noughtnaut

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well yeah it's mandarin, but in the show Mandarin is pretty exclusively used for very creative swear phrases, such as "The explosive diarrhea of an elephant". Things that might be fun to learn to say...

See: https://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I haven't seen Our Groceries listed yet. I don't know Grocy so I don't know how this one compares, bells-wise, but it's pretty straightforward, you can share a list with any number of users, and manage/add/edit/remove lists and items via a web app or mobile app.

I've sent the devs more than one feature suggestion / bug report, and they were impressively responsive and forthcoming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for that information.

One might also say, with the dire current state of browser competition, it won't make much of a difference.

I'm just privately hopping that Firefox won't lose its last few percent market share and go the way of the dodo. 🤞🥹

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, I'm really confused about this article - isn't what you describe still in effect? Why on earth not? (I haven't used Windows in ages so I personally have never seen that.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Zoe: swears in Chinese

Subtitle: "[SPEAKS GALACTIC LANGUAGE]"

FU, everyone knows that that's a real language and probably a very juicy phrase that would be absolute golden to know for some other occasion!

^(PSA there exists a site with every phrase translated and explained)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

And it's working.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So many people believe that Covid was a way to scare us all indoors, so they could change batteries in all the birds.

That's preposterous.

Birds use rechargeables, that's why they're always sitting on the power lines. Like, duh, wake up sheeple.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I once read a beautifully indisputable piece on how Jar Jar Binks is a highly skilled Sith Lord. It's all a front!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I went directly from a dot matrix (ImageWriter II ftw!) to a laser. Except for photo prints, I find it immensely practical to be able to print stuff at home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Emoji passwords made me think of the Lotus Notes password prompt with their little images that changed as I typed (which never really made sense to me).

Yes, I'm old...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

It's been a while since I saw good old 4281 referenced. 👍

 

This is likely a very niche request, but perhaps there's a genius here with the answer - or can point me to a better place to ask.

If I want it to look like a web page is loading an interlaced gif over an old modem connection, would there exist some tool to convert a given static image to an animated gif (preferably downsampled to 256 colours)?

You know, the one where it starts off as one giant coloured block which then gets progressively segmented into thinner lines with more detail as each interlaced line is received...

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