blindsight @ blindsight @beehaw.org

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I have ADHD and almost always have an audiobook (TTS, technically) or podcast on while driving it doing chores.

What I like about TTS is that I can speed it up enough (~6× speed) that my mind doesn't wander, to match my adHd. Podcasts I usually max out at 2.0× speed because human voices are harder to understand at higher speeds. Any slower and they can't keep my attention. 1.0× speed is painful, and I don't take anything in.

I haven't played much since before Ascendancy Classes were added to the game, so I'm well out of the loop (although I do keep up with some of the news), so maybe I'm still emotionally attached to the studio I started following in alpha.

That said, I don't really have a problem with their business model. They need to get paid, and they don't sell game-breaking MTX, beyond needing a map tab, a currency tab, and a premium quad tab. I don't regret the money I spent on supporter packs; I got over a thousand hours out of the game.

$30 cosmetic microtransactions are reasonable in Path of Exile, imho. But it's free-to-play, and most of their MTX are purely cosmetic.

To get the "full" experience, I suppose you'll want to drop a retail-box-price on a supporter pack to get some stash tabs, but you can reasonably play the game to end game content (30+ hours of play time for the first time for a new player, I'd guess?) without spending a cent.

But MTX in a game that's over $100CAD on release? ಠ_ಠ

I don't think that's true. I work closely with a lot of different families in my job, and due to the demographics of my job, we get a reasonable section of anti-vaxxers. Most of them you wouldn't be able to pull out of a lineup. They care about their kids, they contribute to their communities, and they're just trying to get through whatever challenges they have to get through each day.

I would put the root causes as distrust and fear. Distrust of government, systems, the media, etc. and fear of what they don't understand, so they look for some explanations that align with their emotions.

So, for instance, vaccines hurt, don't make sense (they don't understand the science), and make their kids cry, so they're very emotionally invested in not liking them. Then anyone confirming their distrust and supporting their emotions will easily sway them, so they swallow anti-vaxx messages whole.

Same thing for anti 2SLGBTQ+ sentiment; they think trans people are "icky", have an emotional response to it, and are then primed for any conspiracy theory that confirms their distrust of the system (education system, in this case) and gives them an excuse to justify their emotional response. It resolves their cognitive dissonance.

Comment unclear. Does he say a buttload of good things that should be read more broadly?

I use AdAway to modify the host file on my Android phone. I literally can't load ad content; sometimes it gets in the way since the ad is the easiest way to get to what I want to click occasionally, lol.

Also, the Vanced app can modify apps to eliminate ads. Or X-Manager for Spotify does a similar thing.

Then there are alternative front-end apps, like NewPipe/LibreTube for YouTube, Xtra for Twitch, and others.

Or there is just straight piracy to avoid the ads, but in their own apps. Stremio + Torrentio + a Debrid service is basically a pirate Netflix app with full control of your stream quality.

Regardless, I think his point mostly stands; it's a very small percentage of users modifying apps to avoid ads or telemetry.

I literally don't understand. I've read your comment several times and I don't know what you're talking about. Sorry!

Did you think I was saying that made Allman better than the best way? Because it's easy to scan vertically the best way, too. It's just also easy with Allman, so it's not offensive.

idk, Allman is very readable. Easy to scan vertically to find the matching open brace. Not quite as vertically-space efficient as the best way, but it's not offensive.

My understanding is they're also prescribed to delay very-early onset of puberty. Puberty has started, for some individuals, so young as to be giving birth at age 5. (in India, in that case.)

They have other applications aside from transitioning.

Might have been Firefox. My phone reported it was Amazon Photos, so I uninstalled it, but then it was another app instead, which I uninstalled, then it was a third one (which I think was Firefox?). At that point I gave up, assuming it was a problem with the G2 Tensor chip not cycling down while idle, not a specific app. Even if 3 apps that I've never had a problem with on other phones all have problems on the Pixel 7a, that's just not good enough.

My Pixel 7a's battery life was so terrible I just gave up on the phone. I was literally charging it 2 times a day from sub-10% to 100% with light use (no games, no intense apps, under 2h SoT for the full day). I lost 7%+ per hour idle. Days when I actually needed to use my phone, I'd need to bring my charger for a third mid-day top up to 100%.

