taldennz

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Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding in c/technology@beehaw.org
Trump administration tries to bring back fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 27 points 1 week ago

Ahh it's good to see the US has regained its 'punchline of the internet' title after a short four-year return to merely being an embarrassing anecdote.

Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps in c/actually_infuriating@lemmy.world
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 week ago

What are these North Mexican companies thinking.

Indiana Jones was named after the state Indiana, which was named after American Indians, which were named after India, which was named after the Indus River, which was named for the word for river... in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 26 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Now if the phoenix had a link to someone named Jones we'd really have something here.

There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 month ago

I don't have a problem with open lobbying per se. If it's on behalf of all of the workers and customers as well and not just their own interests.

But can anyone identify such a billionaire?

And by definition that rules out any that step on their workers like bugs...

Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 22 points 2 months ago

Look. If there's anything damaging the environment, we'll just tow it out of the environment...

More seriously. Given our current NZ government's attitudes, I fear a similar pattern to emerge here.

Steel pipe with brass barb and white-green filling found in bushland in c/whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You don't. But you also don't know it isn't. And if there was chemical processing involved it could be.

What is the worst movie that you enjoy watching? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago

And my partner and I quote it often. It's old enough that it's almost a secret language.

Commodore Amiga 500 (1987) in c/cassettefuturism@lemm.ee
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago

There were a lot of non-Commodore monitors marketed alongside the Amiga. This isn't one of them.

Commodore Amiga 500 (1987) in c/cassettefuturism@lemm.ee
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Likely this. Some monitors that would work on the Ami wouldn't work in all it's modes. This did. I had the 1084S which added stereo speakers I think.

I'm probably a bit dense in c/tenforward@lemmy.world
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And 'boss Nox' in SG-1

(Yes the character probably had a name. No I don't remember it)

Android 16 DP1 integrates Extra Dim into the brightness bar in c/android@lemmy.world
[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 10 points 3 months ago

Thanks. I hate it.

Instead...

  1. Have a shaded zone at the left of the brightness bar (which most people will have auto-managed).
  2. If the user drags into this zone auto-brightness is suppressed and the user can select an amount of extra dim.
  3. If the user drags out of this zone, and auto-brightness is enabled, allow to take over. Otherwise use the brightness at the users point of release.

No need for a magic setting. Brightness control is all in one place.

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Advice? Disappearing Subscribe/Block buttons and permanent Pending subscriptions (lemmy.nz)
 

I've run into the following two issues that interact in a frustrating way.

  • Many of my community subscriptions seem to get permanently stuck in a subscription 'Pending' state (though I don't know how this differs from actually being Joined).
  • Often the 'Subscribe' and 'Block' buttons on the community page are just text (not clickable). Reloading the page (often many times), can sometimes render the Block button, but I've never seen the Subscribe reappear.

The advice being given for 'stuck in pending' is to unsubscribe, pause, and then resubscribe. However more often than not, I cannot resubscribe because the 'Subscribe' button is no longer accessible.

Currently I'm regaining access to communities by subscribing via a mobile-app (Jerboa). This doesn't help the Pending issue though.

Are there Lemmy issues I can monitor to track when a fix reaches release? Should I file this as a report?

Environment:

  • Lemmy web-app - my instance is running 0.18 as of this post
  • Firefox (114.0.2) - with uBlock Origin disabled
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