ad between each paragraph.

Fuck that. Fuck any organizational that does that to it’s product or has that level of contempt for it’s users.

I support content creators but ad block is necessary for safety, privacy, and the overall usability of the Internet.

Good on them. I hope others follow suit. As an aside, I recently switched to a lemmy app instead of using my ad blocked browser, and holy shit PCGamer’s website is an unusable dystopian nightmare. You have to read the article through a tiny letterbox of multiple competing videos and across the short article there are three full page ads to dismiss. Fuck that.

Here’s the full article text to save you a click.

If you want official updates from the Minecraft dev team, you better not look on Reddit. A post from a Reddit user bearing the name sliced_lime and a flair indicating they are the Minecraft Java Tech Lead (almost certainly Mojang’s Mikael Hedberg) announced yesterday that Mojang would no longer be posting official content to Reddit, in the wake of that platform’s response to protests over changes to its API.

“As you have no doubt heard by now, Reddit management introduced changes recently that have led to rule and moderation changes across many subreddits,” read the post, before announcing that those changes have led Mojang to “no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer [its] players to”.

The events are only obliquely referred to in the post, but it seems the move has been sparked by Reddit’s crackdown on protests against recent changes to its API that would, in essence, kill off third-party apps that let users access the site.

Subreddit mods have spent the last few weeks mounting various campaigns against Reddit’s corporate leadership, either “going dark” by turning the subreddits they oversee into private, invite-only communities or else marking them as NSFW, meaning Reddit can’t sell ads on those pages. Reddit responded by pressuring disgruntled mods, and in some cases ousting and trying to replace them.

In practice, the biggest impact of this departure will be the end of the subreddit’s official changelog threads, where the subreddit’s 7.4 million Minecraft fans and players can pore over official updates in granular detail and offer their feedback directly to the devs who hang out there. Sliced_lime emphasises that players are, naturally, “welcome to post unofficial update threads going forward,” and can always “visit [Mojang’s] feedback site at feedback.minecraft.net” or else contact it via social media.

User reaction has been pretty understanding, which probably only highlights just how angry everyone is with Reddit’s leadership right now. The top-voted comment on sliced_lime’s post, from DamageBooster, just says “Understandable” before asking where else users can access official changelogs.

Still, even if there are other avenues to reach Mojang, it seems fairly dramatic for a game as incomprehensibly massive and significant as Minecraft to cut off Reddit as one of its official ports of call. It’s reminiscent of advertisers fleeing Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s messy assumption of leadership at that company. Time will tell if Reddit’s leadership will take any notice, though (I can’t say I’m optimistic).

I’ve reached out to Microsoft to ask if any more of its studios are going to follow Mojang’s suit and cut off Reddit as a source of official communication, and I’ll update this piece if I hear back.

For now, I think this is a one-off. There’s no sign of any other Microsoft studio doing anything similar so far, so this seems more like a situation that has personally aggravated sliced_lime (and presumably their fellow Mojang devs) than a Microsoft-wide initiative. But who knows? Perhaps one of the biggest companies in the world will take some time off fighting multiple national market regulators at once to direct its ire at Reddit executives. If that doesn’t get their attention, nothing will.

I suspect that may have something to do with kbin.social’s federation not working during it’s initial growth period. Lots of users joined up but could only subscribe to local communities. The more we embrace federated content the smaller the differences between each platform/instance.

You can search for a magazine by typing in a keyword like ‘history’. The search results will bring you magazines from kbin.social and the websites federated with it that have the keyword ‘history’ in their names or descriptions.

Something you should probably add about searching for magazines is that the search can only find magazines that someone else from your instance has already subscribed to.

If you go to https://browse.feddit.de/ and search for ‘history’ you’ll see there are 21 results. So before creating a new magazine be sure to check the wider fediverse for a similar one.

To add them you can visit them and then copy/paste the url into your kbin instance’s search bar, then browse to the magazine from kbin and click ‘subscribe’. That will then make the community/magazine discoverable for others in your instance and it will start appearing in ‘all’.

Unfortunately I don’t think there is a platform for listing both kbin and lemmy communiyites/magazines yet.

They have a cached copy of the content from before defederation. It’s a bit weird, but they can still comment and make posts in the zombie community, but the posts go nowhere. Only users from their own instance can see them, every federated instance sees the ‘true’ Beehaw content.

It’s been a long time coming but I’d love more.