Modder, programmer, and all around tinkerer. Yes, I’m that New Vegas and Deus Ex guy.

You can also find me over at kbin.run under the same username. Also kbin.social if it ever comes back from the dead.

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Cake day: August 30th, 2023

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  • Are your smoke detectors linked to each other? Could be faulty wiring in the circuit, or a completely different smoke detector failing and sending out an alarm that triggers the others. The latter happened in my home when I was growing up: the living room smoke detector kept going off a few seconds before the rest of them would chime in, but it turned out it was the one in the nearest hallway that was failing and sending out bad signals. The living room detector was just the next in the circuit.








  • I don’t think there is one for Samsung TVs unfortunately. I only did it for my Android TV. All I did was install SmartTubeNext and that’s it.

    Generally I find my Samsung TV pretty insufficient on its own. I keep a Chromecast plugged into it, but a lot of people recommend Android/Google TV boxes since you can use them for casting and installing sideloaded ad-free apps, or even replace the launcher entirely. Walmart’s $20 Onn brand Google TV box gets recommended a lot.






  • Y|yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlis the lemmyverse dying already?
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    OP’s home instance is the second-worst in terms of questionable defederations (the worst being beehaw). I used to have an account on lemmy.world but stopped using it once they blocked anything even remotely Piracy-related for that exact reasoning you’re talking about. Just switched to using this instance and Kbin and problem solved. Worst part was re-subbing to all the communities I’d been following. Pretty painless all things considered.

    Defederation has its place but some instances really overuse it.


  • it’s definitely possible to be unprofessional/toxic while still doing something that you’re legally allowed to do (under that license)

    That was my take on it. Nothing I read indicated that the Pushpull devs had done anything wrong per se, other than being bad at PR and the selection of someone to do said PR.

    On the other hand, the sentiment coming from the Pushshift side was staggering to me. I mean the licensing wasn’t even ambiguous, and who makes their source code publicly available and then complains about someone using it?






  • Windows not having a built in free RTF editor is notable

    Yeah, that is a bit odd, but then again when’s the last time you’ve seen something other than a cut-rate eBook in RTF? Everything is either some variant of plain text or a DOC file these days.

    Plus, it’s rare that you ever need to edit RTF files. Read, sure, but that could be handled by Word Viewer, which is free.

    EDIT: Right, they’re discontinuing the viewers, but apparently they have a cloud-based online thing that’s free? Sucks if you live somewhere with crap internet I guess.