takeheart @ takeheart @lemmy.world

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I'd much rather look a simple sorted table or a bar chart.

For me the country outlines don't add anything of value and they aren't too scale either with arbitrary rotations mixed in. Spending is on a strictly one dimensional scale yet the graphic implies some concentric (2-dimensional) pattern.

Oh I wish GIMP had a "export visible" functionality. My workaround is usually to "copy visible" and then paste to a new image.

I tried using Krita instead of gimp but found it hard to do color management: adjust levels, exposure, color curves and such. At the time I simply couldn't find any dialogs to do many of those tasks.

Anecdotal but I've heard that when banks auto generate PINs for debit cards they filter out some suspicious ones like 0000 or 1234 because it only leads to customers complaining and wanting to change them (more work for the bank). Nowadays the customer can usually change them themselves, so it might be less true.

There's different ideas on how time travel "could" work and one of them is the timeline-split notion upon which you base your idea. In that vain it's solid.

Other ideas are that time travel always results in a loop or that its perhaps only possible under very specific circumstances (ie you can't pick an arbitrary location or time to travel to nor to travel from).

My hunch is that even if time travel were possible there's simply no practical experiment to tell whether you are in a split timeline (and if so how it differs from others), aka it's outside of the realm of scientific // logical inquiry.

If y'all like exploration of time travel go watch the show Travelers some time. It has some interesting premises in that regard.

Pretty much. I keep a sheet of aluminum ready to put on top in case the outside is getting too crisp while the inside still needs more time.

i see a keyboard , but no track pads. track pads are really versatile and a key feature of the deck. this keyboard doesn't look to comfortable to use either. Maybe it's ok ish if you put down the device on flat ground and are seated, but typing on this thing while holding it in your hands is going to require some amazing thumb agility.

I have a small Bluetooth keyboard paired with my steam deck that I use whenever I need to input longer stretches of text. it works out just fine.

I mean you could alias the glob option as the default but I clearly see your point about standardized default behaviour.

Can recommend. It's both fast and has reasonable syntax and defaults, for instance searching with it is case insensitive by default,

You can narrow it down by length. Not perfect but it's a start. Unless the *****s are always the same length like in some password fields. Hard to tell from the message.

Yeah, the redacting is weird. How did you even receive this? I thought it came via email itself so you would know but it's still redacted in case you're using aliases. Or perhaps they assume people have only a single account with any provider and thus could infer.

Here's a neat trick that works with some providers: you can include a + sign and an extra string of characters and it will still be delivered to the same address. Example:

user083+some-online-shop@provider.net will receive the mail for user083@provider.net. So you can register with a different email address everywhere yet it all goes to the same account. If your account gets leaked or breached you'll know where it happened thanks to the extra information behind the +.

You bring up a pretty good point. Whenever I have a personal document that could go into multiple categories (eg a travel insurance certificate can go into travel, insurance, or finance folder) I place it in all 3 at once with hard links. What's more is that if I intuitively first search for a document in place A but it's actually in place B I simply place a link in A for the next time.

Before I learned a bit about file systems I didn't even conceive of such a thing being possible; precisely because the folder metaphor had imprinted upon me the physical world constraint that things can only be in a single place at once.

Aha, to me it's an apt metaphors as files go into folders and it fits with the whole desktop analogy.

So what's the difference?

My intuition is that directory is the older term and refers to something existing on the file system while folder can be that but also includes "virtual folders" that group together different files from across the file system like when photo manager shows you categories like 'recently viewed' or 'taken in 2023'.

I much like Quod Libet. It has a clean, functional interface to manage your local music collection. Also support for Plugins is nice.

You can create Boolean Logic filters like (played < 10 times AND genre = classical AND composer = Mozart) which I appreciate. And some of the included tools like being able to automatically create meta data tags from file names (for instance

<artist>

<album>

<track>

It's the best replacement for Music Bee (Windows only) that I've come across.

Yeah the locker/towel thing would be a habit especially if you don't actively think about it.

You may not have a strong daily routine but all humans have habits and it's precisely because you don't actively think about them a lot that it's can be hard to become cognizant of them.

They also include behavioral preferences such as scratching your chin with your right hand when lost in thought 🤔, calling your girlfriend 'honey' frequently, consuming certain foods/beverages more than others, separating the trash, opening up social Media on your smart phone when bored, or taking your jacket with you when you go outside.

Those are not the same for everyone but everyone has them useless maybe some severe medical condition is present.

love the pro wrestling style energy in the 2nd panel 🤼‍♀️

Different question: what's the benefit/difference to launching the game from desktop mode instead? increased performance?

Blowing up buildings with people inside them is evil.