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tiredofsametab

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Reddit - Beehaw until I decided I didn't like older versions of Lemmy (though it seems most things I didn't like are better now) - kbin.social (died) - kbin.run (died) - fedia.

Japan-based backend software dev and small-scale farmer.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • As someone who worked in tech support starting in 2000, AHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

  • What is your "great I am an old person now" complaint?

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  • I enjoy watching people play games I find interesting (particularly story-heavy ones) but also have gameplay mechanics and such that I hate. Also people just really talented at some things, but that wears off. The thing I've watched most is A Link to the Past randomizer runs.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • I have no idea the history/reasoning behind it, honestly. A "green light" is "ao shingo" in Japanese which would mean "blue signal". Historically (I'm not sure until which year), Japanese just lumped everything under blue with words to describe the shade as necessary.

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  • I've actually got some level of all three types. My wife was trying to get me to play Puyopuyo tetris and it was driving me crazy that no combination in their colorblind menu worked for me.

    The biggest downsides are graphs and stuff like that. Things just look like the same color to me. In my case, blue and purple, yellow and green, and red and green, just depending upon the hues involved. Most modern traffic signals, especially here in Japan, use a combination that is fine for me and not confusing at all.

    I can't really describe much better since I don't know what it's like not to be like this.

    Edit to add: MMOs (and websites about them) often sucked because I could not tell the difference between gold and copper. The whole loot system color thing was also bad since blue/purple and other difficulties. There were some games I probably trashed epic gear thinking it was common.

  • What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?

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  • Colorblind people exist and should be able to use the site. At least, based on my real experience, this must be an unpopular opinion amongst UI folks glares

  • Japan prepares to restart world's biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima

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  • I live not far from Fukushima (though I moved here about a decade after the disaster) and I agree. We have a huge affordability crisis going on with inflation/stagflation. Taking the nuclear plants offline caused reliance on fossil fuels, a lot of which were imported (including from Russia) and all that new cost had to be borne by someone which of course ended up being the consumers.

    In an ideal world, we'd have more renewables and storage, but we're not there yet. Being mostly mountainous, at the boundary of 3 tectonic plates, and having plenty of natural disasters also doesn't help.

  • Does anyone actually like... talk to extended family/relatives? Like an active effort to maintain relations and not just because of forced family gatherings?

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  • I haven't talked to any of my cousins in probably a decade in most cases. Same with all of my various aunts and uncles with the exception of one.

  • Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown

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  • I'm a US citizen and my wife is not. My grandparents are not long for this world. If one of them pass, I will be going to the US alone because I am terrified my wife, who speaks little English, will end up in some ICE camp. It's horrifying and heartbreaking.

  • World rejoices as MAGA boxer Jake Paul finally beaten senseless

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  • I'm somewhat glad my news diet never told me he went maga as I haven't heard of him in ages. In other news, given his hometown, upbringing, and -er- success(?) I am not at all surprised

  • Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, prime minister's office source says

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  • Japan has been allowed a self-defense force. What that force can consist of/have/do has been quite restricted. They've built a lot of stuff that they probably technically aren't allowed to but have said "oh, that's not a ThingWeCannotHave but a SimlarButAllowedOrReducedThing". Recent rumblings have been about what constitutes self defense, which some wanting to include attacks on Taiwan, cyber warfare, pre-emptive strikes, and other stuff.

    Then there are the factions that want to strip out the article of the constitution about self-defense-forces-only entirely. Unless I missed it, this has yet to be done.

    As for nuclear weapons, I don't actually know if that's covered anywhere in the constitution or self-imposed. We're only recently getting to the point that there aren't really any survivors left, but their kids are still around and many fight against having it. As the US becomes a less-reliable ally, I see this resistance falling. Tension has always been high, particularly in Okinawa which always get shafted, between the US forces and civilians and I suspect it will continue to increase.

    ~ Dude living in Japan for a bit over a decade.

  • Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, prime minister's office source says

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  • Not exactly, or at least not insofaras repealing article 9 (I think is the one). Japan has done a lot of "this isn't what it looks like and you can't prove it's not what we say it is" as a strategy for building things they probably "shouldn't".

  • Novel gas station design, USSR, 1980s

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  • We have this (though slightly less UFO-y) in parts of Japan. So far as I can tell, only where space is more limited and I've never seen them as self-serv. Despite what other posts I've seen around the web, most gas stations in Japan are just like you'd find in much of the world with pumps one pulls up to.

  • Novel gas station design, USSR, 1980s

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  • Generally, they have a long rope to pull down. At least here in Japan, it's also the attendants who do it; I don't think I've ever seen this style in self-serv.

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    Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?

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  • I worked in the MMO industry and played a lot of them, including ones I didn't want to (and some that never saw the light of day or folded almost immediately). The last one I kept playing was Rift: Planes of Telara and, when they did an overhaul of stuff, I couldn't be bothered to learn all the new stuff and just quit. That was probably 15ish years ago at this point. It also kinda ruined a lot of gaming for me for years. I do play games again now, and I do sometimes feel the itch for an MMO, but I haven't played one again.

  • What was a time when you drank the kool aid?

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  • Mine have generally been mentioned. In my early 20s in the early 2000s. Got into the ancient aliens stuff briefly.

    Believed in supernatural and past life stuff for a good bit.

    By the mid-2000s, having "pulled myself out of poverty" (I didn't do it on my own; I had help and support for family after having been homeless at one point) and gotten a salaried job, started listening to rightwing radio hosts. Thought I just needed to work a bit harder and success would come. All the other people were lazy and social programs were bad with the possible exception of something like WIC. Nah, I was just fairly lucky to have survived some stupid situations, had help from family, and was generally just way too entitled and thinking I was special. I was fairly insufferable for a good while.

  • What was a time when you drank the kool aid?

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  • That could be me. I swapped christianity for the burgeoning new-age and neopagan stuff that was having a moment.

  • LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

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  • Thanks for the advice; I'll check into that. It's probably 6 meters at most if I run the cable behind things. My keyboard and mouse might work but it might be tight depending upon which version of bluetooth their dongles run (I don't have bluetooth on the motherboard).

  • LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

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  • I haven't gotten this yet. Not sure if my TV is too old (2017 IIRC) or because I'm in Japan. I plan to just move my current PC into the living room when I can afford to upgrade but RAM prices just went nuts and video cards are still very expensive here (relative to wages but also because PC gaming is a niche hobby). I hate it.

  • Tokyo Gas to steer more than half of overseas investments to US in next 3 years, CEO says

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  • Gross. Glad they're not my provider anymore (they do both gas and electricity)

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