nickajeglin

joined 1 year ago
[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is huge news to me. I was always taught to remove bandages asap to let wounds "air out".

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know how to put this tactfully, but impromptu public performance of any kind is widely considered torture.

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Yesterday, for the first time, I got google search results that were entirely useless. I don't remember what I searched, but it was a relatively simple question and I was kind of in a hurry. The only results I got were video thumbnails and sponsored products... Also presented as thumbnails. Barely any text anywhere to tell me what the thumbnails were supposed to be. They even removed the choices across the top so I couldn't select "all".

It's been getting worse for years, but that was the last straw for me. I don't want to search the web on "large thumbnails", I want "detail view". Sometimes I'm searching for a product, but mostly I need information in the form of text written by a real human. If a search engine can't give me that, then it's not useful anymore.

Really frustrating. I guess I better get around to using duckduckgo everywhere.

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried spacerpg4 but it hasn't held my attention as much as I hoped.

I did find an android port of star control 2, and that is some good stuff. Really scratched the 90 gaming itch too.

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No shade on "how it's made", it's one of my favorite shows. But I think a LLM could probably write most of the narration. They primarily describe what is happening on screen. You might have to train one special to have information on industrial and manufacturing processes.

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you know of anything like this for the switch? I'm a late comer to handhelds since I developed some shoulder problems and can't really PC game anymore.

I used to love a game called transcendence back when it was a free alpha. Top down, open world, semi-roguelike, big focus on combat with satisfying 2d physics and lots of ship customization. Less focus on trading and world interaction stuff.

I've looked at a couple you guys mentioned, but I'm really trying to find something that'll scratch that 2d space combat itch on a handheld.

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, thank you. Excessive prudishness and self censoring is always an indicator to me that a community is going a weird direction.

[–] nickajeglin@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I posted a different thread, and someone almost immediately found it with a reverse image search.

It's a military laundry key tag. It connects to a huge safety pin that hooks to your mesh laundry bag. The cutout is related to some sort of automatic sorting mechanism, there's a matching rail that it goes onto to make sure that all of one person's bags end up together. I'm still hunting for more info on that machine because it sounds really cool.

 

I found this buried in my garden. It’s steel, with some flecks of galvanization still visible here and there. Definitely stamped from sheet stock originally, the ring is welded, and it’s especially interesting to me that the right “foot” of the little “table” cutout is narrower than the left one, as if it’s keyed to connect to something in a single direction.

Ideas so far:

  • livestock tag (we live near ooold stockyards)
  • cremains tag (spooky)
  • key fob/id (but why the welded ring?)

Does anyone know what it really is?