Not everyone appreciates the language choice, so I figured I tag it. Relatively tame compared to most stuff that gets tagged here, but couldn’t hurt.
Arkhive
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I used to use a browser extension to do this, mostly liked it until I tried to convert all my ebooks to it as well. It’s works, but it technically splits the words into two objects in order to change the font, which makes searching the book nearly impossible because typing a whole word will no longer find instances of it, instead you have to search for either half. Only an issue for ebooks, but it sort of turned me off of using this in general. Also I believe it’s “technically” copyrighted. I remember encountering something that wanted me to pay to use this. I found alternatives, but still, just left a bad taste in my mouth even though it helped. It did help me naturally read faster even without it, because rather than directly processing each letter I can do a sort of exclusion based search of my vocabulary as I process each letter. After 2 or 3, sometimes 4 letters, and with context I can correctly assume the rest of the word and move on.
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Mall staple Claire's to close numerous stores, files for bankruptcyEnglish27·7 days agoNOOOOOOO!! Where am I going to get my lobotomy! Now I’ll never be like the other girls!
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zoneto Technology@lemmy.world•"Tea" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION]English19·19 days agoWoah, I just got an ad for this today, and was intrigued enough to see what their monetization model was (in app purchases/subscriptions for “pro” features) and took a big pass on it.
I want to boost this approach. At first I just whole sale swapped to the full Proton Suite as a G-Suite replacement. But I quickly decided I did not want all my eggs in their basket, so I kept their VPN because it’s got good interfaces for mobile while also playing nice with OpenVPN on Linux, and then I’ve used other solutions for email and cloud and such, self hosting wherever possible.
This is just a gentile reminder that if it’s truly a flag design, it should work just as well and be readable when hung from the short side.
OMG can’t wait for all the Dashcon 2 coverage!
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zoneto pics@lemmy.world•Got this wonderful action shot of Sandy while she was trying to get me to chase herEnglish12·1 month agoOkay, I’ve been following your posts for a while, but never commented. Wanted to finally say I’ve been really loving getting to see your journey with Sandy. I feel like I’m seeing her grow into herself under your care and it’s honestly very sweet. Brightens my day whenever I see a post of yours!
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zoneto Linux@lemmy.ml•RustDesk, probably one of the best TeamViewer AlternativesEnglish14·1 month agoI also avoided it for some of these reasons, but in the end it was just the setup that got messy. I ended up using Sunshine/Moonlight for an overall nicer experience. I can use it to stream games if I’ve got a good connection, or toss it in low bandwidth mode for remote admin work. I run it behind Tailscale to access it from anywhere, it supports Wayland, it’s all fully open source, and I’m very happy with the setup.
Or 2 for $36. You can cover two doorways. Not a bad deal.
I accidentally did this when getting into skateboarding edits. My player is set to default to 1.75x speed. I happened to watch a video on a new browser or something and literally thought gravity was acting differently for a sec because how much more airtime they were getting then I realized I had trained a misperception of gravity into myself.
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zoneto Autism@lemmy.world•Just letting this off my chest (GENDER TOPIC)English6·1 month agoI’m non-binary and trans-femme. I am taking feminizing HRT but I have zero desire to pass as a cis woman. I want to exist within the deconstruction of the gender binary and be a shining example of humanity fitting into the queerness that is all around us in nature. It’s sometimes a scary place to exist, but it feels very authentic to myself, and has contextualized a lot of my childhood in a way that makes a lot of sense. Seems like you could be similar, but maybe leaning more into gender fluidity than totally trans-femme??
Yeah I’ve wrestled with this. Whenever I post I often get in my head trying to think of the “lowest common denominator” type user. One who will make a scene, or report, for things most of our user base would be fine with. Like I could see someone who doesn’t react well to autism being used in humor or something like that. Do I at all agree with that, no, not really, but as one of the mods I think of it like saving myself (mostly others because I’m often slow on the draw for checking reports tbh) potential future work. I’ll untag this tho. I think if I instead have someone complaining about being too heavy handed with the tag I can not worry about folks on the other end of that.