IndigoGollum

Like many people, i get more focused than i'd like to on the vote score of posts and comments. Not just mine, everyone's. Having a setting somewhere to hide those would be great.

Or failing that, what should i add to uBlock Origin's filters to have it hide them? That would even work for people who don't have accounts.

For the curious, lemmy.world##.post-score.text-muted.pointer.unselectable works to hide the score of a post, but not for comments. lemmy.world##.unselectable works for comments but also hides some stuff besides just votes.

For example, Latin language and Roman numerals. Are people likely to mistake numbers like ID (499) or VIM (994) for words, or is it always clear enough what's what from context? I think Hebrew, Braille, and maybe Greek also do this, though i'm not as familiar with those scripts as with Latin.

I ask because i'm making a conlang and having a little trouble coming up with enough letters, let alone numerals too. Reusing letters would be helpful and probably not confusing if i make sure that numbers are never pronouncable as letters, but making this easy to read is important to me.

I'm pretty new to Multi-User Dungeons so i'm not sure this question makes sense. It seems like every MUD engine i've seen that mentions a day/night cycle makes no mention of localized time, or it being day in one part of a large world and night in another part at the same time.

I'm considering trying to make my own MUD, and this (along with localized weather) is something i'd want it to have. If no engine supports this, how hard should i expect it to be to make this work in an existing engine?

Is there anything else i should know, since i currently don't have much experience in anything more complicated than Inform6?

Don't get me wrong, i think linguistics is a lot of fun and i get that it's an interesting field. I just don't understand what practical applications it has beyond understanding languages better. What do we do with that understanding of languages? Is it purely about seeking knowledge?

Occasionally i need a 3D spreadsheet for something that's very hard or tedious to do in a regular 2D spreadsheet like LibreOffice Calc. The only relevant program i can find is Xcubes (no Linux support) or Minecraft i guess if i try hard enough to make spreadsheets in it (a block of floating lecterns, or maybe signs on glass).

Does anyone know a program that can organize data in more than two dimensions, even if it lacks stuff like the math operations that make Calc or Excel better than graph paper? Better if it's FOSS but i'll take what i can get.

I accidentally soldered a switch on crooked. I got the switch off the board but i'm having trouble cleaning out the holes so i can put a new switch in.

Can this switch footprint be saved after being clogged with solder and melted a little, or should i try to get the other switches off and start over on a new board?

And what's the best way to desolder these switches if i have to remove the rest?

Are there any good [the thing i said in the post title]?

My laptop is too new to have a disc drive and the external one i have refuses to work half the time for DVD and doesn't support bluray at all. My "smart" TV is either too smart or too dumb to play a good portion of the movies i have digitally on a hard drive. Is there a device that can just do both and plug into the TV over HDMI?

How do custom top level domains like you can get from Neocities work? For example, corru.observer and corru.works. My understanding is that making your own domain name is really hard or expensive, and a custom TLD is harder. And i'm pretty sure Neocities is run by one guy, so surely it can't be that hard to set up a domain name as an individual.

Terraria is on sale and i thought i'd buy a copy for my kid brother. But then i thought i should actually read the user agreement and privacy policy before i tell him to make an account. Turns out people younger than 16 can't own accounts, and i can't just buy a copy for him on my account because i'm already going to buy a copy for my account (i currently have the Steam version but want the game sans DRM).

So if i want to get him this game, should i make an account in his name but keep control of it until he's older? Is there some better legal option here?

I'm trying to clean up old accounts i don't use anymore and that includes Runescape, which i have not played in years. I have found their support page but it's useless.

I can log into my account through the OSRS site (but not the new school Runescape site) but none of the settings i can find there seem useful. I don't have a Jagex account, and i'm not sure that would help anyway. Especially since i'm trying to have fewer useless accounts, not more. Trying to submit a request to delete my data on support.runescape.com, i'm asked to log in to do anything. The provided login link doesn't do anything, it just takes me back to the main support page. I also don't see any email address i can try. It's all just broken support forms. The Jagex support site just has links to support sites for specific games rather than any support.

So what's going on here? Is there anything i can do about this? Is there some secret hidden button on the RS settings page where all the useful options are hiding? I know the team is small and busy, but surely there's some solution to this.

I just got an email about the upcoming ToS changes, reminding me that i have an account with them that i never use. Since i don't use, need, or want my account, and i don't agree with the last ToS update or this new one, i'd like to have my account deleted. But i can't access it without signing into it, and i can't sign into it without first agreeing to the ToS.

You'd think this would be as simple as going to their website and finding a support email address, but i can't. Everything that looks potentially helpful requires signing in, and i'd rather not do that because i don't agree with the updated contract.

So what's a guy to do? Does anyone know where i can find a support email or phone number? Am i right in believing that it can't possibly be legal to stop someone from ending their account with a service until after they agree to an arbitrary contract update?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37481146

I'm making a custom keyboard with a Raspberry Pi Pico as the MCU, and i don't understand what all the different pins are for and how they should be wired up to my key matrix and trackpoint.

My current understanding is that GPIO are normal pins that can be wired to the rows and columns, but what of VBUS, VSYS, 3V3, and all the others that aren't just GPIO or GND? And how should the ground pins be used here?

The schematic currently doesn't include the trackpoint because i'm planning to hand wire it and the MCU to the PCB, so i can put them under the PCB in the case and i don't have to try to fit them onto the board. Is there a better way to connect these that won't require adding a bunch of space to the board to fit the MCU?