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Quicky

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  • Bluetooth keyboard switching delay on Mac

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  • Cheers yeah, I actually tried a bunch of those software KVMs with my previous keyboard. I’m limited to portable ones as I don’t have admin access to the work machine, and for whatever reason both the keyboard and mouse were laggy as hell when moving to the Mac with each one, although I think all the ones I tried were all actually forks of Synergy.

    That was what prompted the change to a Bluetooth multi-device ergo keyboard. The K860 is superb, but I would like to eliminate the Mac connection delay if possible.

    Much of the research I’ve done seems to suggest “that’s just the way it is on Mac”, but there were suggestions regarding switching off Handoff so I’ll give that a go in the morning and see if it makes any difference.

  • Day 581 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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  • I've been playing this the last few days too. I got the game on the Switch for the kids during lockdown and it became an instant favourite with them, but it was disappointing that you could only have one profile that had their own island.

    Several years later, we've all got MacBooks, and I have been messing about with emulation. There's a particular emulator that Nintendo killed but forks are still maintained that run incredibly well on Macs. This past weekend saw the three of us reminiscing, each finally with our own island.

  • Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST

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  • I reckon it's also because there are simply so many games available now, and countless devices to play them on. My generation had one console or computer max, and a handful of games. Now young gamers have half a dozen devices at home, and thousands of free or easily accessible titles on whatever platform is currently in reach. They don't need to commit to a couple of titles, when an advert for the next one is a tap away.

    I mentioned this before on another post, but I had 5 games on my PS1 as a kid. There are currently over 400 owned games available on the living room Xbox, there's a Switch in the house, the kids have iPhones, iPads and laptops, there's a Quest 2 gathering dust etc etc. That attachment we had to one or two of the few games we owned as kids has to be in part down to accessibility.

  • Microslop

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  • Ha yeah, very good point. Reminds me of Lego. The entertainment is mostly in the building. Once complete, it’s mostly untouched.

  • Microslop

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  • I had a similar Ubuntu experience in the Windows XP years too (2006ish?).

    Everything had a barrier. WiFi drivers always seemed to be a problem, but if I wanted to do anything non-standard it was an exercise in frustration. At one point I owned a Sony digital camcorder that I wanted to get video files from. Eventually, following hours of forum research I learned I had to recompile the kernel to do it, which did actually get me there. To this day I have no idea what a kernel is, and I have no desire to. I remember thinking how wildly complex it was to do something that worked so easily in Windows. 

    Entirely off topic and potentially triggering anecdote when accounting for Linux’s general prevalence here, but that wasn’t what turned me back to Windows from Ubuntu 20 years ago, it was actually something that most would could consider a positive for Linux. It was the fact that it was so customisable. I had weird multiple desktops that were mapped to a rotatable cube, I spent ages configuring translucent live performance stats on the desktop, hours updating icons and themes etc, whatever I saw on forums that looked cool and wanted to replicate. 

    Then one day I acknowledged I just wasn’t ever actually using the computer. I literally spent more time modifying and customising stuff than I did actually doing anything. I realised I was never satisfied with the current config and just kept tweaking.

    It’s probably not surprising to hear I’ve since been fully into the almost entirely un-customisable Apple ecosystem for a while now. While it’s taken my money, it’s given me back my time!

  • Microslop

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  • Absolutely wild that there was a time when Microsoft had three generally well regarded consumer products in Windows 7, the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 all at the same time, compared to where they are now in all of those product spaces.

    Windows was Windows, but 7 was largely consistent and didn’t need to be fought with like its successors.

    The 360 was the go-to console for developers and gamers, despite the RROD issues, which I’d even give them credit for for handling (eventually) after lots of us got 2 free games and a free controller from them following the debacle.

    Windows Phone 7 had a superb interface, great hardware and genuinely stood out.

    Now they have nothing and are hated more than ever.

  • #microblogmemes

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  • Vile propaganda from the sun as per, but to be fair it’s been a cataclysmic series of events since that moon.

  • They have a way with words

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  • Also don’t be short

  • Me toooooo

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  • We also see ourselves inversed in a mirror, and are more used to that representation of ourselves, which makes it easier to be critical of the true-oriented image from a camera.