I bought a Sony Xperia 10 V to replace it. It's not perfect (it doesn't support all the NA carrier bands so signal is a bit spotty in big stores), but the battery life is amazing. Same usage patterns and I only go from 80% to 50% most days. I only 100% charge once/month for battery health. I frequently go 1½-2 days without charging. I don't know how well it plays games, but with 8GB RAM, it's snappy with app multitasking. Oh, and I can plug it into my car (3.5mm). And it's a 68mm wide, so quite easy to use one-handed.

I had been buying Google phones exclusively since the early Nexus days, but I'm unlikely to buy one again. At least for the foreseeable future.

I hope Google can figure their shit out. It's bad for everyone when Apple and Samsung capture increasingly large marketshare, and Google's fuck ups are turning people off smaller vendors.

I enjoyed it for quite a while. Last I played, the meta gets a bit stale at the higher ratings, but it's a really great game up until diamond ranking, at least.

I'll probably buy the full version when it releases.

I'll admit I did read between the lines in your comment. I see I was incorrect that you were alluding to the supernatural in your parent post.

Regardless, all the topics you're talking about can be investigated scientifically. Human cognition is an incredibly complex system, as is human psychology. At the macro scale, economics and politics are similarly complex systems.

Regardless, the explanations for all of human psychology comes from biological origins, which can be studied scientifically. We have uncovered some (partial) "truths" about all of the above, but complex systems require complex models and detailed observations, so of course science doesn't have a definitive answer to everything.

Still, I reject that the social sciences should be dismissed as "un-scientific" just because they aren't concrete. (Not saying that's what you're saying, btw, just rejecting the absolute stance along that spectrum.)

As for all comments on my belief system, that's fine that my beliefs don't make sense to you. I am comfortable with my gnosticism and I'm not trying to convert anyone.

Not OP, but I'm a gnostic atheist, so I'll give you my perspective:

The question you're asking doesn't make sense in my worldview. The idea of a supernatural cause doesn't even enter into my consciousness as an option. If my understanding of something does not match evidence, then either my understanding is incomplete, my understanding is incorrect, or the evidence wasn't measured/understood correctly.

More broadly, when science can't explain a phenomenon, that's the interesting part! It's at the edges of our understanding that scientific progress is made. In some cases, that's just because a system is so complex that we can't (yet) model the whole system, like nutrition research, or climate science, or understanding cognition. In other cases, it's because models made at one scale don't work at another, like quantum physics or what happened right after the Big Bang.

Reality is everything, so it's all that I consider. Non-reality based ideas are fiction—lots of fun, but not relevant to my decision making or worldview.

I've been playing Soulstone Survivors again, recently. They've added a lot of great stuff with updates since I last played. Lots of "Bullet Heaven" (?) games beyond Vampire Survivors to enjoy!

(Is that what we're calling this genre, btw? It doesn't make much sense, imho, so I hope we have a better name.)

For both, yes, parents have the freedom to raise their children within the limits set forth by the law including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

So parents can (try to) prevent their children from accessing pornography, but that doesn't mean parents have carte blanche to violate their human rights under the Charter. Parents can't legally beat or sexually abuse their children, either.

There have always been limits to parental authority when they violate children's human rights.

Absolutely. The laws are about enabling parents' Charter rights violations against their own children.

Right, but I think it's going to be a tough legal argument that using a text to adjust database weighting links between word associations is copying or distributing any part of that work. Assuming courts understand the math/algorithms.

It's not WYSIWYG, though, it uses markdown (like Lemmy/Reddit). I prefer markdown since I don't want to fiddle with UI buttons while typing, but it's not what OP is asking for.

OP, why do you want WYSIWYG (on mobile)? I could see it, maybe, on desktop, but a note taking app should be focused on efficient input, imho, so markdown just makes more sense to me. Triple-# for an h3 is way faster than navigating to a Style menu and clicking Heading 3 in a UI dropdown (or whatever).

Regardless, I like Logseq so much that it's the first open source project I regularly contribute to financially. It's a game changer for me and managing my ADHD across 6 devices. (Lots of different work and personal machines/devices).

I feel attacked.

j/k. I'm happy in the education sector. The code I write won't be seen by anybody but me.