[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Homer: "Reverse Psychology? Oh that sounds too complicated."
Homer's Brain: "Fine. DON'T use reverse psychology."
Homer: "OK I WILL!!"

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Photos will automatically categorize pictures by person, place, thing, etc... I never bother making folders or albums because I can just search by date or place or "black cat" or whatever. If the system can't figure it out on its own you can easily multi-select a bunch of pictures and add keywords, which can then be searched. If you really don't want to see the whole unfiltered camera roll ever you can just stay away from the library entry. If you are in "My Albums", for instance, and quit the app, when you come back you'll still be there.

I guess I don't really understand what you're looking for.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

My daughter wrote a report on video game development when she was in 5th or 6th grade. Through some connections we got an invite to go to Double Fine studios and have a sit down with Tim Schaefer. He is exactly what you would hope. Nicest guy in the world, absolutely loves what he does and loves talking about it. He gave my daughter a tour of the place, showed her how they thought about designing games, talked her ear off for more than an hour, gave her some keepsakes (design documents from some games they had shipped).

For Psychonauts 1, to really get inside the characters heads, they created their own fake internal Facebook-type site and play acted how all the characters would interact on social media.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

The fact that the login UI has username, password, and 2FA code all on one screen means this immediately wins. I hate this new trend of "put in your email, now go to another screen, put in your password, now go to another screen...." Ugh. My password manager can autofill more than one box at a time, you know!

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Weekday Worries (music.apple.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/oddlyspecificplaylists

Possible bonus track: Eight Days A Week?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

i've really been enjoying it. feels like it has more users and content than lemmy right now, but elon had a head start on spez :)

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/oddlyspecificplaylists

Everybody's got a bomb and we're all gonna die. Like, soon.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

When I worked at Beats Music the office Wi-Fi was “Bits by Dre”.

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Switchback patch is out! (supermassivegamesltd.zendesk.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Massive update. I played for about 20 minutes, and it fixes all the loading and graphical issues. It doesn't change the gameplay at all, so if you didn't like it, you probably still won't, but at least it looks a LOT better now, and you don't sit around waiting!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm as deep in the ecosystem as you can be. I have multiple everything: phone, iPad, Watch, TV, HomePod, many Macs (I'm an Apple developer, it's all business-related!). Subscribe to Apple One Premier for the family. Apple Pay, Apple Card, etc., etc... I'll be first in line for Vision Pro next year.

Basically, if there's an Apple version of something, I will use it over the competition, regardless of any other consideration.

I've been a tech nerd for 40+ years, and honestly, I love it. I built my own PCs for years. I can program assembly language if need be. I've got a Linux box in the closet acting as my home server. It used to do a lot of the internet router stuff, but I moved that to an Airport Extreme many years ago.

I just don't want to mess around with that stuff anymore. For the most part, "it just works" is true. Yes, there are bugs and glitches and frustrating limitations, but show me a hardware/software system that doesn't have them.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Ben Eater. He’s been explaining the low level details of how computers work. Literally building a functioning computer from nothing but a cpu and a breadboard. Incredibly good explanations.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I love it. Clean, minimal, gets out of the way, does what I want. With the iCloud keychain password management, 2FA management, auto-fill-then-delete codes from message/email (iOS 17/macOS Sonoma), it's a real time-saver.

If you're on a laptop for any amount of time during the day the battery life is unbeatable.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Benefit: My password autofill works because the domain is lemmy.world instead of voyager.app.

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I had a poster of this on my wall in college. I stared at it for years, endlessly fascinated. Not only is it a beautiful picture, but it ties in directly with one of the songs on the album.

The song, "Houdini", is about the magician Harry Houdini. He also spent a lot of his time debunking spiritual/mystical frauds. He arranged a secret code with his wife Bess so that if he could indeed communicate with her from beyond death that she'd know it was really him.

In the picture, Kate is Bess. She's got a key in her mouth because that's how Houdini would do his escape act. He'd kiss his wife before he went into the tank and she'd smuggle the key into his mouth.

All of this is brilliantly reflected in the lyrics to the song as well. ("With a kiss I'd pass the key, and feel your tongue teasing and receiving.")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic_a0Xt_6WM

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Normally $50, down to $40 at the moment. I've been waiting for a sale to check this out, so this is good news for me.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Skylab (the NASA program that came after Apollo)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

it's a standardized protocol for creating decentralized social networks. basically if everybody who wanted to create a social network agreed to use activitypub, they'd all be able to talk to each other, just like anyone can send email to anyone else, even if they aren't on the same email server.

this is why i'm against bluesky even though a lot of my friends are on it... it's just another walled off single-entity-controlled property. didn't we learn anything from twitter and now reddit!?

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