    The picture we have of ourselves in the mirror is at odds with the version that others see.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • That was part of Microsoft's pitch - they wanted it to be the central device. I was in the minority that thought it was a great idea at the time, but then I'd been running a dedicated Windows Media Center PC under the TV for years until that point, so to me it was a shinier upgrade.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • Exactly that. The Xbox One came with HDMI in and HDMI out.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • That and the one thing I thought was awesome - split screen TV so I could play a game and have a live football match or something on part of the screen. That was amazing at the time, I was gutted when they killed it off to get more resources for games.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • My kids were like 3 and 5 when Kinect was released and they bloody loved it. Also Dance Central was superb for drunken adults.

    Plus if Alien Isolation wasn’t scary enough already, a Kinect would dial it up a notch.

    Definitely limited appeal and the tracking wasn’t great on the 360 version, but for those first two scenarios (younger kids and late night dancing) it was a superb party game.

  • Small decent camera for travel and selfies

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  • I’ve just done a whole bunch of investigation into this because my daughter had succumbed to the current Gen Z compact camera trend resurgence, and had asked for one for Christmas. The bottom line is that the market has almost entirely been wiped out by smartphones. There are only either very cheap trash compacts or very expensive high quality travel cameras on the market these days, and there’s little to no middle ground.

    As a result, her generation seem to have latched onto “vintage” 10yo+ compacts that we all used to take out on nights out or on holiday.

    The best option I discovered was getting hold of “new” old cameras. I found a new Panasonic Lumix T-57 on eBay for about £200 which was originally sold in 2015. It ticked all my boxes - decent optical zoom, flip-selfie screen, WiFi, pocketable, and good picture quality.

    The lack of new middle-tier options has really inflated prices. Anecdotally I bought a second hand Sony RX100 some time ago for £200. I sold it 3 years later for £250. Similar quality ones are now going for closer to £300.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Quentin Tarantino probably got into movie making after misunderstanding what "film footage" meant.

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    I should just google how to change it

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  • Can't relate

  • Loops publishes illustration of their recommender algorithm

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  • Some of the comments on this and similar threads are wild. A dedicated major contributor to the fediverse as a whole, working almost entirely alone, who is solely responsible for bringing many of us to it that were looking to escape the social media capitalist hellscape via Pixelfed, creates another alternative with Loops and publishes some detail regarding how it works, and a bunch of keyboard-warrior nerds try to take it apart.

    So many people contribute entirely fuck-all to fediverse platforms beyond the odd bit of content, myself included, and it always amazes me how quickly they want to tell him he's doing it wrong. So many opinions for one person producing so much, from so many people producing nothing.

  • what's the coolest thing you have ever programmed?

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  • In the 2010s I had a Windows Phone which I thought was amazing. I bought the original Surface Pro too, because at the time I thought it was incredible. A full operating system in a tablet form factor that was incredibly fast and touch screen.

    In the IT office I worked in, we had a dartboard. It was great for just stepping away from your desk if a problem had stumped you, throwing a few darts to take a break, and inevitably the answer would come to you. It was our rubber duck.

    Trouble was, all of us were terrible at the basic maths involved with darts matches. So I thought, what if we mounted the Surface to the wall, and could just tap where the dart had hit, and get scores instantly.

    So I wrote this darts score-keeping app that worked on everything from Windows Phones to tablets, and even an Xbox at one point, thanks to the way Microsoft had implemented their cross-device app deployment.

    We used it every day in the office. I think in 10 years it’s sold about 3 copies.

    Lovely Darts

  • Nearest national capital

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  • Can’t wait to watch Scotland beat Texas in the World Cup final.

  • Parents of Lemmy, how much do you spend on Christmas presents for your kids each year?

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  • Probably less, but it may well have been roughly similar. I think when they were younger they ended up getting more “stuff” but it was cheaper items. Mostly board games and toys that I thought they might like, rather than specific stuff they ask for these days. Well, I ask them, because I’d rather get them stuff they want/need.

    I feel like the pile of presents was bigger in those days at least.

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    WhatsApp now available on Apple Watch

    www.macrumors.com /2025/11/04/whatsapp-now-available-on-apple-watch/
  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Perfectly placed rainbow

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    A Broadway drag remake of Sophie's Choice called Jimmy Choo's

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    Any 13 Pro owners planning to upgrade after yesterday's event?

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Hairy dirt ring

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Robocop: Rouge City

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Voyager showing -1 downvotes from Piefed account

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    BIG AL

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Rematch

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What’s the most common owl in the world?