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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

ooo, that does sound handy!

Looks like OBS is the goto. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Which app do you use for screen recording? That's the only thing keeping me on X11.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I apologise for my dismissive tone earlier. Thanks for putting your idea out there 🙂

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (6 children)

...aaand this is why chatgpt is no substitute for expertise.

It's "generative" AI, in that it generates lists of words that fit together. But it has no actual understanding of anything so the stuff it generates is totally surface, middle-of-the-road whatever-you-want-to-hear.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

With some ways of looking at things, the world as a whole is getting better, rather than worse.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-goalkeepers-report-poverty/671415/

I'm pretty sure long covid and climate chaos will put a stop to that soon enough but we'll see. For now, some stuff is getting worse and some stuff is getting better.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

One of the limitations that people with Autism and ADHD often struggle with is that it is harder than average for them to imagine the future. Without that, it is more difficult to have a vision for oneself that is different from the present and consequently difficult to gain motivation to change. It's a form of mental blindness that is very subtle until you notice it.

Try to find ways to get really clear about the future. Define what your vision/goal is and then at the start of every day remind yourself what that is. You need physical reminders, in multiple places and forms. Objects that represent your goal, displayed in a prominent place in the home, pictures of the goal (or benefits of the achieving the goal) on your desk, a computer desktop background that is a collage of different facets of your future life, and so on.

Make it impossible to forget how awesome your life will be if you make the decision right now to open your IDE and do 5 minutes of study/practice (which will hopefully trigger your hyperfixation and turn into an hour or more). Getting started is the hardest part.

Find a way to hack your brain to make it do what you want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I got it to 47 KB after resizing it to 850px by 239px, heh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm a web developer.

Lemmy does not use the entire screen width. The way it has been embedded in the page means that image takes up only 850 pixels of horizontal space so it could be 5x smaller and no one would be able to see the difference.

Lemmy really should be automatically resizing the images (on the server) when they are uploaded, not every single time the community is viewed (in the browser).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Have you checked your C:\windows\temp folder lately?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Mostly to avoid conspiracies. The intended users are people who want to protect vulnerable family members.

Another purpose is to demonstrate that the big social networks could get rid of disinformation if they wanted to - "look what 1 person can achieve, in their spare time", kinda thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

The only time I use ddg is to find conspiracy sites to add to the blocklist I maintain. All the trash rises to the top in that search engine. It's rubbish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Try print preview!

 

Alexithymia is a difficulty recognizing emotions, and is sometimes seen along with depression, autism, or brain injury, among other conditions.

 

In this video, we adapt a clumsy, non-Pythonic API into an easy to use, easy to understand Pythonic one. We use magic methods such as getitem_, len, enter, and _exit to make our objects a context manager and support the len() function and square bracket indexing. And in the end, we turn what once was ugly, difficult to maintain code into something that other developers would actually want to use.

 

The web is fucked and there’s nothing we can do about it. Kev Quirk looks back fondly at Web 1.0.

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