Mishmash2000

joined 1 year ago
[–] Mishmash2000 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't understand this device AT ALL?! Unless it's suuuuper cheap there's nothing it offers over simply pairing a DualSense controller to a phone or tablet?! Add to that the awkwardness of your hands HAVING to be a foot apart to hold the controller halves and it's just mystifying why anyone would want this??

At the moment I can chuck a DualSense in my backpack and know that I can pair it to my phone when out and about. Two things I already have that work just fine and are arguably more comfortable to use. I would hope this is going to provide a better streaming experience but what I currently use is good enough for occasional use and my phone isn't even a high end phone.

[–] Mishmash2000 4 points 1 year ago

Your comment was so insightful I just had to upvote it thus increasing 'engagement'. Am I helping?

[–] Mishmash2000 2 points 1 year ago

New Zealand, Christchurch. We can drink straight out of the tap BUT it was chlorinated while our crappy infrastructure was being upgraded in recent years. Still is in some parts of the city I think? The actual water is from deep aquifers and was pristine and then it went through our dodgy wellheads which have since been upgraded.

[–] Mishmash2000 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Super hard to limit to just 5 but here's the first that came to mind: Star Wars: A New Hope, The Matrix, Delicatessen, The Science of Sleep, The Fifth Element.

Any of the following could easily go somewhere on the above list :) Blade Runner, 12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brazil, The Hudsucker Proxy, Groundhog Day, Dark City, Inception & Intersteller (if only it didn't have the whole love is a force that transcends dimensions and can be used to communicate across time and space stuff?!)

[–] Mishmash2000 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, all I got was something about security reasons & some fan almost drowned swimming out to Leonardo's boat to say hi?! Personally I'd say good riddence BUT I would say the local economy might take a hit?

[–] Mishmash2000 12 points 1 year ago

It was her great great grandparents

[–] Mishmash2000 1 points 1 year ago

Wow?! So it's basically in the region of a normal person paying about 10-20 cents fine a day or the cost of a cup of coffee every month or two.

[–] Mishmash2000 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, weird?! There was a glitch in the matrix!?

[–] Mishmash2000 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Crikey!? What an update! That was wild! You'd never get that kind of openness or behind the scenes look from a corporate / shareholder beholden platform! Certainly you wouldn't get this kind of honesty :-D

the server is dying, I don’t even know what I need, help! ;)

[–] Mishmash2000 6 points 1 year ago

Brilliant! I miss the days of being able to slap on a massive oversize battery to get you through the day! :-D Carrying around powerbanks and cables is such a huge step back!

[–] Mishmash2000 1 points 1 year ago

I was really gassed to finally learn more about steamed hams but I was left fuming!

[–] Mishmash2000 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get both sides. Just the act of having to create a new login/password is too much for many who've gotten used to signing in with their Facebook or Google accounts and they want things to be as friction free as possible and I think that's fair enough. Personally I really enjoyed the process of learning about the Fediverse, figuring out how Lemmy works and understanding its strengths and limitations. But that's not most people. I know one redditor I tried to describe it to said they gave up after the first sentence. If I really simplified it they will understand but in doing so you might misslead them about the world of instances, how they can all differ slightly, how they may or may not fully interact with each other. Me, I'm like holy crap! I'm on this tiny little instance in a corner of the world and I can not only read but like, comment and subscribe to all these other much bigger communities!? Let alone interact with kbin.social which isn't even Lemmy at all!? It just works! But I'm also very tollerant of times when things may not work as expected, but I don't care, because at least it's not reddit ;-)

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