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[–] sp6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

If you put any stock in IMDb ratings, this may be useful to evaluate each season: https://seriesgraph.com/show/1399-game-of-thrones

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This might work OK for simple period tracking, but for more advanced fertility tracking, it's not really possible to do pen-and-paper without being a huge pain.

For example, the open-source, local-only app Drip optionally uses a "sympto-thermal method" to estimate when a user is fertile; the app takes not just the days they are on their period into account, but also their body temperature, cervical mucus values or cervix values, and throws those inputs into an open-source algorithm for much more accurate results.

Doing all that on pen and paper might be possible, but it would also be a bit of a nightmare.

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

PrivacyGuides has a section about this on their website: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/health-and-wellness/#menstrual-cycle-tracking

At the time of writing, it seems Drip is the best option on both iOS and Android. The app is free, open-source, and all data is completely local. Honorable mention to Euki as well

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

PrivacyGuides has a section about this on their website: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/health-and-wellness/#menstrual-cycle-tracking

At the time of writing, it seems Drip is the best option on both iOS and Android. The app is free, open-source, and all data is completely local. Honorable mention to Euki as well

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Other than Fedora Atomic derivatives (like Bazzite) and of course SteamOS, the only big one I can think of is NixOS? It's certainly not tailored to gaming, but it does look like 2.4% of ProtonDB users run it

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Personally, mostly concerned about surveillance capitalism and mass surveillance. But I pose this more as a hypothetical for what "you" (the average lemmy user) would think is the lesser of two evils

 

Trust me, I push Signal hard and even donate to it monthly. As I'm sure many of you know, there are always a few contacts who unfortunately refuse to use it.

In this case: do you prefer to use insecure SMS in something like QUIK SMS or Fossify Messages, or do you prefer to bite the Google bullet to get end-to-end encrypted messages (even if the metadata isn't encrypted)?

I can see good arguments for both sides, so I am curious what Lemmy's take is.

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Blade Runner 2049

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There's an informative James Hoffman video about this.

Fraud is briefly discussed in the wikipedia page, but from the video, he's able to estimate that 75%+ of the coffee sold as kopi luwak isn't kopi luwak at all, it's just normal, cheaper coffee marked up a ton.

And of course, the remaining <25% that is real kopi luwak is ripe with civet abuse.

So please don't drink this coffee. If you're that interested in gut-processed coffee, do it yourself like that guy in Portland (but I still wouldn't recommend it).

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

It's not just for SSD users, it's for everyone:

Our testing shows that for the small percentage of players still using mechanical hard disk drives, mission loading times have only increased by a few seconds in the worst cases.

Only a few seconds difference?

Further good news: the change in the file size will result in minimal changes to load times - seconds at most. “Wait a minute,” I hear you ask - “didn’t you just tell us all that you duplicate data because the loading times on HDDs could be 10 times worse?”. I am pleased to say that our worst case projections did not come to pass. These loading time projections were based on industry data - comparing the loading times between SSD and HDD users where data duplication was and was not used. In the worst cases, a 5x difference was reported between instances that used duplication and those that did not. We were being very conservative and doubled that projection again to account for unknown unknowns.

Now things are different. We have real measurements specific to our game instead of industry data. We now know that the true number of players actively playing HD2 on a mechanical HDD was around 11% during the last week (seems our estimates were not so bad after all). We now know that, contrary to most games, the majority of the loading time in HELLDIVERS 2 is due to level-generation rather than asset loading. This level generation happens in parallel with loading assets from the disk and so is the main determining factor of the loading time. We now know that this is true even for users with mechanical HDDs.

 

First release since May 2024, came out a few weeks ago

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't bank account information have to be exchanged for an ACH transfer? Seems good between people you really trust (although definitely less convenient), but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable exchanging bank info with an acquaintance.

[–] sp6@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. At first glance it does seem "less bad" than most of the other options, assuming it works on custom ROMs. I think the problem will be finding others that also use it, since it doesn't seem as popular as the other options.

 

I know they're all bad for privacy to an extent, which is why I specified "least bad."

This is for casual use, as someone concerned about surveillance capitalism, digital privacy, social cooling and the like. I do not have a high threat model. I am looking to balance privacy and convenience. I am not going to teach my grandma how to use monero, and it isn't always a reasonable option to use cash or mail a check.

The big services in the US I know of are:

  • PayPal: shares your data with 600+ companies
  • Venmo: owned by PayPal
  • Apple Cash: Requires an Apple device, not an option for many
  • Google Pay: it's Google, and it doesn't work on custom ROMs like GrapheneOS
  • Facebook Messenger: apparently you can send money on there, but I think "there's zero chance I'm making a Facebook account and I'm especially not linking my bank to it" needs no explanation in this community
  • Cash App: owned by Square, might be a decent option?
  • Zelle: Not supported by all banks (I don't think it's supported by mine and I definitely have friends that use unsupported banks)

If anyone knows of better options, or tips to minimize shared data while using any of the above options, please elaborate.

 

This Major Order requires us to kill 5,000,000 Chargers, and special chargers like the Behemoth and Spore charger do not count. So to progress the MO, people have been suggesting dropping the difficulty to 5/6, since that's where normal charger spawns are the highest.

The problem with that is, you get 36 medals from completing a D10 operation, but only 21 medals for completing a D6 - a 15 medal difference. So after 4 operations, you've missed out on 60 medals when the major order only rewards 50, if we even succeed (not looking good currently).

The same applies to D7-D9, but the break even points are different: 17 OPs for D7, 7 OPs for D8, and 5 OPs for D9. May or may not be worth it depending on how much you play.

I imagine there are lots of D10 players who do more than 3 OPs per week, so this is a bit of a disappointing MO when it's in their best interest to ignore it.

 

As noted by the news release from CalyxOS and Mastodon thread from GrapheneOS, Google did not release the Pixel device-specific source code alongside their Android 16 AOSP release like they usually do. I think many of us, including myself, are hoping this will be published in the near future, but considering they moved AOSP development behind closed doors earlier this year, it's more likely Google has stopped publishing this section or their code altogether, making development of custom ROMs for Pixel devices significantly more difficult. Sad news for the Android ecosystem, and for open source in general.

 

Fixing the bot crisis, open sourcing the game, adding lots of community fixes, allowing F2Ps to use in-game communications, and releasing the 7th (and final) comic probably helped... kudos, Valve.

 

From CNN. Picture is roughly 2.5 miles / 4 km wide. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is barely cut out of the picture to the west.

 

Source is Tyler McVicker/Valve News Network: https://x.com/Tyler_McV/status/1806415701311430753

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